I just purchased my ticket to New York, from which I'll fly to Paris to Antananarivo (capital of Madagascar) to Fort Dauphin (where I'll be). I start flying at 7 a.m. on September 4th and stop flying at 7:35 a.m. on September 6th. GOOD GOD. Only now is a bit of anxiety setting in (perhaps because the idea of 48 hours in transit makes me nervous ( Read more... )

Some things amaze me. The passage of time is a classic. When in the world did we get old enough to finish two years of college ( Read more... )

Well, a journey it has been. But my summer plans have finally cemented: I'm going to be an Interpretive Naturalist with Minneapolis Parks and Rec. This means working at a bunch of different parks on a bunch of different projects. Mainly education, with some sweet things like leading moonlit canoe trips and working at an archeology field site ( Read more... )

L to the J, J to the L ( Read more... )

sometimes, I just feel like updating my LJ ( Read more... )

oh man ( Read more... )

Hmm...no focus, no focus at all. hello LJ ( Read more... )

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DSA, signing in ( Read more... )

So, thanks to the lovely hordes of Carleton students studying abroad fall term, a few good rooms were left for sophomores. So next year I'm living in NOURSE, an amazing, never-thought-we'd-ever-get-into-it dorm. In a two-room corner triple. We're going to have a big couch and a rat and three giant windows ( Read more... )