what up everybody.  I just made a site on msn.  You can access it at http://www.msnusers.com/KylesPageofPics

I posted a bunch of pics and what not.  Enjoy

What's the good word all?  I'm home right now, nursing my mom back to health.  She is recovering from surgery and being the good son that I am, I took time off of work to help her out.  I haven't been home in quite a while.  Kind of strange.  I am currenlty working for the Forest Service in the Bend/Fort Rock district of Central Oregon.  I am working on trail reconstruction and occationally doing some fire work.  It seems there is a new fire every week in Central Oregon.  Dumb campers disregarding fire guidlines.  Its good physical work and keeps me busy.  Although, I could do without the 104 degree heat.  We are re-building a bridge right now and each day is hotter than the next.  Thank God for the river.

I decided to play basketball with my 6'7" 260 lb roommate and once again injured myself.  I don't think my ankels are made for such activity.  I'm better off to avoid contact sports and stick with what I am good at. Speed walking.  I can really throw my hips around.  

My summer has been pretty much work and sleep.  Not a whole lot going on.  I'm looking forward to seeing Jack Johnson and Ben Harper in August, but other than that I pretty much stick to a very basic routine of get up at 5:30, work, come home, ride, make dinner, drink beers and go to bed. Some exciting stuff.  At least school is starting up pretty quick.  That is something to look forward too.  Once I get in the groove of school I will wish I was back in Central Oregon...

Hope all is well and wish you the best.

Kyle

What's a couple three months between updates?  Here I am, almost done with my junior year.  Can't really believe that I was in Korea not too long ago.  Caleb who?  Ji what?  Anyoongahseeeyo...?  damn, things are fading quick :)  I am actually procrastinating like a mad man on this horrible, evil, terribly interesting research paper for my social theory class.  8 pages in and I need 12 more.  BLAH!  I have 2 weeks left of classes and then finals.  I will be living with my bud in central Oregon this summer, hiking, camping and getting a hell of a tan.  Remember what that is, a tan?  Yup, I'm pretty stoked.  I applied to be  bike patrol officer in a wealthy resort community and beat out 40 other applicants to be denied at the final round. Who was I kidding anyway, I couldn't be cop.  I just wanted to ride a bike all summer out in the sun and hit on all the hotties in my spandex tights and radio in to headquaters to call in a 540...yeah.  So now I am on the lookout for a job, which is like a mad dash every summer and its all competitive and I am going to end up working in a starbucks and have to be plastic and smile and serve people double tall soy vanilla lattes with extra foam with no lids...I know those kinds of people.  At least I will be living in an amazing place and will be able to do some climbing and rafting.

The weather sucks here.  Oregon likes to rain a lot, even in May when it is supposed to be in the 70's and beautiful.  We had one nice weekend and the students here acted as if they had never seen sun before.  I shit you not, everybody was outside, either running, tossing a disc, throwing a ball, reading, drinking lots of beer all becuase the sun finally came out from behind the clouds.  For a small school, seeing nearly every kid out at once is quite a feat, especially considering Linfield is as about image concious as you can get.  Silly college kids. 

My job as Vice President of Programming is turning out to be a drag.  My life is one big meeting.  If its not a meeting, its preperation for a meeting and paper work.  I don't think I should be in charge of other people and I think those people who I am in charge of know this.  At least I get paid more than them.  Being on the executive cabinet is all about P.R and showing the adminstration what they want to see, not what I feel is right for the school.  Ah well, its gonna look good on my resume. 

I miss being in Korea.  I miss being able to talk to real people and have good conversation about nothing.  That is lacking here for sure.  Yeah, I get real drunk from time to time and rant about something I feel needs ranting about, and then abruptly fall down, but it is not the same.  I don't hurt myself when I fall down here.  Man, I miss being able to escape into  a crowd of a thousand and go where nobody knows me or will ever see me again.  I HAVE TO GET OFF CAMPUS!  I don't like this whole experience of "flash friendship" where I meet really terrific people and then never get to see them ever again.  What the hell is all that about?  Ah-well, at least I went and did what I did.  Might do it again.  I have decided I am joining the Peace Core when I graduate and do some form of social work hopefully in Central America or perhaps Africa, if the world doesn't implode by then.  After which I may go on to grad school or just gamble and do lots of drugs.  I prefer the latter, but my conscience tells me otherwise. 

I have to sleep.  Hope all is well with everybody and that finals is not bullet in the head stressful.  Congrats to all of you who are graduating!  Mike! Alice!  Anybody else.  Aim high with those degrees. Wal Mart is hiring nationwide!

Peace

Kyle