The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Way I Feel

Saw a wee gray rodent darting along the counter in the kitchen last night, something that I've only seen before during the witchtit of winter, when they come inside. Felt queasy.... One of our friends is moving to Baltimore, and a lot of her bric-a-brac and knick-knacks (and mice??) is currently lining our hallway, creating an obstacle course when I stumble from the bathroom toward the stairway at night before joining the arms of morpheus. Supposedly, a yard sale is going to happen at some unspecified point, and all of these castoffs will be snapped up by passing bargain hunters. Feel skeptical.... Did some drawings last weekend, of Radiolari (marine amoeboid protozoa), which exist in fantastic profusion and are, to me, beautiful. It was calming.... Beautiful day. I sat on a bench on the Rutgers campus at midday today, stared up at the sky through the leaves, and thought about writing this. Felt pensive.... This just in: "Monroe, Ohio (AP) - A six-story statue of Jesus Christ was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, leaving only a blackened steel skeleton and pieces of foam that were scooped up by curious onlookers Tuesday." This strikes me as humorous....