Well I have made it!  I've been here in Auroville since Tuesday and it has been amazing.  Living in a tropical forest, eco-village, evolution laboratory, sustainable development center...while being one of six guys with 19 lovely ladies has been quite fabulous.  The food has been incredible too, fresh local fruits and vegetables prepared for us ( Read more... )

So Amsterdam is pretty wild.  I saw women who were old enough to be my mom barely clothed in windows.  People don't sleep here.  It rained all day yesterday so it wasn't really all that fun at first.  But today is sunny and I have slept some.   It is pretty hear, this is truely the land of Christoffs.  Is anyone else having trouble with Appalnet?  ( Read more... )

Good riddance 2007.  You gave us droughts, fires, dead cows, starved horses, melted ice caps, school shootings, brutal suppressions of freedom especially in Burma and Pakistan, bombs, troop surges, assassinations...  You disapointed me with a congress I once had hope for, carbon emissions legislation, romantic relationships, and my inability to ( Read more... )

I haven't written in a long time.  I am more skeptical and an INTP now.  I'm not sure if it's loveable.

I don't know.  I'm just glad to be alive.   please let us last past 2012.   I don't want to die in some scam.   

  Back at home for the weekend to see my sister and go to the Apple Festival.  I was just looking at Amazon to order some books when I saw several of my recommendations were centered on Sustainability, imagine that.  There are a ton of books now!  Most have been printed since 2004, and I think this is all well and good...but I also noticed that a ( Read more... )

Well I've been back in Boone since Tuesday and I must say it has been fun.  Tuesday I had a search committee meeting then a meeting with the study abroad lady.  She said she would send in my application by next week then I get a phone interview and I'm going to India.  I don't know how I will focus this semester if everything works out.  Today I ( Read more... )

So the past few days have been quite dandy.  Tuesday I went to Hickory Nut Farm in Fairview with my friend Elin to get a tour from her friend Kate.  The farm is only about 15 minutes away from downtown Asheville but you would never know it because it is 400 acres of forests, fields, pastures, ponds, creeks, and old houses.  The first thing we did ( Read more... )

Well I must say it is good to be back home for a bit.  I am very glad those classes are out of the way and I can enjoy about 10 days before I have a whole semester of them.   After church this morning my parents and I ate with the Arnaudins.  It was good to see them all again and watch my dad drink a grande after being head usher.  I must admit I ( Read more... )

I watched Winged Migration again tonight and yet again it made me tear up because it is so wonderful.  If you haven't seen it you must.  I really want to buy it or ask for it as a gift.  After I watched it I sat on the porch and watched all the swallows swarm about the pasture and just smiled.  Ahh the glorious romanticism of nature, thy spark is ( Read more... )

I am worn out.  It was a busy week.  Summer session is nice because you get classes like statistics done quickly, but it does involve a lot of tests in a short amount of time.  I was also working for the Search Committee to find a director for this new Institute for Energy, Economics, and the Environment.  It was pretty exciting reading through the ( Read more... )