one more level of nonsense

I recently saw the movie "Adaptation" and found it to be a good candidate for the rank of "most bizarre movie I have ever seen."
But I'm not really going to talk about that... in the movie mention is made of a drug concocted from the extract from a rare flower. The effect of this drug is to "make it easier for people to be fascinated." People who took the drug found every slightest thing to be, indeed, fascinating and worth seeing and appreciating.
Lately I keep having moments when I feel like I have to be on something like that. The weirdest little things are fascinating to me at totally weird times. For example, if I let myself, I can be completely engrossed in the grain of the wood of the table I'm sitting at right now. The way light shines off of my coffee mug. When my dad was driving me to the airport in Virginia right before I came back here I thought about stopping at a thrift store and buying an old record to bring back with me, because I got Nate a record player for Christmas and wanted to have any old record on hand just to hear it play something when Nate opened it. But the concept of stopping to buy a record on my way to catch a flight proved to be too foreign, too unbelievable, somehow too novel and too typical at the same time. I was beguiled by the concept.
I know this doesn't make any sense, but it's true.

Anyway, I had a great time in Virginia. I didn't get to see ANYWHERE NEAR everyone I wanted to, but I guess how much can you really expect from seven tiny days during which a major holiday was accomplished. Things I DID do include:


Go with Jacci:



To see the most awesome game ever



Wherein the Norfolk Admirals lost to the Philedelphia Phantoms 3-1. It was still a great game though.
I also went to the very, very cold beach.



And it seems that those are the only things I took pictures of.
The end.