August 22nd - I'm Glad I'm Not Anemic

Good evening solar system, today I lost a lot of blood.

I work in a fast food restaurant and at that fast food restaurant we have an iron grill on which we cook three kinds of sandwich; a blt, a turkey & Swiss, and grilled cheese. The grilled cheese are particularly annoying because when you cut it, the melted cheese gets onto the knife and it is very hard to get it off. (Hint, this is called foreshadowing)
I think I should also notice that I have minor obsessive compulsive tendencies when it comes to dishes and cleanliness. I have literally scrubbed at one dish for over half an hour, and someone had to come over and tell me "It's clean, just put it away."
Anyhoo, so there was cheese on the sandwich knife and for some mysterious reason we only have ONE sandwich knife. So I took it to the sink and on the very first scrub, my hand slipped and slid down the blade and cut a deep line into the side of my finger which proceeded to gush excessive amounts of blood for around five minutes or so until I could get a bandaid from my supervisor. And all was well and good after that.
And it may not be occurring to you now, but I'm sure it will, no I was not anywhere near any food while I was gushing blood. The knife was re-cleaned, the sink was emptied and cleaned, and I had a paper towel wrapped around the wound in a matter of seconds.

Other than that, there really wasn't much to my day. Last night before bed I spent roughly two hours trying to decide what book(s) to buy with the money my roommate gave me for my birthday. Try as I may, I could only afford one book at a time because I only had a $25 gift card, and every single book combination I tried ended up being more than $25, sometimes only by a few cents - which was really frustrating. So I finally decided on a shiny, hardcover version of Will Grayson, Will Grayson and then used some money from my bank account to buy a hardcover An Abundance of Katherines and a paperback Looking For Alaska. So all of those should be arriving in the mail around next Monday.

I would like to share with you all a few lines of a song I wrote today, as well as a quote from a character I created for a story. They two aren't related, really they are are just two things that were on my mind a lot today.

First, the lyrics;
I remember now
What it's like to cry
To feel the weight of all the hate
That lurks outside
And I recall
A sound I used to hear
The weeping of a child who
Has no one to hold them near
And I can see
Once again the things I've seen before
A trail that's marked with memories
Of souls I'll never know
And I remember now
All of the fear
And when it comes
It means that love is here"

I originally was not going to post the lyrics but instead was going to record myself singing them instead, but I decided against that for the moment. Hopefully by the time I get around to doing that I will still remember the melody, because I kind of really want to do that.

Second thing, the character quote;
"Sometimes... I do things, and I think to myself 'Why would I do that? That doesn't make sense. That isn't logical.' And then this little voice inside my head says 'Because you're crazy.' Most of the time, I can accept that. Most of the times I can accept that I do these things because I'm crazy. But then other times... sad, cold, all by myself times, I think... that I'm not crazy. That the world is what's crazy, and I'm just playing along."

So, that is that. Though I think it is worth mentioning that I pretty much only bought the hardcover version of Abundance of Katherines because there was a rainbow (kinda) on the cover.