Yeah, it's gorgeous here, I admit that. But gawd, the people irritate me. Then again, people irritate me everywhere. So maybe it's just me....

What if we switched the populations of both states?

But Granholm stays here. Hehe.

That might work, at least then I'd know what the heck they're saying. I swear to god, I just zone out and nod and say "uh huh" who the heck knows what I've agreed to do?????

Nooo, you have to take her with you, let her figure out a way to change their language, she might be able to do it.....

When I was traveling through West Virginia the only thing I noticed (other than towering mountains) was that everybody talks to you.

Seriously.

I'm standing at a urinal at a pit stop and some guy in a full business suit is talking to me about WV history.

Here we've learned to just avoid eye contact and carry mace.

You should write a quick haiku, Leigh.

Ugh, that's another thing that annoys me. I forgot how to be sociable years ago. So now, when someone's talking to me, I'm like durrrr....and then it's like oh, they're addressing me. Okay, now what?????

But yeah, they are a chatty bunch. I guess that's okay as long as no one touches me. I have a phobia about being touched. Most of the time....

I got a blade in AL for just that reason, in case I needed it. It's pretty, all blue and sparkly...

I haven't written a haiku since my creative writing class years ago, no idea how to do it.

Leigh forgets the style
is just a five, seven, five
with no consequence.

5
7
5

I was just writing to someone about a fear of being touched. Aphephobia.

So five words, 7 words, 5 words? Or is it syllables? You must remember, I'm a rather dim-witted artist....

Really? Do you have that fear or do they? It's not all the time, just around people that creep me out. If I like them, I love it if they touch me....

Syllables.

Neither of us have it... to my knowledge. I'm not a really "touchy-feely" guy unless I'm close with someone.

I want a cookie.

Ah, I might try it then.

Same here. Being touched by random strangers makes my flesh crawl, but if I really like you, squeeeeeeeee

I ate all the cookies, but I still have Vday candy....

Btw, how was your vday? Mine was yummy.

Um... it was cool. My friend bought me cough drops because she knows I'm not a big chocolate fan.

Being single on Valentine's is kinda like having non-citizenship on Flag Day.

Yummy. Good!

Hehe. And cheers on using the word squee.

There's a dusty book of
love and loss in my heart now
time to burn the pages.

How's that?



Nice about the cough drops, some of them are better than candy anyway. I have some fruit flavored Halls cough drops, quite soothing.....

I've never minded being single on Valentine's Day. I guess because I've always been single on Valentine's Day. Can't miss what you never had. Well, apparently some people do, but I'm weird like that.....

Squeee is one of my fav words, it comes in handy most of the time.

Lovely haiku!

Thanks. I guess I can write about anything.

I have come to the conclusion that most of what I was taught and most of the systems of thought I've conceived are principled around lies.

Sometimes the biggest truth is a lie. Or so I hear.

'I don't need to go back to New Orleans
to wear that ball and chain.'

I do kinda want to go back to New Orleans, though.

I've never been, my brother went a couple years ago and loooooved it. Might be fun to visit. He took a pic of a guy lying in the street with his junk hanging out......

New Orleans makes Detroit look tame.

I was born and raised there. My neighborhood is gone now though....

Yeah, I hear it's a blast down there. I think I'd have to be drunk to enjoy it.

That sucks, dict8.