Premature Falluation
Posted on | August 13, 2008 at 11:33 pm | 3 Comments
This is going to be a short entry today. I spent most of tonight working on a longer entry for tomorrow. It contains a special surprise inside!
I’ve been getting this weird feeling the last couple of days that fall is here even though it’s the middle of August. There’s a crispness in the air that wasn’t there last week. When I go jogging in the morning, the temperature is about the same as it was the last few weeks, but it feels colder anyway. Cooler breezes? We’re actually supposed to dip into the low 60s for the high this weekend, which I’m pretty sure is atypical. We can usually count on days being in the 80s or even 90s through the first few weeks of September at least.
What’s going on??? (Please note I’m not asking Al Gore for an explanation; that’s too cliché.)
Another sign of the impending season change is that my commute is becoming slower and more crowded the past week or so. I guess now that summer is over, no one’s on vacation. Which leads me to my Pet Peeve of the Day: Other drivers. There seems to be more stupid people on the road than ever before. Today I got stuck behind a taxi driver awkwardly positioned diagonally in a turn lane who fell asleep and missed the left turn arrow. And then when I honked and he woke up, he somehow had the car in reverse and nearly rammed into me (out of error, not rage – I could tell he was embarrassed). And it seems like every day I see at least one accident on the way to work.
Pedestrians bug me too, even though I’m frequently one of them. Today I encountered the world’s slowest street crossers while trying to make a right turn on a green light downtown. They practically dared me to turn in front of them, but I didn’t. I swear, these were all fit guys in their 30s and 40s, and they were walking across the crosswalk like they were disabled or disaffected teenagers. Maybe they were early conventioneers. At least when I’m crossing the street, I do it as fast as I can. Mostly because I don’t want to get run over.
Good thing I don’t have any rage issues to work out.
Oh get this: Speaking of the Democratic National Convention, they’ve removed all the mailboxes from the downtown area, including the ones near my office, which is like miles from the convention perimeter. I think Al Gore’s behind it somehow. How am I going to mail my bills?
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 62°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “Miss Teen Wordpower” (New Pornographers)
- “I Don’t Exist” (Buzzcocks)
- “Hurricane The Heavy Heart” (The Celebrity Pilots)
- “Gotta Moon” (Trees)
- “Road Rally” (Anne Summers)
- “Fruit Nut” (XTC)
- “Forbidden” (Richard Barone)
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “schlongs competition”.
Comments
3 Responses to “Premature Falluation”
August 14th, 2008 @ 12:08 am
> I think Al Gore’s behind it somehow. How am I going to mail my bills?
Go paperless?
August 14th, 2008 @ 2:27 am
Yeah, really — you MAIL bills? I can sit here in Sweden and pay my bills online.
August 14th, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
Of course I do everything online/paperless that I can. But there are some bills I still have to pay by hand, mostly those dealing with my dad and his finances and his nursing home and medical stuff. Everyone should try having Power of Attorney for someone – it’s a barrel of fun! Things would fall apart if I were out of the country for a month.
Plus I gotta send those NetFlix discs back somehow…