My Fellow Americans

I've always wanted to address a large group of people like that. Maybe one day when I am the 1st female president of the United States, I will have the chance. If there was one very shallow reason I wouldn't want to be president, it is because of how much it ages you. You would go into the presidency looking like a relatively well preserved older person and then come out looking like you've had horrible sleeping habits for 40 years. I don't know if four years of that much stress would be worth it.
Anyway...the last couple of days has been really boring. I haven't gone to any rigs, or worked in the shop. I cannot work on my project yet, as no one knows what to do with it and I think I am getting a new one. The project I am supposed to be doing is "Standardization of the AKA D&M Work Processes". Sounds kind of simple, yes. However all the people who know what they're doing (including the real engineers) have told me that it's basically impossible for me to complete. Not because I am stupid or anything like that. They say that to be able to effectively do anything with that subject I have to have a working knowledge of the processes themselves. As I have only worked up here for 2 weeks....it's a no-go. The new project I might get to work on I will talk about later if we get the thumbs up for it.
I am excited, though, because I get to fly back down to Anchorage tomorrow! My flight leaves here at 12:25 pm and then I have a week of absolutely nothing. I considered the Denali trip, but I am still not sure. The Denali trip we wanted to do involves a 9 hour/60 mile drive into the park with frequent stops to take pictures of animals and such. It sounds interesting, but I am really not a fan of sitting on a bus for 9 hours. Even if we get breaks occasionally. After being up here I just really do NOT want to be inside anywhere for nine hours. Unless I am sleeping, of course. I am also leaning really hard towards a two day kayaking lessons/on your own type of deal, as it is not really expensive and I will get to be outside/doing physical stuff. Plus, it's WATER!!!! I like water. A lot.
Besides that my life has been boring. Oh yeah. To G'ma Joanie: I checked out the one general store that they have up here. It is actually just a hardware store with a room above it that you can buy cold weather gear/sweats/shampoo/knicknacks from. It has nothing in the way of film developing/uploading in it. It does, however, have a movie rental area, a large section of porn (or so I am told by the guy interns...Alan took a picture of it, but I wasn't excited enough to check it out), and the only cat in Prudhoe Bay/Deadhorse, Alaska. Sorry, I tried. :) And it also sells shot glasses, which I found rather ironic, as no alcohol is sold or can be brought up here. Unless you drove, and why drive 400 miles on a nasty dirt/gravel road with alcohol when it would only get you fired from your job? Yup.
I will write soon. I love you all!