Jaywalking leads to regretting

Yesterday was quite a day! It started with a run through Linkou and as I ran by a few blocks of restaurants, I couldn't help but notice that I was associating all of the scents emanating from the restaurants with scents from a landfill or a hot spring. After showering and cleaning off the ridiculous amounts of sweat your body produces in sweltering humidity, I went to the neighborhood photo shop where on of the salesman speaks English. While he was ringing me up, he asked if I was married. I said that I was not. Then he said, "why not? You are so handsome." I chuckled and told him I was very young. He said he was 32. Then I asked him if he was married. He said, paraphrasing, "I like Taiwanese girls but they don't like me. I am too fat, I have no money, no car, and no house." So in other words, he was not married. It was pretty sad actually but awkward too because I didn't really know what to say to him. I told him to be patient and something good would happen eventually.

A little later on, I hopped on the bus with Josh to go into Taipei. The bus was basically full so we had to sit separately. I sat next to a little lady that was mumbling to herself during the entire bus ride and she kept putting her hands together and praying. The only thing she was carrying was a little clicker, like the ones they use to count people in a bar. If she hadn't been about 4 feet tall, I would've thought she was a terrorist. Anyway, that was pretty funny to see. Josh and I went to a movie theater near Taipei 101 and saw the new flick "Inglourious Basterds." This was fun to watch and very entertaining, and violent. Very violent. The funniest part of the movie was when we first arrived and there was no one in line for the movie. We got there about 10 minutes before the movie started and there was not a soul in sight. We sat down inside and we were the only ones in there about 5 minutes before the movie was supposed to start. Then, about 3 minutes before, people just started flooding in like ants. They all sat down in about 5 minutes and the movie began with a packed theater. That's about all I can think of right now from yesterday.

I am off to the Hash. There will be an update from that later!