Santa Cruz is a beauteous and wonderful place. If you aren't familiar with it, you can always Google it, but in short, its a beach city located about 80 miles south of San Fransisco. Its full of old hippies and general interesting characters. Living here is very different from Southern California, and its definitely taken some getting used to.
It does make for some great stories though.
A friend came to visit me, and I took her on a tour of my campus. While wandering near the science buildings, a man started talking to us.
"Anyone work here?" he asked.
"Not on Saturdays," I answered, hoping to getting away with just that answer.
"Oh. Well I sort of thought this looked like the place to be. I've got an albino earwig that I can produce in a lab," he continued.
"Um..." I replied.
"Yeah, I'm hoping to trade a bug for a degree. I love this place. Its so beautiful. I was hoping to take my honeymoon here, but that didn't work out, if you know what I mean..."
No, frankly I don't, but good luck with that. And in a few years, when I hear about the albino earwig epidemic plaguing America, I can say I met the man who master mind it.
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