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Zanzibar
Age. 40
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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The World









The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into:

Samarinda

Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is.
The Phases of the Moon Module
CURRENT MOON
Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s)
Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER


Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee.
The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration
T: Cook a nice dinner
W: PARKOUR!
Th: Parties, movies, dinners
F: Picnics, the Louvre
S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR
Su: Philosophy, Religion
The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006
A Crocodile on the Sandbank
Looking Backwards
Wild Swans
Exodus
1984
Tales of the Alhambra (in progress)
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Lost Years of Merlin
Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress)
Atlas Shrugged (in progress)
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!)
The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time
From Magma to Tephra (in progress)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harry Potter 7
The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency
Introduction to Planetary Volcanism
A Child Called "It"
Pompeii
Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women?
Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress)
What's So Great About Christianity?
Aeolian Geomorphology
Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits
The City of Ember
The People of Sparks
Cube Route
When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard
Bound
The Golden Compass
Clan of the Cave Bear
The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Twilight
Eclipse
New Moon
Breaking Dawn
Armageddon's Children
The Elves of Cintra
The Gypsy Morph
Animorphs #23: The Pretender
Animorphs #25: The Extreme
Animorphs #26: The Attack
Crucial Conversations
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Dandelion Wine
To Sir, With Love
London Calling
Watership Down
The Invisible
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Host
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Shadows and Strongholds
The Jungle Book
Beatrice and Virgil
Infidel
Neuromancer
The Help
Flip
Zion Andrews
The Unit
Princess
Quantum Brain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated
Delirium
Memento Nora
Robopocalypse
The Name of the Wind
The Terror
Sister
Tao Te Ching
What Paul Meant
Lao Tzu and Taoism
Libyan Sands
Sand and Sandstones
Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Science of God
Calculating God
Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill
City of Bones
Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
Divergent
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Old Man and the Sea
Flowers for Algernon
Au Bonheur des Ogres
The Martian
The Road to Serfdom
De La Terre � la Lune (ip)
In the Light of What We Know
Devil in the White City
2312
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Red Mars
How to Be a Good Wife
A Mote in God's Eye
A Gentleman in Russia
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
The Juanes Module


Juanes just needed his own mod. Who can disagree.
He's Just So Cute Though
Sunday. 5.22.11 3:00 pm
And coming to visit me in ~12.5 days.

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Circumcision of the Entire Body (DP)
Thursday. 5.19.11 11:06 pm
Be it extremely emotional, controversial, messed up, or whatever, this entry has been password protected.

If you know it, enter it; or, ask me for it.

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Officials: possible colony of rabid cats in RI
Tuesday. 5.17.11 11:38 am
Officials: possible colony of rabid cats in RI
May 14, 2011
PROVIDENCE, R.I.�Providence officials are warning about a possible colony of rabid cats after a stray cat attacked two people.

The cat attacked a garbage collector on Wednesday and the city's animal control officer Friday. It later tested positive for rabies.

Officials think the animal could be a part of wild colony of 40 rabid cats living in the city's west end.

Rabies causes animals to become sluggish, and then aggressive.

� Copyright 2011 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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Pleasant Providence
Monday. 5.16.11 9:32 pm
Today I walked through the pleasant weather from my building to the main office. One secretary told me that I didn't have to do a task that I hadn't felt like doing. The other told me that I have $7800 that I didn't know about that I have to spend by the end of the month on either travel or software.

I strolled to the bank, where the checks I was depositing added up to a satisfyingly even number.

As I meandered back to my office, the scents of flowers and BBQs wafted past my nose. I passed the duct where air comes out of the greenhouse. It smells like some crazy combination of a plant, a wet paper towel and a drier. If I let myself stay there too long I fear death by asphyxiation because I love the smell so much that I forget to breathe out. As I continued down the shady lane, a mild breeze sent a shower of little pink flower petals cascading over me like snow.

Later on I got pulled over by a cop because my emissions inspection sticker was out of date. He also wanted to know why I had a Rhode Island registration and a Colorado driver's license. I told him about my upcoming graduation and he said to just not worry about the inspection and to have a good evening.

I texted for a while with the boy I like (it's his birthday!), then got invited by another friend to go miniature golfing and to Chili's on Thursday. As I sat at my kitchen table, I wished I could listen to music, but I didn't want to get up to turn on the radio. Just then, my roommate's alarm clock went off randomly (set 12 hours wrong?) and started playing my favorite radio station.

Yes, Providence can be pleasant in the spring.

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Pendulums
Monday. 5.16.11 4:25 pm

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The Whole Wide Moon
Saturday. 4.30.11 3:22 am
When you study the Moon
Day after day
You begin to feel a kind of ownership over it
After a while.
When people talk about the Moon, you feel compelled
To say something that establishes it as yours
Something about the origin of the Ocean of Storms
The geology of the Marsh of Sleep
Its composition
Its thermal history
How it came to be

But the thing about the Moon is that while it belongs to scientists
It also belongs to engineers
And artists
And lovers
And dreamers
And poets.

It isn't like the Earth
Which technically belongs to all of us
But divided into six billion tiny pieces

Because each person on the Earth owns the whole Moon
The entire Moon belongs to every single one of us

And we're free to appreciate it
Or learn about it
Or bask in its radiance on a warm summer evening
As it circles the Earth, paying visits to everyone

And every single one of us has a right to feel ownership of the Moon
Not a piece of it
Or one six-billionth of it

But the whole Moon, as much as we can fit in our eyeballs.

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DOCTOR DOCTOR!
Monday. 4.25.11 11:07 pm
So I'm a doctor!!

YAY.

"Dr. Zanzibar"

It has a nice ring to it.

I'll start my own radio show and everyone can call in and ask me questions about their troublesome volcanoes.

So if I'm finished with all my work, why am I here in the lab at 11:15 pm????

Welll... I have tiny bits of work left to do, and it's hard to get work done during the day.

And old habits die hard. Don't worry, I'm doing my best to kill them. I spent most of Saturday playing the bodhran, so I can become like this chick:





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Getting Defensive
Sunday. 4.17.11 8:57 pm
My defense is on Tuesday!! YAYYYY! Ma dad is comin'! YAYYY!

I finally managed to figure out how to download a YouTube movie, clip it, and then insert it into a Powerpoint Presentation without losing resolution (and without getting a virus). And hey, I learned a lot about codecs along the way. My defense presentation is going to be AWESOME.

Meanwhile, The Mercury Paper that Won't Die, which I submitted last JULY, is now finally available online. I just have to go through the page-proofs which is proving to be a lot more complicated than I thought it would be.

Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous editors, or to take arms against a sea of meaningless typographical changes, and by opposing, draw out the process even longer? To die! To sleep no more!

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