my concert dates for the semester. reminder for those who are in the area and might be interested ( Read more... )

So remember how I said I was applying for a j-term Tibetan Studies program in India? I got in! I will be in India for January! I'm really excited about the course. there's lots of reading to do before we go, but it all looks really interesting ( Read more... )

lots of stuff has happened, but I don't feel like discussing it all. not because it's overly personal, just because I'm lazy. here's the most important info ( Read more... )

I hate having a to-do list that relies this heavily on the cooperation and presence of so many other people and a few incompetent machines ( Read more... )

I have internet in my room now ( Read more... )

Another lake, just a little walk upstream of our campsite. I wish we'd gone there on monday too, so we could have seen more of it, but it was pretty awesome shrouded in fog. it was really cold up there and there was lots of snow. It felt like spring was just arriving even though it was late august. But first a couple pictures of the wildflowers and ( Read more... )

Neither of us had been there before, so we were pretty excited about it. It was more beautiful than I expected and the trail just as steep, though perhaps not quite as long as I imagined. The weather was just goreous when we arrived, but we had to wait and wait and wait for our water to boil before going swimming since we were so thirsty we had ( Read more... )

ah, hiking. I hadn't gone camping the whole time I'd been back in WA, and I'm leaving this coming friday. So I just took the time off work and we up and went. Kathleen and I took a three day trip to Lena Lakes in the Olympics and just got back last night. The first day we got to the trail head in the late afternoon and had a nice hike up to the ( Read more... )

went biking and hiking today. first to chehalis western trail, then jumped over to the I-5 trail (had to go through Lacey proper, since they've blocked the normal route in order to make over passes over the freeway and other lacey streets to connect the sections!!) then took a small, unpaved side trail that paralells the I-5 trail but through the ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I told you all about my new account. the username is omgwtfbftn which is based off something chris and I were talking about when I was home for the holidays. You kinda had to have been there, it's not really funny to tell it later. anyways it's the best thing I could think of that wasn't taken. Sometimes posts don't show up on ( Read more... )