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MindyMania 2012: The Wild Aftermath
Okay, this is supposed to be a Mathematical Monday, but hey—I worked the word “math” into the title.
As I mentioned on Friday, Mindy McGinnis (critique partner extraordinaire) came to visit for the weekend. The three presentations at my school Friday were awesome. More on that Wednesday. Today, I’ll talk about wildlife.
After school, we saw a camel. Well, sort of. We went to Camel Rock.
See? Totally looks like a camel, right?
On Saturday, we went out to Petroglyphs National Monument. I’ll share some pictures of the actual petroglyphs on Friday, but I said this was about wildlife. Here’s a bug we saw as we were hiking.
Can anyone tell me what kind of bug it is? It was a quick little thing, so I’m pretty impressed with the picture I managed.
Later on, during the hike back, we saw this lizard. Not at all uncommon for me—I see them all the time outside my apartment complex—but not an everyday thing for Mindy. Unlike the mystery bug, this guy was happy to stand and pose for us as long as we didn’t step any closer. Hooray for camera zoom!
After Petroglyphs, we went to a very particular Twisters restaurant. That’s a burger/burrito chain around here. No big deal, except this specific location was featured prominently in a season of the TV series Breaking Bad, which Mindy is a fan of. We weren’t expecting more wildlife, but in the lot next door, we saw an emu.
Yes, an emu.
Seriously.
Sunday didn’t involve any wildlife, except for the angry passengers from Mindy’s cancelled flight. Don’t worry. She (hopefully) made it safely away this morning and will either be on her way home or there by the time you read this.
More to come the rest of this week.
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3 commentsPeople on the Internet are Scary! (No, They’re Not)
You know how they say to be careful with people you meet on the internet? How they might not be who they say they are? Maybe they’re scary and strange?
Apparently I’m allowed to throw that advice out the window under the right circumstances.
The illustrious Mindy McGinnis safely arrived in the dusty, dirty, just-plain-BROWN southwest today. (Seriously. Mega-winds kicking up the dirt creating a cloud of brown over the city.) We’ve known each other (on the internet) for about two and a half years. We’ve been critique partners (on the internet) for about a year and a half. Today we met in person for the first time.
People knew this was happening. No one thought it was weird or scary.
Maybe it’s because of how ubiquitous the internet is now, how big social media has become, or maybe it’s just that Mindy and I have known each other in online arenas that are public enough to validate our identities. Or something.
At any rate …
Today she’s the guest author at my school’s second biannual Author Illustrator Competition. Not only is this her first visit anywhere in the west that isn’t Las Vegas, it’s also her first foray into Deaf-World.
Should be fun.
I’ll be sure to report back.