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We can flip rocks and look for salamanders and go swimming and eat the strawberries that are growing wild in the field

They are actively sabotaging me in my efforts to get skinny and tan! I thought working in the mountains would be perfect and a great way to be outside all day riding my bike and swimming. Which, I have done so. However, the BLACK FLIES are thirsting for my blood and attack me whenever I leave my indoor sanctuary. I’m just trying to lay in the sun like a lizard but I come back looking like I have smallpox. Bike rides are good when I’m on the move but any stop for rest or water and they are there. Swimming is worse because their home is clear fresh moving water, which would also be my home if I could choose. My lovely perfumes that smell of vanilla and amber attract them even more, so my signature scent has been replaced by 50% DEET.

Inshallah they die off soon.

Getting back to my roots! 4 years ago while studying in Italy I had a brief, but intensely passionate relationship with another woman I was studying with. I think about her often. This year I will be working alongside 3 other women around my age to repair a secluded manor deep in the woods. The odds are looking gay. Maybe I’ll meet a beautiful stranger while picking berries, or stumble across a young forest ranger who becomes smitten with me. Fingers crossed.