After yet another sleepless night...

I find that Gunther says it all.

Ass deep in bog water

This is how I am referring to my upcoming internship at an environmental consulting company. I'll be spending 14 hour days, 7 days a week for aproximately 3 weeks in south western New Jersey taking some bio-samples and evaluating the vitality of the coastal wetlands.

Book Binging: All The Names

All The Names by Jose Saramago

When I finished this book last night I was at a loss. What gives? Should I have not read it during those intervals when I was tired and my lids were drooping. Somewhere in that in between of awake and asleep, did I miss the finer nuances of this Nobel prize winning author? Then I realized it was just the ending that through me off and leaves me with a sense of now what?
I loved reading it. It is bittersweet and just plain funny at times. It is honest about people's relationships with each other and with themselves. It is about loneliness and how it can be channeled. It is about the fact that despite all the names which in the end are meaningless we all hold a true desire to search out love regardless of whether we find it or not.