Winter Break + Seattle + Start of School Year

Winter Break - Highlights include seeing everyone, and dominating at Seven Little Idiots (a savage ultimate frisbee tournament in Athens, GA) where we routed a Ring Team, a bunch of other teams, and ended up 2nd place losing in the finals to a bunch of national champions. It was fun. Then I travelled to...

Seattle! -- where I visited my girlfriend and her family (which including all the step people was quite large). There is a picture of me with something called the troll which is this huge wild sculpture under a bridge with a vw bug in its hand. I ate a lot of great food (salmon, shrimp, crabcakes, and a dessert called the Lunar Lander), learned some karate from nikki (a blackbelt) and saw the Karate Dojo where she works. It was cool, I got to see a black belt demo team do a choreographed fight. I outjumped all of them and was able to touch the ceiling, that was really high. Muahah. Went to historic places in Seattle such as the pier and some really old bookstores and stuff, also read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which dad gave me -- it was addicting. One of the best parts of the trip was going to the San Juan Islands for 2 days and a night. We took the ferry over, which was huge, and then stayed in a sweet little cottage. I searched really hard for these japanese glass balls that come up on the shore but didn't find any. We did however see a bald eagle as well some seals. There was a raging storm the night we were there with gale force winds so we couldn't take the kayaks out, but it was intense being at the sea while it went insane. Brunch in the sky needle was epic. Totally worth it, rotating slowly hundreds of feet above the city where you can see everything, it was beautiful -- a rainbow showed up at the end of our meal when the sun started coming out.

School --- I'm in a class called Shakespeare's Tragedies in Film, we're reading Titus Andronics, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello as well as watching several film adaptations of the plays. So far we've watched Julie Taymor's Titus (wild, lots of time periods and crazy costumes, good overall) and Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet. We played Air Force's ultimate team last saturday and won 15-6, but my ankle is hurting now and i think it might be some minor tendonitis so I'm icing/IBprofening/resting it until vegas in 2 weeks.

I hope all is good with all the readers (Gammy, I'm giving you a shout out, how you doing? I know I haven't posted in forever - sorry). Also, hopefully more people will start posting.