Animal sensitivities

I keep forgetting that I work with a lot of Indians (Native Americans). During lunch, I was complaining that an owl keep hooting near my window last night waking me up.

"Oh, that's a bad omen to my people. We believe that it's trying to tell you some bad news about a family memeber." as one kindly informed me.


To me, there's lots of owls around here. I live close to the high school and you can see them nesting up in the rafters of the gym. So to me, it's just a neighborhood owl doing his thing.

This morning, a medium sized trantula was walking on the sliding glass door. So I just stood (inside) and watched it crawl off the glass, and walk across the patio until it disappeared into the yard.

So I asked the "owl expert" what it meant if a trantula paid you a visit. Apparently, not much to his people. But if you pick fun at it, you'll get sick. Then he started to tell me a story of how when was a boy he took a stick and flipped over a trantula.

"So did it get you sick afterwards?"

"Yeah, I only did that once."

getting out of Dodge

I so can't wait for "3:10 to Yuma" (Christian Bale = yummy).

I took half a day today to try and get out early (along with everyone else). Boyfriend and I are planning on camping out at Marshall "Lake" (we didn't see any water last weekend). But there's lots of places to go riding the quad and dirt bike.

Then I get an email. There's a seminar at 1:00 this afternoon. WTF - seriously? My boss is getting out of Dodge to his cabin in the woods, but I'm stuck going. Perhaps it'll run short like last week.

So I'm really stuck trying to get out of Dodge with everyone else. There's only two ways to go, so I will be crossing my fingers that one will be okay.