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Welcome to my little corner of the inter-webs! I just wanted to take this space to warn you that my posts will rarely be up to date. Due to the spontaneity of natural disasters and the unpredictability of when AmeriCorps' services will be requested I will be digitizing my journal entries whenever we return to St. Louis. Oh, and most of the pictures you see here were taken by myself. If ever I do use someone else's material I make a point to give them due credit though! That said, come, leave comments and be merry! I hope you enjoy your stay!

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Elk Zone - 5/19

Last night I had this dream that the Emergency Response Team was an elite fighting force.  The Fellows were the generals or masterminds behind our tactics and guided our actions from HQ while the second years served as their eyes, ears, and voice out in the field.  On this particular day the whole team was sent on a suicide mission… and my group was the only one that survived.  Our squad consisted of four first years and a second year, Zoe was one of the first years but I cannot recall the other two.  Anyways, we scrambled to our evac site and set up a perimeter while Chelsea Catalano, our leader, made contact with HQ.  The tension was shattered by a couple of gun shots.  I turned around to locate the threat only to find Chelsea with a remorseful look on her face.  Hesitating for a moment, she turned the barrel of her gun toward me and fired.  I could hear the following shot that doomed Zoe, but I was too crippled by the shock to do anything about it.  After an agonizing couple of minutes everything went black.   

I don’t know how I collected this bit of information, but in my dream the ERT had some means of reincarnating its members.  That’s why the lights are always flickering in the warehouse of a basement we have; the power is being diverted to another chamber.  When we were brought back we had no memory of our previous mission—except this time when I came to I remembered everything.  Chelsea was there and I got the vibe that she was the one who allowed me to retain my thoughts.  For the rest of my dream I was inconsolable.  I was approached and debriefed about our next mission but I was being uncooperative when I actually woke up. 


Fun stuff!  Anyways, we’re back in the Elk Zone this week to continue where we left off.  Today was a little tricky as the nozzle on my sprayer was missing.  This malfunction resulted in the faulty piece of equipment shooting in the 4 directions of the compass.  It was kind of like a water sprinkler kids would love to play in… only, you know, potentially poisonous.  So I spent our shortened day dodging myself while attacking an infestation of Sericea.  I surprisingly came back to our housing without a drop on me.  Now to go enjoy some brinner.  Later all!







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