re-starting my old Alaska blog while I'm in Antarctica! read it here: http://alaskanrocketadventure.blogspot.com/

this was shamelessly stolen from jessamyn's lj, who stole from joey ( Read more... )

As it turns out, yesterday was a great day to go tracking in the woods. A light snow was falling so fresh tracks were all around. I found deer, rabbit, cat(?) and some extremely rare tracks that I couldn't identify at first... They looked like this:

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The rest of AGU went swimmingly. I didn't get much more time to do sight-seeing, but I've seen it all in SF already anyway. We did take the train to Berkley (and then a bus) to attend a one-of-a-kind Berkley contra dance. Danced the night away and then walked through the city on sore feet the next day. Friday Sarah and I left on our hellishly long ( Read more... )

So far another AGU conference is almost over, and it was a fine time. Granted, I didn't spend much time actually in the conference. The crap thing is that all the talks I really want to see turn out to be on Friday, after I've left on my flight. Damn. But I did get my presentation done in time, despite the boss's messing with it over and over and ( Read more... )

My morning is off to a bad start. I tried to leave my ice-coated driveway to get to the airport bus station to catch my flight, and long story short, I didn't. Pancake fought bravely, but the ice won over in the end and she is currently almost completely sideways across the steepest part of the hill.. thoroughly bested. Poor Pancake. And right when ( Read more... )

Here is a happy song to hear on a lovely snowy day such as today!

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Last night I headed over to the Music Hall in Portsmouth with Marc to attempt to see Stephen King's sold out appearance. (The Music Hall is almost identical to the Carolina Theatre for those who know what I'm talking about.) The tickets had been sold out for months, the theater members had bought them up completely even before they hit the public. ( Read more... )

Yay for another marginally successful Thanksbirthmas. I really do love getting Christmas out of the way early so that I can relax and actually enjoy the real Christmas when it comes around. No traveling, no shopping, just cozy nights at home decorating the tree and baking and hanging out. Speaking of which, we got our tree yesterday! Went down to ( Read more... )

new fridge came today... no more living out of coolers on the floor! yay! it cost way too much and i spent the least i could. but it is here, it is shiny and black and it is way better than the old falling apart fridge ( Read more... )