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Zanzibar
Age. 39
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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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.
Thjorsardalur
Saturday. 2.2.08 10:09 pm
So Thalweg and Srog the Dane and Bethany and I went skiing again. Skiing! woooo! Apparently Denmark is a pretty flat country, but there's cross country skiing there. Srog the Dane is going to be here til May so we have to show her a good American honky-tonk time. And no, her name isn't really Srog but that's what I call her not-to-her-face because I'm always forgetting her real name.

We decided to go up to the top of the ski resort because we figured out that there was a route we could take where we'd only intersect blues and one blue-black if we were feeling adventurous. Naturally, once we reached the top it was revealed to us that all of the blue runs were closed, and the only way down was to go down the black diamonds. Naturally, I was the only one of us who'd ever been down a black slope, and it was Teresa's 6th time skiing and Bethany's 2.5th and Srog the Dane had been skiing once for a week in Italy a long time ago. Befitting her mysterious Nordic heritage, Srog managed to navigate quite well down the slope. Thalweg and Bethany navigated the slope by sliding down on their backsides.

In the life of a skiier, he will navigate many slopes. The names of only some will remain in his mind forever.

The first black I nagivated by sliding on my backside was the Sizzler, a slope I chose because it looked very short on the map. But short says nothing about difficulty, and the Sizzler was covered in pine shrubs and moguls, and my dad had to wait quite a while for me to join him at the bottom as I slunk from mogul to mogul like the Grinch stealing Christmas. I celebrated this limited achievement later by soaking in a hottub.

My dad also waited for me quite a while as I navigated the treacherous blue slope, Larry Sale, in its steep, icy wide final stretch. But ne'er perhaps has my dad shown more patience with me than on the ultimate of memorable slopes, aptly named the Forget-Me-Not. The Forget-Me-Not is located in a high-altitude bowl at the upper reaches of a Coloradan ski resort, above the tree line, where no living thing in its right mind ventures in the dead of the Rocky Mountain winter. The Forget-Me-Not was steep and covered in ice. But it had an off-shoot! Oh joy! A little side trail called the Paintbrush! I had turned off onto the entrance to the Paintbrush and my dad was trying to coax me back onto the Forget-Me-Not. But that would require me to ski backwards out onto the icy Forget-Me-Not, and I would have nothing of this idea.

In the end, my dad followed me onto the Paintbrush, which probably required him shuffling up some measure of the icy Forget-Me-Not, and which left us shin-deep in powder on a skinny little tree-run, which hurts his knees. I Forget You Not!!!

In other news, I'm going to Iceland at the end of the summer for "work". Here is the program, which I copy-and-pasted from the website:

Hekla is Iceland�s most famous volcano and among the most active in the country. During the Dark Ages it was believed that the volcano was the entrance to hell, demonstrating that even then people were attempting to explain the existence of an active volcano and its nature of expelling ash and lava that burnt and destroyed the land.

Preliminary program:
Day 1 (23/8): Drive from Reykjav�k to the Southern Lowlands of Iceland, where we will stop to view the central volcanoes and other large scale features of the Eastern Volcanic Zone (if weather and visibility allows). From this vantage point we will also observe historic Hekla lava flows and the pathway of the 3.9 ka Selsund lahar flow. A section through the Selsund lahar deposits will be examined. At a nearby section as well as the well preserved en-echelon earthquake fissure systems produced by major events on the South Iceland Seismic Zone. Proximal sections of several prehistoric tephra layers will be visited at �f�rugil to examine the physical and chemical properties of Hekla tephra, followed by a discussion of the role of Hekla tephra layers in establishing methodologies of tephrochronology..

Day 2 (24/8): Pending good weather conditions, the plan is to hike to the summit of the Hekla volcano, which involves walking over rough-surfaced lava flows and snow pack. This will take up the whole day (i.e. 6-7 hrs). An alternative to the first option is a hiking tour to Holocene craters on the flanks of the volcano to examine the relationship between the Pleistocene hyaloclastites and the central volcano. Note, sturdy boots and warm clothing are requiered.

Day 3 (25/8): For the last day of this excursion, attention will be on the fissure systems in the vicinity of Hekla volcano as well as the impact Hekla eruptions have had on life in the Iceland through time. A large prehistoric explosive chasm will be explored along with several Holocene to very recent basaltic cone rows, we will also visit the Thjorsardalur valley, which was devastated by an eruption in Hekla 1104 AD.

It looks like my plan to go to grad school for the sole reason of having mad adventures is finally paying off!!
2 Comments.


You know, I wonder what sorts of adventures I'd have in grad school. I guess every day is an adventure when you're in a lab: you never know when you're going to blow yourself up or anything...
» ranor on 2008-02-02 11:49:28

lol, going to exotic places for 'work' again, eh?

I'm glad ye like the apple ^_^
» jinyu on 2008-02-04 10:48:38

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