coming back from my first hitch with the big bend desert trail crew, i was reminded of other returnings ( Read more... )

hey so, i was just sitting there reading those funny online comics and listening to some punk rock. yessir, this year is shaping up to be awesome!

happy halloween!

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strange how regret comes stinging unexpectedly, like the mayfly that bit me out of nowhere last month. i was chainsawing on a city of austin preserve, when i felt a concentrated but intense pain coming from the part of my hand between the thumb and wrist. i shut the saw off and threw down my glove, to see a green, long bodied little bug stabbing ( Read more... )

ive told people before about a time in my life that i actually remember pretty fondly. i lived in colorado with a friend of mine for a summer about four years ago. we were vegetarians but didnt really know how to cook, so we attempted to subsist off of chocolate soy milk and something we called 'mexican star soup' (basically alphabet pasta* in ( Read more... )

when my crew went to angelina national forest in east texas to do cleanup and assessment from hurricanes rita and ike, i got an idea. i had heard since i joined ecorps that a tea could be brewed from the leaves of the yaupon holly, an understory tree native to much of the state. recently i had also read accounts in the narrative of cabeza de vaca ( Read more... )

earlier this evening i was in a four-tier human pyramid. four-tier!

who will watch the watchmen? <--who will guard against cliches? <--who will cliche the cliched?

the idea came to us, i think, while we were dancing. dancing, like many of the things i really love doing, is not something that i am particularly good at. the action is its own reward ( Read more... )

strange, but in the last month i have twice been on a capitol metro bus that had to stop and transfer its passengers to another bus because of mechanical malfunctions. now, the only outward manifestation of this so far as i could tell either time was a completely obnoxious, extremely loud beeping noise coming from the console. im sure there's ( Read more... )