Our home room class got a new class mascot! It's a earwig, and we named him Mrs. Cutesworth. Well, a couple of kids wanted to name him Li'l Mitch "High School Sweetheart" Cartwright, but Mrs. Howell stepped in.

Today Nate Waldorf invited me over to his house after school. He's kind of a strange kid and we've never really been friends, but we've been classmates for like forever, so I went. They had this weird lavender carpet in every room, and the whole place smelled like boiled beets. I looked at his collection of lace doilies and we played a little World of Zone 12, and then I went home. It was pretty awkward the whole time. I hope he doesn't ask me again.

I still have to rake mom's cuticles to earn my allowance, and I usually blow it on comic books and bubble gum. My favorite comic right now is The Startling Tales of Rufus Miller and the Screaming Squid -- I couldn't believe the cliffhanger at the end of the last issue!