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We've had an abnormally warm winter so far - apparently the warmest January in Seattle on record - and these past few days have been even warmer and more splendid than even that, due to this massive ridge system parked off the coast. It easily got up to 60 today, and probably yesterday too. Made for some great blue skies with nary a cloud in sight. Also makes the prospect of moving to MI even more mentally daunting. Well - OR is this coming week, so we'll definitely have a better idea at that point, but apparently the profs at MI are already clamoring for Lady to join their lab.

One downside of bright and sunny weather is that it makes the window for photoshoots smaller. I stole one of my friends from work and made her get up way too early to go out to the university for a shoot that had been on the calendar since early January now. Just, we've been busy and she's been busy and Lady - my assistant - has been gone so many weekends that this is the earliest we could do it. It was good. We were both awkward. But I set out with the simple idea of skirts and I think I got a number of good photos, although I still need to work on maximizing my time and not hemming and hawing so much, since some of my favorites I just went ahead and snapped. Practice practice practice! She's already offered to do it again in a month, so yay.

This may be my favorite:

I'm on day four of morning exercise and I seem to be doing well. Things still hurt which is triggering the crazy, but I haven't passed out or died yet, so score one for rationality. I have noticed an uptick in energy throughout the day, which I was expecting, just not so soon. Just need to not let the crazy convince me that exercise will kill me. Stupid crazy.

Writing time!