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Yesterday I met my new supervisor. OK, that's a lie; I've known him for years. But yesterday I met him *as* my supervisor. And it was good.

Bird wading in a pondAfter work, and after a little bit of grocery shopping, I dropped off a prescription and came home. I hopped on my bike (though the tires were a little underinflated) and headed out to the bike store on the way to the pharmacy. And I decided to bring my camera gear, since I figured I would get some neat pictures. And I did -- this bird, for example. The guy at the bike store showed me how to use a French stem, and I inflated my tires. Man, that made a real difference -- it was much easier to ride out of there than it was to ride in.


This area has been restricted for a whileOn the way back from the pharmacy, I took a new road, one that's semi-closed to cars (53rd Avenue). And about halfway up the road, my rear tire burst. Dammit, that wasn't part of the plan. So I called [livejournal.com profile] tregoweth for a ride, locked up my bike near this sign being swallowed by a tree, and hiked up to Fletcher. On my way up, I got a call from Jodi, who was ready (much earlier than usual) to be picked up on campus. I explained the situation and fairly soon picked her up with [livejournal.com profile] tregoweth's help. We all headed to my place, where I fed them brownies. [livejournal.com profile] segnbora came over too, and we had a merry old time until I finally kicked them out around midnight. It was a good night.


Except for the bit about being woken up at 2:20am because Jodi thought Amanda was taking too long to get home from work, and getting scorn heaped on me because I expressed confidence that she would be just fine. That sucked.

But other than that, a good night.

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These t-shirts are clever ways of raising funds for breast cancer research. I especially like the one that says fuck c*ncer (it's cancer that's obscene, says the explanation).

I woke up at 2:20 this morning and had some ice water and got into bed just in time for [livejournal.com profile] jitterbug5bi5 to return home from what turns out to have been her first official day as an employee of Sacred Grounds. I am so proud of my 妹妹!

And I am also very proud of Jodi, who will be going to Oregon next weekend to present a paper on friendship in Aristotelian and Confucian philosophy. This is her first professional presentation, and she's worked very hard on her material. I am confident that she will wow them.

I woke again at 5:00 and decided to use the morning productively: I looked up the azimuth (that's "which direction on the horizon?", if you're as new to astronomy as I am; this morning, at my latitude, it was around 101 degrees, or just south of east) and time of sunrise, grabbed some bagels near campus, and drove to the top of the less popular parking garage on campus to take photographs of sunrise and the dawn-lit campus.

Since this was all tripod work for long exposures, I don't think the shutter problem will have affected any of my shots. And since the moon was setting almost opposite the sunrise, I was able to get some nice telephoto shots of the moon setting behind a dawn-lit flag. (Which I'm sure will be blurred, but might be interesting. Swear not by the inconstant moon, nor less by an intemperate flag.)

I'll drop off the film later this morning. Costco does an amazing job -- for around $5 I get the film developed and scanned to CD at about 5MB per photo. And I can always get prints if I want them. I'd have to shoot 20 rolls a month to run into Flickr's upload limit for paying users, and I don't think I'll ever keep that pace with a full-time job. Which is fine by me.

(Update: here are the photos.)
 
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Four hours at Barnes and Noble is too long without Internet access, but $4 isn't too bad for two hours...

Jodi, Amanda, and Katie are playing Harry Potter UNO. Suzanne, Jackson and I are reading (I'm reading Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut.)

Amanda and I watched the last episode of Season 2 of Babylon 5 last night, so the astronomy book called Nightwatch creeped us out a bit. :)
sylvar: (Hmmm. (Giles))
I want anyone and everyone who reads this to post in here something they'd like to do with me someday. Then post this in your journal to find out what I want to do with you.
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I got my advance copies of Computers In Libraries Thursday, and showed my article to Jodi's side of the family while we were there. We attended a wedding (I'll give details in private, since I think very few people here know the former Miss Y. Gagne) and then returned to Tampa.

I cleaned up the living room, cleaned the kitchen, cooked rice bread and curry and brownies and other good stuff, and took a break before cleaning the master bedroom and attached bathroom.

We had snacks and a few drinks at [livejournal.com profile] segnbora and [livejournal.com profile] tregoweth's place, an event which was repeated last night by [livejournal.com profile] jitterbug5bi5 without us, but possibly to be repeated tonight WITH us. (Or with [livejournal.com profile] turtlebat23, anyway, since I'll be in class until 10pm and home around 11pm.)

And on top of all that goodness, [livejournal.com profile] jitterbug5bi5 is on track to get paid twice this month, which will make everyone involved very happy. I hate mixing friendship with landlordism; neither purpose is well-served by the combination.

So now all I have to worry about is a friend in Gainesville who's having major psychiatric problems; she's in good hands, though, so I imagine my prayers for her are superfluous.

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