cheap and delicious beer (my favorite this trip: leinenkugel's summer shandy)
rivers and lakes galore
pure and plentiful water
duluth
college radio stations
crumbling brick warehouses sometimes full of pigeons and treasures
motorcycle beatnik hippies
weatherbeaten Iron Rangers on ATVs
north woods lesbians
people who build and make things
saunas
woodstoves
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me (about fifteen minutes ago, struggling to motivate to go back to working on my dissertation defense presentation): "I hate my dissertation."

jake: "as do many."

poor jake. it has been a long year.

more photo catch-up (from my brother and pam's visit a couple weeks ago. no pics of pam, sadly. i blame it on my brother taking five million photos of her and me not getting a chance to sneak in there. next time.... :)

the remodeled griffith observatory is nice! great view of la:


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i am officially relearning how to be a human being. turned in the diss to the committee a week ago. the day after, jake and i headed to the desert where we baked, boiled, and steamed ourselves at a mineral hot springs b&b. (the first photo is the view over the fence of the valley and the snowcapped san jacintos).

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