It must be real exciting to get to fight ogres and monsters all the time! I've only ever seen one ogre -- Mr. Underwood, my Geography teacher. He's got a big pot belly and snaggly teeth and hair growing out of his ears and he's real grumpy all the time, so I'm pretty sure he's an ogre. He made me stay after class and brush the blackboard because I couldn't remember the name of some dumb river. If you're ever in town, I'll find out where he lives so you can hit him with your sword. That'll teach him! Ha ha ha, see what I did there?

My friends are all going nuts about drawing sweaters, but I'd rather spend my time reading comics. The new issue of The Baffling Tales of Trolls vs. The Quantum Dogs just came out!

I just started an afterschool swimming program. Every other day, we do the turmagant for at least a half an hour. I don't mind it much, except I wish we'd do it in a pool, not a swamp. Though I guess the vicious copperhead snakes are good motivation to swim fast! I've already lost 10 candygrams! Not sure how much that is in whatever weight unit you guys use.