A few vignettes from recent days (in no particular order)

Missing the point:

I went to the gym on Sunday, looked at the elliptical machine and thought "Aww man, I really want to sit down for this." I rode a bike. A reclined bike.

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Surreal:

Standing at the corner of 33rd and Charles, waiting for the light to change, I watched a starling drop down into the middle of the intersection. In that eye of the traffic storm, the little cannibalistic bird pecked meat from a chicken bone discarded by a wing-munching pedestrian.

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Realizing I'm getting old:

Walking south on St. Paul to my apartment, I was forced to navigate around several undergrads out celebrating homecoming. Two of the young men wore no shirts. They were well-built, with defined abdominal, pectoral, and upper arm muscles. I thought to myself "Put a shirt on for God's sake!"

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I chose the right one:

An orthodox friend asked me, a la Newlywed game, what my husband of 3 weeks would pray for if he could only pray for one thing. I answered that he would probably pray for a good duty station for his next assignment, or perhaps for the children he seems eager to father. My husband said quietly, "no. I would pray for your health."

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I am a narcissist:

The professional photographer from our wedding posted all of the pictures he took online. There are nearly 500 images. Probably 50% of those have me in them. I've spent hours looking at them and sighing.

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You can't go home again:

While Dave was out of town attending a funeral, I rented Ren and Stimpy cartoons. I remember loving the show when I was a tween. I remember lines from it "Not the history eraser button, you idiot!" and songs "It's log, log, it's big it's heavy it's wood." When I was 12, Ren & Stimpy was hysterical.

It just isn't funny anymore.