(he only wrote the last 2, i know!)

So listening to my ipod this morning on the train, 4 songs "randomly" came up and made me think that i was living in a john hughes film. ok. i'm living in Shermer, IL--the fictional chicago suburb. belle and sebastian's the state i am in is softly playing in the background as i drag myself out of bed, get dressed and hop on the yellow (special) bus for the dread that is high school. next, when the "oh so popular and pretty" girl, who i share the first 3 periods of class with and have been infatuated with since freshman year finally breaks down and says yes to a date (to get back at her jock boyfriend, of course, for cheating on her)...i jump out of the Shermer High's doors to the tune of she bangs the drum, the stone roses. and i picture myself ooggling the girl of my dreams who works the counter at the record store to Interpol's PDA. and then at the end, after much class strife and isolation in the school library, the jocks, the nerds, the burnouts, and preppies learn that we're not so different after all, and after some intense bonding and soul searching, suede's trash ushers us out of detention and into a newfound maturity.

in other news, pater has asked me to take duncan and become his foster father for a while. i explained to her that she doesn't have a dog and think it's cute that she thinks she does. she's going through a rough patch right now and the thought of giving up her boy is heartbreaking. i told her not to be hasty, to see how things turn out and worse case scenario, i'll take the duncster as temp father figure (which i already am, so nothing changes). then i suggested random acts of violence to help deal with her sitch.

this morning, a girl gave me a funny look as i was standing in the park with the dogs in my slippers yelling "DON'T EAT THAT WOOD, IT MAKES YOUR POOP ROUGH!!!"