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wildernessguru late last night about a wilderness trek he's planning with a new friend:
The Great Adventurer
This is the point where I ranted for about 20 minutes that there's a perpendicular learning curve on this trip, that the phone is in his name, so is the electric bill, that I can't afford our apartment alone so I'd have to move and "all that I'd have left of you is your books and Monte -- it would be like you never existed."
I've never been worried about his trips before but this one is a big step up from what he's done over the last ten years. Turns out that everything's still pretty up in the air. His buddy is from B.C. and has hiked the Yukon extensively. The Northern Rocky Mountain Wilderness is in northern B.C., which is different terrain. Also, WG's being really straight with the guy and explainimg that while he has the core backpacking experience, since he moved to Seattle he's mostly done 4- and 5-day hikes, so it's a big jump. They're talking about getting four guys for this trip, too.
School Maundering
This is the last day of my vacation. I just spent the last four days of vacation sick as a dog, unable to even concentrate long enough to read. School starts tomorrow. Left undone:
- a considerable amount I'd planned to write on Out Of Bounds
- my Flavor of the Year 2007 essay
- haircut (I really look like shit, downright scary)
- buy school books
- 2/3s of my prep reading for the Ancient Indian Culture class
- first-draft essay for honor's program
On the plus side:
- I finished ~16,000 words of Out Of Bounds
- Christmas!
- Contacted my professor about that incomplete; he got back to me from Korea and I will
Worst of all: Sanskrit review. I don't think I can do second quarter Sanskrit now -- I needed this week. I'll talk to the professor tomorrow but I think I'm done for. The trouble is, I don't see any classes open that I can take instead. There's African American literature.... Getting sick this week really hurt.
Sick Report:
Day five and six - periodic bouts of fever; woke with my t-shirt freezing cold and soaked with sweat. WG was the same. Weak, dizzy. Taking the stairs to do laundry is out of the question. Some appetite has returned but little energy to fetch or prepare food (helloooo take out). Concentration is better: can read and sit up for an hour or two. Judgement sucks. Little stupid things, like I poured orange juice for WG and then realized I was going to have to splash down the ice cubes. Oi. Persistent cough. Sore throat, thank god, is tapering off.
P.S. This probably shouldn't make me feel better, but it does.
klymer1 informs me that based on our symptoms we have the same flu her family got. Her mom had received a flu shot but was just as sick as everyone else -- but the nausea hit her much harder. They ended up taking her to the hospital where the nurse explained that that this flu isn't one the shot innoculates against.
Aha. We would have been hit with this no matter what.
wildernessguru late last night about a wilderness trek he's planning with a new friend:The Great Adventurer
WG: "Cool! The Northern Rocky Mountain Wilderness. This is just the kind of epic trip I've wanted to do!"
Icarus (absently writing): "That sounds great, dear."
WG: "Of course, twenty-five days is a long time with someone I don't know very well. Better do at least one shorter trip together first."
Icarus (nods): "Sounds smart."
WG: "We'll have to fly in a cache of food, then fly out, then hike to it."
Icarus (scribble, scribble): "That sounds like a logistical challenge."
WG: "It's all cross-country, no trails out there."
Icarus: "Well, you've done a lot of bushwhacking before."
WG: "And we don't have our route pinned down yet so there's no clear indication of mileage. If he thinks we're doing 60 miles with 12 days of food, he's nuts. More like 30."
Icarus: "Uhm-hmm. I trust your professionalism. You've been doing this a long time."
WG: "I'm worried about all these river crossings. Those are dangerous. You can get swept downstream or lose your pack and then you're fucked."
Icarus: "You know what you can handle."
WG: "I'll have to see what conditions are like in the Yukon in August."
Icarus (blinks): "Yukon?"
WG: "Yes, the Yukon."
Icarus: "The Yukon?!"
WG: "I thought I mentioned that."
Icarus: "The YUKON?!"
WG: "Shhh... honey...."
This is the point where I ranted for about 20 minutes that there's a perpendicular learning curve on this trip, that the phone is in his name, so is the electric bill, that I can't afford our apartment alone so I'd have to move and "all that I'd have left of you is your books and Monte -- it would be like you never existed."
WG (blinks): "You don't seriously think I'd buy it out there."
Icarus: "No. I think you're smart enough to know what you can and cannot do."
Today WG told me: "You wouldn't be penniless. I'd leave you my bank card."
*eyeroll* So not the point,
I've never been worried about his trips before but this one is a big step up from what he's done over the last ten years. Turns out that everything's still pretty up in the air. His buddy is from B.C. and has hiked the Yukon extensively. The Northern Rocky Mountain Wilderness is in northern B.C., which is different terrain. Also, WG's being really straight with the guy and explainimg that while he has the core backpacking experience, since he moved to Seattle he's mostly done 4- and 5-day hikes, so it's a big jump. They're talking about getting four guys for this trip, too.
School Maundering
This is the last day of my vacation. I just spent the last four days of vacation sick as a dog, unable to even concentrate long enough to read. School starts tomorrow. Left undone:
- a considerable amount I'd planned to write on Out Of Bounds
- my Flavor of the Year 2007 essay
- haircut (I really look like shit, downright scary)
- buy school books
- 2/3s of my prep reading for the Ancient Indian Culture class
- first-draft essay for honor's program
On the plus side:
- I finished ~16,000 words of Out Of Bounds
- Christmas!
- Contacted my professor about that incomplete; he got back to me from Korea and I will
Worst of all: Sanskrit review. I don't think I can do second quarter Sanskrit now -- I needed this week. I'll talk to the professor tomorrow but I think I'm done for. The trouble is, I don't see any classes open that I can take instead. There's African American literature.... Getting sick this week really hurt.
Sick Report:
Day five and six - periodic bouts of fever; woke with my t-shirt freezing cold and soaked with sweat. WG was the same. Weak, dizzy. Taking the stairs to do laundry is out of the question. Some appetite has returned but little energy to fetch or prepare food (helloooo take out). Concentration is better: can read and sit up for an hour or two. Judgement sucks. Little stupid things, like I poured orange juice for WG and then realized I was going to have to splash down the ice cubes. Oi. Persistent cough. Sore throat, thank god, is tapering off.
P.S. This probably shouldn't make me feel better, but it does.
klymer1 informs me that based on our symptoms we have the same flu her family got. Her mom had received a flu shot but was just as sick as everyone else -- but the nausea hit her much harder. They ended up taking her to the hospital where the nurse explained that that this flu isn't one the shot innoculates against. Aha. We would have been hit with this no matter what.
