I kind of want to be a ranch hand for the summer. Even though the summer is over, I feel like it would be good to actually do some work -- real, hands on work -- before I get to the point where I can't. I'm kind of hoping that when my girlfriend gets into school that she might go somewhere where it's feasible to do such a thing. Of course, it's not like working as a ranch hand will be particularly viable financially, but I could do it for a summer or something. Maybe I can get a leave from work and go and do it. I think it would be really, well, interesting to take a full month and go and work on a ranch.

Maybe I'm just being romantic about it, or something. But I think the thing that is most attractive about it to me is that it's totally different from what I'm doing now. Which is not to say that I hate what I'm doing now, but I have to say that I don't really view it as being very "real." It's definitely a living, and it's definitely challenging, but it's really kind of soul-deadening.