Juxtaposition

Planning the month. Planning the summer for TAASC and Outward Bound. Planning my own personal trip this summer. Planning to XX some names out of my phone (clean up the ol' phone book). Planning some outfits for a fabulous June birthday party.

Long run with Susie D. She bought me a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone from The Hop afterwards... what else after exercising? A beer after the ice cream cone (my body is a temple). Long conversation with my favorite Outward Bound BFF who is graduating from her graduate school program very soon. Fake chicken with Seany Sean.

Otis Redding singing, "Try a little tenderness..."

Horrible things in the world. How do I reconcile this with ice cream and a sunny day?

Does that sound like Debbie Downer?

Le Final du Sandwich

Saw my sandwich maker yesterday. I went with, "Hey, thanks for that bacon. I wasn't expecting it."

He said, "What?" (He looked stoned.)

I said, "Remember, you made me that sandwich and then put bacon on it? I wasn't expecting it."

He said, "I put bacon on it."

I said, "Yeah, and I thought you were joking about it."

He said, "No."

I said, "Well, thanks. It was good."

He said, "You're welcome."

I said, "Okay. Bye."

He said, "Bye."

I was glad that I didn't trip as I walked away. I felt sort of like Deb from Napolean Dynamite.

Perfect Day

Doc and I went climbing at Looking Glass. It was one of those clear, fresh days in which we could see the tops of the mountain magnolias and the rounded "peak" of Black Balsam knob in the distance. Below are Doc's images of our view from the climb, a couple of shots of me climbing up to meet him on a ledge, and one of us pre climb.

Below is a picture of the "eye brow" pockets that are typical on Looking Glass. Doc reminded me why they form: because either the pockets or the rock around them cooled slower, it was easier to erode and made these little pocks with rock jutting above them to make eye brow like formations. I'll figure out more details about this... they are little river beds in the vertical slab.

Interesting conversations. Difficult questions. Reflections while belaying sometimes blue rope, sometimes red. Sunburnt shoulders. Margaritas afterwards.