Adventures in University and the great outdoors.

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
Any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And you are the one who'll decide where to go ..."
- Dr. Seuss



Great Adventures
Chic Chocs 2002 X-C Skiing Trip Report

Chic Chocs 2003 Telemark Trip Report

Patagonia Cycling Trip 2004 (Posted by Nick and Andrew)

European Cycling Trip 2005

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Bio
Who: Benjamin Heumann

Where: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Why: Graduate School

Major Malfunctions: Snow, Telemark Skiing, Snoeshowing, monkeys, Winter Camping, Back Country Skiing, Hiking, Cycling, monkeys, Sea Kayaking, and Rivers (river monkeys).

e-mail:benjamin.heumann [at] mail.mcgill.ca

Current Reading:The Star Diaries Lem
Books of Note (Recently Read):
The Futurological Congress, Lem
Before Mao, Patrick Lescot
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Plot Against America, Phillip Roth
The Great Shark Hunt Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, R.I.P.
Stranger in a Strange LandRobert A. Heilein
Give War A Chance PJ O'Rourke
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Animal Farm
Reefer Madness
Cadillac Desert
Ender's Game (again)
Kingdom of Fear
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Links
School
Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre
Homepage

Other Internet Readings
McGill
The Sardonic Subversive (Matthew)
Redneck With Books (Evan)
Dithie
Former McGill GIS Lecturer, Matt Stevenson
Oriana aka O-town

Michigan
Common Monkey Flower (Murph)
Esther
Ann Arbor is Overrated
Arbor Update

The Pros and The Like
Crooked Timber
Live From the Third Rail
Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity
The Drug War Rant The Agitator
Geography Links
Map Room
Geography in the News
Canadian Geographic
Ski Maps!
Flight Maps
EU Pipeline Maps
Money Maps
Ancient Rome Maps
Ancient Greece
Recent Earthquakes
Atlas of the Biosphere
McGill Geography Undergraduate Society


Current Terror Alert(!?):

"When you think of how many kids died drinking alcohol, I feel I've saved millions of lives," -Tommy Chong

 
AT LEAST ONE POST FOR FEBRUARY:
Not much posting. I've been really busy with lecturing (see below), some research, visiting prospective universities (UWisc - had a great visit, in case anyone from SAGE happens to read this ;) and UNC - visiting March 1st - 4th), and becoming a normal social human being again, which means going out to dinner, seeing movies, going to the bar to hear music rather than drown my academic pains, and even *gasp* dating. Also, I've been approached by too many people to really post anything personal anymore (a professor in my department who just discovered Google has now read this blog, and all of the links including a trip report from last summer for paddling on the Petawawa River, in which I placed a video via YouTube of my friends Erica and Anthony navigating some rapids rather...umm...uniquely shall we say...Erica is in said professor's class and has had to face some embarrassment due to the publicity of her paddling skills) and I don't have the initiative to make this a more professional oriented type blog. On the subject that this blog claims to be, adventures in the great outdoors and university, I have had some great skiing and snowshoeing over the last week. Too bad I leave tomorrow for 6 days in the Arizona desert...it seemed like a good idea when there wasn't any snow here...then between 6 inches and 5 feet fell last week within a two hour drive of Montreal - damn.



from PhDcomics.com (how can Jorge read my mind? kidding, actually I kind of enjoy lecturing although it can be a bit intense...mostly just annoying though because I have to be on top of my game all the time even though only 1/4 of the students are on top of theirs).



thank goodness I had the sense not to date one of my students (in case you don't read this comic regularly, the guy is the boyfriend and prof of the girl on the left)...
Monkeys invaded Ben's brain at 9:52 AM