I'm DONE with calculus!

FINALLY! I managed to get B's in both the Calc I and Calc II classes. Of course, I was hoping for A's, but this was my first try at calculus, they were accelerated courses, and the professor was tough, so I'm content with my grades.

I did actually get a video of the spitting puffer the last time I went to the aquarium, but Eric is sleeping and I don't want to rummage through the house to try to find the camera... In the same exhibit that the puffer is kept is a huge spiny lobster. I didn't even realize he was there until the biologist mentioned him--the lobster has a hiding spot so I never saw him. Lately, I've been target-feeding him with a chunk of herring on a pole, and the guy is voracious! It's so fun to target feed. I also target feed the moray eels, which I've always thought looked a bit creepy. Plus, they're venomous and they have creepy teeth. And creepy eyes.

Another exhibit I was cleaning the other day has four smaller spiny lobsters (and by smaller, I mean about a foot long). One of them found its way into the "backside" part of the exhibit by crawling over the wall. A grouper also lives back there, having jumped over the wall. There's a net that normally rests above the tank (to keep exactly that kind of escaping from happening), but it was tied up and out of the way when I got there. There's also a board that rests above that backside of the exhibit and I was sitting on it, cleaning the viewing part of the tank. I had noticed that the escapee lobster was down toward the bottom, but another lobster was near the top on the other side, threatening me with his beady little eyes, so I kept an eye on him while he attempted to attack the brush I was using. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, look down, and see the escapee all the way up at the top, about a foot away from me. Creepy lobster.

I finished, and decided it would probably be a good idea to put the net back to where it normally was. Not 10 seconds later, one of the lobsters had grabbed the net with its claws, pulling the net into the water. It wasn't just a coincidence, either. The lobster was pulling that net into the water like a man reeling in a fish. I frantically grabbed the net from him (gotta be a boy) and hung it back up. I swear, the things these fish are capable of...