For those of you who don't remember (all of you. Not like I expect you to, though) I signed up for an Orienteering class recently, because I need a PED credit. I would've signed up for something else, because I didn't even know what orienteering was until a few months ago, but everything else good was taken. Weightlifting goes like...the night it comes up, of course. Rock climbing. All gone.

The only other thing available was...I think...dancing. Special dancing. I forget the name of it, exactly, but it's the kind of dancing when you twirl around a streamer and, well, that's about the last thing I need on what little reputation I have.

So, the deal with orienteering is that I show up on two saturdays and two sundays, we go through the woods, and use maps to find these little markers, and I get an automatic A. Attendance is 90% of the grade, so I don't even have to do the exam online, I'll still get an A. First day was cool because we didn't do anything on the first day but go over the basics, and my instructor's one of those teachers who really enjoys his job and is actually fun to be around. Love teachers like that, makes the whole semester smoother.

But, Sunday, we went to the woods. Oh, what a day.

I hate spiders. I hate spider webs. I hate spider webs with the spiders still on them. I hate briar patches. I knolls. I hate streams. I hate horse shit. I hate snakes. I hate dogs. I hate the forest and all that it conceals. I don't mind the walking so much, that was good exercise, can always use that, but damn. I'm in the forest looking for the stupid marker, trying to discern which little dot on the map indicates my current position, and to make matters worse, my partner is one of those prissy little valley girls who hates the woods even more than I do and won't shut up about it. I had a thorn sink DEEP in my flesh, hurt like mad.

Anyway, I figure it'll help if I dress a little better next time, so I'm bringing my army gear for the next two days. Hope that makes a difference.

Oh, and on another note, DO NOT BUY Just Cause. That game is total crap. The controls are twitchy, the missions are dumb, and it's just an ugly on top of all that.