Mmmm...weight gain.
We had a very merry Whitfield Thanksgiving. 
And after lunch, I found out one of my cousins has dermatographia, just like me. Skin writing is awesomely disgusting. Hooray for us. 
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the election in a blog about my 27th year. The most diverse campaign in history comes to a close today. Will it be Obama? Will it be McCain? Either way, things won’t be getting any better in my world for a while, so I must seek out the humor in all this to keep from going crazy. Found this plate in the university parking lot this morning.
Today officially marks the beginning of NaNoWriMo 2008 (National Novel Writers Month). I've taken the challenge to write a 50,000+ word novel in one month. This is my sweet author shirt. Check, check, check, check, check, check it out. By the way this is the 10th anniversary of NaNoWriMo - lets hear it for 10 years of literary abandon.
It pains me to admit this – I’m a total Halloween cop out this year. I LOVE to dress up but it just didn’t come together for ’08. I’m dressed as blackmail (black shirt with a stamp on it). And my bra strap is showing in this picture, so I guess I’m skanky blackmail. But I guess blackmail in and of itself is kinda skanky, so I'll go with it. I’ve had great costumes in the past – Rainbow Brite, Wonder Woman, Dolly Parton, a Ghostbuster, various characters from Rocky Horror. This is so embarrassing.
While on my WA trip, I stepped foot in Canada for the first time.
Put your right foot in...Canada.
Put your left foot in...the USA.
Here you have the Peace Arch on the US/Canadian Border.
I visited gorgeous Blaine, WA Oct 11-14.The WA shore is quite different from our white sandy shore. Ouch.
While in WA, I stayed at the Semiahmoo Resort. The grounds were interesting to explore.
And this, my friends, is Mt. Baker, as viewed from the resort. Mt. Baker stays snowy year-round.
By the way, I was in WA for an AUBER conference. Here we sit on a cruise through the San Juan Islands on the only rainy day of the entire trip! (Left to right: Andy (NC), David (FL), Me, Maile (AZ), and Mrs. Chang (AL)).
(Guest photographer, Semoon Chang.)
Why have I not updated my photo blog since Aug 13? My life hasn’t been that boring. Almost, but not quite. Please accept this bucket of Johnny Jump Ups as a token of my apology. People give apology flowers, right? I’ve only received flowers 3 times in my life – once for my 16th birthday, once from a client for a bang up job on a project, and once from a guy I was dating because I told him to take the easy out and give me flowers for Valentine’s Day instead of his usual random item that made me want to punch him. Anywho, I’ll be posting several times over this weekend on the happenings of my twenty-seventh year up to this point. Okay bye.
Went snorkeling this past Saturday morning. The water at "Casino Beach" was gorgeous! I must move to the water after I make my millions so that I may snorkel every morning. 
Later, I was caught with mad scientist hair (whilst enjoying a Sookie Stackhouse novel full of delicious vampires).
(guest photographer: The Schwab)
And even later, the geek squad descended upon Pensacola Beach where Chocolate Dream learned to float. Note: we are simply a squad of geeks and in no way affiliated with Geek Squad Computer Services. Though we could be, hence the whole geek thing. Yeah, hence.
(guest photographer: The Schwab)
Bushwacker Festival 2008 August 1-3 on Pensacola Beach. Mmmmm. Sipped a couple cold ones and listened to
The Molly Ringwalds and Lit.
Spent my birthday at Munson Lake
(guest photographer: Sarah W.)
