bad karma

fell off a cliffside, smashed my knee into a rock. no gashes, just a bad bruise...fack

slipped down some rocks because it was pouring rain, gashed up my hand pretty good as i was scrambling for life to grab onto something.

got caught in a nasty current kayaking across a river which flipped me over. fell into the river, watched my kayak carry a mile-and-a-half downstream, and got slammed into some rocks while in the current. omg rocks.

oh by the way that's the Dome of the Rock. it has the word 'rock' in it. yep

this the most dangerous work i've ever done....i mean crap this was just last week alone. the thing is, i find myself thinking about getting hurt and the first thing that comes to mind is getting really pissed off if i actually got injured badly. i'm not getting paid, the work is hard and tedious and i feel like i've been whipped everyday like a....medieval peasant. what?

so on another chapter; shaking hands mkay?

for most of my life i've always had a pretty soft hand shake. i hear it all the time from local wizards that every man should have a firm, hearty hand-shake because it commands respect and shows that you aren't a little girl...or something.

so i've tried lately to start shaking hands more firmly lately, and i pretty much do it subconciously now. so when i shake other guy's hands, i can tell they are all like "wow this guy is a real hard-ass, i better watch my step!" or so they seem. actually i don't know if it does anything, but i do notice that when another guy shakes my hand and they don't squeeze as hard as me i feel bad. heh, it's weird but i feel like i'm being a jerk or trying to act tough. so i feel guilty for giving a firm hand-shake when the other person just gives a soft grab. why am i talking about this? gah i love this blog!