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10.29.06
we had a field trip friday in which my group went to the gentry safari. i had never been to the gentry safari. the gentry safari is a drive thru safari in the middle of no where, complete with lions, tigers, bears, panthers, bobcats, one hippopotamus, one rhinoceros, llamas, one gorilla, one giraffe, deer, small deer, fox, dinosaurs, monkeys, donkeys, zebras, camels, ponies, and other strange and out of place animals.
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10.19.06
we went to the pumpkin patch today. we experienced frigid conditions, but it was enjoyable nontheless. mostly the enjoyment came from hanging out with these kiddos.
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10.18.06
something useless but extraordinarily fun:
if you go wo wikipedia and search for your birthday (month+day), you'll find an amazing list of historical occurances for that day in addition to an exhaustive list of people's birthdays you share, deaths for that day, and holiday observances.
some interesting recordings for march 4th (my birthday):
*1493 columbus arrives in America (wikipedia does not lie!)
*1789 first US congress meets
*1861 president lincoln openes goverment printing office
*1921 hot springs national park created
*1933 FDR outlines the new deal
*1952 earnest hemingway finished
the old man and the sea*1966 john lennon says "the beatles are more popular than jesus"
birthdays i share:
a good deal of people, including a dozen or so european composers, mathematicians, astronomers, comic book illustrators, civil rights leaders, screenwriters, and scottish politicians.
william willett, the inventor of daylight savings time, died on my birthday in 1915.
so did john candy in 1994.
on march 4th, Whales celebrates the feat of Rhiannon, the celtic moon goddess.
happy march 4th, everyone.
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10.16.06
what i do with my computer, now that my internet is slightly more than entirely unreliable...
organize the files in "my documents"- organization knows no bounds.
walk around my house attempting to find the best wireless signal, then settle for the corner of my bedroom at 2.0 mbps.
charge my ipod.
use my rommates computer. this is what i'm doing right now.
read all the newly organized files in "my documents".
take a nap and wait for a better signal.
