I just picked up a free pumpkin and pumpkini carving kit, courtesy of school. At dinner. Whee!

6 days, 3400 miles, and one country. The road trip was awesome, we saw everything from Yellowstone to Rushmore to Niagra Falls, and someday I'll get around to posting enough pictures from Ireland that I can put these ones up as well. Now I'm back on campus, where my big descision is whether to try and get a carpet or stick with the hardwoon floors ( Read more... )

Since I haven't written anything in a while, I'm slowly being engulfed by a near perfect storm of finishing up work, filling out secondary applications to medical school, and packing to head out on a week long road trip that will end up at college (and thus packing for the year as well). On the other hand, I'm also slowly accumulating shiny toys ( ( Read more... )

At long last, I've joined the world of "cell phones" as the kids say. 503-432-5988. Feel free to have one more way to ignore me.

Today, I was sent to get two small items out of the stores supply for the lab. This involved taking ( Read more... )

I've got 8 hours of jet lag to sleep off, so this will be short, but just wanted to let people know that I'm back in Portland after oh, say, 9 months abroad without once returning home, most recently 2 weeks in Ireland, so I'm available (minus work invovling dissecting rat eyeballs) for all sorts of Portland-ish things.

I was walking down the street back from dinner with my family, and passed within three feet of Patrick Stewart. He was trying to politely deflect to attention of some rather enthusiastic woman in colorful punk clothing, and was surrounded by rather large men, so I didn't try to meet him or anything. But it was still pretty cool. Now I'm about to ( Read more... )

Two more weeks till my time in England is over. Of course, I do have to fit three 6-10 page papers in there, and a short trip to Greece. And I still have two weeks in Ireland after that with the family, so it's not all that bad. But I'll definately miss it here, and all the things I didn't quite manage to do. But enough about the future ( Read more... )

It's 2:30 am. I've got The Killers, Broken Social Scene and Mozart on playlist. On my second cup of tea. Six pages into an essay. One crew race down, three to go, and we're doing better than people expected. Recently finished a two hour nap. Strangely pumped.

Term is back in full swing. Somehow I ended up back on the 1st VIII in crew, which I tried to promise myself I wouldn't do. But the 2nds are just so frustrating to row for, and the 1sts kept asking... Taking only two half classes on poets is nice. Kipling is very fun to read (poems, short stories, novels, everything), and while Yeats can get ( Read more... )