
“Maam, excuse me, maam… how long you been working on your hair?”
“About a year.”
“Oh yeah, you got it going on.” [gives me gentle punch on the arm]
“Thanks.” [smile at man, keep walking down the street]
Author: megan
the benefits of summer camp
… You can come away with large containers full of stolen cereal, and then live on it for the next few weeks

Yes, currently my apartment is swamped with the stolen cereal and various other things of one of my friends, and one of her friends from camp. And here I was just about to go out and buy some cereal before they arrived.
Now I just have to work out the easiest way to cut this up and turn it into an animated gif…

(The photo was taken at Cooper’s Rocks, West Virginia)
“Gah! They’re pointing a machine gun at us!”
“How rude, pretend we haven’t seen them.”
as promised…
The triumphant arrival of my new camera.

It appears to take photos, which is what I was hoping for, so I’m rather pleased.
Getting it home was interesting. I cycled back from Fedex in torrential rain: visibility was low, thunder and lightning overhead, I was completely saturated, and not getting any drier as I pedalled through inches of water, with vehicles driving past throwing even more sheets of water at me. I had trouble keeping my eyes open in the rain; by the time I got home they were thoroughly bloodshot. The camera stayed dry though.
weekending at seneca, west virginia
Well, I was of the opinion the whole thing could have been a bit of a debacle. We got to Seneca on Saturday, and I’d only gotten up one climb before a thunderstorm came across! Completely unpredicted, and it rained for the rest of the day. However, I ended up finally summiting on Sunday – despite the forecast changing to suddenly being completely dire and miserable sounding, it was lovely and sunny. Perhaps too sunny. Never mind. This is me on the South Peak, with the town of Seneca in the background
