1. I was at a concert at the Newport recently and while I was waiting for my party to return from the restroom, a girl came up to me with a large beer in her hands and, holding it out to me said, "You've got to help me drink this!" Luckily, I had my standard, "Sorry, I don't drink!" response, so I didn't have to try to explain that drinking from a strange girl's cup, with the possibility that she was trying to drug me so she could steal my organs (I was all alone after all), was not my usual modus operandi.
It reminded me of a time I was at Columbus State walking to class when a guy walking toward me was lighting a cigarette and talking to himself. "What am I doing, this is bad for me, I need to quit this," he said. When we were about to cross paths, he held the cigarette out to me and asked, "Do you want this?" Luckily, I had my standard, "Sorry, I don't smoke!" response.
Even so, it got me wondering, does this happen frequently to other people? I can't imagine there are many things that I would take straight from a stranger's mouth no questions asked, except perhaps dark chocolate or pineapple. Do people usually go around wishing to share overpriced carcinogens with people they don't know at all? And why aren't more people walking around with dark chocolate covered pineapple?
2. An addendum to my previous bicycle post. I went running at Antrum Lake a week or two ago and as I was about to start, a guy on a bike was coming toward me. He was talking on his cell phone and I had just enough time to hear him say, "I will call you back!" before he threw the cell phone down and crashed into the bushes. He was unhurt, which was good because it was pretty much the funniest thing I'd seen all day. Apparently he has the same bicycle skills as me. (Or else I'm just a magnet for bike crashes.) I can only imagine what kind of conversation was so important that he had to take that call right then. And I can only imagine what the person on the other line thought - if the call was ended or if they were just listening to the bystanders asking if he was okay.
In other news, my physical therapist told me that she doesn't want me to ride my bike for a while until things settle down with my shoulder a bit more, which is good because I'm still a little bit afraid of my bike.
In other news, I dislocated my shoulder last month white water rafting. I guess I don't have anything else to say about that, except that if you ever dislocate your shoulder while white water rafting, Lady MacBeth is a good person to have with you. She came to the hospital with me, so I didn't have to be alone.
3. A week from today I start my first class at Johns Hopkins University. I'll be working on a master's degree in bioinformatics. The program is designed for people who are working full time, so it has both on site and online options and I'm going to start with the online option to see how I like it. My first class is biostatistics, so wish me luck.
And if you happen to be walking by me sometime, can you please have some pineapple in your mouth?
