Mac + Cheeze and Bits About Campus

I've gotten pretty nostalgic lately for mac & cheeze.  The only problemo with making the ambrosia-like-stuff is it requires either a stove top or a few good hours of prep in the crock-pot.  Ihhhhh.  College-mentality has severely kicked in folks.  I want my vegan-cheeziness NOW. On the upside, the campus grocery store does stock Amy's Frozen Soy Macaroni and Cheeze.  On the downside, Mum and Dad don't want to know how many UMT$ the little frozen box cost...  Yesterday, I broke down while purchasing my outrageous $3.75 carton of soy-milk and added the Amy's macaroni to my check-out stack.

Admittedly is does contain a small amount of casein in it (milk protein), but this cheatin' vegan lunch is well worth it when the goings get tough.  I added a chunk of frozen peas and a touch of cilantro to jazz up the flavor. Yum.  Cue Handel's Messiah, someone.

Over Labor Day some friends and I drove up to Glacier National Park to go hiking/exploring. Our day started at 5am and we didn't land back back in Missoula until 11pm.  Loooooong, but very fruitful day.  Unfortunately,  most of my photos are in "transit mode."  Everyone took shifts manning a camera, so Ellen (co-hiker) has taken on the duty of consolidating the best of the pictures into one file.  UPDATE ON GLACIER SOON!  Please leave comments on what in particular you would like to see and or hear about.  And just because I know you are going to ask Dad, NO, we did not see a bear.  But we did encounter much bear scat.  Animal tally = fish, many birds, a chipmunk with a nut, half-dozen mountain goats, butterflies and a fleeing coyote.

HERE IS A "SNEAK PEAK" of my Glacier Nat'l Park pictures:

Its kinda sad... you can see the glacier melting before your eyes.  The wet sludgy bits along the edge of the snow are the eroding glacier.  Me thinks the scientists were right when they said all the glacier would be gone by 2030.

Anywho.  Life on the campus of UMT has a few quirky bits to share too.

This maxim is plastered on every recycling bin on campus and around the city.  Its a nice little reminder that I am not the only one pitifully separating my glasses, plastics and papers to deposit into their corresponding bins.

Reminds me a bit of Capitol Hill in Seattle.  They just keeping posting over and over and over the old signs.  Seriously.  These bulletin-bagotas have about an inch think of paper products adhered to them.

These pictures do not to the bike brigades justice.  In the heat of the day, all of the bike stalls are PACKED.  Its frexing difficult to find a place to park your bike if a lecture hall class is in session.  NOTE: these pictures were taken last week when we had a solitary morning of drizzle.  Now we are back in the 90s.  May my fan have a second wind...

Really bad view of the central clock tower, but I was trying to get a decent picture of the 'M'.  Unfortunately the wild-fires on the other side of this hill make the campus super smokey in the mornings.  The University clock tower is just like the glockenspiel in Marienplatz, Munich.  Promptly at noon each day it plays a five minute bell chorus.  Ahhhhh. Its a nice highlight I look forward to while scampering from Writ 101 to the Food Zoo (or more likely, my dorm).

Cheers, kaite ;]