Singing aloud

Wow, it's kinda embarrassing when you think no one is home, so you sing and play guitar really loud, only to discover that the housemate you haven't met is wandering around outside your door. Oops, I hope I didn't wake him up, and I hope my singing wasn't too horribly out of tune.

I've also started signing along to my iPod when I go running. So here I am, running down the sidewalk in close to pitch dark, singing half out of breath Aqualung's Brighter Than Sunshine. One of these days I am going to scare the crap out of someone, or just really embarrass myself. It's not like it's good singing either, as I'm sucking wind while trying to belt out these high notes, and I can't even really hear myself since earphones are in both my ears. This is either how you train yourself to be a really good singer or how you ruin any sense of music you used to have.

Speaking of getting the crap scared out of you while running at night, last night I was running this little circle I do at the end of some of my runs in this big field. It's really nice, because it's dark but safe (no cars, no sudden drops in the sidewalk, no roots, etc). Often you can see the stars quite clearly out there (although I wouldn't suggest running for more than a few seconds while looking straight up), and I'm hoping one of these days a plane will skim just over my head and land on the local runway just a quarter mile away. Anyways, last night I am running along this path, when all of a sudden some deer bolt right in front of me. Even with their white tails sky high, I could barely see them (and I didn't hear them with the iPod going). It was pretty frickin' startling, and I've heard some crazy stories about deer encountering people -- you just never know what wild animals will do. One day they are going to find my body in this field with hoof prints all over me.

"...where I'll follow, you'll go..."