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Summer Plans and Brokeback Mountain
13 years ago
It occurs to me that I haven't updated my FA page in over a year, and there have been some interesting developments of late, so brace yourselves for a rare journal entry from yours truly.
I'm spending the summer working in an internship to learn grant-writing and fundraising for nonprofits- it seems like a good place to make use of my writing abilities. I'm also house-sitting and taking care of the family dogs while everyone else is on vacation. Having the place to myself for 2 months is a welcome change of pace.
Since I have plenty of free time for the summer, I'm working on a few other personal projects to keep myself busy. I'm boxing and running more often to try and get from "okay, i guess" shape to something more outright athletic. I'm also practicing and learning on the bass more, and working my way through a backlog of unread books.
Previous journal-readers will recall that I won a free trip to a weekend Las Vegas last year. I don't think I ever updated after the trip, but it was at least as much fun as you might expect. (shout-out to
Zeruketsuka too, for hanging out with me in Vegas!)
Well, it wasn't easy, but I've outdone myself. I've only gone and won another free vacation for this summer. On July 5th, I'll be leaving for 3 days at the Marlboro Ranch in Montana, to go ziplining, horse riding, offroading, shooting, and archery...ing, amongst other suitably manly activities, at their ranch/resort. I'll be accompanied by
zrazorrozenstrauch, and we will no doubt have many pictures and stories to share. We've come to refer to it as our Brokeback Mountain trip. It's all-expenses paid, and some research suggest that I'm truly in for a treat. And will likely return with a variety of silly/awesome cowboy garb. Oh, and a free carton of cigarettes, natch.
I take a certain pride in the fact that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, and nevertheless have a huge pile of cool goodies from Marlboro. I've won a frankly implausible number of contests in my time, but this is by far the biggest prize yet. It's going to be a good summer.
-Calph
P.S. - You should hang out with me if you're in the New Orleans area. Yeah, you, in front of the screen! You're cool, you should swing by.
I'm spending the summer working in an internship to learn grant-writing and fundraising for nonprofits- it seems like a good place to make use of my writing abilities. I'm also house-sitting and taking care of the family dogs while everyone else is on vacation. Having the place to myself for 2 months is a welcome change of pace.
Since I have plenty of free time for the summer, I'm working on a few other personal projects to keep myself busy. I'm boxing and running more often to try and get from "okay, i guess" shape to something more outright athletic. I'm also practicing and learning on the bass more, and working my way through a backlog of unread books.
Previous journal-readers will recall that I won a free trip to a weekend Las Vegas last year. I don't think I ever updated after the trip, but it was at least as much fun as you might expect. (shout-out to
Zeruketsuka too, for hanging out with me in Vegas!)Well, it wasn't easy, but I've outdone myself. I've only gone and won another free vacation for this summer. On July 5th, I'll be leaving for 3 days at the Marlboro Ranch in Montana, to go ziplining, horse riding, offroading, shooting, and archery...ing, amongst other suitably manly activities, at their ranch/resort. I'll be accompanied by
zrazorrozenstrauch, and we will no doubt have many pictures and stories to share. We've come to refer to it as our Brokeback Mountain trip. It's all-expenses paid, and some research suggest that I'm truly in for a treat. And will likely return with a variety of silly/awesome cowboy garb. Oh, and a free carton of cigarettes, natch.I take a certain pride in the fact that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, and nevertheless have a huge pile of cool goodies from Marlboro. I've won a frankly implausible number of contests in my time, but this is by far the biggest prize yet. It's going to be a good summer.
-Calph
P.S. - You should hang out with me if you're in the New Orleans area. Yeah, you, in front of the screen! You're cool, you should swing by.
