Protension: the online journal of Tom Elgin

Sometimes it’s hard to believe I’m living in a real city with real adults.

Check out this page in the Portland Mercury (a local newspaper). Scroll down to “Urban Golf.”…

The second reason Portland rocks (after the people that live here) is, of course, the people that work here. Everyone knows that my last job, coordinating Orientation Adventure, rocked. So I’ll use a photo essay to show how The Bus = OA = hella tight. On the left is the New, on the right is […]

I had promised to post more about my week and a half in Oahu… here goes.

This is the view I got one afternoon after doing some day hiking above Waikiki (which is the beach just east of Honolulu).

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More pictures are up on my .Mac account. I even captioned them!

This is part 1 because I feel that more will come… Actually this is maybe the third or fourth major trend of goodness that has met me in Portland, but it’s what’s on my mind now so it’s part 1…

The People that Live Here. In my search for housing for the rest of this semester I visited four places tonight and at three of them I ended up meeting really interesting people and hanging out for over an hour… in fact that’s all I did from 6 to 11pm.

Just when it seemed like everything was going my way and life couldn’t be more fun and even if I’m as nice as I try to be I must’ve used up my good karma by now… some crackhead in San Francisco broke into my car.

I just came to O’ahu for my cousin Jeff’s wedding last Sunday and I’ve been touring the island on my own since then.

I feel a drop of warm liquid hit my hand. That better not be blood. I hear the hiss of air leaving a tire. Damn. On the bright side, I got excitement and an opportunity to practice.

I arrived in my future new-home! I like Portland. I’m heading off with family in a minute to see the coast, as is our tradition. Mon-Wed I get to spend visiting friends and future coworkers.