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well, its finally happened. I’ve avoided it for weeks, but I ultimately lost the battle. I got sick. Not that I’ve had much respite from the busy life of Haines, you understand. Its been a crazy week of juggling my schedule between Mountain Market and the kayaking, so that I could free up this weekend for the South East Alaskan State Fair, where I will be preforming, with others, as a Puppeteer in the Lilliputian Puppet Sideshow. My particular piece is entitled “psychoanalysis after the apocalypse.” However, apparently puppeteers are not a very rehersal minded bunch, and all of my theater instincts are screaming at me to run away, because a show this haphazard shouldn’t be preformed for any one. But, it goes on. I will report, after the fact.

Lets see, since I last posted, I have been to Canada for the first time, all the way up to the Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon. The best part about this was finding bread and cheese to make a man weep. Truly, I nearly did. Real German Volkhorn brot and bauern brot and oh me oh my. Also some great Guyere cheese that reminds one what cheese can be, if one is in the know. All in all, I spent fifty dollars on bread and cheese, along with some good honey and these amazing dutch waffle cookies which are not easy to find, and I usually have to have someone fetch them for me from amsterdam.

I also have seen my first brown bear. I was paddling along happily with a group on Wednesday when 600-700 pound brown bear came out of the alder not fifteen feet from my kayak. He didn’t seem terribly interested in me, or any one else however. He would look our direction, turn, and amble along ever so peacefully, as if we didn’t know he could catch up to our kayaks pretty easily if he so desired. There is something frightening about 700 pounds that can move like sprinter. I was counting myself lucky it wasn’t a sow with her cubs. Then we might have gotten charged. Which is a whole different blog post entirely. I expect more and more bear sightings this next week, considering the salmon are running in high numbers this next week.

Right, I must shower and breakfast myself. I put far to much cayanne pepper in my tea last night, in an attempt to shock my system out of being sick. It had the affect of making my throat feel like its been sanded and chalked.

oh, and I also went to the very last midnight selling of harry potter. but that is a post all on its own. havn’t touched the book yet.