i know i just posted about spring, but i have this cool photo of these waterfalls that i visited yesterday. (i'm going to see if i can figure out how to post a picture, here goes!)

when i walked outside today, i saw some purple crocuses starting to bloom! the first flowers i've seen this year...

S-P-R-I-N-G is just around the corner!

so i think i'll go sledding this afternoon, hopefully as a good-bye to winter.

i remember i smoked salvia with a few fine blokes in buffalo. i also remember that i didn't really feel anything from it. i actually wonder if we got a different species, other than Salvia divinorum.

so, since i am drug-free here, i have decided to research some legal drugs a bit. it turns out that the preferred method is to CHEW salvia leaves, not smoke them. and preferably fresh, not dried, leaves. but i have no clue how to get fresh leaves, except for growing them myself, but then, how do i get the plant in the first place?

here's what i've found:

1) To start, take 15-20 fresh leaves, remove the center stem, to reduce the bulk
of the plant material. Roll the leaves into a quid (ball), and put in your mouth
This should be done, in a dark room, with a digital clock visible. Watching the clock, chew on the leaves, for exactly 15 miniutes, then spit them out. Effects should last about 45 miniutes...you could probally use the dry leaves in the same way as the fresh leaves

2) Dry the large leaves and smoke them. Put them in a waterpipe -- it
uses the material more efficiently. After about 6 or 7 puffs of the leaves,
the normal user will be stopped in his/her tracks, and probably want to lie
down and recieve the mental information this plant has to offer. You will
probably be taken down trains of thought independantly of your intellect,
which is off in the back smoking cigarettes with your ego while the divine
plant is operating. Make no mistake -- this is hardly just another plant to
get "wasted" with -- the insights gained by S. divinorum are often
_cerebral_, sometimes visual, sometimes not. But whatever the effects, they
are gone completely within 1-2 hours...

(i don't know how to do that fancy "link" operation, but all of this is from erowid.org/plants/salvia/salvia_info4.shtml)

if anyone has had experiences like this with the herb, can you please post about them? i am very curious...

hey everyone. i am living in pennsylvania at an ashram, where i spent six weeks last year. yeah, i'm on the spiritual path. and it's pretty cool but now i'm finding that i'm getting bored a bit. because everyone goes to sleep by 10pm

but i just finally came to look at estrip again, and i miss everyone in buffalo! you guys are the craziest! oh my god, i read about liz's performace, that was really intense.
i probably will be in town again next months, so get ready to party!

lots of love.

so, since i've been spending countless hours playing video games (i blame terry for getting me interested in DDR, which i don't have, and Mario Kart, which i kick ass at right now), i feel that i am doing what i should have done when i was in high school. so i feel like a bum, and i've never really been a bum in my life before.

and people keep offering me jobs. pretty good jobs too. and i'm not even looking for a job right now. the thing is, i know i could just take one of these jobs, become a wage slave again and get $$$$. but i'd like something more meaningful.

does anyone have any recommendations for websites that i should look at to find nonprofit jobs, specifically that have to do with renewable energy or, even better, holistic healing and spirituality? i know that there must be jobs like that out there, but i don't know where to look!