I don't believe in astrology, but...

So many people whose journals I read love this site that I had to check my horoscope for the week.

For my sun sign:

Now and then there comes a time when you have to break the mold; when you can no longer afford to squeeze yourself into a one-size-fits-all pattern. On other occasions, you urgently need to renounce the images that people have projected onto you; when your ability to live as a free soul requires you to rebel against all the expectations you're surrounded by. And every once in a great while, Libra, you're called on to shatter the molds and purge the projections in the same mad, healing rush. Now is such a turning point.

Supplement that with my moon sign/Ascending sign:

"In my opinion there are only two stories in the whole world," says novelist William Vollman. "One is: a person is born, grows up, gets old and dies. The other is: two people meet each other and they love or hate each other and something happens." His theory has an appealing simplicity except for the fact that it doesn't account for the truly uncategorizable epic you are living through. I don't mean to give you an exaggerated sense of self-importance, Leo, but right about now it would make perfect sense to title your melodrama "The Greatest Story Never Told." Please refrain from comparing your adventure to anything ever experienced in the history of the world.

So now that I've unequivocally been told not to accept images and comparisons and projections, I've taken some more quizzes. :-)

( Ooh, little boxes to put me in )

Yikes.

So as I was finishing my grocery shopping, a few of us were saying to each other that it smelled like there was a paper fire or something near the deli department.

By the time I'd walked half a block from the Safeway, there were at least five fire trucks in front of the store along with police cars & an ambulance. I haven't heard anything about it on the radio & thus have no idea how serious it actually turned out to be, but I expect to be a little hypersensitive to potentially smoky odors for a while.