Kristen Smirnov | smirnov.net

While I don’t have a high-quality recorder, the timing was right to let me grab these two clips from the first big snowfall of the year. One was of a (huge) rabbit on campus. The..."

My last three classes ever kick off tomorrow. While I might certainly audit classes later, both in this program and as a professor, these are the last I will ever be taking for..."

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Winter Sights

Posted by Kristen on Dec 14, 2009 1

It Begins

Posted by Kristen on Jan 6, 2009 2

Shortest Days

Posted by Kristen on Dec 29, 2008 3

Dec 21, 2009

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Red Tape

I would very, very much like to move back to Boise after my PhD is completed. Between that and my increasing interest in backyard gardening (and an accompanying growth of foodie-ness), I spent a little time today browsing the files on the city government’s website. I was curious as to what sort of rigamarole one had to go through in order to put a real greenhouse in...

Dec 15, 2009

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Literati

My friend Karen Healey, who is busy working on her PhD in Cultural Studies, has managed to write and sell her first novel while all this is going on. Guardian of the Dead, a young adult modern fantasy novel grounded in Maori myths and (unsurprisingly) set in New Zealand, will be released in 2010....

Dec 15, 2009

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