medical study visit 4/4

I'm sitting in the "quiet room" located in the Mountain section of the PPD facility.

Despite the name, there is little about this place that truely is quiet. Whether it's people going back and forth telling "how I got into prision" stories or long winded tales about each one of their children and subsequently how much they pay in child support. It's really hard to find any place in this facility that is quiet. Before I had ever done a medical study I always sorta thought it'd be something I could do to make money and work on projects. It's true that I've worked on my board game a little bit but I've spent most of my time trying to find ways to burn away the hours until monday.
I'm ready to have this whole experience overwith and have a few Ks in the bank. It's not been all bad, I've met some cool people doing this study. Also I'd rather do this study than working at some sandwhich shop.

What really gets me pumped about doing this thing is the fact that when I get back to Denver I can put my feet up on the dash and play Diablo III for about a month and really look for some work instead of desperatly grabbing at the first crappy job that comes my way.

Things I want to buy with my medical study money:

-chiptune gameboy cart

-Diablo 3 (derfy)

-Video Card/RAM required to play Diablo 3 on decent settings

-USB Audio interface with MIDI and quarter-inch inputs

-Cthulu Tattoo -or- abbit w laser eyes tattoo 0 "(left arm insiBrush & floss every day / (right arm inside p& don't lose heart" tattoo -AND- mosquito trapped in amber tattoo

I have this crazy idea of buying a van for around 2Gs and using it to move people's crap around for BIG BUCKS. I'm not much of an entrepreneur but hey, it could end up being quite a hustle.

medical study

southbysouthwest came and went and the southby slumps after that were hard. Harder still considering I had to endure them by getting my blood drawn like a bajillion times a day for 3 days straight.

I go back into PPD tomorrow. In fact, my 8 hour fast begins in six minutes. I'm not really looking forward to it at all. I forget how lonely I get when I'm not around loved ones, how absolutely fueled I am by the people around me that care about me. Without my friends I'm a shriveling bit of biomass on an end of a stick. That being said I think the worst is over. Only once do you get dosed with the real thing, the other 3 times you get half doses or complete placebos. This time, I'm hoping it's the placebo. 

I move into the collective space tomorrow. I'm pretty excited to have a room of my (our) own for a little while. The people we're gonna be living with are genuinely rad and I think it'll be a good space for me while I self care after each study.

I love traveling but I think I might need a break from it for a while. I need some space of my own.

Is Xanga finally dying? I rarely get comments any more, now my Facebook notes that I link them to get more comments than here. I don't really wanna stop blogging on Xanga but I don't know how many more years xanga will exist if people stop using it.

Austin is still fabulous. Lots of great people and I plan on meeting more awesome folks before I bounce.

sometimes in life things are both tough and good.

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We're not those kids, sitting on the couch.

eight hours.

So it's less than eight hours before I go into the facility. I'm doing a medical study for PPD Austin and I have to fast before I check in. I've been in Austin for about two weeks and I've had a great time. It's just weird that I'm going away just when all my homies are coming out.  Such is life though, I'll have time to read my fantasy novels and work on board games in the mean time. I'm really excited to take a break from regular life and really just space out for a little bit. Also, I really need the cash, I broke my last hundred dollar bill the other day and it's about time I make some money on the real.

so. to make a long blog short..

I love all my lovers and ex-lovers and lovers I don't talk to anymore

I'm excited about board game design just like I used to be about being in bands

I'm also excited to start a chip-tune project soon. (it'll be skramz, and no fun for anyone I promise ;)  ]

I love travelling and meeting people

I'm soo ready to settle down for a little while.

I want to get to a level that I can teach Starcraft. (I wanna get Gold in random) a lofty goal I know.

I want to learn how to make guitars do all that annoying stuff you hate. ie screetches, junt junts, weeeooos ect.

I'm the first human in my reincarnation cycle.

If I'm real good, I'll be lost dog in my next life.

I'm 26 years old and don't know nothin.

Chrisssssss 
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The winds of change.

So Suzie and I have been in Alsea, Oregon for two weeks.
We've been WWOOFing at Common Treasury farm. Even though we've been here for two weeks, it really feels like home here. Common Treasury is an intentional community farm that's been certified organic since 1993. Their emphasis on permaculture and eating what you grow is staggering. Tonight we had an 800 foot meal. That means everything we had was harvested 800 feet from the house. It's really great to see  a collective like this that has been here for so long. Communication is so open and their consensus based decision making it's something that I can tell took many years to work out and perfect.

We're leaving for Austin, by way of San Francisco and Tuscan tomorrow. We found a medical study that we can do that'll give us the monetary bump we need to roll back in Denver with a happy nest egg of cash. We'll be staying out a little longer than we wanted, it would appear that we're staying in Austin til the end of April. Even if I have to pay rent for my room for that month, the money we'll be making will well be worth it. Southby is gonna be alot of fun. Really learning something about Austin will also be pretty awesome.

I'm excited to see some great friends and I can't wait to feel the bright, hot sun on my cold, wet skin.

I love you all.
Chris!

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"If winter would end I'd be fine,
I'd stand in the sun,
till' it felt alright."

-Run Forever, The Devil, Death and ME

FARM

Today is the day Suzie and I leave The Mushroomery.
It's been really great here. We would have actually stayed a bit longer but due to a scheduling error on both parts, the farm thought we were leaving. Since they've already got WWOOFers coming this week we decided to go work for a week at a different farm outside Corvallis. I'm actually really exicited about the farm we're going to. One of the people who runs the place knows some denver people and has been heavily involved in Food Not Bombs in the past in addition to other Food Activist (a term I'm only marginally familiar with but pretty excited about) projects. This farm will be a bit different from what we're used to. We'll be working more hours and working harder but we'll get more and better food and learn more about the farm life.
I guess I've been thinking about what I'd like my 30s to look like and I've decided I want to be better equipped for growing and maintaining my own food sources. That doesn't mean I really want to be a farmer or that I'm trying to get my own farm ASAP but I just want to be more comfortable in the rural environment. It's interesting actually, Suzie got an email from a place that offered to rent land, equipment and materials for us in exchange for us to farm the land and then give them half of the money we raise from crops and eggs. Isn't that really cool? We'd be our own farm managers, planning out our own farm and everything! Although I don't think I'm ready to make that almost year commitment, It's something I might want to explore next year. 
Right now I'm really excited to get some medical study work which should happen pretty soon.
I'm STILL excited about SXSW and so many beautiful friends.

 
My name is Chris Spaght,  I'm excited about my life and I'm proud to announce I don't know nothin'.

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