It's Getting on My Nerves

You know how people sometimes say that they feel a cold breeze pass through them when they think they see a ghost? Well the opposite is happening to me. I will feel warmth off inanimate objects for no reason.

One night I was sitting on my sofa watching TV and reached over to grab my remote off the coffee table. As my hand neared the table I felt a warmth radiating from it. When I touched the table, and the objects on it they were cool to the touch. So why did I feel that heat coming off the table?

Then a few days later I was waiting for the train and leaned up against a metal rail. The rail touched my bare back, between my pants and shirt, and felt hot to the touch. I touched the same spot with my hand, but it was cool. Thinking myself crazy I leaned back against the rail, only to have it sear my back again. Weird.

I have also noticed that I have felt wetness on my skin, but when I go to wipe off the liquid, my skin is dry. Is this a medical condition that I should know about?

I shouldn't ponder things

So something similar to the van coincidence happened the other night. I was walking down 29th Street, somewhere between Lex and 2nd Aves to go to the movies. I noticed this little carriage house, and thought to myself, I wonder how much it is to rent a place like that. I also took time to notice that in the windows above the carriage doors the resident had lined up a bunch of different colored glass bottles.

After the movie I walked down the same street to get to the train. Suddenly all these fire trucks come tearing around the corner. I assumed they were going back to the fire house that was on that block. But as I walked on, I saw crowds of people milling about. As I walked by the carriage house, I realized that the door was ajar, and it was that house that the firemen were in such a hurry to get to.

Am I bad luck? Should I pay less attention to things so that they are not cursed?

AM New York

I saw a funny article in AM New York (the free newspaper handed out near subways in the city). The article discussed how obesity isn't such a bad thing after all... the caption to the photos (which showed some cookies and a large woman) said "People who are overweight have a lower risk of death than those who are lean, studies have shown"

What?!?! don't we all have the same risk of dying, namely 100%???

The article was taken from the LA Times, but I wonder who is responsible for the terrible photos and worse caption.

The funny thing is that I was looking at yahoo news today, and the same photo of the large woman was used for this article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/safrica_crime_offbeat
titled "XXL women shoplifters on the rampage in South Africa"

It is listed as a file photo. How would you like to be the stock "obese" or "XXL" woman used by newspapers across the country (and internet)? wow.

Serendipity

I am working on a scrapbook of my college years, and so today my mom and I were in this scrapbook store looking at paper and stickers and stuff. I asked the girl working there if they had any stickers or whatever that had to do with friends, since most of my college photos are of my friends and me. She looked at a couple racks, but said she thought they must be out of the ones she thought I would want.

Resigned to not being able to get what I wanted, I went to the register to pay. Just at that moment a woman came up asking to return a sheet of stickers. The store's policy does not allow for returns, but lo and behold, she was trying to return the very sheet of stickers that was sold out! I looked at it, and it was perfect! We paid the woman, and it made both of us happy- she because she got her money back, and I because I got the stickers I wanted.

Serendipity.