Oh yeah, a weblog for logging on the web. I wish I had more to log.
I had an interview last week. I'm supposed to hear from them in the next few days and see what comes of that. If it doesn't work, I'm off to the temp agencies, if for no other reason than I have to get out of this house.
I went for a (too) long walk in the woods today so I could get great shots of fall foliage for the poor, deprived west coasters. I got a few before my battery died, but I also managed to get good and spooked after 45 minutes of wandering. I had totally lost my sense of direction and had run out of trail markers and was getting pretty edgy. Then the woods got darker. It changed from deciduous to evergreen trees so all of a sudden I could no longer hear my footsteps and the rustling of the chipmunks and red squirrels. Then I spotted a monument several yards ahead of me, right off the trail. As I got closer it looked more and more like a grave stone. Out in the middle of the woods. And it was. Just a few feet off the trail, with nothing else around it. I was scared shitless. And I only looked behind me once.
Had I been less terrified I might have gotten a picture of all this so you could see exactly how bizarre it was, but it was all I could do not to pass out. Sorry.
I don't care how much you love the woods, do not put your grave stone out there. Get cremated, scatter ashes, I don't care. But please don't subject poor, nervous girls who happen to be walking in the woods alone to such terror. Let this be a public service announcement to you all.
Posted by liz at October 25, 2004 09:33 PMYeesh... I got freaked out just reading that. But then again, I'm a scaredy-cat who was afraid of the basement at 1010.
Posted by: alex at October 25, 2004 11:49 PMDon't worry about not having more to blog -- Writer Dude's First Rule of Writing is: If You Have Nothing To Say, Don't Say It.
Posted by: Writer Dude at October 26, 2004 07:36 AMYeah, definitely not the best thing to write about and relive right before going to sleep. I was a little twitchy after that.
Posted by: liz at October 26, 2004 08:54 AMwhat if the headstone had directions back out of the woods? that would be spooky AND helpful.
Posted by: jlg at October 28, 2004 08:32 PM