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Personal Entry No. 19
I went on a walk yesterday along a long trail both in and out of my university. (You see, it branches off from the road leading to the Art and Architecture buildings, which are cut off from the rest of the school by a residential area. The acquisition of new grounds was brilliantly planned.) It was around 5:00 P.M., and it's a beautiful time of year; the whole area was resplendent to look at.
I'm glad I went--and I followed the trail to its end behind one of the Art buildings, instead of someone else's backyard like last time.
I was inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lavender88 to post these photographs, since she recently posted some very beautiful ones on her journal. These...are too grainy to compare. If only the grain of digital cameras wasn't as noticeable as the grain of film!
This is the beginning of the trail, just past the point where it branches off from the road. The road itself is actually very pretty to look at this time of year, since it's bordered almost entirely on one side with goldenrod. (On the other side, it's bordered by trees and the occasional metal sculpture symbolizing...student art projects.)
There's a lot of metal and wooden detritus in the woods, including pipes, at least one old tool kit, and this cube you see here. They're all so badly rusted, I can't help but wonder how long they've been left there.
The path branches off frequently--there's one path that goes around a graveyard, another that leads to the Art buildings, another that leads to a gravel road in the middle of nowhere, and many others that just go deeper into the woods. Coincidentally, have any of you seen or listened to Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods?
The path I took was cut twice by a stream. This is the bridge one uses to cross said stream. (One can also take a longer path around and up a series of inclines, or simply step across the thinner parts of the stream. As for me, I always use the bridge.) It's much sturdier in the middle than at the ends, and the stream isn't deep at all, but it's best to move quickly across it.
I wonder if the stream swells at all in the spring?
This is close to the gravel road in the middle of nowhere. I don't care for that road--I have no idea where it is relative to the residential area or the school, and it's too quiet for all of the construction cones around. That, and it's near an open field leading into another graveyard, which doesn't seem to be connected to the one I mentioned earlier. There's goldenrod all around that area too, though, so it is lovely to look at.
And that is all for now! I have some photographs from my family vacation which I would like to post as well, but I'd best save that for another day.
Weirdly enough, I'm so on top of everything that I don't have much to do right now.1 This will undoubtedly change come next month, but I'm glad to have this free time while it lasts.
1 Besides making icons. I've already made eight new ones, five of which are larger colorings which can be cut into smaller files. (I'm soskilled at wasting time productive these days!)2
2 Can you tell that I've been working on the bibliography for my semester-long research project? I've got thirty-eight sources thus far, and I'm pleased with my progress--the bibliography itself is due October 1st.
I'm glad I went--and I followed the trail to its end behind one of the Art buildings, instead of someone else's backyard like last time.
I was inspired by
lavender88 to post these photographs, since she recently posted some very beautiful ones on her journal. These...are too grainy to compare. If only the grain of digital cameras wasn't as noticeable as the grain of film!This is the beginning of the trail, just past the point where it branches off from the road. The road itself is actually very pretty to look at this time of year, since it's bordered almost entirely on one side with goldenrod. (On the other side, it's bordered by trees and the occasional metal sculpture symbolizing...student art projects.)
There's a lot of metal and wooden detritus in the woods, including pipes, at least one old tool kit, and this cube you see here. They're all so badly rusted, I can't help but wonder how long they've been left there.
The path branches off frequently--there's one path that goes around a graveyard, another that leads to the Art buildings, another that leads to a gravel road in the middle of nowhere, and many others that just go deeper into the woods. Coincidentally, have any of you seen or listened to Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods?
The path I took was cut twice by a stream. This is the bridge one uses to cross said stream. (One can also take a longer path around and up a series of inclines, or simply step across the thinner parts of the stream. As for me, I always use the bridge.) It's much sturdier in the middle than at the ends, and the stream isn't deep at all, but it's best to move quickly across it.
I wonder if the stream swells at all in the spring?
This is close to the gravel road in the middle of nowhere. I don't care for that road--I have no idea where it is relative to the residential area or the school, and it's too quiet for all of the construction cones around. That, and it's near an open field leading into another graveyard, which doesn't seem to be connected to the one I mentioned earlier. There's goldenrod all around that area too, though, so it is lovely to look at.
And that is all for now! I have some photographs from my family vacation which I would like to post as well, but I'd best save that for another day.
Weirdly enough, I'm so on top of everything that I don't have much to do right now.1 This will undoubtedly change come next month, but I'm glad to have this free time while it lasts.
1 Besides making icons. I've already made eight new ones, five of which are larger colorings which can be cut into smaller files. (I'm so
2 Can you tell that I've been working on the bibliography for my semester-long research project? I've got thirty-eight sources thus far, and I'm pleased with my progress--the bibliography itself is due October 1st.
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On a lighter note, I hope you had a happy birthday yesterday! :D
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yay! Thanks!!, aaww it's been years since the last time I visited L.A.,lol, but i'm going this December to do my "noryukushiken Test" at L.A., so it means i'm indeed going to visit L.A. and Little Tokyo, and maybeee I'll stop by there :'D sometime~~
Thank you soo much!!
yay,haha, Thanks I did!, between school and work @_@
*hugs*
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I wish my school have places like that, but every inch of square feet is used since we have so many students.
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My university is very small, so I'm lucky in that regard. I only wish that the Art buildings were on the main grounds, though--it's dangerous to walk there at night.
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And I envy your discipline. I should be working on my own research project but. Yeah. >>;
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Knowing me, the papers might not be written until two days before the due date. I procrastinate a lot more than I should. X|
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And congrats on that! I've always hated preparing the biblography the most, it's such a tedious procedure xD;;
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I love compiling bibliographies--it's the footnotes I hate. XD
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P.S.
What is your research paper on? Good luck with it.
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I come from a very rural area, so I'm used to being surrounded by nature--it's always so strange for me whenever I stay in cities.
The research project is centered around the mental and physical effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Thank you for wishing me luck--I hope I can provide a different outlook on it.
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Woah, I wish I had that discipline when I have to do a research paper -w-U...you have plenty of sources ~
I hope you get an excellent grade! ~
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I'm not sure if I have more than enough, or not enough--we're actually supposed to write a fake research grant based on our papers, so this is likely the biggest project I'm going to be doing this semester. I hope I do well on it, too--thank you! :D
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