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Huber
1964
Journal
Nov 28.
This is high trypsom. Ah... but the
truth hurts. I remember reading once
upon a time that to get hired by this
project all one has to do is inhale and
exhale. This seems to be true looking at
the majority of my fellow workers (this
is not excluding me). Here's another big joke
for the books. A project that sends its personal
to study birds with binoculars
into the field to [illegible]
that leak. Arrgh what a terrible
mood I'm in. I would like to go to sleep
but I can't. I feel like getting drunk
but I can't stand alcohol. I feel like
going to an offshore island alone
and banding all night. I can't even
do that because the birds have left.
I could skin birds but I don't think
I could stand to be face to face with a
bird that needs to be skinned for a few
days yet. After 600 birds the only ones
left that I enjoy [illegible] put up are
Shearwaters and Petrels and I don't get
many of them. I could read a book
but I've done that all evening and when
I look at the number of the page
I am reading and see it is 512.
And then look at the last page
in the book and see 1599 how
can I help feeling depressed.
Also after reading a letter from a