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so as per request from miss jo-i'm updating.
gawd what is wrong with me.
so i shall tell you how i ended the new year, how i spent the new year and how i started of the new year. i'll tell you all right now it was all at my own expense but proved to be really good laughs...mostly for those around me. i laughed too, because you have to or you'll start to feel sorry for yourself.
ending the new year:
so i was out in the field, most of my adventures are usually out in the field while working. and we were doing point transects in scrub over at a mitigation site on the prima de shecha landfill near san juan capistrano. we had just finished this ungodly 100 meter transect and we were sitting around eating lunch and i was showing heather (the botanist) some plants that we couldn't figure out. i had just finished showing her the last plant and i had the bag in my lap when i hear WHAP!! and i feel something land in my lap. i thought someone threw something at me so i look up and around before actually looking down. finally i looked down and all of us (all girls) were like oh ew. there are tons of seagulls and vultures around-it's a landfill. and some vulture dropped it lunch on me. for the record i did not get shit on. he dropped carnage on me. yep, pure raw possibly regurgitated CARNAGE. thank GAWD. i had a plastic bag on my lap, but i tell ya...it splattered all over. not on me though...just around. so i threw the bag off my lap and we all started laughing...nikki the most and laurie was like what IS that?!! i was like i think it WAS a small child. at which point nikki was like and somewhere out there a soccer mom is PISSED!! in which we all laughed some more because if we didn't we all would have puked. seriously, i must be a biologist if i didn't completely freak out. sooooo gross though.
new years:
so i go to amy's and we head to west hollywood for the gay bars. of course. that's all we go to anyways and her roommate works at the bar. so it's me, amy and her sister becca. there were these deaf guys sitting down the table from us and they had probably been there about an hour when amy turned to both of us and was like OMIGOD! those guys are deaf! and we were like uh...yeah-you didn't notice that? she was like i just thought they were eavesdropping on us! yeah we weren't even drunk yet. the night went pretty much like this, becca married amy off to a gay boy from wisconsin whose parents want grand-kids, becca gets a jet out of it, and amy and the boy get to go fishing. what do i get? i get to wear a pretty dress. awesome. then it gets blurry from there. all i remember is puking in a garbage can, that's about the time the night ended for me. i think i took a bunch of pictures with people but i can't remember. good times all around. we had a good laugh about that in the morning.
starting off new years:
back in the field for me. they're seeding at our mitigation site at pendleton i have my seed list and i go to meet with the landscapers, i'm already running late and they can't start seeding without the map. so i get there i take a look at the seed list on the bag and compare it with mine and they don't match up...uh oh. okay... oh and where's the seeds for the sandbar willow habitat...not there. hmmm...okay i'll be right back. so i drive over to the environmental office where the civilian biologists work and i look for the arroyo toad guy. bob. i find him and i tell him what the situation was and he apparently already hates the landscapers and so he was pissed off and told me to tell them to go back get it right and confirm with us. i'm alright so i go back and tell them to stop. i start driving back and i'm back at the office when my supervisor calls and was like why did you stop the seeding. i was like well they didn't have the right seed mix and they forgot one of the mixes. he was like what version are you looking at. i was like VERSION!? sonovabitch!!!!!!!! so i go digging around and there's like 10 different draft versions and i had the WRONG ONE!!! i threw up a little in my mouth i will admit. so i hang up with him and frantically dial the landscapers and apologize profusely i felt soooo terrible. luckily for me he was really really nice and gracious about it. he told me not to worry about it. so then i call bob and apologize to him as well. he started cracking up. he thought it was hilarious! he told me not to worry and that the landscaper's deserved it. i told him please, it wasn't there fault and he still kept laughing. so the next day i went back so they could seed and i brought them candy. i think it worked.
so yeah....laughs on me...all around.
on another note. i met my new neighbor, he's a sweet boy who goes to art school. he's an illustration and web design major. i think. he's an awesome artist. he told me he got started doing graffiti, and he showed me some of his art. he'll be having a show at the awesome boutique i get all my gifts from in february. his art is gonna appear on some tshirts and i'm totally going to buy them. he does the most amazing things with colors! he came to me and asked if he bought me a wireless router could he use the internet. i was like ummm yeah sure, if you want. so he did! i pay for cable and internet and it's pretty inexpensive, but starving artist and all i guess. i don't mind. he wants to get his buddy to secure our wireless so nobody else can steal it. he offered to pay me some for the service and i told not to worry about it. he's very talented. i see good things for him in his future. he's already building a portfolio, he does tons of freelance stuff and right now he's working on a logo for a housing development in washington. he's got a wicked mac-book. i want one.
i'm supposed to hang out with some of my coworkers this evening to play poker and drink beer most is just about drinking beer. this is the first time i've hung out with any of my coworkers. they're young like me and so this should be interesting. we'll see.
there's your update. enjoy.
gawd what is wrong with me.
so i shall tell you how i ended the new year, how i spent the new year and how i started of the new year. i'll tell you all right now it was all at my own expense but proved to be really good laughs...mostly for those around me. i laughed too, because you have to or you'll start to feel sorry for yourself.
ending the new year:
so i was out in the field, most of my adventures are usually out in the field while working. and we were doing point transects in scrub over at a mitigation site on the prima de shecha landfill near san juan capistrano. we had just finished this ungodly 100 meter transect and we were sitting around eating lunch and i was showing heather (the botanist) some plants that we couldn't figure out. i had just finished showing her the last plant and i had the bag in my lap when i hear WHAP!! and i feel something land in my lap. i thought someone threw something at me so i look up and around before actually looking down. finally i looked down and all of us (all girls) were like oh ew. there are tons of seagulls and vultures around-it's a landfill. and some vulture dropped it lunch on me. for the record i did not get shit on. he dropped carnage on me. yep, pure raw possibly regurgitated CARNAGE. thank GAWD. i had a plastic bag on my lap, but i tell ya...it splattered all over. not on me though...just around. so i threw the bag off my lap and we all started laughing...nikki the most and laurie was like what IS that?!! i was like i think it WAS a small child. at which point nikki was like and somewhere out there a soccer mom is PISSED!! in which we all laughed some more because if we didn't we all would have puked. seriously, i must be a biologist if i didn't completely freak out. sooooo gross though.
new years:
so i go to amy's and we head to west hollywood for the gay bars. of course. that's all we go to anyways and her roommate works at the bar. so it's me, amy and her sister becca. there were these deaf guys sitting down the table from us and they had probably been there about an hour when amy turned to both of us and was like OMIGOD! those guys are deaf! and we were like uh...yeah-you didn't notice that? she was like i just thought they were eavesdropping on us! yeah we weren't even drunk yet. the night went pretty much like this, becca married amy off to a gay boy from wisconsin whose parents want grand-kids, becca gets a jet out of it, and amy and the boy get to go fishing. what do i get? i get to wear a pretty dress. awesome. then it gets blurry from there. all i remember is puking in a garbage can, that's about the time the night ended for me. i think i took a bunch of pictures with people but i can't remember. good times all around. we had a good laugh about that in the morning.
starting off new years:
back in the field for me. they're seeding at our mitigation site at pendleton i have my seed list and i go to meet with the landscapers, i'm already running late and they can't start seeding without the map. so i get there i take a look at the seed list on the bag and compare it with mine and they don't match up...uh oh. okay... oh and where's the seeds for the sandbar willow habitat...not there. hmmm...okay i'll be right back. so i drive over to the environmental office where the civilian biologists work and i look for the arroyo toad guy. bob. i find him and i tell him what the situation was and he apparently already hates the landscapers and so he was pissed off and told me to tell them to go back get it right and confirm with us. i'm alright so i go back and tell them to stop. i start driving back and i'm back at the office when my supervisor calls and was like why did you stop the seeding. i was like well they didn't have the right seed mix and they forgot one of the mixes. he was like what version are you looking at. i was like VERSION!? sonovabitch!!!!!!!! so i go digging around and there's like 10 different draft versions and i had the WRONG ONE!!! i threw up a little in my mouth i will admit. so i hang up with him and frantically dial the landscapers and apologize profusely i felt soooo terrible. luckily for me he was really really nice and gracious about it. he told me not to worry about it. so then i call bob and apologize to him as well. he started cracking up. he thought it was hilarious! he told me not to worry and that the landscaper's deserved it. i told him please, it wasn't there fault and he still kept laughing. so the next day i went back so they could seed and i brought them candy. i think it worked.
so yeah....laughs on me...all around.
on another note. i met my new neighbor, he's a sweet boy who goes to art school. he's an illustration and web design major. i think. he's an awesome artist. he told me he got started doing graffiti, and he showed me some of his art. he'll be having a show at the awesome boutique i get all my gifts from in february. his art is gonna appear on some tshirts and i'm totally going to buy them. he does the most amazing things with colors! he came to me and asked if he bought me a wireless router could he use the internet. i was like ummm yeah sure, if you want. so he did! i pay for cable and internet and it's pretty inexpensive, but starving artist and all i guess. i don't mind. he wants to get his buddy to secure our wireless so nobody else can steal it. he offered to pay me some for the service and i told not to worry about it. he's very talented. i see good things for him in his future. he's already building a portfolio, he does tons of freelance stuff and right now he's working on a logo for a housing development in washington. he's got a wicked mac-book. i want one.
i'm supposed to hang out with some of my coworkers this evening to play poker and drink beer most is just about drinking beer. this is the first time i've hung out with any of my coworkers. they're young like me and so this should be interesting. we'll see.
there's your update. enjoy.