field trips

I've had a lot of field trips this semester.  While I don't like the idea of mandatory attendance (especially since it's usually on weekends), so far, they're really good.  Last week I went to Please Touch at Memorial Hall, which made the old Please Touch Museum seem like a scary basement.  The new spot is rad.  Go see it, even without kids.

This weekend, I went on a school field trip before the actual field trip, so I didn't have to go with my whole class (of 40ish students).  We went to Doyelestown, where the Mercer Museum, Fonthill, and Moravian Tile Works are.

We spent the day in Fonthill.  It was AMAZING.  Our tour guide was pretty adorable, and the castle was castle-y, and had about a billion staircases and stories and big wooden doors, and libraries, and collections, tiny staircases, and So Many windows and a skull.  Mercer made the place himself with a few workers and a horse.  Lucy.

They're doing total in-the-dark tours Halloween weekend.  And I think I have too many plans that weekend to make the trip, but it might be super awesome.  It's b-y-o flashlight, and goes into the "off limits" areas of the castle.  You know, like Beauty and the Beast.
Anyway:  recommended.

Oh, and we also saw a guy practicing his nunchuck and knives skills in the woods.

tv

Yesterday's ProRun was pretty intense.  Thank goodness we're keeping Mondo, too bad we have to keep watching Gretchen's frowny  mouth all the time, and Andy?  Thanks for answering all the mohawk-extensions questions I've had over the past couple months.

moral

Today I twice heard the fable about the hare and the scorpion.  (Maybe you did too if you have the same media habits as I do), and I don't know whether I'd ever heard it before in my life.

We do what's in our nature?
Still figuring out mine.

tied up

I'm not sure whether I get* belted cardigans.  Girl's are always doing it, and sometimes, it looks okay.

I tried it out this morning (in my room, not in real life).  Not so good.
Maybe I just don't have the right cardigan.  Or the right belt.  Or the right waist.

*get = understand, like, back

owl

Went to Coney Island, got my fortune from a machine fortune teller.  Did not BIG.  Advice about taking trips, keeping secrets.

fake out

I was excited to get home late(ish) and have so many emails.  Turns out exactly half of them were about a murder on campus.

Awesome.  I'm supposed to register for classes on Monday.  Sign me up.

Go...Owls?  I think we're owls.

graphic

Cool bicycle prints, Barbs.