I am here at Swarthmore, doing some work for Professor K. David Harrison. It’s fun work, and going well—which is always profoundly satisfying when dealing with programming—but that’s not quite what I’m thinking about. More interesting to me is that this is the first time I’ve been back on campus not explicitly for a social …
I’ve just rediscovered an old love: Skulls Unlimited. It’s still fantastic. We used to get their catalog, when I was little. It was the best thing ever.
Yesterday: thirteen vultures circling above us, as we stood on a hilltop overlooking the river, watching the trees turn golden. At our feet, a dead snake with its head crushed. On the way home, a fox.
Sometimes, life causes you to make it. In this case, no Toronto/Montreal trip. I was in a car accident yesterday. I wasn’t driving, no one’s hurt. The car lost the front driver’s side wheel. That’s what you get when an SUV veers into your lane, and clips you. And the SUV had only a scratch. …
I’ll be in Montreal in about a week. This will be the tail-end of a trip which will include seeing friends in Toronto beforehand, and I know what to do in Toronto, but Montreal is all unknown to me. What should I do there? Let me know what’s cool in Montreal. In other news, vests. …
I went contra dancing last night, for the first time in too long. Advantages to dancing at this altitude include the fact that my lungs were not burning after one dance. I was also dancing a bit more sedately than I tended to in Boulder, though, as I forgot my shoes, and barefoot dancing, while …
I got my first case of poison ivy ever the other day. It’s been quite interesting; it’s all over my leg, due to my not realizing that there was a bit of P.I. leaf stuck in my pants leg for a lot of the day. It’s a very mild reaction, just small and rash-like, and …
I am going far in the other direction, into activity almost more than thought. It’s refreshing to be back east, to be home, to see familiar locations with new eyes. I’ve been making progress on my primary project (grad school applications), and my quaternary project (figuring out what to do with all my stuff, particularly …
I just wanted to say that I’ve taken the GREs, and now am free to work on grad school apps and plan my Grand Travel Plans and go on an orgy of visiting folks and being super-social. It’s good. My mind is freed.
I’m here, now, in NJ. It’s good—it’s been insanely social since I got back, actually. I somehow managed to hit a run of parties and events. Good, but exhausting; up until 6am the other day, and regularly up to 2 or 2:30am. In other news, I’ve discovered a potentially dangerous new sensation: it’s fun to …