I’ve spent 14 of the past 24 hours sleeping (a couple hours here, a few more there). Hacking away at that sleep-debt! I recently caught up on the NBC show Hannibal (meaning I binge-watched all 11 episodes in the span of a couple days) and holy cow, that’s crazy good television. Is anyone else watching […]
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My video didn’t show what our cabin looks like from the outside: Yesterday I took the team “into town” – it was to be in quotations so that you can imagine me doing finger quotes while I say it. Cave Junction is essentially a half mile stretch of one main street (Redwood Highway 199). The […]
My brain feels like scrambled eggs a lot of the time here. If I don’t write something down, there’s a 99% chance I’ll completely forget about it. Consequently, I keep having great ideas about what to write about on this blog and am unable to follow through because I can’t remember what I thought was […]
A few days ago, maybe while we were at Yosemite, we were talking about national parks and national monuments and I was giving an abbreviated history of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot and etc. Why? Because I cannot help myself. Someone asked me what I knew about Mount Rushmore and coincidentally, I wrote a fairly […]
This is the first time our team has drawn duty on a Thursday, and now I have to say we have been real lucky so far. Duty means your team clocks on at 7:30pm and cleans the dorms and common areas. In the past, it took our team maybe a half hour to get everything […]
We finally got to work a full day on Saturday – the roads were clear enough to get from Redmond to Renton and there were enough community volunteers to make the day worthwhile. We arrived on site to this: Our tent had collapsed and the poles were horribly bent. 😦 First order of business was […]
Yesterday we took advantage of our first full day off and ventured down to Sacramento proper. We’d tossed the idea around for the past two days, mentioning vaguely that it would be nice to get off campus and do something fun and adventurous. Two nights ago, when I was pushing our group to finalize some […]
Alright. So, the House Republicans voted to eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service and the $1.4 billion in federal funds it would provide to programs that encourage Americans to serve in their communities and around the nation. The top of the list affected program is AmeriCorps, but the trickle down from cutting AmeriCorps […]
Needless to say, the proposed budget cuts for the remainder of the 2011 fiscal year have been weighing on my mind. I’ve been tracking the budget fight in the New York Times on the daily, lucky as I am to attend a campus that subscribes to the Times. I’ve noticed that, one class away from […]
let us cross over the river, 