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(unexpectedly) Day 118: And Now, The Weather
I’ve had three separate flights canceled out from under me, and spent an ungodly amount of time on the phone and email rescheduling flights and hostels and inter-airport transport. Only to then re-book them the next day when the weather continues to be a little bit frightening. I’ve successfully booked plane tickets for Wednesday, when…
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Day 115: In Which the Semester Rolls to a Close
I’ve given the last presentation, turned in the last paper, gone to a couple holiday parties, and very nearly eaten down the fridge. I have not, however, started packing. Ya win some, ya lose some. Maritime Anthropology was indeed a fun class, with maybe one of the most distractable professors I’ve ever had. We barely…
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Day 109: In Which We Wrap Up Coastal Processes, and Turn Towards the Break
It has been a very busy week; it’s last week of Coastal Processes, and a lot of people left on Friday in lieu of taking the last week of classes. The fact that I’m going to be on a plane headed home in a week a little brain boggling (still quite bad at the linear…
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Day 100: In Which There is One of Many Independence Days
Rabbit Rabbit! The funny thing about having had several recognized governments and a complicated relationship with the crown that originally colonized you, is that you get a lot of independence days. This is the 1918 independence, which was technically granted to the Kingdom of Iceland (which doesn’t exist anymore and is also sort of the…
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Day 94: In Which Economics is Completed, and That Means I Get to Go To Bed
I’ve officially been here for more than 90 days, which is when most visas expire and they make you go home. For the record, 90 days is wildly long time to have free reign in another country. And it’s the strangest things remind me that I’m actually on foreign continent and not just weird part…
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Day 86: In Which I Haven’t Bitten An Economist All Week, Can I Have A Cookie Please
This one is mostly complaining about neoclassical economics On the upside, it’s dark enough to get some lovely stars in the morning, but they photograph even worse than planets. On the other hand, we started Environmental Economics on Monday, and I’d actually forgotten how crossed-threaded I get with economists. I’ve been tempted to start four…
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Happy Halloween
it’s much easier to make a mouse sized costume than a person (even a me-sized person) sized one, and the armpits are much simpler. I had a delightful time making a little rapier out of a paperclip too Happy Halloween!
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Day 67: In Which Life Continues to Roll Right Along
There’s been no big ticket items for a while; we finished up Polar Law, and this week we started the Oceanography course. I’m delighted to be back in a natural science class (as fascinating as Polar Law was). It’s also flipped over that the sun isn’t up when I have to wake up for school,…
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Day 53 & 54: In Which There is Yet More Conference, and a Long Drive
I love mysterious technical issues; this was supposed to go up Sunday, but Tuesday is also a valid day. I wasn’t really interested in any of the morning panels, so I decided to sleep in and then maybe wander around the city a little bit. You know, enjoy being in a place and seeing things.…
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Day 52: In Which There is More Conference
So the conference is taking place is in the very Modern Architecture building, and for the most part it’s just generally cold concrete at weird angles, except for the mirrored hexagon ceiling and honey comb glass walls. I spent a chunk of time between panels sitting on the floor overthinking this building; each glass chunk…
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