with only a week between two climbs to the same mountain, it seems that there is little left to say. the mountain remains the same, yes, but the experience of climbing it is always different each time... some people have strange ways of defending their shortcomings, that they defend themselves by finding faults in others. when you run out of arguments, so the saying goes, insult your opponents

... and that I found rather disappointing and upsetting.> We got caught in the rain during our cool downs and was sopping wet into the locker room area. We ate some dinner and then I went home. I'm looking forward to dropping by the Sunday BMC again tomorrow. The trainees are going to practice pitching tests and working the cook-stoves. Those are things I will have to figure out by next week.

...late. i do believe that this is my contribution to nation-building. i'm glad i'm not the only one who is doing his part. the following day, i rose early yet again for the diagnostics day of AMCI's BMC 2009. i was there with no other intention but to take pictures, really. i have resolved to join every climb that i can this year, but that's as much as i can do. my offers to be useful have been politely...

Still sick. bleah. I have not been this sick in a looooong time. :( I'm making the best of it, though. :/ and I've got a doctor's appt on Tuesday, so that's something. But! I'm about to grab some dinner... print off their cards and take a trip to the Post Office. yus. And if my camera's charged by then, I might take pics of the crowling's going away party for them. :) Okee. Dinner first and the to work

Whoot! The awesome alyska took photos of crowthings and they are now up on Etsy! :D I love this picture! Four wants to give you a quarter! hahahaha! ...Etsy.Com (and give them a good home so I won't be so worried about the little guys and what they're getting up to! :P) eta: Heh. I've got 13 items for sale! :P that's good luck, right? right

... which is a whole different story) and talks about what a change this is for the campus, but for me the real story is that there's only one, and that he's the first Haverford man to room at BMC for ten years. Because in my day -- cue olde tyme music and the waving of canes -- there were plenty of men living at BMC, enough to require two co-ed dorms. I even lived in a co-ed dorm my sophomore...