I have been fishing with my family the past two days. 

We caught 30 the first day and 24 the second day. 

Thats alot of fish, but needed for me to survive this semester.

Being a thug

I love fishing with my dad. Even if the catch is disappointingly small. 

Let ourselves be seen. 

 

Yesterday on our way home we saw this amazing sunset. Jen (other Jen, not me) snapped this photo. She has magic powers with the camera and wins flutes and other goodies at work for taking the best photos out in the field. 

  I got to work with my pal Mary again. Mary always has my back when we have to put the smack down on the girls.  But overall, Mary is one the coolest people I have met. She's legit and taught me how to bead like an indian.

Today: Its 6am, Im at the coffee shop, bumming internet, looking for housing, like a good student trying to defeat procrastination and dreaded homework. . But truth be told this housing assignment is the worst homework assignment someone could give me. I hate it. For some reason i'm convinced that where I live will determine my future. Heres how it goes in my head when Im viewing housing on craigslist:

"this house has a crappy living room, no one is going to want to hang out here, meaning no one will want to come over, meaning i'll be a lonely hermit for life..."

I know its ridiculous. 

I wish someone would just let me build an adult sized tree house in their backyard. 

This week in the field we climbed the white cliffs. It was an insane hike. I took the girls up the wrong part. Whoops. :) I also got to work with Mary this week! She's awesome. 

I doctored a lot of feet. 

These are my carpooling buddies, Mary and Jen. 

After we get out of the field we are usually pretty starving and always get a blackened chicken salad from Timberline and ice cream from DQ. 

Mary stealing the rolls

A few things

1. This week, out in the field Im going to make 

dream catchers with the girls...pumped!

2. I would like an overhead projector for this exact reason

3. Happy 4th, Im chewing  bubble gum, drinking a beer, and being dumb with fireworks......sounds pretty american to me. 

Molly's Thrift Store Addiction

Happenings

The recent happenings

For Cinco de Mayo I made this gigantic chile pepper shot line. May 5th brings me close to home. I remember the big festival that would take place at all the schools. Not only would there an assembly during school, but then around 4:00 the community would set up a big carnival at the school which included dancing, booths of tacos, beans, and horchata.  Now that I think about it; at school, Cinco may have been a bigger celebration than Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.

Just read this. Suelo lives without money, that is the premise of this book.  It invoked some interesting thoughts for me and am considering doing something similar to this after I graduate so that I can pay my loans off mucho rapido....which means I wouldn't be quitting money entirely. I think Suelo serves an interesting view, one point mentioned in the book is how we feed into a corrupt money system when we partake in money, my lamest comeback to Suelo is "well you don't have a period, try adding that to your moneyless equation!"

I decided to go to the Pride Festival this year. But I did alot of heavy contemplating before  I went.

Reasons why I thought I should ditch out:  because at times it can feel like no one cares about the cause but instead uses it as a way to scope out new flings, and be completely wasted. Go ahead have a celebratory drink but remember there are watching eyes. 

Reason to go: To support and to feel supported, because being gay can be really crappy at times.  As cheesy as this might sound, during the parade I felt like " Hey Jenn, look at all these people here and who support you, you're ok, and you can do this bebe." 

Worky 

Tomorrow I'll be back out in the field, which Im a tad nervous about. The girls group got 6 new girls this week, which means group dynamics may be a little whacky. I think Ill bring out my camera this week as I have no pictures of this year, maybe Ill heavy document so you can get the feel of what my day looks like.