Haiku-a-Day Challenge: Week 33

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Caturday 2/18/2012
A short nature walk
gets me amped up for card games
Pogo: greatest cat

Sunday 2/19/2012
More cozy card games
and a jaunt up Mt. Philo
Ultra-relaxing

Monday 2/20/2012
Happy birthday Mom!
But I'm still up in Vermont
Trying all the jams

Tuesday 2/21/2012
Mardi Gras! Let's drink!
Underbones is a great spot
Marching band hijinks

Wednesday 2/22/2012
Nothing but thesis
Oh man, these days are the worst
I want to be done

Thursday 2/23/2012
Ran my third 5K
I should always drink beer first
It helps me do well

Friday 2/24/2012
Driving to Malvern
A weekend with my parents
and insane puppy

Haiku-a-Day Challenge: Week 32

It is SO EFFING COLD and this stupid cast prevents me from wearing actual winter coats or gloves and that makes me a very complainy individual.

Caturday 2/11/2012
Lazy day inside
Some movies and Game of Thrones
Casual car bombs

Sunday 2/12/2012
We tried our new beer
It's taste surpasses it's name!
"Imperial Shit"

Monday 2/13/2012
Hand stitches: you suck
But some of you were removed!
A slight improvement

Tuesday 2/14/2012
It's Valentine's Day
Steak tips, mango turnovers,
and some homemade beer

Wednesday 2/15/2012
Today I just ate
a whole box of Andes Mints.
The entire thing.

Thursday 2/16/2012
Delicious Zak-luck
Choice foods for the birthday boy
Ice cream cake?! Well done.

Friday 2/17/2012
Driving to Vermont
Magic Hat is excellent
Burlington is... small.

Haiku-a-Day Challenge: Week 31

Typing is not easy

Caturday 2/4/2012
Davis Square pub crawl
Dick Cat is drawn on my cast
Top hats class it up

Sunday 2/5/2012
Celebration food
Superbowl AND my birthday
X and I get cakes

Monday 2/6/2012
Boy I hate Mondays.
They make me so steamed. Weekends!
I prefer weekends!
*oh oh-oh oh-oh OH!
**That one's for you, Kyle/Rystot

Tuesday 2/7/2012
More thesis bullshit
I wish this model would work
Lord Hobo*, beer me!
*Lord Hobo is not actually a leader of drifters. It is a bar with an awesome beer selection.

Wednesday 2/8/2012
Surgery, thesis
I need to have travel times
Let's go buy some flights

Thursday 2/9/2012
"Things you love to eat"
Interesting potluck theme
Green bean casserole

Friday 2/10/2012
Game of Thrones BOARD GAME?!
This is quite complicated
But insanely fun

Haiku-a-Day Challenge: Week 30

I was recently informed that through amazon you can publish your own stuff. Interesting...

Caturday 1/28/2012
I broke my finger
Freak flag football accident
My tendon snapped off?

Sunday 1/29/2012
Fuck fingers; let's hike
Isolation: you long bitch
Snowshoeing till dusk

Monday 1/30/2012
Saw the hand doctor
Yep. Surgery tomorrow.
Time for a hoagie

Tuesday 1/31/2012
Hand surgery day
It's more waiting than cutting
They drilled through my nail

Post-surgery, semi-delirious picture. Nothing much to see... yet.

Wednesday 2/1/2012
And I'm back at Tufts
Typing is quite difficult
Cat pictures all day

Thursday 2/2/2012
Tendons are the worst
They just snap when grabbing things?
Nothing is easy

Friday 2/3/2012
Shit is getting cold
My new cast is way too big
Doesn't fit in coats

Broken finger? Who cares. Let's hike.

After a tendon-snapping injury to my finger in flag football Saturday, I was in no mood to sit around brooding all day. So Sarah and I drove up to NH to hike Mt. Isolation.

Pretty good view of the Prezzies from Isolation

Kind of a late start, getting up to the trailhead at 9am. Oh well. But this was my first time driving something other than 93 to get to the Whites, so it was a grand adventure filled with new gas stations, and later at night, BBQ.

It was a damn fine day for snowshoein'. Damn fine. Well, we started in microspikes, but later switched because we were sinking into the snow. When we first got there, a huge group of people about to start the trail were like "we're not bringing snowshoes; everything is packed down." Ok. Big mistake. I'm glad we brought ours, because when we passed them on the way back down, they were attending strugglefest 2012. Except one guy in that group impressed the hell out of me. A blind guy, hiking up the mountain, being led by his seeing-eye dog and another dude leading him with a pole. THAT was a humbling experience. Way to go dude. So impressive. And to have friends with the patience to help lead him up. They weren't going so fast though; there's no way they got up and down before it got dark out. I felt bad for them. But damn is that impressive.

The hike was something like 14 miles round trip. Long, but relatively flat. The bad part about doing it in the winter: carrying so much gear got a little exhausting. The good part: all the river crossings were MUCH easier.

This is me hiking over a river. Normalsauce.

As my 25th 4000 footer peak thus far, it is currently competing with my least favorite hike along with Waumbek. Probably a combination of length, hurty ankle, and an torn hand tendon. But the view at the top makes it WAY better.

It is a pretty awesome feeling when you take a random picture and later realize you've hiked all the mountains in the background before

The most important part of this hike is the sheer intensity of pink shooting out of Sarah's gators and burning into my retinas

It felt like a BILLION MILES back to the car, but was probably only 7. Still, the Sun had already set and it was getting darker by the time we made it back, exhausted with achy knees. And ravenous. We had some fantastic BBQ at a place on Rt. 16. Best part of the day.