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quick update from the outpost if I can get enough service to upload pictures:

pictures of pictures i took this week (haven’t gotten them off the work laptop yet) – breaching humpback, A23 matriline of the northern rezzies, and a humpback named Freckles with her new calf :) all taken with a telephoto lens in accordance with marine mammal regulations

me with bean tower, me in the office, me experiencing post-fishing euphoria (i never understood why fishing people are like that but reader i admit i was taken by the moment)

where i literally live. havin a ball.

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yesterday we moved in to our actual base camp in the midst of lashing rain and a strong wind warning – it was a southeastern system which are both particularly bad and typically rare, so a downturn of luck to start the season. our transit time in the boat was doubled because we were fighting the wind and the chop but we all made it in one piece! one wet, wet piece.

the weather system seems to have carried on down the strait so we got a little bit of needed sun this morning to start drying out our soggy stuff. it’s not unusual for our mornings to start out pretty foggy before the sun burns it off but i got a stark reminder of that this morning – left is a picture of the view from my tent pad from last year, right is the same view this morning:

so so so glad to be back here. can’t wait to start monitoring tomorrow. the northern resident families aren’t here yet but there’s been radio chatter about some bigg’s in the area and we’ve already seen 4 or 5 humpbacks.

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back at whale camp!! semi-off grid from here on out but i’ll stick my head in here every now and then. exhausted from our load-in day but camp is all set up now and soon we’ll start scouting for the new program we’re running this year. other than that all is well – same people same places and it feels so good :)

#if any mutuals want to send me snail mail dm me and I’ll love you foreverrrrrr #and i can send you letters from the great outdoors #field journal

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buckingham fountain in chicago dyed by protesters in solidarity w a free palestine

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got my hair cut for the first time since buzzing it 8 months ago and unfortunately it’s giving rachel maddow x toad from mariokart. but we go forward !!

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me vs the drawing i made for my best friend to convey my fears

got my hair cut for the first time since buzzing it 8 months ago and unfortunately it’s giving rachel maddow x toad from mariokart. but we go forward !!

#i’m assured it looks normal i’m just not sure i trust that yet

all i wanted was to watch a movie for the first time in months and the universe said “yes you can go watch hit man with your mother” and universe that is simply not what i meant

#favourite part was when the female lead was meeting w the hit man to hire him to kill her husband #and the hit man goes why don’t you use this money to move out and divorce him instead #and she goes oh good idea! :) and then literally just gets her own place and files for divorce later that day #girl you were gonna kill him????#anyways hopefully tonight i can watch i saw the tv glow as it was meant to be seen: alone in my room on my laptop

been getting jealous recently over people who i would have absolutely no business being jealous about were it not for the special little private relationship i have with them in my head

#many such cases #perhaps the worst of which being my BOSS who’s been in a relationship with a man for two years #and he can make her laugh and i can make her laugh but if anybody else makes her laugh i start growling at them

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three stories i encountered today:

listened to my childhood friend recount the rise and recent fall of her friendship with her roommate, and was fascinated by the way she described it as the two of them being completely codependent for three years until her roommate got a boyfriend last year and suddenly stopped spending time with my friend. the way my friend described it was very much as if she had her heart broken by this girl – jealous, betrayed. the intensity of emotion was so interesting.

a different friend’s roommate threw a party in their house last week and my friend went around to all the different groups of people in his house and asked them how they knew his roommate, priyali. and every group he asked gave him a different answer – “scuba diving club.” “volunteering on the farm.” “she appeared in our music video.” – just all these crazy different random experiences that she apparently was participating in without his knowledge. and then he asked a different group and they said “hentai club!” and he said “she draws hentai??” and they said “oh no no, she’s just our social media manager” ?????

another friend had a professor last year who was from alabama (unusual round these parts) and was old enough to have gone to a segregated high school and in all his appearances and mannerisms had the stereotypical image of a distinguished professor with the notable exception that from the neck down he was absolutely covered in tattoos. and my friend had a good relationship with this prof so one day they’re chatting before class and he goes “so what’s the story with your tattoos?” and it turns out that the professor had a son who was covered in tattoos and the son took his own life when he was 22. and when this happened, the professor hired a tattoo artist and they went to the morgue and they sat there for hours while the tattoo artist meticulously copied the son’s tattoos in a perfect replica onto the father. and every day since then the professor has lived life in his son’s skin.