laying pipe, 6-packs, and field trips

"One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence." ~Ogden Nash

The roar of the bus engine could be heard throbbing dull and purring easy under my feet. The vibrations were soothing but the gentle rocking was distracting because I was baked out of my mind.

8 in the morning. Most people in the world are probably awake by 8 in the morning, but I wasn't used to it. There have been only a handful of times that I was conscious at 8 in the morning at school. I paid special attention to barely schedule any classes before noon, ever. So this 8 in the morning shit wasn't up my alley. It wasn't even on the same street.

happy arbor (trees!) day

"Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?" ~Walt Whitman

Today is Arbor Day! It's a holiday celebrating the significance of trees! In Pennsylvania they honor the great Eastern Hemlock, not to be confused with the Greek Hemlock which Socrates sipped on back in the day after the Athenians told him to go kill himself. In Japan this day is called "Greenery Day" and it's celebrated in May, but I have to assume something is lost in translation because that name is just stupid. The great dane is the official state dog of Pennsylvania* and this state celebrates Arbor Day on the last Friday in April. The second to last Friday in April, this year, was the national stoner day or whatever it's officially called, 4/20. Perhaps it ought to be called "Greenery Day". Anyhow, there's a great smoke-out on the lawn of Colorado University's Boulder campus every year for that event (whatever we're going to call it) and in order to deter the massive crowd this year, the school actually fertilized the lawn with fish guts. I imagine the sweet stank of thousands of marijuana sticky icky cigarettes would most likely prevail in a battle of the stinky with some lawn fertilizer, but I can't be sure because I don't do drugs.**