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You've heard
of frost on the pumpkin? Well, you know we're in Utah when there's
snow on the pumpkin.
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The
Friday before Halloween, Mary threw a Halloween party where (almost)
everyone came in costume, and (almost) everyone got rip-roaring
drunk -- as only stressed out grad students can do. |
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This is Matt
as Eminem. Did we mention he's our boss? And, yes, he is
really doing karaoke. Scary, eh? |
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Anna
and I went as Flaming Pajama Twins. Okay, it was the best we could
do on short notice -- but we do look damn cute if we do say so
ourselves. Matching penguins and everything! |
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Yes, we usually
dress like this to teach class. From left we have Greg, Jordy, Mary,
Anna, and Em-err Matt. |
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Jordy
and Liz, who is dressed as a Utah child bride. Strangely, more
people congratulated her than commented on her costume. |
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Anna and Anna.
Well, really it's Anna and Mary as Anna Nicole Smith. Besides, Anna's
about 80 years too young for the real Anna Nicole Smith. |
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On October
30th, Jordy's birthday, Anna asked what the weather was like.
Jordy opened to blinds to discover a minor blizzard.
Here we
find Anna putting on her giant snow boots in preparation for
doing battle with the elements. Doesn't she look thrilled?
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As
we head out to school, we see the birthday boy out in the snow.
Yes, it really is that cold.
Outside temp:
24 degrees (plus a nasty windchill) |
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Here
we see Anna yelling, "I Hate Utah!!" And it is still
24 degrees (did we mention the windchill?) |
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The
road crew is fantastic about plowing and sanding the roads, but
unfortunately we managed to beat them out this day. Notice the solid
ice on the road. |
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Anna completely
surprised Jordy by not only bringing all of his shirts to our
theory class, but also getting all our fellow graduate instructors
into the shirts without Jordy knowing!
Here we
all pose in Jordy's slugshirts.
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And,
look, it's a scene from "Jordy Christ Superstar!" |
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Jordy shows
his love for Anna as they hug in front of a pile of Slugshirts
(which really is a pile of love, too)
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We've
moved things around a bit in the kitchen. The microwave and toaster
now have a niche up and away from our precious and extremely limited
countertop space.
And, please
note all the dishes are done and put away, a rare thing these busy
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...And those
dishes didn't do themselves. Here our daring camera captures
the Jordalope in his native habitat: at the kitchen sink.
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Times
have become so tough that we cannot afford mittens, so Anna's taken
to putting chickens on her hands to stay warm.
No really, it's
Anna as the Iron Chef -- today's ingredient: Wal Mart Chicken. |
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With the
semester now 2/3 through, we're really buckling down studying
and correcting. Notice all the dirty cups on Anna's desk, and
the Sponge Bob Square Pants hat Anna wears to stay warm. To
the right you can see the glow of the flamingo lamp and in front
of the sewing machine is a now-finished Slugshirt (picture forthcoming).
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And
sometimes we study way too much. Here Anna catches a brief nap while
plowing through The Mistress of Manifest Destiny. The bed
is the favorite reading spot in the GuiJensky house (as Mary has
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For Jordy's
birthday, Anna threw a little party. She made her famous fried
chicken, mashed potatos, corn bread, and apple pie.
Here we
see the aftermath: Jordy and Mary, who spent the night, are
three sheets to the wind at this point -- a difficult thing
to do in Utah.
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We
thought we'd take a picture of our new fish -- since the only other
pictures of the tank show it as empty. And look, John, we have natural
rocks! In fact, the rocks in the picture came all the way from Lake
Oroville and the houseboat trip (thanks for helping haul that giant
one, Stephanie!).
We've got the
camera loaded with another roll of film, so there will be more pictures
as the semester winds down and the mercury drops.
Stay tuned!
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