Dear readers,This post title is not creative but the picture is. In fact, I hope it inspires at least a little humor. The reason I selected this picture is because I felt I needed a rather neutral ice breaker to get things going again. Although I have not written one single post in the past five months, it was most certainly not due to having a submerged groin. I began college. I made a phone call to enquire about enrolling inn spring quarter three days prior to winter quarter's start up day. The kind receptionist asked, "are you available to begin this winter"? Of course I said yes. That following Monday morning i was tested and administered to and after registering for my classes was able to make it to my first class just one minute before it began. I dint really have the time to consider what i was doing, only why. Being human, we feel a need to define every thing we do with perimeters. Bees do not. Bees build waxen hexagonal honey comes because they must, not because they or any other busy body thinks they should. So it has begun with my schooling, omitting hexagonal wax. And so I am evolving along with my course work. I am now focusing on completing the voluminous amount of math classes required before I can declare an associated degree major. This is fine with me. I love math and am aiming for a transfer degree to Western Washington University, (our local four year University located, naturally, on top of the biggest hill in down town Bellingham, WA) in science. But which science? Physics. Yes, physics. Why? Because we do things which are governed by laws of nature; bees make hexagonal combs, light travels in waves, gravity allows things to exist without floating away. I think that I want to teach. I know that I I want to learn and I want to grow our own food, even oats and rye and millet. Id like to be able to watch all of the seasons change from one location on the planet. Id like to be able to keep laying hens and maybe even someday get a goat. Steve and I love the thrilling adventure the Polar programs afford us and we love working to support scientific research, but we are privy to the fact that in ten more years time, we will have been doing seasonal contract work for 30 years , and will want to enjoy the work we are putting into our one acre estate; the fruit and nut trees, the berries, the (soon to start up honey bees), the flower gardens and most of all; our wonderful community of bee keeping, food growing, friends. Therefore, a new career objective instills. Lets face it, fixing log trucks or city buses for a living when I'm in my 50s and 60s does not have much of an appeal. Teaching college level mathematics or science does! And when I'm relay old and want not to work very much outside the estate, I can subsitute at the local High School in Deming, only a bike ride away.
I am about to finish my first quarter with a 4.0. I don't even yet know yet, exactly what that means, other than its what universities like to see when one applies and hopes for a scholarship. Spring break begins next Wednesday and I have a long list of gardening and grounds keeping projects tojoyfully attend to, not to mention repairing an inherited 1967 Mercedes Benz sedan which Steve's uncle Russel gave us. I hope to have it running well enough that I can pick Steve up at the airport in it accompanied by Uncle Russel who will be 92.
Speaking of Stephen, he has gone off to Greenland for the spring and summer. He just arrived in Kangerlussuaq via Denmark yesterday and will be waiting there at the KISS building (where we lived and worked all of last spring-summer season) until the weather improves enough up on the ice cap for the small twin prop to fly in. He is filling in for a person who was medically evacuated less than 2 weeks ago This was not in the cards, so to speak, but since it allows for Steve to return home earlier than originally planed (July 17th as compared to Aug 20th) we both decided he should go for it! He has just written me telling me that he has gone out for the day as a volunteer with some biologists to collect reindeer urine. The biologists will measure these samples to see exactly what state the caribou's diet is in. I will try my best to keep a Steve update running within the body of this blog. I will try my best to keep this blog running, but it might be difficult at times as course loads oscillate.
I hope everyone out there is doing what they find to be fun and enjoying life.
If you have a set up which enbales you to watch movies, and have an ecclectic movie rental rescource such as a library, or netflix (sp?) look for MINDWALK. In this film, a physicist gives her, Systems Theory dissertation in a most unassuming way; as three strangers walk about Mont ST Michelle discussing life.
One worker (female) bee flys over 20,000 miles in her lifetime of just six weeks.
