No pictures or audio or video to post tonight. Just the observation that the heat is welcome after a winter, no matter if it is seventy-seven degrees! Anyway. I can't believe this semester is wrapping up already... less than a month left, and I won't even be on campus for all but one of the remaining weekends. Then summer, with its job and its relentless heat (which grows tiresome, I will admit; I'm just enjoying it now), will come to shrink my time until study abroad. But, the sunset tonight was lovely.... pics later!

Which, translated, means: I will have a job for the summer! I will be working at the same warehouse I staffed last summer. Though it was not the most desirable job , I liked parts of it well enough to tolerate it for the two months I was there. And again this summer, I will spend about two months, maybe a little more, packing boxes in that warehouse. It pays very well, for a summer job--it's way above minimum wage!--and I'll get a good many hours, I know. And it will pass the time until.... Study abroad, at the end of August! I'll head onto a plane the last week or so, and spend almost four months out of the country. I'll be immersed into a Spanish-speaking culture... and I will most definitely enjoy it. I may miss my family and my friends--I've been assured that I will--but the experience will be one for a lifetime.

1. I really don't mind getting up at five-fifty-five when it means that I get to witness such beautiful things as I saw last week . Or the fog that I saw this morning. 2. I really really wish I had a nicer camera. Or that I could get these things in sharper focus with my current camera. Alas. 3. Tripods fit in a backpack if they are cheap & small enough. 4. Don't rely on your camera battery. Mine died unexpectedly this morning, when I was half a mile away on my bike trying to shoot fog photos. 5. And... computers are quite finicky and uncooperative at the most inconvenient times.

With every holiday comes the visit to relatives. Not always the same relatives, mind you, but usually at least one set of extended family gets to host us for the weekend. We don't live very near anyone in our extended family, so that's the only time we get to see most of them. Therefore, Easter = a day trip to my grandpa's to see him and my cousins/aunts & uncles, and an hour-plus trip to said location. I love going to see them, but I almost got roped into driving the van up. I hate driving. Mom usually drives, but she had had maybe six hours of sleep the night before (she's not in college anymore... can't pull that) and had been planning to take a nap. Well, she was wide awake after lunch, so she drove after all and I was happy to take a back seat and watch the scenery. I love being chauffered. And it's a good thing... about an hour into our trip, when we were still miles away from my grandpa's, the car suddenly started shaking. Mom tried to pull...

Amen. And now we're off to visit relatives. :-)

I'm doing a landscapes project for digital photography... and while this will not likely be in the final selection of photos, I thought it was beautiful. I took it this morning a little after seven o'clock.