Lock Out

Guy Pierce (I have a new actor crush)

Joseph Gilgun (the one without a shirt)

Just watched Lockout. I think it's fun as long as you judge it with cartoon logic and do your best ignore the usual laws of physics. I saw Guy Pierce in Momento and Joseph Gilgun in Misphits. For both actors, I prefer them in their roles in Lockout. Joseph Gilgun really does an awfully good job playing a creep. It just doesn't work when you're supposed to root for him (Misfits).

There is an alarm set for 5:30am sitting next to the bed. Andrew and I are trying to simplify life by getting into regular sleeping habits and hopefully sticking with them once term starts. Wish us luck!

Ian's visit

Andrew's eight year old nephew has been vising Andrew and me for the last ten days. It's been good but very tiring. We are taking him back home to Southern Oregon tomorrow. I think that I am going to need a very quiet walk or hike to recharge. We did lots of cool stuff and took cool pictures and I hope to post them... but not now.
On other random lifeness, I have been sneezing a lot and my eyes have been all itchy the last several days. Runny nose too. Also (I think unrelatedly) a giant spider ran across the bed. I will confess, it freaked me out so much that I dropped the phone hanging up on Mom and begged Andrew to kill it please forgetting everything my Dad instilled in me about putting spiders in jars and freeing them outside. I am ashamed to say that I very nearly climbed on Andrews desk to be farther away from it. The giant spider is dead. Sorry spider.

Wahtum Lake Part 4

Ronnie watching Melanie and Blake strike camp

Yes I notice that Wahtum Lake part 3 is currently missing. I don't seem to have properly saved the draft. So I will have to do it again, but I am too lazy just now.
After striking camp we trooped back to the lake and the cars to leave our gear. I had planned to explore the trails around the lake after we had deposited our gear. However I kept overhearing people talking about Starbucks, and I began to wonder if I was the only one in the group who wasn't done with the woods for the weekend.
I said, "You know we don't have to stay out here for the rest of the day if you guys don't want to." There was a big chorus of "oh I'm fine." So I put it to a vote. "All in favor of spending the afternoon in nature, raise your hand." Andrew had already gone to hang out in the truck making his views of continuing to hang out in nature clear enough. Everyone else sat looking awkwardly from one to another until they realized that nobody was raising a hand. Then they all laughed and we headed back to civilization.

Our campsite viewed from the trail

A creek we crossed

Cool fungi along the trail

The edge of Wahtum Lake

Sarah and Joe on the way home

After spending some time at my parents Andrew and I drove Joe and Sarah home to Seattle. They offered to have us stay the night but we wanted to get back as far towards our home as possible. So we just dropped them off and headed back to mom and dad's. Six hours of driving bleh. Uncharacteristically, I did half of it. Andrew usually does the majority of the driving. On this occasion,however, he was too tired. I (characteristically) had taken a nap and so was up to it.

Andrew and I were up very late

Origin Stories

My friend Abi likes to use Andrew, myself, and her younger brother as guinea-pigs for writing exercises that she designs for some local kids. In this particular exercise we made a lists as a group to get ideas flowing. The first was a list of ordinary events. The second  was a list up super powers. We chose one from each list and then we all spent 15 minutes writing an "origin story". I have Andrew's and mine written down here below. I would like to give you the one that Abi did but I don't have it. Perhaps she can give it to me?

Bathroom and Teleportation
Spiderman gained his power in a somewhat private way... though he ended up wearing skin-tight spandex and swinging around on silk ropes. Like Spiderman, I too have a super power. Bu, that is where the similarities end. My superpower is teleportation, which I think has more sex appeal than spewing silk from wrist-holes... Also, I don't wear skin-tight spandex, or any spandex for that matter. My "origin story" however is far worse than Spiderman or any other superhero. It all began in a Tacobell bathroom...

I don't know how I came poses my powers, perhaps it was a genetic mutation (x-men style) or maybe I was bit by a radioactive spider in my sleep (I doubt this however due to my cleaning and sleeping habbits). For all I know, my my powers could have com from the taco I just ate. Anyway as you can probably guess, learning you can teleport while going to the bathroom is not something glamorous.. or clean. Knowing that I will not tell you the whole story but onlythat it involved teleporting to the bedroom of the gril I had a crush on (and in her bed to be specific). I tried to clean "it" up, but I could hear her comeing and began to wish that I could be anywhere else, even if it was a dark hole somewhere. I never did find out where that hole was, but I did figuure out that I had a "super power" and how to use it. Simple think of where I want to go and want I bad enough.
The End
~Andrew~

Making Coffee...
The morning was a gray and gloomy one. I wanted to stay in bed, but going to class was what I was doing. I was stressing about how coffee would take too long and I would be late for class when Andrew handed me a Red Bull. Andrew is my boyfriend. I guess we'll get married one of these days but for the moment we are just trying to get through college. The Red bull was cold. Red Bull is supposed to be served cold it's gross any other way. I wanted somthing hat but caffeine is caffeine. Andrew handed me the drink.
He grinned, "red bull gives you wings!"
I think the stuff gives you weird burps, but what ever. I made a face at Andrew. Sort of cross eyed with my tongue out to one side.and flapped my arms. That's my way of saying, "thanks, I love you, sweety." 
I snatched the drink and raced out the door chugging it. I was half way to class my brain still foggy with the dream I'd bad thath morning (something about chemistry and vacuums), when I realized that my fast paced walk had slowed to a crawl. The next thing that I noticed was a super short man walking past me. He must have been a midget because I am no giant and his head only came up to my waist. He was staring at me. Our eyes met. Embarassed, I looked down at my feet. then I screamed becaused they were three feet off the ground and walking on nothing. The man stared as I drifted upward. I was flying.
~Jenny (Me) ~

Wahtum Lake Part 2

Naomi seems to have escaped zombification

Wahtum Lake

 The area around the lake was too crowded to make for pleasant camping at least to my way of thinking.(After all how am I supposed to make them kill each other if there are a bunch of people around.) So we admired the lake and set of down the trail in search of a quiet camping stop. From the map I knew that there were a few so we wouldn't have to hike more than three miles... probably.

More Wahtum Lake

How far are we going? I don't know.

Backpacking Wahtum Lake Part 1

The view of Mt. Hood from the back roads.

The Adventure Begins.

 Blake figured out my dastardly scheme and pointed out that this was the picture that I would show at the begining out my documentarty before I gave them three water tablets each released them all into the wilderness Hunger games style. That's Andrew in the orange shirt. Melanie and Sarah are sporting the plad. Joe and Naomie to the right. That's Ronnie in the middle with me. I'm betting on her to win the games. Blake thinks that if he in sneaky and wears orange to blend in with Andrew it will give him an advantage. But it won't work. WE know you're back their Blake, hiding behind Andrew's sholder.

Sarah taking a picture of Mt. Hood along the road.

 We began out journey by taking the back roads to the trail. You trade the inconvenience of dealing with single lane gravel roads for incredible views of Mt. Hood. It only took about 15 minutes longer than the freeway. If you have time for views, I highly recommend it. If you're driving in the dark, I advise against it. If you're searching google maps it comes up as route 2.

Sarah and Joe figure out their packs while I study the arena... I mean the map (shifty glance)

Then I released the virus.

Did somebody say zombies?

That's right. The Hunger Games meets Blair Witch Project meets The Walking Dead. It'sss sure to be a hit.