Cameron

Plain and simple, I had a wonderful week. My team and I finally put up the frame of the wood drying shed we’ve been designing and building all year (I’ll be sure to posts pictures and videos soon), I went swimming with all my best friends on a hot day in a cold lake with a grand view of Mt. Rainier behind us, and I went to an Animal Collective / Grouper concert in Portland with all my friends. The shed looks awesome, the lake was so gorgeous, and the concert was incredible. They played a 20 minute version of the song “Fireworks” that was like being born into a world made of candy! Or maybe better than that… And Portland is such a fantastic city (and only an hour and a half away!).

But of course, the shed still needs a roof, a floor, walls, and some doors, and we are running out of time, energy, man power, and materials. In short, we’re a little beyond shed-ule.

Get it?! : )

We kinda need a week 9 miracle, but it may have already been granted to us in the form of the gorgeous weather! It’s been so pleasant working outside. I think I actually got a sunburn.

So, I should go do some homework. But before, I go, I just want to remind everyone from parts of the country further south that it has been getting dark at like 9:30PM here. Awesome.

It is 4:25 in the morning. I am sitting at a table at Sizizis, the new 24 hour coffee and tea shop in downtown Olympia. The coffee I drank several hours ago to keep me awake is losing its effect. I come here for the atmosphere, the delicious beverages, and because I can concentrate on my work. And as Week 8 is upon me, I am faced with a daunting amount of work to do (I just finished writing a research paper, and that is just the icing on the work-cake). But as I sit here and think how much I have to do in the next few hours, days, and weeks, I realize how “college” this all feels. I am also surprised that after an entire school year, I still take so much pride in doing my work thoroughly; I attribute it my work ethic evolving to mesh with Evergreen’s academic structure. I have so much control over what I am doing here, and so I am my taskmaster and my toughest critic.

Soon, I will walk home—the warm days have yielded surprising warm nights. I had an incredible weekend, and now I have an incredibly busy week to look forward to, but it’s to be expected. I am enjoying spring, the sunshine, watching the snow slowly melting on Mt. Rainier, and the late nights and Sizizis. Evergreen and Olympia harbor inexhaustible opportunities for things to do, and thus, I’m exhausted. But I know someday soon I’ll finish up my work and have the summer to relax.

Hmmmmmm…. I’m pretty sure I’m going to watch the sunrise.