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One Great Sunday

Yesterday Megan and I went to Big Sur with our good friends Elliott, Jasara and Tara. After taking a 5 mile hike we found ourselves perched on a giant cliff overlooking the Pacific. We spent most of the afternoon there, just staring out at the ocean and taking things easy.

With lazy, thermal-riding hawks floating high above, and the incessant barking of 50-plus sea lions carrying up from below, the scene couldn't have been better. There's a few pics on Flickr, but none that do complete justice to the awesome beauty we were privileged to enjoy.

brett at 09:01 AM on April 21, 2008 | | Comments (0)

What I've been reading this month

I plowed through more than a few books in the past few weeks. Here are the three biggest (and best) that I've gotten to:



That's Endgame Volume 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen, Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner and The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrialized Societies by Richard Heinburg. It's heavy subject matter, but it's probably what we should all be reading right now. If you want to know what's on my mind, pick these up.

brett at 06:26 PM on April 18, 2008 | | Comments (0)

One semester almost down

Spring has hardly begun and yet I have already registered for the fall. I'm not quite out of the drudgery that is core graduate coursework, but I'm nearly there. Here's what's on the plate for September 2008:

  • International Environmental Law & Politics
  • Quantitative Methods for Environmental Science & Policy
  • Natural Science Foundations for Environmental Policy
  • International Economics
  • Current Issues in Japanese Media I
I'm also planning to add a grant writing workshop to all of this. Once it's said and done, I'll be on my way to seminars and elective courses, which means fun times--not that this semester hasn't been illuminating.

Also, I hope stating this doesn't jinx me, but I have an interview next week for an environmental policy internship in Santa Monica--if I'm successful, it would mean a summer full of Southern California sun. Wish me luck.

brett at 06:05 PM on April 16, 2008 | | Comments (0)