Follow the Mome Raths

Thursday, May 27, 2004

Elizabeth and I on the weekend. We'd just been out to lunch.

Karlie@11:55 p.m.

Ang and I just got tickets to opening night, so we need to make costumes this weekend. I'm going as Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons, so I designed a Beauxbatons logo, which you can see at my deviantart site: http://tiamatfire.deviantart.com . I also invented houses since most private schools in Canada and Europe have houses. They're named after four of the fundamental metals in alchemy: Mercury/Mercure (purple and yellow), Gold/Or (green and yellow), Lead/Plomb (navy and grey), and Silver/Argent (red and grey). I'm really excited to make the costume, and I promise to post pics once it's done!

The symbols for the houses are the traditional alchemical symbols, in the two house colours.

I also know it's been forever since my last update, this weekend (between sewing the costume pieces) I'll run a quick update of life since halfway through field school.

Karlie@11:39 p.m.

Saturday, May 01, 2004

So I am blogging here from an Internet Cafe in Jasper, halfway through second year fieldschool. It's been pretty good, although Tuesday was the worst weather EVER, it rained, sleeted, and snowed throughout the day. Bleh. The other days have been good, albeit hot. We've been doing about 10km a day, that's not including all the up and down (one hike invovled going 70m up a scree slope. If you don't know what that is, look it up. Then be impressed). I'm so glad we had a day off, I really needed it to relax and unwind. We have been through Pre-Cambrian to Triassic rock, and saw some Pleistocene/Holocene stuff as well. We hiked Mt. Greenrock (the death day, with the scree slope), and all over an area near Talbot Lake. The next assignments are at Old Fort Point.

Soon I'll be back in Edmonton, to pack and move to Calgary.

I also got three of my marks, A- in Mineralogy, A- in Clastics, and B- in Mapping. It's good, more than I was hoping for in mapping since I really bombed the final. So far that's a...well still over 3.0 GPA. I hope Carbonates went well. We'll see.

Karlie@5:36 p.m.