never ceases to amaze

it never ceases to amaze me how much i don't see on a day to day basis. i hadn't biked to work today because i had left my rain gear at work the night previous, so i walked home tonight after work.

i walked down an alley across from my place of work, and noticed that alley continued on the next block, something I would have sworn it did not do (had anyone ever thought to ask me). i've been through it enough that i should have seen it before, but for some reason... i think it is because i generally only ever drive through it ( i bike it often but in the opposite direction ) and that when i'm driving i'm only ever looking at moving objects.

it was chilly though and i was forced into Old Navy figuring they'd have a decent hat (which i was right about, alas). my first time in there, and hopefully my last. the place and its commercials give me the creeps -- all that manufactured cheerfulness. i was also faintly disturbed by the white, headless, limbless, mannequins, with the belly showing shirts and tops of buttocks.