I had a thought today

In Portuguese. The first one yet.

And I can't get it out of my head.

"No Fevereiro, as árvores são o gelo. E sou também."

All it means is "In February, the trees are ice. And I am too."

Hm.

I used to do this for my high school newspaper.

Aries - When they find you washed up on the shore among the pieces of the ship, they'll finally know -- briefs.

Taurus - Your doctor will prescribe a short round of new antibiotics, and eventually the new 'addition' will fall off. Just give it time.

Gemini - Yes, you can get it done on your own, but if you ask people for help, you can accomplish half as much in twice the time, because they're pretty awful at what they do.

Cancer - You have a love decision to make, but it will have to wait until everyone stops trying to lynch you for being a witch.

Leo - You'll make an important speech today to a lot of important people, and hopefully you won't get murdered for it.

Virgo - Life will frown on you today when you realize that no; it really isn't all the same in the dark. Especially when you're sleeping with a walrus.

Libra - Playing God will not turn out well this week when giant shark-rat finally gets a taste for blood.

Scorpio - You'll think about the plagues in the Old Testament this month, and where those teenagers managed to get all of the damn frogs.

Sagittarius - Watch out for a conflict with someone at work this week. And paper cuts. And the stapler hurtling at your face.

Capricorn - The police will find out about where you're getting the wood and labor for the new addition to your house. Also, your neighbor will wonder where his living room and kids went.

Aquarius - No one will believe you when you say that you have found a daily requirement for alcohol intake, but most of them will drink it anyway.

Pisces - In order to maintain a PG rating of yourself for work and/or church, you will have to put pants on. And get off of the tiny horse.

The Sea

It's dark in here now. You didn't really have to close the door. All I can see is the little shadows of your feet in the crack. Little breaks in the beam of light. Hesitance.
I know. It's crazy right? I think to myself.
And I laugh. My voice sounds strange in the room, as though the walls were surprised to hear it and sent it back in all the wrong directions.
Like they were sleeping. Startled.
Cash in, the night says. She's waiting.
"So what?" I say, looking out the window.
Staring her right in the eyes.
The light crashes into everywhere when you open the door; it's too fast for everything to get out of the way in time.
Like the sun came up. Like dawn is the bulb in the living room.
"Esperaba que me amaras," you say.
"Es todo lo que quería." It bounces off of the wall and slaps me in the face.
I grin. What a time to grin. I couldn't help it; your tongue was all wrapped around the air in a way full of humor.
Is something funny? the night prods.
"Everything is funny," I say to her, knowing that you won't understand.
You're waiting. Disintegrating with overcast eyes.
"Extraño el sol. Eres el sol. La noche parece al mar."
I say it, my armor fleeing.
Suddenly I am full of fear, and I need you more than ever. Earth and Moon, pulling on each other.
And the sea.
"La noche?" you ask later, after we have fallen together.
Broken, but glued again.
You only love the sea, the night says, enraged, twirling me out of sleepiness.
You belong to her, and she to you.
Those words roll around in my head, the sharp edges stunning me as I explain mentioning the night to you.
Your eyes close.
Close enough.
The Spanish coastline roars and I shiver, like my muscles know. Excitatory, inhibitory.
I can see her out the window, screaming with a jealous hate, rattling my insides.
It's dark in here now.
Earth and Moon, pulling on each other.
And the sea.

Haha.

Guess what!

My mom found my blog. HI MOM!
I'll find a job soon, I promise.
No really, I will.

So I went to physics today (picture a shorter English guy with graying hair whacking my brain with a meter stick), which is all well and good, but afterwards (and before discussion) I walked over to EMS to, um, tinkle...because there were a thousand kids in the other bathroom. Anyway, the sky was that dull bruise color when I went in, but when I came out; the sun was shining in full fury. So I closed my eyes to suck me in some good weather (also because of the awful hour of morning), and a man walked across my path. I thought it was the neatest thing to just listen to footsteps. So I wonder, when was the last time you closed your eyes and just really listened? Try it. Outside.

During discussion kids kept walking by the door, being loud, being kids. Some astronomy thing, or something. But afterward, I walked outside, and what did I see? Forty thousand kids, running around in a circle all at different levels, and one kid, standing in the middle. I asked just what in the freak was going on, and was told that they were demonstrating what an atom would look like (yeah lady, if the kids running around were fast enough to form a cloud, and the nucleus was bigger. Atoms totally don't look like kids, but kids apparently look like atoms). I had about my thousandth, "Wow, this should be in a movie." moment in the last few weeks. Just an absolutely surreal couple of seconds. One of the other better ones recently was this absolutely hilarious conversation between some middle-aged people about how important it is to protect yourself by wearing a helmet on your bike.

The week after that I saw a kid wearing full pads and a helmet, using his hand signals even for turning enough to cross the street.

It was amazing, and more than enough to make me grin.