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crazy group photo!
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group photo
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Ryan, Brian, Brien, and Bryan watch baseball.
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Jenn holds up her page and looks scary.
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Boys and girl gamely work on a collaborative scrapbook for a farewell gift. (Brien, Brian, Rachel, Erik)
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Harini and Rachel at Harini's going-away BBQ
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Leaving HMB: our three pumpkins safely belted into the backseat of the Civic. (from left: Esmeralda, Siddhartha Gautama, Bert)
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Every store in the town managed to work pumpkins in the display. But I really took this picture for Clare. It reminded me of the chick-dumping in her thesis film.
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I remember seeing these flowers when my parents visited a year ago, and I still don't believe they're real.
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I feel like I owe him a trip to a place like Malibu Grand Prix, or Fry's.
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As if driving me out to Half Moon Bay was not enough, Bryan was then forced to walk up and down Main street window shopping. That poor boy endured a yarn store, for god's sake.
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Why Cinderella?
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I do love the fat ones.
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But maybe you can get a sense of my glee from the volume of pumpkin-pictures.
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I can't begin to tell you how excited I was about all this.
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Bryan takes his inspecting duties seriously.
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Bryan in a Pumpkin Patch! We drove out to Half Moon Bay to get a head-start on their annual Pumpkin Fest (and dodge the quarter million people who show up).
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a somewhat better approximation of real light
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ready to eat--complete with elephant spoons!
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bryan stirs
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more prep
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Hot and sour soup: where half the ingredients are inedible, but the flavor is oh-so-delicious. It's all in the kaffir lime leaves...
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finally getting around to trying recipes from my thai cooking class
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picnicking in Dolores Park in SF
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One last shot in Oak-town. This one's worth it at least for the all red ensemble on the left.
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Again, this was much more remarkable as part of a set of 15 shots...![IMG 6711](_data/i/galleries/menalto_albums/life/20051014/IMG_6711-me.JPG "IMG 6711 (2113 visits) The "Art and Soul" Festival in Oakland in early September. This picture was one of the few...")
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The "Art and Soul" Festival in Oakland in early September. This picture was one of the few that survived my memory card deciding to snack on all the photos I took.
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living room, with crutches remember when bryan dislocated his ankle?