Volunteering: It Doesn't Pay

For anyone who enjoys the title of this blog post, you should check out Busted Tees. I'd recommend entertaining yourself with this website for short periods of time. After that, you just get too overwhelmed with the hilarity. Make sure to hover your mouse over each one for the commentary...And feel free to share which one is your favorite!

See, I'm distracted even writing about it - what I meant to write was that so far, living in the USGS dorm is pretty great. The house has two floors: the men live in the downstairs part that they deemed the "Mancave," and the women live upstairs in the "Butterfly Princess Palace." Katie and I are sharing a room upstairs, near the living room (with a table, a couch, some chairs, lots of books and games, and a TV) and the kitchen (complete with two refrigerators and an ant infestation in the cupboards - they almost claimed my peanut butter last night).

Here are the pictures, so that I don't have to spend time describing everything:
This is the outside of the house - there's a picnic table, clothesline, and a hammock out back (no geologist's home would be complete without a hammock).

This is part of the living room - you can see the image of Tropical Storm Felicia on the computer screen. It looks like the eye of the storm is almost larger than the Big Island, and it's headed straight for us. It'll be a helluva ride on Monday/Tuesday!

This is the other part of the living room, complete with a futon (I feel so at home!) and volcano posters. You can see into my room from this view...

And, finally, here's my bed (and the end of Katie's bed). I know, it's not that exciting, but at least I won't hit my head anymore, and I like the Hawaiian topographic poster from USGS...

So that's the grand tour (the basement looks like men live there, just take my word for it). As for the people, so far we've met Fred (a girl from just north of Paris), and Kevin, who's from British Columbia and plays really good music from the speaker system at all times. This morning Katie and Fred went to the farmer's market, and later today I think Fred, Katie, and I will drive around the park and hopefully see some features that we haven't seen already. Then we start work tomorrow!

P.S. If any of you want postcards, email me your address and I'll do my best. Email: lecolwell@gmail.com.