Archive for 2010

A Short Scene

In a small apartment late at night… Sarcozona knocks loudly on the bathroom door. Sarcozona: You should drain the bathtub. Roommate: What?! Why? Sarcozona: It’s leaking into the kitchen.

Home!

After a month of traveling, I’m finally home.  I loved visiting friends and (most) family, but that first view of my town’s peaks from the shuttle was like the end of Gone with the Wind.  I don’t want to go anywhere for a long, long time. The flight back was migraine-miserable, but otherwise pretty good. […]

Kitty Todd Nature Preserve

If you’re driving from Michigan to Pittsburgh, you’ll probably go through Ohio.  At least, that’s how the car-full of ecologists I was with did it.  Some people might advise you to find some (any) way around it. I had never been to Ohio before and was not particularly impressed from the highway, even though they […]

Happylists

The strange title is from Kriti, who I went to high school with but I have only recently really begun to get to know.  I wish I’d talked to her more when we were just a few hallways apart at boarding school, but better late than never, right?  Kriti and her friends made happylists in […]

Reminisce

Several summers ago I attended a math-ecology camp.  I consider it one of the best points in my life so far.  The courses were exciting and challenging, the professors supportive and entertaining, the other students were wonderful, and the research station we stayed at was on a beautiful lake.  I’ve kept in touch with many […]

Traveling

I left Arizona on July 26th.  That happens to be my sister’s birthday.  In all the hurry, I forgot to call her.  Oops. Since then, I’ve been to Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.  I’ve posted about my trip to the MacCready Reserve already, but I’ve got much more to tell you about.  If you’re […]