Rar.

There is an inverse relationship between the amount of time Sam spends in the field and the amount of entries she posts on eljay. :P

( Babbling about holiday preparations with coworkers. Doesn't it just warm the cockles of your heart? Maybe below the cockles. Maybe in the sub cockle region. Maybe in the liver, the kidneys, maybe even in the colon. We dont know. )

There's also this, yoinked from recrudescence...



BAHAHHA. My insane laughter at these meme results might have startled everyone else in the office. I don't know exactly WHAT'S eati-i-i-ing the babies, but I like it. I like it a LOT. As do I enjoy the leaping non-lithified sediments.

Only a few more hours in the office, then Vagina meeting time! :D :D :D

WHY IS IT SNOWING OUTSIDE?! T_T I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN HOLIDAY SPIRIT, SKY! IT'S ONLY THE THIRD!

Useless update is useless, but I am killing time on the office computer 'cause we got snowed out of the field and I'm stuck officing until Friday. D: And I cleverly finished all my work yesterday. This MIGHT not be a bad thing, this forced hiatus, because Sunday's snow romps took more of a toll on me than I'd like to admit, and my coughing is teetering close to the side of this-is-how-you-sounded-every-time-before-pneumonia-struck-you-punk-kid-you.

My big win of the day today was getting chastised in the office for being too loud. I was singing Aqualung while printing out site maps. XD

Here's a warm fuzzy!!! One of my WSMR coworkers, Eric AKA Tlaloc, totally went to the coffee shop last night in hopes that I would be there so he could offer my a place to stay for the night cause of the snow. Cause he didn't know I had already moved down the hill. It was a very nice gesture!! I felt loved. Then we had a several hour discussion about Belize, sci-fi books, and Cthulhu.

I talked to my old landlord about coming up to lost lodge to get the rest of my stuff out of the trailer. Alas, the 'hood is still covered and no one can get in or out. Also no one has power. Alas. But at least Dwain doesn't care how long my stuff sits up there for. I would just like my photo albums and cookware and Wenceslas back. T_T

Nerd Alert! I really wish I had been into Heroes since the beginning, because now I feel terribly behind in the game. I totally watched episode one of the third season last night and almost had a meltdown when Mohinder's end monologue was Yeat's "The Second Coming". My fangirl levels have skyrocketed, but there is no one to skree too. Cause they're all screeing about much more recent episodes. Omg. "The Second Coming". Said by Mohinder. Excuse me while I melt. akebi#$%^fvhg4ethebgb!!!

I would say that I am going to start making WINTER HOLIDDDDAAAAAY cards for everyone, but I am notoriously bad about sending them out. I am ashamed! Heck, the CD that I made several weeks ago for julessayshello is still sitting in my trailer. You know, THE ONE COVERED IN SNOW. ::headdesk:: I should make that a goal, though. The sending of cards. Yesh.

Happy Tuesday!

TEH WINZ0rZ!



Wow, I didn't think I could pull it off two years in a row! I would feel a lot more "yay!" about this, but I'm pretty sure I have hantavirus ::weezes:: Also, I will miss the write ins at Plateau. I shall therefore celebrate my victory by drinking tea and watching Heroes. Cause Mohinder Suresh is an incredibly droolworthy man, and I fangirl him a little too much. /end babble

Thanksgiving in the ABQ was thebombdotcom.

-There was an attempt to deep fry two turkeys.
-The fire department was called on us.
-That grease stain is never coming off of the cement in Greg's back yard.
-Attempts to hook the neighbors up with some of the fire fighters?
-Tasty duck, two types of mashed potatoes, stewed spinach and tomatoes, dressing, and four different kinds of cheese.
-Running amok with Kari and Bill!
-Three pies and 10 bottles of wine CONQUERED.
-Four words. Star Trek Drinking Game.
-Next Day Kent and Sam adventures that ended in iphones and pretentious but amazing groceries from Trader Joe's.
-Pictures and videos to come when I find my camera cord. I think it's somewhere in my old trailer.

Oh yeah!! Ya'llz! I moved out of my trailer! This is sad but good at the same time, because it significantly lessens my chances of hantavirus and pneumonia. This morning I meant to have a leasurely move out. I cleverly thought I would miss the snowstorm that was scheduled to roll in tomorrow. But, upon waking up for breakfast I ound that the snow decided to come a day early. CLASSY! I decided to ignore it and have breakfast with the lodgers, which was nice until the storm got worse and worse and the temperature dipped the closer it got to noon.(Wait, really? Temperatures dropping as the morning progresses? What the deuce, new mexico?) So after nomming AMAZING elk steaks and saying bye to the neighbors, I threw a few things in my car and got the heck out of lost lodge before it could snow me in. I got out just in time too, cause Park and his kid managed to crash their large four wheel drive vehicles into each other as I followed them out after breakfast. (hold up, what? The big cars got crunched and little prius escaped unscathed with a little bit of coaching from Dwaine? I suddenly feel awesome.) I guess I'll get the rest of my stuff tomorrow, if the snow plows don't sufficiently mess up the roads by scrapping the snow off the ice again.)

Oh Lost Lodge, I'll miss thee for the winter months, but my new casita down the hill is the cutest thing in the world. It also has...
-Heat
-Hot water
-Cabinets
-Carpet without mold
-A closet
-Locks on the doors
-No moths
-No rats
-No leaks
-No cracks in the walls
-A stove that works
-An oven that heats evenly
-A flush toilet
-the ability to have more than one electrical device on at once. :O :O :O

I LIVE IN A CASTLE. ::falls over: Huzzah!

And finally, I am determined to rock the shiz out of NaNo this evening. SEE?! I am so close!!!

41701 / 50000 words. 83% done!

Fwee!

First off, HIIII julessayshello!!! <3 <3
Also, little_birdy is my hero! I am also so excited for casbahrocker9 and the good things happening for her! EXCLAMATION POINT.

Dear friends, I write today to tell you about a hilarious new sport that I have discovered...

They call it... DISC GOLF.

No really. You can't make this crap up. Disc golf is real, and is all the rage in New Mexico apparently. (Really? REALLY??) Jon and I went disc golfing this past weekend, and there are apparently at least four or five courses within close driving distance of Cloudcroft. We played 18 holes of GLORY, and I just might have caught the disc golf mania. XD

In other news, I plan on making this and this for Delicious-Nom-On-Turkey-Day at Greggy's house. Zomg Nom Day. Dude, I get a paid day off on Thursday. That is AMAZING.

If I ever get out of the office tonight I'm totally going to try to do the NaNo 10K on the 23rd challenge. It's ok. We're just walking tomorrow. I don't need a brain.

Quick update before the Vagina meeting!

I'm filthy and hungry and people give me funny looks when I walk into nice public establishments. Yup, I must be back on survey work.

I've babbled at some of you about getting back on field crew, so I'm sorry if this is all just repeat info. BUT! I'm so super stoked about being on a 4 day survey, 2 day office schedule. I'm working out at the White Sands Missile Range now with a very different crew that consists of my company, FCR and the Walmart of arch firms, Goodwin Associates. Although it's not my boys in the Gila, I'm really enjoying my crew so far. It's good to spend more time with excellent FCR kids like Heather, Jeremy and Patrick.

So the low down on White Sands is that it's a project LONG overdue since the area's been used for bomb testing for the past however many years. But it's got a crazy occupation history, dating as far back as the Pleistocene. We apparently find a huge age range of shtuff out there. Jeremy tells me he's ID'd early archaic projectile points, and I found myself a nice little chert Doloras straight stem which I *think* dates as late at 800 AD? Maybe? I'm not exactly up on my points yet, which is something I need to work on. At least the ceramics are easy, mostly brownwares with a few black on whites.

Wednesday and Thursday I was surveying on Jeremy's crew. The landscape is wild out there. First off, there's all this crazy scrap metal and wiring from old bombs, and potential live bombs chillin just out of sight. Futhermore, there's this plant called mesquite that lives JUST to stick it's nasty 2 inch long thorns into your boots. Major props to my boots for being man enough for this epic advenutre. Hiking on rolling dunes is kinda tricky too, and every once in awhile the dead silence of the area is broken by the sound of the military BOMBING SHIT. It's fun though, because every time they do, the crew yells "GOD BLESS FREEDOM!", which is gloriously hilarious.

Today we joined Heather's team to tackle a massivemassiveMASSIVE site. It was probably the most overwhelming site that I've ever seen. It's at least 100 meters and will take probably the rest of the week to record. No archiecture, just a huge artifact scatter (possibly a few middens) with some serious soil staining (means ancient cooking or burning areas). There's a lot of burnt animal bone out there, and a crappton of my personal worst nightmare. Lithics. I mean jeeze, I was trained on the east coast, and not very well, considering my geo/anth background, so my lithics knowlege is sketchy at best. I can tell you if a rock's cultural or not, and what minerals are in it, but I'll be damned if I can ID how much cortex it has, if it's a bifacial thinning flake or what. SO. Today ended up being a freaking awesome trial by fire. Jeremy and I tackled a 15x15 meter area that was just loaded with metates, monos, and lithics to the MAX. The two of us worked through 984 artifacts in that area. NO REALLY. NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR. ::falls over:: And Jeremy was such an awesome teacher. I'm getting so much better with my tertiary limestone flakes with retouched lateral edges. Booya, bitches.

So that's life as of late. The only issue is my inability to finish my NaNo. Gulp. And it won't happen tonight, as it's karaoke again. And I have to get up for another day of WSMR tomorrow. :O I hope life is treating you all well, flist! <3 <3 <3 Happy Friday!!!!!!

Ok, time to plan Vajayjays. Yesh!

THING ONE:
I hope that umwgecko, llamafranko, and I are someday a triple tag team of luchadors. There will be no stopping La Fuego, La Fabulosa and La Rocanrolera Sabrosa!

THING TWO:
Watching the Leonid meteors last night from my gigantic trailer windows is way up there on the Memories I Hope I Keep Forever list. <3

THING THREE:
I FINALLY scored my clearance for WSMR! Watch out field, Imma be all up ons you tomorrow!

THING FOUR:

<---Spirk for LIFE, bitches!

THING FIVE:

<-----WhywhywhyWHY is this happening?!?! I have no idea how to feel about it!

ZOMG, Danielle and Crystal are visiting me and my familia for Xmas!!! Will the good times ever cease? I certainly think NOT!!!! :D

It was 25 degrees in my humble abode last night, even with the space heater on, and I've been feeling a little off-kilter since then. I think I finally admit defeat, and posted an ad on craigslist looking for a slightly more civilized place. Which is sad cause I LIKE my neighborhood, but I would really like a shiver-free good night's sleep. And a place where I don't blow the power by having the lights on and the microwave running at the same time. And rasters that freaking PROJECT CORRECTLY. ::kicks the computer::

So, Friday I think I scored epic win points for getting the ENTIRE BAR to sing Bohemian Rhapsody with me at karaoke. No really. ALL OF THEM. Then, on Saturday one of my Alamo friends, Charles, tipped me off to a Vday/Take Back The Night planning meeting at the NMSU campus. So the two of us rolled up to it, and lo and behold, it's NMSU's first year doing the Va-jay-jays! Of course I automatically pledged my soul, first born, and every spare moment of my time to them. Yes dear readers, it's Vagina Season once again!!!! It's kinda weird though, cause the event's being planned primarily by faculty and not students, which doesn't jive with how I roll. However, I need to remember it's a new town, new methods. At least I get to sell my soul to Vday for the 7th year running. I was feeling damn fine about this decision, and therefore Saturday afternoon Kent and I rocked our way down to Cruses for an evening of debauchery at Mark's house that didn't end until the next morning when we feasted on gingerbread pancakes. I was a little dead for the NaNo write in on Sunday, but I did write over 3,000 wurds. I'm pleased overall.

16069 / 50000 words. 32% done!

Fingers crossed for getting out into the field this week. :| And for a new home with heat. :| However! On a super exciting note, the Leonid Meteor Shower is gonna have it's peak performance tonight/tomorrow night, and what better place to view it than bumfucknowhere 4 Corners Office? Tim and I are puuuumped.

And lastly, shout out to the amazing, the wonderful, the brave SUZACILE THE MUSICAL for rocking out as always and moving to Ohio for pony skool today! GO SUZE!!!!! :D

I now present, for your reading pleasure...
~Meme o' Curiosity~
Yoinked from weezrocker!!!!

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

( My answers to the lovely Melody's questions! )

What are you people waiting for? Do the meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme!

Also, earlier it was 11:11 on 11/11!!! SQUEE! Make a wish! ^________^

Defeat in Maine a harsh blow to gay-marriage drive.

Well crap.

Anthropologist Levi-Strauss Dies

Renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100.

One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.

Levi-Strauss's books include Tristes Tropiques - a 1955 biographical book regarded as a classic - as well as The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked.

His death was announced in Paris by his publisher, Plon.

I'm kinda NaNoing, but breaks for livejournal are always a good choice.

Speaking of NaNo, a warm HALLO to new Alamo/Cloudcroft writing buddies, thewayne, quasar273 and audiodrops! It was so grood to meet you all at the Write In! This month might eat my soul, but writing with you all should be excellent! :D Go team!

In other news, zoh. mah. gawd. It was Halloween in Albuquerque, and it was totally RAD. And anything that happened I blame totally on the David Bowie package and the tequila. JUST SAYING.

But don't take my word for it. Check out the picspam!!!



( More here! This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween!!! )

Oh yes. An unexpected, unexplainable, and all around awesome weekend INDEED!
:D

( Things worth mentioning include... )

And in other news...
~*~*~*HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!!!!*~**~*~
What's everyone's costumes this fine year?

...except it wasn't snow, not really. More like a centimeter of ice on everything and that silly icy snow blowing everywhere cause it's too cold and dry to form proper fluffy flakes. It was really nifty to see though, cause once I got down to an elevation of around 6,000, the snow was gone and when I looked in my rear view mirror there was just this one wintery cloud on top of the hill, and everything else around was sunny. Buzuh.

Ahem. This is my obligatory Monday Lunchtime Office Post.

( LOL WEEKEND. Karaoke, Germans, and a Tour de Franzia. )

Today is a sleepy office kinda day, and since my clearance pass thingadoodle hasn't quite been issued by the Powers That Be yet, I'm not allowed to set foot on the missile range tomorrow as previously expected. ::twitchwantfieldworktwitch:: So tomorrow might be a sleepy office day too. And the next day. It's ok though, cause it does give me plenty of time to plot and scheme for NaNoWriMo, which starts in six days, skree! My lj for nano is quetzalcoatzin, as is my NaNo username, so hollllaaaa fellow writers!

Samosarus Rex: I met an adorable old couple from holland yesterday! They own the piercing parlor!
casbahrocker9: DID YOU GET A PIERCING?
Samosarus Rex: I did!
Samosarus Rex: this guy is awesome!
casbahrocker9: and he's an old dude?
Samosarus Rex: yuppers
Samosarus Rex: they're both old
Samosarus Rex: and Holland....ish
Samosarus Rex: hollanders?
casbahrocker9: DUTCH!
Samosarus Rex: oh

OH HAY GUYS, a very very very happy late birthday to umwgecko!!! Her birthday was yesterday, and apparently I need to keep a calendar on me so I stop losing track of the days!!! I hope your birthday was SPLENDIFOROUS, dearest koko-san! MWAH!!!!!!!!
<3!

So, life lately!

Included a trip home to see two awesome kids get hitched!!!!


<---photo courtesy of Katiebread! So. many. HEARTS!

Mel and James's wedding was basically the bomb diggity, as were all the events that led up to it and followed it.
( Things like... )

Meanwhile, I am now back into the grind of training for white sands and office work. Today I got to watch a video that was suppose to train me on how to identify unexploded bombs on the missile range and how I shouldn't touch them. EVER. I then asked what happens if you step on one buried in the sand. The training guy stared at me and said "DON'T TOUCH THEM." Excellent. Classy.

Also, I was COLD last night and did not go see Heather's band, but instead watched Heroes until my eyes fell out. This cold thing is really starting to cramp my style. As are the leaks in my roof. Patrick and Tim and I keep talking about actually renting a house so we can have heat. And a real shower. AND A WORKING FRIDGE. Note to self: Speed up this process!!! Though, my trailer still pretty much pleases me to no end. But, any house that me and those two share is bound to be made of win.

SPEAKING OF HEROES! I am now a staunch worshiper of Mohinder/Sylar slash. Don't laugh macg22, you KNOW their love is pure and true!!!!!!!!!! Meanwhile, I am planning my costume for when the guys and I do Halloween in Albuquerque. Totally going as Jarith. Trip to Cruces this weekend for a wig!!!

On another hilarious note, yesterday I drove into the natural food store in my prius and ended up staring unabashedly at the very pretty checkout lady while purchasing an organic pizza. When I left, my car stereo chose that moment to blast ani difranco. ::facepalm:: Waaaalking stereotyyyype. I see you laughing again, macg22.

Also, one of these days I will learn that hanging out in the coffee shop/bar until all hours on a work night is a bad idea. However, the colder it gets, the more the moths attack my trailer, so I like to avoid them for as long as possible by not going home. Come on, hard freeze!!!! Destroy the moths!

And finally, I have this incredibly stupid plan to email the woman's studies professors at the Alamogordo campus of NMSU and ask if A)they do the monologues and B)If not, do they want to???? This is a good choice. I SWEAR.

Oh man, life amuses me so much. I approve!!!

FACTS-

-Melody and James are awesome and I heart them!!!!
-I love Virginia.
-I love weddings.
-I love my family and the dinners they cook.
-I love Suze and Becky and Samwise and Bryce and Manda and Owen and Wynn and JessJess and Jo and Julianne and Sophie and all the amazing members of the 06 07 08 Mdub krewe.
-Coming back to NM wasn't so bad, thanks to warm greetings and <3s from the boys and Patrick.
-Thanks to this morning's training, I'm now red cross certified for 2 years, zomg!
-I am so jazzed for NaNoWriMo 09! Be my writing buddy! (Username= Quetzalcoatzin)
-These site boundaries aren't gonna draw themselves, so I need to get back to work.

Real update tonight and/or tomorrow I hope!

:D

OH HAI I get to come home to VA for Melody and James' wedding TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!! Skree for those two amazing kids! Skree for seeing amazing home friends!!! Skree for the east coast!!!!!

Gila Survey round tres has been completed! Highlights include...

-Preparing squirrels and rabbits and cooking them in delicious stew.
-off roading to the MAX...til my contact flew out of my eye and I relinquished the keys to Kent
-that morning when it sleeted and all the rain guards were covered in ice.
-Quail payaya!
-The cow-elk-skull flaming totem poll of DOOOOOM.
-The most extreme bocci ball game EVER!
-Avi teaching me to shoot a 22 and a shotgun!! Yes dear readers, if you ever need me to hunt soup cans for you, know that I am now skilled in pegging them!
-peanut...I mean mushroom...I mean marshmallow overload.
-"There's a fiesta in my MOUTH"
-That transect where all we talked about was creating an Archaeological final fantasy game. XD
-"We had the best time at your partyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
-that afternoon where Chris and I almost flipped his rover while collecting firewood.
-Driving by elk hunters while blasting the Chilis.

Last night I got back from Gila Survey part tres and found out that I'm getting switched to White Sands RIGHTNOWOHMAHGODNOWNOOOOOOOOOOW. ::rolls eyes:: This is lame because money will become tight and I will miss Team Gila. It will require background tests, drug tests, and a shitton of first aid and safety training as SOON as I get back Tuesday. This annoys me on multiple levels, but whatever. We'll see where life spits me out. :D Lean wit it, rock wit it!

Besides, how can I be worried when I GET TO COME HOME TOMORROW?!?!?! ::squeaks::

AHEM. I have found the perfect recipe for lamb stew cooked in the pumpkin shell and I wish I could bring an oven out into the field with me tomorrow because IT LOOKS AMAZING.

/ end cooking geekout.

:D