Hi everyone! This is just a quick note to tide over those of you who find this blog to be the highlight of their every waking moment, or atleast of one such moment in every hundred thousand or so.
I'm at Bucknell (blah) and finally, for the first time, I have managed to take classes that I actually want to take! And not just one, oh no.... 3 whole classes that I want to be in! I'm taking General Chemistry (that would be the 4th), a seminar on Norse Saga with an ecocritical and phenomenological focus, a course called Nature Writing\Writing Nature, and Primate Behavioral Ecology. On top of which I am still running the 1 in 4, working at 2 coffee shops, and this year getting paid to do the work that I would have done already at the environmental center (and I gained a new not terribly serious title: Chief of Staff)! Plus, and this is way cool, I heard through the grapevine that I won some type of award last semester for my environmental work the semesters before, and I'm splitting it with my roomie (who also won) and it's $250 each! We just have to wait until they officially announce it.
So anyway, thats the low down on the big stuff. Toodles.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
London Heathrow... worlds away
Two posts in one week?!?! Amazing. So, I'll start with a brief summary of my last few days: Sleep, wake, eat, sleep. Also, ran into two great free festival thingies while wandering aimlessly around London, including one where people belayed (as in, used ropes to scale up and down) a giant poster while dancing, messing around, and wearing various costumes... highly amusing! The other one was an old people's festival, celebrating music and age and the caribbean and stuff like that... I bought some fudge and walked around thinking how cute old people are!
As a little side note: How cool would the job of "destroying luggage" be? As in, when you are in an airport, and that annoying announcement says: " Please do not leave your luggage unattended. For security purposes, any unattended luggage will be removed and destroyed". How do you think they do it? I think, since airports are ultra-mega efficient, they must somehow use all the liquids and sharp objects they confiscate in the destruction process. Perhaps they drown your luggage and then cut it into little bitty pieces with your nail clippers. Just a thought.
So, anyway, I am currently sitting in Heathrow airport (as you may have guessed by the title of this post), sipping some tea and contemplating how best to inform nearly all Bucknellians that I will be particularly intolerant of any mouth flatulance (a disease that runs rampant at Bucknell) this upcoming year. Basically, I have realized through my minor accidental and entirely unplanned contact with The Young American Female In Possesion of Daddy's Credit Card ( aka the YAFPDCC, ie Bucknellians) that this year is going to be an extreme test of my self control... Hmmm, I am off topic again... Right, anyway, I'm heading home today, then back to school tomorrow, then classes the next day, and I keep telling myself that my 4 years at Bucknell have been a good thing but I am not entirely sure of that. I guess it all comes down to that piece of paper that I will get in a year saying "Congrats, you have suffered for long enough that we are prepared to release you, but not before hassling you to give us MORE money for atleast the next 15 years". Its funny that a piece of paper (oh, and $160,000) can get me a better job then, oh, I don't know, common sense? Because I have proven through long hours of research that that is all many YAFPDCC's have going for them, this piece of paper (certainly no common sense).
Anyhow, be back in the good ole USA later today! On another side note, I believe that this website (aka my blog) formally supports Hillary for President, though that may change.
Good BYe, and Thanks For all the Fish!
As a little side note: How cool would the job of "destroying luggage" be? As in, when you are in an airport, and that annoying announcement says: " Please do not leave your luggage unattended. For security purposes, any unattended luggage will be removed and destroyed". How do you think they do it? I think, since airports are ultra-mega efficient, they must somehow use all the liquids and sharp objects they confiscate in the destruction process. Perhaps they drown your luggage and then cut it into little bitty pieces with your nail clippers. Just a thought.
So, anyway, I am currently sitting in Heathrow airport (as you may have guessed by the title of this post), sipping some tea and contemplating how best to inform nearly all Bucknellians that I will be particularly intolerant of any mouth flatulance (a disease that runs rampant at Bucknell) this upcoming year. Basically, I have realized through my minor accidental and entirely unplanned contact with The Young American Female In Possesion of Daddy's Credit Card ( aka the YAFPDCC, ie Bucknellians) that this year is going to be an extreme test of my self control... Hmmm, I am off topic again... Right, anyway, I'm heading home today, then back to school tomorrow, then classes the next day, and I keep telling myself that my 4 years at Bucknell have been a good thing but I am not entirely sure of that. I guess it all comes down to that piece of paper that I will get in a year saying "Congrats, you have suffered for long enough that we are prepared to release you, but not before hassling you to give us MORE money for atleast the next 15 years". Its funny that a piece of paper (oh, and $160,000) can get me a better job then, oh, I don't know, common sense? Because I have proven through long hours of research that that is all many YAFPDCC's have going for them, this piece of paper (certainly no common sense).
Anyhow, be back in the good ole USA later today! On another side note, I believe that this website (aka my blog) formally supports Hillary for President, though that may change.
Good BYe, and Thanks For all the Fish!
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Coming home...
Howdy folks,
So its that time again. Time that I post a wee little note to let ya'll in on what's going on. Currenty, I am sitting on a wobbly metal stool that has certainly seen better days in a tiny tiny cafe in Napoli, Italy, the city of my birth (and so therefore famous all over the world). I didnt actually visit Napoli at all, I'm just traveling through because I spent an extra day on Sicily instead, and last night took the overnight ferry from Catania to here. On Sicily I stayed with two amazingly cool and awesome (I hope you read this Mike) dudes (hehehe) ... two great people named Mike and Gabriella, not to leave out in any way the 5 cats that also called the place home. Anyway, Mike took me hiking up around Monte Satorias (sp?), we saw volcano craters and Etna smoking and where the lava has come down over time... it was really quite amazing. The entire rest of the time I sat in the shade, petting Trouble (my nearly-stolen kitty friend) reading, and according to Mike, consuming all of the food in the house (all lies I tell you), gaining myself the nickname of "piglet". I personally enjoied my time there greatly and would love to visit again in the winter to go sliding down the volcano sides!
anyway, I am flying back to london today, then home in 2 days on the 20th. My phone will be back in operation on the 20th, so anytime after 410pm you can start calling... mark it on your calander folks, I will be back in operation.
So its that time again. Time that I post a wee little note to let ya'll in on what's going on. Currenty, I am sitting on a wobbly metal stool that has certainly seen better days in a tiny tiny cafe in Napoli, Italy, the city of my birth (and so therefore famous all over the world). I didnt actually visit Napoli at all, I'm just traveling through because I spent an extra day on Sicily instead, and last night took the overnight ferry from Catania to here. On Sicily I stayed with two amazingly cool and awesome (I hope you read this Mike) dudes (hehehe) ... two great people named Mike and Gabriella, not to leave out in any way the 5 cats that also called the place home. Anyway, Mike took me hiking up around Monte Satorias (sp?), we saw volcano craters and Etna smoking and where the lava has come down over time... it was really quite amazing. The entire rest of the time I sat in the shade, petting Trouble (my nearly-stolen kitty friend) reading, and according to Mike, consuming all of the food in the house (all lies I tell you), gaining myself the nickname of "piglet". I personally enjoied my time there greatly and would love to visit again in the winter to go sliding down the volcano sides!
anyway, I am flying back to london today, then home in 2 days on the 20th. My phone will be back in operation on the 20th, so anytime after 410pm you can start calling... mark it on your calander folks, I will be back in operation.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Europe!
Hello faithful blog readers... I say faithful because it's been so long since I last wrote that only those of you who are true blog junkies will still be checking to see if I update this thing. So, this is for YOU! And I promise to do better, even if it's just a short one every few days.
So, as many of you know, I'm currently spending my hard earned money from my job this summer traveling around Europe with my best friend Marge! Currently, we're in Koln in Germany, and are on our way to Berlin today! We spent the rest of our time so far in France, visiting La Rochelle (a particularly lovely city, definately worth visiting even if you don't miss your original flight to Marseille and it's the only other place in France that RyanAir is flying that night), Paris (hint: the wine they sell in front of the Eiffel tower at night can be bought for less than 5 euros if you bargain), Nice (WEAR SUNSCREEN, especially when exposing parts of your body that have never seen the sun), and Lyon ( if you forget to book a hostel, call ahead and they tell you they have "plenty of space", climb up the mountain in the old city to get to the hostel, are told they have no more space, climb back down to the mountain and make it to the tourism office 10 minutes before it closes, and ask them to find you a place to stay, you'll get a hotel room with its very own shower for only about 10 euros more...totally worth it).
In terms of things we've been doing, pretty much the big things in all the cities! We usually start heading toward one big thing, and then spend the rest of the day wandering around and manage to see everything else in the city... of course we have a map just in case (not that this would EVER happen) I lose my (amazing) sense of direction and we get a (tiny tiny) bit lost in the middle of wherever we are.
So, as to plans for the rest of the travels? As I mentioned, Berlin today, with a stop over in Hanover on the way... then a city in Austria (probably Salzburg on the border but maybe somewhere else), and then to Vienna sometime on the 6th. Marge leaves me on the 7th :(, and I head off to do italy on my own. Heading to Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples (for a few hours, I hear their trash company is on strike and its currently pretty rank, so let me know the one thing you think I should try to see while I'm there), and then for about 3 full days on Sicily. I'm staving with people from that CouchSurfing community online for most of the time, which should be great because its like having different travel buddies and tour guides for each place I'm going, and as I love meeting new people that should be great!
Ok, thats it for now. I'll end with a joke from one of these CouchSurfing folks who I'll be staying with on Sicily:
Q: What's Bush's answer to global warming?
A: Bomb all the hot countries.
Yours truley, Me
So, as many of you know, I'm currently spending my hard earned money from my job this summer traveling around Europe with my best friend Marge! Currently, we're in Koln in Germany, and are on our way to Berlin today! We spent the rest of our time so far in France, visiting La Rochelle (a particularly lovely city, definately worth visiting even if you don't miss your original flight to Marseille and it's the only other place in France that RyanAir is flying that night), Paris (hint: the wine they sell in front of the Eiffel tower at night can be bought for less than 5 euros if you bargain), Nice (WEAR SUNSCREEN, especially when exposing parts of your body that have never seen the sun), and Lyon ( if you forget to book a hostel, call ahead and they tell you they have "plenty of space", climb up the mountain in the old city to get to the hostel, are told they have no more space, climb back down to the mountain and make it to the tourism office 10 minutes before it closes, and ask them to find you a place to stay, you'll get a hotel room with its very own shower for only about 10 euros more...totally worth it).
In terms of things we've been doing, pretty much the big things in all the cities! We usually start heading toward one big thing, and then spend the rest of the day wandering around and manage to see everything else in the city... of course we have a map just in case (not that this would EVER happen) I lose my (amazing) sense of direction and we get a (tiny tiny) bit lost in the middle of wherever we are.
So, as to plans for the rest of the travels? As I mentioned, Berlin today, with a stop over in Hanover on the way... then a city in Austria (probably Salzburg on the border but maybe somewhere else), and then to Vienna sometime on the 6th. Marge leaves me on the 7th :(, and I head off to do italy on my own. Heading to Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples (for a few hours, I hear their trash company is on strike and its currently pretty rank, so let me know the one thing you think I should try to see while I'm there), and then for about 3 full days on Sicily. I'm staving with people from that CouchSurfing community online for most of the time, which should be great because its like having different travel buddies and tour guides for each place I'm going, and as I love meeting new people that should be great!
Ok, thats it for now. I'll end with a joke from one of these CouchSurfing folks who I'll be staying with on Sicily:
Q: What's Bush's answer to global warming?
A: Bomb all the hot countries.
Yours truley, Me
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