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Fog?
This state has some of the strangest weather patterns. I know there's a typical marine layer that hangs over the bay until noon usually, but today the fog was so thick I could hardly see two blocks away, and that was twenty blocks inland. Weird city. -
It's about time..
I have my first overnight tonight on Star of India as the Cookie!!!
*squeee*
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I know I'm late for you east coasties
But finally we have been heard and Mike Rowe of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs has come out and played tar monkey on Star of India at the San Diego Maritime Museum!
For those of us on the left coast, the episode airs TONIGHT at 2100. Yay!
More info here.
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Oh! Shiny!
Did I mention it's raining? This is good, I miss a good rainfall after not even a sprinkle in months:) Gonna dance in it now. -
Here comes the sun, pretty darling
I finally found a job. I think I logged a good 40 miles in walking since Wednesday, walking everywhere in San Diego looking for anyplace to hire. Had perhaps 15 interviews, god knows how many applications filled out. So what am I doing? Well the sweet part is, I'm putting in 20-odd hours as a receptionist at the hostel, in exchange for a free bed ( Read more... ) -
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Meeeeehhhh.
That is all.
I need loud head-splodey music. And a long bicycle ride. And a puppy. -
September 6th.
Starting to allow myself to realize what little is left: $25, a week, a handful of unsent postcards,and a truckload of memories. Promises of tattoed sparrows when the ship returns. Unanswered questions we try to forget about. Desperate hugs and kisses. No promises. Ever. "See you laters" and fevered dancing and drinking in the galley. All these ( Read more... ) -
Journal Entries.
July 8, 2008
The sun is shining through a clear blue sky as we lie, engine idling with an early dinner below, tied to a piling at the marina tucked inside Sooke Bay, on the southwest side of Vancouver Island.
We are still another seventy miles to the mouth of the river that will lead us to Port Alberni, but outside our kelp-laden refuge, a thick ( Read more... ) -
Mood? All of the above, please.
The ideal nightwatch menu: lychees and cotton candy. Not that this has been tried or anything. The boats lie at anchor off Vashon Island, waiting to sail into Tacoma, and we are loved.
