i am in moose lake!

after a brief hiatus...back by popular demand! ha!

i am in moose lake, mn!

after an uneventful but glorious drive up i35...an awesome hwy: smooth, divided, sunny, blue skies, white puffy clouds, 80 degrees outside! there was a slight traffic jam on i35 heading south, all the people coming back from their 4th of july weekends, but i guess not many people heading up north at the end of a long weekend!

walters house, where i am staying, is modest, but new: 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1 living room/dining area, 1 fully equipped kitchen, central air. right now i'm on "moose lake wifi 214". is moose lake all on wireless? wow what a savy place. it's definitely a step up from phi rho. also, walters house essentially shares its parking lot with mercy hospital, where i will be doing most of my internshiping, so extremely convenient. unfortunately i have no roommates at the moment, and am not sure when i will get any, so it's quite lonesome here. so far i have settled in, made a giant pot of celery+carrots+chicken+pasta. and a sandwich for lunch tomorrow. some things never change.

tomorrow i will start to explore moose lake. i am most excited about: <http://www.munger-trail.com/traillogs.html>. too bad i can't ride a segment of it each day.

anyway, for those who are still interested in getting honors for summer session! yesterday i realized that moose lake is only 1hr45mins from phi rho...so all the noncampers+kalie should come up and camp one weekend!!! unfortunately i am not allowed to have any guests at walters house, but i bet there is good camping around here! or you guys should come up and bike with me for the day!

thus is the start of my 1 month summer internship in medicine (sim) in rural minnesota! i realized on the drive up that my summer is going to be all about going back to my "roots". even though i have lived in mn since i was 2 (save the 4 years of undergraduate), rochester is hardly representative of mn. for the first half of my summer i am going to experience up north mn for the first time! and then later, i'll take it back even further and go to taiwan for 3 weeks!

and so it begins.

crafts

new bike!

boston highlights

back in boston to hang out with shereen and tristan and megan! it was trissy's birthday, so shereen and i made a traditional peanut butter creation: quadruple layered peanut butter cake with chocolate frosting!




delerium nocturnum at otherside.



cold and windy revere beach!



our trip was amazing: running, pilates with meggles, revere beach, arboretum, chicago's, otherside, bloc 11, plus the best part was big digits at tt's. and a surprising turn of events...shereen picked up a free magazine at revere beach and discovered that tristan da cunha was playing at pa's lounge. rex complex, which was playing with tristan da cunha, was AMAZING! shereen took pictures of rex complex on my camera.




sunshine on the institute. i never knew that the view of the river just outside of senior haus was so gorgeous!

birthday card, etc.

my roommate's birthday is tomorrow and this card is waiting for her on the kitchen table!



we also had a party on friday, which involved funfetti cupcakes and a peaches+cookies+cream ice cream cake and bowling! (desserts made by me of course.)

i am a ridiculously bad bowler, but i look SUPER speedy in this picture!

projects...

i haven't posted in a while. since, i've been super crafty!

starting with halloween ('08), i convinced my roommate to dress up as "things that are striped" after being inspired to wear ribbon!! she went as a zebra and i as a busy bumble bee! i wore a black shirt and pinned yellow ribbon all around me. too bad you cannot see my wings in this picture. miraculously, they turned out quite like insect wings, wire frame, white plastic bag body, and kind of tear-drop-shaped and turned down.



next i tried to think of something cute and practical to give my friends for christmas.




blank canvas totes with felt cutouts, sewed on by embroidery floss. all, of course, signed by me!



but maybe the best part of christmas was that i embroidered our stockings!




and then, after my first experience with an advent calender, it was off to winter break! i couldn't believe i had finished a semester of med school, 1/4 of our classes before step 1 of the boards. it had been a productive semester (wrt to projects anyway).

after the initial bento making burst, i had not kept up the lunches like i thought i might. right before break, i went to an asian grocery store and found some rice molds and veggie cutters! my second semester lunches don't quite live up to first semester, but i've been doing some interesting things with meatballs. [turkey+tofu+celery or turkey+tofu+bittermelon or turkey+tofu+eggplant or turkey+canned pumpkin (my favorite)]



finally, last thursday, i went to school for 8am class, but was 5 minutes late. so...i just decided to skip the whole day. i built a layout (and designed the logo!) for pnc's new newsletter!



then the second half of my day i made a birthday card for albert with all the extra felt i still have.



my roommate (the zebra) and i topped the day off with a grocery trip. it was the perfect day.

i miss...

college,
and shereen,
and shauna,
and crazy times,
and chipette halloween night,
and postering allston,
and the grocery cart ride down mass ave.