Big Medicine

School only in session one week and already I have a lot of projects to do. Much of it involves drawing, which is kind of cool. Drawing for a living sounds nice at first, but when you realize that it means you have to draw fast, get it right and do a whole bunch of them, well, it is a little less fun that way but still pretty cool. Despite the work piling up I took the kids to Geyser Falls today, to make up for a trip that went awry yesterday when the missus took 'em all the way down there and found the park closed due to rain. Geyser falls is about 75 minutes away, near the Pearl River Resort on the Choctaw Indian Reservation. I actually got to listen to some employees speaking Choctaw, which was a thrill, I didn't know they still spoke it. There were about a half dozen different elaborate water activities to choose from, all of them highly chlorinated. It was very much like Myrtle Waves in Myrtle Beach, SC, but overall more attractive. The artificial beach, complete with cabanas and tons of sand, was impressive but by that point I was so sick of the whole scene I began pestering the tykes for relief: back to the truck and the road home. We moved on to another pool that had a bar (I had no money), volleyball and music underwater. I laid back and watched the Turkey buzzards circle the parking lot, thought that it is nice that the Choctaw are making some jack, and wondered what used to be here on this land.