Category: joanna irl
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
Last weekend, J and I took a roadtrip north to Monterey and San Francisco. You can see all of the photos here. The main destination on Saturday was the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Housed in an old cannery, the Aquarium is now home to a huge collection of California’s native marine species, from fish and turtles…
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Day 29, and determined not to miss another post
This was supposed to be a nice post about the fantastic weekend J and I had in Monterey and San Francisco (sea otters! seafood! aquarium! Golden Gate Bridge! redwoods!) but we got in late last night and I want to show you pictures (which are still sitting on the camera, untouched), so you’ll have to…
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Taste of Hillcrest
Last Saturday, J and I set out to explore a new-to-us (but within walking distance of our house) part of San Diego. Namely, we got tickets to the Taste of Hillcrest event, with over fifty vendors (mostly area restaurants) offering bite-size portions of their food along a walking route of a couple of miles. The…
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North Dakota Conspiracy, Revisited
In a strange and yet kind of AWESOME turn of events, my blog now appears only SECOND to Wikipedia when you search “North Dakota conspiracy” in Google. Seriously, go try it. I noticed because my blog host tells me what search terms people use to find the blog, and there have been consistent (if in…
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Just another cat video: Caspian chasing his tail
Yeah, I know the internet doesn’t NEED another cat video, but surely the internet WANTS another cat video, right? Caspian does this ALL THE TIME and no one ever gets to see, even when I try to cleverly flip a video-chat camera around. Tuesday I finally caught him on camera, so here you go. He’s…
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Some funny things from the zoo
This weekend J and I went to the zoo with some friends from out of town. Since you’ve been inundated with enough animal and nature photos lately, here are some just fun (or funny) ones. Maybe I’m the only one entertained by them, but hey, that’s all that matters! OH NO, there’s a GIANT HAND…
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Sunset Cliffs and California Wildflowers
Last week J and I spent an afternoon at Sunset Cliffs. Our friends had recently gotten portraits done there, and the photos were beautiful, so we decided to go exploring. Sunset Cliffs Natural Park is adjacent to Point Loma Nazarene University, and consists of meandering cliff-side trails, wide spans of open space, and a long…
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Butterbeer at Home
Recently J and I discovered something kind of amazing, and I wanted to share it with you, gentle reader. A few years ago, Hogsmeade opened for touring to the Muggle population, in an outreach effort and demonstration of goodwill to the non-magical community. Until recent times, the only place a wizard (or visiting Muggle) could purchase butterbeer was…
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An Afternoon at Birch Aquarium
A couple of days ago I visited the Birch Aquarium with a friend. It was a very nice little aquarium with a focus on local (southern Californian) sealife. I learned a lot about local fish and a bit more about the tide pools (that I still need to re-visit). My favorite exhibits were of the octopus…
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Thoughts on Boston, Editorial Choices, and why I’m choosing not to look.
This has been stewing in my mind for a couple of days, so you’ll have to bear with me. The whole world is aware of the bombings that took place two days ago at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Thanks to this age of social media, in which everyone has a phone and…
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