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Great Hair
While I deal with frozen pipes in a house I’m looking after for a friend, why don’t you go make a snowman?
New Year’s Resolutions: Studying Russian
I love learning languages, but I’m bad about starting and not ‘finishing.’ I know you never truly ‘finish’ learning a language, but I want to get to a reasonable level of competency, instead of just learning the basic structure of the language and colors, numbers, and food. I tend to put language learning on the […]
Grad school application #1
I just submitted my first grad school application. Satisfying, but expensive. Now I’m going to play in the snow that shut down all the roads in and out of town yesterday!
Mount Elden
This tired earth
After only a week in the fields listening to the farmers, we realized that the crop substitution program, a key component of the American effort to eradicate coca, was a fantasy. Harvested by hand every four months or as often as six times a year if fertilized and sprayed, coca outperformed every other agricultural product […]
Mistletoe in a juniper tree
Continuing to wander through the park led me past this tree: How odd! It looks like it has two different colors of foliage. And the darker foliage seems to form very distinct clumps. That’s weird enough to warrant a second glance. A second glance reveals that those dark clumps aren’t part of this poor juniper […]
Identifying an Alligator Juniper to variety
I went for a walk around a park near my apartment today. After being indoors cooking and eating all day yesterday, a nice long walk on a cold winter day was absolutely perfect. I was planning to do some work on my grad school applications when I got back, but ended up identifying the plants […]