Went and saw the priest, got my soul all nice and clean.

But in other news...

(Un)official Shoreland Scav Hunt motto, 2006: "F-ck this shit, let's get coffee". You get one guess as to who came up with that one.

But I've been told that Tera's "Scav Hunt Through the Ages" scrap book, for which I sewed the binding, has been taken to be put in the Scav Hunt Hall of Fame. I did not know that such a thing existed.

Both Nick and Abbie are back from hiatus. I found Nick's most recent post particularly entertaining.

For a brief period in the late 1840s, California was a sovereign nation. And while I spent much of my life as the citizen of former sovereign nations such as Pennsylvania and New Jersey, there's just something romantic about being the citizen of a state with a big bear on its flag. It seems to say: don't mess with California, we'll maul you to death. Or perhaps it says, we like fish and cool mountain streams, so that's why there are so many sushi places with water features around here. Or perhaps it explains why there aren't any bears left in the state. They thought they saw their reflection in the flag, evaluated themselves as small, and left the state because they feared being trampled by jackrabbits.

Theme quote of the week:
"I ran into him on the way out of the library."
"Accidentally?"
"Almost."

...but one of the best things that happened this week was standing in the Swift cloister in the rain.