Turns out, graduate school takes up a lot of time. A really, really lot of time. Which means I don't have time for much else. Which means that blogging has gone right out the window. As if you hadn't noticed.
So anyway, here's the short, short version of my summer. We went to South Dakota to visit the in-laws.
N.B. - These are not the in-laws, but I did take the photo in South Dakota.
Part of that trip required that we publicly embarrass ourselves.
Then I had a super busy July at work. Of which I have no readily available photos. And then I managed to be away for most of the month of August. First I went to San Diego for a conference. For funsies one afternoon, I took the trolley down to the border and spent a few hours in Tijuana.
It was dirty and sad and pretty much what I expected, and now that I've been there I don't have to go back. Perhaps someday I can visit a nicer part of Mexico (by which I do not mean Cancún). At any rate, I got back from that trip and was only home for a week before we left for...
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ICELAND! AGAIN!
This time my parents went with us, and we were there for nearly two weeks and had an absolute blast.
That's sheep! By the ocean! On a fjord! And even though you can't really tell, those are seals out on a shoal behind them! And I have a whole huge whack of photos from the trip here. All I can say is that the trip totally refueled my desire to live there, even if it's only for a year. Or three. Or maybe a decade. Or longer. Meantime, a lot of wool came home with me, and there has been knitting.
Now, though, it's time for bed.
So anyway, here's the short, short version of my summer. We went to South Dakota to visit the in-laws.
N.B. - These are not the in-laws, but I did take the photo in South Dakota.
Part of that trip required that we publicly embarrass ourselves.
Then I had a super busy July at work. Of which I have no readily available photos. And then I managed to be away for most of the month of August. First I went to San Diego for a conference. For funsies one afternoon, I took the trolley down to the border and spent a few hours in Tijuana.
It was dirty and sad and pretty much what I expected, and now that I've been there I don't have to go back. Perhaps someday I can visit a nicer part of Mexico (by which I do not mean Cancún). At any rate, I got back from that trip and was only home for a week before we left for...
...
...
...
...
ICELAND! AGAIN!
This time my parents went with us, and we were there for nearly two weeks and had an absolute blast.
That's sheep! By the ocean! On a fjord! And even though you can't really tell, those are seals out on a shoal behind them! And I have a whole huge whack of photos from the trip here. All I can say is that the trip totally refueled my desire to live there, even if it's only for a year. Or three. Or maybe a decade. Or longer. Meantime, a lot of wool came home with me, and there has been knitting.
Now, though, it's time for bed.
5 comments:
I have blamed my own lack of blogging on other "time sucks" like facebook and ravelry. And resource competition for the pc... I've been on the internet more via the ipad, but it's a total pita to write blog posts on... but now there's a new laptop, so it should start up again... or so I tell myself.
I had lunch this week with a young man heading to Iceland in October, to look at how architecture changed from using local materials to prefab metal stuff (or something like this... he's my friend's student).
One of these days I'll get there... you could bring your kazoo routine there and make boatloads of money, I'm sure!
Great photos! And it sounds like a pretty great summer, grad school notwithstanding. :)
Glad to see your in-laws are willing to have you visit now. It was rough before, right? But they're using you to entertain friends.... what does this mean?
You were in Iceland when I came down. Otherwise I would have contacted you!
That video is so cute I can't stand it.
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