Down the Foggy Ruins of Time

I'm sleepy. I'm really sleepy. Staying up to watch west coast hockey games takes a toll. As does work. As does practice. On Tuesday it rained about as hard as I've ever seen it rain, and it did that for the entire day. We had a track workout that day. Warmup + Drills + 3x(600 + 400 + 200) + Cooldown + Plyos + Second Cooldown. Which isn't that bad of workout, if you do it in decent weather. Rain sucks, guys. We had no idea how lucky we were to grow up in Orange County. I can deal with the cold and the wind and the snow. Snow is fine. Snow doesn't soak you to the bone. But rain makes running miserable. Rain makes being miserable. I hate rain. I really hate rain.

Hey There, Squares.

Short Post.

Hello. Jason here,

But I guess you probably already know me, sort of...

Daylight Savings!! Give me back my hour of sleep.

Hi guys, I'm going to keep this post short because I've got a bug that's been going around and I have to read two sections of lecture notes before my physics lecture tomorrow morning.

And but for the sky there are no fences facing.

I guess it's Friday again. Just took a test, actually. In my History of the American West class. Had to write a little bit about the Whitman Massacre, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Camp Grant Massacre, the Battle of Little Bighorn, and the Nez Perce War. Fun stuff. Well, for me. Not so much for the Native Americans. Or Custer. But he kinda had it coming.

Let's Take A Brief {PAUSE}

Hey there, you sailors of my heart,

This week has been filled with highs and lows you would not believe. However, since the lows are too embarrassing to admit, I'll stick with describing the parts that leave me feeling like the week has left me with a net positive life. Onward? ONWARD!

We closed our eyes and enjoyed the view

Phew so an actual blog post for once. Or so I hope.

Somerville-Clay strikes again

This is in list format, not because I’m lazy, but because random thoughts should not be disguised as cohesive paragraphs.

Thanne have I gete of yow maistrye.

This past week has been exceptionally average.

Don't Hate Me Because I Forgot to Post on Wednesday, Love Me Because I Remembered On Thursday

That being said, I'm actually quite busy with two tests coming up and a 8-10 page paper I have yet to have time to start. However, I will do my patented list of thoughts for you to enjoy. So...enjoy?

Another Haiku

Because I again lack the time to post I will leave you with another haiku.

Five weeks without you.
Sometimes I mourn, but I know
It is for the best.

Loveums,

Jason

Soapboxes and Cigarettes

Sometimes I tell you stories with my strong moral opinions attached.  And by sometimes, I mean almost all the time.  I think I’m obsessed with right and wrong, mostly because I’m an optimist constantly let down by the things that people do that go against my principles.

Still Alive?

I face-planted on the ice today… is how I wanted to start last week, but I kind of got sidetracked when I suddenly remembered that I'm also taking an online programming class this semester and I hadn't gone through any material for the whole week. It's a slow process, but I've been trying to organize my life better so I can make good use of my free time. All-nighters two Thursdays in a row, and it's just the beginning of the semester! At the pace I'm going, I won't survive when we get to the harder stuff. Something's got to change.

I was wondering what you’re doing here.

Lightning speed post because I have zero time, go!

I might be back

Hey guys.  I know it has been literally forever since I posted on here, and I always feel bad but I also really do have good reasons, I promise.  I miss all of you, and I'll try to write posts more consistently starting now, and fuller posts starting next week. Hopefully I accomplish this goal sooner than I accomplish my goal of eating every kind of squirrel in the world.  That one hit a huge road block when I became a vegetarian.  For a quick rundown of my life right now, I present to you: THE CHECKLIST:

• Post on the blog for once (DUN)
• Study for tomorrow's O-chem test
• Study for Wednesday's Gene-Reg test
• Study for Math 212, which I'm getting fucked in
• Do my math and physics problem sets by tonight
• Take pictures for people
• Drive my friend to a computer repair shop across town
• Eat as healthy as possible
• Make O-chem flashcards
• DRINK MORE COFFEE

Those are the things on my list right now.  Maybe a video this weekend or something to give an actual update.  <3 about="" guys.="" here="" i="" m="" not="" p="" posting="" really="" sorry="">
-Rich

Middlebury Has Three Dining Halls, Which Means I Have Three Times the Anxiety When Deciding My Meal Plans for the Day. I CANNOT LIVE UNDER THESE CONDITIONS.

Okay, go ahead and raise your hand if you're currently in Derek's Dorm at Middlebury right now. Don't be shy. Go ahead and raise your hand! Oh my, it's just me, then? How unfortunate for you all.

Protection from what?

I can't stay too long this week because I have two midterms on Thursday that I need to study for.

One thing I've been thinking about is how much I like taking my music class. It really breaks up the monotony of technical reading. If only my major didn't have so many requirements :( I'm debating whether to fill my sparse openings in the next two years with a) nothing b) cs courses or c) German.  I figure that a language course is probably the most useful humanities course to take given the possibility that it might help me get a job in Germany if I ever pursue that.  We will see what happens though. I already know next semester doesn't have room for any humanities. Shame.

In the spirit of not being able to write my blog post for this week, I give you a pessimistic haiku I wrote. Hope you enjoy.

Fantasies exist
only to remind us of
our unhappiness.

Loveums,

Jason

30,000 Views? Yeah, we're the shit.

This is a gem of a photo from my friend's birthday dinner.  This is my "protective significant other" pose.  Did it work?  Are you intimidated?

I wish I could be a writer/blogger/ social entrepreneur instead of go to college.  I have ideas all the time of things that I don’t have time for.  I will list some of them, because I trust you guys not to steal from me.

"As it was supposed to happen," Bokonon would say.

That's not me, but you can pretend it is.

Guess what I did right after I wrote my post last Friday? Guess, guess! I did the thing I said I was going to do, which is snowmobiling. Now, I didn't take any pictures, and even though I think my mom probably did, well, her camera and her phone are each about three thousand miles away from me, and I'd rather write this post now than ask her to send me some pictures and wait and wait and wait. Instead, I'll just Google image search "Lofty Peaks Snowmobiling"(the company we used, duh) and see what I can find. Well, I found that picture that you're looking at now. Pretty much what we were doing. We rode a ways out to this meadow tucked away between some pretty big mountains, played around the meadow for a while, then rode back. Obviously, it was loads of fun, but I would have preferred to spend more time exploring different trails that just riding around in one meadow for such a long time. And no, I'm not apologetic about having a great time and wishing it was a little better. Nor am I apologetic about wishing the snow was a little better on Saturday.

Nicole Does Stream-of-Consciousness?

Okay, here's the delio, hot-shots.
I tried making a video like Rich used to do.
It is of low quality both graphically and content-wise.
Enjoy.