A way fun halloween.

Sadly, I didn't get as trashed as I was planning due to being hung over as fuck from the night before when we were carving pumpkins. One good thing did come out of that night though; my pumpkin kicked ass! What artistry! I know some things aren't quite to scale but I used artistic license to emphasize certain things. Can you believe I did that after 2/3 of a gallon of beer? Almost 2 hrs invested.
Oh, last night I went to a cornfield maze with the neighbors and some friends. I had never been to one before and I found it to be quite fun! It was set up quite well and it really was a maze(we had to ask a monster for help after he scared us for the 5th time while we were backtracking). I think the best scare for the group was actually done by me (I ran ahead and hid in the corn)! Heh, I found my calling next halloween, I am going to be one of the monsters in the maze jumping out at people. Scaring people is what I live for! ...and we still have trick-or-treaters coming tonight!

My current desktop photo (Broken Top and Three Sisters)

OMC

OMC is now a community organization. No longer affiliated with the school. We got dropped after a climbing trip I organized last weekend was misconstrued as an OMC trip (I specifically did not use any club resources in any part of the trip and specified very clearly that this was not related to mountain club). We are reorganizing the listserve and website (the school can not take those away) but we are losing funding, the library, avvy beacons, radios, and GPSs. The nature of this is complete bullshit. The school administration has created enough hoops for the club to jump through so that they would have a politically proper way to eliminate the liability of having to deal with OMC when we couldn't meet their objectives. We can be reinstated as a sports club next year if we demonstrate that we have succeeded in reforming our culture to the point of everything being "safe" and peachy-keen. (If any of you have read Brave New World, think of all OMC participants being on Soma at all outings.) As Bugs Bunny once so eloquently put it, "Of course, you know this means war..."

On another note, Beginner Smith was a smashing success. check my webspace for fotos. I am also stoked to have gotten an interview at the college forest. Hopefully I can get the job!

Halloween is coming! Colleen, Ariel, and I are going as rock, paper, and scissors(I got scissors). Halloween should be good this year, but hopefully the cops won't be involved like last year. As funny as I thought it was, CPD doesn't like exploding pumpkins. I guess I will just have to be more careful, and run away faster this year.

panorama from Kauai

Aeroplanes

Holy Crap! I found out yesterday that my dad was in a plane crash! He was flying out to meet a friend for some duck hunting and the twin engine cessna he was in crashed when the pilot landed without putting the damn wheels down. Honestly people, who the hell forgets to put the wheels down! But everything turned out AOK. The belly landing was as smooth as could be expected and no one was hurt. This was really scary hearing about. I'm glad that pop is still with all of us.

the first post!

ok, so not too many people know about this yet, but for those of you fortunate enough to have the inside scoop, this is my blog. Heh, blog. BLLLLOOOOOOOOOGGG. Kinda rolls off the tongue nicely. Too bad everyone and their mom has a blog. Oh well.
Of the past 9 days, I have been out of Corvallis climbing for 6 days. I like that statistic. It means that I have been having fun. The number of different climbing areas is astounding too. Nick and I went to the Enchantments Wilderness in Washington, Vantage in Washington, Smith Rock in Oregon, and the Menagerie Wilderness spires in Oregon. Round trip: 1300 miles. Awesome.
I think I can get used to a journal. Sounds like fun! Hopefully I can keep up with it. There will be lots of pics from the weekends up here.
I am sleepy, so, peace.
Current Mood/Listening to: Led Zep - Dream On