The Outdoors

Finals are this coming week. Luckily I have a lot of non-final things to distract me.

I've been inside all day, and my productivity level has dropped significantly. Very very significantly. This is what I get for studying in an apartment rather than going off somewhere into Westwood. I'll have learned my lesson for tomorrow. I'm going to be working tonight as a favor to Justin so he can finish writing his paper. It'll be nice to leave for the outside world a bit, especially now that I have biking pants, so my legs won't be freezing off in the LA air. Oh, it gets cold here. Those of you who live in the "north" don't know what it's like here in the south.

Speaking of cold, my mom told me that Minnesota is headed for a big winter. She seemed to take a bit of pleasure in this fact because I'm heading up there to good olde Minnetonka for New Year's. Just 5 days. That's if I make it there, and make it back too. She likes pointing out the temperature discrepencies between Minnesota and Southern California. I think it helps her feel as though with every degree of seperation in temperature, is a decrease in the chance that I would choose to move there.

I have to admit. It's nice to be able to wear flip-flops and a dress in December. You can't really beat that.

At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to go to Minnesota, but then when I heard my friends' annual Mammoth Trip got canceled due to Eric's Thailand excursion, the choice was much clearer. I hope my dad isn't mad at me for going. He's going to be down in SD over winter break, and while I am going to see him for two weeks, as well as see him when I get back from the MidWest, he hasn't really sent me an email or given me a call since I mentioned it to him. I'm just going to assume that he's very busy and that he thinks I am very busy -- true, true and true.

I was just looking at my Nicaragua photos. God, I can't wait to get back to some sort of forest where there are frogs and birds, and bugs. I miss it so much. I can't wait to go to Belize and be back in that environment, learning, working. I remember Kris saying that her bf visited her in Bolivia for a couple of weeks when she was doing work down there, so I wonder if Justin might be able to come for the last week or so of my trip down there. Or even for a couple in the middle. I guess I'll see what the living situation is like, and where the hell we are exactly, and maybe be able to give him directions to wherever the heck we are. I think he would like it a lot. Plus, he's cute so maybe Kris wouldn't mind. As long as I'm doing my job at night, right? The day is free game.

Oh God. Everyone in my apartment is studying. I feel the guilt poring over me. Must return to my excell spreadsheets.