home and awake. wow, what a lovely trip the last 4 days have been.
the training session was amazing. i got to work with teachers who have been using exam review and classtools for two years. they told me what they hated and what they loved and they did it in a very supportive way. working for teachers is neat. it is a good environment. too bad it couldn't be more like that at work these days.
anyway... beautiful hike to the petroglyphs. i took some pictures for you. great food in albu... however you spell it. red chile pork burrito that burned exquisitely. baking hot car weather. dusty sweat sticking in a nice way. dry cutup landscape that is so different than home. the mesas. the gruhmp! of bullfrogs stretching their throats. oh wait... i am waxing.
nate picked me up at UNM after work. we drove back to santa fe with nate telling me about the landscape that we were passing that we couldn't see in the dark. i had my window down and the warm night air tickled something in me. it was dry africa air. it was especially nice not being able to see anything. it let me focus on the wind from the window and the excitement of seeing my friend.
go look at the pictures. i had a splendid time. my day and a half with nate and julie revitalized me much more than anything else has in a while. mmmmm... thank you thank you thank you for your hospitalitity and friendship. gush.
what we did: went hiking. tickled a tarantulla (i could hear denis cranking at me in college when we went hiking. we were birdwatching and i whistled to make a bird turn to us so i could see it. I am a whistler and a tickler in nature. i have a hard time keeping my hands off. so i saw a hole and figured there was a big spider in it and got a long piece of grass to check. growing up in africa thing. or maybe it was just a little boy thing. harkens back to tarantullas in honduras too... but thats another story, jack.) , played this cool strategy game called carassonne, it was really cool. i'm getting me a copy. ate a wonderful veggie-prawn brochette dinner. drank beer. good eats. sat by the pond. watched a crappy movie that i slept through because i was so wiped from hiking and the sun sun sunshine.
gush.
and then i came home. 2+ hr delay in phoenix. stupid airlines. it was noneventful travel. i do like travelling by road more than air. at least in practice. but i like to be much further away, which is my tragedy du jour. got home. cab to the pad. shower shave hike to broadway nother cab over to molly's art showing. wow. her work is delicious. fun party with happy artist types out of the studio into the summer. sitting outside in the garden with martha, scott and danielle. chatting with ms. greiner. meeting new people. saw an artstar. came home earlyish and watched the tube till i started to drool. grabbed a kitty and went to bed.
and now it is cold seattle morning. i think i am going to walk down to pike place to get my bearing and sea-legs back. did a lot of good thinking on this trip. hope i don't lose it.
the training session was amazing. i got to work with teachers who have been using exam review and classtools for two years. they told me what they hated and what they loved and they did it in a very supportive way. working for teachers is neat. it is a good environment. too bad it couldn't be more like that at work these days.
anyway... beautiful hike to the petroglyphs. i took some pictures for you. great food in albu... however you spell it. red chile pork burrito that burned exquisitely. baking hot car weather. dusty sweat sticking in a nice way. dry cutup landscape that is so different than home. the mesas. the gruhmp! of bullfrogs stretching their throats. oh wait... i am waxing.
nate picked me up at UNM after work. we drove back to santa fe with nate telling me about the landscape that we were passing that we couldn't see in the dark. i had my window down and the warm night air tickled something in me. it was dry africa air. it was especially nice not being able to see anything. it let me focus on the wind from the window and the excitement of seeing my friend.
go look at the pictures. i had a splendid time. my day and a half with nate and julie revitalized me much more than anything else has in a while. mmmmm... thank you thank you thank you for your hospitalitity and friendship. gush.
what we did: went hiking. tickled a tarantulla (i could hear denis cranking at me in college when we went hiking. we were birdwatching and i whistled to make a bird turn to us so i could see it. I am a whistler and a tickler in nature. i have a hard time keeping my hands off. so i saw a hole and figured there was a big spider in it and got a long piece of grass to check. growing up in africa thing. or maybe it was just a little boy thing. harkens back to tarantullas in honduras too... but thats another story, jack.) , played this cool strategy game called carassonne, it was really cool. i'm getting me a copy. ate a wonderful veggie-prawn brochette dinner. drank beer. good eats. sat by the pond. watched a crappy movie that i slept through because i was so wiped from hiking and the sun sun sunshine.
gush.
and then i came home. 2+ hr delay in phoenix. stupid airlines. it was noneventful travel. i do like travelling by road more than air. at least in practice. but i like to be much further away, which is my tragedy du jour. got home. cab to the pad. shower shave hike to broadway nother cab over to molly's art showing. wow. her work is delicious. fun party with happy artist types out of the studio into the summer. sitting outside in the garden with martha, scott and danielle. chatting with ms. greiner. meeting new people. saw an artstar. came home earlyish and watched the tube till i started to drool. grabbed a kitty and went to bed.
and now it is cold seattle morning. i think i am going to walk down to pike place to get my bearing and sea-legs back. did a lot of good thinking on this trip. hope i don't lose it.
thus spake nbp @ 7:09:00 AM
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