I guess it's been a while since my last confession. What with finals and an all-too-brief holiday break and the crush of a new quarter combined with the need to search for jobs, I haven't felt much up to it ( Read more... )

Less than a week til my first exam and here I am, goofing around on the internets. Someone needs to light a fire under my ass or 1) I will fail and 2) i may freeze to death. I am accustomed to the cold, coming from MN, but I do like to retreat into a warm cozy building from time to time. Sadly, it seems that my building is not accustomed to the ( Read more... )

Life took a sudden and immediate turn for the worse after the last post.

Halloween night: I was dressed as Professor Plum, or alternatively, Daniel Plainview.  I was pleasantly surprised to discover that folks in Seattle get rather in to the whole Halloween thing, and there were many amusing costumes.  I slowly undressed throughout the night, ( Read more... )

Hard to believe I've gone a month without posting.  Although I doubt most folks would notice.  Anyone still read this? I don't mind typing to a vacuum, but I am curious.

Law school is hard, much as I suspected.  The reading is voluminous and daunting.  I'm still not quite sure what I'm supposed to be learning.  But despite the difficulty, and the ( Read more... )

 Today was a colossal failure of a day: I waited patiently for 3 people to show up: the FedEx Man (11:00), the internet-hooker-upper man (3:30), and the UPS person whose gender is as yet undetermined, because said person failed to show.  I had missed the previous 3 attempts that UPS made to deliver a package, so it may be that my address has been ( Read more... )

the last trip of the summer is over already.  the summer went by, as usual, with an indecent haste.  i've made new friends and haven't spent nearly enough time with old ones, and i'm sad to be leaving them all ( Read more... )

 I am recently returned from Montana, which was gorgeous.  We paddled the muddy Missouri, the same waters Lewis and Clark paddled during their triumphal journey back from the Pacific Coast.  (We didn't do the outward route, as paddling upstream would have been rather unfun.)

I laughed my ass off.  The kids, and my co-guide, were a riot.  This was ( Read more... )

 There's so much beauty and wonder and weirdness in this corner of the world I can't even get into it all ( Read more... )

I have only recently come to appreciate the full depth of meaning of that analogy.  Boy, is it dry here.  So dry the entire state should invest in a humidifier.  You don't  even want me to describe what's been coming out of my nose.  I now realize why the ancient Indian tribes opted to build in remote mountain canyons at the source of streams: ( Read more... )

I am, once again, at the World's Most Christian Laundromat.

--to continue with a typical day at the Fair:  I work (most days) in a shop called Chime-a-lot, which sells windchimes and various other things made out of clay.  My boss, Dave, is rather neurotic, and most of our conversation revolves around either 1) his anxiety about his girlfriend, 2) ( Read more... )