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Entry No. 172

So I'm standing in line at the courthouse annex, on a mission to update my vehicle registration. It's a balmy 15million degrees outside, humidity standing somewhere around 148%-- your typical Houston summer day. Unfortunately I don't quite have working A/C at the moment so the twenty minute drive out was most uncomfortable. I show up, get in behind the other 50 people, & prepare to waste two hours of my life surrounded by cops & old folks in khaki shorts. Ten minutes in & I'm ready to call quits; thirty minutes in & my knees are starting to kill me. Give it a few more minutes & I start to get dizzy, start seeing spots... sort of like when you stand up too fast & get lightheaded. I think to myself, 'nothing good can come from this...' & next thing I know, I'm on the ground. The back of my head hurts & I realize that I have just passed out. In front of everyone. & the cops... in the fucking courthouse.

Instead of helping me up or at least getting in a good laugh, the Mexican guy in front of me just gives me a glare as though my collapse has profoundly irritated him & how dare I make such a spectacle. Getting to my feet, I duck underneath the maze of ropes & haul ass back to my hot car. The drive home is terrifying as I'm shaking, sweating, & far too out of breath for someone who hasn't just run a marathon.

Needless to say, I still have yet to get my car registered. Neither of my parents are too happy about what happened, as though I intentionally blacked out. My father's words were, "Well I hope you don't fucking get pulled over." Thanks, dad!

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Entry No. 171

That's only three (almost four) months away! Definitely worth the wait.

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Entry No. 170

Off & on for the past few weeks I've been seriously (... okay, maybe only half seriously) contemplating a return to the veg-side. I'm pretty positive I wouldn't go back to being a full-blown vegan, as the repercussions previously were a little too much for me to handle. But I know my body & I know how it responds to certain foods-- leafy greens, organic frutis&nuts, soy, etc. have always treated my insides fairer than the likes of thy beloved lamb shank (although  lamb is way better for you than beef & very rarely do I eat cows, even now.) & therein lies the only real issue I have with going vegetarian. I could live quite happily on Things Grown in Soil & Co. while basically eliminating anything that once moo'd, quack'd or oink'd (the little jew inside never did take kindly to bacon.) However, there does come once a blue moon in which I crave a small plate of chops or what have you. Hell, when the holidays roll around I most look forward to Papa's fried turkey & mum's standing rib roast. But on a daily basis...? It's not exactly necessary.

& what about seafood? I absolutely refuse to live without crab legs, fresh fish, raw oysters & spicy boiled crawfish. Yes, I could very well survive without aforementioned fruits de mer... but why? They're far too delicious & full of good fatty-acids that do in fact aide in proper Evolution. & really, who gives a shit about the fish? It's not like I'm eating a dolphin (I realize dolphins are not fish).

So what to do? Perhaps I'm working myself up for nothing & all I really need is a bangin' salad to get my wits about me... but whether or not I do give up Eating Tasty Animals, it's enough to just think about Why. Really roll it around in the old Think Tank.

Decisions, decisions....

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Entry No. 169

Reason #1,354,196 why Sarah Katherine is a Horrible Human Being:

I've been looking to get healthier lately... not so much lose weight (although that's definitely on the agenda), but to become overall more physically fit. So I exercised for about 45minutes, got some sweat drippin' & the heart rate pumpin'. I felt so accomplished, so proud of myself that the first thing I did when I got off the Elliptical... was light up a cigarette.

Here's to the hair of the dog that bit me in the ass. Smoke some, bitch.

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Entry No. 168

He grabbed my right arm &firmly pulled me down to his level. "Your eyes are crystal blue," he told me, "I could see 'em through my sunglasses. Now did you know that caucasians are the world minority?"

"No sir," I answered honestly. I'd never really given it any thought before. He continued.

"Well," he says, "less than five per cent of the world's population is white. &even fewer are those with light eyes, light hair, & light skin. Plus, you're taller than the average male... therefore, you are above average. &ne'er were there truer words spoken than, 'everyone wants to fuck a white woman'."