Dang. Coming sick today. In the way peculiar to me, apparently: Wherever I touch myself, and in all my joints, I feel an ache; most (subjectively) noticeable when I push down on the hair of my head with the flat of my hand, and the roots tingle and throb. Of course I also have a sharp, cutting, "productive" cough; but it's this business of having achy hair that makes me unique, so far as I know. Who knows what else about me is totally unlike the rest of the world? But also, something that no other man apparently has ever experienced, is that, whenever I unexpectedly hear or read about something gruesome or painful (whether the subject be an animal or a human), my balls ache, almost like I'd been kicked in them. I've asked other men if they don't feel something like it--and no one has yet said he feels anything like it. So here I am again, way out here in lonely-onlyland. I wonder sometimes if I'm human.