I just spent >12 hours working on chapter 3. It is now turned into the only person on my committee who wants to see it again. Once I get her edits and copy-edit, plus format chapters 1 and 2 into dissertation format, I'm done! Fuck YEAH! I'm pretty excited. The only thing is that I don't usually work this much on one paper in any given day and now I'm completely insane. I keep rubbing my eyes and I just called Sunshie and I think I must have spoken 100 works/second.
On a climbing note, I had a crappy day yesterday. I'd made steady progress on Alcatraz and had high expectations. I got deservedly spanked and had some regression. Oh yay. Makes me want to go on another trip and do nothing but climb 5.11s. Really that's more my style. I should probably train more. And by more I mean at all. I've been averaging going to the gym to climb 1 day/month. I just can't warrant driving to Sacramento to climb when I drive to JH at least 1x/week, plust Sacramento 2-3x/week to teach. I like my driving-free days. Especially now that I'm teaching a group of 30 students how not to destroy the planet.
And on the not destroying the planet note, teaching abou conservation and sustainability just makes me feel like crap. Not only am I a huge hypocrite, but I'm talking out of my ass. To be fair, I tell my students I'm talking out of my ass and to think critically not only about what I say (and I welcome challenges), but what the textbook says and what the media says.
As an aside, I've had environmental movies on the entire time I've been working on chapter 3 today. Talk about an extra dose of depressing. I've watched Blue Gold, American Experience: Earth Days, Dirt! The Movie, Colony, the 11th Hour...and I swear there was another one but they're all running together now.
Ok I clearly need to step away from the computer. I think I just banged out this blog post in 3 minutes.
Showing posts with label Jailhouse. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 29, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
Alcatraz and Vegas
I found some mushrooms at Salt Point:
My first matsutakes in good condition, a lion's mane in good condition, some hedgehogs and black trumpets. Not pictured are candy caps and yellowfoot chanterelles. I took the hedgehogs and some of the yellowfeet over to Kevin and Emily's and we made a duck and mushroom pot pie with duck that Kevin shot that morning. It was gooooood. And so rich. The matsutake and lion's mane went into a stir fry, and the rest went into the dehydrator. I've become the person that people go to when they have a question like "do you have porcini powder?" I'm happy to say that yes, as a matter of fact I do have porcini powder - and you can definitely have some, as long as you share the duck jerky you are seasoning with it. I think a lot of people make really good food in Davis because there is NOTHING ELSE TO DO. It's a matter of survival.
Anyway, I'm working this route called Alcatraz at Jailhouse that is harder than anything I've ever tried, or at least have committed to trying. But what the hell else are you going to do at your home crag in the winter? It's a good route, I've done the first crux, am making progress on the second, and am linking substantial portions. The nice thing about starting to try a route is that you make a lot of progress really early...then it gets heinous if you plateau and realize that you can't do it. Hopefully this will not happen, but if it does, fuck it - I have a day job.
I want to go to Vegas for a week or so. Climbing with Crista and the "bitch pack" got me psyched to hang out there more and take advantage of the awesome ladies that call Vegas home. Of course, the semester is starting and I have no fucking clue what I'm doing in terms of teaching this class, and the smelt will start to spawn soon and I need to have an undergraduate up and running so that she can do a lot of the work (I won't have time, plus DNA extraction has "undergrad bitch work" written all over it). Oh yeah, and at some point I should finish my bloody PhD. My CDFG guy from Bishop has had the manuscript for a month and keeps telling me that he'll get it to me "tomorrow."
This blog is boring. If you are bored, don't read it.
My first matsutakes in good condition, a lion's mane in good condition, some hedgehogs and black trumpets. Not pictured are candy caps and yellowfoot chanterelles. I took the hedgehogs and some of the yellowfeet over to Kevin and Emily's and we made a duck and mushroom pot pie with duck that Kevin shot that morning. It was gooooood. And so rich. The matsutake and lion's mane went into a stir fry, and the rest went into the dehydrator. I've become the person that people go to when they have a question like "do you have porcini powder?" I'm happy to say that yes, as a matter of fact I do have porcini powder - and you can definitely have some, as long as you share the duck jerky you are seasoning with it. I think a lot of people make really good food in Davis because there is NOTHING ELSE TO DO. It's a matter of survival.
Anyway, I'm working this route called Alcatraz at Jailhouse that is harder than anything I've ever tried, or at least have committed to trying. But what the hell else are you going to do at your home crag in the winter? It's a good route, I've done the first crux, am making progress on the second, and am linking substantial portions. The nice thing about starting to try a route is that you make a lot of progress really early...then it gets heinous if you plateau and realize that you can't do it. Hopefully this will not happen, but if it does, fuck it - I have a day job.
I want to go to Vegas for a week or so. Climbing with Crista and the "bitch pack" got me psyched to hang out there more and take advantage of the awesome ladies that call Vegas home. Of course, the semester is starting and I have no fucking clue what I'm doing in terms of teaching this class, and the smelt will start to spawn soon and I need to have an undergraduate up and running so that she can do a lot of the work (I won't have time, plus DNA extraction has "undergrad bitch work" written all over it). Oh yeah, and at some point I should finish my bloody PhD. My CDFG guy from Bishop has had the manuscript for a month and keeps telling me that he'll get it to me "tomorrow."
This blog is boring. If you are bored, don't read it.
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