{"id":573896590,"date":"2024-02-13T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896590"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:34:08","slug":"an-officially-unofficial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/02\/13\/an-officially-unofficial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"An officially unofficial day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We generally observe today as the anniversary of us being a couple.<\/p>\n<p>It was a friend group, you see. There were about six of us who were all in the same grad school cohort and within the group there were the two of us palling around all the time. Nineteen years ago we were at a small dinner party and playing board games. The next day we were hanging out again and somewhere in there realized that people thought of us as an us. People, in our group and in the larger cohort and some of our professors too, thought of us as a couple within the group. Where there was the one there was the other. 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I also commemorated the evening by teaching myself to hand-fold envelopes, in which I put two little love notes.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerscuba.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last month, of course, we were celebrating under water. It&#8217;s amazing how much material I can get out of a few days worth of dives, no? You should see how many of my dive buddy I&#8217;ve <em>not<\/em> included <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb24\/feb48.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve only added a few of my lovely dive buddy&#8217;s photos to the collection. Here&#8217;s one now, and that&#8217;s me in the middle distance!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb24\/feb49.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I love that wide composition. Like it&#8217;s just you in the water, all by yourself. It&#8217;s a nice feeling, especially since you&#8217;re not. There&#8217;s a handful of people not too far away, but you spread out, juuuuust enough. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some young yellow tube sponge growing on this coral covered outcropping.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb24\/feb50.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And I got lucky floating directly over this nice bowl sponge. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb24\/feb51.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll show you something else I was lucky to see: a giant turtle. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerrowan.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last night I had class where we talked about the Super Bowl, and the Huxleyan dystopia. The readings and the schedule lines up perfectly. Also I had the chance to make fun of myself and one of the students absolutely nailed the punchline. I should have dismissed class right there. It was perfect.<\/p>\n<p>One element of some of the readings in this particular class is to help create a healthy skepticism of the media around them. So we also talked about Edward Bernays. And then, as a palette cleanser, I offered them astornaut and author, Ron Garan. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJGCAWTgbn0?si=p4qZPy3Kznynhi61\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the way out I saw this on a bulletin board. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/feb24\/feb47.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Imagine that! They&#8217;re publicizing their scholars&#8217; work to the student body. Novel concept! I&#8217;ll be sure to attend some of those. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, a giant turtle, and more from under the sea. I&#8217;ll put some flowers here and we&#8217;ll see one of the oldest courthouses in the land. Be sure you&#8217;re here for it all! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We generally observe today as the anniversary of us being a couple. It was a friend group, you see. There were about six of us who were all in the same grad school cohort and within the group there were the two of us palling around all the time. 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