Not Cool

I am having trouble sleeping again. And just now I found a Jerusalem Cricket IN MY BED! I have been seeing these guys around the earthship. I didn't know what they were. In Spanish they are called Nina de la tierra- child of the Earth. That's a pretty sweeet way to look at them, but they freak my shit out because they are big and they bite, or so I have read.
Though I have to say I rescued a half dead one last week that had gotten into a plastic container and couldn't get out, and when I relocated him to the outdoors he looked at me with- I swear- gratitude. But still. Dey ugly. Now how I'm gonna sleep?

August

Well I know it has been a dog's age since I updated this blog. I am sorry. I had a house guest, then my mac broke and and had to be sent away, then I couldn't log on to the bloggy thingie. Well I'm here now. And I'm all yours.
August. Lets see, there's some new stuff to tell. I am finally "working". That is I am in orientation at the hospital, not really working in the OR quite yet. I am now enrolled in an Integrative Energy Therapy school. The name of the school is Snowlion Center School, and when you Google that (I know you will) you'll see a lot of stuff in some other language- Deutsch I think. There are schools in Europe and now there is one in America too, it's just a couple hours from here in a really beautiful part of New Mexico near a volcano. And yall, Energy Healing is real, OK? Next time you see me if you want I'll chelate your ass then you'll know. The class meets 5 times a year.

It's been an up and down month to tell you the truth. It's been kind of weird, kind of hard. Kind of good, too.

The good parts are I keep meeting people that are so great that I like a lot. This is a town full of really lovable folks. It's rained and rained, and it's starting to cool off now, the days are getting shorter. I'm excited to see what Fall and Winter are going to be like here.
That lady didn't hire me to spin wool. Goddammit. I really wanted to do that. I'm going to learn anyway. And when I do I'm going to put the touch on my friend Molly for her bonnet from the Old Salem days.

Slow and quiet for the most part

The other day I picked up a hitchiker who was so drunk he started crying when he got into my car expressing his gratitude. Then for 7 miles he yelled (slurred) "Thank God for byooful women" Until I dropped him off at the Cattle Grate-- which is the entrance to "Lesser World"- I live in Greater World which is considered the upscale neighborhood. I know I have at least one friend who might be reading this and freaking out about me picking up drunk hitchikers but I only pick up the Mesa People out on my road and I assure you they are not going to serial kill me or rape me they just wanna go where they're going.
We've been getting a lot of rain lately. In fact I have too much water these days. It's lush and green and sometimes extemely muddy. the mud out here is very sticky. I reckon that's why it's so good for building.
I finally started the process of getting hired at the hospital last Friday. They are supposedly doing the beackground/reference checks, etc. My friend works in the ICU there, he says it takes forever even once the ball is rolling to start work...but what I really want to do is get this job dying and spinning wool in this wool shop. They use all natural dyes. The lady really doesn't want to hire me, she keeps telling me I'm over qualified. I keep trying to assure her that I'm an idiot who would be greatly challanged by menial labor but I may not have convinced her. I would just love to be around the colors, and learn how to do something cool like spin yarn, like the maidens are always doing in fairy tales. Ideally I could do both, the wool stuff part time, the OR part time. She liked the fact that I am a Sagittarius with Virgo rising (I knew all this stuff would come in handy one day) and she said she wouldn't write me off. She is also hooking me up with a lady that can teach me some Eastern Medicine. So it goes in the Land of Enchantment. One thing leads to another, and you find yourself somewhere pretty different than you intended, but still a good place.