I punched in and went through the guard office and onto the pool deck. I grabbed one of the dry erase boards that we kept and wheeled it over to the a...ea I usually worked from. My bag was stowed, and I took out my marker and two stopwatches before going to over to Stan to see who I was working with today.To my joy I was working with the distance kids, my personal favorite group. No slackers in this bunch. They were the youngest kids on the team and had never met a challenge that they could not. I was desperate and told her that from yesterday I was looking a chance to get close to her. I felt terrible she listened to me in shock but did not say anything. I went back in my room. After some time I heard noises outside my door. She was sweeping the floor and looked quite tiered and was again sweaty. I asked her why she is not studying she said since I have kissed her she is disturbed and can’t concentrate. I called her inside my room and started telling that it will never happen again. A few times I would see older couples enter it.One work week, I was assigned with an older technician, around twenty years older than myself, to take on a project that would last for a few weeks. I did not know the man very well, as we met casually, but worked in different areas or projects. We met up on the first day and went over what was needed, then began working. At lunch, we rode together to a hamburger joint and he asked me about myself. So, I told him some things, where I was living and. The adrenalin flows ... you are in 'oh shit' mode.I loved the shovel work moving a meter of overburden to get at 'the good stuff.'Even though you KNOW there's nothing there it's still 10 centimeters ... keep it level, keep it square, haul the buckets to the screens, log it at the end of each level.A typical log sheet for a meter square: 'Level 1= 0 to 10cm. Roots. Black topsoil trending to grey. Pebbles in the screen. Bagged: No. 12.'When the log sheet is completed the sheet is inserted in the.