easy peezy

it's amazing what hormones can do. one night i'm bawling over a silly movie that would have merely bored me on a normal evening, and i start analyzing my life and why i'm so melancholy and go through half a toilet roll blowing my nose. the next day, i'm in love with life again and feel like twirling and it's all i can do not to hug a friend to pieces for being so amazingly loyal and just... there.

i went on a mushroom walk with the audobon society over the weekend, and it was really interesting. i learned that you can eat puffballs, but not when they're older and spongier and release spores like breaths of brown faerie dust when you poke them. you can also eat alaska golds if you're adventurous - there are old mushroom hunters, bold mushroom hunters, but no old, bold mushroom hunters - as it causes 50% of people to experience stomach upset, but they're invitingly large and yellow-hued. bolets are a good bet. they live near cottonwoods and instead of gills on the underside, they have pores. the group i went with found a dazzling array of mostly inedibles and unknowns, and in only thirty minutes and a quarter mile, we'd swamped the display table with our colorful finds. the trail where we met up was a pleasant discovery for me too since i'd never been there before, and it's a lovely 4.2 mile run through mist-shrouded forest laden with old man's beard, and the end by brotherhood bridge goes through fireweed meadows.

my life in 5 sentences: my friend is visiting this wednesday from TN. i am contemplating moving out of juneau for a particular job that sounds awesome. but i'm about to move to my dream house rental in 3 weeks, and work is sending me to vegas in a month and a half. the klondike road relay's in less than 4 weeks. i haven't bought any LSAT study guides yet but should probably take the exam by oct. for 2007 admission. my bikini tan makes me smile and think of lazy beach bumming and cute surfers, and all is good again.