intimidation

Women-folk may not understand the following. Public restroom etiquette differs for different types of people. An interesting trend that I've noticed has to deal with persons that are large in stature- large in the girth about their middle or the breadth across their shoulders, but either of these factors seem to change the etiquette of these persons possessing the afore mentioned qualities.

In my opinion, resting an arm on the dividers between urinals is crossing a boundary that is established early in life. Whatever it is these men seem to relax and feel content when their elbow is hanging across the divider into the adjoining urinal's space. Women-folk may not have recently seen a men-folk's restroom, but there isn't much space about a urinal. An elbow hanging across the divider crosses all sorts of personal boundaries. Maybe these men-folk types try to spread their power and dominion in this fashion. They can have the public restroom. As for my occasional visits to their public restroom domains, I'll try to use the urinal as far away from them as possible.

that's not my name!

A. If I was named Matthew or Scott (or Brittney), I would be smugly satisfied as I crossed both of the T's off at the same time. I know that all the Scotts and Matthews feel that way and want to rub it in that the rest of us can't be more efficient at writing our names and thus save .25 seconds of our day. I wish I could be smug when writing my name. (My sources: Matthew and Scott - friends and former roommates)

B. This song is annoyingly catchy: That's Not My Name
(Thanks Larry)

C. I overheard a conversation behind me while enjoying the public transportation system. The speaker is an athelete in the Special Olympics.

"Let's just say that if you saw me you would be impressed. I'm like the Michael Phelps of the Special Olympics. No really, if you saw me swimming you would be impressed. When I get in the water you hear the Jaws theme song, you know, like a heart beat that starts slow then gets faster. It will get closer and closer to you until I take a bite out of you. That's right, that's me in the water. You would be impressed. The same could be said of me in softball..."

here's lookin' to you

1. Thanks to all the dedicated readers out there. I try to make it easy by only posting in utmost need.

2. Powerful orchestral music backing up a powerhouse singer is spine tingling good. I recently rediscovered this while acquainting myself with the music of Wicked. Wow. I'm a fan.

3. I spent my lunch reviewing scholarship applications. One of the requirements was to explain your creativity and individuality. One girl said she would follow the Facebook fetish and post part of her 25 list that recently swept Facebook. She probably copied and pasted it directly into the application. Her responses weren't very creative; however, the fact that she had guts enough to do that was quite creative. Now how do I rate that?

4. Number two still amazes me. I love that everyone can get that feeling to different kind of music. Rock on everyone.

5. Lisa is publishing violent stories about our marriage. How dare she!

6. I'm lucky to have that Lisa.