Already have too many people ask me if I got to play with dolphins during the summer. The only one I handled was a dead one that they found in a tiger shark, and I didn't even really "handle" it, just helped hoist a giant ice chest containing what was left of it into the back of a pickup.

On the other hand, I did get to spend a fair amount of time on a boat, and one day, we really did go hook-and-line fishing. (It was stated as an "off" day though; we were just ferrying some grad students out to the islands to do some grass studies.) But I also helped a lady dig through hundreds of yellowfin tuna stomachs, picked apart trays of tiny shrimp and fish fry (which was terrible; augh, my neck's cramping just thinking about it), zip-tied pom pom strands to cages to simulate sea grass, and all sorts of weird things.

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