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Please read my (New Look! Same Great Content!) blog. We're going to southeast Asia on bicycle. I would be most honored if you'd come along ( Read more... )

I write to you paddling about in a sea of chicken soup and herbal tea, in a boat of the softest (yet still not soft enough) tissues. I’ve been inflicted by a particularly voracious rhinovirus for the past three years of the last two weeks. I would not be surprised if this were actually a physical manifestation of the sadness upon leaving my ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, I drove across the country to study soil in a place surrounded by golden fields of wheat and later ensconced near the great city of Seattle.  Then this weekend I graduated.  That moment where it comes upon you that you have finished what you set out to begin. During the time of this graduate work the days were long and the years ( Read more... )

A couple nights ago I poked a selection randomly into my iTunes and out played a certain energetic country rock song-of a decidedly plebeian nature involving the shaking of asses-which I’d indulged in while driving through Montana, back when I was traversing this entire nation with Buddy Holly on my way to graduate school.  Montana was the only ( Read more... )

What also was exciting? I was wooed by a crop and soil consultancy company to apply for a job. Its one thing to hunt for position openings yourself, but to have a possible oppurtunity handed to you is very nice indeed ( Read more... )

(written from 23D on American Airlines to SEA ( Read more... )

Today I am in Florida.  Which is a marked change from Washington, just about diagonal across this country.  I’d been suffering from a dry and disconsolate cough in Washington, an affliction that made me irritable and anti-social at night, requiring sleep-inducing cough syrup and a humidifier ( Read more... )

I want to WRITE.  This is rather involuntary and misplaced, actually, as I haven’t had any Adventures or Remarkable Anecdotes.  But I shall drum away at my computer, regardless.  I think this was induced by my biking and pianoing earlier, now that I’ve been pushed off into the not-stats brain hemisphere ( Read more... )

I keep thinking I’m not going to do this again, but here is another Bicycling Entry ( Read more... )

Today I was a model.
Which--as you might guess--I have never done before.
It all happened because I went to a party at the Seattle Art Museum wearing a fairly fabulous dress, and was photographed by a Mr. Lens there, and he noted "I got a good one of you" and handed me his card so I could have it sent to me.  Then he asked if I would be interested ( Read more... )