I love Friday. It's the end of homework for the week, it's the beginning of Sabbath, and it means Ultimate Frisbee! From 2 - 5, a few dozen of us play some hardcore frisbee. I've played few other games with such a positive, upbeat, team attitude the whole time. Everyone is out to have fun and get some fresh air.Enough of me talking. Here are some pictures as well as a link to more (thanks to Adam White).Aside from Frisbee, it was also a lot of fun playing games at Amy's apartment as well as geocaching at 2 in the morning around town ;)

More on the scuba trip later, but I've gotta put up a nice shot or two from Rosario where we stayed... Such a great sunset!

There was also an amazing moonrise last night up in the hills near Walla Walla - I had some fun with a long shutter speed! No photoshop.

Red hair pretty sweet on Michelle - I couldn't resist showing off a little :P I just wish I was around to enjoy it in person, though...

(pic from giftsforengineers.com)

That's right, it's National Engineer's Week! The engineering students at WWC finally get some recognition on campus - lots of jokes in the college newspaper (see my hat), fun events like bridge and egg-drop contests, and even an engineering banquet (guest speaker was the hardware engineer for the iPod)! It's great fun being an engineer :) Love your engineer!


Jokes only a few people will get:

You might be an engineer if...

...you've calculated that the World Series actually diverges.

...when your professor asks you where your homework is, you claim to have accidentally determined its momentum so precisely, that according to Heisenberg it could be anywhere in the universe.

...you'll assume that a "horse" is a "sphere" in order to make the math easier.

...you know the glass is neither half full nor half empty; it's simply twice as big as it needs to be.

"We like our fun and we never fight
You can't dance and stay uptight
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight"

(I just love this oldie by Harvest King)
Good citizens of the world, it's been a long while since my last post, so might as well dig right back in! Life has been awesome lately. Case in point: my long weekend out on the Olympic Peninsula.
Amy's folks have a cabin out that direction, so Friday afternoon a group of 8 students cruised out west... The mountain passes were beautiful and relatively clear (we don't need to talk about my wrong turn...) - great driving weather and we got in late.
8 of us - some close friends, some acquaintances, and some new folks - a perfect mix! We set up a nice toasty fire in the furnace and enjoyed an amazing weekend full of fresh cooking, walks on the beach, sleeping in, salsa dancing, playing games (Mafia continues to be a favourite), moving furniture, canoeing at midnight, swapping massages, making jokes about Irving's face, and all sleeping together in the living room! All good trips have their end, but we all had a great time! We stopped by Amy's house in Portland on the way back - met her parents/brother and enjoyed a nice curry dinner before the long drive home.
The whole weekend was dance - and you just can't dance and stay uptight!

I had the marvelous good fortune to make it out to the J. Paul Getty Museum this Christmas break in the L.A. area... This art center is a piece of art itself! It's almost indescribable - Richard Meier (architect) gave it a truly unique feel.

There is so much beauty in and around this place - I feel I should share... Unfortunately, I don't have each piece's title or sculptor. Enjoy!

This Christmas break, I went to my sister's wedding in Portland and stayed at a Scottish themed resort/hotel for a day. Grandma and I searched for our clan shield and eventually found it. Yes, I have Scottish heritage! I come from the MacKay clan in the Strathnaver lands to the far north.

"The warlike reputation of the clan is echoed in the family motto, 'with a strong hand'"

"...by 1875 the direct line of the clan had died out, with the entire MacKay country being in the hands of the Lords of Sutherland."

Apparently we weren't using our strong hand or something... What a shame. Maybe if I'd been on the fields with my kilt and claymore, we would have had a chance.

Our tartan is pretty sweet, by the way (see background fabric of the shield). I'll have to invest in a proper kilt one of these days.

Every piece has its own story :) Enjoy perusing!

So I went snowboarding for the first time last Thursday. It was AMAZING!! I picked up the basics really quickly and began cruising down the slopes like a pro. Such a beautiful feeling of gliding over the snow - almost like flying just above the clouds... It feels so much more precarious and ethereal than water sports.


I feel that this picture accurately reflects my activities for the day...








Other people tell me that this one is more truthful...

We'll see how this Thursday goes - hopefully I won't get mauled by another rabid squirrel (see my face in the first picture).

Tamale time!! In keeping with the Mexican tradition of King's Cake, I hosted a big tamale party at Jen's place :) Irving (seen above with a very goofy expression) got secret recipes from his mother and after about 10 hours of cooking, we were ready. (Cheers to Caleb for driving us around town). The whole process was delightful - including explosions, messes, and lots of laughter. I never really knew cooking could be so fun...

Kudos to the whole team that made the party a success! We had about 20 friends over, played lots of games, watched a movie, and generally just had a great weekend.

Oh and advice for the day: be careful with pressure cookers.