Today is Sunday and my one office day of the week. I am so tired I can't hardly stand it. I swear, I looked at the clock and it was midnight, so started getting ready for bed and it was suddenly 2am!!! I think I was abducted by aliens. WHERE DID THOSE TWO HOURS GO?!?!?

The office day is the most excruciatingly slow day of the week because I am cooped up in an office by myself from 8am to 5pm. I realize most people would probably be like "ummm, it's called a job" but I have a hard time staying awake and I can't seem to make myself concentrate to work on the Powerpoint presentation I am supposed to be working on. I would guess that my boss will want to see some progress at some point. I'm really not a slacker. I'm just trying to wake up before I crank this stuff out. Last week the power went out and so I got to sit in a dark office with no work to do listening to the office equipment beeep beeeeep beeeeeeep. I almost lost my mind.

Let's see, what did I do this weekend. First of all, I almost got arrested on Friday. There is a thermal feature at the Mud Volcano Geyser Basin called The Gumper. It's a HUGE mud pot, truly one of the most amazing things I have seen here in Yellowstone. To get to The Gumper, you must go off the boardwalk at the top of the hill onto a trail. However, the area is "closed". I was taken there last summer by a Yellowstone Association guide, who said that it's sortof ambiguously closed, because employees know about it and like to visit it. The rule is basically don't get caught. I took 4 friends from Roosevelt out there. We went up the hill and pretended to be looking at a deer while we snuck off the boardwalk when no one was looking (understand that you can see people from a long way off at this spot, so it's really tricky). Well, this girl saw the 3rd to last guy go and sortof shook her head. Then when she was down quite a ways farther, the last 2 decided to go and she turned around and yelled something to the effect of "stay on the fucking boardwalk!" But we were already on our way down the trail by then. A ranger had just passed us too on the way up, so we thought for sure that girl was going to tell on us. We went and saw the amazing Gumper, maybe a little faster than if we weren't worried about being arrested. Then we snuck back to the boardwalk, thankfully without incident. We saw the ranger waiting for us at the trailhead, and we thought for sure we were done for. He looked at us, but didn't say anything and let us go by. Whew!

After that, we did the Storm Point loop trail, which has an old teepee ring, at least 100 years old, very possibly older. Storm Point is an easy 2 mile trail, but it's a really pretty.

Saturday I went to Bozeman to get make some purchases. It's funny how I prioritize now. I got a new pair of trail runner shoes because my old ones were about flat. I got my prescription sunglasses fixed, since I had demolished them in Antarctica. Then I had a bike rack put on my car. I always go to Bob Wards because they sell last year's sporting goods equipment for pretty cheap. Well, I got an extremely discounted bike rack that they jimmy rigged using two bike rack sets. It hooks to my trunk and it's pretty stable. Now it's time to start researching the bikes!!!