Ipod vending machine? I saw one at the airport yesterday, and was infinitely amused. Now I wish I'd taken a picture.

After six hours in the airport, I finally made it onto a plane and to California for the weekend. :)

I swear to God a cowboy flirted with me on the drive home today.

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That or I had unknowingly cut him off and he was honking at me to tell me I'm a jerk, but I don't think he would have tipped his cowboy hat at me if that had been the case.

More stuff is occurring to me as I think about the book more/reread parts. I guess I'll just put it all in this entry post to 3hallows.

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( 2007 Summer Reading List )

Just got back from geophysics field camp last week, and spent the next few days frantically writing my report. (Hence me actually updating... which I only seem to do when I have other stuff I should be doing.) I really enjoyed the class. I guess in the next year I have to decide what to do with my life - environmental science (which I'll get a ( Read more... )

This article is pretty old (from 1997), but it's really fascinating. It's about how homeless children in Miami have developed their own complicated mythology.

I was particularly struck by this part:And in the Eighties, folklorists noted references to an evil Bloody Mary -- or La Llorona, as children of Mexican migrant workers first named her -- ( Read more... )

The petrology final is ownz0ring me sooo bad right now. I think I'll update LJ instead ( Read more... )

Bah, somebody needs to update LJ so I can distract myself for five seconds before going on with my chemistry pre-lab.

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