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GAH! SO BUSY THIS WEEK!
I've barely had time to sit in front of the computer at all this week, hence the lack of quotes. Wednesday I failed a French test, went climbing, worked on thesis, went to photo section. Thursday I went to photo class, worked on thesis, went climbing. Yesterday I went to French, had teacher yell at me about not doing homework, went climbing, worked on thesis, met with French partner. Today...
Today I went skydiving again! Yay!
This time was so much more fun than last year. Last year I was all freaked out and panicky and completely clueless, so a lot of my energy was spent trying to figure out just what the hell was going on. This time, I knew the drill and knew I would enjoy the fall, so I spent my energy on learning new stuff. My jumpmaster, the person they strapped me to, was a girl named Aviva who was really nice. She gave me an altimeter so I could monitor how high we were, and when we jumped out of the plane (we got to go first, ha!), we did somersaults. I'd asked to do them, but I still had a bit of sensory overload when we jumped, and it took me a second to figure out what was going on . My thought process: "Wow, pretty California! Oh, what's going on? Ground, plane, ground, plane, ground, plane, ground... Holy cow. AWESOME!" We got 66 seconds of freefall. She grabbed my arms and showed me how to turn. It's really neat that you can control your descent in freefall! I want to do it again! And then, under canopy, we got to do some fun little tight spirals, and the view was just absolutely gorgeous. It was quite relaxing. And the landing was super smooth too.
I can't wait to go again! I'm totally finding a place to go in Connecticut!
Ann, of course, went with me. She did a backflip right after jumping out of the plane. Her jumpmaster was really cool, he let her control the parachute. Afterwards, she and I went and got massages. Ahhh.... Can you say, "Perfect Day"?
Quotes for the last few days (in no particular order, since I lost track in the fray):
"A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard." --Herman Melville in Moby-Dick
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James
"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice." --Samuel Johnson
"To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people." --Walter Pater
And today's, vellum:
"Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix." --Georges Clemenceau
I've barely had time to sit in front of the computer at all this week, hence the lack of quotes. Wednesday I failed a French test, went climbing, worked on thesis, went to photo section. Thursday I went to photo class, worked on thesis, went climbing. Yesterday I went to French, had teacher yell at me about not doing homework, went climbing, worked on thesis, met with French partner. Today...
Today I went skydiving again! Yay!
This time was so much more fun than last year. Last year I was all freaked out and panicky and completely clueless, so a lot of my energy was spent trying to figure out just what the hell was going on. This time, I knew the drill and knew I would enjoy the fall, so I spent my energy on learning new stuff. My jumpmaster, the person they strapped me to, was a girl named Aviva who was really nice. She gave me an altimeter so I could monitor how high we were, and when we jumped out of the plane (we got to go first, ha!), we did somersaults. I'd asked to do them, but I still had a bit of sensory overload when we jumped, and it took me a second to figure out what was going on . My thought process: "Wow, pretty California! Oh, what's going on? Ground, plane, ground, plane, ground, plane, ground... Holy cow. AWESOME!" We got 66 seconds of freefall. She grabbed my arms and showed me how to turn. It's really neat that you can control your descent in freefall! I want to do it again! And then, under canopy, we got to do some fun little tight spirals, and the view was just absolutely gorgeous. It was quite relaxing. And the landing was super smooth too.
I can't wait to go again! I'm totally finding a place to go in Connecticut!
Ann, of course, went with me. She did a backflip right after jumping out of the plane. Her jumpmaster was really cool, he let her control the parachute. Afterwards, she and I went and got massages. Ahhh.... Can you say, "Perfect Day"?
Quotes for the last few days (in no particular order, since I lost track in the fray):
"A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard." --Herman Melville in Moby-Dick
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James
"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice." --Samuel Johnson
"To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people." --Walter Pater
And today's, vellum:
"Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix." --Georges Clemenceau
