I'll admit it--I have neither a pirate nor ninja fetish, and don't exactly "get" why they're so trendy these days (someone please explain). So, this task wasn't too attractive to me. Then I discovered, courtesy of Drinky Cow, that my Zodiac sign is really Icky Ninja. I also remembered that ninjas are associated with the Wu Tang Clan. I booked a trip to Washington, D.C. to visit a friend, and was trying to figure out a task to do in Our Nation's Capital...and decided it would be fun to be a ninja-tourist.

I'm not entirely sure what a day in the life of a real ninja is like, how evil or not evil they are, who they work for, etc., but I do know that they're stealthy and contemplative. These are the characteristics I tried to manifest. What I really learned, though, is that life as a ninja is much more like one long photo shoot. And that ninjas have a heightened sense of phallic imagery.

P.S. This is NOT meant to be some sort of "Halloween Task."