Job?

So apparently, posting every other day didn't work. Oh well; but I will try to post fairly frequently. It didn't help that that past few days I was at my boyfriends house and don't always have time to post.

Well, a very good thing happened: I got an interview at the New York Botanical Garden!! I've worked there twice as an intern in the Herbarium, and I've wanted to return there. The position I've applied for is a Curatorial Assistant. If I get the job, I'll post more about it. The interview went really well, and I was basically told I was the only person they are considering. The person who would be my direct superior is the director of the Herbarium and I've worked for her before and she is really excited about me coming back. I'm so freaking happy.

Colocasia leaf with water droplets

My next big challenge, if I get this position, is to find a apartment/room in NYC. That is tricky enough, but it will be even less delightful given that my possible pay isn't too great. Oh well, I've always wanted to live in the city, and I look forward to my possible place.

Heuchera Dolce Peach Melba

After my interview I walked around the garden and took lots of pictures. If you've never been to the New York Botanical Garden, GO! It is so beautiful, even this late in the season.

One of my favorite places in the entire Garden is a small Beech (Fagus grandifolia) across from the Forest. It's just a simple clump of trees with a thick carpet of moss in between the roots. Beech has wonderfully smooth, silky bark, which unfortunately makes it a magnet for graffiti. And while the graffiti is disfiguring to the tree and allows for an entry of pathogens, they are interesting in their own right and show one element that makes up the complicated relationship between trees and people.

On a much sadder note, a very good friend of mine passed away from a brain aneurysm. His name is Paul Brongo. Paul, like me, loved plants and nature. He was working for the USGS in Alaska. Paul and I talked about all sorts of things from work to school to life in general. He was a great friend and a truly beautiful and kind person. I love him and will miss him

First Post

Hi everyone! Welcome to "Plant Science to the Rescue Again...".

I'm not sure exactly what will come of this blog, or exactly what topics it will cover, but I know they will be wide ranging.

In case you were wondering, the title for this blog came about as such: When I attended Cornell University, I was a plant science major, and my friends were quite interested in my 'skills' at plant ID and general plant craziness. The joke became that anytime one of my friends would as me a plant question, read a news article relating to plants, or saw a movie which involved plants (I specifically remembered this coming up in Harry Potter V), someone or myself would respond "Plant Science to the rescue again." Hilarious, I know; I guess you had to be there. But none the less, that is the story.

A little about me: I just graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Plant Science. I had a truly wonderful time at Cornell and enjoyed every minute of it. Now I'm gainfully unemployed, but in the process of trying to change that. One of the major problems is that my interests are very wide-ranging within the world of plant science, and I don't particularly care for genetics. I've worked at two Herbariums and loved it, and feel that I would be best suited to working in an Herbarium. I have a boyfriend who I have been seeing for a little more than a year and have been going out with for approx. 7 months. Some of my other interests besides plants include clarinet, classical music, and photography.

Well, I guess that is a decent first post. I'll try to update fairly often; I'll aim for every other day. Lets see how that works.

Thanks for checking me out and come back soon!