The Bear Bitch’s Project

It’s been so long since I’ve been able to walk to work. Normally, I’d have my Yoga-Pilates classes on Monday, Wednesday, & Friday, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I’d walk from the train station to the office, and again during lunch time. I stopped walking in April because it was constantly raining and spending the day in the office with damp toes isn’t exactly the most comfortable thing. Around the last week of April, the rains stopped and the sun came out. The weather has been absolutely perfect ever since but I still haven’t been able to walk. Why? Because its higad season! Stanford is positively crawling with higads. There are hundreds hanging from every tree and you can’t walk 5 feet without having one (or three) swing at your face or drop on your shoulder. And they’re not just hanging off trees. They’re crawling on the streets, sidewalks, lamp posts, trash bins… The bus-stop bench has had those orange road cones & yellow ‘caution’ tape around it for weeks because it’s infested with creepy crawlies! You name it, there’s a higad there. Even inside the building. Yesterday I saw 2 of them slowly making their way up the stairs, and Arsenio (my boss) saw one on the Caltrain! Can you believe that? Boy, not only do they travel far, they take public transportation too!

Photo courtesy of Arsenio Roldan