Tiger Balm. Oh, how I love the sweet, sweet relief of Tiger Balm. Nothing else loosens up stiff, sore muscles quite as well.

Well, I kind of hate to say it, but I've never felt kinship or similarity with anyone I've ever met. I've always been a very solitary person, and I've never expected to be understood. That said, the friends that I do have are an extraordinary and eclectic group of people, and not a one of us is very similar to another. We don't really seek to understand each other, even though we love and respect one another. Oddly enough, though, I think it is because we don't try to understand each other that we are so open and easy with each other. When people seek to understand another person, there's an odd kind of social pressure to categorize and label every tic and twitch. Without it, we have the freedom to be who we really are, and a person's weirdness is just another accepted personality trait.