remiss

i am the first to admit i have been absent lately. my life is one paper after another and my brain is a bit fried at the moment. i leave for morocco in 5.5 days. i have to bring all my things for guatemala to morocco. i have to write one more 20 page paper and complete a take home exam. i also have to move out of my apartment. my list of things to do is much longer than that, but i've got it written down in so many other places, it doesn't need to be reiterated here.

but since i promised them, here are some photos from home and kinetics. home was a much needed recharge, though that charge, like the battery charge on my computer, seems to drain more quickly than it used to. much more quickly. i just have to remind myself: in one week i will be installed on a beach in morocco with my favorite friends from college. with nothing to worry about.

for more information on kinetics and some context for the photos below, please see here
and here


hippypotomus (mouth opened, ears wiggled, smoke came out of nostrils)


it's marimba filled derriere


one sick mutha' (it spun)

robosnail - very elegant snail (one of three gastropod mollusks competing this year)


not a cop car. rather, not a cop car with its insides intact, but instead the counterfeit bluesmobile powered by pedals.



the lead elephant in melvin's carousel (it played calliope music and spritzed water from its trunk)

mechanical chicken (best posse, photos to come later)

biking vikings (can you spot the muffin tins? pie pans? fridge coils?)



look at that character!


photos of folks to come later.