18:02 - November 30, 2002
surprises
Maybe the reason I'm ugly is because if I were beautiful I wouldn't be able to handle it. I would stride by the mirror every chance I got to admire my flawless, or even cutely flawed, reflection.

After spending two days in Houston, rather than finding the air here parched, or lacking in oxygen, I found the air in Houston to be thick and sludgy. My throat began its protests the second I stepped off the plane into the swamp. Each breath held an abundance of oxygen, just waiting to be used for energy. I was bemused. It made me energetic, but ill. Kind of felt dirty, like I was standing above a power plant's smokestack.

Another surprise; I missed my friends at college.

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