Doe Camp

Sent Dr. Moo an email asking her if she wanted to go to Doe Camp with me. Doe Camp is a weekend in Vermont where you hang out with women and get to take workshops on things like how to operate a chainsaw, how to shoot a muzzle-loader, and how to field-dress a deer. You can learn about kayaking and do painting too, of course, but I think I'd like to know more about the muzzle-loader. There's a separate class for the 12-gauge and also one for pistols. I like guns. It's not very ex-Vermont hippy liberal chick of me, I know. And it makes me uncomfortable to admit it. It's sort of like admitting you like, I don't know, midget porn? Okay, maybe not midget porn. Maybe just regular porn. I've fired a Ruger and a Glock. I found the experience to be both repellent and fascinating.

But anyways, back to Doe Camp. You spend less than 300 bucks and you stay at a camp in North Hero, Vermont, and you learn all sorts of neato things. They have a wilderness survival course that I'd like to take -- you learn all the plants and etc you can eat in the woods should you have to. I took a similar course in the fourth grade -- I went to a weeklong sleepaway camp called "Nature's Classroom" where we did, well, Nature-related things. The two big memories I have of the camp were eating ants as part of a class (they taste like lemons and are crunchy and not so bad) and of Jen Wise peeing her bed and claiming that I was the one that did it. Bitch.