Yesterday I was planning on spending the afternoon relaxing and working on some drawings, and hopefully talking with Holly. Shortly after noon (I think) Don, Zack, and Blaire showed up here asking if I wanted to come join them and learn to do some falling. I wasn’t prepared and tried to get out of going, but Don was persistent and offered to drive me to and from, so I asked him to wait while I got dressed and rolled a joint. We went to the school and cleared some trees to make a path from the school to the new property James bought. I watched Zack and Blaire drop a few small trees, then Alex (the dude from Korea), had a turn. Then I got a quick lesson and got to drop two fairly big trees, and a smaller one. The biggest one I dropped was about 60 something feet, but my memory card ran out of space just as we were pushing it over. Still, it was cool even if I didn’t catch it on camera. This tree was off aim by a few feet, but for my first one, I think I did alright.

After we drank a few beers Don dropped us all off, and brought me and Vince (another dude from our course who showed up just before we were leaving) back to David’s. Vince stayed here in April while he was taking the Post and Beam course, but now he’s camping down at Page’s Marina. He’d asked about coming over one night for a barbecque a couple times, so I offered to make him veggie burgers. We were chatting about how neither of us like tv much, and then I mentioned how much Star Trek I watch. He said he’s seen every episode of every series, but he hadn’t seen any of the movies since Star Trek V. I told him I had the newest, and that it was decent, so we watched it while we ate.

Then I went to bed with a brutal headache and woke up with it still there this morning. Now I’m procrastinating riding to school by writing this entry, and drinking tea. I really don’t feel up to going, but I hate not showing up because not only is it an expensive place to miss a day you paid for, it’s also a group effort, and I feel like it’s rude to not do my share of the work. Not to mention the fact that James seems like a person who has never taken a sick day in his life, so I don’t think he’d be okay with it.

Oh, I forgot to mention, Vince was a real life Cowboy for years before deciding to come to the school! YeeeeHaw!