Planting Seeds of Destruction in Elysian Fields
Welly, welly, well, to what do I owe the extreme pleasure of your surprising visit. I am going to eschew the regular oh me oh my it has been a while since my last blog shtick in favor of just including a few pics from my recent travels to Kalispell, Montana (the homefront) and Joshua Tree National Park. Both places are painfully beautiful, and I got to climb a mountain in each. Well, Mt. Reynolds in Glacier Park was a lot taller than Key's Point in Joshua Tree, but both were mountains nonetheless...
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Well I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did. Also check out Hank Williams III, a cool hick my cousin showed me while I was up in Montana. It was overall a very fun trip, nice to see my family again, it had been almost 3 long years. Most surprising part was that Big Fork had sushi in the middle of Montana, and it was actually pretty damn good!
Joshua Tree was also fun. The funnest part being when Josh and I got lost on Ole Dale road in the middle of some mining hill with a shitty "all-wheel drive" Kia with no cell service, no water, and no light. Yep, it took some road-building to put the tires on solid ground and eventually get out of the hills. And right when we made it over, we entered into a flood plain spanning the flat desert floor, and got more lost following the circuitous tracks of other cars. Over those four hours some prays were said, and luckily we made it out alive (I actually kissed the highway). But I can say it might be a second until I volunteer for another desert trip. Be prepared kids!
I told my dad about it and he scoffed it off in his robe with a bowl of ice-cream sitting on his lap, saying he had done that plenty of times, so I guess it wasn't that cool. Speaking of, I've been talking with my father about recording his 1001 stories and aphorisms in some form of writing. Nothing has materialized as of yet, but I thought that I could at least record some glimpses on the blog. So for the sake of propriety, here it is, the famous 5 rules of living from Ed MF Roane, given from Ed to his sons.
- Do Your Best
- Be Kind
- Don't Lie to Yourself
- If you forget #1-3, remember #5
- Always wear a condom
Other than that, progress on my future has been sluggish as usual. Took the GRE and did well enough not to have to take it again. Finally narrowed the grad school options to five programs in Bioinformatics. Most are on the East Coast, but I have the option to take one in Seattle and one is in Ohio. I also was thinking of applying to a related program in Minnesota, just for the #MinnesotaLove.
Make sure you check out Jota's Blog and all the other blogs of our generation. Let's keep the non-movement not going! And to everyone who is almost five months out of college across the wires, keep on keeping on because, surprise, no one likes you when you're 23.
