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Hi! I'm Gombessa (aka Sarah), a graduate student studying paleontology (fossil fish specifically but I love dinosaurs as well). I was born and raised in Utah, and am a desert rat at heart. I love the desert, and miss it dearly. I'm now in Kansas, and I love it here as well.

I love nature, being out in the desert or in the mountains. It's sad when people say that deserts are ugly. I see it as something beautiful, and I try to photograph the wild the way I see it. Hopefully that is captured in my photos.

My deviantArt page is a small sample of my photography, please visit my Flickr for a more comprehensive set of photos.

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Kansas
  • Interests: paleontology, photography, rock music
  • Favourite movie: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Favourite band or musician: The Clash, The Beatles, Adam and the Ants
  • Favourite genre of music: punk rock, 80s new wave, indie, garage rock
  • Favourite artist: William Stout, Ray Troll
  • Favourite photographer: my brother Sean --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanplaysthecowbell/
  • Favourite style of art: comic book style, and photography of course!
  • Operating System: I'm a Mac Chick, baby!
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod
  • Shell of choice: The fossilized kind, ammonites are pretty cool
  • Favourite game: Rock Band
  • Favourite gaming platform: The original Nintendo Entertainment System (Hellzyeah!)
  • Personal Quote: Anywho....
  • Tools of the Trade: Camera

Cricket cricket

Tue Nov 24, 2009, 6:02 AM
I just realized now that I haven't written a new journal entry since :iconhankinstein: visited me in June!! Whoa! What a way to neglect my deviantart page!

Well, to remedy that, hi! It has been exactly 5 months since I last wrote (I'm so ashamed), but as y'all know, it's been a super super busy 5 months. I have worked my butt of on my fishies (including a trip to Albuquerque to study specimens, if you couldn't tell by pics I posted). I will now also be making a trip to New York City in January to study the fishes that started it all. They are a collection of semionotid fish that Bobb Schaeffer collected in the 50s and they are housed at the American Museum of Natural History. I'm pretty excited about that.

I have begun teaching this semester as well. I teach 3 Introductory Biology labs to mostly college freshman, and I have to say.....I LOVE IT!!!!! I absolutely love teaching, even the downs that come with it, I can put up with.

My classes this semester are equally enjoyable. I've been taking Paleobiogeography, phylogenetics, a seminar on Zoological Nomenclature, and that's it. Mostly reading for homework, I have to keep up for class discussions.

So that's my life. Between all that and having fun with my friends (both of those from the housing department that work with Jeff and my museum friends), I have a busy schedule, as most of you all do as well. If it's silence from my end of the world, I'm still here, I'm just checking my updates and commenting when I have time. I will still occasionally upload a photo or two.

In the meantime, I hope y'all have a great Thanksgiving!!

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*legalien May 10, 2009, 3:50:24 AM
Hey Sarah! I found this article on Yahoo! and thought it would interest you ^^ [link]

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"There is nothing more mean and ugly in this world than to have a loving gift, a beautiful spirit, and a desire to give and share these things when there is no one to share them with." --Ribaldi/Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Feature Films for Families movie)
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~Gombessa May 10, 2009, 2:01:14 PM
Ooh, that's kinda cool, but kinda sad when you think about the turtle dying a week before her clutch was due! Thanks for sharing that!

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~ "Only the photographer can tell the general where to stand." -my dad
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*legalien May 11, 2009, 8:21:13 PM
Sure thing!

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"There is nothing more mean and ugly in this world than to have a loving gift, a beautiful spirit, and a desire to give and share these things when there is no one to share them with." --Ribaldi/Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Feature Films for Families movie)
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~boodokadi May 5, 2009, 9:02:45 PM
PS. ammonites are very cool. My sis gave me a fossil of one when she went to Arizona. Speaking of my sis-- It looks like you know each other already :)
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~Gombessa May 6, 2009, 3:49:16 PM
=D Yeah, I am a big Adam Ant fan, found her stuff that way, and was really surprised to see that she's into paleontology, too! In fact, she's coming up my way in June to visit the museum I live, work, and play at. I'm givin' her the grand tour of the place!

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~ "Only the photographer can tell the general where to stand." -my dad
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~boodokadi May 6, 2009, 5:07:18 PM
Oh cool! What are the odds of someone being equally nuts about those two things?

Yeah, my sis passed one her prehistoric creature obsession on to me as well. My early childhood was spent looking through her dinosaur books.
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~Gombessa May 10, 2009, 2:11:08 PM
Well, that's good to hear! Not enough people have prehistoric animal obsessions! =D
Here's another silly coincidence that you might appreciate...my job in the museum is working in the "dead animals in jars" collection, and I'm currently curating a collection of....bees! As a matter of fact, I'm currently working on the family Apidae, so I love your Beegirl, she is totally awesome!

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~ "Only the photographer can tell the general where to stand." -my dad
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~boodokadi May 15, 2009, 7:59:12 AM
Oh that is cool!
I wanted to give her a name other than "bee girl." I figured the scientific names of bees would be a good place to look. I used to call her Apidae Dorsata but eventually shortened it. Maybe that's her full name? I dunno, there's really no logic to her anyway-- just a fun character to draw :)

I'm jealous that you get to work with animals (even if they are deceased) I'm a designer for a creatively stifling company.
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~boodokadi May 5, 2009, 5:19:28 PM
Glad you like it and thanks for watching too!
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~boodokadi May 2, 2009, 10:29:57 PM
Thanks for the fav! :D
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