brick house

Today in our Gospel Team caravan, we passed a building marked "Brick House Cafe."

This would have meant nothing to me before yesterday, but as it is, I have "Brick House" stuck in my head.

Thank you, Gospel Team tour CDs. bah.

ajr

toenails.

I had a realization today: toenails make absolutely no sense to me.

No really. I was putting on my socks and I realized that while fingernails KIND OF make sense (I've always thought of them as little battle shields for all the typing and flicking and throwing my fingers are going to do), toenails do not. It's not like toes do any sort of individual labor that they would need individual shields to protect them. And let's face it, in modern times, our tootsie toes rarely venture out unprotected. It seems like with all the (pardon the upcoming graphic images) ingrown nails and fungus and ripping off and whatnot, they're a lot more trouble than they're worth.

If we are, in fact, evolving as a species, moving toward the most fit and efficient form of life, then here is my prediction: we're gonna lose our toenails. But don't get cocky, Mr. Appendix. You're totally next.

ajr

pennies...

How exactly does the "find-a-penny" rule work? I know that if it's heads I'll have good luck and if it's tails a small animal will probably die, but what if I pick it up, see that it's tails, and throw it back down. Is the bad luck averted? Or have I just passed on the potential for more bad luck for someone else?

In other news, the SUN was out yesterday. AND the day before. And happiness reigned.

ajr

deodorant

Today I passed someone who was wearing my favorite scent of deodorant. I only wish I remembered what it was called...

ajr

surreality...

did you ever wake up and feel like your day was going to be weird? Have premonitions that you would get serenaded, recited Shakespeare to, and given engagement posters and flowers? Just knew that you would find Valentine posters of your face on every lamp post, door, and blank wall on campus?

Well I never did. Unfortunately, premonitions don't always warn us of things to come.

yesterday was just a weird day.

well played, my friends. well played.

ajr

Replay

I decided that there's something very ironic about this song.

It definitely has

a melody that gets in my head and I can't keep out.

Got me singing it like every day.

It's like my ipod stuck on replay. replay.

Krimmel, if you read this, I blame you.

ajr

Hoyt.

Today I walked through the engineering building on my campus. It was just for 10 seconds. Just to get out of the cold. Just as a shortcut to get to work on time. It was a perfect route - definitely a straight line between point A and point B.

And yet I feel that I have somehow betrayed my conscience by setting foot in its atrium.

I could almost smell all the engineers and smart people from ages past warning their successors of the intruder.

I'm never going in there again.

ajr

i'm so old.

I realized today that I'm getting along in years. All my friends are growing up and saving China. Or at least going to college and graduating from college and getting engaged.

Oh life, why fliest thou at such a rushing speed?

Also, I found some gray hairs. I'm basically 75.

But that might mean that I'm just stressed.

ajr

PJs

Today I walked into breakfast in my pajamas.

It was a very weird experience - I've never before felt so judged and yet so envied.

I'll definitely be doing it again.

ajr