apparently you thought i didn't know what sweat was. well now i do. i certainly do. i glisten like i'm covered in diamonds. and by diamonds i mean beads of wetness that attract dirt like a freakin magnet. basically what i'm trying to say is that i'm as dirty now as i usually get in the canyon. nothing i'm not used to. but the sweating is ( Read more... )

so once again, i feel it necessary to state that i haven't died. i've just been working in the flaming bowels of hell for the past few months. and that doesn't mean that i haven't been having a blast. that means that my place of work has now reached one hundred billion degrees. it's so hot out here, i can't tell you the number of times i've had ( Read more... )

i move out of california tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. as per usual, it's after midnight and i can't sleep. this always happens. without fail, the night before i set off on an adventure, no matter how tired i am, i can't sleep. i suppose if i were asleep right now i'd be worried. well... no. i'd be asleep. but somwhere in my brain the worry ( Read more... )

but i just got the call. 10 trips over the summer!!!! 10, ten, TEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! and for those of you who don't know what the hell i'm talking about, i got the call from my boss man out in AZ that i'll be working 10 whitewater trips down in the Grand Canyon over the course of the summer. and i could throw up. i'm so excited/nervous/giddy/scared ( Read more... )

spontaneous camping/kayak/rock climbing trip. aaaaaand go! see you guys in a few days!!!

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there are some times when i just don't feel like writing out the events of my life, no matter how hilarious or mundane those events may be. the past week and a half was one of those times. but for the sake of archiving, i will now give a brief glossing over of said events. ahem ( Read more... )

i'm about to get done with the first 8 hour "office" work shift that i have worked in almost a year. i now do part time work for a meeting facilitator company and i was supposed to meet a group of pharmaceutical big wigs at the airport this morning, but the company decided to fire their receptionist over the weekend and needed a last minute temp ( Read more... )

it occurs to me that i am seriously bored with my life right now. to the nth degree. i've started sleeping more. and that isn't good. so i've made a decision to shake things up a bit. i realize that i now have less than two months til i leave this place, but the stagnancy is starting to erode my brain away. and i've never really been scared to ( Read more... )

i saw brokeback last night. i am wrecked. totally wrecked for like the next week. i was bawling like a 6 year old who scraped her knee and knows how to work the crowd for sympathy. my aunt/cousin took me to go see it because she couldn't get it out of her head and we were both just destroyed. for those of you who haven't seen it DO NOT READ ( Read more... )