Bouncing

I got to throw out my first patron the other night, drunk fellow insisting we had his credit card, causing trouble for the servers, etc so the bartender told me to toss him. I hesitated for a second, then walked up and asked him to leave. He wanted me to call him a cab, which I did and then walked with him to the door. By the time he left, I was a "cool dude" according to him, a good friend. I just hope I can be a cool dude with everyone I toss out.

Been working alot. And more to come; I have been offered a contract to teach a wilderness medicine course in Leadville, CO for 9 days in september and also to teach a semester long wilderness medicine class here in town. So if I don't get the antarctica job (which becomes more likley every day), then I may be around until november, when the class ends. I'm pretty excited about it, I think it is one of the jobs I have enjoyed most, of the many I've had over time.

I finished the book about sex in evoluntionary biology (when ever the dating game gets you down, remember the plight of the norther european slime mold!) and now I am reading a story about the fellow who did the autopsy on Einstein and then removed the brain and kept it hidden for decades before making a cross country road trip to return it to the old mans grand-daughter. Yeah, I know it kind of falls into the travel lit genere, which I have studiously been avoiding, for fear of temptation, but it has Einstein's brain involved, so it gets a pass. I have a couple of books I am saving to read for when I judge the time to be right. They are about an aid worker in Chechnya and another about a doctor in central america, both I hope will help me work through the dilemna about where exactly it is I go from here, but not until I have time to simmer down here and determine my ass from a hole in the ground.