The Appalachian mountains are insanely, ridiculously, mind-blowingly beautiful ( Read more... )

Stuff = in my room ( Read more... )

Looking ahead in my travels, I will soon be going to Oak Ridge, TN which I'm really excited about, as well as seeing Corey and Jonah and Giusti play/call in Knoxville. But now I have the dilemma of what to do on the next day: leave in the morning, stop in the Smoky Mountains National Park and get to Asheville in the evening, or hang around ( Read more... )

My January schedule, which I'm sort of locked into at this point, looks something like this ( Read more... )

I have a car now. Her name is Judith. She got acclimated to the Wisconsin winter very quickly. Scraping the ice off her windshield at 4AM was really fun. And cold ( Read more... )

1. I just registered for classes, even though my time technically started on Monday. It was nice for once to not have to worry about logging into Presto exactly at 9AM (since all of my classes I was either already consented for, or are in the Computer Science department). Though, I still have to decide really soon whether or not I want to take ( Read more... )

This week I went to Helsinki on fall break. It was nice, but not fantastic. As I've told everyone I've talked to, Helsinki is pretty similar to Stockholm, but not as good. Seeing Finnish everywhere made me miss Swedish (though all of the signs, even the street names, were also printed in Swedish, so I can't complain too much). I did get to ( Read more... )

Since the whole Pinewoods crew had a few days off before our next batch of campers showed up, I went off to Boston (sort of on a whim, kind of a new thing for me) to visit Hillary, Clara and Ivy. I wasn't entirely sure I was going to go, and then all of a sudden, there I was, in a car bound for the Alewife T stop. I'm not sure I knew it at the ( Read more... )