Goofy pup
We've been getting out a lot lately. This is from last weekend, after a run to the park. Last night we went to a local restaurant to sit on their deck during the tornado warning. Kaisa and my knitting buddies were loving it until the downpour began... No actual tornado though. Such sensationalism...
Debauchery
I'm not feeling my best tonight, and as such I am staying in and doing notsomuch. Instead of blogging about doing nothing, I will blog about a semi-recent fun event.
The Moustache Parade of 2008.
I'm not sure who was the brilliant and awful person to come up with this event, but a vast majority of my male friends participated by growing moustaches... a week or two in advance. It was glorious, and horrendous.
Us girls, well, being bald, we had to improvise. Enjoy.
Free time? What's that?
Ah, the semester is over. I survived. I passed quals, my classes, and... the majority of... my students. I am a happy camper. So why haven't I been writing, you ask?
Well, I've been working, which is great. I'm pretty into my research as of late, which is a really nice change of pace. More on that later.
The more likely culprit is The House Search. Nick and I are lookin' to shack up at the end of this month (yay!), so I've been looking at a looooot of houses. That shit is time consuming! But also amusing. We looked at one place last week that was something out of a horror movie. It was a couple thousand sq ft, had 20 ft ceilings and was probably a hundred years old, easy. It was a homestead house, apparently, and as such did not have a living area, only a 7-ft wide hallway from which all the equally-humongous rooms branched. Best part? The second floor "wasn't renovated" so the owners used it as storage. Tenants weren't allowed up there. Creepy much?
Yeah. Right now we're zooming in on a loft complex with a pool and a doggie "run" (like a small but loooong fenced dog park), but we're keeping the options open. We've got time.
The pictures are from recent hikes. The one of Nick is from a week or so ago on his birthday - all he wanted to do was go camping but the weather didn't oblige. It rained all Saturday. Luckily on Sunday we did sneak in a hike at our favorite (closest) spot, and it was a lovely day.
The rather unfortunate picture of me is from a few weeks back, when we decided it would be a good idea to try a 15 mile day hike. That's me taking a necessary break after mile 12 or so. By mile 14 I was limping and suffering from a horrendous sunburn. (What? Sunlight comes through the leaf cover when there aren't any leaves?) I was pretty proud of myself by the end, but I won't be trying a hike like that again after several months of vampirish behavior such as studying/sitting on my ass/living in the dungeon at school. Ahem.
Other fun things about life right now:
Vegan cupcakes take over the world, knitting my first pair of socks, and a Lord of the Rings marathon potluck this coming Wednesday (gotta take a day off every once in awhile, right?).
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