Last Night in Boulder

Started: 2002-07-17 21:51:33

Submitted: 2002-07-17 22:06:18

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Tonight is my last night in Boulder as an unmarried man.

Wow.

Yesterday afternoon I dropped by Housing Helpers and got a handful of printouts corresponding to various available apartments between Boulder and Westminster that looked like reasonable places for Gem and I to live. This morning I filtered through the list and called one in Boulder. The available unit is a little pricey (US$950), but it's got plenty of living space (770 square feet). I should have gotten going on this earlier; I really didn't have sufficient time to get all of this happening in time.

This evening Bethany, Willy, and I headed to the church and drove up Boulder Canyon to the rock we were planning on climbing last week but got rained out. The first two routes were right next to each other and were absurdly simple (maybe a 5.3 if one stretches, although 5.1 is more likely; or maybe a 4.8 or something); I was the first one up and down. A few more difficult routes made it up; I tried a few options for one a few times and failed. I made it about two-thirds up another (which Shawn thought maybe was a 5.10a or 5.10b) before my hands got way too slippery and I thought I should come down. I had great fun climbing.

The official plan is for me to depart Boulder by 0900 tomorrow morning (since this is my family, I'll believe that when I see it) and head to Grand Teton, Wyoming, where Mom convinced us to sign on to some rafting trip sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Conference. This will take place Friday and Saturday, so on Sunday the rest of my family will head back to Boulder and I'll continue on to College Place, since I'll be something on the order of about halfway there, albeit way off the beaten path.

Next week in College Place I'll finish my senior project and hopefully present it. I'd like to leave College Place by Monday the next week and head to Longview to get ready for my wedding, which takes place the following Sunday.

Wow.

I personally think it sucks that the day I'm leaving Boulder to head (eventually) up to Washington state, Gem hops on a plane in Portland and flies to Illinois. This means that the earliest I'll be able to see her is Monday before the wedding, when her plane touches down in Portland. I'm still operating under the assumption that I'll be able to swing by PDX and pick her up, but more important is to actually finish my senior project and present it so I can officially graduate.