I've been doing a lot recently, in a good way.

Last weekend I saw Rob Crowe (from Pinback) live in the KBR room on campus. The show was pretty lame, he should just stick with Pinback as far as I am concerned. However the KBR is like the worst venue on campus!!!! We really need a forum for rock outfits. The crowd was miserable and the bands leading up to him sucked. Howevewr the highlights included spending the night hanging out with Aleisha, and then later we ran in to Galen... So over all I had a good night out.

The next morning Galen invited us to go birding, but aleisha was too hung over to go. So Galen and his friend Larry picked me up at like 730, and we went to get their friend Megan. It was ass cold! I mean cold, we were out on the Eureka water front and it was freaking blowing up crazy wind, and storms and rainbows. But the birding tour went on...I have some pictures I will post on my Flickr page. I could go on and on about the state of the Eureka water front, but I think I could sum it up in one sentence, "neglected, trashed, polluted, but still a habitat for local and migrating birds", some of which we did see.

This past weekend, friday actually, Galen and I went up to Orick. It's about 30 minutes North of here. I swear to god things get prettier and wilder the farther north in the Pacific North West one goes. Anyways I am doing a research project on the Orick area for my Geographic Research and Writing class, and I needed to get my first glimpces and impressions of Orick, in other words a landscape analysis done. We ate at the Palm Cafe, which is next to a bight green motel, with palm trees and exotic dthings painted all over (now what is that doin in NorCal I dont know). Either way we had homemade black berry pie, and Galen told me of his Morroccon adventures over the new year. We hiked up at Lady Bird Johnson grove, somehow talked our way in to getting in to a closed down movie theater, bought 1$ beer from the local store (gotta spend in the local economy) and were shooed out of a biker bar filled with locals, smoke and dark corners. Either way the whole place was either kichy or broken down. Orick used to be a logging town, now its just a rest stop and happens to be where they built a state parks office building. So we shall see how this research paper turns out.

It's been crazy storms in and out of the area, dumping hail and rain, and generally freezing. Snow on the hills. James and I went to the local Finnish Bath house. It's my new favorite thing. You pay like $8 to sit in a private wooden tub for half and hour outside. The water is hot and the trees sway over you and protect you from the rain. They have a cafe and in the summer you can sit around the pond. It's so lovely, however I'm sure its nothing like a finnish bathing experience, Finland sounds like a cool place to visit.

I hate this type of blog post, where I just list off the crap I have been doing. It's nothing really insightful, but maybe one day i will look back and be able to remember for my own reference, screw everyone else.

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Caledonia

Caledonia, originally uploaded by skinnymalinkee.

I drew this while playing Dungeons and Dragons for the first time this past xmas....its a half-elf druid. Sigh I cant stop the nerdiness now, cept I dont think DND is for me-might have been a one time thing.

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I'm reading the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin for my history class. I was dreading it, however its not as awful as i thought it was going to be. It's actually interesting look into what life was like back then. I enjoy the writing because it is so much prettier then ours and rich. He actaully was a really neat guy, socially "advanced" on account of his time in Philidelphia with those quaking Quakers, and all the reading he did. If someone was writing our constitution and publishing pamphlets back then, I am glad it was Ben. Just thought I would say that if you have to read this, its really not that bad...so do it.

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On tuesday I was charged with posting 50 flyers all over campus. It took about an hour and half, but it was sooo satifying. Electric air pushed in storm clouds, with huge gusts of warm stormy wind. The depth of the sky seemed more grand then I had ever seen it. My favorite kind of weather...

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Dear blog readers!
I am here to apologize for not moderating my damn post comments. Especially Chad, if you ever read this! You made a bunch of comments on my New Zealand post (0ct 26, 06) which I never knew existed! I quite appreciate your comments, because you are from a totally outside point of view and that really unique compared to friends that I have who know more about me. So the comments are really important to me. I think thats why I love blogger so much, is when you post, it's usually about something important enough for you to sit down and say something, so the comments you get are on actual things that you care about, and are from people who you wouldnt expect, and are generally very very meaning full-does that make any sense?
love caitlin

Moving on, I cannot blame blogger-ignorance on the fact that I have completey ignored posting in a long period of time. Anyways I am back at school, nothing really new to report. I am taking 3 geogpraphy classes. Geography of Tourism, Computer Cartography, and Geographic Research and Writing. The Tourism class may be the subject of posts to come, since I am really into that topic. But I shall save it for anyother day, so that I can actually have more then one post!!!! World Of Warcrafts Buring Crusade came out recently, and so my life has been filled with meaningless hours spent leveling my Night Elf druid from 60-70. I think a little part of me, and perhaps those who are reading this faith within me, just died after I said that. Anyways I will make a post about the tourism class.

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