Carry Me Home

What am I doing?! I'm back in Missoula, already?

I found out at 5 pm that it was the weekend. Last summer I worked nine day hitches with five days off in between, but I guess early season work schedules the typical five day work week. I weighed the pros and cons of staying in the cabin and working over the weekend, but my sister's coming home from school, and I'd rather not slay my hands on anymore barbed wire. I could use the break.

My first two days were as monotonous as I expected. The first task consisted of cutting 2,600 yellow markers into 2" x 1.5" rectangles, and if that wasn't slow enough, I now have to cut 1.5 miles of barbed wire into 1 ft. Amy, the project manager, asked with a laugh if I got my tetanus shot, and I found out soon that it was not a laughing matter. As soon as she walked away I gashed my finger and had to make my usual make-shift bandage of paper towel and hockey tape. And a few feet of wire later I look like I'm a cutter with a nice slice in the wrist.

But the work will pay off. Amy's hinting that I will be able to do an early season hitch into the temperate rainforest of the Cabinet/ Yaak range outside Libby before the rest of the interns arrive the second week of June. Although I will have to carry the barbed wire and yellow markers I'm chopping up at the moment and nail them into the trees.

Next week will be long with a lot more pre work to be done, but I'm looking forward to it. I've also been talking to the leaders of the project, and they've given me the go ahead to work on my long-

form feature documentary on the Bear Crew. I don't think I understand how much work there is to be done to produce a documentary but oh well, I think it's what I want to do with my degree sometime in the future. So might as well start now.

Well, now that I'm home, I should get off here and do something. My room's replacement Clare Stolberg and I need to do some more rum drankin', too bad it's not Bundaberg. Yes, Michael Capozzoli, withdrawals indeed. Sailor Jerry will have to do.

cheerio,

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