lately, it seems that i’ve been on a mission to avoid ambiguous human interactions. i probably should have realized this when i stopped taking the bus last winter or the elevator a few weeks ago. i thought i was being anti-social, but that’s not quite it. it’s the don’t-quite-know-what-to-do judgment calls that i can do without (give up a seat? say hi? i don’t think i have the emotional bandwidth for this kind of shit). other people maybe have this issue too, i think. only they deal with it by burying themselves in sunglasses, a book, and an ipod in the way back corner of the bus and when they get to work they stare straight down when walking the halls.

anyway, i realized today that the last piece of the puzzle was to avoid eye contact while running (or anywhere else, but tonight’s challenge was to try to do it while running). mostly it’s the i-say-hi-they-say-nothing-i-feel-compelled-to-flip-them-off thing that tends to make me crabby. so now i don’t acknowledge that anyone else is alive by keeping my eyes low. i am stupid with the eye contact, btw. so this is no small feat.

my plan was going swimmingly until i was about 3/4 of the way around green lake when it 100% failed. i was keeping my eyes on the running path to make sure that i didn’t run over any small dogs when someone who i reckoned to be a chronic inebriate of some variety dropped her shorts to her knees and showed me her cooch.

two things:
1. hard livin’ tonight at green lake.
2. i need a plan b to avoid the awkward social stuff, plan a didn’t quite work out.

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