"you gotta get gone, you gotta get going"

doug vs. the lantern. lets camping!

this, my friends, is a firework!

as i was saying, its very difficult to stop spending money. its even more difficult to say "no" to jason's offer to go camping, drinking, and blowing off fireworks (that was one cherry he popped. lit my first firework! yes!), especially when he pulled out the "come on, you have to come! im leaving in a week!!" so, off to nishizao park we went! there were all these campsites, and these ponds, and a killer amount of mosquitos, ants, and BULL FROGS. we played word/topic games (ie. go in a round and say the names/types of fantasy creatures, song lines, etc), drank beer and shouchu (sp?), and ate tons of food (pork, veggies, hot dogs, potato salad, chips, yummy! then totally wasted (kinda, i was more dehydrated than anything), after dark, maybe around midnight we went on an adventure to light off fireworks over the lake and to walk to this playground with a MAZE and this massive SLIDE that had rollers on it so you would go super fast! fun. but a little scary. we saw a grave (why is there this big gravestone at this campground), and had doug freak us out with ghost stories. for example, the workman story for nishizao is that one worker fell off of a structure they were building a few years ago, and twisted his leg up and bumped his head and is a little crazy, and he wandered away and is in the bush somewhere and comes out to chew your leg off. and he makes a thumping sound. then, there's the true story about this girl who actually went missing in the park last year, never to be found (!!). or ghost stories about kaminoyama. i forget this ghosts name, but its a woman who had her newborn baby on her back and was cutting down rice stalks with a big knife and accidentally beheaded her baby, and in shame and sorrow beheaded herself too. doug "says" that at night sometimes her ghost will appear on the small roads between rice paddies and those that see her will crash their vehicles and die out of fear. very inaka. very interesting. tomo also told me about the yukionna, who, when you are freezing to death whispers to you, "yuki atatakatai" ("the snow is warm") and will lull you to your death with promises of warmth.

we woke up this morning around 7am (jason ended up passing out on the ground, tomo put a sleeping bag on him b/c she couldnt get him up to come to the tent) to "rainy season" and its been pouring like it will never rain again, all day! and its hot out, and muggy, and you dont even want to know how bad i smell from bugspray, campfire, food, and muggy rain. off to have a shower, listen to the cd that amanda b. made for me, and read the letters/magazines that carly sent to me! i mean, i finally got my official faghag membership card!

reading
softcho? hmm.　
revolution on haida gwaii
bodacious yay! for press!
do as i say. oh dan! we heart you!