Cities Visited This Year

I keep looking at Willo's, Mai's and now Ali's blogs at all the places they went to and I'm like...wow! I didn't really go ANYWHERE this year!

Here is my list:
San Francisco
Boston
Ft. Myers
Northhampton
The Berkshires
Buffalo
Fort Erie, Canada
Corvallis, Or
South Lake Tahoe

Dude, THAT is it! Looks like I did the Northeast tour, airports don't count.

In other news, I had training on main campus yesterday. I feel like it was training in how to stay awake during a completely boring situation, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. On the way there, on Sand Hill Road, a Copper was blocking one of the lanes with his lights flashing and a bit in front of his car was a poor, dead deer. I felt so sad for this delicate creature as she lay there just miserably twisted up with her guts on the pavement. I can only hope that her death was instant on impact.

Then this reminded me over Christmas while I was at my mom's; my aunt, my mom and I saw three deer in her neighborhood. My mom did not see the irony of her saying: those poor deer have nowhere to go because they are getting pushed out of their area. I really didn't want to point out that she was actually living in thier area, but whatever. What was miserable about this situation was that 1) one of the deer was limping and keeping weight off a front leg, and 2) my aunt and my mom started to do that thing when people put human feelings on animals, I forget the word, but just so you know...if you search for that phrase on Google this is the first link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_pony

Yeah that's not what I meant.

What I mean is, after my mom and aunt were done feeling sorry for the hurt deer as we watched them out the kitchen window, we witnessed gimpy try and mount one of the other deer, which launched my mom and aunt into this whole man-hating situation about how even if a guy is hurt he still wants to screw. "And, isn't that just like an asshole man." HAHAHA. Ok its funny now but then I almost had a seizure from all the eye rolling I was doing and I was really sad that they are both so angry at men right now in their lives and in my mom's case, I don't see that going away anytime soon which is really preventing her from living her life. I wish she would learn to stop being mad at a deer and to start getting mad at herself for thinking this way.