If only I had pictures. Then it might be believable that I’m doing something like thisfor Christmas Break:
But since I don’t, those of you that know me as either a)guitar/djembe/vocal chord-playing-Mark, or b)liberal, english-teaching, community-service Mark will just have to take my word for it. Yes, that’s right. Construction. Framing and cabinet-installation under a general contractor in Shreveport, more precisely.
Day One:
8 hours, lifting
105 sheets of 5/8″ plywood, resulting in
6 Tylenol,
4 hours horizontal on the couch, and
9 hours of sleep.
Yeesh. I think I’m going to stay in school for a long, long time.
Mark Clayton Hand 
Yeah Mark, you should stay in school.
shaggy shag, boogawoogabah southwest voodoo in the ha’
You’re gonna be all muscley and jockish when you’re done working. Make sure your brain doesn’t atrophy.