Hiking!

Friday, I made a present for fiddledragon and read an adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" by Niki Greenberg (recommended!) as well as a few selections in the Best Romantic Fantasy 2 anthology and went to bed rather late.

However, I woke relatively early on Saturday and cleaned my fishtank (the fish are happy! Does anyone have any idea what to name four neon tetras? One of them is smaller than the other three. Thematically grouped names win extra bonus points.)

I was all set to go to fiddledragon's birthday party due to my misreading the two sets of directions I had because I'm special like that. However, she was gracious and we're going to get together later this week. So I sighed and went back to Harvard and ordered food from the restaurant my friends and I go to every week; I specified no meat and no egg and no shrimp on my takeout. I got about half of it full of shrimp and had to pick them out. I didn't usually eat shrimp even when I was eating fish. Ick.

But today was great! baniszew and I went for a four-hour hike! We went to Wachusett Mountain and enjoyed it a lot! We hiked up the steepest, speediest trail to the top, and walked down this kind of rocky, bumpy trail to the end--after seeing beautiful views from the top, some odd mushrooms, a toad, some salamanders, and a lot of really happy dogs hiking with their people. We stopped at two farm stands on the way back. Hopefully she will post some pictures.

Tonight a delicious supper of farm stand corn and spiced cider and burgers on the grill and oatmeal cookies.

Tuesday I am going to get a kitten! Meow!