in roughly chronological order:
1. i got a new electric guitar! it’s a carlo robelli ush-500hb, and it is beautiful and cool. (and, i will be using it to play the first splendour hyaline show ever, tomorrow night!)
2. i started playing ultimate frisbee again. dav and i have been going out sunday afternoons to a place in lake nona. it’s good to run around and throw the disc, and occasionally make a spectacular play. competition is always pretty good!
3. i started work at excelsis, a non-profit company here in downtown orlando. it’s really cool, and i’ve been having a sweet time as the summer intern. check out the website for more info on what excelsis is. the only downside to the whole deal is the driving to work (leave house at 7:40am), and the driving home (get home at 6:15pm). since i need a lot of sleep, that means my free time per day is about 3 hours. no fun! i haven’t got to hang out with practically anybody.
4. dav and i have been climbing pretty frequently as well, since we got memberships at aiguille, and we’re starting to see some marked improvement after our rather poor start-of-summer attempts.
5. i’ve been beta-testing a new online computer game called savage. because of work i haven’t really been able to play very much, but i’ve got pretty decent and it’s a fun game.
6. last weekend, dav and i drove up to gainesville to visit chris and jason and paul. we each (sans paul) ate a stogie burger from conestoga’s on saturday. they contain 1-lb hunks of meat. wow. that’s a lot of meat. we also visited the gainesville ale house, place of much repute and renown. the highlight of the trip, though, was seeing jasser’s and nyffy’s new project: the bewitching hour, which is a superb work of art.
7. as you can tell, dav and i have been hanging out a lot.
8. i’ve been reading the chronicles of narnia (in chronological, not authored, order). i put down the first two before gainesville, and then horse and his boy and prince caspian this weekend at gainesville. i’d forgotten how much these books really rock (in fact there’s been at least one point in each story where i have teared up. it’s more gripping now than it ever was as a child).
9. i did something sneaky and underhanded and bad: i went behind your backs and created another blog. a lot of people i have met from work, and some of their relations, have a weblog community which i have been privileged enough to join. don’t worry–i’ll still post here! but you may want to check the other occasionally for more on-topic and well-thought-out posts.
well, that is about it. other than that i am growing fat and tired from sitting at a desk all day, all week. i love school, where i can bike to class.
oh, i lied, there’s more:
10. i bought a bunch of cds. soon i will update the sidebar with the info, so stay tuned! bye! and leave me comments, i love you guys. of course now you know i am somewhat of a liar…and doubly so, because i have another list item:
11. tyson vozza came to visit me yesterday in orlando! well he didn’t come because of me but he was here so we hung out and saw pirates of the caribbean. not a bad flick at all. anyway it was the first time any stanford friend has ever visited me in orlando, so it was a bit weird but cool.
rock.
