The Quiet American

My first full day back home was rather productive. More so then if I was at my apartment back at Tech. My night was really restless with some rather strange dreams. I dreamed at one point that was walking around a small town while carrying a stack of plates. I remember that I felt terrible, couldn’t see because of vision spots and the world generally spinning, and was wearing a heavy coat. I assume that it was some sort of sub conscience take on my moving things around Blacksburg yesterday. The plates represented my stuff, the coat was the amount of stuff and the stain it was putting on my body, and the dizziness/spinning was from… something.

I woke up feeling unrested. I took care of my morning stuff and started on my dirty laundry. I sorted some of my parent’s stuff to throw in but I don’t know what was safe and what was dry clean or if anything had any special instructions. That and I didn’t want to handle either my mother or father’s underware.

I ran some errands, buying new bedding for my snake and the newest comic books that I have been waiting for. Secret Invasion #2 is bad-ass. It revealed that the Spider-Man and Hawkeye from the Skrull ship were in fact Skrulls but that Mockingbird might in fact be real. I really wanted to see more of what happened to Mr. Fantastic after Skrull-Pym liquefied him but they didn’t have anything. The coolest part though was the last page. An army of Super-Skrulls beamed into downtown Manhattan, all with the powers of various heroes. There was one with Colossus’ skin, Wolverine’s mask and 2-foot long claws, and Cyclops’ visor. All that on one kick-ass villain. I can’t wait to read the next issue.

I cleaned out my old closet, at my mother’s request. I wasn’t surprised that most of the clutter was her stuff. I must have found more then 2 dozen purses in their. I also went through the few boxes of stuff that was actually mine and pulled out some of my old comics (Amazing Spider-Man 400 where Aunt May dies), action figures (old Wolverine and Iceman), and trading cards. I have apparently come full circle in my interests over the past 13 years.

The rest of the day was alright with nothing special happening. Dinner was an entire meal complete with vegetables which is a change from my usual diet. The evening was quiet except for the rain and thunderstorms. I hope I sleep better tonight.

Currently listening to: “C’mon Girl” by The Red Chili Peppers