Sorry for my absence....

Been busy completing the above list:

(1) Wrote a small article and submitted some photo's [from the trip] to a magazine on campus [woohoo]

(2) Working on finishing essays; so far so good

(3) Went on a fantastic hike with Jack and my dog Jak{eeeee} today; it was fantastic weather for November so finally we got to bask in the sunlight and trek through muddy cornfields and swampy coniferous forests

(4) Have not been reading so much other than textbooks, which I devour everywhere... my history of sexuality class as some pretty scandalous chapters!

(5) Keeping myself interested- in rug hooking (I want to start!), cooking (mmmmm West African Peanut stewwwwww), the beat generation, hunting (I will explain later)

(6) Constantly dreaming- of today, tomorrow, ten years from now annnnddddd purple unicorns flying through marshmallow clouds

(7) Trying to write- anything!!!!! 

-Over and out, DDDDDDDD

      Hmmmm, well we are off in less than a week. I have been home (to my parents house in the boonies) for the last couple of days and we have dial-up! It is the slowest thing imaginable! Thus I have not posted. Nothing of interest has caught my eye for the last couple of days, life has been catching up on movies and reading and trying to get Steve comfortable at my parents. Steve is our bratty cat (who my parents lovingly dubbed 'demon cat'). Otherwise, over the last few days:

1. We picked up our euro's!

2. We booked our hostel in Munich (Munich is surprisingly expensive!)

3. Moved all of Jack's stuff to my parents place for storage for the summer

4. Finished doing taxes (hallelujah!) 

5. Went and saw the four-hour epic that is Che Guevara (amazing- we will write a post on that soon)

7. Finished reading the Carhullan Army

8. Executed a practice pack (which went very well I must say)

9. Got my first roll of film developed from my new camera (oh, how I long for a dark room, maybe one day)

10. Bought travel insurance

   Jack is at work, finishing his last shift! Finally! Almost bon voyage! Will post a follow up about Che!

Now to decide...

     Which books to bring on the trip! We are trying to decide what to bring and what to leave behind. I imagine we are going to be doing a fair amount of reading (we are both kind of book worms), especially during travel time (plane, bus and train). We have a tentative list of books we want to bring, hopefully our bags will not be too heavy!

• Long Walk to Freedom- Nelson Mandela
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books- Azar Nafisi 
• The Story of B- Daniel Quinn
• The Alchemist, The Pilgramage- Paulo Coelho 
• Brick Lane- Monica Ali
• Earth Democracy- Vandana Shiva 
• What is the What- Dave Eggers
• The Sleeper Awakes- H. G. Wells
• The Yacoubian Building- Alaa Al Aswany
• Clash of Civilizations- Samuel Huntington
• Young Stalin- Simon Sebag Montefiore
• Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776-Present- Michael Oren
• Aman: Story of a Somali Girl- Virginia Lee Barnes and N=Janice Boddy

This is another picture by Jennifer Zwick.

I  am almost done exams (last one tomorrow) therefore I will have much free time to read what I wish (AKA Non-textbook material, yahhhhhh!)