i was still amazed at even being selected to come on this 3 hour 'trip'. i only sent in my videotape because i figure "i have a few minutes to kill might as well" and here i am, off in some fucking remote island in the middle of the south pacific [and i swear if either chrome or matt start into another rendition of 'there ain't nothing like a dame' i will choke 'em both]

so far it's been pretty decent, i got here a little behind everyone and by the time i had arrived people had already started to make little groups and attempt to try to get things done.

joanna had used her skills as a mom of two semi-crazy kids to help figure out what exactly had to be done. that done she started to delegate tasks, though some elected to do things. angeline had offered to go find some food since she's had a helluva time trying to find her own snack food at home [that and she didn't want to have to build jack shit, she's already done enough heavy lifting in the past 2 months for 5 people]. chrome got relegated to trying to find some big friggin leaves to put ontop of whatever hut we make so we don't wake up to bird-shit all around us [or on us for that matter]. m tried to get away with the least amount of work [slacker that she is (well who isn't in the group? ok maybe ginger but even that's debatable)] went to pick fruit or coconuts from around the campsite, either way she got off friggin light. i offered to help kinetix and july find some wood to make said bungalow-ish thing [yea go figure the ladies made the men go find the heavy shit. pfft.]

meanwhile the remaining women ginger, heather, loud and magpie got into one big group and went off in search of some decent water supplies [though it should be interesting to see what they come back with since heather seems like a shy-ish person and mag seems to be the complete opposite, maybe loud will be the middleman (er woman) to them and they'll find us a watering hole close to camp.]

raw had teamed up with angeline and ginger in trying to figure out just what sort of house we should make. i have no idea how those three got paired, but all i know was that when i got back with a few logs in hand the three were sitting over some drawing raw did in the sand on how it should look. it actually looked halfway decent [a sort of tent-like thing but made with tree's (so maybe chrome's leaf search would be futile, who knows)].

matt had been busy with seeming to go in and out of doing things. one moment he'd be getting plants or coconuts, and the next he'd be out in the ocean with angeline trying to get fish, i'd say he's a social butterfly but that's not bad, if he actually helps and doesn't just look like he's trying to keep busy. though he did end up coming back to where kinetix and july were with me and helped us get some wood, so guess he's a pretty decent guy.

either way within a few hours of getting pieces of wood the ladies had gotten the plan drawn out and we managed to get it put together with a little amount of fuck-up's. and we even found a use for chrome's leaves, flooring. he had so many it actually made a semi-comfortable sleeping area for most of us.

and that leaves us where i am now. so i might as well go back to the..hmm wait seems like everyone is headed to go swimming. maybe if i'm lucky it'll turn into naked-night-time swimming [oh wait, if it was naked nighttime swimming it'd defeat the purpose of being naked since i couldn't be able to see anything. mother of fuck even when good luck goes my way it seems to kick me in the balls]

scud.

ps. i'm so glad i brought my solarpowered mini-satellite-tv. that way i get to watch all the arsenal games this season and keep up with their domination.