Obey Zolac!

So my boss just called me an hour ago to inform me that our twelve day bushwhacking, helicoptering, tent-camping expedition to the deep deep jungle that we were supposed to embark on tomorrow HAS BEEN POSTPONED. FOR AT LEAST A WEEK. ...AUGH.

Not her fault, not anyone's fault, nothing we can do about it. Boss Dennis had already broken the news to us Friday morning that he couldn't come because his doctor wanted him to go see a cardiologist and to not go anywhere remote until he'd done so, so that was a bit of a hiccup. But now apparently Boss Carter has come down with a nasty flu, so he's down for the count, too. Which leaves us very short on manpower and without anyone who's actually been to this site before, and... yeah. It's just not the best idea until Carter's healthier. So everything's up in the air right now... we're hoping for May 21 thru June 2, but it depends on when the helicopter pilot is available.

KIND OF A BUMMER, but... not so bad, really, now I have some more time to get all my gear and food together and packed, so... that takes some stress off of me for tonight. And! I can probably go to O'ahu and do archaeology with my family next weekend after all! :DDDDD

So, anyway, dunno what I'm up to this week; we might go to Nauhi for a few days, who knows.

This weekend was fun, if exhausting. Got caught up on Korra (guys I am so madly in love with Bolin), shmoozed with friends, enjoyed David and Asifa's Mali Peace Corps slideshow, geeked out about Avatar: The Last Airbender with a ten year old girl, ate TONS OF DELICIOUS FOOD, and enjoyed Downtown Hilo and the Farmer's Market on a Saturday morning.

And The Avengers was just as awesome the second time around. OH MY GOD THAT MOVIE IS SO GOOD.

...I have to say, on second viewing I found myself really loving the encounter between Tony and Loki in Stark Tower (by which I mean, even more so than the first time). I feel like on some level Loki must have really really enjoyed having a conversation with Tony Stark... someone else whose skill lies in wit and words, who uses elocution like a weapon and uses it well. I can just imagine him like, "Omg this guy is kind of awesome for a human, he can actually kind of keep up with me, look at him go! :DD" ...SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE ME THE POST-MOVIE FIC WHERE LOKI AND TONY JUST SNARK/TALK AT EACH OTHER FOREVER, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I NEED IT LIKE BURNING. TT_TT

Today, after work, WE WENT TO THE POOL. We went in the hot tub, and then we went down the water slide about a gajillion times, and then we played around with the pool floaties and the water-jet play sculpture in the kiddie pool, and then... then we found out what That Rope in the regular pool is for. Apparently, when under supervision by a Friendly Lifeguard, it is for rope swinging/climbing to the top and falling kersplashy from a great height. SO. MUCH. FUN. I am the only one of us who actually succeeded in climbing the rope to the top, or, you know, at all. Because I am manly and heroic like that. ^_^ ...So we did that a lot. I had fun swinging out and letting go and spinning almost 360 degrees in the air before hitting the water. Uh... and then we went back on the water slide a gajillion more times, and then we went back in the hot tub, and then we went back to the regular pool and I climbed the rope again because, you know, it was there, and we played basketball with Ducky's t-shirt and then with an actual ball, and then I made an epic basket from the pool into the ball barrel but only Becca saw or cared. ...So that was all tons of fun, messing around and acting like a bunch of ten-year-olds instead of a bunch of twenty-somethings.

AND THEN we went to Humdinger, the cute little burger joint we've been eyeing for months and never actually quite going to. And it was even cuter than we thought it would be. I had a Hawaiian burger with tater tots and a peach milk shake. There were burgers and various fried potato products and condiments and pickles and milkshakes and sitting outside under an umbrella and giggling like idiots. The guy wiping tables had a pink t-shirt that had "DUST PROTECTS FURNITURE" written on it in puffy paint, which is just about the most fabulous thing I've ever seen.

I am very full of food and it is less hot tonight and that is awesome, and we watched the first half of Brideshead Revisited and that is awesome except we made Ducky cry. And Fluffy is coming to visit tomorrow and that is EVEN MORE AWESOME. ...But it is way past my bedtime.