Well, first of all I did make it to the plant and I made my partner take a picture of me through the live stream. It was quite large. I have honestly not totally gotten back into reading until the last few weeks, but here I go! Fiction Redwall by Brian Jaques Why I chose…
I’m going to see a corpse flower today. So called because it smells like “a mix of rotting fish, sweaty socks and hot garbage” source It’s an endangered tropical flower that might take a decade between flowering events in the wild, but happens every 2-3 years in cultivation. People have been asking me about the…
June was wild. Most of my friends and family have been vaccinated for at least a month and restrictions have eased up and so we started seeing more folks again. After one and a half years of isolation, any event planning would have been dramatic, but this month was a whopper. Multiple camping trips, I…
Updated some things on May 26, 2021 I was definitely a graphic designer at one point. In fact, I was pretty insistent on that fact for a while because I had been an English major before and was trying to get design work. So if you thought that’s what I do, that’s totally fair. It’s…
My partner has gotten into the habit of walking behind the couch to see what I’m doing on my computer. Usually it’s because I’ve been totally zoned out letting the glow of the screen give me life. Usually it’s because I’ve been this way for hours. “Again?” he says. “You don’t know me,” is my…
I have no one to talk to about the books I read. I still don’t, but I also don’t want to forget them. I’m going to try writing about them, let me know what you think. Overall, January was a continuation of a trend I started towards in 2020: “No more Fewer depressing non-fiction books.”…
My ideal hiking conditions are 1) brisk temperature 2) to a high place with 3) few people around. It’s something we’ve been doing more since the weather has cooled and I have a backlog of photos since we’ve been here. Here are the hikes we’ve been doing around LA, with a Scott for scale (he’s…
I went to Joshua Tree National Park this weekend with Scott and Shanna for a short trip. It was my first time camping in the winter. It got down to 32F in the evening and Shanna drove through a snow storm on her way out. Luckily, the snow didn’t hit our part of the park.…
Gas stations, fast food along the way, groceries, communal bathrooms, and problems with the tiny house you booked—in my excitement for a vacation, it didn’t occur to me how many people you see during a camping trip, especially to a national park. We had booked the trip months ago when there was hope that covid…
I was listening to a podcast today(actually a podcast introducing another podcast) and the narrator (who I adore, but who, much to my disappointment, my friends don’t like as well*) describes how he can take failure better than other people because he just always just adds them to his big ball of failure—that they all end…
