MUCUS and other wonders of the physical world
Zoobots aboard the Centennial at Friday Harbor Labs. We were trawling for spot prawns on the first real sunny day of spring. Perfect. Re-inspired by a recent encounter with a stranded banana slug, I...
View ArticleStudying in Friday Harbor
Algae and my hand. Since this blog is supposed to be about my “studying abroad”, here’s some of that. I am taking classes through the University of Washington in Friday Harbor on San Juan Island. I am...
View ArticleSex, sex, sex!
This is just a pretty picture. Leathesia marina, the brain algae. Tis that time of year. A sperm layer on your windshield or tickling your nose. Eggs spewed haphazardly, and by the thousands....
View ArticleJunior Year (this one’s a downer)
Junior year, the time I went to school from August to June with one two-week break. Or. Junior year, the six-week tropical spring break and the four-month personal-growth sabbatical. Cattle Point, San...
View ArticleScience and stick shifts.
Found me an alien at Deadman's Bay. Ok, it's an octopus. Tonight is the culmination of weeks of intense planning, continuous revision, and slaving research. I’m procrastinating on a final paper! So,...
View ArticleStudent Leaders
This is me with Voldemort the giant Pacific octopus. He has nothing to do with this blog entry....
View ArticleDroppin’ Knowledge
There's a late-stage crustacean nauplius larva in my coffee! I wish more people dropped more knowledge more often. It’s the reason strangers think I’m ‘interesting’, friends think I’m annoying, and...
View ArticleStick to what you know
What I know is animal sex, is fun to write about. Without letting this blog become a home for things I write that don’t get published where they were intended, here’s the second time I’ll do that. I...
View ArticlePublic Service Announcement #2
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear internet, there are some things I need to tell you...
View ArticleAccidentally blogging through cold molasses
I had a redundant epiphany today. One where you suddenly realize something you knew all along but, as David Haskell puts it, the top of your head blows off. David actually had something to do with it....
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