He didn't do it because it hurt, you know.

Can we talk about one of the questions that has troubled humankind for months now? How can one side of Kira’s head look so good and the other side look so subpar? With every haircut? And also how come only pictures of me taken by Lauren look flattering? Otherwise completely unphotogenic? How did Beck get all those genes?

Also, how like high school it is here. Ridiculously so. Lauren and Jade and I all go do separate things and then at lunch we sit together at big benches and tables and talk about the other groups of people sitting around us. We even found a Pinky here, This Pinky we call him, who seemed really cool until he got super trashed and threatened Lauren and Marek with a knife last night, which is something That Pinky would never do.

I have had the last four or five days off, partly because there are no fish and partly because I have not gone out begging for it. Which at times I feel guilty about but then again, I have always been more focused on being happy than on being employed. And happy I have been. I am painting a GREAT painting in someone’s room; I’m very pleased. Below you will see a picture. I have been spending more time with Lauren and Jade than I have since, well, February I guess but before that it’s been seven years which is very good for my mental health and reminds me that I used to be a very different person. Which I would like to reincorporate somewhat because they are both some of the coolest people in the whole world. Speaking of which here is perhaps my favorite foto of Lauren ever.

I have also been doing some good Spanish practice, I have met some really cool people and practiced interpersonal communication skills. I have been reading out loud with Jade and drinking and I laugh really hard at something at least once a day. I’m basically doing all of my very favorite things and I don’t even have to cook for myself, which actually we can count as another favorite thing.

It’s obviously too good to last.

We should be getting fish soon and then I suppose I can start freaking out and being unhappy and getting good at my job and making money.

I have to say it is very satisfying so far, my job, and I hope that I get very proficient and everybody can say, “Well, I guess Kira is the best bin girl we’ve had since Jade or that Russian last year,” and talk about how cool I was. Or am, because maybe I will come back. We have to see how it goes once there are some 18 hr days. But really, who will help facilitate the extinction of salmon if not me? It’s rather weird to be knee deep in a steel bin of salmon with all their mouths open looking at you. They are very beautiful fish.  Here is the mural that I'm painting right now. It's pretty cool. And then, just to finish things out here is me dominating at thumb wrestling. This is right before my decisive win against Jade and Lauren's friend Matt Hart Fels. 

SHOW-time

Hey everybody!
I'm excited to announce that I'm having a show at the Capitol Theater this February 2009 in Olympia WA. I think it will be called What Goes Around Comes Around. The opening reception will be on Saturday February 2nd.

Mazatlán, deer place/Los Mochis, a turtley place

THESE ARE BOTH MAZATLÁN. PRETTY SWEET, HUH? WE COULD ALL DEFINITELY COME BACK HERE. ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE INTO BUYING T-SHIRTS WITH SWORDFISH ON THEM. OR EATING BAKED POTATOES AND DIGGING IN THE SAND.

So we finally did the train thing! We road the famous Copper Canyon train this morning! Not for quite as long as we were planning though because an hour into the trip they made the announcement that progress was stopping there and then! No more! And to make it clear the train went backwards all the way back to Los Mochis effectively eraesing all the events of that morning. It was like in the twilight zone. All the people around me started walking backwards into the snack bar car and into their seats, Joel started talking backwards. When we got there we went backwards to the bus and un-ate our pancakes on it. Freaky.
Anyway there was a big ol' landslide across the tracks somewhere so now everybody's just got to take it easy and wait.
So it's funny being here because so many people stare so hard. I feel like I just walked into Black Rock and the locals are about to walk up to me and be like, "Whatreyew doin' here, stranger?"
So anyway hopefully the train will be on it's merry way tomorrow and we can all see canyons and waterfalls and trees and rocks and go home happy. I may have to drag Joel off though if he passes out from heat exhaustion. They literally keep the cabins so warm that my glasses fog up everytime I went back in from standing between cars. Which is the place to be, I tell you. Even just going through flat farmland was cool because you get to lean right out the train and just walk around. It was beauty. So I really hope that it gets fixed and we can go.

THIS IS ALSO MAZATLÁN. THAT'S THE HOUSE THAT I WOULD BUY FOR MOM AND DAD AND THEN ME AND JOEL ON MY BIRTHDAY. I INCLUDE THAT ONE NOT SO MUCH TO ADMIRE MY JUTTING HOLMLUND CHIN AND COMBOVER BUT TO POINT OUT THE GREAT PROGRESS BEING MADE BY JOEL'S CURLY SIDEBURN OVER HIS FACE.

Ahhh....Mazatlán.

Doesn't that sound like a great ad byline? I'm going to contact the beauraue of tourism here in Mexico, they can put it on all their posters and commercials and stuff. They can get the deep voiced guy who does all the spanish movie previews.
Man, I have some really good pictures that I want to put up, but I left the cord in the hotel room. So I'll have to put them up later. You'll all just have to wait. But we are in Mazatlán and I actually quite like it. There are herring skies everyday, it's hot but not too humid and there's a sea wind. One could swim if one ignored the trash on the lower parts of the beach. And also if one ignored the scary blue jellyfish washed up all over! Which apparently people do because I see quite a few swimmers.
Today is my birthday and Joel has been treating me real nice. I got juice and carrot bread for breakfast and then we went down to the rocky beach and watched the big spotty green crabs and enjoyed the wind. Now I am 23! That seems very old. I actually thought I was going to be 22 but then I remembered that beck cumple 21 this year! Also crazy!
So now we are going to go build a big sand castle because that's what I want to do on my birthday. And look for shells.
Next time I will have some pictures for sure.