If my blog was a domestic animal, it'd totally be dead from neglect by now.
So, a hell of a lot of stuff has happened. I'll run through the highlights:

I traveled to Newberg to visit Matt and we went to the beach. It was filled with sand fleas, kelp, blubbery harbor seals, and beach-marauding dogs. Also thai food, good movies and music, my first trip to Cold Stone, and yes, driving all the way down and back solo. Sure, there were a few mistakes, like actually going through the town and having to turn around at a tavern, a few wrong exits, and parking lot calls, but overall, smooth sailing.

I stopped working a couple weeks before classes started so I'd have a little bit of leisure time, which was quite nice. Becky and I also went to visit dad (and I drove...woohoo experience!). Nice weather, found a few agates, and we perused the tidepools. Observed an impressive array of aquatic life. Mollusks and starfish and the like. And I of course had to put a finger on the tentacles of a sea anemone; I did so and Becky was all like, "I want that" just like in that tupperware scene from Napoleon Dynamite. Freakin' awesome.

So, here I am at school. Family and I decided it would be best for me to get here early rather than go to California for the taking-Becky-to-grad school-trip. AZA is so way nicer than Reed too! Super fantastic cuisine too, our cook is the best in the co-op system.

I just got back from a miserably cold and wet field trip to Mary's Peak, for geology. We found a fair amount of basalt and sandstone, and I saw my first actual banana colored banana slug, as well as two blacktail deer, so I deem it a success. Here's what's going on academically: biology, geology, sociology, and Shakespeare: the early plays. Yep. And I do have my jeep, so at least I am mobile and not completely stranded here.

Ok, yeah. Perhaps I'll put a picture of something up here soon.