I only have a few things to report.
1) I am so frickin lame. I hurt my lower back yesterday. I wish it was something worth injuring myself over, like making the sweet love or escaping from a second story window, but no.
My lower back usually gets sore after aikido practice, then gets better after a week's rest, but this time the reason is truly stupid: Yesterday, after I watered the lawn, I squatted down to yank a weed, pulling a small muscle on the right side of my lower back.
It wasn't a debilitating sort of hurt; well, not to someone with a normal pain threshold, anyway, so I'll self-censor the part where I writhed on the grass, calling out for my mother. I'm not a hypochondriac but I considered calling 911 in case the soreness spread into my blood stream rendering it septic. I don't want what I have infecting the general population. One can never be too much of a pussy, ya know?
2) Someone from Virginia has been looking at my site almost 24-7. I think this is in addition to J's friend in San Francisco who reads my Xanga via an RSS feed. That's perfectly fine. Apparently, every time I adjust myself, it sends an update to her blog reader.
The problem is this other person (and I assume it's not J's S.F. pal) who spent the last several days going through a majority of my entries. This I know because my entry's titles showed up on my footprints page, one after the other. I hope they're not stalking any of my readers.
The only reason I can think this happened is that Mr./Ms. Stalker's blog reader only shows part of my entries. If this is the case, I'm going to give myself the benefit of the doubt and assume that my entries are just so compelling, so deliciously entertaining, that this person had an insatiable need to read the rest of my entries.
Then again, this person might have an unnatural attraction to me, which is, I guess, okay as long as things don't get out of hand. Just because the location is Virginia doesn't mean anything. The server might be in Virginia; the stalker could be... staked out and watching me this very minute. Oooh. Creepy.
3) Saturday we stayed in and watched the second and third installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. I didn't get to see the flicks in the theater, thank God; I had to watch the movies twice to figure out what was going on with the story. I can tell you one thing: I had the weirdest dreams after watching those movies. I don't remember the details, but I know the dreams were really, really strange.
4) I didn't get to go to Donut Man yet. I don't know when I'll be able to go with gas prices so gosh-darned high. The thought saddens me.
5) Did you hear about the murder in Monterey Park last weekend? That's super close to where I live. A man killed his girlfriend Saturday with a three-foot sword and the morning news played the audio in which you can hear the victim's daughter talk to the 911 operator.
Tell me if this is sad. The first thing I thought when I heard the news introduction wasn't that's horrible; my first thought was I hope he's not J-A.
6) This always gets me: the fabric in my crotch area wearing out prematurely. How does that happen to boxer shorts? The cloth down there gets so abraded... somehow. Don't ask-- that it gets nearly translucent. It's far worse when I'm out fighting crime. I don't know about other crime fighters, but it's bad enough that my outfit doesn't withhold any secrets. All I know is that I could've never worn this get-up in high school. I'm not a big cape person, neither.
Oh, and by the way, to any people on the street: screaming out "DON'T look up in the sky" is both hurtful and mean.
*EDIT!!*
7) This hairy moment happened after I posted so I thought I'd better add it to my entry while the image is still burned into my eyes
Okay, so we were sitting in front minding our business when we see this guy walk across the plaza toward us. As he gets closer to the doors, I could see he's borderline homeless. Great. He stops at our admissions desk and asks if it costs money to visit. We, of course, tell him that there's an admission charge. It's surprising how so few people see the huge red and white panel behind us with the price, but whatever.
As he's talking to us, he's lifting up his t-shirt, using it to clean his sunglasses. Mind you, were sitting down and he's standing up. All of a sudden, at my eye level, I see flesh followed by hair and not the hair on his stomach. I don't know how low his pants were sagging, but it was low enough to see the head of his "trail to treasure". UGH! It was the topmost part of that inverted furry delta better left kept under a pair of underwear. I had to avert my eyes right away.
He left to go to the store where the person working, and I don't know why he did this, told him that we were free every Thursday after 5pm. Oh, come on!
When he left shortly afterwards, I glanced at my co-worker, J.S., and she had this look on her face like she saw-- well, for one thing, a dirty man's pubes.
For the rest of the day, I'm not looking down when I go pee.