So I got myself all excited that, although I would not see my family for Fall break, I would see them during Thanksgiving: they'd be able to fly up, we'd meet in DC and have a big family dinner thing and I'd get my big coat, and we'd just generally have a lot of fun. Since things have gotten more complicated since school started (thanks, Katrina), ( Read more... )

i got paid today. man that feels good.
and, though i thought i would only get the paycheck for my first day of work, i got a paycheck for five days of work. oh yeah.rawr.

monday was a horrible day for doing arboretum work. We're supposed to ( Read more... )

Last night I hunted pterodactyls ( Read more... )

 This is a poem I've been working on for the past week or so. My second attempt at a ghazal!
For this one, I'm paying attention to the musical tradition of the ( Read more... )

I've got a week long fall break from october 8 to 16... anyone in the northeast want to get together????

I got a campus job! I'm a plant record assistant for the Scott Arboreteum (which is part of our campus, how lucky are we!) I get to measure trees' spans and heights. I am so psyched for this ( Read more... )

Ok, so i was retarded and forgot to update when I fixed my photo posting thingamajigrrr...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ujn/

that should work well... if it doesn't, i'm stupid.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?&mode=fromsite&collid=11082024308&conn_speed=1Read more... )

Wow, I really don't know what to say about France anymore... since I've been talking about it to everyone I meet and writing postcards I feel like I'm repeating myself all the time. helas. so this is going to be rather stream of conciousness so i can remember what happened first of all... don't be shy; you can ask questions and i'll answer ( Read more... )