Monday, July 16, 2012

I'm back...

I have much to write about about TAM, and much to import from oder bogs, but first, as I have sept no more than 8 hours this entire time, that must be taken care of first. That, and the puzzing non-functionaity of one of my keys. Can't write very we without it.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

I'm At The Amazing Meeting Right Now... (and have been since Wednesday)

...so, I can't come to the blog right now. Am distracted by all the amazing people and events. Was at Penn Gillette's Rock and Roll Doughnut and Bacon Party earlier, have been gorging myself on debauchery for the third night in a row, and currently a dyslexic/sexlexic goat demon is letting me use his laptop, although I probably have WiFi in my room currently, but just happen to not be there at the moment.

Will be back on Monday with all my pictures, videos, and CRAZY STORIES GALORE!!!

I am now A REAL MAD SCIENCE WRITER!!!!1!

(Ignore the 1.)

Sunday, July 8, 2012

My fireworks photos and such -- if you're into that sort of thing.

This Fourth of July is the first in which I have figured out how the video mechanism works on my camera, thus there will be no more clumsy, blurry long exposures. I insist on videoing everything this year, including the setting sun as the ferry goes across to Whidbey Island, with the sounds of the migratory terns:


As one of the ferries was making its way back from Whidbey, I got some video of it as well as the fireworks going on at the far shore:


Isn't that so superior than just trying to get photos? If only I would have shut up more. Anyway, that's only the beginning:

Friday, July 6, 2012

The interim between the parade and the fireworks...

I've previously posted some photos of Dilly climbing a towel and Vada being a grumpus because she's not the cutest cat anymore, but I didn't show this somewhat post-apocalyptic-looking sunset:

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Nor did I make any mention of Dilly's habit of sleeping underneath Lou Ryan's guitar whenever he left it on the sofa:

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Nor did I post this cute video of Dilly chasing a moth. Will she catch it? Let's see:

Thursday, July 5, 2012

It was a bright and sunny gay day with the flying spaghetti monster...

As I'm so focused on going to The Amazing Meeting and making sure that I get ahead in some things before I leave, I don't have much time for writing posts -- displaying photos, yes, but little more than that. Luckily, I have plenty of those! Care to be touched by a noodly appendage?

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What's this all about? Well, on June 24, Brianade and I headed out to the gay pride parade, in which I was featured and of which I took gorb-loads of pictures. The highlights, however should be plenty:

Monday, July 2, 2012

I officially have earned my degree!

This was in my email inbox today:
Congratulations! Your degree requirements are completed.  We have posted the degree to your transcript and it is immediately available for viewing and verification. 
The diploma will be ordered and will be mailed to you soon.  If you change your mailing address, please notify Sydnie Tran at...

If you choose to attend commencement in mid-June, you must RSVP by the posted deadline.
Seeing as it's already July, I don't think I'll make it to that commencement.

In truth, I actually earned my degree about a year ago (so saith my school records), but have been having to take more classes and re-apply for this degree, and despite the fact that my GPA has gone down a little since then, I finally am getting it in the mail!

Now, this transfer degree I've been telling everyone about, including universities that I applied to last year, is no longer a pipe dream, but officially mine, and no one can take that away from me!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Seattle Science Festival thingy at the Paramount

I've been doing a lot of things, partly in preparation for The Amazing Meeting, but thought I'd dig up this post, from back on June 16 when I went to the Seattle Science Festival thingy at the Paramount, with this guy as the headliner:

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Although books are generally much more informative, lectures can be more fun to actually see, which is why I bother going to them at all.

The topic was supposed to be on evolution, but for whatever reason, Stephen Hawking was lecturing about things like multiple universes. And as he was the last speaker, I really ought to take a step back and check out the rest of picture before going into that: