February 2012
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November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
– Jane Goodall (via beautifulwelshvowels)
August 2011
3 posts
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REBLOG IF YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 2 OF MY LITTLE...
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Where am I?!
OOPS HAHA.
Yeah, since I’m at Northwestern now I was all, ‘this isn’t even relevant anymore why should I bother with updates lollllllll.’
Which was silly of me because I am still in college and things are still happening and all that. It’s just…not in NC anymore. OH WELL.
Anywayssss. Chillin’ in California now for summer. Got a job - oh yay - and a...
December 2010
1 post
haha win
Spurred adviser into action! Northwestern took my app for winter 2011!
And I was accepted! Hooray me!!!
November 2010
1 post
WHOA MAN.
Slaughtered and eviscerated a Warren Wilson College Farm turkey the day before thanksgiving break! That was so crazy. Yeah, I felt bad for the guys, but we took good care of them. I saw them every day! They were happy turkeys. Also, don’t feel too bad - they were being sold at $3.50/lb. Because we have a niche market that will actually pay that price. Whaaat. Anyways, they were pretty huge...
October 2010
1 post
Homecoming Prep
First things first - on September 20th, I went roller skating with a few farm crew people, fell four times and ended up spraining my right wrist. It hurt! Got really swollen and looked horrible. Public safety had one of their crew members take me to the ER with my roommate, where we pretty much sat around for two and a half hours. I got x-rays, they gave me a splint, and told me not to use my...
September 2010
3 posts
Nothing
That’s right nothing interesting happened this week. Except it feels like some sort of jerk stabbed my back because now it’s really sore and I don’t have a heating pad to make it better. :(
Whatever.
This weekend my school is celebrating ‘Pigstock,’ and I still am not sure what exactly it is. I know there’s a 24-hour continuous relay fun run type deal that I’m not participating in because...
Oops haha.
What a fail at keeping up! Right now I am waiting to go to french for my first test of the semester. So thrilling! Nothing much of note has happened in the past few days, but we’ve had some really beautiful mornings, with fog filling the valley. Did a lot of pigweed chopping again yesterday! Very sore from that. But before that, I changed the blades on three of our weedwhackers. I feel so...
August 2010
2 posts
Week One- Oh
So I totally just wrote out a huge post about the first week here, and then it wouldn’t post, so I tried to copy-paste it, and it didn’t copy, and then it was gone, so I took a shower. >:(
ANYWAYS. Nothing all that interesting happened the first week. Drove down from Ohio with Dad, leaving at four in the morning, passed a lot of RVs/campers etc on the freeway going the other way,...
Farm
Edit: Oops. I meant to post this…last semester (April 22nd, says my little save thing) and I didn’t so I will post it now so that you have something to read until I can get myself organized enough to do a real new post. I promise to do better in terms of keeping everyone up to date this semester!
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So far I’ve been down to volunteer with Farm Crew twice...
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
3 posts
Laundry
Oh man. So I had to leave my laundry in the dryer for about half the day because my schedule this afternoon is work-class-work-dinner (and then I went to the chocolate lounge for two hours!) from 1 to 6.
So I just got back to my dorm about 20 minutes ago and guess what?
:O
My laundry was still waiting for me in the dryer! My basket wasn’t stolen! Nothing at all was wrong!
…
I...
Goats!
Yes, so I realize I’ve kind of left this yawning gap of wondering about the progress of goat crew…
Well, you’ll have to sit on your hands for a few more days, I believe.
At a fermentation workshop last night, I talked with the alumnus who was hosting and mentioned my idea, which he thought was great (and then proceeded to tell me that 3 or 4 of our most popular, iconic crews...
oh no, thinking!
Right now I feel as though I have fifty-thousand different things crashing down on my mind and no way to organize them other than writing them out.
I’m attempting to finish a paper for my college composition class tomorrow on the use of gothic wilderness in Melville’s “The Tartarus of Maids” to generate “dark seeing” in his narrator and readers. The more I...
January 2010
1 post
Reflect
Edit: UHM. Yeah sorry I’m posting this way late. I meant to do it on Dec. 17th or so, but then there was a snowstorm and a crazy taxi ride and airport horror and then family and friends and fun and give me a break, gosh. Just….pretend to go back in time to Dec. 20 or so and read this, and then you can jump back to the present. It’s like…a brain-cation. :D
/edit
End of...
November 2009
3 posts
The bus.
The Asheville City Transit system makes me angry (so angry that I keep spelling angry wrong. Gosh).
It is reliably late, but only in the sense that you know it will be late. How late? That, you never know. Never!
Sometimes it’s just ten minutes. But once it was forty. And sometimes, sometimes! When the bus is running especially late…
it will sit.
At the station.
Until it’s...
blehhhhh
This is going to sound really emo and stupid, but I don’t care because it’s true.
I kind of hate weekends now.
I have almost nothing to do except for homework, so I guess it’s good that I’m able to get that done without the distraction of the bus coming and going every hour, tempting me to take a stroll around Asheville, which, I will sadly admit, has since lost a bit...
“Jeffrey Stier of the American Council on Science and Health, a consumer education group financed by big food makers, said the Obama message was unrealistic for ordinary families.
“The average family can’t feed themselves all year round on their own garden,” Mr. Stier said. “If you’re concerned about cost, organic and locally grown is more expensive and you don’t get any nutritional benefit...
October 2009
3 posts
Project Capra: Stage One
(OKAY SO THIS IS FROM A WHILE AGO I KNOW DON’T BE MAD.)
Followers:
Project Capra is underway.
Oh yeah, secret names! My favorite.
Think astrology, guys.
Got it?
(Goats)
Okay.
Tomorrow I have a visit with Dean of Work Ian Robertson for my seminar class. It’s very exciting (not really), for my group of three must create a powerpoint that tells our classmates about the work...
Ohmygoodness
Just coming down off that camping high. Fall break was pretty sweet, except for Sonoma’s passing. Best dog ever will be greatly missed.
In happier news, I will be going back and updating some old stuff and pictures and generally getting y’all back in the loop! As long as it matters to you.
:)
Going to bed now okay!
(also, Parks and Recreation is a pretty silly show. Not as good...
Family Weekend + Homecoming
Well.
My family may not be here, but that’s why I’m adopting my friend Julie’s family as mine for the weekend. Exciting!
Tonight -
BBQ! Whomg, down on the farm. This is going to be tasty. Camera is coming with me.
Basketball game (alumni vs. womens is what I’m going to see - Go Julie!)
Bonfire! omg omg omg I saw it down in the field it is a HUGE tent of wood for...
September 2009
6 posts
Food...
Lunch was really disappointing today (except for the coffee ice cream). Turkey pot pie barely had any breading and was full of mushrooms, and the time they actually manage to make something labeled “curry” spicy, it’s way too spicy.
Balance you guys! Gosh.
They suck.
I really hope dinner is acceptable. Otherwise…
D:<
VELOCIRAPTOR LEAH WILL EAT THEIR LEGS RAAAAR.
Saturday...
So this weekend was my intro to whitewater canoeing course.
Most of you know, by now, that this weekend did not go as planned.
Saturday was our learning day, where we played around in the canoes on our pond and learned how to control them. I was doing fantastic until we had to flip our boats so that we could tow them back to shore.
I was most worried about how soaking wet my boots would be and...
Clean, learn, read, sleep
That’s my schedule some days. Sometimes the clean and learn switch, but that’s not really anything important.
I really don’t understand how half of these people expect to live independently. The kitchens (and laundry rooms) in Vining and Sunderland are nasty. Everyone just piles their dishes in the sink. “Oh, don’t bother the cleaning fairy/gnome/heavy duty will get...
Free massage
I have melted.
Strategic Planning
So today was our strategic planning day.
What?
I didn’t know until, like…seven hours ago, when it started.
But basically we were going over the core values of our college as determined by someone or another and seeing what we liked and didn’t like.
Not many people liked what was already written.
There was a lot of consensus as to determining our carrying capacity,...
August 2009
5 posts
Buses
Went to Asheville again today. BUT FIRST. We stopped at the Wal-Mart plaza to take a look at GameStop and Petsmart.
Why do I always go to Petsmart when they’re having an adoption day?
River, the husky/malamute mix - 6 months old and still growing…
Tilly, a year old border collie who wanted, more than anything, my full attention.
There were also like a billion cats inside. So...
Late!
Yes, I should’ve had this set up before I actually got here. Yes, I should’ve been posting at least every few days.
What of it?
I have made it through Orientation week, quite possibly one of the strangest, scariest, and eye-opening-est weeks of my life. Possibly. Monday was nearly impossible, as it was the day my mom had to leave me here, tiny, scared, and not yet ready to leave...
“Nothing in the world is difficult,” said the Patriarch, “it is only...”
– Monkey, a Folk Novel of China by Wu-Ch’eng-en