Monthly Archives: January 2004

Last semester

Tomorrow is the first day of the my last semester of my undergraduate studies.

I am very nervous. In just four short months I’m going to be walking across that stage and accepting my degree in Liberal Studies: focus Computer Science minor in History. Everyone keeps asking me, “So then what are you going to do?”

In the past I just smile and shrug. I haven’t thought all that much about it. Tonight I’m thinking about it.

I know this semester is going to fly by. I need to start planning. I’m pretty sure I want to go to graduate school for History, but I’m not sure where. Chico? Long Beach? Santa Barbara? I don’t know. I guess I’ll apply to all three and see who accepts me.

Sometimes I think I’ve had enough of college for a while. I think I’d like to work for a bit. I’ve got plenty of time to work on my masters, right?

I think I want to apply at Union Pacific Railroad. My friend Scott and his coworkers have a wild work experience that I’m sure I would dig.

If only the state’s financial crisis were over I could work for the Department of Fish and Game, or the State Parks. I know I want to stay in California so I can’t apply to the US Forest Service or the National Parks Service. If you work for either of those two Federal agencies you could get stuck just about anywhere.

Grad school or work? I’ll apply everywhere and see what happens. Any of the options I’ve described above would make me happy I reckon. Just as long as I’m not commuting to work 90 minutes each way Monday through Friday 40 hours a week and sitting in a cubicle I’ll be fine.

And now I will attempt to relax so’s I can get some rest tonight.

Snow Day!

Today in Chico is gloomy, overcast, foggy and cold. What a perfect day for a walk in the woods! So I packed up my pistols and drove up the hill.

It was really foggy, almost dangerous foggy, until I got above 3,000 feet. Then the fog disappeared. Blue bird day, and crystal clear. It was gorgeous! There was snow all over the sides of the road at this point.

So I continued up to one of my many spots where I like park and walk. This spot is about 30 miles from my apartment. There was nobody parked there, so I’d have a few thousand acres of land all to myself–just how I like it.

Snow! Everywhere, snow! It was so beautiful. The air was so crisp and clean and cold. The forest was sooo quiet. I walked for about a mile. I couldn’t hear the cars up on the road above any more. I finally arrived at my meadow and took a seat on my favorite rock.

Quiet. Sooo quiet. I could just barely hear the sound of Big Chico Creek in the canyon below me. I sat there for the longest time in took it all in.

Here are a couple of pictures from my adventure.