Bikram was good today. I'm feeling a little bloated but the instructors told me that's what happens, especially to women. When you're in heat that makes you sweat so profusely, your body stores water, getting ready for the next sweat. At least I know it's working since my back's been feeling a lot better already. Ok… too much information.

You know what's funny? I went to my coffee shop this morning and the guy, the owner who always gave me a flower for V-day but didn’t this year, was there, waiting with a flower in hand. He said I hadn't been there in a while but he didn't forget about me. I felt so stupid. But I also felt happy to get my little daisy. I think he took it off a table but it’s the thought that counts. What a sweetie.

An extinction and then re-discovery.

There are many extinct animals and insects I'd love to see recovered. I just think it's so sad when an animal that’s been around for centuries just disappears. Completely. Like the Yunnan box turtle in China. The turtles were eaten into extinction, but some scientists think they've re-discovered one. Now, they have to make sure it doesn't get on the market and sold as soup. I hope they really found one and are able to jumpstart them into existence again.

So interested and exciting. One day everyone thinks you’re gone for good and the next day you stumble back into the public eye.

You know, it's funny, but I have only recently come to realize how important it is to know about the plants and flowers that are becoming extinct. Everybody – like me – is always talking about the endangered animals. But the number of plants and flowers disappearing is only growing. Like there's the hibiscus flower from Mauritius that's listed as "critically endangered."

I thought of it today when I realized I never got a single flower on this past Valentine's day. Not that I care, I got a flower from the married guy last year and one my coffee shop guy (he's worked there for years) the year before. Actually, he also gave me a flower last year. Not hitting on me (he's gay), just a really sweet gesture since I'm a good customer. I guess he forgot this year. Bummer. What a jerk, actually. He knows how happy I always was getting a silly little flower from him every year. Maybe I'll stop buying coffee there.

Whoa. Steady, Sonia. You sound bitter. LOL.

Ah, Valentine’s Day. Lots of chocolate, cards and candy hearts. That is, if you have a Valentine. No one for me this year. No matter. I don’t have the time.

Did you know that the blue whale, the largest animal on our planet, has a heart the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. Can you believe that?! The aorta is large enough for a man to crawl through. The heart is so big, it pumps 10 tons of blood.

Yep, I'm alone this year. Truthfully, I even forgot it was Valentine's Day till Andrew (my boss) asked me to inspect the bouquet of flowers he was sending to his wife online.

I've decided to get up early and go to bikram yoga. The hot, sweaty yoga. It's torture getting up but part of being half-asleep when you go into that sauna of a torture chamber is actually better than being wide-eyed and realizing what you've stepped into. But I need to do it. It's doing wonders for my back. I'm only thirty… well, thirty-one. But I already get weird back pain from sitting at my computer all day and the yoga’s therapeutic—even on the inside.

The back pain comes in waves but when it hits, it hits like a truck. I've been told by a doctor that it's stress. I told him I wasn't stressed, except a little overworked. But he told me, hypothetically speaking, that maybe some things from the past could still be bothering me. Weird that he proposed that.

Work’s been tough but exciting. So much going on. Andrew (my boss) is so busy with stuff, he’s even letting me take over some of his smaller projects. They’re pretty basic samples that I have monitor and such, nothing complicated. It’s good to get hands-on experience, especially on double-blinds. I won’t bore you with the details.

But I will tell you that one of the subjects asked me out though. And if you haven’t heard, I’m a married man magnet. Say that five times fast. He was trying to take out his cell phone to enter my number and his wedding ring fell out. I should’ve known.