My Room is Haunted....

Ok, not really.

But it has it's quirks, and in my exhausted stupor last night it seemed pretty goulish.

The bathroom door keeps closing immediatley behind me and it handle is somehow not intuitive, so in the middle of the night I swore I was locked in (but I was also half asleep and almost laid down a towel to just wait unitl morning). The toilet paper keeps rolling long after I've torn off a sheet, so it looks like a bored cat making a statement, and the air conditioner is having a complete idenity crisis, alternating between cool and hot air.

But I don't care because this morning I'm well rested here in Oakland, CA, and when I opened my window shades I saw trees.
Bonafide green, lush, living, breathing vegetation.

Yesterday we were in Tuscon, Arizona for just 10 short hours, but I nearly went insane.

It's a dessert.
There is sand.
Sand and subvisions.
Subdivisions the color of sand.

I have no idea how people live there.

And it's hot.
For about two hours is the wee morning it's pleasant. I know this because I woke up at about 4am and couldn't go back to sleep (thus the stupor yesterday), but then it's just hot.

People out there always say with a chuckle, "yeah, but it's a dry heat." Which might make a difference below two thousand degrees, but when your flipflops are melting into the pavement, you don't really care about a little ambient moisture.

And anyway, it's monsoon season.
We landed yesterday and the ground was actually slick with water.
Ironically enough, I was in Seattle last week and it was sunny and gorgeous.

Weather, go figure.

I've just begun day three of a four-day trip. Sadly, my last trip as a lineholder.
I'm back on reserve for September.
Suddenly, four days is very long. All this month I was thouroghly contente wiht two and three day trips, but I picked up a four-day that stretched as far into the September bid month as possible to delay the inevitable.

It's been a wonderful month I have so many good stories and pictures.
I offically decided that I love my job.

I think I'll be doing some retro-posting of my adventures, so stay tuned!