Matt's Missives

after collapsing from a 13.5 hr. workday, involving hauling junk in the morning and then 10 hours of haying, I wrote to my friend Mike of the long day. He had little sympathy, saying that it was 12:30 and he was waiting for "beam time" (he works at the particle accelorator). What follows is my response:
the beam does not demand that you throw 35lb bales from field to truck (stacking them 4 high) and then from truck to barn, waking with your fingers like arthritic claws, imagining for a moment that you have descended prematurely into the aging process and your joints will never be the same, pain so intense that it will not let you sleep past 7:30 until you uncurl your fingers and massage your knuckles and try with pins and needles to lure yourself back into dreams. science does not move 1200 bales in a day. that'll feed more livestock than any beam.