And like that, I'm at peace with myself ( Read more... )

All I can say is that it's been a very long week (the pasts 7 days or so).

And many thanks to my brother for a huge amount of help recently.

I get a work trip to Cancun, Mexico at the end of November! :D Yay!

It'll be for this conference. I got my acceptance notice today and my advisor will send me :)

Oh, and my lab's spam filter marked the acceptance letter as possible spam.

I went back to Mt. Rainier this weekend. Well, not the main peak itself, just the foothills around it. It's really pretty there, although there were tons of roots and rocks in the trail which meant having to watch the ground most of the time ( Read more... )

Long day. And it's only 1:30 ( Read more... )

There are days I wish there were some way to shut down my mind. About now, any day I get little sleep counts as one of those -- and napping doesn't help since my mind is likely to start racing the instance I lie down and am not actively thinking of anything in an attempt to fall asleep.

Blargh.

I was invited hiking with a group yesterday. This meant being up at like 6:10 so I could meet people in time. We met in front of the near-downtown REI where I'd bought new hiking shoes the morning before and set out for Mt. Rainier Nat'l Park ( Read more... )

I found out yesterday my brother and his fiancee will be in the area for the weekend :) Yay!

:/

I was about to put a fleece blanket I had in the laundry (yeah, I know, fleece pills. It needed washing, though) when I decided to look at the tag to see if it gave specific instructions. I was very confused when I saw it told me to "wash inside out ( Read more... )