October 2008


[Note: I wrote this before September 1st, but didn't finish it until today, October 13th]

As I said in my previous post, time to update has been scarce lately.  Owing both to Imprint, the backpacking sojourn into Mineral King which the Residence Life staff and RAs took a few weeks ago (already?), as well as to the rigidly organized and jam (or preserves, if you prefer)- packed training regimen of the past fourteen days.  There has hardly been time to stop and think, much less crank out a coherent set of paragraphs on any particular subject.

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[Note:  I wrote this on Saturday, September 6th, but didn't finish it until today, October 13th.]

The first week of school has finished and I am finally afforded a bit of time alone to reflect on just what has happened to me in the past three and a half weeks.  I wrote about half of an essay dedicated to what I learned on Imprint about a week ago, which may or may not get posted, but here is a bit of an exposition on the RA dedication ceremony.

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(cf. Epic Fail)

Part two of “Comics I Drew On A Napkin” continues with an acknowledgement that I have denied this blog its primary reason for existence by failing to write things here.  I have currently two unfinished drafts which maybe I’ll finish today, but akin to the time traveller who realizes there is no electricity in the Stone Age, I have started to believe that time is somehow against me.  I am actually on day three of a four-day weekend right now, and after having a party with some friends and driving down to Riverside for the day to visit a friend already, here I am.  You can see where my priorities lie.

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