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Pass the happy! 💛 When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people in your notifications (if you like)

1. birds!
2. I taught myself to draw bison yesterday, that was very satisfying.
3. fanfic that makes me cry (in a good way)
4. when my dog does the thing where she leans her whole body against my legs and rests her little whiskery chin on my knee
5. we finally have online class registration in my grad program, thank god

Hey, personal question I may have asked before (I know I thought about it but I don’t think I actually did) – where are you at grad school and what do you technically study? I’m applying for grad school to do antarctic/polar stuff at the moment, and having been told that one of the programmes I’d applied for isn’t going to run anymore because they want to do things with more than 9 students, I’m trying to look for alternatives and thought you might be able to help. If not, no worries :)

Ah, sorry, I’m not, officially, studying polar anything (other than my one arctic studies class this quarter- UW Seattle has a tiny undergrad minor on the subject, and I needed an interdisciplinary), it’s really just an academic hobby of mine. My actual degree is a Master’s of Museology (museum studies). Good luck with your grad school search, though! 

(I think BU has an Antarctic research program for PhD students? and the university of maine has some arctic program iirc) 

You were talking about animal guides and whatnot so I thought I’d share a story. When I was younger I was somewhat notoriously hard to get gifts for so one of my relatives got me a bird guide as a joke(?) They regretted this later because I became Resident Bird Expert and made a nuisance of myself on all family outings thereafter. (the usual gift was watches so I have a bizarrely large number of slightly odd watches but that has nothing to do with birds so where they got the idea is a mystery)

omg that’s great! they accidentally created a birder- I see no downside to this.

(okay that’s not true, there is one (1) downside to being a birder and that’s spotting a bird while driving and terrifying your passengers by leaning forward/sideways to try and ID it as your car drifts gently into the next lane)

Hello! I was wondering if you had any books you’d recommend for someone who wants to learn more about tall ships, and how people went about sailing them? I’ve really enjoyed your blog, and I hope you had a lovely holiday. :)

Hey! Most of the books I’ve read are more about things that happened on or to ships than the mechanics of ships themselves, so I can’t think of anything that’s exactly what you’re describing (my nautical goodreads shelf is here, if that helps), but I’ll post this publicly and let folks weigh in! @focsle, @vimyvickers, or @ventureonwilderseas might have opinions on the topic? 

vimyvickers replied to your post: it’s 25 degrees out and there is an honest to god…

Oh man, I walked through Harvard Yard this afternoon on my way to the Revels (also hey, I think we probably inhabited the same general locale at some point today unbeknownst to us) and there were so many so Very Cold looking tourists. Why.

like ships in the night! and yeah I mean… I was a cold tourist in Cambridge today but that’s why I went to a museum and stayed there! I didn’t wander around staring up at buildings and shivering, ffs. 

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goddamnshinyrock:

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the first draft of my thesis chapters 1, 2, and 3 are due for peer review next thursday 

this is probably a good time to start writing it.

I’m using a project management program to organize my thesis timeline but I keep marking every single task ‘high priority’ which is confusing the program

What project management program are you using?

Freedcamp- it’s in-browser and free (although I think if you have more than like 5 people on a project or if you want Extra Features you pay, idk), and isn’t exactly what I want but so far is pretty dang good. It’s very visual and you can set big tasks with deadlines and then give them subtask sections as a checklist which I really like.

Re your Thanksgiving phone call: I didn’t wanna call you out in case you got offended at an attempt at humor, but from some of your stories I’d say, in what way are you not catastrophically awkward?

ha! no, you’re right, I am definitely awkward but I promise you I cannot hold a candle to my uncle, who, as I mentioned in that post, is the most awkward man alive. I swear to god that man can make ANY conversation trail off into uncomfortable silence. it’s a gift.