here i am on vacation. spending the weekend in buffalo, then across canada and michigan to madison ( Read more... )

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camp is finally over. i am currently sitting in panera bread, drinking a strawberry smoothie and enjoying the air conditioning. after months of being in a sequestered world where i am known as "ryce" it was very strange to hear the name "andrea" in reference to myself. i miss my lodgie family; every little thing reminds me of someone. every once in ( Read more... )

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it seems like forever since i've been able to spend more than five minutes online. i'm working up a storm at camp amahami as one of two outdoor program specialists. because there's two of us the job is twice as easy sometimes. but then at the same time, i end up getting stressed and anxious about little things, like the fact that a night hike that ( Read more... )

well, the excruciatingly exhausting staff training at amahami is over - almost two weeks of 14-hour days without a real break, c'mon man! it was good though - got lots of "road time" in, met my co-conspirator for the summer, hung out with bloomer and harper, all that schtuff. tomorrow is the first week of kids come in to camp. i'm simultaneously ( Read more... )

right now i should be sleeping. or packing for camp. well, i should say "re-packing for the third time" since i packed at ashokan, and re-packed at PEEC. it will definitely be a relief to unpack and have a little corner to call my own again. instead of packing or sleeping (which i desperately need), i'm bumming around the internet, mostly on ( Read more... )

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness ( Read more... )

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