I'm off to meet my new nephew, Chaz Allen! I'm pretty stoked to hang with his big brother Kadean too! The entire Leusink family is to gather in Yankton, SD for the weekend. This was one last wish of grandma's and I'm pleased to be making my part.

I'll be back Tuesday with pictures!

Love,
meli

I am home and mostly settled in. The trip supplies have been unpacked and stowed and laundry washed, folded, and put away and dishes washed and food prepared or eaten or just put away. I even spent a little time catching up on my note taking from the weekend. It seems I've forgotten how to link to photos to I'll have to share those later. I'm ( Read more... )

Hello my lovelies!
I'm off to the above and will return sunday! Cell service likely nonexistent and you'll have to call the visitor center down there if you need me. Probably you won't but in case you, text me and I'll respond with the number from the road... already packed things up :-)

xoxoxox
m

More plans to return to the plains of my homeland occupy my mind rather than the strict disciplines of microorganisms and genetic recombination and functional transformations and trigonometric derivations ( Read more... )

The trip was pretty great overall; I'm home and well and Kadean misses everyone, but he's adjusting to life in Orange City, IA. I determined to update here as a means of processing days and tracking life as things have gotten rather lacking in excitement lately. I'll be chasing missed calls and opportunities the next few days, but I do get to ( Read more... )

by the way....this frog suites me so well. when i think of myself as that dichotomy in and of my selves.....sigh

Sure, I'm tired. Who isn't. I somehow, unjustifiably feel that I can speak of a "we" when meaning those who work and school and raise and tend and mend and adjust and ever constantly dynamically interact with and modulate the world ( Read more... )

I'll be her another year; postponing graduation in order to tack on another 15 creds in Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Diffy Q. Yippe for me ( Read more... )

You might appreciate the events I'll be attending today. 3:00 - 6:00 Big Head Todd & the Monsters followed by Hillary Clinton at Auraria Campus Check for tickets etc. here: http://www.mscd.edu/newsroom/Read more... )

language
obscure and sedate
sometimes ubiquitous
often obtuse
far be it for me to complain
obsequious and sanguine
linguistics
a tiempo
fine

Ah October! How do I love thee ( Read more... )