My scooping arm hurts. Scooping ice cream uses a set of muscles I don’t normally use in day-to-day life, mainly in the hand/lower arm area. I’m sure they’ll be built up by the end of the summer, but for now, they’re just sore. And sticky. I did wash my forearms when I got home, but I feel like I can never be clean.
At least I’ll have really strong lower arm muscles. I’m sure that’ll come in handy some day.

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I miss my bike. Summer is bike ride time.
Plus I think I need to start working out. I hate running and I’m not getting any thinner and now I work at a place where they give me ice cream.

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Also, I have a new jacket.

See, my crack computer repair team* went Kingston a couple weeks ago and bought this blazer for $15. My crack computer repair team had been talking about buying a nice light summer blazer for some time now.
“It’s nice,” he said, when he told me about it, “but it has this weird lining, with all these yellow and orange stripes.”
I thought of, but didn’t mention, that episode of Seinfeld where he buys the suede jacket with the pink lining. I was sure it was going to turn out to be a women’s coat, but it turned out not to be, in the show. He just got embarrassed in front of Elaine’s prominent writer dad.
My crack computer repair team? Not so lucky.
A few days ago, we’re talking about the jacket. (My crack computer repair team isn’t wearing the jacket at this time, both because it is too warm out and for reasons that will become obvious.”
“So it buttons on the wrong side. And the arms are really narrow. And there seems to be a lot of space in the chest,” my crack computer repair team said.
Me, singsong:”Haha, someone bought a girl’s coat.”
Crack computer repair team, deadpan: “It was in the men’s section. And it fit me.”
Me: “Haha, someone’s built like a girl.”
Crack computer repair team: “You’re the one who’s dating me.”

Long story short, I got me a blazer.

*I know I said I’d stop it, but I take it back. Am I allowed to do that? It’s my page, I say so.