I disagree.

Today I saw:

• A super-hot girl wearing a very short skirt and riding a Vespa lazily and happily through downtown. Maybe you'd see this sort of thing in a coastal city, or even Chicago. You do not see this sort of thing in Cincinnati. Ever.
  
• A lot of sky. I don't know why I kept looking at the sky today. I took a bike ride tonight and was staring up at the cloud bank moving in and I hit a speed bump in a campground and very nearly spilled myself all over the road. That stupid speed bump never used to be there.
  
• A yellow mountain bike with no seat chained to a parking meter.
• Some dude in Burrito Joe's who kept staring at me like he knew me. I don't think I've ever seen him before.
• A lot of boring technical shit about supply chains and distribution lines that I had to proof.
• A three-car wreck on the highway, and a bunch of people standing on the side of the road next to their busted-ass cars, talking on cell phones.
  
• A gnat, up reeeeeeeal close, when it drowned in my eye while I was out riding my bike.
  
• A lot of laundry. Which I folded.
• Sunlight through trees. Insects. Cracked pavement. Broken glass. A spiderweb.
• M. taking both Pepto and Immodium. I don't think you're supposed to take both of those things. I'm thinking one or the other.
  

Today I heard:

• Someone at work say, "I feel like stabbing myself in the eye right now."
• A bunch of crud on NPR, which I'm addicted to.
  
• That Eurythmics song "Sweet Dreams." What a damn fine song that is.
  
• Some remixed Everything But the Girl stuff. Good.
• The alarm clock. The dryer buzzer. The microwave's beep. The phone.
  
• Crickets outside. My dogs barking.
• The water cycling through the filter in the aquarium, in which the oscar and the cichlids are still getting along and not ramming each other to shreds.
• My ears ringing constantly, because I think my iPod is making me deaf. I need new headphones. Those earbuds are dangerous business. I keep it turned down to less than half volume because I read two-thirds volume is enough to cause hearing damage. Even at half-volume my ears are ringing like mad. Not good.
  

Today I tasted:

• Fried rice. For breakfast.
• Burritoes.
  
• Cereal.
• Pretzels and whole-wheat crackers.
• A stick of gum.
• That taste you get in your mouth when you exert yourself mightily in pursuit of some goal, i.e. getting up a big hill on a bike.

Today I smelled:

• Cigarettes, smoked by people at the bases of buildings all through the city.
• The stinky lunch my boss was eating.
• Sticky city street crud.
• That musty smell my car has developed ever since I left the windows down during the deluge about a month ago.
  
• Campfire smoke. In a campground. That I rode my bike through. And hit a speedbump in.
• My dogs. They smell goooooood.

Today I felt:

• The wind on my body as I rode through the street that goes through the woods on my bike.
  
• The temperature of the air change from warm to cool when I rode out of the suburbs and into the woods.
• The same headache I've had almost every day for the past three weeks.
• Frustrated. Angry. Hungry. Tired. Glad. Scared. Amused. Out of breath. Hot.
  
• My leg falling asleep because I jam it up under my butt while I'm proofing, because to sit in an Aeron chair the way one was meant to is boring.
  

I bet you have Sweet Dreams in your head now, don't you. Muahahahaha...