A vegan conundrum

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Gyotaku (excuse not to work)

Yesterday was take your child to work day. While my Thursdays are usually filled with lab work, I decided to take the day and introduce some of my advisor's children to things we do not do at work (a.k.a. use the animals we work with as giant smelly stamps). While the activity itself only took an hour, I decided to make it into an afternoon event and made several prints for myself (umm, if any of these appear in frames at your doorstep around your birthday, you have never seen them before).

Angry Calamari Blushing squid

Black Yellow perch and stinker

Cool postcard of the month!

Notice that says month, which means that I am expecting a lot more postcards from cool places (hello people in Hawaii, and London, and the middle east). Of course if you aren't in a "cool" place , you can still send me post cards (I am after all living in the suburbs of New York, any where is exotic-even Kansas).

This month's postcard comes from Micheal Dorsher in Beppu, Kyushu Japan. Apparently it is famous for its hydrothermal activity. The postcard (above) is of a painting by Hokusai Katsushika and is titled Mt. Fuji on Fine Day with wind.

To celebrate the arrival of spring I decided to plant a garden. Although this took me several hours, all there is to show for it is a large strip of dirt. While I hope it doesn't stay a strip of dirt for long, the pictures of it are not that attractive. So, to provide you with a sample of my inherited green thumb (thanks dad), I provide you with pictures of flowers I planted last fall.

Warmth!

Today it was warm (and I don't mean if I bundle up, I can go outside and not freeze -as long as my hands are in my pockets or around a cup of coffee warm). To add to this enjoyable weather, I was actually aloud to be outside, a.k.a I worked on the boat. I failed to bring my camera so here are some pictures from when I went out last semester.

A seaward view of the Montauk light house

"Keith" and a striped Bass.

I am sorry prius fans, but you should read this.

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When the going gets tough, I get...

Well, lets see here the answer must be something along the the lines of "When the going gets tough, I get a blog.". While starting a blog is the last thing I should be doing right now, the other thing I do when school work piles up to the ceiling (figuratively speaking, I usually have to split the stack several times in order to keep it from tipping over) is go for a run. Right now it is raining outside, so why not start a blog?