I said, "Lady, step inside my Hyundai."

Time:	1:35 am.
Music:	Gorillaz - El Mañana.

I haven't been doing a whole lot, but these past few days have been pretty good. I've been listening to Demon Days a lot, and I spent a lot of yesterday reading about the Gorillaz (I learned that Noodle is dead!). I bought Rushmore with a giftcard I got for Secret Santa. I went to Venetian Pool.

I watched Miracle's Boys with my sister and her friend tonight. It was pretty boring (and long), but I kind of enjoyed it. Spike Lee's name is on the case, but I think he was just one of a whole team of directors. I liked that all of the black kids had hispanic moms. I liked it when they said "that's what's up!" and called eachother B.

This is a mix of "Yeah" and "Island in the Sun," and it is pretty amazing.

Beep!

Subject:	I think it's almost crimes
Time:	4:53 pm.
Mood:	excited!.

I went to 'Cane Aquatics today, and I sat down with two of the guys that head the camp. We talked awhile, and they said I was younger than they'd like, but then they hired me, and they said that being a counselor is different from volunteering, because volunteers tend just to use the camp as a "dating service," and that really just sounded kind of specific, and kind of like a warning. I am excited!

And:

There is something about the artwork in Dennis the Menace that I really like.

"M.I.A. has been denied a visa to enter the United States. The reason has not yet been determined,although she claims it is because her lyrics are interpreted as being pro-terrorist."

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Time:	8:13 pm.
Mood:	exhausted.

Prom was pretty fantastic! I was really just looking forward to the party before (and that part was bettah), but I had a good time. I was exhausted when we left, but I was feeling kind of wired by the time we got to Steveo's.

I was getting kind of drunk kind of quickly, so I stopped and just hung around and talked (and peed). I found a bed and went to sleep at around 4:30, and when I woke up Greta was laughing and looking at me, and some people were asleep on the floor. I fell back asleep, and when I woke up a few minutes later, I thought I heard Steveo's mom coming up, so I got up and put my pants on, but it was somebody else.

I slept awhile after I came home, and then I went to the beach with my family and swam/tanned for a few hours. I listened to "Sing-alongs and Lullabies" a lot, and I did a little drawing (I've been doing more drawing these past few days than I have been in the past week or two). I am kind of burnt, and feeling a little less like a farmer.

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Subject:	Fireflies returning
Time:	4:07 pm.
Mood:	excited.
Music:	Jack Johnson - Walk Alone.

I slept really well last night, but after I woke up, I was in kind of a daze, and later I had trouble remembering a lot of things; it was really just little, unimportant things, like how many points there are on the IB grading whatever, but it was strange (it was different). (It is probably nothing though.)

We watched the rest of Frida today, and I loved it. I hope she was really like that (minus looking like Selma Hayek, I guess). I also got into the artwork, and I've never been really impressed by it before. I guess knowing more about her made it mean something.

On the way home from school, I saw a car that said "ARREPIENTA DE TUS PECADOS Y PREPARATE PARA EL VENIR DE TU DIOS" and something else (something else, but it was pretty much the same).

I think I am staying away from here until I've got something to say.

Beep!

Time:

9:05 pm.

I forgot to post this before....

( New animal #4! )

This has been such a boring day. (Why isn't anybody around?) I did spend some time with Caitlin and Jennifer at Pearl, and that was cool. ("Because most of the girls you mention are dumb bitches. Or Greta.")

[Edit|9:15] Every time I watch Sabado Gigante, Don Francisco manages to make somebody miserable! And he always follows it up with a prize; a thanks-for-letting-me-destroy-you-on-TV consolation prize. The last time I watched, months ago, he reminded some woman of her abusive husband of seven years. She cried and cried while her friends won her a car, and she cried while she got in. (She wasn't even pretending to be excited.)

Tonight! A woman talked about her mother, said she loved her, and apologized for moving to the United States without her. Then he aired a prerecorded video of her mother saying that she didn't think she could forgive her. Then he asked her how she felt, and after she spoke, he said "Well, open the door and see if she's here!" ...And she was not. It was just an empty room. But then he told her to open it again, and her brother was in there.

Don Francisco, you are fuckin' twisted!

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Subject:	Right On the Guestlist
Time:	5:46 pm.
Music:	Seu Jorge, Antônio Pinto & Ed Cortês - Convite para Vida.

I visited my grandmother (my other grandmother) at around 3:00 and I hung around for a few hours. Things have been changing over there, but I like the way things are right now. She was well! Katerina and her older sister Siera (they are six and eight) came to see their grandmother (Dulce), and we played a game about hand-slapping and numbers, and then a game about hand-slapping and words. They gave me a little family of shells before they left, and Katerina gave me all kinds of instructions (concerning water and dirt).

After I left, I saw that I'd missed a call, and I saw a guy drive onto the sidewalk and into a bush while I called back. It reminded me of that day when I felt weird, with the tea and the Blockbuster and the flat tire. Nobody picked up, but later I got a call from some Amanda Martin and she didn't even believe that anybody had called me, I think.

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Time:

12:37 pm.

My grandmother was really excited about the card and the bracelet, but when she opened the book, pretty much the first thing she saw was a picture of a Che Guevara billboard and she was really angry for a second; then she kept looking at the pictures and commenting on how Cuba's gone to hell. But at some point she stopped talking a little while, and then she started commenting on the quality of the pictures instead (and it is a cool book), and she started getting kind of nostalgic. Then she made tortilla, and I went to Sedanos for bread. It was kind of nuts, because everybody spoke Spanish and knew everybody else. It was familiar, but not because I've ever seen anything like it.

After breakfast, she looked through the book for a long time, and then she looked at my drawings and read about monkeys.

And tonight! Tonight is going to be all about tension and crying and lesbians, I hope.

Beep!

Time:	2:15 am.
Mood:	l'awake.

( Some shit about Mulholland Drive )

My mom called from France this morning, and we talked for a few minutes. Toward the end, she kept asking me whether I had something to tell her. "Is there anything else you want to say?" I kept saying "No... Everything is okay." I told her about the newspaper thing.

I went to Sunset Place earlier to find something for my grandmother's birthday (which is tomorrow). I bought a cool book full of pictures of Havana, and then I thought maybe I should add something, so I went to the latin music section at Virgin. I was just going to grab something from Celia Cruz or Willy Chirino, but then I thought it'd be shitty just to grab something and hope she likes it, so I got her a bracelet. It was kind of just the first one I saw, but it's big and weird, and I know she likes that, so I think it should be safe. I got her a card too. I don't think the Spanish greeting card people are even trying.

I did some drawing tonight!

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Time:	2:00 am.
Mood:	shocked.
Music:	Seu Jorge - Carolina.

I don't know what to... I watched Mulholland Drive just now, and I was into it, I thought it was nuts and I thought it was awesome, I thought I was following it, I liked Betty and Rita's dynamic, and then the Cowboy turned back up and I have no idea what the fuck went on in that movie anymore. I tried to make sense of it, but all I ended up with were three arrows. I am really kind of shocked right now. Were both halves of that real? Were those four women leading into one another? What? This isn't just me, right?

I am going to need to rewatch this tomorrow, because I would really like to make sense of this, and I think it must make some kind of sense. (It feels like it does.)

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Subject:	Kafkaesque
Time:	7:29 pm.
Mood:	chipper.

I finally watched Bottle Rocket last night, and it was awesome (not as awesome as Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums, I think). My grandmother made me some eggs this morning, and I left at around 12:00. I went over to Steveo's at 3:00, and we watched The Squid and the Whale and ate tacos. A cashier-woman acted like I wasn't rolling my Rs on "jarritos," but Steveo says that was about love, not Spanish.

Time for Blockbuster!

[Edit: Got Do the Right Thing, Mulholland Drive, Broken Flowers and The 25th Hour! Plus, I've got Steveo's Last Life In the Universe and Old Boy; and Hop!]

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Subject:	Figure Eight
Time:	10:16 pm.
Mood:	incredulous.
Music:	Lou Reed - Street Hassle.

I decided to go get some pants today, but somewhere along the way, I decided that I was really not interested in buying pants and I turned around. Then I turned back around and went to Caitlin's house, and I hung around for a little while (it was kind of unpleasant). I went back to my house and watched the commentary on The Squid and the Whale. It was good because he didn't do it while watching the movie (it was set to pictures and stills), and he didn't try to explain the plot or the characters.

After it ended, I drove over to my grandparents' house, and I listened to "Street Hassle" by Lou Reed and the "Hey You" cover by Dean Wareham on the way. My grandmother said she didn't think I was coming when I got here, but I always meant to because I need some company; lately, it feels like I don't know anybody. The noises my family makes are angry, tired noises, but I guess they're better than the quiet. (I think they took time with them.) I think I'm going to stay here tonight, and maybe watch Bottle Rocket and some The Squid and the Whale special features.

I got a razor in the mail again, and like last year, the box said "Happy Eighteenth Birthday!," but this time there are more blades and shaving cream that is sensitive and sensible (and orange). Thank you, Gillette.

Beep!

Time:

5:22 pm.

I've been reading The Comics Curmudgeon today. It's the blog of some guy that reads the newspaper comics and writes about some of them. I don't know what is so intriguing about it, but I am becoming fascinated with Apartment 3-G (three bitches...living together!) and Dr. Rex Morgan, M.D. (two really gay doctors and their wives), and before seeing this guy's website, I'd never even heard of them. I actually didn't really care for the commentary when I started reading it, but as you go further back he becomes funnier and less arrogant. (I guess this helps fill time.)

I've been feeling pretty good. I've been doing a lot of nothing, but at least it's something, and nothing bad is happening, so things could be worse. I am going to watch Bottle Rocket later, and then I think I'll go by Blockbuster.

Beep!

Subject:	I've been bad, but I'm gettin' better
Time:	12:14 am.
Mood:	pretty good!.
Music:	Okkervil River - Kathy Keller.

I spent most of today perusing artists' galleries online. I guess it just felt like most of today. At around noon, I left and I spent some time at Barnes & Noble. I grabbed Life of Pi and perused a few other books. I went by Pearl, but there was too much, and I knew too little, so I just left with a sharpie. I sat around awhile until the house started to close in on me again, and I started to leave. Before I got to the door, Caitlin returned a call, and I went to her house. (I grabbed a burrito on the way, because I hadn't really eaten all day.)

We sat around a little, and she deleted her myspace, and then I drove her to Starbucks. We met a girl that was expelled because her shirt said "bitch," and then we went back to her house and watched some lesbian Degrassi. Jennifer Rees showed up toward the end, and we talked a little while before we left for Taco Bell with Justin (Caitlin's brother). We ate, and after Jennifer left, we did some reading. I am feeling Life of Pi, and I am pretty sure that it will take me fewer than two years to read.

I want more of this CD.

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Time:

10:36 am.

Sitting around in the house when it's empty like this feels really weird. It's kind of stifling and really quiet. I've been watching a lot of (too much) TV. I need to get out, but I feel kind of stuck, and I don't have anything to do. I think I may just try Barnes & Noble. I did a lot of drawing last night, and I haven't done a lot of that this week, so that is something.

[Edit] I think I'm going to buy some pants or something. And then, I'll maybe get a book and do some drawing, and maybe I'll eat something. This morning has felt like forever, so I am hoping that things and places will make me feel like I'm doing something.

Beep!

Subject:	Stayed solid
Time:	7:54 pm.
Mood:	okay.

I had a dream where I guess I was living somewhere with some people I know, at a beach that I think I remember having dreamt about living at before, and then I think we were in a TV show or a movie, and Forrest Gump was there, but real, not as a character; I was in a room, and Marcos--Marcos' being there is a weird (less and less weird) coincidence--Marcos and I were trying to figure something out, why things or parts of people disappear at some places in the room, we were using sticks and touching things, the room, eachother, and he seemed bored, but I was dying to know, and the whole experience was getting me more and more bruised. Eventually, Marcos and Ta'Qoyia noticed an awful bruise on my lip and told me to stop, and I woke up with this feeling that I was missing something.

...And I'm starting to remember something else, about my dad driving to my school, or a school, to find somebody, or my sister, and he drove under some locked gate, and then another, and then he went over to a basketball hoop, but when he left the car was spinning--rotating--and I grabbed the wheel and said something while he adjusted a picture hanging from the hoop, and when we found cops there later, I knew why, but my dad just walked over and asked a lot of questions; we also dropped somebody, maybe Blake, off somewhere suburban and summery, but I don't think they, or he, had been in the car.

Beep!

Subject:	I Am A Bird Now
Time:	4:15 pm.
Mood:	pleased.
Music:	The Notwist, Beck.

So this fieldtrip was really fucking boring. We stood around in grass, and we were in the bus a lot. We didn't get to walk around the Everglades, and we didn't get to stop at that mall for food.

After school, everybody left, and when Blake and Chang ran out of my car, there wasn't really anything left to do, so I went home. I was going to stop at Einstein Brothers, but I got kind of upset about the parking and I stopped at Wendy's instead (and I hate that shit...).

My family is getting ready to leave right now.

I hope something else happens. Because I really feel kind of okay right now anyway.

( And: )

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Subject:	Buddhist spirit
Time:	4:01 pm.
Mood:	I think today is a chipper day.

Today was good. I knew it would be... (Fuck.)

I assembled the Goofy Golf Machine this morning, and Cesca and I played awhile. We will be playing some more, because it is amazing. We didn't get to do all nine holes because class was over, and she wanted Yoohoo.

After that, I caught up with Marcos, and I felt a little bad when Haun told us about how somebody stole her lunch money. (She didn't say it was Blake, but I knew....) I learned about lobotomies during English, and Milagros gave me brownies.

After school, I bought weapons with Steveo. (Twenty-four of them!)

Everglades tomorrow! (Drawing now.)

[Edit|4:46] My sister was hit by a car (she is okay), and Caitlin is in trouble because of it? I don't even... (Jesus.)

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Subject:	By the time I finish this butterfly
Time:	5:38 pm.
Mood:	like rotting.
Music:	Broken Social Scene - Our Faces Split the Coast in Half.

Today was not a very good day. We watched some of Frida, and that was cool, and history went by really quickly (for once) because I was working on something else. Math was okay; we took a practice IB exam and I knew most of the stuff on it somehow. But nothing really good happened, and things have been kind of shitty all week.

After school, I hung around with Albert and his brother awhile, and then I went to Moe's with Jessica. We ate in Mrs. Scott's room, and we talked (Jessica, Mrs. Scott, Cesca and I) until I left at 4:40 or something. And that part was good. Mrs. Scott said something about me that was surprising (she actually said it was the way Caitlin feels, but I don't know about that), and I think it's something I need to consider.

Beep!

Subject:	Talking trash with the garbage around you
Time:	5:56 pm.
Mood:	about to get better, I think.
Music:	Beck - E-Pro.

Today was pretty awful, but that doesn't need to be important. I need to manage not to let this turn into my whole week. Everybody has been distant and worried and miserable, but I guess I need to keep that separate.

The car is really starting to make me feel guilty. Too nice, too new, completely undeserved, I just felt nauseous by the time I got home. I think the way other people reacted to it just made it worse. I had to sign for it this afternoon, and I hated being in the building.

I need to draw, and I need to walk. I want to do both. (I think I will.)

I hope something good happens tomorrow.

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Subject:	Ninja Cruise
Time:	9:37 pm.
Mood:	mostly good... guilty when I t.

I drove it around a little; I put my CDs in; My mom said she needs to call the busdriver to let her know that I won't be coming anymore; my grandmother asked me what time I'll be waking up at from now on. It's starting to feel a lot cooler.

Aside from that, I got a phone call from Tita (my grandmother's cousin) that got me to thinking about a lot of people. When my grandmother moved to the assisted living facility, I visited her every day; after school started, I visited three times a week. Lately, I make it about once a week. The only contact I've made with Boby (my aunt) in the last month are the periodic phone calls that always make me feel so guilty. I used to go to my grandparents' house after school every Thursday, and lately I just try to make it for dinner. I haven't seen Tita in months, and I really do not even remember the last time I saw Marruca. I feel fucking terrible about that. I am going to be making some visits....

Beep!

Time:

7:52 pm.

My grandparents just brought me a car. I smiled really big, and I hugged them, but really I'm feeling this weird numbness. I drove off pretty much immediately so that I could sit and collect myself a second. It really just feels weird. I don't think I'm quite grasping it, I guess. I stopped near Merrie Christmas a second poked around. Every discovery was accompanied by this This is mine? feeling. I don't know. It's exciting... It should be.

My mom gave me some money earlier too, and I was a little put off. I didn't even count it. I don't know. Am I really this spoiled? Is that what this is? I think it's something else. I hope it's something else. I appreciated the gift...

My sister bought me this crazy birthday mug with a tropical Santa Claus tie in it, and that did make me excited.

I want to live in a rainforest or something.

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Subject:	Back to Houston
Time:	6:01 pm.
Mood:	kind of burnt out.

I think I may be done with Elysium, which is pretty great. I'm getting really exciting about seeing it. I am tired though....

After I left the school, I started wondering why I didn't get any phone calls from all these relatives I barely know (or the ones that I do know), but then I realized that my phone was dead. (I guess that was also why I didn't have to argue with my grandmother about staying after school.)

I got kind of upset today, I guess. Things weren't so bad, but I let other people make this seem important after I'd decided not to, and... This really just isn't what I want to be(what I want to am), so I decided to forget about it.

I think tomorrow might be good.

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Subject:	Forgets why it beats (a therapist or a new door)
Time:	8:51 pm.
Mood:	like I am eating brainsss (boring brainsss).
Music:	Jack Johnson.

I went to Barnes & Noble to draw earlier, but once I was there I realized that I wasn't in the mood. I sort of tried anyway, and I couldn't do it. (And I know you can't just force it.)

I came back home, and I did some quiet not-moving until Caitlin knocked on my door (I remember the days when I'd come home and not find Caitlin here), and she asked whether I was moping, and I told her that I was bored/dying. She hung around a few minutes and ran off to throw her titties around with my sister.

Man, If I were heroin addict, I would totally be set for tonight.

But... Steveo's tomorrow, and birthday Monday (although that really feels like nothing to me).

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Time:

4:31 pm.

I got up at 7:55 today and met Blake and Steveo at the Cereal Bowl. I got the Jumping Jax (plus Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Smacks like they said; minus pecans), and it was good, but I prefer original bowls. We watched cartoons awhile, and then we left. We were at the school until 3:00, when they threw us out. Mrs. Scott bought us Offerdahl's for lunch. I pretty much just chose names for the sections (I really like "Almost Exits") and added folios. I guess everybody else was doing more...

And now, I am bored. Think I might be going.

Beep!

Subject:	Good things comin'
Time:	9:17 pm.
Mood:	electric.
Music:	Cat Power - Shaking Paper.

I just wrote a story about monkeys that I am really, really pleased with/excited about. It's been a long time since I've wirtten this way--just a story; no drawings, no word balloons, no first-person narration. I need to get back to this... I was nervous before I started writing it for some reason, but once I did, it all started coming together.

I gave up on Swarthmore and Tufts and I never sent them my supplements, but Swarthmore waitlisted me anyway, and I haven't tried Tufts yet. Whatever... [Edit: rejected!]

Birthday on Monday?

[Edit: Blake finished the layout, and he is pretty much my favorite person right now.]

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Subject:	Driveway bitches
Time:	6:24 pm.
Mood:	relaxed.

Caitlin liked (loved, I think!) HOW TO DATE A ROBOT: a story about CAITLIN and DAVID, and that is wonderful.

We did our ToK oral, and I laughed a lot. It was really strange seeing how in synch I was with myself (in the video). I found myself reacting along with myself, or nodding. (It went really well.)

After school, Blake and I spent an hour in the field before going to Elysium. I messed around with my layout a little, and then Steveo, Blake and I went to the Cereal Bowl with Taylor and Jessica. This time: Coco Puffs, banana and coconut shavings! I thought I should try something a little more simple this time... Worked out pretty well!

I need to go ask my mom for money, and that should be terrible. I know she's going to fake-cry.

[Edit|6:41] Going to buy a new pad. I feel a little weird about the spirals right now. It's the lines, I think...

I want to mess around with the sharpie/crayon thing a little more too, actually. Crayons can be awesome.

And... it's looking like I'm going to UF. I always said there was no way, but if it's between UF and New College, I think UF is it.

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Subject:	You'd like it a lot more if you didn't have any
Time:	6:05 pm.
Mood:	ecstatic.

Ohh, God, my sister (surprisingly!) bought Harriet the Spy at Goodwill today (I've actually looked for it there too!), and we just watched it for the first time in years. It was amazing! It was a movie about an eleven-year old girl, but it was so noir! Her problems stemmed from her friends and school and parents, but it really felt like everything was coming apart in a really big way. This movie made me cry. And maybe that has something to do with my persistent, long-running, out-of-nowhere love for Harriet, but this is so much more than I could ever have expected from Nickelodeon.

(I was also surprised by how liberal they were with the script. Harriet and her friends actually talk about killing a girl named Marion, they agree to group suicide in case anybody ever sees their secret tattoos, Harriet uses "retarded" as a pejorative once, and when Gully grabs her by the ear, she says "Child abuse! Child abuse!" and laughs.)

I really think there should be a Harriet the Spy night sometime.

Also: I had almond bubble tea today, and I shot the leftover tapioca pearls at cars; I am really into Handsome Boy Modeling School; one month, three weeks and three days are now somewhere in my shower drain; and I want to read Harriet the Spy.

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Subject:	Superball
Time:	11:28 pm.
Mood:	(still) chipper.
Music:	Mansun - Chad Who Loved Me; Helium - Superball.

I spent some time at Merrie Christmas tonight. I came home when my parents were going to leave for dinner, and I went to Fridays with them. I mostly read Closer and listened to Okkervil River (I have been in the mood for Okkervil since Caitlin played them in her car today) while we were there. At the end, I told them I was going outside. I didn't want to sit, so I walked across the street to the CVS. There was a big Burt's Bees sign, and I decided to get some. I was going to get a stick, but I got a little tin thing because the sticks all said "champagne" or "watermelon," and it turned out that they were "shimmers" or something.

I went over to the Blockbuster, and I started to walk back. I was walking right toward the restaurant when my phone started vibrating. It was my mom, and she was screaming "where are you?" or something, so I told her to chill out because I was looking right at her. When I got to her, she said that my dad had driven off. He was angry because he'd called me and I didn't pick up (I checked, and I did have two missed calls), and my mom got out because he said he was just going to leave me. I was really angry about that for a few minutes, and I called him; I talked and he yelled...

I calmed myself down because I like walking anyway. I started talking, and I told her about the Cereal Bowl, and about a dirty joke my grandma told me, and about some emails and postcards from a robot. She laughed a lot, and it was pleasant and pretty quick. After we got back, she went to her room, and I went to grab my laptop from the family room. My dad was in there, but I was just going to leave it alone. He said "that's what's going to happen from now on when you disappear like that" or something, and I looked at him and I kind of laughed (the incredulous kind) and said that was ridiculous. He said this is the way I am with everybody, and I told him that was nuts--that this is the way he is, and that it is ridiculous and appalling. I told him it was shitty that he'd dump his wife on the street, and he said he was forced to because she chose my my side. I told him he wasn't forced, and that he was full of shit, and he said "get a job and leave!" or something. He used to say that a few times a week, but it's been a year or two.

I'm thinking that maybe this should be more upsetting, but I'm kind of pleased with myself for having had a good night even though I wasn't doing anything with anybody, and I am pleased with myself for having been able to have a nice time with my mom for a while. And I learned a long time ago to keep him separate from me... And I guess I always get a little thrill from standing up to the man.

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Subject:	When you hold on to me
Time:	6:24 pm.
Mood:	chipper.
Music:	Okkervil River - Last Love Song for Now.

I just wrote a long letter to Nicola! (She lives somewhere called Australia!) I don't think she'll be able to understand everything I wrote, but I'm hoping that context will help... I made a key. "Sometimes my As look like this..." Secretly (not really secretly), I like my handwriting.

I guess tonight will be mellow (I can't think of a better word, but mellow is okay) since everybody is at Nasdaq. Caitlin isn't, but I think I'm maxed out on Caitlin for today.

I think I'm going to read Closer right now. I was reading it a long time ago, but then I had to read One Hundred Years of Solitude (which I loved!), but I remember the play was way better than the movie, even though it was the same.

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Subject:	You secretly still love a stone
Time:	4:44 pm.
Mood:	relaxed.

Friday was a good day for me. School was good, Gattaca was good, and fizz is always good. After school, we went by Chicken Kitchen, and then we went to Marcos' house and hung around. Blake and Marcos wrote a song, and later we went to Starbucks. Blake actually got into the car with me, and that was nice. I am pretty sure that he wasn't terrified. I've been working on... obeying speed limits and keeping my mind on driving, which is working out pretty well!

Correction Fluid was good for the first time in months, but it was much less Correction Fluid than it was a lot of sitting around and talking with a few performances toward the end. Marcos and Caitlin performed "How to Date a Robot" again, and it was better than ever (electric!). After Correction Fluid, I went to Kathy's birthday dinner. When Steveo decided to leave, I was a little nervous, but it was good. There was tons of food, and it was amazing. A lot of squid and octopus and lamb and zucchini and spinach. Kathy's parents were really nice (and they paid for everything!), but when Mr. Lue shook my hand it started to hurt a little, and I know exactly whose monster knuckles to blame for that.

At some point, some belly dancer showed up and danced on a table. People kept getting up and dancing with her, and that was exciting, funny, horrible and alarming sometimes. I didn't think she could top herself after dancing with Damien (he put a five in her skirt too), but then some guy put his kid on the table and gave him money. The family all sat around and laughed, and then a couple of them tried it too. (That was the alarming part.)

I got home at around 1:00, and I didn't get lost. (Bernardo told me what to do, but I still think that's somethin'.) I talked with my dad for a few minutes and I slept. I told my mom I wasn't going when she knocked to wake me for the driving school. I was really tired, and I can do it next week anyway.

Caitlin called a few minutes after I woke up and asked me whether I wanted to go the Cereal Bowl. I got Smacks, Apple Jacks and Cinnamon Toast Crunch with bananas, coconut, mango and marshmallows. I guess I did go a little overboard, but it tasted great, so I am pleased with it anyway. We saw Steveo there too, and we embraced like men.

After that, we sat around and Caitlin tried to find a movie that European Girl mentioned. We ate pizza and fries, and then we went to Hollywood video (but that didn't work out) and Publix.

I think I'm going to find myself a job. I don't think I'm going to make a month, three weeks and three days. (I don't really want to.)

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