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Someone once wrote “We are all alone on this planet.” I never bothered to read it.

There’s a maple tree shaped like a giant hand twisting upwards out of the ground. A sapling of a different species, about 4 feet tall, has taken root in the collection of soil and tree debris gathered in the Maple tree’s ‘palm.’ That’s not how it’s supposed to work. What will happen to the trees when the little one gets bigger? Will the hand tree give way, taking the younger one down with it? Or will the younger one grow weak and flimsy, and falter, having been hoisted out of harm’s way all it’s life?

“Do you find me attractive?”

“Who are you asking?”

If someone ever asks me if their butt looks too big, or wants to know how I rate that person over there on a scale of 1 to 10, I always refuse to answer on the grounds that I don’t want to harm the asker’s self image. If you ask someone to ‘rate’ you, or someone else, what you’re really asking is ‘am I seeing the world clearly? or is my perspective way off?’ If someone’s a 7, and someone else thinks they’re a 3, then the 7’er thinks they have low expectations all of a sudden; it never works the other way around somehow. The person who never hands our a rating higher than 5 never thinks they have high expectations. So if everyone is to be confident with themselves, the best answer is really, “I don’t know. Do you think it makes your butt look big?” The more I’ve lived, the more I’ve found my opinion on someone’s butt size doesn’t matter.

There has been a huge gaming problem in the library, but the library just banned the use of computers for gaming purposes. Everyone was happy because the gamers were so loud, but some said they should ban the use of computers for casual purposes including facebook, youtube, and other social sites. One guy in particular said it’s not that they were being loud, but wasting resources. One replied that visiting social sites is spontaneous, and gaming is not. The guy reiterated it doesn’t matter how the resource is being wasted, but that it is. The other guy replied “In a perfect world no resource would be wasted, not even the mind.”

Idealism is screaming at me, but all I hear is blahblahblah.

If you had to make a list of the traits of a super soldier you’d want to make sure “large bladder” makes the list. You don’t want to get popped on the trail while you’re dropping trau. You need a guy that can slosh around a gallon of piss before he has to unleash, or unbelt, rather.

In marketing class about 8 chairs were empty out of 75. Within a minute the professor said that she’ll give us extra hints on the upcoming exam because not everyone’s here. She likes to encourage us to come to class like this, but she’s not encouraging the people who aren’t here, who are the ones that need it. I find it rather ironic that the marketing teacher doesn’t know how to reach her target market.

In a mostly empty restaurant these Japanese women were talking about anything. I don’t know if it’s slightly taboo for a Japanese woman to go to another country specifically to mate, but that was the current topic.

“You should go to korea, you like Korean guys.”

“But I don’t know Korean.” As if that was the major reason not to go. “After Byoungkwon I lost interest in Koreans.”

“All Koreans?”

“Yes, all Koreans.”

Later in the conversation they were talking about  a mutual acquaintance without much context. “She’s so pretty.”

“Yes. Did she miscarry?”

“Oh…” She said as if understanding something for the first time. “She’s so pretty.”

I’m considering going skydiving. Many people say it’s one of the most exhilarating things you’ll ever do, and how could it not be. After all, you are paying someone to save your life.

I saw two bald eagles spiraling towards the sun. I’ve heard they’re usually always alone, but i guess not today. Typically I’d be driving along this street and not notice anything, but today I was walking, and could stop and look back at the eagles while the cars went by, one after another.

I saw an advertisement on the side of a bus that read “1 in 4 is an atheist.” It made me think about the search for something to believe in. It’s strange to see that advertisement. How do you recruit people? What are you promoting? Who paid for it? It’s hard enough to get people to start believing in something, but it seems very, very strange, if not next to impossible, to convince people to start believing in nothing.