Back from Portland. I really enjoyed my trip, probably more than anything yet this year. It's a really cool city, made even better by the fact that John is there. In the past I thought of Portland as a somewhat-forbidden place (because one of my uncles with whom no one in my family is in close contact lives out there), but it's just cool. Yay ( Read more... )

The trees are budding. School is out for two weeks. I turned in 3 papers today and skipped the dreaded Statistics, read a few pages of Tolkien in the library and fell asleep in the sun. And I got to see some of my favorite people here before they left ( Read more... )