Is this thing on?

Its 5:06am according to my computer screen. Its still set back in Ohio time and I don't think i'll ever change it.

Its raining and cold in the Colorado Rockies. Both of my waitressing outfits are set out for tomorrow since i'll be working two back to back shifts totaling close to 17 hours of straight serving.

A friend of mine, a really hard working girl from Nepal putting herself through school to be a doctor works shifts like that all the time. "I miss it when my back doesn't ache" she said to me the other day over what was my first time trying Napalese food. We were sitting in a little diner overlooking the Rockies - the clouds intermingling with the tops of the mountains making where we sat seem like heaven or in her words, Nepal.

The food was delicious and reminded me of why I am facinated with anthropology; other cultures, interesting people, and the curosity about life that is found in glimpsing moments which so often have nothing to do with being anywhere near a class room.

Yet that in turn reminded me of why i'm in school - to feel connected to a larger pool of anthropologically wonderful moments and thoughts that I can help build upon and to open the potential for me to always be in a mode of exploration.

Just writing that, in turn, reminds me that I'll be working 17 hours straight tomorrow, to have money for school. O bother.