Well, I’m packed; I went to work at 11:30pm to print a copy of my itinerary, get my travel bag and quit iChat and MSN Messenger; sorry to the seven of you who tried to get a hold of me that way since Friday. I really need to figure out how to VPN in from home.
I’m pretty excited to be seeing Dani tomorrow; I can’t remember the last time we hung out. Years ago. Too bad this trip is so short.
I’m not taking the laptop with me, so I’m going to have to wait until I get back to see my pictures. Ah, the tension.. I’m getting fidgety already!
Beyond exploring Cascadilla Gorge, we haven’t made any set plans on what we’re going to see. I have the vague notion that I’d like to get to a music store while we’re in New York City, but beyond that it’s all going to fly by so quick I’m going to take the experience as it comes rather than trying to regiment it.
I might get the opportunity to update from remote, but just in case: have a good weekend, and I’ll see you on Monday. 🙂

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Click to view the Nov 2004 Myakka Gallery
So I’m on vacation until next Monday! Woo! It’s been very relaxing so far (read: I’ve opened Rolling Stone 962 and actually read a few pages since I bought it last week), but very soon (read: Thursday afternoon) that’s all going to change. I’ll be in upstate New York, Ithaca, to be precise, visiting my childhood friend Dani, who is enrolled in the PhD Program in the Department of Government at Cornell, whose campus you might remember from that classic piece of cinema Road Trip. It’s going to be awesome. We’re hoping to do a day trip to the Big Apple while I’m up there. Anyone ever been?
In other news, I went to back to Myakka River State Park yesterday with Octávio (the significant other of one of our Portuguese interns). It’s been a while since I was last there, and though not much has changed since — it’s a natural park, after all — it was a lot of fun showing him around. Especially to the ‘gators. 😀 I’ve posted a new gallery with pictures from the outing in Davin’s newly upgraded gallery (which he kindly hosts for me, in addition to my blog).
That’s it for now!
Update, 3:24pm: By the way, if anyone has tried to instant message me since Friday night, I accidentally left myself logged into MSN and iChat at work, so I won’t have received your messages. That should be fixed later this evening. 🙂

I took this shot just after twilight tonight — the sky through the skylight was a brilliant blue, contrasting very nicely with the yellow of the apartment building. Thought I’d try Photoshop’s “auto-levels” feature, since quite often it can help out with these sorts of things. Not this time! Still fun though, so I figured I’d post it. (If you haven’t yet, make sure you move your pointer over the image 🙂