tentative maybe sorta hopefully life plan:
summer 2006: kayak (crossing fingers)
fall 2006: irex it up
winter 2007: uw for some math and science
summer 2007: tahoe-baikal institute for a siberian summer
fall 2007: uw for some serious oceanography
summer 2008: graduate field research (Prof. Bourgeois) and/or kayaking
fall 2009: more serious oceanography
2011: in ten years since I finished high school, will I have achieved any stability in my life? doubtful. do I get to have a dog by now?
2015: through an undescribed miracle, my dog and I are paid to play outside in Siberia, Alaska, and the Pacific NW