I've made the startling discovery that if you just take away the greed, the smog, the rampant materialism, and the incredible urban sprawl, that southern California is quite pretty :)


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Hurrah! I've finally got the 70-odd pictures I took a few days ago of campus all resized and shinied up. It's spring and the trees are looking glorious, as are the flowers, and I went a little crazy when we had blue skies and sunshine. I think I may well end up posting all of these, if I don't get bored with the coding, lol ( Read more... )

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Night before last I dreamed about a South Asian binturong, otherwise known as a bearcat, otherwise known as Willamette University's completely randomly chosen school mascot. (Please note that Willamette's store doesn't actually offer stuffed bearcats to buy, for some completely retarded reason.) Anyway, in my dream, the bearcat belonged to a rich ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm procrastinating on my French composition, what's it to you? :-P

( Lots of pictures of trees and things... dial-ups, beware )

Saturday saw me sleeping late and recovering from Black Tie the night before. I wandered down to breakfast after noon and ran into Sara and Leah, and Sara came up with the brilliant idea of heading to Baskett Slough, a wildlife reserve only twenty minutes out of Salem. The weather was partly sunny with no rain clouds in sight and so we all leapt ( Read more... )

Just got back from my ecology class's field trip to the Yaquina Bay tide pools. Oh my God, they are so gorgeous. I guess I've never been to see real, natural tide pools before, but oh, maaaaan, they are so, so, so beautiful. Creatures (and plants) seen: mussels, clams, crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp, sea stars, sun stars, an octupus (in the WILD, ( Read more... )

So, I was walking back to my dorm after class this morning, and had already crossed the street when I glanced over at Lee dorm, across the street. I saw something BIG sitting there. It looked like a bird. It was very definitely bird-shaped. But it was huge! Bigger than a chicken. Now, my dorm is in the middle of a decent-sized town, and the ( Read more... )

Dude. I so don't understand. Last year at church I was given as a Secret Sister present a Venus flytrap. Pretty darn cool, eh? It had the little heads and everything. It also had spiky, fleshy leaves.

This is what my flytrap mostly looked like in the beginning:


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