21!

So I turned 21 on Monday :) Since I had such a long night writing a paper for class, I took a nice nap and then bought myself some goodies to treat myself since I have cut back severely on my dessert food intake recently. But to make sure I didn't get fat, I still went for a 4 mile run lol. And I took some nice pics of what must be the largest tree in the county, if not the state. Oh, and I got a nice phone call from Lindsay that was quite entertaining but left me longing for the home state... only a few days left... well, enjoy the tree pics and the only pic that exists of me on my 21st Birthday :)

35 Yards away

10 feet away

Arm's length

Free Time

What does one do on a lazy Saturday afternoon with no pressing homework? Well, I went to Moss Lake. I got to see views like this...



And this...



Lookit all the bullheads!!



And there's the freaky hole in the bog... only 2 feet in diameter but a solid 10+ feet deep! (yep I got a long stick)



Oh dear... I discovered a hollow stump...



Never been in one of those before... no, I'm not kneeling, that opening is about 6 feet off the ground...



And here's looking up the other side... that hole is probably 15 feet up.




Gotta love free time! :)

In related news...

... I banged my head at least a dozen times (add another couple dozen instances for pinched fingers) on various vehicular parts today as I helped take out the toasted transmission from one of the college's crappy, poor excuses for transportation... oh oops, I meant the college's '95 Chevy work van...



...but despite Mitch's sarcastic comment that auto mechanics was obviously an easy career, my resolve was unshaken and I perhaps... just maybe... enjoyed myself...

um yeah, I, uh, bit off more than I bargained for...

230 pages of reading in 3 days of class... including 100 pages that had to be read before the first class!... but its good, I can run thru the stuff without real comprehension cuz we can't possibly discuss ALL those details in 3 hours of class...