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August 19

Travel Sep & Oct

Labor Day: Rock climbing at Lion's Head, Ontario, Canada. Limestone with stunning views
Sep 5-7: Doglas Lake, Northern Michigan. Department retreat and botanizing.
Sep 27-28: Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Trad Climbing Class
 
Oct:
New River Gorge, West Virginia. Trad Climbing Class graduation trip
Oct 16-21: Baja California, Mexico. Spurge-hunting. Sad that if I made this trip, I'd have to give up the Detroit Marathon...
 
Went to the AATC interval today. Feel good and ready to get back to my marathon training. I'll still do my regular training anyway.
 
Be focused. Work hard and play hard :)
 
August 17

回来了

上周四暴雨过后网络就断了。之后又赶工,终于弄完了。以后field work真是well-prepared都不够,尤其一个人出去一定要over-prepared。
 
走的时候还是初夏,回来的时候已经有些秋意了。
 
BTW 一回来开心的不开心的跟gg说了一通,都没有写blog的热情了。原来以前经常写blog写很长都是没人说话憋出来的。
August 12

8.12

这两天跟两个政府环保部门的人一起出野外。没事的时候三个女人就在路上叽叽喳喳地聊天,听了好多8g + 政府运作 + 奇闻轶事。美国的环保的做法跟中国太不一样了,中国不知道多少年才能有这样的体系。不得不感谢他们,如果不是环保部门把本底调查都做得很细致,我这次就不是一个两周的field trip能搞定的了,十倍的时间都不止。
August 11

RRG的照片

很经典的一次climbing,学到了好多东西。后半部分是Youshi和Alex lead 一个5.12b overhang,我都看傻了。我和gg的第一次旅行。好怀念。
The link is here
 
August 10

在热带,雨季

干活你必须早上五点起床,六点天蒙蒙亮就出门。今天太不爽了,上午11点就开始下雨,下午四点半才停。每天下午1-3点基本都有雷雨,在野外有雷击的危险。尤其下周要在Everglades有一个全天的hiking,雷雨来的时候跑都跑不回去。看来只能凌晨4点出发去Everglades,中午之前把活干完。
 
顺便说个好玩的。今天蹲在树丛里采样。一小孩经过:"What is that lady doing?" (怒,居然有人叫我lady,一般那是叫老太太的啊)。不久,另一路人:“那树丛里是蜥蜴么?喔,是个人啊”我%U$#IOU@P$#O{!
August 09

8.8

Miami人开车野蛮果然是有名的。一天被di了无数次。就动作慢了一两秒啊,在Michigan有半年没被di过了的。有时候看看后视镜,两辆车就那么斜插在那里。在路口走错了lane也上来就乱插。仅次于墨西哥人的开车野蛮了。当年在墨西哥开车好歹还有胆大心细诲人不倦的John大叔在旁边指导,现在一个人开吓得我20分钟的路开了50分钟,只好跟人家道歉我n次错过你们这的路口又绕大圈开回去。。。
 
Everglades的蚊子太凶狠了。隔着衣服和insect repellant疯狂攻击。我真的被咬成玉米了。而且蚊子叮过以后我身上还会有一大圈淤血,青一块红一块的惨不忍睹。逃回车里关上车门,发现车里也飞舞着至少30只蚊子。一阵狂打之后车里到处是蚊子的尸体和鲜血。连老板都说他在热带野外工作几十年,这是他见过的蚊子最猖獗的了。
 
第二次来Miami了。一直就不喜欢这个城市。太实际。到处是豪宅,物价很贵。我这辈子也没买过一次超过100块的grocery,结帐的时候被吓了一跳。
 
苦点我没什么,大不了休息两天就没事了。只是现在Florida的这个project拖了两年之后我已经没有激情了。Riki说,不要做你不excited的事情。Chris也说这个project放掉吧。只有老板说你还是做完吧,要不前面那么多努力都白费了。那就做吧,我自己都觉得很鸡肋。
 
我申请了nwa的信用卡。在nwa每年花的钱太多,有张卡还是比较划算的。况且这样我年底就可以有50,000的milage可以redeem了。圣诞旅行还要靠它呢。感恩节和圣诞节的机票自己买简直就是放血。
 
 
August 06

8.6

今天第二次去了everglades。两年前走过的地方,看过的每一幕,甚至连哪棵树上曾经开过花,哪里我被蚊子疯狂攻击,我都记得。历历在目,只是物是人非。也许我不再拍照也是因为不想看,不愿意去看。女孩子做事情,总是对当时的感觉很在意,而不大考虑结果的。
 
明天七夕,也是ex的忌日。六年了。可以五年半一个人过,到现在突然间不能容忍一周不跟gg在一起,变真快。
July 30

Vancouver开会

第一年开会,每天都在兴奋中;第二年开会,第三年开会。。。今年第一天就做完presentation,然后想meet的人都meet完了,talk也没有太有趣的,就开始晃悠。明年去开evolution的会算了。这个世界真的很小,转来转去还是那几个人。这个会,不开也罢。
 
明天要干的事情
1. 把堆积了几周上百的email清理掉
2. 搞定回Seattle的ride
3. Check stuffs to bring for the Florida trip, call to schedule visits to sample sites
4. Call the leasing office
5. Prepare documents for Mexican visa
July 29

Pacific Northwest trip

7.13-7.15 Mt. Rainier Emmons Glacier.

7.18 Drive from Seattle to Smith Rock, stop at Potland on the way sight seeing. Climbed the Morning Glory wall, Smith Rock. Led a 5.8 and followed a 5.9 and a 5.10a. Nice warm up
7.19 Dihedral & Phoenix Buttress, Smith Rock. The rock was very sharp at the Phoenix Buttress. Painful even without falling! Did seven 5.9-5.10d routes this day. Too hot to climb during the mid-day.
7.20 John Day Fossil Bed
7.21 am: did a 5-pitch sport 5.9 at the Smith Rock Group, of which I led three pitches. This is definitely the highlight of the Smith Rock trip. pm: Mesa Verde. I led my first 5.10b and followed a 5.10d. Super cool slab climb. Don't fall though, sharp rocks. Great day!

7.22-7.23 Olympics National Park
7.24 Vancouver Island
7.25 Squamish. The Chief. We spend almost 14 hours climbing slabs. Toe hurts badly. I led my first 5.10 b/c, followed a bunch of 5.10s and 5.11s sports and a 8-pitch 5.7 trad (Banana Peel). I got so tired at the end and even fell leading the final sport 5.4 pitch, which was the easist pitch yet still got my only lead fall of the entire climbing trip. See, even 5.4 can be hard at the end of a long day...I ran up it after we switched leading. Great day!
7.26 Murin Park and the Chief. Followed a bunch of 5.6-5.8 trad. Loved the 5.8 Slot Machine.

So far I still love the Red River Gorge (KY) the best for a better selection of route types, though the view at those multi-pitch climbs in the west is way better.
July 18

7.17

刚从Rainier回来,今天又去了Rainier。才知道我们在山上看到下面平顶的小山原来不是人为的,而是Alpine meadow。巨大的Rainier在蓝天下那么不真实,草甸上野花怒放。明艳得让人窒息。
 
谢谢Yuan Yaowu和Hana。
July 12

That's what summer is for

7.12-8.1 Pacific Northwest
8.3-8.17 Florida
End of Aug  Mexico
 
I found myself no longer that excited about super long trips as I used to.
July 06

The long weekend

Did tones of PCR
Climbed on Sat with Yiying
Went kayaking on Sun with Top. Since the Huron river isn't exciting enough for us, we raced. Obviously he won. Super tired...
July 04

7.4

我的NSF DDIG被拒了,呜呜。意料之中的事情。跟老板的NSF项目重合太多,没什么新东西。春天的时候只申请了一个小funding,拿到了钱,就没有申其它的。老板似乎比较有意见。sigh
 
最近半年脑子都转不动,锈住了。出野外才是人间正道。
 
下周末就走了,一直要折腾到9月初才能回来开始教课。亏欠的东西太多,不知道9月回来的时候,能有哪些新鲜的东西。
July 01

7.1

今天group run第一次见到了一个中国来的marathon runner,还是我们这个training program的教练。于是跑完了跟教练聊了一会。发现自己其实在老美里面是个decent runner的。以前一直跟AATC跑,那帮人里面有1/3都BQ了,每次跑老被人超很郁闷。跟r&f 501的人跑才发现老美里average runner原来也不过这样。嗯。Milage does the trick.
 
以后争取周二跟AATC跑interval, 周末跟r&f跑long run。如果我在aa的话。
June 30

weekend

I took the intro to outdoor climbing class this weekend. Although setting up top rope anchors is nothing new to me, I can do it with much more confidence now. It was rainy yesterday morning but as soon as I got to Grand Ledge, sun came out and the rock dried out quickly. Setting up top rope was really time-consuming. I only got the chance to climb a 5.5, a 5.8 and a 5.10+ for the entire afternoon.
June 26

climbing vs. PhD

昨天是Yoshi在Michigan的最后一天,今年他就relocate去加州了。上周在gym看到Yoshi刚刚定的一条sloper 5.11+的新线,名字叫"seven years in Ann Arbor"。看得我眼泪忍不住往外冒。不过这线真是damn hard,我说Yoshi啊你走了以后想让我们一直curse你也不用这样哈。
 
在gym呆久了,很多人都混个面熟,就差打招呼了。Yoshi就是其中一个。他在Ann Arbor念PhD念了七年,也爬了七年,最狠的时候隔周就去一次red river gorge。后来觉得再这样爬下去毕不了业,基本停了攀岩,这才今年顺利答辩。这经历跟我本科真是有些类似,如果不是基本上戒掉了攀岩,真不知道我现在什么样子。我在gym见到他的时候他已经不怎么爬了,经常在定线。有一次我在旁边无比痛苦地爬一个overhang,他就转过头来笑着看我,说,you'll be able to do it...you can red point it next time...后来我还跟rotatezh说“那个帅哥很nice哈”。他最后一次去rrg的时候我们才第一次打招呼。后来聊得最多的也是PhD与climbing之间的balance。昨天去送别他的其他的climber很多也有类似的挣扎。大家谈得多的无非是,你现在没以前爬得那么多了啊。sigh。
 
人年轻的时候,总免不了想做的事情,不顾一切地去做,不回头不停顿。然后老朋友再见面的时候,还会津津乐道当年的痴迷。上学期收到Michigan Climbing Club的头头的email,说,看我那么多作业没做周一还要考试,我周末还是要出去爬,你们谁也没借口不去。我当时就差点笑出来,多熟悉的话啊。那时候不是一样么。
June 23

6.23

今天横在EEB Graduate Student Lounge的沙发上看paper,碰到Soochin。以前听Wang Bin说过Soochin很牛,还一直没跟他怎么聊过,只记得听过他的seminar。几天前刚得知他马上要去Neb做professor了,八月就走,这才上去祝贺他,也第一次跟他聊了聊,觉得挺有收获的。George实验室这过去的一年里走的人里面,四个去做了professor。真是喜人。Soochin说得对,像我这样PhD念完三年了,从第四年开始才应该是真正productive的时候。做学生的时候要有一个目标,一步一步地去实现。在研究上要agressive,active一些,如果连自己的advisor都没法impress,你还指望impress谁呢?如果老板是放手型的,更要agressive,就是一定要把自己的东西做明白,说明白。嗯。
June 22

Talking about To the right person--Thank you!

Found this from An Xin's blog :) Moved by these words.

To the right person

When a GIRL is quiet ... millions of things are running in her mind.
When a GIRL is not arguing ... she is thinking deeply.
When a GIRL looks at u with eyes full of questions ... she is wondering how long you will be around.
When a GIRL answers ' I'm fine ' after a few seconds ... she is not at all fine.
When a GIRL stares at you she is wondering why you are lying.
When a GIRL lays on your chest .. she is wishing for you to be hers forever.
When a GIRL wants to see you everyday... she wants to be pampered.
When a GIRL says ' I love you ' .. she means it.
When a GIRL says ' I miss you ' .... no one in this world can miss you more than that.

Life only comes around once make sure u spend it with the right person ....

Find a guy .. who calls you beautiful instead of hot.
who calls you back when you hang up on him.
who will stay awake just to watch you sleep. Wait for the guy who ... kisses your forehead.
Who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats.
Who holds your hand in front of his friends.
Who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you.
Who turns to his friends and says, ' That's her!! '

June 21

6.20

周五晚上去了Detroit的River Day。站在美国和加拿大边境的界河上,水的颜色还是那种深深的蓝绿。街上大半是身材臃肿的老黑。我才发了一会呆,同伴就说,see, people are bigger than Ann Arbor...半死的老汽车城Detroit,GM的大楼还是那么奢侈宏大,号称Michigan第一高楼。几个block不远就是废弃的城区。River Day就像是游园会,有音乐表演,小摊卖工艺品的,卖小吃的。转了几个地方,实在对那些露天表演兴趣不大,people watching也没意思,身材都太差了,穿的也不好看。倒是小孩子挺可爱的。完了之后去Dearborn全美最大的阿拉伯聚居区一个远近闻名的甜点店(别人带我去的地方我永远记不住名字),所有小块甜点都是1.5元,比纽约便宜太多了,而且超好吃~~~店里的阿拉伯mm们个个水灵,啧啧
 
周六艳阳天,90多度,然后瞬间雷雨冰雹,然后又艳阳天。种花,近百个bulb,读说明书,摆放,然后刨坑填土。下雨的时候就坐在屋檐下看大雨倾盆。很久没有这样看下雨了,就像小时候暑假在大院里看下雨,逗虫子玩。感想:有个院子很爽,可以种那么多好看的花,开了谢了又开了整个夏天。真让人羡慕。
 
从Dearborn开车回来,才周六,就有种周末都过完了的感觉。不错,明天可以去lab干活了。
June 20

I start to enjoy leading

I found that only when I lead, I really pay attention to read the route carefully before getting started, place my feet precisely, rest well before the crux, and try hard not to fall. Bouldering helps a lot too with specific techniques. I finally made that V1 heel hook yesterday - quite some achievement for me as my upper-body strengh is terrible with injury on both sides of my shoulder.

 

One month after I top rope onsight my fist 5.10b, I was able to lead my first 5.10b overhang clean and smoothly on my second trial yesterday. Good progress J

June 14

柬埔寨

前些天一个柬埔寨朋友给我讲了他家的故事:七十年代末的时候因为战乱,他全家辗转颠簸东南亚,最后流亡美国。那时候柬埔寨闹饥荒,他曾经瘦得只剩下皮包骨头。看过DeadEyE写的“高棉的碎片”。没有读过的强烈推荐下,在mitbbs travel精华区。那种战争,屠杀,饥荒的残酷让我乍舌。看着面前上窜下跳壮壮实实的朋友,真让人难以想象曾经的苦难。我说,你真不容易啊。他说,是我爸妈不容易。
 
爸爸年初去了吴哥窟,回来大赞。于是妈妈就起哄要我带她去(真是淘气的老妈...)。今天看了些柬埔寨的照片和游记。在美国和加拿大旅行总觉得缺少了历史的立体感。而有故事的地方又往往语言不通。Life is too short to wait。东南亚还是比较容易去的。
 
贴张爸爸拍的照片。