What a week. I feel like I've lived nearly a month in the last several days. Sadly, nothing really fun to report, but I did get a haircut! Actually, I now have two nice things to look forward to: The Colorado Press Association Convention in late February and meeting Michael Pollan at a private cocktail party at the president o' the college's house next week (Mindy's probably the only one who knows what any of this means--journalism nerds, unite). I'll actually be making a bit of beer money at the CPA convention since I'm writing two articles about the convention and getting paid $50 each! Hee--I also get a free overnight in Denver and lunch with the Mayor, not to mention all of the great networking I can do in my downtime. Michael Pollan, if anyone is interested, is a New York Times Magazine contributor who wrote this fabulous article, among others.

On the less bright side of things, the class I am in is slowly resulting in a winter of my academic soul. My professor obviously enjoyed studying the substances in the 60s as much as she did Biology. Every day she wears a native american beaded headband and a kimono to class. She's a ton of fun for the lab part of things (she knows far too many facts about the organisms we poke with pins), but she is hopelessly disorganized in the lecture department. This of course results in my brain shutting down completely every morning around ten, and I can't restart it until I sit down in the evening to do my reading. Or at least it would restart if I actually did my reading...

There was more snow today too. I'll be at Copper Mountain Saturday where I will hopefully enjoy the snow, which is not the case here on campus, since it hasn't melted in over a month.

Still haven't found my camera cord. I'll post pictures once I do, which will hopefully be this weekend.