I am madly in love with this town. Though I guess that's old news seeing as the reason I'm here is because I fell madly in love with this town last September.

This morning I watched the beginning of the Kinetic Sculpture Race at the downtown Plaza. Insane. Completely and utterly insane. The race has been going on since 1969 and basically consists ( Read more... )

No no no no no no no no no. No.

Whitman's commencement is tomorrow and I'm not going to be there. For some reason this is hard for me to handle. One would think that after having been graduated from a school for two years things like this would not matter. But no, apparently I'm still madly in love with Whitman. I am also sad that I missed so many friends recitals this year. I ( Read more... )

Today I went to Middle Earth Humboldt Redwoods State Park to, well to do what every other person who goes to that park does - look at the pretty big trees. And pretty they were. They were not as large as the trees in Redwood National Park, where Ben and I went last September, but I was still wandering around amazed and completely in awe. Too bad I ( Read more... )

Why does organic iceburg lettuce even exist? I mean, in my world, if you're going to be willing to pay more for organic produce, then you're probably also going to realize that there is no point to eating iceburg lettuce ( Read more... )

I am halfway through my internship. Five weeks down, five more to go. One thing that is kind of freaking me out is the fact that I am basically going to go straight from Arcata to New York City in June. What a culture shock. I mean here I seriously feel like I've traveled back in time to the sixties. Every third person has dreadlocks. Little kids ( Read more... )

This is one of the many many reasons why recreation is so cool.

So I am at the HSU library looking for some books on teaching kids music for a project for my internship. I found them. They just so happened to be right between the books on music theory and the books on conducting ( Read more... )

I am now the proud owner of an ibook. Ben will be so proud of me!

I'm also feeling a strong pull towards those damn ipod minis. There goes my budget.

And I'm in Eugene with Chris for the weekend and I don't think I could be happier.

So one of the women (the conservative one nonetheless) has already invited me to ( Read more... )