Once Again... Continued!

So the next pet of mine I’m going to blog about is Klyde, my goldfish. I got him last year for my birthday, along with his girlfriend Bonnie. (Recently deceased, R.I.P. sad day…) So yes, clever naming, I know. Anyway, they’ve been on quite the adventure, those two! Last fall, starting in October when I got them, they kept me not only entertained, but also sane while I went through my classes. While I studied abroad in Florence, Italy last semester, my current roommate and then dorm mate Dave took care of my little babies, and they kept him sane as well. Apparently goldfish swimming have the power to calm nerves while you’re stressed out with homework and classes? That’s what I’ve learned, and if you are currently stressed out with classes or school work, let me recommend to you a pet fish for your desk =) So, after that spring semester, while Dave and I were home for our short summers break, Sue Chamberlain my old head resident in the Main Street Suites took care of Bonnie and Klyde. But, funny story – when my roommate left them there for Sue to take care of, one of the girls who was staying in the dorm over the summer thought they were abandoned, and took them into her room from the main lobby where they were residing. Sue, who has been taking care of them, freaked out and thought about ways to repay me for the lost tank and fish. (She even went so far as to look up tanks similar to mine online!) But eventually, though random conversation and by strokes of luck, she found out that the girl had them in here room and she got them back safely. From there, she moved them to her desk in Admissions for the rest of the month. Come June, Dave and I went to visit Sue and re-claimed Bonnie and Klyde, as sad as Sue was to see them go. They then were moved to my desk at my full time summer internship at Dealer.com, and they were a huge hit! Everyone loved them, and always came by to see how they were doing. In addition to this, Dave adopted a beta fish from Sue who was left at the end of the year by a student who moved out of the Suites. We named the newcomer Sonic, after the large nation-wide auto group we just signed for SEO and SEM at Dealer. =) So, there they remained, for the duration of the summer. But, one fateful day when I returned from South Africa on a trip for the EMC, I came home to horrible news. About a week before I was going to bring them home for the fall semester, Bonnie had died. =\ She had always been the “runt of the litter”, so to speak, and Klyde had always bullied her to get more of the food share… sad, sad day. Anyway, after the summer ended, I took Klyde home to my apartment, and he now resides on my desk in my room, keeping me sane one again. His favorite activities? Swimming in circles around his plants, forgetting things every three seconds, swimming against the current of his water filter like in Finding Nemo, and of course, eating goldfish flakes. =) May my darling Klyde long keep me sane!