i was looking for the official website of the microphones, because i like them so much, and i was thinking "gee this is a pain in the ass," because i kept finding stupid websites with audio recording products or websites with microphones tour dates from 2003. THEN, i discovered that phil elvrum, the main microphones guy, is now singing under the ( Read more... )

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I went to the most insane & snowy frisbee tournament yesterday. we played with boys from Olin - w00t Olin! :D okay, men are fun, but playing with men is actually kind of sucky. they don't pass to women as much, and women seem to pass to men more too; it's kind of demoralizing. oh but freezing your ass off from sunrise to sundown on an expanse of ( Read more... )

I found the coolest woman that I want to work with in Grad school. She runs the "Toxic Plant Lab" at Cornell, is accepting Ph.D students next fall, AND she's female!! The female thing is important, because I recently realized that women scientists are fucking awesome role models. The Toxic Plant Lab works with plants and insects, studying ( Read more... )

“The only true wisdom lives far from humankind, out in the great loneliness, and it can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of one to all that is hidden to others.”

Igjuquarjuk,
Caribou Eskimo shaman

okay, only one frat boy, who happens to be a conciderate ecologist and a bad-ass frisbee player.

This is what he said: "I think I'm going to date women too, we can ask each other advice now!"

the biking people were MANIACS.

one beer = two drunk happy friends (with extremely low tolerance)

Rachel is technically a giant boob.

Grace, as in my bicycle, named after the awesome Grace I rode with over the summer, lives in my room. i need to write Grace a letter. i'm going bouldering tomorrow. wooohoohoot!

Grace you are an ace
ride me, roll me, spin me, turn me
BICYCLE!!! biiicyyycle!