A NOT-UNTRUE STORY #2: THE PERILS OF XMAS MORNING

THIS NON-JAPAN-RELATED POST IS IN NO WAY AN ATTEMPT TO BUY MORE TIME TO GET MY JAPAN PHOTOS ORGANIZED. WHOEVER TOLD YOU THAT IS A LIAR. THEY WOULD HAVE YOU THINK THAT I'M UNORGANIZED AND LAX IN MY BLOGGING RESPONSIBILITIES - AND IF YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO BELIEVE SUCH THINGS, MY FRIEND... THEN THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON.

ANYWAY, WHAT FOLLOWS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES IN THE HISTORY OF PEOPLE BEING QUOTED. IT'S FROM MY OLD WILDLIFE BIOLOGY COURSE AT COLLEGE. I CREDIT MYSELF WITH BEING THE ONLY ONE TO TRULY APPRECIATE THE DEPTHS OF THE QUOTE'S MEANING (AS I WAS THE ONLY ONE IN CLASS TO LAUGH OUT LOUD).

AS MY PROFESSOR STRUGGLED TO FIND A POIGNANT ANALOGY TO IMPART A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW UNPREDICTABLE FIELD STUDIES CAN BE, I BELIEVE HE MAY HAVE CHANNELED THE SPIRIT OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., OR PERHAPS GEORGE W. BUSH, TO DELIVER THIS MEMORABLE PEARL OF WISDOM...

"SAMPLING FOR FISH POPULATIONS IN A RIVER IS A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS MORNING... (long pause)...
...YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO COME UP AGAINST!"


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