Well I'm off in about ten minutes to head to the airport for 12 days of backcountry camping, car camping, and hiking in Montana's Glacier National Park. (As for yesterday's Coalition of Graduate Employees Conference yesterday in Amherst -- awesome, and I learned a lot about grad students' place in the labor movement. I'm going to be looking for a chance to write on what those guys are up to.) I've been looking forward to this trip for several months now and everything I hear about Glacier paints a picture of one of the more beautiful places in America. I should get to see mountain goats and what's left of a few glaciers. I'll be back on the 23rd. Until then!

(Photo by Keirn via Flickr and under a Creative Commons license.)