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Ready to go

I'm ready to go to the ice NOW!

Of course, I have a month of touring around the Pacific Northwest and another month after that in Boulder before I go down, both of which will be great, but I'm getting into the Antarctic mentality. I've been hanging out with friends from down there, and talking about it and filling out paperwork for it and preparing for it at work, and I'm ready to go. I'm excited to go.

So it's hard to get my mind set on going to the Pacific Northwest, which should be an excellent adventure. Two weeks of work, looking for good places to put permanent GPS sites in southwest Oregon for the purpose of monitoring movements related to faults and volcanoes and general plate motions, and then 10 days of hanging out in the Seattle area, attending Bumbershoot (music festival) and backpacking and going to the ocean with my friend Anna and our families and then attending my high school reunion. And, on top of that, hanging out more with my family and with other Seattle-area friends. Jam-packed with goodness.

I leave here tomorrow afternoon for Portland, and will probably be heading south on Wednesday. We'll see. I'm not really sure yet what exactly this will entail, but I'm excited. I think it will be a great trip.

I need to start looking at pictures of lush greenery rather than of ice, seals, and ice.