Month: March 2011
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Ducky Day
Today was one of those quietly wonderful days that aren’t exciting in the sense that you find yourself thrilled at every moment, but that at the end of the day you look back and suddenly realize that you’ve had an excellent day indeed. Today I went to the zoo as usual, had fish tacos for…
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Port Royal Change of Command
Last Thursday I was one of a few to attend the Change of Command ceremony on our ship, where we received a new Captain and said goodbye to the one that has been there for our entire time in Hawaii. Sitting in the front, I had a good view overall and took some photos which…
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Photos uploaded for March
This is mostly a placeholder to let you know I uploaded photos to the photo blog from the past couple of weeks. I’ll write about this weekend later today when I have time, but for now you can see the pictures (with captions)!
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Priorities are everything
Priorities are everything… and it seems that (according to my bedside table, at least) I have very specific ones. This morning when I woke up (slept from 5 to 8), I found the following: 1 glass of water 1 bag of crackers 1 container of TUMs 1 Surefire flashlight (thanks, J!) 1 emergency lamp 3…
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In case of emergency, my house smells like pumpkin
I’m sitting here, exhausted, staring at the computer screen and waiting for water to filter. We’re about 2 and a half hours from a tsunami coming, but I live above the inundation zone (i.e. more than 100 feet above sea level) and so do not have to evacuate. Our biggest issue is that we might…
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Marching on
It feels as if this year is going by so quickly. Already we’re a week into March and I’m making summer plans and doing my spring cleaning. Last week J and I bought a new camera, a nice shiny Nikon, and I’ve been practicing with it ever since. What this means is that I now…
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My life in movies
You can learn a lot about a person from the movies on their shelf. For now let’s take a little trip into the movie shelf in my head. Films That Remind Me of Childhood: Back to the Future is still the first movie I can remember seeing in theaters. My “first movie” was Follow That…
Joanna Volavka 