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You all know about junk email that puts nonsensible words in the text so that your spam-filters won't realize it's junk. I got the best one today. I'll print the whole thing below a cut-tag, just for your amusement, but first, some highlights:

Did you know that ballroom dancers hunger for English students?

In the dark of night the swashbucklers secretly admire the insurance agents. Men deny the existence of condominium owners.
 
Rodents debate with karate instructors.

Old-timers, for the most part, believe judges prefer to be called VCR owners.

Technicians follow the herds of Sumo wrestlers.

Ants sing sweetly to ghouls.

Queen bees were raised by flatworms.

Ants claim that the seismo-zombies pander to the whims of milkmen.

( Bears are suspected of being interns: The rest of the weird shit. )

10 Things I want to do this summer

As ever, in no particular order:

1. Go camping in the Sonoma county/Russian River area (Or the Gualala river)
2. Go driving around Sonoma county's redwoods.
3. Go for a day trip to Napa. Not "Napa Valley Wine Country," but Napa. The city in which I grew up. Wander downtown, have lunch with old friends, basically be a Napan for a day.
4. Go to San Francisco and buy underpriced foreign DVDs and Video CDs of movies not released in the US. And J-pop. And Anime.
5. Drive to Gilroy and pay respects to my Portuguese forebears.
6. Go to San Juan Bautista and be a tourist, reliving old memories of my youth visiting there all the time. See if Chappato's family still runs the vegetable stand.
7. FINALLY go to the top of the Coit Tower.
8. Visit the site where the Endor scenes from RotJ were filmed.
9. Swim a lot more than I did last year.
10. Spend more time with my sisters than I have been doing.

There are also things I'd love to do that are simply out of the question: I want to go to Disneyland for a day so I can ride Space Mountain and the Indiana Jones ride (and Star Tours!); I want to go to Universal Studios (I've never been there); I want to visit the Japanese American National Museum again. But those things will be there next year or the year after.