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September 3, 2005
You know...
...I'm really trying to come up with a good excuse for not posting for a while. It turns out I don't have one. Things have been rough for a couple of weeks, but that's really no excuse at all. As hard and as crazy as it's been there have been enumerable points of light amidst the hardship. And it’s really been a shame that I haven't spoken about it yet. The challenge has been... uhhhhh... a challenge... but so much fun so far. The people in my program have been so awesome so far, and, despite my misanthropic attitude, I've managed to have made friends.
I think I've missed this whole past week, which is a total waste. I was obsessed with trying to figure out how to post pictures that I lost sight of the opportunity to document the experiences I was going through, for better or for worse... which is what this is supposed to be all about, really. Yes?
Yes. This week was pretty cool. I'm not sure what they called Week 4 of the Summer Institute, but I call it Adventure Week. Day 1 we went to the Wiccahisson Valley, which is, incidentally, spelt wrong (so don't Google it), and a really neat place... yes the best I've got right now is "neat." We hiked through the woods and identified trees, shrubs, and the herbaceous layer; herbaceous basically means poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendro {italicized}, dumbass jerk!). We were all assigned a plant in one of the preceding categories and had to speak about it in the field. Mine being Quercus alba {italicised} i.e., white oak. Glorious tree.
Day 2. Valley Forge. Home of George Washington’s winter camp, year, 1777, +- a year. History is not my strong suit. Sorry, Pops. Great variety of stone and plant life, by elevation (and the deer browse line's a bitch!); learned an extensive amount of plants by given name, Latin name, and seeing the damn thing.
Day 5. Drunk... ooops... fill in later days 3–5. Had too much fun at Sally's B-day party, tired. Played darts, mostly won... lost a few, had a kick with some new friends; Adam, Doug, Sally, Jen, and quite a few jerks who aren't in are program who turned out to be pretty cool... who knew... palled up with the T.A. of our Media class (drawing) so hopefully will get an easy 'A', but unlikely... still working on the graphite skill...
Until we meet again...
Posted by austin at September 3, 2005 3:12 AM
Comments
White oak huh? I'd love to hear your soliloquy about that mighty tree sometime. Was it something like, "White, like me, and strong, not like me."?
Keep rockin' in Phili!
Posted by: Kevin at September 5, 2005 8:07 PM
Booo! I want pictures!
Posted by: Lorelei at September 6, 2005 6:04 PM
While at the beach resort this weekend, I kept saying to myself, "Wow. This beach resort weekend is especially fun. More fun than ever before. What is diffferent? What could it be? Oh, yeah. Austin isn't here."
Kidding of course, bro. We missed you. And you missed some wicked sweet camel toe. Mad separation.
ROWYCO
Posted by: Godfrey at September 6, 2005 7:45 PM
Yes, I want to see pictures. If you haven't figured that out yet...you could try www.fotoheap.com -- free to get an account, and you can post pics on there, and then use those urls to post them here.
Posted by: V at September 6, 2005 9:39 PM
Expect some drunk calls from a bunch of boozy Virgos and boozy Libra this Friday! Oooo! Oooo!
Posted by: Court at September 7, 2005 10:47 AM
White oak, is almost as cool as a sycamore but not quite. Thats awesome that you get to spend some time outdoors. Hopefully it's cooled off some. Get on with the pictures! Go on Git!
Posted by: Becca at September 11, 2005 11:19 AM
I just had the uncomfortable experience of reading the comments on this post with mom. Why was it uncomfortable? Refer to Godfrey's post about CAMEL TOE.
Posted by: Nora at September 14, 2005 8:51 AM
The post wasnt' about Camel Toe, it just involved Camel Toe. anyway - update this crap, dude. I have many more disgusting things to post that your mom shouldn't see.
Posted by: Godfrey at September 19, 2005 6:58 PM
this blog both bores and angers me. update it.
Posted by: meghan at October 11, 2005 6:51 PM
You said you'd update this shit. WTF?
Posted by: godfrey at January 10, 2006 7:23 PM