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– Yesterday was pleasantly intense. I left work around 2:30, and spent a good part of the afternoon finishing photographing Edgewater Beach. I’ll be utilizing these photos in the development of a play: Guns and Love. Back home, I took a nap, than worked on writing and wedding planning. I also got my Financial Aid offer from New School. It’s forcing me to think about money in new and interesting ways. By way of grants, I have only my $3500 merit scholarship. I have, however, been offered $18,500 in subsidized and unsubsidized federal loans this year. That’s a lot of money at my disposal. That’s also a lot of money to have to pay back. We shall see. Later that night I wrote a bunch of crap, which I posted here, then took down. Because it was crap.
– From Adler:
The bright planet Jupiter is up all night this month. On the 1st it’s low above the southeast horizon at sunset. But by the end of the month, it’s high in the south in evening twilight. Just after sunset on the 19th, it appears to sit on top of a waxing gibbous Moon in the southeast sky. As the night progresses, the two slowly move apart. Jupiter sets in the west about 4:30 a.m. at the start of the month, about 2:30 a.m. by month’s end.
The planet Saturn is an evening star this month. It’s best viewed early in the month, when it’s high in the west after sunset and sets about 1 a.m. By month’s end the lengthening sunlight hides the planet until after 9 p.m., and it’s visible for less than three hours before it sets in the west-northwest.
The planet Mars is a morning star this month, rising in the east-southeast shortly before dawn. It is about 25 degrees up in the southeast when morning twilight blots it out.
The planet Venus is only about ten degrees up from the Sun this month, and thus will be difficult to see. Try to spot it later in the month near the west-northwest horizon just after sunset. Its visibility will improve during the next two months.
The planet Mercury is too close to the Sun this month to be readily observed.
There are two Last Quarter Moons this month, on the 1st and on the 30th. The New Moon is on the 8th, the First Quarter is on the 16th and the Full Moon is on the 23rd. The Moon occults Antares (Alpha Scorpii) for one hour (3-4 a.m.) on the morning of the 24th.
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE DAY
East Garfield Park.
WORD OF THE DAY
Handsome.
NEWS OF THE DAY
The New York Times: ‘Deep Throat’ Unmasks Himself as Ex-No. 2 Official at F.B.I..
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Steel. LowBudgeWorld Home Page.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Where Were You in ’55?