Vigilante car guard

Yesterday morning I felt really homesick for the first time. I missed everyone and everything. I missed having a place that was mine and a place where I could have people over to hang out, cook, play board games. There was talk last night of doing that sort of thing regularly at Whitney and Emily's place, which would be delightful.

I wanted to go to the Ecological Reserve for a run yesterday, but it was a logistical mess to get there. We couldn't figure out how to take a direct bus, so we ended up taking the subway, walking, waiting a while, and then taking the bus, which all took about forty minutes. It probably wouldn't have taken too much longer to walk. After all of that, it started storming out of nowhere about twenty seconds after we arrived. And that's exactly when my bad mood finally lifted. I just couldn't help but laugh; it was like a rain cloud had followed me there! How ridiculous! I ran in the on-off rain. The exercise, the trees, and the birds made me even happier, as I knew they would. There's one bird that looks sort of like a mockingbird, which was cheering.

Rose, Emily, Whitney, Samantha, Sabrina, Laurie (?), and I went to a fancy Japanese place for dinner. It was so fancy you had to ring a bell to get in. I didn't like the sushi I got. I'm a fish novice and a sushi novice, and I didn't like the plain chunks of salmon as much as I like the cute little rolls. But everything else was amazing, and the service was outstanding. They didn't charge us for stuff like soup, hand towels, and fruit for dessert. Pricey, but not overpriced.

Yesterday I saw:
-a vigilante car guard in camo pull out his nightstick and sprint out of sight
-a small girl's sandal abandoned on a doorstep
-a Brit saying "These people are such weirdos," about the park vendors
-several men in a row on the sidewalk saying, "Want to dance, ladies?"
-a passed out man hanging out of the window of a moving, white, unmarked van. His friend noticed him from another window and sheepishly pulled him back in the van