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Human Saturday, May 24, 2008 |

For the first time in months I feel quasi human. I went grocery shopping yesterday, which felt totally surreal, managed to get a reasonable amount of sleep, eat a real meal over the course of an hour and a half at a table with 5 friends and not feel rushed. Now it's off to continue the fight elsewhere before returning home in early June. So what have y'all been up to?


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So Far ... Monday, April 28, 2008 |

I'm still alive, can't talk, but here's a bunch of photos so far - I apologise for their quality, they've been taken from my blackberry because I didn't have enough time to pack my D-SLR and the batteries have gone out on my point and shoot.

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The trees! They bloom! OMG! It's a good thing I don't have a car here because I'd drive it into someone while I'm whizzing down the road staring at the TREES! THAT BLOOM!

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The temperature in my office for FOUR FREAKING DAYS! I must say here that I absolutely LOVE electricity.

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You can't see the bruise well in this photo, but I managed to drop a bookshelf on my foot and fracture two of the long bones in my foot. Grace. I has it.

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This is a tulip. Amazing. I couldn't believe it.

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More trees! That bloom! I made it to the botanical garden here in town and saw this. AMAZING. I want a tree like this in my front yard. I want to move here and have a tree like this in my front yard. Ten of them.

Frozen Precipitation! Friday, April 04, 2008 |

So I got to drive across the entire state of Washington today. And tomorrow I get to go back. Joy!

Anyway, if you look at a map and begin in Seattle and look across towards the other side of the state, you see that you have to cross mountains. And tall, blustery mountains at that. In early April. And western Washington is known for its precipitation. Which in the cold, blustery mountains in early April means ... drumroll, please ...

SNOW!!!

I got to see snow today, and lots of it. And be snowed on! OMG! For a snow freak, it was awesome! And I get to go through it again tomorrow! Can't wait!


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Plucked Monday, March 31, 2008 |

So I thought I had another day to prepare to drive to Portland.

Oh, you didn't know I was going to Portland? I am. Something to win up there soon where my services are needed. But apparently there's something to win this weekend in Seattle where I can help out too, so here I go.

I was called at 1:30 and told to be at the airport for a 3:12 departure. I seriously feel like I've been plucked from my life and deposited in someone else's. But I love it. And I haven't had time to freak about flying.

Here we go.

And the craziest thing about all this? My fortune cookie this afternoon at lunch said: Chill while you can, a big project is coming your way. I love that the gods have an odd sense of humor.

And for the record? I'll be in Oregon for the foreseeable future. Exciting!
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Alive Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |

To all those who question: I am, in fact, alive.


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