thoughts on travel

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“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land. “

Miner’s Wife: Are you two looking for work? Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: No, we aren’t looking for work.
Miner’s Wife: No?… Then why are you traveling?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: We travel just to travel.
Miner’s Wife: Bless you… Blessed be your travels.

free fall

so, i have done my first free fall. it was 5 seconds long, and i have done it perfectly. opened right as i should have, except i didn’t have time to regain balance so i got thrown around quite a bit.

2 days later and i’m still limping cause all my muscles HURT. but, not only its a good kind of pain, the freefall was so. completely. WORTH IT. YES! I am the champion, and can keep my cool in any situation.

last week of work. how exciting! this weekend is camping and next week tim comes back.

the schedule still makes me unhappy. but then 4th year, what am i, afraid of some silly dostoyevskiy class? i just have a bad feeling about it.. and about the 10am classes too. buuuut hey, its study, and relaxation.

running to meet christian now. what a crazy week!

schedule version gazillion -1

	m	t	w	r	f
10			HIS316H1	 HIS316H1
11			HIS316H1	 HIS316H1
12					
13					
14					
15		HPS100H1	SLA314H	
16		HPS100H1	SLA314H	
17					
18	phl245	PHL243H		PSY370H	
19	phl245	PHL243H		PSY370H	
20	phl245	PHL243H		PSY370H	

crossed out is one that i really really want to take but its full.

otherwise:
cog sci with my fav prof
philosophy of sexuality
history of advertising
history of science
and dostoyevskiy while i can’t get the monday course. i’ll drop the russian course, i think. or not. i don’t know.

middle of august – end of summer comes hither

Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one. But the house falls down.

so, we went out last night. i’m working on about 4.5 hours of sleep… but it was all completely worth it.

i’m annyoed beyond belief with this blog. i want to make it a dual publishing thing, so that i can blog off-main page persona life updates, and on-main page photographs… but at the moment i can’t seem to be able to do even the simplest things.

i guess its cause i’m a little spread out over many things lately. which is awesome. cause all the things are nice. people, adventure, climbing, photography, work, camping, drinking, sleeping.

it is sucky that summer has to end, but it is great for the end of summer means beginning of school year and arrival of certain americans back into canada. on the grand scale of things, i’m entirely overjoyed summer will actually end one day. i just want to get more tanned before it does. :)

moss




moss

Originally uploaded by olya.

from camping

how freaking cool is THAT? i can blog from flickr! and then my photos are stored there and stuff.

except then this is not REALLY a *PHOTO*blog but a photoBLOG. which is blah.

flickr is nice, ‘cept someone was stealin’ my stuff. i’m in process of taking harsh actions against those who stole my work.