more evidence that life is fantastic... I sent Jen my modified itinerary for alaska/seattle. Her reply:

"Sweeeet!!! And how would you feel about spending a day or two on a glacier at a dog-mushing camp?"

:-D

this may have been the worst year of my life... and yet here I am just days from the end of school and instead of dreading the future, feeling confused and repressed and overwhelmed and underwhelmed and isolated as I did a year ago... I'm really happy, and can hardly wait for the summer and for next year ( Read more... )

I love listening to how people talk, to how they process, watching how they move and interact with the world, love seeing the way they dress, and decorate and noticing how they keep their home and organize their planners (or don't organize) and how they drive their cars... how they live. Love collecting all those little details and putting them ( Read more... )

wonder of wonders... I just had a great time talking to my sister...
thank you facebook for band-aiding my tenuous relationship via scrabulous and casual chat

spring peepers are out
:)

I'm loving all the "oh my god, I only have ___ days left of my undergrad life posts". I'm sure I made one two, and goodness knows I felt strange the day I finished my finals and left mount holyoke for senior week... n'er to be a student of 'yoke again. ahhh memories ;) also, you may all have one more day, but I have 17, and wouldn't mind trading ( Read more... )

I love moho alums! My librarian '82 friend was telling me stories about trick-or-treating in college to find out which professors were shacking up with each other... and other professor drama from back in her day ( Read more... )

spent yesterday and today at Mount Holyoke... which was simply lovely. In talking to a couple people I realized that in the past 9 months I have changed residences 7 times and done 3 large scale moves... and thus I have not developed a sense of "home" anywhere... and as a result in my heart mount holyoke is still my home. Isn't it odd that ( Read more... )

today I rode for the first time post-op. it was low key - both I and Milk are quite out of shape, but I'm blown away by how willing and desperate he is to please... all the balance/weight things I learned from my holly lesson were immensely applicable and after I got off I went to walk him by hand and ended up just walking... and he was completely ( Read more... )

mmmm.. feeling good. I spent this past friday => sunday up in Cumberland, Maine on an alpaca farm. It amuses me how defensive alpaca farmers are about being dismissed as "not REAL farmers" and yet the hardest work I did all weekend was pick up soggy hay piles (parts still frozen! I <3 Maine) and spent much of the time driving around to other ( Read more... )