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8 days of work finished… Pretty miserable conditions all around. Spent 8 days working in Ginko state park and a terrible place called Hells Kitchen. When I say terrible I mean it. I love the earth and everything that’s here it all has its own beauty but that doesn’t go to say there are some shitty places so i wasn’t shocked to see anyone there and for good reasons. My job has a lot of pros and cons I do great work and make some cool differences in these local regions BUT at times I feel like it’s just busy work giving us mindless tasks to make the time go which i’m not a fan of. Eliza surprised with a hat from the thrift store which was awesome much appreciated. The plan is to spend the weekend in Seattle and eat some good food and seriously just kind of enjoy myself. When I travel my main priority is to eat the food you cant get a better sense of a place than eating the food it has to offer. The people the environment and the culture you receive from eating somewhere with friends or random strangers is unmatched. I have the next 7 days to do what I please and enjoy myself until I go back for 7 days of grueling underpaid government employment. I’ve learned to appreciate so much more already during my time here and Id like to leave something good behind with someone or something. A little over 2 months in Washington left and less than 2 months of work left I don’t know where I’m jumping into for the next chapter of this story but it needs to be something special. My coworker and I talk a lot about how we grew up and he comes from a small farm town in Washington called Walla Walla i’ve never even heard of the damn place until I met him and he tells me growing up in a place like that can shrink your mentality make you feel small so you don’t go out and explore no desire because your world is in that bubble and that bubble can be hard almost impossible to pop he moved to Spokane a larger city a few hours away and he lived in Colorado for 6 months during the pandemic and that’s not popping your bubble that’s expanding it. You expand the bubble and it can be even harder to do new things later on ill tell you my reasoning… i think its because you get this self-gratification from it as in hey I lived there for x amount of months and I moved here that must mean I’m doing something new and out of the ordinary and while that is true you feel content for months even years later speaking on these “big” things you did and you lose the hunger to keep fucking going. Never lose the hunger once its there stay hungry stay curious some people never get that hunger to go out and change it up so when it happens to you don’t let it go do everything in your power to hold on to that feeling.