It's been a couple months, and I thought that perhaps this whole thing shouldn't fall by the wayside.

That said, I don't know quite what to write.
Summer Seminar has been going pretty good. "The Natural History of the Eastern Sierra." It started on a broad general nature-philosophy plane, going through snyder, thoreau, jeffers, aristotle. Then on to western american discovery-history type things. Cadillac Desert, Beyond the 100th Meridian. Real adventuresome schtuff. And now we've been doing conservation biology field work down by the (deep springs) lake, doing mark/recapture studies with the Deep Springs black toad, a rare little bugger only found in the valley. Next week is geology trips up into the Sierras, which should be hot.

With Dairy, my lactating ladies have been doing quite all right. Lotsa lovin.

Being LC has been really good to me. an education.
Last year I often lacked confidence and gusto to push things through and assert my opinion. This year, with things like LC to back me up, I've been acting a little too confident perhaps. An overcompensation of sorts. I've sometimes found myself acting pompous. But maybe thats the residual uber-humility trying to break my confidence. I dunno. I really don't. I try hard to get readings from people.

At this point, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to try for Cowboy. There's so much to do in the world.

And the mail I've been recieving this past month has been a pummeling of happiness.

Life is good. Really, really good.