I just got back from hanging out at Eckerd. A lot of people stopped and stared at me as I wrote stuff about love and compassion. They weren't reading it; I suppose the sight of someone my age writing ANYTHING not for school is mildly startling.

Random Things:

-Two cute black guys in dreads flashed me a peace sign as they went back to their car. :D

-There were lots of people on motorcycles today.

-It's boiling hot out here, so I had to take a couple breaks along the way. I stopped and stared at the lake for awhile, then moved on and sat on the church steps looking at clouds. A lot of people stared at me from the oncoming lane of traffic. Because leiksrsly folks, who sits on the steps of a church on Saturday humming Grateful Dead songs and watching clouds go past?

-I saw a flat cloud in the sky. Not a mere wisp or anything. It was 3D-looking, and it was like a table turned slightly on its side. Or a knife. It was like a 3D slant.

-I have a strange compulsion to kick over mushrooms when I see them. I don't know what it is. If I see one, I immediately have to trespass across someone else's yard and punt it skyward.

-I had to go to the bathroom before I left Eckerd and spent quite a while wrestling with the key to the girls' room. It was attached to a basket and the door didn't unlock when you didn't have the key turned at the same time. I HATE THAT.

-I've been in every house in this neighborhood at LEAST once. I just noticed that. When I was a kid, we would go into random people's houses when they invited us. Even if they'd just moved in or something. We'd just go in, no questions asked. XP Which, I suppose, isn't that good a thing to do, but fortunately, it was mostly old people and fairly young military families who lived here. Nothing bad happened. (Though one time, a scruffy man who lived in the blue house down the street offered to let us watch his boa constrictor strangling mice to death. Yeah. We went and watched, but it was a very morbid thing to invite us to do.)

-I saw a house that was painted an UGLY piss-yellow color... but just on the front face of the house. The sides were a pretty sky-blue color. Which made the piss-yellow all the more hideous. D:

-Some family is moving and I noticed they put stuff out to the curb. I was going to grab this really nice wavy-iron lamp, but someone else got it before I did (I was going to get it on the return trip). I hope that suitcase will still be left when I go back. I'm a dumpster-diving/scavenging junkie. XP