True Adventures of a Cartographer

So for the past week I've been making maps.  I've been mapping all of the mines that Stephanie and I did field work for, and the mines that she and Jessica looked at too.  It's 10 hours a day in the office putting all of our GPS stuff into ArcMap which can get a little repetititive. haaaa pun. okay... anyway, I think I'm going crazy.  See, as part of the maps, I have to label all the features with these little lines that go from the labeling box to the mine.  This guy came in to talk to me at about 6:00pm, just after 10 hours of looking at the computer screen.  He was standing in front of a window that was made up of many small panes of glass and when I looked up at him, my eyes completely wigged out!  All the little lines connecting the window panes looked just like the lines I was making on the computer and for some reason my eyes were still connecting the lines to things... I couldn't even look at him!  I looked up, my brain started connecting lines, and I just slapped my hands over my eyes. When I peaked through my hands to see how freaked out this guy was, he was just looking at me like it was nothing LOL! Not even a pause in the conversation we were having hahaha!


In the office, Stephanie doesn't like noise, it bothers her to have any sound when she's trying to work, so the office is dead silent all the time.  This makes things very difficult because I constantly have How To Train Your Dragon stuck in my head and I catch myself humming the first note of a song... then I stop before Stephanie yells at me, but it must be kind of weird to hear me randomly hum a single note out of nowhere.  I really reaaaaally wish I could listen to music while I make the maps... I'm listening to the music in my head anyway lol! Sometimes, I get to the good part in my head and want to run away. I just want to knock everything off my desk and start running! Sigh... but I can't do that. I wish I had a piano here. A nice baby grand. My fingers are itching to touch the keys! I want to feel music around me.  I would kill for a piano right now. I hope I haven't forgotten how to play all the things I love, like Yann Tiersen... and I would love to play Forbidden Friendship, Test Drive, and Where's Hiccup. Now I'm dying for a piano! I think I'm going through piano withdrawal, my hands are shaking. Speaking of drugs, my roommate Erik offered me some pot.