I’m not feeling well at all today. Yesterday at lunch, I was just walking around in the kitchen when I suddenly felt a sharp stabbing pain in one of my knees. It felt like more than a cramp. Walking up and down stairs was rather painful. By this morning, the pain has subsided a bit, but I can still feel uneasy going down a flight of stairs. I think I may be confining myself to my cubicle today.

Also, this morning I was in search of my security card for work. I left in the hoodie that I wore on Friday, but had since totally forgotten about it. As I was wandering the house, my parents were eating breakfast. From the dining table my father asks me, “Are you sick? Do you have the flu? You’ve been coughing.” I felt fine enough, I guess, but as the search continued, I found myself getting dizzy and feelnig sick. The whole situation suggests that this is by and large a psychosomatic thing. Then again, maybe I was really just ignoring how crappy I was really feeling up until it was pointed out to me. I don’t know. I’m now at work, I’ll give it a few more hours, and if it gets much worse I’ll head home. I’m not going to let a little dizziness bring me down.

I wasn’t feeling sick at all this past weekend. I hung out with Yuki and Raien at Pacific Mall. We sat in a café for a good while just chatting about past experiences and how it all relates to where we’re all at today. I found their insights to be especially helpful. Most of all, I was just glad to get out on a Saturday night.

While at Pacific Mall, I purchased a gold-coloured metal dragon holding a pearl. For this upcoming year (year of the chicken), people born under the year of the chicken (like me) are supposed to have bad luck. This year, to combat this bad luck, chickens should have dragons or cows surrounding them for better luck. So the statue is now sitting at my desk, at home. I say that I’m not superstitious, but I really am. I don’t believe that breaking mirrors is bad luck, or that black cats crossing your path are bad omens, but I have an interest in occult things.

Also, this weekend, I stopped by Best Buy and got an iTrip Mini attachment for my iPod Mini. It plugs into my iPod and transmits the music over FM. That means I can listen to it in the car without wearing headphones. I think it’s an awesome tool. I’ve already programmed one of the van’s buttons to tune in to my selected frequency.

It’s Monday. It’s pay day. The week has just started, and I’m already ready to bang my head on the desk, wishing that it was the end of Friday once more.