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Here is a pic of the baby seal waving at me from “Children’s Pool” at La Jolla’s Torrey Pines State Park. Click the picture to enlarge.
PS I don’t have an apartment yet, despite extensive searching over two weeks online and three days in person down in SD. Apparently they are more expensive and harder to find than PO Boxes. So, know a good and affordable condo to rent in North County? Let me know!
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
newzoopoet
Awwwww! How cute!
Responsible Artist
Dude. You’re in San Diego? I’m at my mom’s in Murrieta. We’ve been in SD/La Jolla and here since the 19th of August, though it looks like we’re here now that we’re switching consultants (here and Duarte). Let me know if you get inland.
Cati Porter
I second that — if you’re still in the area, let me know! My son’s been home sick this past week but we look to be on schedule for next, so I could possibly be free if you’re within driving distance. (I’m in Riverside.)
I love that beach in La Jolla. The tidepools at Swami’s Beach in Encinitas are really cool, too, if you get out that way.
Hope you’re having fun!
jeannine
Hey Leslie! I’m actually back in Seattle, but hope to be in the San Diego by the beginning of October! If you’re still there, let’s get together!
Cati – same thing! I’d love to meet up when I get back into town (assuming I ever find a condo/townhouse/apartment/cottage/place to live. Otherwise I might move into my UPS box. The people at the office seemed nice. 😉
jeannine
And NewZooPoet – I agree! I don’t understand how anyone could ever hurt seals. They inspire so much awww-ing!