DJ, my guess is the tangy ammonia odor. Also, Things I hope Never To Stick My Face In, for $200, Alex.

Oh dear - check out this "repair" on There I Fixed It: [link]

Yeah, I skimmed by the scary stories pretty quickly.... I want a burger for dinner, but can't decide if I want it enough to go out alone. Hmmmm.

That reminds that the first day I was in Boston for freshman orientation, I almost got hit by a trolley. I was crossing a busy street, paying careful attention to the cars, but completely spaced on looking out for trains. I started to cross the tracks and got a huge blast of the horn. Jumped back just in time too. That would have put a damper on my college career.

I heard that there was a freshman killed by a Green line train every year at BU! There was one the year I was a freshman, for sure.

I (KNOCK WOOD) don't think I've had a near-death experience. No (KNOCK WOOD) bad car accidents or medical close-calls. I was attacked in my house by an intruder but I'm pretty sure he was unarmed and I was able to fight him off (and chase him down the hall yelling about how he needed to get the fuck out of my house and how I was going to get him...possibly he considers our encounter a near-death experience for him! I'd like that!)

I think the closest I've ever come to a near death experience was when I fell asleep while driving down I-55 near Bolingbrook in the middle of a weekday afternoon. There was no one else around to beep their horn at me when I started angling my car from the middle lane to the center barricade while going 60 mph, but I woke up seeing the barricade rapidly approaching, turned the wheel, and ended up just scratching the driver's side of the car on the reflecters imbedded in the barricade.

I'm haven't had any near death. Or have managed to block them from my mind, Im pretty good at that. Currently my paranoid scenario is tripped by a Washington Post article I read about a woman whose nose kept running for years and she couldn't figure out why...and it turned out to be cerebrospinal fluid leaking out!! Now I'm convinced my runny nose is actual my brain leaking.

Oh dear meta, I'm now at the point in rereading Bureaucracy 1 here where I'm talking about how I'm rereading TT Bureacracy. I am stuck in a meta loop.

Hi future self who is rereading old Natter threads! How's things?

Thanks a hell of a lot for that, meara.

I haven't had any near-death experiences that I know of, and I'd like to keep it that way. Tho' I will admit that some of the foolish things I did in my 20s could have. (Hey, wandering around the Seattle Underground while clutching a bottle of Chartreuse and smoking a clove cigarette is perfectly safe, right?)

Oh my GOD, meara.

::checks off new neurosis::