I'm in Homer, with a few of the people I'll be working with for the next 5 weeks, helping to get ready to go work out in the Bush! I expect to bring back an obscene amount of salmon ( Read more... )

I saw my sister graduate from Amherst on Sunday, and then went to visit with my maternal Grandmother, which has been a lot of fun. Among other things, we bought me my birthday present of some incredible new shoes (as pictured below) from my favorite shoe store anywhere and a book of Robert Service poems. Tomorrow, at 4:30 in the morning, I will ( Read more... )

Drove code red in the ambulance for the first time yesterday, and it was AWFUL. I don't know why everyone seems to enjoy it so much ( Read more... )

Last night I finished moving out of my shoebox in the dorm-style employee housing (since the house they were housing me in's lease ran out before I finished patrolling). Then, I came down to sleep at the FD (thought there were no calls), and actually slept in a little! I made pancakes this morning, and cleaned the kitchen ( Read more... )

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I moved out of my happy unicorn rainbow land dream house yesterday (because the resort gave up the lease) and into the dorm-style employee housing. It's dorm-y, but the people I'm living with are nice. We went out to dinner last night after which I slept through them drinking when we got back ( Read more... )

I had an accident today, at work. Because I am very inexperienced at snow machining, I have been practicing doing exercises with one of my coworkers. I'm not sure what happened, but the last thing I remember was losing control on some higher angle terrain and sliding backwards ( Read more... )

I broke up with Eric the night before last. We had a heart-to-heart, because I was getting really attached and needed to know whether that was mutual and a good idea; I went into it with the thought that it was going to be one of those conversations where you say "we are official: let's make this work" and instead it became really clear that there ( Read more... )

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I had a good date Monday night, with my (new) friend Eric from security, and expect a fantastic one this Saturday. We went out to dinner, he didn't make a big deal over my fighting for the check, and then he came over for drinks. Today, he brought me a corkscrew (because I didn't have one and had to force the cork in my bottle), and nice beers of ( Read more... )