Well after several days of no internet connection combined with a very high photo count you have a very large post.

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12.22.08, Day 79. Nine inches of snow.

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12.23.08, Day 80. Regardless of intentions one must always take a shower the day after getting a haircut.

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12.24.08, Day 81. Dawn at Seatac, deicing the plane.

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12.25.08, Day 82. There will be great mourning among the Jellyfish. One of many chunks of Jellyfish on the beach.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Shell on a cliff above the beach.

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12.27.08, Day 84. Pinecones.

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12.28.08, Day 85. Engine on the wing of Alaska flight 319, kind of fuzzy since my camera was not enthused by the lowlight situation.

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12.29.08, Day 86. The light fixture in my parents bathroom, disassembled.

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12.24.08, Day 81. Light over the hills, on 101 South.

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12.25.08, Day 82. Flowers in my Grandmother's kitchen.

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12.25.08, Day 82. My brother, Dad, and sister leaning back into the wind.

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12.25.08, Day 82. Dried seaweed at Shamel Park, Cambria.

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12.25.08, Day 82. Driftwood sand serpent.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Rock and a wire fence.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Wood, wire, barbed wire and the ocean.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Finally I manage to get a nice picture of waves breaking on the rocks.

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12.26.08, Day 60. Old feathers and bleached bones.

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12.26.08, Day 83. An empty shell, hundreds of feet above the ocean.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Tiny fuzzy plant.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Laced rocks.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Plastic cover on a metal pipe, with pink plastic ribbon.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Pelicans on the rocks, at the furthest extent of my zoom.

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12.26.08, Day 83. Dead tree on the hike back to the car.

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12.26.08, Day 83. About two inches, tops, of birdnest.

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12.26.08. Five trees and an old farmhouse.

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12.27.08, Day 84. One of the puppies at the animal shelter in Cambria.

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12.28.08, Day 85. The hills and coast heading toward Paso Robles.

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12.28.08, Day 85. The hills and coast heading toward Paso Robles.

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12.28.08, Day 85. Sculpture hanging over the door of my sister's house.

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12.28.08, day 85. Terminal 2 at SFO. Deserted. It has never been and never will be as cool as it is now.

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12.28.08, day 85. Terminal 2 at SFO. Deserted. It has never been and never will be as cool as it is now.

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12.28.08, day 85. Terminal 2 at SFO. Deserted. It has never been and never will be as cool as it is now.

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12.28.08, day 85. Terminal 2 at SFO. Deserted. It has never been and never will be as cool as it is now.

The cats levitate over the snow

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12.21.2008, Day 78. Snow on the Heavenly bamboo plant (Nandina domestica) in my parents front garden.

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12.21.2008, Day 78. Six inches of snow here, with a half inch crust of snow the cats just walk on top of and don't break through. It's snowing again.

Hi from Snowy Seattle!

I am lucky, lucky I came in yesterday as Alaska has canceled all flights in and out of Seattle today (and tomorrow?). We're supposed to get 6-9 inches of snow and wind up to 75mph. Hopefully the last will fail to materialize. But since the snow started on the dot at three the rest of the prediction might be equally accurate.

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12.18.2008, Day 76. Sunrise at DIA. The last time I caught a sunrise at DIA was roughly a year ago, fortunately this one wasn't seen after spending the night at the airport.

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12.20.2008, Day 77. Lilycat says "look either pet me or don't. But stop taking your hand away to take pictures!" The snow in the background was all from the day before yesterday.

Some bonus pictures.

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12.19.2008, Day 76. Flying over the Cascades.

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12.19.2008, Day 76. Mt. Rainier from the plane.

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12.19.2008, Day 76. The trees cast long shadows at ten in the morning.

I suppose there are some good things about a 730 am final

Like being home and completely done with the semester by a quarter to twelve.

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12.16.08 Day 73, start of a knee sock.

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12.17.08, Day 74. Ice on Boulder Creek. The REAL picture for the day is one I planned and forgot to take, called "portrait of the photography via phd applications." It was going to be all the envelops I mailed off with writing samples etc. but like I said I forgot to take the picture.

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12.18.08, Day 75. Another good thing about 730am finals, early light on the Flatirons.


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12.18.08, Day 75. This squirrel was utterly intent on eating. I walked by it, about two feet away, turned back, took out my camera and took the picture and it just looked at me sidelong and kept eating.

In other good news the heater in my room is finally fixed! No more waking up in the middle of the night to turn it on/off, the auto function works again, hurrah!

Funny things found on the internet

I have spent all day working on applications. Grrr. Submitted two three some of them. Have to finish the rest. Picture updates will come another day because I don't feel like uploading them from my camera at the moment.Also why am I convinced it is Wednesday? Really quite glad it's not Wednesday.Two funny things found on the internet via Miss Conduct: A Facebook version of Pride and Prejudice, and a Facebook version of Hamlet. Don't worry they are not actually on Facebook so anyone can see them.

The other necklace

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12.15.08, Day 72. Warmer than yesterday but still pretty damn cold. This is the other necklace I made on Sunday. Same design different materials.

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12.13.08, Day 70. I did mention I like rusted things, right?

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12.14.08, Day 71. Yesterday I went into a bead store searching for something very specific, which they didn't have. I ended up buy silver and copper wire and stone beads and then spent a couple hours making two necklaces. I decided that this one, the first I made, would be the picture for today. And then it snowed last night. And this morning I got the brilliant idea to go out and take a picture of me in the snow in the necklace, at an actually temperature of 3F and a perceived temp of -13F. I like the picture enough that if the snow sticks around I'll take a picture of me in the other necklace tomorrow.

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I was hoping to get this paper done by midnight . . . I still have 8 pages to go ;.;EDIT: 2:32am, paper still not done, now only need four pages, and a lot of analysis (more than four pages of it).Words I have never used in a paper before: appellation, elucidate, flabbergasted.EDIT: 3:43 pm. I finished my paper at 11:30 this morning and got in on time by noon! Yay!I imagine several of you are like, wait haven't you know what you were going to write about since the third week of the semester? Unfortunately my idea of writing a structural analysis of Murakami Haruki's short stories fell apart at the 11th hour, aka 30 minutes before class on Wednesday. Mainly because I still couldn't figure out why a structural analysis would be useful/important. So instead I did a structural analysis of the BL genre. 20 pages in 24 hours, and it is faaaar better than my original idea would have been. However I only got three hours of sleep last night 4-7 so my main goal for the rest of the day is to stay awake until nine.But the paper is done. And today was the last day of classes so aside from my students final next Thursday, all bright and shiny at the way-too-early time of 7:30am I AM DONE!!!!! YAY SLEEP AND A VACATION!!!There will now commence a break in blogging activities as I go consume the rest of my pizza and upload photos. BRB.

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12.08.08, Day 65. Frost on concrete.

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12.09.08, Day 66. Icicles through the sidewalk.

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12.10.08, Day 67. I had a whole different picture for Wednesday and then I got intrigued by how tired I looked just based on the skin just under my eyes. I fell asleep and 8 and went to bed at 10.

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12.11.08, Day 68. Cold heart.

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12.12.08, Day 69. I walk past here everyday and some how didn't notice until this morning, this awesome partially buried corroded barrel. Neat.


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12.09.08, Day 66. I can't ever remember who he is but I liked his snow.

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12.10.08, Day 67. The snow, the sun through the trees and the blueblueblue Colorado sky.Don't know if I'll make it the five hours to nine . . .