...but luckily, not as hot as DC. But still hot. Especially in the dorms. Even with the window wide open for the wind and the fan blowing, you sweat even when you're not moving. It's cooler outside. (The heat makes it hard to sleep....didn't fall asleep until going on midnight...woke up at 4:30 and only fitfully rested until I gave up and got up at ( Read more... )

Well, today I got two things in the mail...which served to rather nicely balance each other out. One was a rejection letter for another internship I'd applied for awhile back (what is that...8th? 9th? I don't know...too many rejections) and the other, in perfect timing to cheer me up, was the book I'd ordered from Borders (hurray, Knights of the ( Read more... )

So, it seems like when I'm at school, most my thoughts (non-class related) center around food. Don't know why, since I'm not hungry 24/7, and I have plenty of it, so I don't need to worry over supply...but that's how it is. So, I guess you could say I'm kinda fixated on it lately. Been making grilled cheese, now that I bought bread from the local ( Read more... )

Classes start today. Got dropped off yesterday. And apparently I was so out of it when I was cooking dinner that, after I pulled the plastic and washed the inside of my new pot, I forgot to check to see if there was any paper or tags on the bottom and plunked it right onto the stove. It was concerning to see smoke curling up from the bottom of the ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was the doom day of the week--2 tests (in consecutive classes--Mineralogy and Native American in Lit), one "discussion" (debate) that required research (Env Geol), and one quiz (in Paleo--id fossil and say it's group's geologic time range etc ( Read more... )

So, this weekend was nice. I still haven't spent a weekend at school yet, and this next weekend I won't either, it being my cousin's wedding on Sat. And the weekend after that, I have a two-day field trip for Paleontology, so I'll be at school, but technically not ( Read more... )

So, I have the Japanpictures I'll be sharing all scanned in...now I just need to start on the powerpoint. I'll work on it soon ( Read more... )

Well, I'm at school once again. Got dropped off last night. Went out for the final dinner, and then my family was off. I unpacked all my clothes and put plenty away, but I haven't pulled out much school stuff yet...left all of that for today. And putting up that loft was harder than I remember it being freshman year. And I didn't see my roommate ( Read more... )

...the approaching soft swooshing feet of "DOOM" (aka school ( Read more... )

The weekend was lovely, despite all the rain on Friday (everyone came and hung out in our screen tent and talked...we didn't get our sleeping tent up until well into the afternoon...) and Friday night, our tent leaked, so everyone but me evacuated to the van to sleep. I stayed and slept in the tent anyway...and ended up the driest of my entire ( Read more... )