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Townsend 8 - November 29, 2006

Different cafe, different wireless, better coffee. Fewer underage girls. As you might have guessed, boredomisolation has pressed some sort of big red writing button in my head. I even started another short story. No, you can't read it. Tonight's forecast calls for rain, freezing around midnight. Hopefully I can make it to the airport tomorrow. The roads seem clear once one hits the freeways, so we should be OK if we leave 6-7 hours before my flight. To clear up any possible confusion (though..
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Townsend 7 - November 29, 2006

Casino Royale is not to be, as it doesnt play at the local one-screen until 4pm. Since the temperature is only 24 degrees at the height of the day, we decide to head back to the condo rather than braving the re-iced roads later in the afternoon. As the sun dips below the horizon, I walk down a thin trail to the beach. Snow crisps and crackles beneath me. A trickling sheet of ice, where the snow has melted and refrozen, encases a steep road paralleling the path. Its so cold that Im having...
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Biscotti - November 28, 2006

Its time for some past tense and a departure from Port Townsend, as I air some thoughts on my future. Exactly a week ago I had a meeting with my thesis committee and was told that I should leave Berkeley within a calendar year. Between now and that ominous date I must submit two manuscripts, help author a third, and write a thesis. I must also decide on a lab for a postdoc, which is where this entry comes in. In the comments of a Port Townsend entry, Michele suggested that I look to...
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Townsend 6 - November 28, 2006

Back in The Boiler Room to grab a quick tea and make a post. It's a sunny 24 degrees outside. Several inches of ice encase everything. Wrecked tractor trailers closed a portion of I-5 yesterday evening. It's supposed to snow early tomorrow morning, turning into mixed rain and snow. If the roads are clear, my parents and I plan to see "Casino Royale" tonight. Hopefully my brother doesn't die on his way back down to Portland.
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Townsend 5 - November 28, 2006

I posted something brief earlier today from a cafe in Port Townsend with wireless, but what follows is the actual entry for 11-27-06. Writing in present tense about the past is still fun, so Ill switch back to that. DISCLAIMER: From the following and previous entries, you may have the impression that Im miserably trapped in a family hell. This isnt actually true; Im doing fine. All events described are true, but describing them in such diredreary tones both matches the weather and is tons of.
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Townsend 4 - November 27, 2006

Posting from a co-op cafe in Port Townsend. My brother is hovering impatiently near the car, so this will be a brief entry. I just posted several entries from the past week that I've been keeping in Notepad (so excuse any typos or misspellings). Pictures will follow when I return to Berkeley, since I forgot to bring the USB cable for my camera. Still snowing, by the way.
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Townsend 3 - November 26, 2006

Up at 7:30 to catch a ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle. I plan to meet D_____, a friend from high school who lives in Everett. But as we get in the car, snow starts falling. And continues falling the entire hour to the dock. As the ferry embarks, D_____ calls to say that she's not comfortable driving on the snowy roads. Oh well. I decide to explore Seattle (or at least part of it) on my own. I spend the first few hours wandering downtown, tracing a random orbit around the singularity of.
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Townsend 2 - November 25, 2006

At breakfast I announce my intentions to strike off into the wilderness of the Olympic National Forest. If I'm going to be in the middle of nowhere, I'd like to face the remoteness head on. I enjoyed driving aimlessly through backwoods Washington for eight years, so why not try it now My brother shows interest in coming along, and I think it would be good to spend some time alone with him. We start driving. We continue for an hour or two, mostly in silence. Then we turn left where the sign says.
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