Story People Day

Got my dogs back. They're a little off - Reef is hoarse when she barks (so tell us, Reef, what did you do over break), and Caper is sensitively unsensitized, and talking and climbing on my head and having too much fun by himself and being downright odd - is he getting less adaptable in his old age? But I know for sure they were played with much, and Reef was taken care of by someone that understands a Reef, and they haven't lost an ounce of muscle. Unfortunately, they seem to be think I should be playing with them several times a day instead of sleeping while I work, so if that's the case they can just walk on back. Which Reef actually did, when she saw one of the owners as she ran out of a tunnel. Dog has little loyalty, and what she does have is covered by an incredibly innocent enthusiasm. But she's an honest little meter and I know she had a lot of fun, and so did Caper, or he wouldn't be so lost of his routine, he would have just waited for it to come back to him. Funny, you'd think they'd be opposite.

I had just mentioned this as something I wanted to do this summer - the cool thing about a college town (despite the speed at which I was eager to exit the actual city of Gainesville, Florida) is you can float around, and do this all the time. Gotta go somewhere and just start talking, again. Just have to find where. I like change (if I initiate it), I like people...trip, just trip somewheres...almost named Reef, 'Trip' for pretty much this very reason - so overused, but eh - might use it one time, anyway! Got a couple things planned...but I want a legit trip, that involves friends in London or Germany, or traipsing through the wilderness in a big group...(that's where Caper's name came from...) - somethin'.

"Meeting people is easy, he told us, if you don't let them wait too long to know you're not dangerous."

Others...

"I asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. I'm just happy I remember to be there when it happens, she said."

Makes me laugh - some days, everybody? "keep throwing notes out the window that say 'Help. I'm being held against my will' & wonders what it's going to take to get the neighbours to do more than wave politely & bring over sugar cookies"

Aptly sums up a conversation about my corner when I try to focus on dogs in tunnels and tables (only at certain events), because otherwise I talk and smile too much, and then breaking start line stays are cute, which we could do for free at home, so I just put my head nowheres: "Today she decided to be suitably ambiguous, so you can think whatever you like about her (Amount of time scheduled for opinions of others = Zero)" [I understand where GS may be perplexed due to the amount of crying that occurred the last time she saw me, but that trial also included injury, irrational screaming focused in our direction, free beer, and free - not taken - marijuana, so understandably I feel as if that shouldn't count...]

And: "I tell stories for very good reasons, she said, but I'm not going to tell you what they are or you'd start reading too much into them"

I must be feeling mellow.