Oh Hell No

Rusk

New addition. Pound pup. A week and two days in. Maybe five months old. Maybe.







In other news, 10 days remain.

Pedantic Rambling

So. The end of the year was a headache and a mess but it is over. I've been rather spare on here of late in part due to my new addiction. It probably wont be broken until after Africa. School has ended. I had hoped to be exercising by now but the past week has been ozone/pollution warning days and some of the hottest on record 'round here. I actually kind of doubt that but it's what they tell me. You know I always listen to what they tell me. People have been dropping from heat dysphasia left and right and all the ACs stop working around 10 AM, including in the restaurants and such. Poor Pip has been working at Phoe the last few nights, making his work day well over 12 hours. There's a 20 degree difference between the seating area and the area behind the counter. The apartment is a mess and I've been waking up exhausted after 11 hours of sleep so I'm not sure what's going to come of any of it.

I took the cats to the vet. Now they hate me. The past week has been a sort of "catch up" week to make up for all the shit I didn't finish before school ended. So I got the cats their shots, I got my shots from Cedars Sinai travel clinic and I may need four more (in which case I'll find a nurse with better aim), I've done the mailing and caught up with evals. I need to finish three textbooks on Biomechanics before July so that I can finalize my thesis with Ed before I leave. I need to...do a lot more that really doesn't bear listing here.

Phil and I are moving apartments a day before I leave for Ethiope, what fun. In earnest I didn't want to go anywhere. I like where we live on the 2nd floor with the gated community and the magnolias and the lizards and the butterflies. I really appreciate living alone with him, the privacy and the convenience. But when we were helping Erin and Thor find an apartment it turned out to be a lot cheaper to live with them in a two bedroom and split. Phil was all over it so I grudgingly gave in. I guess of year of privacy and comfort wont cost me that much. For that matter I probably owe Erin and Thor more credit. It wont be just living with randomly selected unhygienic people, like dorm life. On that note Phil refers to me as "the little dictator" when talking to them about semantics. We'll be living in an apartment near the University that didn't have openings when we tried to move in there before. We'll see how this shalt fadge.

My family is leaving for Prague soon. I'm hoping (though not anticipating) scoring a Blackberry since it may be the only device that will allow me to communicate with the outside world once I hit Addis. Zack was supposed to meet me for lunch yesterday and didn't. Bob was supposed to come visit last month and didn't. I think I'm about done keeping other peoples schedules, and at the ripe old age of 21 I'm not sure how far that's going to get me.

I still owe you the pics from the other 2/3rds of the Eastern Europe trip and I'll post them just as soon as I find a way to get my other computer online. It has all the pictures and stuff after all. In the mean time I'll leave you with one of the few I have here.