So yesterday while on break a coworker came in. While we were talking, I mentioned that I was going to graduate soon. He asked what I was going to do in my field (geology). I said I wanted to do Hydrogeology.

He laughed and said, "Basically you work with a water hose."

The other coworkers laughed. I didn't. Anyway, he continued, "You should go work for an oil company and make some money." I shrugged, "Well, I could, or I could do some environmental work."

He immediately responded with a scoff followed by, "Don't be a treehugger, Chris."

....Since when does the word 'environmental' associate with 'activist'? Sure, some people don't care what happens to the world - they'd rather make money, own 5 cars, have a mansion, and think that would make them happy.

I read the newspaper and everything I see is corruption and poverty. And instead of anyone doing anything about it, they'd rather be like my coworker and laugh at people who are going into a field that might do 'environmental' work.

Whatever - people who think that being rich and famous is all that are fools. All this power, greed, and self glorification is what makes me sometimes ashamed to be human.

People are calling for help. Poor towns, cancer victims, farmers, the homeless, and even nature herself. And guess what happens. Nothing, people just keep hording their riches and showing off how much better they are than everyone else.

Really, who cares? They're going to die and all their belongings are going to be squabbled over by relatives who are just as greedy. It's a neverending cycle.

This is why the things I personally treasure are made from the heart. The different things I bought from TEF members, I'll always treasure those because I know that someone actually cared enough to make them for me.

I have very ecclectic music tastes, and I tend to go through cycles of what I like most at any given time. Right now, I've been listening to a lot of 80s because it's helping me get through all the graduate-school induced stress right now. This is merely a sample of all the 80s stuff I like. Everyone's heard Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round" and After the Fire's "Der Kommissar," so I posted to lesser-known songs.

Please pardon me if this is the wrong section, I'm still very new to this site.

I haven't had a problem with TEF until a few days ago when Vista installed some updates and restarted on its own, then TEF suddenly didn't want to open. It's happened before and usually a few hours in sleep mode fixed it for some reason, but after 3 days and a million restarts, it still refuses to start up. All it gives me is a black screen when it opens and eventually says "The program is not responding" and closes down. I did a system restore to before the update and nothing changed, and I even updated to Vista service pack 2 (finally) to see if it would work a bit better, but no dice. :/

Anyone know how to fix this, or am I stuck without TEF until I have money to buy the Windows 7 update disk? Any responses are highly appreciated. (:

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Feel free to submit anyone you have, and I'll add them in. Please use the following template to create their entry:

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Name - Aeis (Owned by Nezzaine
Age - rather young teen( 19 if we we're talking human)
Gender - Female
Species - Brocket Deer.
Length - 79cm
Weight - 18 lbs
Color - white with black and orange markings.
Eye Color - Varies with emotion
Rival - Nazareth

Powers/Strengths - she's kind so the power of love and kindness maybe to heal( care bear stare ftw)

Weaknesses - she's very small so anything large could probably harm her

Likes - everything( even scary things)

Dislikes - when her friends are threatened.

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Name - Aeros (Owned by Fayne)
Age - He's been in the forest for a very long time. He appears as an old stag.
Gender - Male
Species - Endless Forest Deer. He's similar to a Rocky Mountain Elk, as far as size and shape go.
Length & Height - Around seven and a half feet long. Five and a half feet at the shoulder. His antlers are huge, with almost a seven foot span.
Weight - Around 650 lbs.
Color - His fur is predominantly dark gray, with white on his shoulders, belly, face, and tail.
Eye Color - Dark brown
Rival - None

Powers - Since his adolescence, he has possessed a strong connection to the Gods - he can speak to them frequently and as he needs to.