So jazzed!

Robert Alberti and his dog Rover, both survivors of hurricane Katrina, are reunited at The Missouri Humane Society of St. Louis office Monday, Oct. 3, 2005. Alberti and Rover were rescued from a rooftop in New Orleans but were later separated. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)

I made it out to volunteering today at the emergency animal shelter in Gonzales. This is where pets who won have actually been rescued from New Orleans are being cared for. What was so awesome is the fact that I met people from all over the country who were doing the what I've come to term as "Vigilante volunteerism" which is also what I consider myself to be doing. I met people who had come to Louisiana to do search and rescue operations, feeding and care of animals, etc. in New Orleans itself. And I worked with people, mostly women, from San Antonio, San Francisco, Massachusetts, and Washington D.C. just today! I was also invited to go on a search and rescue mission to New Orleans tomorrow. Unfortunately, I am chained to my job and have to work tomorrow. After I had to turn down an opportunity to volunteer on a medical mission in New Orleans three weeks ago because of work, this seems to be a running theme with me. Sigh.

Anyway, so awesome!

My day ended when one of the cats I was working with scratched me and I went to the First Aid tent to get it cleaned up. I spoke to a public health officer while he cleaned my finger, and I asked him move to talk kinds of questions about the U.S. Public Health Commission Corps which I later found out it was called. They also commission mental-health officers so I was interested to hear that and I think this is something that I would like to look into in the future. They also work in the Indian Health Service, among various other public agencies. Very interesting! If not, I am definitely going to try to get want a permanent volunteer Disaster Team with the Red Cross. I really enjoyed working in this whole crisis environment and I think I'd like to work in it again.

Oh, and LET ME NOT FORGET! I saw the CUTEST woman ever there! I think I smiled at her like 8 times today. How could I forget? I did forget until I saw her bright blue eyes and black hair embrazened on the inside of my eyeballs just now.

EDIT: Actually, let me elaborate on this. The girl I saw. So infrequently do I see a woman who stirs anything in me. And, I won't lie. She had the same features as the last woman I dated. Except, that girl was more like Bettie Page in that she had long black hair, bright blue eyes, and these AWESOME smart-girl-looking glasses. Anyway, cute girl today. This girl/woman - whatever, I never know what to call females these days now that I'm over 30 - she was totally gorgeous. But, not at all in the way that she looked like some runway model. No, I like feminine women, but I do NOT like girly-girls who acts like it's everybody's job to take care of them. No way. Even if it's a contrived stance, to me it's just too weak and passive and I don't find it attractive at all. I also don't like girls who use their feminitity to act like they can get anything, no matter how unfair, it is. Anyway, that was a little tangent. The last woman I dated - and, trust me, honey, she was totally a woman - was entirely self-sufficient and had been from a very young age. This chick I saw today was.... hmmm, she was striking, and you could tell that she probably didn't see anything special about herself. But she was fucking beautiful! I guess the uncommon is what draws me to someone. Plus, she was pushing a broom - a fucking shop broom and cleaning the aisles between the rows of animal cages. I saw her later pushing that broom down the other aisles and I asked them if they were going to sweep the entire city, since it took them about an hour to sweep one aisle. She had a tattoo that I spied when her shirt rose up as she pushed that broom. I kept smiling at her. And, the chick had muscles, too! You would not have known that she had toned arms unless she was pushing a shop broom and had a cut-off sleeveless shirt on but, ... oowwww! Awesome. And, it was so adorable that she was all into it, and her brow was all furrowed with hard work. And, I just wanted to throw her down in one of the stalls and get wood chips and dirt all over our sweat-covered bodies. This was my instantaneous fantasy when I saw her. And, it was hot.