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It's been a while since I updated anything. Sorry. I've been pretty busy.

This weekend was a workday for RTF - the Rivanna Trails Foundation. There's a group at UVA that carpools to the worksite on the RTF day, which occurs once a month, and usually we work on a small chunk of the 20-mi trail that encircles Cville. This week I helped in paring back an invasive plant from the trail; we widened that section from about two feet across to closer to six. It looked a lot better when we were done. Other people removed poison ivy from trees and re-mulched the trailheads. The mulching is extremely helpful in creating safe & obvious entrances. It was really nice to get out volunteering again.


One really neat thing about UVA is the people the student organizations bring in. One great example is our occasional FREE advanced screenings of movies. Last week, they screened "Choke", from the writer of "Fight Club", which isn't due out for about a month. I don't recommend it highly, but it was okay. Some parts of it felt flat, the editting or the sound quality. It was as if the film was missing a dimensional quality---in pacing, in audio depth, something lacking that kept it from feeling real. (Also it was somewhat explicit movie, and I don't recommend it if you're not comfortable.)

This week they were showing "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist", which looked like a fun movie but I was too busy to be able to go. I know, that's really sad, but maybe I'll watch it eventually.

We don't usually have an advanced screening once a week. In the past it has been more like once a semester. Either the Arts Committee is trying to step it up this year, or we just got really lucky, I'm not sure which.