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Last night I made some delicious lemon-pepper chicken with rice. Probably gonna have the leftovers for lunch today, and possibly gonna make some more ceviche to finish up the bags of lemons and limes I bought. DELICIOUS!! post a comment
Wow!! Well since my last post...I stayed on the G&F till December and have been making better money on unemployment than going back to Albertsons. I was promised I'd be re-hired with G&F this summer, untill the economy went to shit and the governor put a hiring freeze on all state government jobs..they still havn't heard whether I'll be re-hired or not, therefore I have an interview with the Colorado Department of Wildlife on Mon. It would be pretty much the same kind of work but on Sage Grouse in NW Colorado. We'll see what happens I guess!!! I hope I get something though, I'm starting to get bored just sitting at home all day...
Havn't updated in awhile, and since I'm stuck in a shitty hotel room in Medicine Bow, WY (population 724), while it continues to rain and my boss holds on to the vain hope that we'll get in some spotlighting tonight, I might as well. Things have been crazy. Between trapping ferrets, working at Starbucks, trying to get my apartment flood free, moving Michelle in with me, and labelling moths (which I need to do more of actually), well, there ya go!! Trapping ferrets has been fun, they're so damn cute! Kind of tough, the hours are from 6pm to 6am and while the driving routes are hard to stay awake on, a walking route requires you to walk around ALL night with a 20lb pack containing 1 or 2 traps, a gigantic spotlight battery, and burrow plugs. First week I caught 1, twice. Second week I caught 6. Third week I caught 1. This week, I havn't even seen any. But we've been rained on all week and I have a walking route that requires a mile and a half long ride on an ATV with my pack on, in the dark, to even get to, so I have to say I havn't tried that hard either. We didn't even really make it out last night. I think my boss doesn't really hold out any hope tonight, but he's gonna check the area out about midnight anyways to see if it's dried out and we can get in half a night, but I doubt it. It's been raining all day and it'll take alot to dry that area out....
"...there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence." --Paulo Coelho-- pg. 214 The Zahir 1 comment | post a comment
The last two days have been interesting to say the least. Yeterday, while I was mapping a 2.5 mi long town, I was shot at by a guy shooting the prairie dogs in my vicinity. Not cool. Not cool at all. And I know he could see me, I'm in a bright red shirt for Christ's sake!!! I just kept walking till I was out of the immediate area he was shooting in...I was in the middle of the town and I wasn't about to cut through it to tell some idiot who had to have seen me, that I was out there!! I then ran out of points when I only had a mile left, so I had to walk that mile back to my truck to meet Nate and download my points, then walk it two more times, once to finish it, and then again, back to my truck. Even more walking today, though thankfully no prairie dog hunters.....So this morning, got a late start, that was delayed even longer by picking up a dog along the highway that I almost hit, twice, and waiting for her owners to come get her at the Loaf'N'Jug. Finished a 2 mile long town (that's 4 mi round), met Nate for lunch, then went to finish do the last town in my area....fucker took up a huge valley, 3.5 miles long and connected to a town I'd done earlier in the week. Bout 7 mi later, finally got back to my truck and realized there was an ear of it a little farther north I'd missed, thought I would try to drive around it...way bad idea. Came up on this dry creek bed, thought I found my best chance to cross, but I got stuck. Admitted it a half hour later and thank God I had cell service....Called Nate around 3:30, left a message and started walking towards where he would be coming from. He didn't get the message till a little after 4, and it took him till just before 5 to get down there. By that time, I had walked another 3.5 miles through the center of the town (I'm glad I finished it though!) and down the road before he picked me up. So I walked almost 15 miles today, but at least I wasn't lost, and at least I wasn't shot at!! 1 comment | post a comment
Love grows in me like a tumor,
So today kinda really sucked. Nate and I trying to cover a huge area that's never been mapped before, so we've been going at both sides of it on our own. Nate got lost yesterday, so I guess it was my turn or soemthing, and I wasn't even really lost if I'd just trusted my GPS. I got to this prairie dog town, parked on where I thought was the edge, got out there and realized it was bigger than I thought and I was like, right in the middle of it. I was running low on GPS memory and I'd already been out there for more than and hour, so I decided I would just get the half of it on the side of the road I thought I was on...turns out I'd crossed the stupid little two-track some point back so when I kept on going and not getting to a road, I decided to GPS back to my truck. When I went the mark in my GPS, it kept telling me my truck was a little more than a half mile behind me when I thought it was in front of me since I THOUGHT I hadn't crossed the road yet. I followed it anyway (Thank GOD), since we all know my direction since isn't what it should be, but when my GPS kept telling me I was getting closer and closer to it and I still couldn't see it, I kinda freaked out. Thought I might have renamed the wrong point for my truck or accidentally deleted it or something but I must have parked in this little hollow kind of area, cause I was less than 0.2 mi (practially on top of it) before my truck came into view. I was so relieved, you don't even know! I practially broke down right there...THANK GOD I marked my truck in the first place, Laurie says she's way bad at remembering to do that, and I can tell you what, I'm NEVER again getting out of it without marking it first.I could have been wandering for hours. As it was I got back here right at 5, then had to go with Laurie to get my camper from Riverton. Good news...my fridge no longer runs on propane, if it did tho, the regulator is now fixed so I wouldn't run out every 24hrs, and my door locks properly!! Bad news...I might be getting a roomate which would end up being way cramped in this little thing. That's not for sure yet tho. More good news...I found a perfect silk moth today at the Maverick. I keep wanting to say it's a Cecropia but it seems a little small. I'll look it up in a bit. It's beautiful tho. Anyways, it's been a really long day and I'm beat...time for bed. post a comment
All Over You - The Spill Canvas
So I've been at my new job for two days...nothing exciting yet, office work, getting all the nongame vehicles equipped, checking prairie dog traps, and mending mist nets. I'm staying in a camper at the Lander Game and Fish office...the one they originally wanted to give me is having electricity issues, so I'm in the bear guys camper since they're gone for the week and they left it unlocked. It's actually newer than mine but a little cramped. My partner's name is Nate, he's from Iowa and is actually renting a small house in town with a friend who is also from his school and got a job with the fisheries out here. They've been here for two weeks...We each get our own GF vehicle and we have yet to figure out something on that to see if there's a time we can take it to Cheyenne so I can use that to go back and forth. Right now, we're having pretty normal 8-5 shifts just doing things around the office. Today we left off helping the bat guy, Todd, mend holes in the mist nets and inventory some of his equipment. Next week I think we're gonna start trapping some prairie dogs for Montana (apparently they don't have enough cause they want 100) and I think after that we'll start mapping prairie dog towns. Ferret surveys won't actually start till middle August. I'm hoping we figure something out with the vehicle cause I estimate I'll be spending about $80/week just to get here and back. There will probably be some weekends I just stay up here, or maybe go to Worlad/Thermop since they're so close. I would almost do that permanently but if I give up Patti's apt now, I don't know if I'll be able to find something else when this job is over and I don't want to be stuck living with my parents again, this time in Thermop...I have yet to figure out what I'm going to do with Ember too...other than those two issues, I'm still really excited about it!! post a comment
Since nobody seems to want to answer the insect question, I will!! It's a more interesting one anyway....
So I think I'm really going to enjoy the summer....gonna be way busy but it'll take my mind off other things. Picked up a bunch of stuff from CSU yesterday for the labelling and it's gonna be way easier than I thought, no identification, just cutting out and pinning already made labels of location and collector to the moths. I brought home 8 boxes I'm doing that for and 3 more that are already labelled and identified from Teton National Park that I'm compiling a list for. Exciting!! I can definately see myself doing this in my free time, enjoying it, and getting paid $10/hr for it! I'm reporting to Lander by 1pm on Monday for the ferret thing...Mon and Tues are paperwork and figuring out a schedule for the rest of the summer, Weds thru Thurs we start some prairie dog stuff. I figure I'll come home Thurs night, and hopefully move some furniture into my apt on Fri. I agreed to work for Connie that Sat, but we'll have to see how that goes...I'm too damn nice sometimes! post a comment
So things are better, moving out soon...I actually get my key today so I can start moving my stuff although the second bedroom isn't finished yet...Found out Thurs that I got the black-footed ferret research job with the Game and Fish Dept and I'm really excited about it but I still feel kinda depressed....why? idk....possibly to do with one particular person that I don't feel like getting into details about. So on to what I know about my new job so far....I start on the 2nd, hours are supposed to be flexible as long as I get 40 in a week, either 4, 10hr days or 5, 8hr ones. I'll be staying in a trailer in Medicine Bow (I think) during the work week, which is a couple hrs from here so I'm gonna try and do the 4, 10 hr days most weeks so I can have the three day weekend. Pay starts at $12/hr and goes up to $14.41 when we start the night surveys in July. I'll be working with a partner, who I've assumed is a guy since I was asked twice if I was ok staying in a co-ed trailer. Some days I could be walking up to 10 miles a day, so I'm gonna be in great shape by the end of the summer and I'm just so friggin happy that I only have a week left at Starbucks and I'm starting something worthy of my degree even though it's only temporary. I'm going to be doing the CSU moth labelling job for Paul in my spare time, I go down there tomorrow to learn procedure and get everything I need. I still have the choice of going to CSU as a guest student starting in August, but Aimie also told me that the census bureau is gonna be hiring aound that time too....HOPEFULLY though, Game and Fish will have something else for me by then but we'll see.... post a comment
So basically, I'm still not getting any, I'm stuck at a job I hate, I was officially rejected from grad school, AND the game and fish job, but hey! I'm moving out of my parents basement soon! so I guess that's a plus... post a comment
Wierdest thing...ran into Buster Rainwater today at Cinzetti's in Denver. Brought back alot of high school memories, not necessarily with him cause, to tell the truth, alot of my long term memories kinda blur together. It was just odd, since the first time I went to Cinzetti's was on my high school senior trip, and then to run into someone from high school there....my cousin Dana came and GOD, she never shuts her face. Glad I had my iPod :-) My mom's in the mood she always gets into here, has to be a bitch to dad and i because she can't stand her mother....all in all, I can't wait to go home tomorrow. 1 comment | post a comment
Getting and completing my internship in Costa Rica. They journey to get there involved applying and then being narrowed down to 50 from over 100 applicants, then down to the 12 who got it. I still can't beleive it. Then going to Costa Rica, meeting my fellow REU's, hauling all our shit over the swinging bridge and through the rainforest in 90 degree heat and 100% humidity to our rooms. Next day involved going on a 3 hr hike through La Selva in rubber boots with no support, after years of no kind of regular activity that would even prepare me for this! Then meeting my mentor, and putting together a project to then hike out into the rainforest (at one point 45 min out and 45 min back) almost every day for the next 9 weeks to watch spindly little red ants, be rained on, aquire a bot fly, and be attacked by other insects and trees to get my data. It was amazing though, the humidity did greatness for my dry skin, I got in shape and lost 15 lbs. The food could get a little repetitive, but the fruit was amazing, the people were amazing, and the wildlife was amazing. When it flooded, we partied, when somebody was leaving, we partied, when new people arrived, we partied...you know, whenever we found an excuse. But we all finished our projects and we all did good on them and now here I am, trying to get into grad school, and despite being AWARDED this amazing experience, it seems I'm fucked because of my GPA. Life just kind of sucks right now. My parents are leaving Cheyenne soon and pushing me to figure out what i"m gonna do with my life when I DON'T KNOW. The only thing I DO know is that I'm leaving Albertsons soon. I've applied for a job with Game and Fish, but I won't even know about that till August and I wouldn't start till almost next year. I'm applying with Allstate tonight, and American National Bank probably tomorrow but those 2 jobs, although better than where I'm at now, have nothing to do with my degree. Everything I've looked at (except this Game and Fish position) requires at least a masters, which I can't get if nobody will accept my to grad school!!!!!!!! FUCK IT ALL! 1 comment | post a comment
He struts up to me
My feelings. I always end up hearing something or seeing something though, that seems to work perfectly for that moment. Many of the little blurbs I post or put on my txt signature seem random but usually aren't. They're never my own words though, and that bothers me sometimes... post a comment
Toothpaste CD Book 2 comments | post a comment
My last day off for the week...I'm so glad I had the weekend though. Got into Denver from Belize around 10pm, didn't get back home till about 1am Thurs, had to work at 8:30am to 4:30pm, again on Fri 6am to 2:30, then had to drive to Ft. Collins to get my tattoo done because my artist, Than, got the days he worked down there (every other Friday) mixed up when he made my appt.....
Tonight...but whatever. If I would just stop trying, I wouldn't get let down now would I? post a comment |
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