week 3

Tuesday June 16th

For those who are truly curious, yes, I am all better from Sunday night's sickness bought. Thank goodness! Still don't know the culprit of the sickness, I am just glad that it is over. The fan blowing softly on my face did wonders for my sleep. I hope that sentence was poetic enough.

Funny story: I had a stress dream last night about milking the goats this morning. I dreamt that Jess (our livestock intern) had us on time schedules for each milking tasks and that I wasn't fast enough. Reason I had the dream is because I am not very fast at milking, so I get stressed because I am not good at it. Is anyone else like this? If you aren't good at something, then it makes you like it less? I can say this is true for certain sports too, all of which I am not good at. Case in point: volleyball, golf, throwing a frisbee, etc...But milking turned out to be fine today. Swathi and I did well, I was so proud! At the end of milking, we have to herd the goats down the road a little ways to their pasture. You can probably imagine two females walking around yelling "GOATS! GO!" and grabbing goats by their ears and hindsides. It must be kind of funny to watch, but really not funny at all if you are there. We managed to get them all to their field (with Carl's help, of course!) and were very thankful when it was over.

After we finished milking (we missed devotionals), I was "in charge of" more wheat winnowing. Such a therapeutic task, but it does get old after doing it for two days previously (Monday and Friday). Later on, Amy and I got to use 2X6's to break up the wheat chaffs in a huge barrel and separate it from the hay. I do love me a good hit. Makes me really want to learn how to kick-box, STAT.

Had a fantastic Campus Kitchen meeting this afternoon with Anna, AGAIN! We are so full of ideas, it's sort of ridiculous. We met with Shirley of Restoration Haven, our primary community group, and talked about nutrition classes, exercise classes, cooking classes...we were all over the place! I love checking my email in the afternoon and see 15 emails in the inbox! Basically just everyone on the CK team writing back, saying "Yes, I agree! Great idea!" and executing these ideas. BAM!

Monday June 15th
Woke up this morning after completely sweating out last night's torturous affair. No fan = no air movement. And sleeping in your underwear doesn't always relieve the situation either. Also, having diarrhea/vomitting in the compost toilet/in a plastic bag is really no fun, in case you ever considered multi tasking like I did. I wasn't sure what it was that I ate, but it was definitely dinner, as the evidence positively indicated. However, I don't think that chickpeas and vegetables make you that sick. Using my convenient food safety knowledge, I am still trying to brainstorm how it all happened and how it will NEVER happen again. I think it might have been due to the heat, but I really haven't found evidence to support that hypothesis (NERD!!!). Finally fell asleep after 2am and awoke at 6 again. Wow. Long night! Whenever I throw up (which is rare, about once every 4-5 years or so), it makes me realize that I could never survive as a bulimnic.

Wasn't feeling too well this morning, so I decided to winnow wheat again (and not go out in the fields), which was considerably more lonely this time because I had no one else doing it with me. Luckily I brought my ipod with me, so at least I could be soothed by the finer medleys of Journey and Boston. Later on, Brandon came and chatted with me for 2 hours or so. We always have such great conversations! Relationships, the future, the purpose of education, etc. I felt bad because we were especially shorthanded today (with one other intern as a sicky poo, another left for home this week, and another left for a long weekend). I sometimes feel like winnowing isn't strenuous, so therefore others are working much harder than I am. But it is a chore that still has to be done!

Milking the goats twice this week instead of just once and am cooking on Friday. Whoop! Gotta find a good recipe. Also, leaving for Houston on Friday for a wedding on Saturday evening. It'll basically be a big ADPi shindig.