so i finally found a job htat interests me.. too bad a bazillion other people are going to find it and i won't have a chance! it includes marketing, outdoor stuff and is just COOL! argh.

(and i'm not going to tell what it is.)

>>What have they got you guys doing? How is your schedule?
so they are keeping us kind of busy down here... we wake up at 715 for breakfast (at PTC... we are moving up in the world, kind of, we ahve choices of coffee creamers!) then we hit the road at 8 to drive to one of three sites... horse canyon, dean skyline, dan beard... all slightly steep but great views of baldy and hte spanish peaks and everythign... we usually work pretty hard till about noon... listen to good ol' 99.9 and 92.5 (which ever is playing van halen in the morning, more or less) then we lunch till one-ish... (we pack sandwhichs and snack-packs, etc.) we slacka bit more int he afternoon, but we usually average about 4 acres or so of straw and seed spreading... about 330-4 we drive back to the ranch, check mail, and shower. dinner at 6--they actaully serve some vegetarian type stuff, and since thre are so many less poeple its a bit more interesting and different... not always refried beans and burgers... then we bum till about 930 (bedtime for me.) the past couple of weeks ahven't been totally normal. there was a family fun-day whihc involved all the permanent staff at a bbq... we got the day off of work, and last weekend we went to a beerfest in denver... it was sweet. $30 and 120,000 sq. ft. of breweries in the denver convention center... ahh... we all stayed at ted peters (do you know him?) and got trashed. it was awesome. other than that its reall pretty relaxed. we watch a lot of movies (and continually quote the big lebowski, etc.)

>>What's up with things other than Fire rehab?
right now i don't have "things other than fire rehab"... i'm trying to figure out if i'm styaing for kanik (pretty sure that i am...) one of my firends asked if i wanted to move in with her in boston and work there, but i don't really think i want to ... i would jsut be temping and i would rather just stay in non-civiliazation till i actually find somethign i "want" to do. we have the elk hunt next week, so i think that i'm going to go tot he grand canyon... but i ahven't found anyone who "really wants to go with me... and i don't want to drive all the way on my own... i

>> Has anything prospect wise come around outside of the Philmont realm for you?
well, the boston thing, and thats about it... i'm actually better about applying for jobs now, but still not toatlly on par. i'm thinking about the peace corp and am pursuing an application there... (business-y stuff) and i scour websites pretty frequently... i just want to find something i'm going to like, right? dukeman and some others joke that i should be an ACR cause they dont do anything anyway, and by the time next summer comes around it will be "like i was here 3 years"... i told them i'm happy with RT if they will hire me... or ROCs... that sounds cool... who knows. i can't figure that far in advance... i'm afraid i'm not moving forward if i stay here? but i don't knwo... cause i like it here.

yet another silly link from gloria (the resident super vegetarian and enviornmentalist*... ) we have no lives here at philmont... what we do is spent either with straw or trying to keep our minds from thinking about more straw!

cows with guns

*but she is not a "class 5 vegan" --doesn't eat anything that casts a shadow

the ninja site

cool stuff

http://www.threebrain.com/weeeeee.shtml

strange lobster

notes on hte real world, from lauren keister:

but there's no room for me to grow, and i don't want to get stuck there in the desktop publishing quagmire of government-contracted mediocrity. so...that's that.

the things i get to look forward to!

so, i'm actually kind of worried here... i wonder if i'm regressing?

i was job searching today on the internet and then watched a movie ("almost famous") in the staff lounge (in my pjs, with a cup of coffee, out of boredom); it totally felt like freshman year at wash u. lee hall. sat. afternoon. procrastinating on homework. is this what it will be like if i stick around philmont for awhile? am i not growing up? and is this a bad thing?

in the thick of the work things here... we work pretty hard from about 9ish to about noon... then we eat a forever long lunch complete with joking and making fun of others... and (usually) we then work from about 1-330. or maybe earlier... it depends on how far we have to drive and what kind of mood we are in. i really like it though.

gloria showed me this funny website! yeah old school stuff! (don't pay attention to the bar at the top... and don't click on anything but the box with the mario thing.)

mario twins

i had my first day of work today... i think the fall shuld be pretty good...

we had breakfsat, packed our lunches and headed out to the work site (in horse canyon, part of the area that had 100% consumption, etc.) we talked abotu fire ecology for a while ... john celley told us about the ponil fire, pyric ecosystems, and philmont management... it was pretty interesting even though i had heard it before. it also took an hour out of our work.

we then learned HOW to do our job (ie spreading straw and raking and seeding) and covered an area of 1/4 of an acre... (took and hour)...

had lunch and then the rain thwarted the rest of our afternoon so i napped... i could ge tused to this, but i know it won't always be that cushy...

our goal fo rhte fall is 250 acres... so we arent' moving so quickly on that.

the people seem pretty cool though and we are watching simpsons like mad!