i had no life in yuma because i didn't know anyone in yuma besides my coworkers. so i was able to just pass up by 8:00 p.m. and live kind of a spartan existence of wake up, lettuce, come home and fall asleep. and it was always amazing to me that the folks i was working with were maintaining these full lives. but, the other piece i think of why i enjoyed the lettuce was that when you are on a crew up 30 people, the crew stays the same, and there is a real sense of getting to know personalities. because everyone is making the same amount, which is $8.37 an hour, there is a solidarity and helping out because no one is trying to advance and also having worked in offices before, where i think we all, at least i understand how complicated office dynamics can be. one e-mail taken the wrong way and suddenly someone is up in the hair and a week later there is a fistfight or something. we just didn't have the same kind of energy to worry about this stuff because we were also tired. so i was not nostalgic until the last two days when i think we harvested 35 tons a day. on an