trichinosis

yeah, 9 missed calls. 4 the night before, and 5 the day of bible study.

i booked a ticket to head back home on the 22nd. i'll be driving into houston sometime the week after, MAYBE stopping by rice. i may make a cameo for beer bike. it depends on if i find a place to stay, if the benefits outweigh the costs, utility curves and such. elle actually asked if i were going, and then refused to even offer housing. looks like some things never change.

walking out of borders last night, i was in the middle of 19th crossing over to the bus stop when i felt my back pocket and realized i didn't have my keys. this time i couldn't have drunk asshole clare to blame for the loss of my keys. possible scenarios: i could have lost them while i was at borders, i could have forgotten to take them before leaving the apartment, i could have lost them on the bus, or i could have lost them somewhere between my apartment and borders. 3 out of the 4 situations would have left me screwed. so i tried the most optimistic outcome. i walked back to borders, surprised i didn't get hit by a car while wading in the middle of traffic pondering my misfortune.

besides hitting the magazine section, i was lucky to have only hit one spot in the store- the children's section. there were no seats available. so i backtracked throughout the store, magazines, children's section, magazines again. nothing. then i headed over to the customer section to ask if anybody dropped off any lost keys. when asked to describe them, i was kind of embarrassed. what would i have said? "oh, it's a set of 4 keys with a key chain of a naruto character who was never loved, whose father attempted to murder him countless times, who engraved the word love onto his forehead because he knew the only true love was for himself." and i wonder why he's my favorite character in that anime.

finally, i gave it one last shot and looked at the section where i first sat down, and dangling off a bookcase divider were my keys. i suppose it got snagged onto it as i sat down, and it just pulled my keys out of the side pocket of my messenger bag.