I'm hanging out in JFK airport with all of the other PCs flying out today. There's 9 of us, and I know I'm sitting near Kate- hopefully I can hang out with other PCs as well ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty decent week, all told- I went dancing again in Philly on Tuesday night. I guess I'll be able to get in one last trip to Philly two weeks from now, on the 18th of August, and then it's no more LaB until possibly winter break ( Read more... )

This week is looking pretty exciting. We've got a lot of campwide, week-long games, and so many awesome interest groups planned. I have one day off from doing interest groups, and I can't decide whether to help Liz with the creekwalk, since I haven't been on one yet this year, or to hang out in the craft shack with Erich as his group makes sock ( Read more... )

Thursday evening was actually super-fun. I played Capture the Chicken with the senior highs, which means actually having to try, which I didn't really feel like doing. So John and Caitlin and I (Program Staff Team Go!) all ended up on the same team against the cook's family + friends. Now the cook's family and friends are all good runners and such ( Read more... )

I just got back from de-freaking-out a cabinful of 15, 16, and 17-year olds. John D told them ghost stories involving their cabin, or something, and so they got all worked up and wouldn't enter the cabin until John turned on the lights for them and Liz and I herded them in. I was just sort of "Guys, you're being silly, look, all the lights are on ( Read more... )

I really enjoy working at Camp Brainerd just as much as just hanging out there. I feel more on top of things this year, which makes me more confident and thus better at working with the kids and my fellow staff. I was also reminded tonight that evening activity is still my favorite part of the day for all age groups. It's the part of my camp week ( Read more... )

I am doing that stupid thing where I start a huge big project and I am like "I am going to do this right and I will be proud of it forever!" except I start planning it like the day before and I do all this extra work because I think it will help me get it done better even though it probably doesn't and I neglect all the other things I have to do in ( Read more... )

I am now CPR and first aid certified! I had consistently excellent timing on the chest compressions, apparently, but I messed up on the ordering of the list of emergency response steps because they were just phrases, some of which were vague and which we hadn't specifically learned. So that was irritating, but I was able to explain why I put the ( Read more... )

I finished re(re?)reading Hana-Kimi. It's one of the few manga series I own that I know I'm going to reread a lot more ( Read more... )

Dorm-cleaning yesterday was in Chase-Stone. The pickings were slim, but I found a bunch of change. Pickings were even slimmer in Randall today, because I was working on 3rd Randall for old time's sake, and since 3rd Randallites are usually pretty clean, the only stuff left in their rooms was the mouse shit ( Read more... )