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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I consider myself a people, and I prefer my body jewelry to be gold if I can afford it. A few pieces are gold-colored anodized titanium (which are fading), but very prominent pieces are solid gold. I like yellow gold, not rose gold. I actually think titanium/“silver” looks more tacky than gold.

    But that’s just for pieces of jewelry that go into my body. For bracelets and such, I prefer brass, leather, and shades of brown. I don’t wear necklaces.

    Gold cars are disgusting though.




  • I’ve only just started weighing again. My “big loss” was in 2019, and while I couldn’t maintain my lowest weight, I’ve largely maintained and even built muscle to stay within my healthy range. I’ve tipped up in the last year after some medical changes and muscle building. There are still bits of me that I’d prefer looked different. CICO worked for a time, but I hate it, so I’m falling back to fasting when possible (which I’ve basically always done anyway). Just gotta be conscious of the snacks, especially those my new work keeps trying to feed me!







  • I like to post pictures to get the community more active, but I’m also down for discussion.

    Laat year, I was a teaching assistant for a study abroad course to Honduras. One of our stops was PANACAM, one of the best national parks in the country (I spent about ten days there this year, such a beautiful location). We only had half a day there. The class happened to contain only women, and the day we visited, we learned of the US Supreme Court’s decision regarding abortion access. Demoralized, I led a group to a bird tower in the forest in our remaining time. They were largely uninterested in birding, but they were into the more charismatic species. In the span of an hour on that tower, we only recorded ten species, but the experience was quite exceptional. I located three king vultures far in the sky and was able to show them to the students. A dozen or so swallow-tailed kites swooped around the tower. I photographed a dark morph short-tailed hawk with a lizard in its bill across two passes (a publication I’m working on). The students located a keel-billed toucan before I did. And best (for them) of all, a white-nosed coati decided to pop up in the leaves just 20 feet from us.

    I love birding, but I really love getting others into it and making cool observations with them. It was a memerable day for sure.

















  • They have “teeth” in the same way some birds have “teeth.” For tortoises, there are some pointy bits on the beak that function similar to our teeth, but they do not fall out like ours often do. It’s just for pulling leaves off of plants in arid environments. Again, some birds have “teeth” almost like this, but they function more like filters for birds that sort through mud and water to find food.