I applied to exactly one college in high school, Rice University in Houston, Texas. I never wanted to go anywhere else. I toured the college, interviewed with some alumnus, wrote an essay about my Grandfather (a Houstonian who had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It was unnerving to see a Congregation of Praying Mantids (Swarm would be a dumb name for a group of Praying Mantids). I’d only ever seen one at a time, but working where we did, there were an untold number[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mosquitoes are attracted to CO2 and yummy smells (as evaluated by mosquitoes). They operate primarily during dim-light hours. Working in the hot sun apparently produced a large amount of CO2 and as the sun faded, the vampires came out to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The area around our work site was an unforgiving landscape, seemingly the source material for the Dungeons and Dragons Dark Sun campaign. The sun going down didn’t really help any. So many times we had heat strokes. Thankfully, they had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Above the ceiling were catwalks with metal grate flooring. Some fool took a mop bucket up there, which they never should have done. Being the ever helpful, I got it out of there. Sadly, the grate waffles were about the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wouldn’t say that I have claustrophobia, but I don’t like it when I can’t move. Too bad; they shoved me in the air shaft, like some sort of heist movie plot, and I rolled along it, wiping every surface[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I would not characterize myself as acrophobic, but every once in a while, I get a twinge of panic from heights. My step-dad was a roofer. Sometimes I couldn’t go near the edge. Sometimes I would jump off. Just no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the guys on the crew was always code-switching from English to Spanish. Since we had two different gloves we had to put on, he just called the silk ones the same thing I called them, “sexies.” We got[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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