MIRANDA: "These are your letters of support for my free clinic. Sign them ( Read more... )

I Love My Arctic Land ( Read more... )

last wednesday, karl and jess (summer student) and i went sampling in the arboretum. karl had told us to meet him in his office on wednesday morning so we could go over stuff and then set out together. so i arrived at nine on the dot and there he was sitting behind his computer in full sampling gear - including a tilley hat (i would link this to ( Read more... )

it is past my bedtime but i've been meaning to post something all weekend but haven't, so will just say: i am happy, and the happiness comes from inside me, and i like that.  i like it a lot...

she loved him like he was ( Read more... )

essay, be done.

I am reading On Writing Well: the Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser. Appropriately (yet unexpectedly!), it is VERY well written. Really, it's fantastic. FUNtastic, even. Here's the first couple of pages:

A school in Connecticut once held "a day devoted to the arts," and I was asked if I would come and talk about writing ( Read more... )

you know what's CRAZY? oabpl had a thread of over 100 gmails. yep, for the past coupla hours i been reading them 'stead of studying :P. oh man, they make me laugh. do you guys remember these stories?! okok, i just thought of a fun game: Who Gmailed This?*

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Have you ever noticed that whenever you see a vole, it is a dead corpse of a vole? ( Read more... )

i was on the fence about avril's "latest hit" (you know the one - hey hey! you you! i don't like your girlfriend!) but damn, it's catchy, and somehow her singing she's like, so whatever deeply satisfies me. avril's a lyricist, that one. in absolute seriousness, i am counting down the days to april 17th, i.e. her new album release date.

Sandals!
chUrchill!
Microscopic creatures!
Monstrous creatures!
Ecostuff!
Ragamuffins!

i'm positively brimming with excitement for this summer. the churchill trip was kinda officialized today, which accounts for my insistent inclusion of it in the acrostic. i had no idea plans were actually underway, but apparently i'm going on a road ( Read more... )