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[Apr. 27th, 2007|05:01 pm] |
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| | The Slip- If One of Us Should Fall | ] |
Long time no speaky. lets see
school tis almost over. ive lost all motivation to do anything except climb and dream about summer. speaking of summer,
summer plans:
-trip to acadia
-climbing at crow hill, whitehorse, rumney, gunks and othe rplaces
-yacking on the ocean/other bodies of water
-biking overnight trip possibly on the cape
-mtn biking places
if all of those aren't done at least once i shall cry.
i just spent a ton of money on climbing gear. but i think i have enough stuff to lead shorter climbs. i have another 2-300 to spend before my rack is complete i estimate. so very soon my friends, very soon
i went climbing on these 20 ft concrete sculptures last sunday. i cut up my hands a ton doing it, but it was still wicked sweet. but now the cuts are healing tightly so whenever i extend my fingers out all the way so my hand is totally flat the skin tears. its really putting a damper on climbing this week. but i think itll be healed soon enough.
steepandcheap.com is my new obsession. all i do is refresh it every 10 mins waiting for something i really want to come up. the deals are so insane.
tomorrow im working 12 hrs straight which wont be fun. but i think by the time school is over ill have enough to finish my rack before even starting my summer job, which is so excellent.
ok im bored, talk to you at the end of summer |
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[Apr. 8th, 2007|01:00 am] |
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| |  tired and sick | ] |
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| | My Brightest Diamond- Freak Out | ] |
so its gotten really cold again. this whole warm t-shirt weather followed by frigid arctic blasts has caused me to get sick, for the first time since like last winter i think. ughhh. for like all of today ive had that feeling where you want to sneeze but you just cant. your just like right on the verge but cant get it out and over with. so thats been pretty annoying. not to mention that i had a 9 hr work day today which also didnt help.
bed time. hopefully ill be better tomorrow.
but no matter we still have time to dance, so lets dance
FREAK OUT!!! |
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[Apr. 1st, 2007|10:52 pm] |
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| |  excited for summer | ] |
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| | Bright Eyes- Tourist Trap | ] |
So its been a while since I've visited these parts (this song has put me in a really western mood). So let's see what's been going on.
Vacation was petty good. Started off kinda slow but by the end i had gone climbing, snowboarding, visiting peeps, and perhaps the best concert I've ever been to. So that was all fun. I just wish it hadn't snowed so i could have gotten to go climbing outside one day. But oh wells.
My vertical rescue class has started. Its every wed from now till the end of school from 10pm - 1am. Its pretty much the best thing Ive ever done. The first class was soo much fun, even despite having already known everything we learned. But like everyone in the class is rock staff so they all are knowledgeable and I know like all of them and they're chill. Plus the stuff we're learning is like really advanced and technical which makes it that much cooler. So that's awseome.
My other climbing class has started too. Its every Sat from 9:30am-1pm. So my whole schedule is pretty crazy. But that class is fun too. Pretty much none of the students are regular college students so its quite an interesting mix filled with people from russia, iceland, etc.
I tried writing a new song and lyrics came out ok but for like the first real time i just couldnt come up with a guitar part. It all just seems like its the same. Maybe something will come soon.
Also this summer is gonna be so sweet. Im reserving the campsite in Acadia tomorrow hopefully. THat trip is gonna be so freaking awseome. I cant wait to go climbing on those sea cliffs. Also we could bring bikes. Theres mad good bike roads all over the place that like go along the coast and such. It should be quite an excellent start to a hopefully excellent summer filled with lots of climbing and outdoor fun.
Also if youve never seen ninja warrior watch it. Its on G4 at like 6:30 and 11:30 i think weeknights. Its like this pretyt hard obstacle course that peeps try to get through to be called the ultimate ninja warrior. Its sooo sweet. I want to make some of the stuff and train on it. Meaning the one part called "cliffhanger" cuz i think id be good at it.
Thats enough for now. Gotta save some stuff so I can updat emore than once a month. Later gators... |
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[Mar. 13th, 2007|10:56 pm] |
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| |  ^cutest fox ever | ] |
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| | Teddy L- Parallel or Together??? | ] |
my neck has been really sore the past few days. sunday i could barel ymove it without pain. but its getting better. either caused by climbing or my bed. lab tests are still inconclusive.
I havnt been writing any new music of late. Hopefully that will change this break when i actually have some free time.
Ive been doing lots of laps at the gym and simul climbing with Kenny. my endurance tanks seem to be growing larger.
i cant wait for this semester to be finished. its pretty mis. |
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[Mar. 7th, 2007|10:45 pm] |
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| | tired but happy | ] |
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| | Elliott Smith- Waltz #2 (XO) | ] |
so i ordered a grigri and it came today. for those of you who dont spend your lives studying climbing gear, its basically just a belay device that locks the rope off automatically when the rope is pulled. heres a pic:
http://en.petzl.com/petzl/SportProduits?Produit=203
but so you can use it to rig up a self belay, in which you climb and it belays you automatically so you dont need a belayer. you tie off both ends of the rope and then attack the grigri and as you climb it slides up the rope with you but if you fall it locks off and holds you in place. anywayyy, i tried it out tonight and it works soo much better than i thought it would. it was such a good investment. now i can climb up and down a lot to work on my endurance, rather than just strength with bouldering. today i did 27 laps up the wall and it felt sooo good. its such a different change to just climb a lot compared to just climbing short wicked hard and strenuous stuff. so i am quite pleased with that purchase. itll be excellent this summer cuz i know i wont get peeps to come climb with me as much as ill want to so this way i can just go and climb by myself. jyeahh isolation. |
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[Mar. 1st, 2007|11:30 pm] |
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| | chill finally | ] |
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| | Modest Mouse- Gravity Rides Everything | ] |
this week has been miserable. i worked nonstop from 1pm tues till 10 tonight with only breaks for classes and sleep and one two hour break wed night for climbing. but now its all good. anyway, last night i had one of the strangest dreams ive had in a while. a lot of it has faded by now but ill try and summarize what i remember.
So i think it was in NYC. If not some big city. So me and some of my climbing friends here were like on a college visit to this weird business school. But the school wouldnt let you leave, it had us as like prisoners. So we tried to escape. We were running down this hall that had booby traps buried in the dirt that covered the floor so as you ran you had to dodge them. We had just broken away from our college tour so there were like college police chasing us down this long corridor. THen we like came to a wall covered in climbing holds and for some reason we had to start climbing along it. Luckily we had our climbing shoes. We made it to this larger area where there were a bunch of door to classrooms. Bu tthe police were right behind us so we split up and sat in pretending to be students on the classes that were in progress. The one i sat in on was wicked awk cuz it was just like large long wooden table i sat down at with this army general lecturing about something. Eventually i deemed the coast was clear so i snuck out and bet up with a couple other people i had been running with who ducked out of their classes at the same time. We made a run for the door which was guarded but broke through. Through the door we found ourselves in a cafe with a bunch of tables and people sipping coffe. We ran out of that to find ourselves inside a large mall. The peeps i escaped with stayed there where it was safe but i snuck back inside the school for some reason. I think to try and save more people. Then i dont remember what happened. At one point i was caught but I broke away. At another point one person I had saved and was escaping with stepped on one of the booby traps in the cooridor and like a noose shot out of the ground and hung them. Eventually I made it back to the mall where one person was waiting for me. And that sabout all I remember. I love weird crazy dreams. I wish they had a way to like record what your brain was thinking so you could watch your dreams like a movie. This one would have been a blockbuster i think.
anyway go ahead and analyze that one you silly psychologists |
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[Feb. 26th, 2007|10:16 pm] |
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| |  in pain | ] |
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| | Decemberists- Hurdles Even Here | ] |
funny story. i was climbing tonight, doing one of the hardest problems ive ever worked on. (its a 5.12b so im reaching my resolution to climb a 12 slowly). anyway, i fell off it as is usual and when i hit the ground i had this blinding pain on my right big toe. the weird thing is i have no idea how i did it. I didnt think it hit anything as i fell. and its on the top, right over the joint. anyway the pain slowly faded away after like 5 minutes or writhing around on the floor in pain and laughing at how weird it was. and then it stopped and just swelled up a bit. its still really sore and quite swollen and if you touch it the lightest bit it shoots with pain. im quite baffled. |
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[Feb. 25th, 2007|06:02 pm] |
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| | a little too excited? | ] |
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| | chanting war/zen music | ] |
so im now an official wall monitor yey. i got all the sat shifts yey.
theres also this sweet seminar series comming up on rescue techniques for climbing. they are the 5 wednesdays after spring break from 10pm-1am. jyeahhh thats gonna be awseome. esp cuz i have to get up at 7:30 on thursdays for class.
also the ninja bortherhood has been established. we got butterfly knives and bokkens on their way. this summer is gonna be awseomeeeeeeee. i cant wait for massive ninja wars in flowing robes. |
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[Feb. 22nd, 2007|11:54 pm] |
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| | a tad bored | ] |
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| | Arcade Fire- Keep the Car Running | ] |
So today was climbing class #2. It went really well i thought. after the first class i was pretty unsure and skeptical about the classes abilities. A lot of them seemed to have trouble with the most basic problem in the gym. But for today's class we started really teaching technique. I put up a couple problems which used the techniques we were teaching and then did one really hard one i wasnt expecting anyone to really be able to do more just for an example of what harder problems look like. but after explaining the technique and the moves in it most of the class did it. which is wicked sweet. they have a pretty good knack for climbing. which means we can push them a lot more than i thought we could and we can do more interesting things. so that was sweet.
past couple days have been pretty busy. lots of math hw and a sociology prelim and such. but today was the end of it so this night has been quite boring. this weekend i have to do a paper (egads i thought math people didnt write papers?!?!) along with some other regular work. and im working the wall from 1-8 sat so this weekend i predict will be kinda mis mostly cuz i wont get anything done at the wall. but after that the next few weeks seem like theyll be pretty lax.
also sadly the wall is closed tom for some event thing. which is mis cuz i didnt go climbing after class today thinking i would go tomorrow. oh wellz.
also heres the sitch with final exams and comming home early. my math prof replied and said he wasnt sure because he didnt know if he wanted to do a take home or an in class. hell know after the first prelim which is next week. but so if the final is a take home then hell hand it out on the last day of classes, march 3rd and itll be due march 9th. my rents cant get me until the 6th so i figure the 3rd-6th will be plenty of time and i can just hand it in early. so if its a take home then it looks like ill do the come home for two weeks thing and then go back. if its an in class then he said it was the 10th but the university still says 18th so theres that discrepancy so in that case i still dont know. but it seems like its gonna be a take home since the class for the most part prefers take homes as does the prof (as do i as its all proofs which you like cant do sitting down and only having a set time of an hour or so to do them).
thats about it. mumsy is buying a few arcade fire tix which she said i can have if i come home early, so long as i take my sister along to (cuz if i dont come home theyll take her cuz she really wants to go). so that will be fun/funny. shes so cool (my sister). (and mumsy i suppose). and hey the tix are 32 a piece so i dont mind free tix at all. |
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[Feb. 20th, 2007|12:16 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | pleased | ] |
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| | Arcade Fire - Tunnels | ] |
It seems Im quite good at making up boulder problems. Im pretty much making a new one every time i go to the gym, which equates to about 4 a week. Which is like 4x as many as the other staff people usually put up. And its not like theyre borning or lame or repetitive. Each one is a new and interesting challenge. Itll be fun to see how long i can keep it up. The one i made today is wicked cool, but one of the holds is sharp and one of the moves is pretty much pushing your whole body weight up on one hand which is on this sharp hold. I had to do the problem quite a few times before i got it and even more to demo to people who were either perplexed or just wanted to see it. So my hand is quite sore now. The meaty part of my palm thats like part of your thumb is significantly larger than it should be. And it hurts to move. But itll be better by Wed when i go again so its ok. There was also some fun with insanity at the gym tonight but i wont get into that. If only i could harness this love of climbing and killing myself and apply it to my school work... |
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