So I have to select book prizes for undergraduate students:

2 are social-justice types
1 is into economics, anthropology and cool buildings
1 is into design (so an Edward Tufte book for sure)
1 is a high-achiever, fun-loving, mountain-biking, skiing, speaks 3 languages gal
1 loves music and fiction
1 i just don't know about


any ideas???

I had to move out of the wondrous cabin-in-the-woods that I could actually afford, because of a little dog.  The short of it is: I am now living with partner C. and we have a puppy.  Too stressful.  I've just now moved in and already am ambivalent and want my own space!  But I also hate living alone, I have discovered.  We'll give it a month or two; I'll keep looking in the meantime. 

Photos of Zsuzsa, who is wonderful and a rascal as all puppies are.  She was rescued from Mt.Currie--the runt of the litter who managed to survive despite serious worms, living in the cold in November, and malnourishment.   http://picasaweb.google.com/ohaartirana/Zsuzsa
She officially belongs to C., but I spend more time walking in the woods with her as he's teaching this term.
Am negotiating with work to take 2 months off every year to start Feldenkrais Training, which would put me in San Francisco 3 times a year.

This is a good set of questions from beelavendar, from chocobotkid

Say hello, tell me:

Something interesting?

What book I should read?

What film should I watch?

If we could spend the day together what would we do?

What are you going to have to eat today?

A brand new canoe landed in my lap at just 70% of its used price--great!! So I'll have the use of it and make a profit in the resale. Now for finding an affordable roof rack for my Corolla.

Phenocane.
I'm looking into it.

One that improves my brain-state. If you know one, SEND MY WAY please.

(Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

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× I miss somebody right now.  (a long list...I live in a town with no family or friends that weren't made here in the last 6 months.)	✓ I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses.	✓ I love to play video games.  (I only do it once a year with my little cousins, but I enjoy it tremendously!)	✓ I've tried marijuana.
× I've watched porn movies.  (alas no. Keep meaning to.)	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.  (usually)

Tomorrow night I bowl to raise money for Big Brothers and Big Sisters! My goal is to raise $100 by TOMORROW. As of now, I've raised $77. If you're interested in pledging funds, please send me an e-mail at: ohaartirana (at) yahoo (dot) com. Oh so close...

Raoul mentioned that he once read something about flower bombs? Placing seeds in some kind of collection of matter that would enable them to grow just about anywhere. There are a few "contaminated" abandoned fields here (sites of old gas stations) that are fenced off. I want to throw hundreds of "flower bombs" over the fences.

In Seattle tonight, hotel downtown. Went out for drinks and got a glipse of Grad School World (drunken folks you assume are assholes and find out they're damn smart. but still drunken asses. I'm never going to Grad school!)

I like Seattle so far, which surprised me. But I'm glad to be in any city these days. Back to Canada tomorrow morning.

I'm Bowling for Big Brothers/Big Sisters next month. Let me know if you'd like to pledge money!

p.s. we won the scrabble championship! playing scrabble for literacy. My prize was a starbucks ceramic teacup which, I admit, I adore. I gave away the coffee.

Formerly was on LJ for over six years as "liquor". Now here, watching. Space for occasional posts with updates on projects, whereabouts, questions, concerns, commentary. But updates will be much more sparce, I imagine.