this is happening

i'm getting on an amtrak in the morning to oly. almost as excited about being on a train as visiting oly. i love the feeling of the train. i was riding my bike to my accupuncture appointment today and had to stop at the tracks for an amtrak to go by, and i was filled with warm gushy feelings and wanted to be on that train. accupuncture was totally rad as usual. when i left i had a sharp pain in my foot and thought perhaps theyd left a needle in but i checked later on and it was some strange phatom pain of a needle that had been there. today was a good day of getting things done. dropped the final fixed up pages of my drum book in the mail slot at buyolympia. sent off this kickball package i have been meaning to send off for a long while, about a strange possibility having to do with the future. ate quality sushi with miso. finished the petition for Hylaeus assimulans and photoshopped the fuck out of some maps of the collection localities for this species on molokai, oahu, lanai, maui and kahoolawe. i then sent off the petition to the fabulous karl magnacca, the researcher who did most of the recent surveys of all Hylaeus species in Hawaii. before him, nobody had looked at these things for about 100 years while they quietly dissapeared. The fellow who studied Hylaeus before Magnacca was named R.C.L. Perkins, and he did biological collections on the Hawaiian Islands, barefoot, between 1892 and 1906.  He made major contributions to the publication Fauna Hawaiiensis. the Hylaeus are the only bees native to Hawaii, and a bunch of them are so rare they are almost extinct. some Hylaeus have already gone to heaven, or wherever it is these things go, with the dodo. The Hylaeus have this really intimate relationship with native Hawaiian plants, and will only visit native Hawaiian plants for pollen.  bummer for Hylaeus that native Hawaiian plants are so few and far between.  These Hawaiian species evolved in such isolation that theyre pretty wimpy and get eaten, trampled, pushed out, or otherwise fucked over by pretty much any non-native from the mainlands.  The plants and the native Hylaeus have to deal with ants [none of which are native to Hawaii], honey bees [which might compete for pollen with Hylaeus], feral ungulates that destroy the native plants [aka wild hoofed animals like pigs, deer, mufflon sheep, and goats that were all introduced to Hawaii], and fire, which used to occur rarely in Hawaii but now happens all the time because the invasive plants that were helped along by the feral ungulates burn more easily than the Hawaiian natives. WHOA ! TANGENT !. So, yeah, today, i finished writing that petition, and next week I will move onto other Hawaiian Hylaeus species. this evening i cruised around to art openings at grass hut, emily baker's store, and work/sound with heaths and clauds. when i got home, our living room had been completely transformed into the most cozy thing ever, with a library nook, new stuff on the walls, and just fantastic new arrangements in general. I am usually really apprehensive about not partaking in redecorating of my home, but i was STOKED on this new arrangement. i get almost as excited about rearranging furniture as i do about taking the train. we finished off the night at dekum manor a litte bit of magic johnson and a little bit of reporter.