Do you ever look around and get the feeling that you're the only sane person left? I've been having alot of those moments lately. Except, the problem is that I don't generally think of myself as incredibly sane either. I say and do an awful lot of strange things for my own personal amusement. I don't know, I guess I'm still in my 'people suck' kind of mood, and I just keep finding new evidence of it.

I met a guy online maybe a month or two ago, and we talked briefly on a couple of occasions. He was nice enough, but not really interesting at all. You know, the general bland mid 20's - trying to show off and pretend to be a sensitive kind of guy. I've seen far too many of his type to buy into that act. But then he dropped sort of a bombshell. He said his wife had been killed a few months before, leaving him with two small children. Obviously I felt bad for the guy, so I was friendly with him and even gave him my email when he asked for it. Our email exchanges were very short and faded out very quickly. I hadn't heard from him again until last night when I ran into him in the same place I met him. He said he didn't remember much about me and I said the same (about him, not myself), but I didn't mention that I did remember the basic details about him. He started chatting me up and moved quickly into the realm of personal questions. At that point I was thinking, "Bleh" and I was just giving him short answers so that he would lose interest and move on. I was talking to other people at the time, so I didn't want to get into a deep discussion with him anyway. Then suddenly he tells me that he's really embarassed because he's still a virgin. WTH? I said, "Oh, that's pretty ironic since you told me that you had two kids." He insisted that I was mistaken and he had no idea who I was thinking of, but I wasn't really falling for it. After a quick 'brb' he returned with, "Okay, you caught me..." I was thinking, well DUH, but I waited to see what his excuse was going to be. It got even more weird at that point, as he told me that his wife is in the process of dying and would probably not last long at all and the arrangements had already been made. "I just wanted someone to talk to" he said. Uh huh. I pointed out that he told me she was already dead about two months ago. At that point he said, "I don't want to talk anymore" and I said, "Yep. The feeling's mutual." How warped are people? Seriously?? There were a few more bizarre little details but those are the highlights. The moral of the story? If you're going to lie, expect to get caught eventually. And at least have the decency to remember your lies, that's just pathetic. Maybe his wife really is sick or dying, but that would make it even worse if he's been going around for months telling people she's dead so that he can hit on women. Yeah... people suck.

And then I had a disagreement with a girl because she was insulting soldiers. And then she claimed she wasn't a little girl at all, but a grown man who had previously had 'soldier training'. He just likes to write in his profile that he's a teenage girl. WHAT is wrong with people??

In other news, under the topic of, 'it's about freakin time', I washed my car today. That only took about six months for me to get around to. I also got lots of other stuff done, but it's all boring and you don't want to hear about that.

My mom wanted to show me this 'really cute' thing that she bought the other day, so I said okay and she comes out with this like... orange resin squirrel. I am not even kidding. It's sort of transparent, but not quite, and like, maybe 8 inches tall. "That's...really something" was the nicest thing I could say about it. And then she adds, "Isn't it so cute, and it's solar!" It's an orange. solar. squirrel. Think about that for a minute. It kept turning itself on whenever something would overshadow it's little solar panel. So we're talking, and this orange squirrel of doom is flickering on and off like it's possessed or something. It's one of the weirdest lawn ornaments I've ever seen. I have since dubbed it the 'radioactive squirrel' and I can't help but give it suspicious looks everytime I see it. I think it was originally intended to be brown, but they just kind of missed the mark. I still can't figure out why giant squirrels would glow in the dark to begin with though.

Now I'm just wondering how it got to be 3am already. At least I made good use of the day. Maybe I'll even go to bed early tonight to make up for the fact that I stayed up til 7 this morning. Well, you know what I mean by early, anything before sunrise counts as going to bed early.

Cricket had a link on her site where you could look up a definition to your name. And mine? It came up with the result; "A person who is always high." Make of that what you will. Goodnight.