compliments from strangers

     You know how people say you're supposed to smile at strangers and say something nice to someone everyday? Well those sentiments were combined on me today!

     After a relatively pleasant water practice, I found myself in an awful mood. I was a total bitch to one of my rowers, Abraham, and flat-out refused to drive him to his house ["but it's only a couple blocks away," he pleaded, so of course I responded, "great! then it will only be a couple blocks for you to walk! Now get the fuck out of my car!"] hahaha well he convinced me by offering me breakfast [and saying he didn't have dry pants, so he'd be walking in just trou... like he thought that would work.. it's not like I've never kicked a pant-less guy out of my car before] and so I drove him home and he cooked me some eggs.

     Then I went to 7 eleveN and got myself a Slurpee. That would be amazing in and of its self, but what was even better was when I bumped into a gentleman who was in the store with me. This is what proceeded:

"You startled me, young lady," he said with a smile.

"Oh sorry!" I stammered, thinking he meant that I startled him when I ran into him.

"Don't worry about it. I mean you startled me when I saw you because you look just like a girl that I dated when I was young. She was just as beautiful as you are."

I'm sure I was blushing a mean red by then when he added,

"There's your compliment for the day. Let me know if you get a better one."

     I was floating on that compliment for a very long while. Even it taking me like ten minutes to find an open parking spot [that ended up being like three blocks away from my dorm. ickk] couldn't stifle my fire!

     Now that was a fantastic start to my day! Way better than the awful bee sting that started my morning Monday!

     And now I'm anxiously waiting to go to dinner with my father, who I haven't seen in over a month, then I get to go to Brooks' birthday hoe-down tonight because I got all my work for tomorrow done [an obituary for Steve Jobs. it was some pretty interesting shit.]! And I might actually give him his present even though he's a doucher and didn't put my cd back in its correct case this morning.

A snail I found scaling one of the walls of the Mission Church this weekend.

P.S. four days til Petaluma!