Goin' to Glacier, Ima Goin' to Glacier!

What better way to end the summer with Labor Day Weekend in Glacier NP? I'm going to try to get the ol' homework done early and I just seasoned a rusty dutchoven that I stole from home--ready for Dump Cake! Some friends (who are real people with real lives and don't go to school) are going up tomorrow and are going to get good spots. Incidentally, if you're going to be at Many Glacier this weekend, drop a line!

*goes off to dream of the hikes*

State of the schools from the perspective of a student

From my extremely scientific study (i.e., bumping into people while walking around campus), I'd say that about 95% of all incoming freshmen are aimless hoodlums. You know the type--flat-billed ballcap at an odd angle, pants down by the knees, and they walk with that odd strutting shuffle.

Anyway, these hoodlums were a very small subset of my freshman class, and they mostly dropped out or switched to business degrees. They now appear to be the majority. I was talking about it with a friend who teaches the lowest level of freshman math, and she said that most of the people coming in these days are entirely funded by student debt (a.k.a. loans). In other words, we have a majority of morons with an attitude problem who basically will never be able to pay off their student loans, because they don't realize that they would be better off not going to college.

Anyway, that is what I've noticed--not big and Sowelly like Kevin Baker, but the feet on the ground at a small engineering school in MT.

God save us all.

Double Rainbow. For Real. Again.

If that dude was me for the past couple weeks, he'd probably be laying on the ground with a burst vein in his brain.  Last Thursday there was another double rainbow, this time in MT.  They're following me around, or something.

This one really did look close.  I couldn't get the whole thing in my camera.

Of course, with a camera in my hands and Double Rainbow Guy on my mind, I had to fake some emotion again.

So sorry about that.  But really, what are the odds?

Why are Americans so hostile to Muslims?

This article asks.  It goes though a bunch of BS that says that Americans are all idiots who don't know any better.  I have the real answer.  It's because they keep blowing us up.

Tomatoes

My mom just called--the day after I left for Montana the tomatoes started ripening in near-apocalyptic numbers.  So she's over at a friend's house and they are going to make salsa and tomato sauce and canned tomatoes and who knows what else.  They are actually running out of jars, and if you knew how many jars she has, you would be scared.

She sent me this picture of "Stage one of Salsa"

Then, of course, there are the cucumbers.  Several 5-gallon buckets of cucumbers.  After 20 or 25 jars of pickles so far, they are about fed up with that, so now she is looking at making sweet cinnamon pickles, which is apparently an old recipe she got from her grandma.

Of course, I'm up here starving in the near-produce free mountains of MT, so all I can do is drool.  Our garden had really bad timing.

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