I'm a student. I started college at the ripe old age of 15 and when I finally graduated high school, 2003 (age 17), I had my first year completed. I am now in my third year of pre-medical school. I attend in Oklahoma and will soon transfer to the University of Oklahoma (if you lived here, you'd know why). To make ends meet, I tutor elementary through college students. I also donate my time to tutoring children who are less fortunate and the homeless. In 2002, I met my soulmate. I don't mean my friend, fiance or significant other...I met my soulmate. My soulmate is also in college, but studying to be a teacher. At some point in my life, we will get married. At 19 and 21, we are still holding our promise of chastity to one another.
I kept various lizards, bugs, birds, cats, dogs when I was younger and nothing struck my interest until I turned 12 and my mother's best friend gave me her ball python. Pam, my mother's friend, had a boyfriend who constantly hit, pinched...tortured the poor snake. As a last ditch effort, she gave him to me. *Angels sing* I had finally found my true passion. Homie, as he was called, soon acquired the name Posidion. Soon, Posidion racked up many-a-vet bill as Pam's boyfriend had also allowed him to escape and he now had pneumonia. At any rate, I kept him going with daily shots, pills and liquids administered before bedtime. He began to get better and with the onset of winter, he began sleeping between the heater blanket and the sheets with me, at least in a pillowcase of his own on the other side of the bed. Sadly, however, our landlord found out about Posidion and he had to go live with Grandma. More unfortunately, she did not understand the capability of snakes to escape from their cages and he, then, developed Pneumonia that medication could not touch. After he died, I remained herpless until a couple of years back when I got a female red tailed boa, Ariadnae, from Bob Clark. Soon, she had reached full size and I found myself interested in larger snakes. I traded her for a female albino burm and to that added a male and to that added another female. At any rate, snakes now rule my life. I also got started with rats about this time last year and now have 5 hairless girls and 4 hairless boys. While snakes are my life, my rats are my pride and joy. Who else can say that they have rats who wave and give kisses on command?
Sam
