it's gonna blow!

sweet! pavlof volcano in alaska is fixin' to erupt. god, i really wish i could be up there where i could see it happen. they are reporting earthquakes at a frequency of about one per minute, and satellite images show lots of heat at the summit. i looked at a couple of the satellite pics--it's really neat, the peak glows white while the surrounding landscape, including another volcano nearby, shows as shades of gray. i hope it's a major, explosive eruption. it's a stratovolcano, like st helen's, so that could happen. (yeah, i admit it...i have a fascination with natural disasters. they say no towns are in danger, though, so it's not like i'm wishing death and destruction to any people or anything; and i'm willing to bet the earthquakes have already inspired most of the wildlife to vacate. i think the worst that could happen is that they might have to divert a few airplanes.)

i shoulda been a geologist. volcanoes seriously excite me. someday i would love to do a world volcano tour. if nothing else, i definitely want to climb up to the top of st helen's to look at the pretty new lava dome. they say that at the current rate of lava extrusion, the 1300' that blew off the top of st helen's will be rebuilt in about 160-70 years. that means we could see the summit fill in the crater within my lifetime. is that fucking cool or what?

self care + RWP

( cut for those who aren't in the mood, clickable for those who are )

READING: hybridity and its discontents, which is a collection of essays on the subject of--you guessed it--hybridity. someone has recalled this book from me (it's a UW library book), so i have to skim through it, decide what i want, and perhaps photocopy a few essays from it before i have to return it on the 22nd. i'm still working on blue mars, too.

WEARING: at the moment i'm wearing running clothes. i ran this morning, then ate breakfast and drank coffee, then started reading and writing, and i haven't gotten around to showering yet. i'll be doing that momentarily.

PLANNING: tonight i'm going out for dinner with my friend L, which will be cool. we're going to a new (to us) place: cafe presse, which is across the street from lark (another favorite, though waaaaaay too pricey to visit very often), at 12th ave and spring st in south capitol hill. tomorrow morning i'll be part of a crew helping twocrows and bcstillman move to friday harbor. we're planning to stay overnight at their new house, and come back to seattle sometime on sunday. this will be my first time ever visiting the san juan islands, so i'm really looking forward to it, and i'm hoping glaucon and i, along with others from the moving crew, can spend some time looking around on sunday before we have to come home. sometime next week i'm also hoping to take a bus or a train down to portland, so i can see the bodyworlds exhibit that's showing down there. i have to talk to my friend who lives down there first, though, because i think he's interested in seeing the exhibit with me, and i am hoping he'll let me crash at his house for a night. this exhibit, along with bodies...the exhibition, which i saw (twice) in seattle several months ago, will figure as the objects of analysis in my dissertation's first chapter. i'm working on that chapter now, so i really need to go see it soon (also it's scheduled to close in september, so the sooner the better).