i have yet to leave the house today. things that happened to me anyway:

- was accosted by two small girls named jade and jasna. i helped them type their mom a letter, since they were quite enamored with my computer. they also went through my cds and made me try on numerous pairs of earrings. i am so tired.

- blushed four times in three minutes. the word loser comes to mind... damn him! go away!

- a large bowl of chocolate ice-cream and a piece of marbled cheesecake JUMPED right into my mouth. i don't know how that happened.

- my parents called. dad discovered a guesthouse on fu xian lake. mom is not coming in august, after all. garrett and rosemary were wrestling. garrett told them to say hi from him, but rosemary did not. i will forever feel snubbed.

- my friend josh finished his last day of apartment-hunting, and he'll head back to kentucky tomorrow. he also wants to walk around campus tonight to get to know it, since he'll be here in the fall for his masters in english. i love that my friends are so smart. i will follow the ever-wise claudia's advice, and wear sneakers. i still don't want to go, though. do you KNOW how bleeding hot it's been here? but maybe it's cooled off. after all, how would i know?

here's to my new novel: my life as an urban hermit.