"Yes, my heart stood still
Yes, his name was Bill"

Hahahahaha

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Today was kind of disappointing. I also came very close to being in an accident twice within five minutes. Probably three minutes, actually. Had I been struck the first time I think it's likely I would've been seriously injured or killed, because the van was going very fast when it came at me, and I wasn't wearing a helmet.

A good portion of the time when I'm on my bike, I imagine various ways I could be hurt on it, in slow motion. Today I was thinking about what it would be like to slam face first into the edge of the curb. I think it if it was hard enough it would break all my facial bones and probably leave me disfigured for life. Some, if not all, of my teeth would probably come out or be shattered as well.

Surprisingly enough, I very rarely consider the aftermath of such events. I guess people would tell other people what happened, and say nice things about me. We really should appreciate people more when they're alive, because it doesn't make a difference once they're dead. I guess it's easier to remember good things when the person isn't around to contradict them, though.


Looks like Youtube finally completely switched over to the new player...

Haha, I think about the cleanup a lot more than I think about the face smashing in stuff. How some doctor might be called in the middle of his daughter's ballet recital just to try and put me back together again and how construction workers would have to use coke to clean up my blood from the street, if they ever get it off. That someone would have to clean out my awful fridge and somehow my body would have to be shipped back home, releasing toxins into the atmosphere. The grief. People saying how selfish I was to check out on them, how I should have been more careful and how could I have been such an idiot. That a lot more than the banal pleasantries they'll say at my funeral... but mine is pretty depressing...
» jinyu on 2011-01-20 08:46:21

I have weird injury/death fantasies too! Mostly when I'm on the train and we pass the train coming in the opposite direction. I always sit in the front car and wonder how bad it would be for me if we collided head on with the other train.

It would be bad. For sure.
» Amelie on 2011-01-20 03:41:44

I do the same thing ... oddly enough. Moreso at my last job. I would imagine what would happen if my leg fell through a crack in the floor and I got stuck there. Or what would happen if a box fell from the top shelf while I was walking by underneath. I'm glad you didn't get hit, though. That would have sucked.
» LostSoul13 on 2011-01-21 05:23:05

and when I mean my leg falling through a crack in the floor, it was while I was walking up on the 3rd level ... I just read over that and realized it could be mistaken for walking on the ground floor
» LostSoul13 on 2011-01-21 05:24:14

"I guess it's easier to remember good things when the person isn't around to contradict them, though." Well said.

re: hahaha, actually, it's a song from Shrek 2. It played when the change happened and he was riding down he street. XD I hate Chia pets. They remind me of a really terrible SNL skit.
» Unicornasaurus on 2011-01-21 10:32:34

re: oh, well I guess association is what I mean then. There's the Seattle Library System and the King County Library System. I think I'll actually go change it to say system instead ...
» LostSoul13 on 2011-01-22 04:35:17

by the way, thank you for pointing that out to me =)
» LostSoul13 on 2011-01-22 04:36:42

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