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I liiiiiiiive! Again. Life's been either supremely boring or really distracting lately.
X-Files rewatch continues! We've finished season six now. Dear lord, I loved that season. How the Ghosts Stole Christmas? Triangle? Arcadia? The Unnatural? SO MUCH LOVE. (I had Jesse L. Martin's rendition of "Come and Go With Me To That Land" stuck in my head earlier) Also, after rewatching "Tithonus," I get curious again about how Scully is supposedly going to live forever. So, do any of my equally-nerdy X-Files friends know of any fic that has Scully dealing with that? 'Cause that would be fascinating. And sad. Angsty fic opportunity, right there! Also as part of my X-Files kick, I gave Mulder and Scully some colored pencil love.
I'm picking up on the running a bit! Been doing speed work over the summer, and I can definitely feel my endurance picking up. I'm gonna get myself registered for some of the fall races at Disney and get into the swing of it!
The World continues... they took PAC away from Frontierland. :( Main Street does it all now. And they suck at it. Oh well. Splash has been quiet. Mad props to the CM who put together a GIANT coloring book and brought it in with colored pencils and put it in the break room. It's like going back to kindergarten and it's awesome. I've been training a lot, although for the next couple of weeks I'm just in rotation. Sadly, no guest!win or guest!fail really sticks out in my mind this time around. :( I did get to Star Wars Weekends once and OMG LOVE. Darth Vader dancing to "Can't Touch This"? EPIC WIN. Photos from that here
Birding has tapered off for the season, alas, because the evil mosquitoes of doom have arrived. Oh, and it's a wee bit warm. Details. I've gotten a couple of trips in lately, though...
Shingle Creek was just a little spur-of-the-moment trip, so not much time there.
Wild Turkey
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Tricolored Heron
Anhinga
Mallard
Great Crested Flycatcher
Wood Stork
Little Blue Heron
Pileated Woodpecker
Barred Owl
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid???
Mourning Dove
Common Grackle
I did, however, spot a pileated woodpecker cavity with a little head poking out, screaming for mom and dad to come back, so that was pretty sweet. :P Pictures from this trip are here! Lots of plants here, since I'm trying to learn those. So any help IDing would be appreciated!
Canaveral National Seashore is actually sort of a collection of a few different spots. I started at Playalinda Beach, then doubled back and went north down Bio Lab Road. Then I drove north a ways to New Smyrna Beach and went to the north end of Canaveral National Seashore.
Brown Pelican
Roseate Spoonbill
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Eastern Towhee
*Ruddy Turnstone
White Ibis
Laughing Gull
Northern Cardinal
Red-Winged Blackbird
Snowy Egret
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Black Vulture
Mourning Dove
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Great-Crested Flycatcher
Killdeer
Willet
Northern Mockingbird
Turkey Vulture
Carolina Wren
Great Egret
Double-Crested Cormorant
Red-Winged Blackbird
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Loggerhead Shrike
Anhinga
Common Ground Dove
Fish Crow
Common Grackle
*Royal Tern
Bottlenose Dolphin
Florida Manatee
At the north end of the seashore, they also have this spiffy thing called Turtle Mound. It's basically a big "garbage pile" left by the original inhabitants of the area. It's where they used to dump all their left over shells. It grew over time and is huge now. There's a boardwalk to get up to the top of it, and from the top there's a gorgeous view of the Intracostal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. And there were DOLPHINS, eeeee! XD And pics from that day are up here!
I also went back to Shingle Creek earlier this week, but more just to sit and chill than anything. I did see a procession of turkeys walking around - with their babies! It was adorable! I got pics, but I'm still going through them. For the record, baby turkeys rival baby sandhill cranes for cutest birdie fuzzballs around here.
And books!
5/21/09
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
A bit slow to start, but once it picked up, it was a fantastic, epic adventure! Definitely one that could be very stunning as a film or movie - it certainly painted pictures in my head!
5/08/09
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The story is at times beautiful and at times heart-wrenching, but all the while, the author tells it in a very moving way. I was fascinated by the life of the geisha, and what life in Japan was like for Sayuri during WWII. A couple of spots where it drags, but overall the story kept me hooked!
X-Files rewatch continues! We've finished season six now. Dear lord, I loved that season. How the Ghosts Stole Christmas? Triangle? Arcadia? The Unnatural? SO MUCH LOVE. (I had Jesse L. Martin's rendition of "Come and Go With Me To That Land" stuck in my head earlier) Also, after rewatching "Tithonus," I get curious again about how Scully is supposedly going to live forever. So, do any of my equally-nerdy X-Files friends know of any fic that has Scully dealing with that? 'Cause that would be fascinating. And sad. Angsty fic opportunity, right there! Also as part of my X-Files kick, I gave Mulder and Scully some colored pencil love.
I'm picking up on the running a bit! Been doing speed work over the summer, and I can definitely feel my endurance picking up. I'm gonna get myself registered for some of the fall races at Disney and get into the swing of it!
The World continues... they took PAC away from Frontierland. :( Main Street does it all now. And they suck at it. Oh well. Splash has been quiet. Mad props to the CM who put together a GIANT coloring book and brought it in with colored pencils and put it in the break room. It's like going back to kindergarten and it's awesome. I've been training a lot, although for the next couple of weeks I'm just in rotation. Sadly, no guest!win or guest!fail really sticks out in my mind this time around. :( I did get to Star Wars Weekends once and OMG LOVE. Darth Vader dancing to "Can't Touch This"? EPIC WIN. Photos from that here
Birding has tapered off for the season, alas, because the evil mosquitoes of doom have arrived. Oh, and it's a wee bit warm. Details. I've gotten a couple of trips in lately, though...
Shingle Creek was just a little spur-of-the-moment trip, so not much time there.
Wild Turkey
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Tricolored Heron
Anhinga
Mallard
Great Crested Flycatcher
Wood Stork
Little Blue Heron
Pileated Woodpecker
Barred Owl
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid???
Mourning Dove
Common Grackle
I did, however, spot a pileated woodpecker cavity with a little head poking out, screaming for mom and dad to come back, so that was pretty sweet. :P Pictures from this trip are here! Lots of plants here, since I'm trying to learn those. So any help IDing would be appreciated!
Canaveral National Seashore is actually sort of a collection of a few different spots. I started at Playalinda Beach, then doubled back and went north down Bio Lab Road. Then I drove north a ways to New Smyrna Beach and went to the north end of Canaveral National Seashore.
Brown Pelican
Roseate Spoonbill
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Eastern Towhee
*Ruddy Turnstone
White Ibis
Laughing Gull
Northern Cardinal
Red-Winged Blackbird
Snowy Egret
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Black Vulture
Mourning Dove
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Great-Crested Flycatcher
Killdeer
Willet
Northern Mockingbird
Turkey Vulture
Carolina Wren
Great Egret
Double-Crested Cormorant
Red-Winged Blackbird
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Loggerhead Shrike
Anhinga
Common Ground Dove
Fish Crow
Common Grackle
*Royal Tern
Bottlenose Dolphin
Florida Manatee
At the north end of the seashore, they also have this spiffy thing called Turtle Mound. It's basically a big "garbage pile" left by the original inhabitants of the area. It's where they used to dump all their left over shells. It grew over time and is huge now. There's a boardwalk to get up to the top of it, and from the top there's a gorgeous view of the Intracostal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. And there were DOLPHINS, eeeee! XD And pics from that day are up here!
I also went back to Shingle Creek earlier this week, but more just to sit and chill than anything. I did see a procession of turkeys walking around - with their babies! It was adorable! I got pics, but I'm still going through them. For the record, baby turkeys rival baby sandhill cranes for cutest birdie fuzzballs around here.
And books!
5/21/09
The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan
A bit slow to start, but once it picked up, it was a fantastic, epic adventure! Definitely one that could be very stunning as a film or movie - it certainly painted pictures in my head!
5/08/09
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The story is at times beautiful and at times heart-wrenching, but all the while, the author tells it in a very moving way. I was fascinated by the life of the geisha, and what life in Japan was like for Sayuri during WWII. A couple of spots where it drags, but overall the story kept me hooked!