red and blue and black for you.

Today's new thing was a new version of Balderdash at Candice's. Instead of famous date, they had bizarre laws, worded like: In Soco, Pennsylvania, it is illegal for a dog...

And then you finish the sentence. That particular one is "take a nap in a Barbershop."

I love that game.

i wear my boots, you wear your hat.

After lots of put-put-putting around, Anthony and I finally managed to pick up enough steam to go downtown for a drink at a bar I'd never been to - It's tiki themed. There was a time in my life that I only wore hawaiian shirts (why? we shall never know.) and this spoke to that part of my hear that loves lounge culture. We drank drinks out of tiki-mask cups and listened to island-y music while bad surf movies played silently in the corner.

But then!

I wanted sushi - inexpensive sushi - so we went to Trader Joe's, where we kept running into old pals from all over. It was a very exciting sushi trip. And when we came out, my friend Andrew Costello was pulling in, arms laden with recycling.

C: Time to recycle!

A: (not getting it's a joke) Yeah, we just saw a show, so. Yeah.

C: Oh yeah? What show?

A: Dr. Horrible's Sing Along blog, up at the Barn.

C: You're kidding!

A: Yeah, you guys should go see it. They are doing a ten-o-clock one.

AB: It's 9:56 now.

A: Oh, yeah. Well, let's drive you up there.

C: Ha. What, really?

And they did! Dr. Horrible's Sing Along blog, live! It was lots of fun.

I love when new things lead to other new things.

parisian girls are all so sweet and smart.

Today, my new thing was practicing two-man juggling with Anthony. A juggling duet? What's the term for that? He gave me three practice balls to juggle with and I do that when I feel restless, which is a lot. So I'm a beginner juggler.

Duet juggling was difficult, but we got it going once. I should have filmed it.

One of his hit me in the head after about 2o minutes of trying. I thought it was an accident until just now. Anthony may have it out for me. I'll keep you all posted.

keep hearing your name.

I got a haircut. I hate it.
But I've gotten haircuts I hate before.

Today, my great new thing was being told that my play was accepted into Chautauqua 2009, a student-run festival of plays. I can't wait to see it.

meet me where your mind won't kiss me.

Today I did something that I'm pretty proud of.

I defied my T.A.

Now, my mother has a phrase for the people in class who sit in the back of the room and point out inconsistencies with the same joy and self-pleasure as a pirate who found buried treasure on his own. She calls them "bright boys" and I never want to embody the stereotype because it sounds awful, self-congratulatory and the opposite of true intelligence.

But I was disgusted by the guest lecturer today, who dressed up her lecture on Susan Sontag in hyper-feminist leanings and tried to push it as fact rather than opinion. I didn't mind the agenda, or the opinion, but I do mind being told something that is 100 percent opinion and be expected to write it down in my notebook, to be regurgitated later.

So in class today, I commented. My T.A. defended the guest lecturer and the entire section turned, pointing out the inconsistencies between the reading and the guest lecturer's opinion-dominated message. Susan Sontag is a lot of posturing, and it's easy to posture upon posturing, and eventually, my TA agreed, and started talking down the guest lecturer as well.

It was interesting. I felt like my ire was bright boy misplaced enthusiasm, but I'm glad it wasn't.

What do you think?

a horror film.

Today, I wanted my new thing to be that I sold a stuffed animal.

Two hours left on that.

If not, then I have another new thing. But I'll talk about it tomorrow.

I've got love in my tummy.

Would you like some unconditional love?

Then perhaps you should buy a homemade stuffed animal!

Today's new thing is the online marketplace store GRAND OPENING OF:

(cue Final Countdown)

StuffedMisfit.etsy.com!

You should buy one, and make me a hundredaire!