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mirror pics, me in the last week

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i know we didn’t get to know each other very well, but i liked being around you a lot. see you in september?

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when she’s your girlfriend now…

she left again for the summer & this time i don’t have to wonder if i’ll hear from her at all :)

but i do have to miss her touch profusely…

change.

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friend found a dead mole behind the library today

slicked down velvet fur, pink nose

hefty forepaw bent back, stiff, imagine it waving

ran to red square, made a transaction

mole slipped out of satchel of maple leaves

into ziplock scrounged from herbarium drawers

almond joy placed gently in friend’s palm

supervisor will teach me to skin them

in one week’s time

on the clock of course

a life underground, above in death

and draped in tender care

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didn’t get to taxidermy my beloved mole on the schedule described here but rather in the last week of my final quarter

here he is, need to name him

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almost to the end of the quarter, which i can’t wait to reach but am also terrified of… everything is going to shift again :|

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when will i understand inflorescence description terms

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hair update from hotel field trip. this feels way better! needed to see my ears :)

gonna expriment w/ bits of product when i have time…

next is new glasses frames!

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humans should be able to do a special Ultra Sleep after major life accomplishments where you're just out for like 32 hours or something and then you wake up fully refreshed in every way

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Like two years ago I ran into a salamander biologist in the woods who complimented my ability to 'walk quietly in the forest while causing minimal disturbance to the leaf litter.' Still goes to my head.

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last photo moment before final haircut… hoping i don’t miss this, i like it when it’s in a hat

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flower of Gaultheria shallon

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Diplophyllum obtusifolium

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haircut but i’m not set on it. gonna take some off the front & make it more mullet-y on monday. wish me luck. i do like it short

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haven’t been feeling my best but hey you can’t tell in these pictures!

finally scheduled a haircut, monday @ 4:30.

lets pray it makes me look goooooooood

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she’s jealous of my cushion mosses

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and love do not fret, for life is beautiful at all scales. sometimes you just require the helping hand of ocular magnification.

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more from today <3

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and love do not fret, for life is beautiful at all scales. sometimes you just require the helping hand of ocular magnification.

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i’m so lucky to be alive and doing the things that i do. a moment of gratitude for the shrub steppe.