i'm sitting in the library. wearing running shorts, a ratty t-shirt, my perennial "i'm thinking!" frown/scowl i've only recently become aware of, and this dipshit comes up to me and starts asking me questions about hiking. all this to lead up to the inevitable *BAAAAAAD* line: "are all the girls as pretty as you are?" excuse me while i throw up ( Read more... )

we're in hot springs- we being my hiking partner two step and i- and damn is it hard to leave. we got here friday, sick as dogs, and we planned to leave saturday, then sunday, then today... now it's tomorrow. we shall see. this is the cutest little town ( Read more... )

i'm in georgia (still?!?), hiking and having fun. thatch is leaving today- sad times, but we've had a great long month together (approximately), more time than we've ever had together and i feel very happy and secure in our relationship. my pack is super super super heavy from my resupply in town + having to carry things he was splitting with me- ( Read more... )

soon i will be on another adventure. thatch and i are leaving jackson tomorrow afternoon (my mom loves him) and heading back to bowling green. spring break trip for a week, then starting the AT. he's going through GA with me- a spontaneous decision that makes us both very excited. then i'm all alone- a different kind of excitement. (quick!- ( Read more... )

it would be in anyone's best interest not to watch a documentary about the donner party before going to sleep. yyeeesh.

i made a schedule of my life. i have lots of things to do. would anyone like to help me with some of the less pleasant ones? like taxes? loan deferments ( Read more... )

at work, i am a busy little bee. however, i am not quite a drone, certainly not a queen. sometimes i just don't fit in ( Read more... )

why do i smell like a wet dog after having walked two blocks home in the rain?

but i definitely answered a phone call today at work from a 'sylvio perez.' a.k.a., the hottest, evilest, most awesome, 80's music-rockin', drug-smugglin' villain EVER.

yeah. he's on oxygen.

ssso i started my new job on wednesday- it's a lot of things, including ( Read more... )