Though the streets are swollen, rawhide.

Big news:

• Brian came and took my apartment for a virgin Brian cruise. I don't think my residence knows quite what to think of itself after that look.
  
• I am teaching in Region 5, which is located approximately meah, and will be attending Brooklyn College (Yeah, the site is kind of plastic, but so are a lot of good things) for my master's degree with the NYC Teaching Fellows!
• I am now the proud owner of a banjo. I know six chords, and played "Oh Susanna" for my parents this weekend! I need to work on switching from D7 to C chords. And playing the banjo. I'm not so good at that part of the banjo, yet. But I did give my banjo a name. It's Joanna. I'm not the type to really call a musical instrument a name...I think Guido is really the only inanimate object that has a real name...but it's a great instrument, and I'm happy to be self-learning it!
  
• I got Madame Butterfly on frickin RECORD. In original ITALIAN.
• I went to Boulder with my parents! I went rock climbing in Eldorado Canyon (no top roping or lead climbing or nothing, just bouldering, but MAN that place is beautiful. Check out some pictures!
  
• The sunset, as I got off the plane when I arrived.
• The area outside our hotel.
• Me climbing! My parents (One, two) were nice enough to exempt the ground from being seen, so I look a little more like Stallone. I think there's probably a negative space industry of upskirt porn in rock climbing photography. Eh?
• Me ma.
• On the way home. I like taking this picture, out the plane window at the wing.
• The road trip of the century will be taking place. I'm leaving from home on the 25th or 26th, leaving NYC with Mary and Gabe on the 27th, arriving in Florida on the 2nd or 1st for my grandma meemee's batmitzvah, picking up Jen M. in Georgia on the 3rd, and hitting NYC on the 5th or 6th. WHEW. Then I'm driving Jen to Boston the next day. Rock.
  

ELLIE, YOUR TOON IS COMING SOON I PROMISE.
I haven't written anything that feels new lately, you know? Maybe it's the focus on the banjo.

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