our weekend in moab according to my lil' phone : a preview overload

it was good to see the red rock against blue skies, and to feel the sun through a mildly cool breeze.

there was a little climbing, a little hiking, and a lot of eating.

more photos to come after i present a paper to my class tomorrow afternoon. very. very. nervous.

i keep trying to think of the desert to calm my nerves.

my presentation will be over tomorrow, but the desert will always be waiting for me. thank goodness.

leaving this desk for the red rock desert

i've been at my desk all week working on a paper...which of course i have thrown in the trash

as i've realized i need to start from square one. oh the joys of literary criticism.

part of me wonders if i should even be going on a little road trip down south to the desert this weekend

since i've got a lot of writing to do, but that part of me, fortunately, is quite faint.

i think i'm too tired to worry about being responsible this weekend...

though i will be bringing my laptop, books, and notes with all intentions of waking before the rest of the crew

to think about essential movements of a culture, the macro and the micro, represented in a travel novel.

wish me luck.

can't wait for a little sunshine and vast, beautiful scenery to bathe in.

happy weekend!

the yurt {part two} : staying warm with a blanket of clouds, down puffy coats, breakfast burritos, and bearded men

turns out that time flies when you have your nose burried in 18th century british literature...

sorry for the delay in posting the second round of our yurt trip. so without further a do, here they are!

i can't believe it's been almost two weeks. what a delicious trip this was. i'm still dreaming about it.

on our ski in there was a wonderful snow storm that dropped those beautiful big flakes on us.

it was nice to have the faster group at the yurt waiting for us with a fire. so so cozy.

i enjoyed spending such a lovely trip with some of my favorite people. so good for my heart.

i love that all of us women have all fallen in love with bearded men. i guess we have a type.

here's to many more winters of fantastic yurt trips!

the yurt {part one} : the night time adventures of a medical doctor, an engineer, a forest service ranger, a yogi/seven-months-with child, an EMT/Carpenter, an artist, a fashion designer, a physicist, a grad student, and a product designer

over the weekend we headed up to a yurt in our mountains with eight dear friends.

it's been a while since we've all had an over-nighter together, and a while since i've laughed so hard and so much!

the conversations went from environmental/political activism to questions {directed towards the scientists} about what would happen to a sandwich if you opened up a space shuttle window and left it in space to what's the weirdest thing our doctor friend has seen in the hospital to pregnancy and birthing.

and there was also a quick debate about what do to if you get bit by a rattlesnake...i like jack handy's suggestion best.

did i mention that our dear olivia made the 4.5 mile trek in on snowshoes while seven months pregnant?

she definitely wins the "hard core" award--especially since she had such a lovely glowing smile on the entire time.

there was also a couple of sweet games of speed scrabble. which resulted in more laughing.

so grateful to have friends who love to be in the mountains.

so grateful it finally snowed here after weeks of draught.

so grateful that i got to laugh my guts out.

so grateful that we have smart & talented friends who don't take themselves too seriously.

so grateful for high-calorie foods that filled my belly after our hike in on skis.

more of our trip {in the daylight} to come soon...

{p.s. thanks to holly jo for snapping a couple photos of me and ceej!}