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The Ice Age Cometh

Josh Parrish — 2006-08-22T16:45:22-08:00

Here it is:

a new post to the blog
eliot is excited about something other than mechanical devices
they finally started painting our house
a new roof is scheduled to follow

One Morning in Maine is Eliot's favorite new book, and the story goes something like this: A girl named Sal, presumably a little older than Eliot, and her little sister live in Maine, near the coast. The girl has a loose tooth. She goes to the beach to help her dad dig for clams, where she encounters a hawk, loon, seal, and seagulls. She loses the tooth. They come home from the beach and are joined by little sister to venture across the bay to town. The guy at the general store gives them ice cream cones, and then they head home for "CLAM CHOWDER FOR LUNCH!" This is fantastic. (OK, so this is a grand simplification of the story. It's a 64 pages!)

Eliot and I walked to the beach yesterday, and got ice cream on the way home. And we were only a little distracted by the trains...

It's actually a little early to say that they are actually painting the house. However, they are gung-ho scraping it right now. The paint seems quite eminent. Finally.

And a new roof to follow? The painter says he's going to tear back part of our old, deteriorated roof to replace some of the woodwork. He says that this means that a new roof will be necessary, and the roofer guy has already been by to scope things out. Sounds good to me!

it's a girl!

Josh Parrish — 2006-01-28T19:07:04-08:00

Rosa Macrina Parrish

Micronarrative

Josh Parrish — 2006-01-18T20:44:14-08:00

No baby yet. It could be any minute now. I start my new job as admissions webmaster tomorrow. Studies are consuming any remaining moments after eating, sleeping, walking, kissing, working, listening and psalmodizing. It makes me happy. The postcard I sent says "wish you were here."

WWU

Josh Parrish — 2005-11-23T12:39:02-08:00

It's been over three years since I graduated from CSI, and I will finally be returning to school to finish up an undergrad degree at WWU. It's been good to be away from school, and it will be good to go back.

This time around I'm not going to be studying physics, as I once intended. I realized that while physics is exciting and prone to breed intellectual arrogance, I don't want to be stuck in a lab or in front of a computer indefinately. Enter Huxley College.

Huxley College at WWU offers a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, which sounds like a much better fit for one who would like the opportunity to be a scientist guy who works outside a bit more often than not. I hope to concentrate on terrestrial ecology and GIS. However, I'm not nearly as singleminded about this as I let on -- it will be a miracle if I graduate without seventy-two minors in esoteric subjects.

I've completed all the prepratory coursework required by Huxley, with the exception of a biology sequence which I will begin in January. All told, Winter Quarter I'll be taking: Biology 204, Linguistics 201, and Fairhaven 332 (northwest mycology, i.e. mushroom field science). Fun!

Santa Fe, NM

Josh Parrish — 2005-10-05T15:52:18-08:00

To begin I will say that yesterday Dale and I recieved both our coffees for the price of one, and today we got our coffee for free at the wonderful travelbug of Santa Fe, NM.

After enjoying several refills at travelbug yesterday I made my way up to St. John's College for a campus tour. I rather like to show up on college campuses unannounced in hopes of catching a truer glimpse of the student life. I went to the admissions office and was assigned a student tourguide, whom I convinced to sit down for lunch and a discussion of the college. This was followed by a tour of the campus, which turned out to be much smaller than I anticipated. Back in Bellingham WWU has around 15,000 students, and here at St. John's they limit the school size to about 450. It was nice.

After the tour I commenced my unguided exploration by knocking on several residence doors and talking to the students and faculty I encountered. (It probably looked rather humorous - Dale and I wearing black shirts and crosses about our necks going door to door... hehe.) The people encountered had many good things to say about the school.

I left, satisfied with the results of my drop-in inspection, and meandered down the hill to Holy Trinity for vespers. The evening ended slowly with a game of scrabble, a long walk along the river, and a pint of Kona Brewery's Longboard Lager at El Paseo.

The day began early today with a Wednesday liturgy at Holy Trinity, followed by coffee at Santa Fe Baking Co., where we ran into another Joshua whom we had met only moments before at the liturgy. We talked for several hours, eventually parting ways to visit a bookstore and find nourishment in a burrito, wild cactus pear, and ample sunlight. A few psalms by the creek while smoking an american spirit made the day seem Wednesday-ish. Which is quite wonderful.

Las Vegas, NV

Josh Parrish — 2005-10-04T11:03:12-08:00

I left Seattle yesterday morning on a Soutwest airplane. My goal was to arrive in Santa Fe, New Mexico by day's end. I was successful in attaining this goal, but not without a memorable encounter with the Las Vegas airport.

Entering the airport I was innundated by the bleep of slot machines. As I walked around the concourse I noted several "smoking rooms" where one might sit and smoke while feeding the one armed bandits. The hallways and rooms were bustling with activity and full of all sorts of people: southern californian surfers, colorado cowboys, three-piece suits, international tourists, reitirees from jersey, bewildered bellingham vagrants, and the list goes on.

I found the oxygen bar particularly interesting, especially as a contrast to the almost forgotten free water vending machine that sat recessed into a seemingly forlorn section of terminal hallway.

I'm glad I made it safely away. Santa Fe is a much more livable place. And Lore is quite the interesting old german lady hostess!

small things

Josh Parrish — 2005-09-20T17:41:24-08:00

Yesterday I installed Tiger, then filed my fafsa - they expect me to contribute "$00000" out of pocket to finance my educational delusions. I spent all day troubleshooting a WiFi router on the other side of the earth. Charles turned me on to a music infoporn site, and I'm now del.icio.us.

So Long, Subaru

Josh Parrish — 2005-09-09T15:06:25-08:00

I sold my car today. She's been a good car, but with gas prices moving past $3/gallon and alternative transportation easily accesible, it was time.

I've been contemplating this sale for the last two years. Over that time I've become convinced that I can get around quite effectively without a gas-powered personal transportation device. Public transportation surrounds me in the form of bus, train, and aeroplane. And my trusty bicycle, Eliot's wagon, and good ol' bipedal transit are quite sufficient modes of getting around, I have found.

I have a lot of fond memories of the many roadtrips in my 'ru, but now it is time to fully embrace the simplicity at foot.