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Krewe du Vieux 2013

January 21, 2013
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The most exciting aspect of walking in New Orleans’s Krewe du Vieux parade every year is not dressing up, throwing goodies to miles and miles of crowd, the loudness, color and flash of everything or even ending the night jamming to the best bands in the city who gather together to play just for us. [...]

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The Fall 2012 Check-In: Mentoring, Future of Geoscience, Being Crafty

October 5, 2012
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I was going to start this post with “Been busy doing a lot lately,” but when am I not Busy Doing A Lot Lately? As I go from assignment to task to project to meeting, the blog comes to mind and the notion with it to record. Instead of multiple little posts, here is much [...]

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Halloween 2011: Coastline Retreat Is Scary, Kids!

October 29, 2011

It started with me walking across the family room in a nude bathing suit and D looking up from his laptop with a “What the …” “I’ll be right back,” I said, putting on flip flops before walking into the frigid-by-Texas-drought-standards garage. “There’s some makeup in the car that I need.” And D got that [...]

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What A Couple Of Weeks

February 21, 2011

Here I sit in a friend’s living room in New Orleans with a few moments to myself. A rare luxury these days. When things happen in my life, they tend to happen all at once. 1) The Packers won the Superbowl! It all happened so fast – we went from possibly wild card to laying [...]

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Rally To Just Kinda Be Ourselves For One Day, Part II

November 2, 2010

The costumes. This is why you have to go vote today. So I stop inflicting these nerdy, quadruple-entendre getups on you. The sad part is D’s costume didn’t take all that much effort and HE got high fives and “Duuuuude” all day long, while people came up to me and said, “What are you?” (or [...]

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Rally To Just Kinda Be Ourselves For One Day, Part I

November 1, 2010

The last time I was in Washington D.C., neither was I an American citizen nor was the geology section of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History open. Double whammy. To make up for it, Saturday saw The Dude and me on the National Mall, with me dressed as a cross section of Southern Louisiana. Done [...]

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8 Oil Spill-Themed Halloween Costumes

June 24, 2010

Haha, made you look. (Not that there aren’t going to be scads of them out there come Halloween and Mardi Gras. I predict a lot of Bjork-like dead pelicans and “blackened” seafood.) Linkbait Generator via BoingBoing Tweet

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Where Is The Mask That Will Never Fade

May 24, 2010

My mother and I recently watched The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button together. Towards the end of the film, with the winds and rains of Hurricane Katrina threatening to break in the windows of a New Orleans hospital room in which her old mother lies dying, Julia Ormond’s Caroline discovers that Benjamin Button was her father. [...]

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