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Such cool shots of Sundhnúkagígar in Iceland erupting! (It's actually hard to find the name of the volcano in news reports because no one besides Icelanders can spell it LOL. Their names look like a cat just walked across the keyboard :P) I'm SO jealous people can see the eruption when they're flying in! It's really impressive how they built the ( Read more... )

Today I went back to Vicki's office and saw these awesome fancy curtains!

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Ever since reading The Alice network a few years ago, and especially after reading and watching Smilla's Sense of Snow this year, I've had a fascination with stuttering..even to the point where I watched It, and everyone knows how much I avoid horror movies (I did have to fast forward through or look away during the super creepy parts though lol). ( Read more... )

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I have suddenly become absolutely obsessed with Antarctica and Apsley Cherry-Garrard (even his name is awesome!), who was on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to reach the South Pole (Scott made it, but everyone with him died..Cherry found their bodies later, just 11 miles from a food cache!). His book (The Worst Journey in the World), has had a ( Read more... )

So I've been reading things I wrote from like..2005, and it's making me cringe so hard haha..people must have thought I was insane. And then I came across THIS, and can't stop laughing: HEYYYYYY ALLLLLL!!!!! Guess what? I went to Switzerland, and was turned into a llama earlier. Then I saw red, white and green grass and realized I was in Italy. ( Read more... )

I had been wanting A Dance With Dragons (the 5th book in A Song of Ice and Fire..it didn't come with the set I got) but didn't really want it in hardback. I checked Amazon but it doesn't come out in paperback till October. I thought about buying it on Amazon but it's a big book and probably would be easier buying it at Fred Meyer or something (or ( Read more... )

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Cooool. I actually saw an iceberg (though much smaller) do that once haha. It was pretty sweet ( Read more... )

I'm convinced all the mountaineers have known each other at some point haha. I put Anatoli's name into Amazon and a couple of Joe Simpson's books came up (I'd read them before too..but somehow didn't remember). In one book he talked about Anatoli on Everest in 1996 and in the other HE MET ANATOLI AND HE SIGNED JOE'S COPY OF HIS BOOK OMG SO JEALOUS ( Read more... )