Update that I couldn't think of a name for

So, I discovered, that one conor carpenter has been creating blogs designed to make fun of my blogs. I say... congradtulations. I wish I'd thought of that! Its way better than my idea of creating facebook groups aimed to make fun of single people, blogs that make fun of other blogs. I might start a blog just to make fun of fred. of course fred doesn't believe in recorded history so he may not read my blog.

I went to the beach today - it rained.

Emma is my current favorite person.

Sunday in Maine

So its Sunday. I'm in maine. There isn't much to do which means of course that I am tooling around on the internet looking for cool stuff. I checked out jon's blog and discovered a link to another mutual friend's blog and it turns out that this dude, henry work, is a juggler and I'm a juggler and we didn't even realize and there could have been lots of fun but... nobody knew. Oh well. So I'm just going to hang out today and maybe go for a bike ride.

Last night lila and I hung out with chewonki people and played a pretty cool drinking game called bite the bag. You get drunk. Then you stand on one foot, bend over to a paper bag and bite it, all while standing on one foot, then you stand up. You can then put both feet on the ground and tear off a small piece of the bag. You put that piece in the bag and then its the next person's turn. Everyone takes turns and it gets progressively harder as the bag gets progressively shorter. Most fun when very drunk already.

Also I've learned a lot about car stereos recently as I'm getting lila one for her birthday. If anyone has any questions about car stereos direct them to jon todd as he probably knows way more than me about them. Also check out the snazzy link to jon's site. Its totally sweet and rad and awesome.

Post First Trip with Kids

Had really crazy kids - had to give a sexual harassment talk - they learned the hard way why you should zip up your tent when you leave it (rain) Had a kid who forgot his water bottle probably like thirty six times. Had a kid who couldn't kayak who kept getting pinned by the tide against our swimming docks. When I went to help him out, I flipped my kayak! Which was totally sweet because another one of my campers had just decided to have a race and had flipped his kayak so he felt a lot better when I flipped mine too.

The weekend is here which is basically a time to do laundry take showers eat some decent food and sleep before it all starts again on monday.

My hair gets greasier than anything you could imagine when I'm in the woods for a week without a shower.

But I'm having a great time and as you all can see there is now a link to jontodd.com on the blog so you ought to ch-ch-check it out.

Whatever asshole

Whatever asshole who started a blog just to make fun of my blog and say that no one in the blogging community reads my blog I give the finger. Seriously, who starts a blog to make fun of another blog. Blogs are already kinda lame. Whats lamer, a blog about me or a blog that makes fun of the blog about me.

I get my first captive audience tommorrow. I've got this kid coming who is a sixth grader and thinks he knows everything about physics and engineering and string theory and computer programing. Because he got some lego set that let you build lego robots and program them. He is going to be my personal project.

Spent the weekend in new hampshire relaxing. It was nice.

Spent the afternoon at the kitteray trading post discussing the merits of various sandals specifically footbed contours. Interestingly this is not the first time I've done this. Came away with a pair of tevas which I'm happy with.

Spent the evening unpacking the car, finally moving into my house, reading med forms and thinking of funny shit to say to fred who seems to think that I'm waiting to make fun of him but I'm not and I'd really like to hear about his elaborate plan to move in early but think he is being hypocritical with his view on recorded history.

Read "Bringing down the House" The book about the MIT grads who went to vegas and became pro card counters. It was pretty interesting and I'm planning on mailing it to avery who will appreciate it and probably try to start counting cards and probably loose some money and get beaten up in a back room.

Speaking of avery and his "buddy" eric penley - recieved a phone call from each without a message just to give me there phone numbers. This makes me feel good as I know that they are at least reading my emails or my blog.

Got to go and finish unpacking then repack for the week.

Training continues

Training continues - we did something called the barn climb - a series of high ropes course elements all set up inside a barn unlike anything I've ever seen before -> and I've seen it all. Been having a lot of fun - the staff is coming together nicely. Next week we are on encampment throughout the week so probably no updates until friday - also this weekend going to new hampshire to see lila who is there right now. Next update is sunday night.

Wrote a haiku about 15 year old children
Mom, leave me alone
want to hang out with my friends
really, who am I?

almost a haiku
Schools out for summer
I went to the dangerzone
opps, I did it again.

I went and got indian food with emma yesterday - the only thing I don't like about indian food is that you smell like it all next morning and if you didn't eat breakfast you're just hungry and tempted all day by those wondrous aromas that are still on your breath and on your finger tips. Man.

Alright - I've got some more unpacking to do.
I didn't do anything stupid today so it was a good day.

Also - no one has commented on my blog yet so clearly no one is reading it. All my friends know this address - checking the blog should become as automatic as checking away messages.

Yes emma, I know you check my blog.

1st day

So first day, fun - uneventful until I backed my car into a ditch and had to get triple A to come tow it out.

The misadventures of dave continue.

Chewonki

So, its sunday night and tommorrow I start at chewonki. Lots of stuff has gone on in the last few days.
So I went to visit my old summer camp (and to visit adam, my bro) and I've decided that I really want to try to go back there sometime soon.

I went home for a few days. I'd say my mom is now completely off her rocker as opposed just mostly off her rocker. Sam (my other bro) has recently reached an entirely new level of obnoxiousness. Its very facetious but incredibly rude and insulting. My dad has recently started growing tomatos, he's bricked in parts of our yard trying to make it look fancier and is currently building a wall in our stream. If he has left over rocks he's going to make a waterfall.

Lila is good. We move into our housing for the fall on wednesday. We actually have a house to ourselves (spare bedroom) so visitors are encouraged.

A new mom story : The time mom wouldn't shut the door when I was naked
So we briarcliff at 10 pm to drive five hours up to the adirondacks to the middle of nowhere so mom can go to this art exhibit the next morning. We drive for three hours in a wicked rainstorm (thunder lightning dogs and cats sleeping together) and eventually we get to where we're going. We go to sleep in this tiny room. Next morning we wake up and I get in the shower and so on. I went in to the bathroom in dirty underwear and I had clean ones so I wanted to put new ones on, so I go out of the bathroom naked, not a big deal in my family. However, the door to the motel is wide open and there are people outside. I go, "Mom can you shut the door?" She makes a big fuss and then half-heartedly pushes on the door which doesn't shut. So I'm like "Whatever." But then these tourist types start standing in front of our door so i go "Mom, come on, shut the door!" She bitches a little and then goes into the bathroom. She comes out, yells at dad telling him that he should've shut the door (Despite the fact that she was about two feet away from it and he was probably like twelve feet away froom it) and then gets in her car (we went up in three cars) and drives away!!

Anyways its pouring rain here, all the other new staff has to sleep in tents because their housing isn't ready yet but I get to stay with lila which is infinetly preferable.

Tommorrow should be fun and action packed.

I saw ella yesterday.
Conor got an electronic drum set. I am very proud of him.
I found my orientation shorts and am wearing them.

Emma says my hair is cute.
My doctor says I should get tested for allergies but I don't want to because a runny nose builds character.

End of summer

So summer is ending and with it is my sojurn in the Hatch Science Library. Although the sciecne library is air conditioned and fairly easy place to work I'm pretty happy I'm done. Here's a list of stuff about me and the library.
Favorite Journal Title: Neuroendocrinology
Favorite Journal Article: A math professor rewrote the words to Jenny (867-5309) to match pi (3.145309)
Best Realization: Books on traveling are the science library, so when you want to find a travelers guide to maine cerca 1879, this is the place to look.
Best thing I learned: How to search the USGS map index for free maps.

I'm going home for about a week to sort stuff out and such with clothing and then I'm heading back to maine to work at Chewonki in Wiscasset. I'm teaching Environmental Science and taking kids on camping trips.

Now for the funny stuff:
Jon Todd and I have done nothing but play Warcraft III for the past three days. I dreamed last night that I was an Orc named Bloodtooth and I was battling the evil humans. This heavy dose of computer game play has been supplemented by watching 10 episodes of "Mobile Suit: Gundam Wing" as well as two episodes of "Astro Boy". Futhermore I've been drunk and high a lot in the last two days so figure that in as you will. My room is a mess. My fish tank has turned green. I went to the beach a few days ago. It was totally awesome.

Did you know: During the summer seadogs games sell out?