have a new story up: bunny toulep (working title: the story with names) .  some may think i have better stories.  well, i do.  but in developing writing, one has to get a few things out of their system…or work a few things out in writing…or maybe something else, that i have yet to find out.  in any case, i do like this story…it was fun to write, and to read over. and as always, a free lollipop to whomever can come up with the meaning behind it.  run along now kids!

one would think that someone like myself with such an aversion to people wouldn’t feel comfortable going to a place like schlitterbahn (have you not heard?! it’s america’s, or the world’s…i’m not sure…number one water park. and it’s located an hour and a half from me) yet i have been twice in the past week and a half. and the people truly are awful…as are the lines, and the charges (crappy burger-like substitute is $5.50, etc.), and the people…the people are awful. people everywhere. calling you asshole, getting offended by you and thinking they have to defend their god knows what–honor?–when you retort with the same insult. i did have a good time though, both times.  but it could have been greatly improved upon had the people been absent

i went to odessa last week.  we were 20 miles from the city at midnight when we could see the lights of odessa stretched out before us (it was just laura and i).  i have an astigmatism in my eyes, and at night, even with my glasses on, some things look like they are skewed vertically.  all the lights were skewed.  they looked like they were being reflected in a lake, and i asked laura if she knew a lake had recently grown here. 

as a closing thought, do you know what’s disgusting to think about?  i’m sitting here about to take a shower after the day at the waterpark.  all the water that has dried on my body…do you know where that’s been?  it’s been up people’s cracks, brushing their anus, it’s washed over their testacles, their vaginas, it’s absorbed urine and snot and spit and other vile things into its enormity.  there is not enough chlorine in the world to make me stop thinking about that.