Stark raving mad

I'm allliiiiiivveee. Barely. Anyway, here are my five rants or raves:

• I hate how my girlfriend and I have to settle for a two-seater table when the group beside us are occupying four seats but have not ordered a single thing in the establishment that we're occupying. And right across us was another couple, also occupying a four-seat table. Yes, they were eating. Eating food that they bought from a different place. Talk about fairness.
• After several months, I finally found the mechanical pencil that I thought I already lost. It's a special mechanical pencil that I got when I was still in college, it's sea green (my favorite color and hue) and it's different from other mechanical pencils in that you press a button at the side rather than at the eraser end. I couldn't find this kind of mechanical pencil in the bookstores that I've visited (I really didn't go out of my way to look for other bookstores though) so I'm glad I found it. The rubber coating kind of melted though, which made it sticky, but a little clear tape fixed that problem real good.
• On our way home, the cab driver that we flagged asked me if I wanted to take the service road--I said no, I don't want to take my chances there, especially in the middle of the afternoon, no matter how free-moving the vehicles taking that road looked. Despite the slow moving traffic on our side of the road, I've learned from experience: once we reach the part of the road where the five or six lanes merge into just three, it's going to be smooth sailing. Which is better than what I can say about the service road. I got annoyed at how the driver kept on glancing to our right--where the service road was--and fussing because we were in traffic and the service road appeared clear. Lucky for me, I was right: when we reached the bottleneck, I pointed out how bad the traffic was at that part of the service road and how fast we were moving. It feels nice to be right. The cab driver's disposition the rest of the trip improved.
• I saw four penises today. I wish I didn't. I saw them at a spa, some men are really quite confident with their packages, I guess. Well, I'm not going to show them mine. Still wish they covered themselves up like I did.
• I had a lazy week as usual. I need to start earning my wages soon. I hope I can shake my doldrums away and start running the way I was supposed to run.