Today I got a sunburn on my shoulder, like a stripe from my left shoulder halfway around. I was sitting in the same spot for almost an hour in the bright sun at the post-bac lunch and I got bleested.
It was beautiful today, and it's pretty much going to be solidly beautiful the whole time until I leave in August. I feel like I've done maybe one percent of what I want to have done before I leave California. I'm applying to UCSF, UCLA, and USC but I don't think there's a big chance I'll end up at one of them. One thing I like about it out here is the way the ground is dusty, the hills are dusty and speckled with dry-looking bushes, but the plants are so succulent and lush, the cacti and the manzanita and all the plants I don't know the names of. There are two huge meyer lemon trees growing in our front yard (we actually tried to juice the ones that Laurel picked a few weeks ago and they tasted like vomit - oops), there are calla lilies and climbing honeysuckle. Two of my favorites are plants I don't know the names of - one looks like little cabbages but with pretty delicate shoots with flowers growing out the middle, and the grass-like plant with broad triangular shoots that are red striped with green and yellow. I'm still snobby and I think parts of life out here are silly, but oh.
Today was an infuriating physics lab where we were supposed to measure the earth's magnetic field but we couldn't even get the wires and things set up for more than an hour.
Some of the side trips I want to take from Stockholm: Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki to stay with the Danziger's friends with the girls named Tekla and Petra, my dream names, the Arctic Circle via the Inlandsbanan to eat cloudberries and see reindeer.
I hate this blog the way I hate every blog I've tried to set up over the past few years but I'm going to keep writing anyway, fuck it.
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