It's been a busy month in Virginia. All of my classes are officially beyond the 'you probably already know this' point. As a result, I'm ever so slightly behind in some of them; I'm still waiting for a stray weekend to happen so I can catch up.

My weekends have been pretty eventful lately (see title). Please note that all of the following is in addition to my... er... usual weekend activities.

The weekend following my most recent post, I went hiking in Shenandoah National Park with Steve, a fellow grad student. The hike was mostly downhill for the first half, which turned the second half into some decent exercise.

The week following that, the CAMBC hosted its fourth annual Wild Ride. We basically went up Buck Mountain on the road, followed by an amazing descent through the woods. It was an awesome ride, although I did end up with some bruises and all of $15 worth of damage to my bike. Special thanks to the folks who drove me and my bike there and back

Last weekend was marked less by the outdoors and much more by the ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest. This is the ultimate geek fest I participated in twice before at Colgate, with varying (but consistently low) degrees of success. This time I went with two of the students I TA for, Jake and Louise, and life was relatively good -- we won the competition at our site, and we came in 5th out of 135 teams competing in the region.

This weekend has been a little more low-key. I played (American-style) indoor soccer games yesterday and today, and I'm planning a quick mountain biking trip for tomorrow (Sunday). Oh and I might try catching up on work sometime soooon :-p