Brains!

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.