1:15 am - Agree with roommate upon a 9:00 am departure time. To bed.
8:02 am - Wake up. Shower (without much appreciation for the miracles of hot running water). Dress. Load backpack, search for route.
9:00 am - Notice that roommate has still not come out from her room. Eat a Nutrigrain. Feel GREAT. Contemplate having 500 babies.
9:28 am - Give up on roommate. Depart alone.
10:40 am - Having made it through the first part of the canyon, become dismayed that the road is closed to cars. Decide that Three Forks Trailhead cannot be too far away, and begin walking.
12:00 pm - Arrive at trailhead. Realize that it is actually about 5 miles from road close location. Continue on trail.
12:28 pm - Arrive at hot springs. Find a lovely warm pool. Strip down to swimsuit (ask self if having a two-piece means sub-par mormon status; decide not to care, as two-pieces are much more sensible). Bask in the weightless sensation that the water provides. Consider skinny dipping. Decide against it. Daydream about old Chem labs and their similar sulfur smell.
1:03 pm - Lunch: two handfuls of dry Apple Jacks. Mmm. Remember that work begins at 4:30. Towel off. Get dressed. Begin trek back.
1:15 pm - Think about Thoreau's Walden. Contemplate the problems associated with living in a 6' railroad box. Wonder if next pair of clothes ought to be handmade. Remember lack of equipment and knowhow.
1:26 pm - Think about Whitman. Overcome desire to roll in mud.
1:32 pm - Think about Margaret Fuller and all manners of Transcendentalism. Wonder about Heavenly Mother. Wonder about relationships. Wonder about intellectual communion.
2:00 pm - Rejoice in the feeling of movement and use. Decide that the phrase, "loamy soil" is oddly sexy.
2:15 pm - Try to discover the question to life, the universe, and everything. Agree with Arthur that it is probably, "How many roads must a man walk down?" Worry about the state of the world. Wonder how on earth a person can become so far removed from themselves that they can do violence to another.
2:27 pm - Curse self for forgetting sunscreen.
2:40 pm - Reunite with Claude. Realize that total hiking distance was an estimated 15 miles. Start drive home.
3:30 pm - Shower (with MUCH appreciation for hot running water)
3:50 pm - Pass out on bed.
4:25 pm - Wake from fitful half-sleep to Paul McCartney mourning Eleanor Rigby. Stumble into clothes. To work.
5:00 pm - Angsty Footloose dancing.
6:30 pm - Realize the intense hunger that is searing belly. Attempt to make a pizza, but find no time.
7:17 pm - Advise Cam on the proper method of knife threatening; walk right into dirty-joke setup ("Here, it'll just be in and out, real quick." "That's what she said.").
8:00 pm - Rocky Horror Picture Show. Wish for rice to throw during wedding scene. Time Warp.
9:07 pm - Finally make veggie pizza. Eat a quarter of said pizza. Remember why Rocky Horror Picture Show is not in movie collection.
10:30 pm - Home at last.
11:00 pm - Coin word "itinerize." Itinerize day. Eat weird bean-paste ball offered by roommate.
11:25 pm - Fear for aching legs and feet tomorrow morning. To bed.
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