I got up and to work on time today, I felt good about that. Yeah, it doesn't take much, heh. Pretty boring day at work, I was the runner and there wasn't all that much running that needed doing, so it was OK. A friend at work had her sister die yesterday from an MVA that she was in last week, and then her father died of a massive coronary this morning. Crummy, crummy. Some days I think that I have troubles, and then I realize that I don't, not really, I have lead a pretty golden life so far, knock on wood. I have done this by fervently avoiding all superstition. Memories of Kremlin, OK... Sitting in a mulberry tree in the middle of the summer eating mulberries until I was sick. There was a fence-row on the road north of the house with several mulberry trees, and mom had told us to stay out of them. And I was surprised when I discovered that I couldn't fool her... because my face and hands were stained with mulberry juice. I don't think that I even got a spanking, she must've been laughing too hard at my inept attempt at lying. I remember lotsa things about Kremlin for the short time that we were there. One really sad thing... I was kinda in love with a little girl who sat in front of me in the first grade. One day she she turned around and asked me if I wanted to feel her bottom... she said that all of the men liked to feel her bottom. I was flabbergasted, of course, and terribly embarrassed, and she never brought the subject up again and we soon moved to another town. Looking back, she was most likely being sexually abused. I wonder how her life turned out... I can't even remember her name, only her sweet innocent little face. I have no idea what brought that up, seems like I wrote about it here quite a while ago. Anyway, I voted today, but I couldn't persuade Karen to. I did persuade her to go out to the New China, though. I love that place. I have to get to bed earlier tonight, I have just been really draggin' lately, I think that I need more sleep maybe, or more ambition.