Spring is finally in Portland, wahoo! It has been sunny and 70 for the past couple of days and I've been stargazing, biking through the cemetary up the massive hill from Sellwood, tromping through the woods with my animal behavior class to watch birds... all of this is immensely enjoyable. And here I've landed myself in my favorite room to write ( Read more... )

It has been a while since I've written here. I really hate Sunday afternoon realizations that I have failed to finish all of my tasks for the weekend and have no chance of doing so in the next 10 hours. If the procrastination-o-meter is high enough that I resort to updating LJ, it is a sure fact that I'm really rockin' out ( Read more... )

Back to school... first day of the semester delayed a bit and I don't even have class today. Brilliant. Besides getting my ass kicked at swim practice because I haven't really been in the pool for a month, it is wonderful to be back in Portland. This town has so much to offer and I haven't milked nearly enough from it during the past four years ( Read more... )

I kind of like the facebook group called "F.I.N.A.L.S= fuck I never actually learned shit." Rather descriptive of the process of sitting down with notes for an entire semester and trying to figure out what in the world I should know about them to be deemed worthy of a good grade. My last final isn't until December 19th, kind of absurdly late, and ( Read more... )

Being wildly irresponsible is extremely satisfying when it is done rarely. Last night after a brutal two hour midterm in structural biochemistry that lasted until 9pm, my geeky science friends and I somewhat unintentionally decided to party the night away. I find it funny... many of the people here who I would consider my very best friends are " ( Read more... )

...that it is already November. One more month of solid class, then the rush of finals and getting ready for Christmas and whanot. And also the one month mark until grad school applications are due. Scary business... as is writing out a CV. These snotty academics can't just call it a resume??? Of course I love them and their erudite ( Read more... )

Well kids, it's been a wild wild month or two at school as I realize for the billionth time that it is quite impossible to be in multiple places at once. Brilliant ( Read more... )

Turns out I'm quite enamored with being here at school once again. Perhaps it is always this way after a summer without my favorite LC people and Portland places and beautiful campus that is still eeking a last few gorgeous late summer days out of mother nature, but it seems even better this time ( Read more... )

My precious little green house on Terwilliger is going to be a grand time. Back in Bellingham after a move-in and some quality time with a few of my favorite people in the universe and I am perpetually addicted to and enamored with my silly hippie town that is caught in the mountains between all of the traffic and city life of Seattle and ( Read more... )

How utterly amazing to have 3,000 square feet of house all to oneself. In fact, it is amazing to have fresh vegetables, my mother's calphalon pots and pans, a gas stove, a bottle of red wine, a stereo, and that entire house... and just me to enjoy them ( Read more... )