I returned safe and sound from scaling a pink granite rock, hiking, lazing around in the sun and rain, and generally enjoying being away from the television, computer, phone, etc. For more details beyond that, Sarah gave a pretty throrough chronology of the trip. I am shamelessly benefiting by her prompt update. And as it turns out, we escaped a tropical storm by going on this trip too. What timing!

In class news, I am really enjoying my finite element methods class. Its making me remember all the good stuff about fluids (I was starting to feel a little disinterested in the subject after 6 months of calculating transfer functions in Switzerland). Maybe that's because right now we're only reviewing the derivations of equations I already know. And I'm also enjoying the class because we haven't gotten any homework yet.

I'm still disappointed I'm not going to Seattle this weekend. The other guy that is getting to go stopped me in the hallway today to tell me I was getting a "bum rap". Oh well, c'est la vie. I decided not to go to Boise, though. I thought about it a lot, but decided I couldn't miss my once-a-week Wednesday class another time on top of last week and the week I'll be in Greece (that class meets way fewer times and has a shorter semester than my Tuesday/Thursday class, so missing it is a bigger deal - and, the week we're in Greece is the Fall Break for Rice, so I'll hardly miss anything there). Ah, what I do for a few extra letters to add to my qualifications.

I thought Kennda was going to be home from her latest journey this weekend. But she's not. Oh well. Its difficult to keep track.