You're older than you've ever been and now you're even older.

I remember when I used to go fishing with my friend Mike who lived across the street. We used to fish in the traditional sense, with poles and bait, but we also participated in a barbaric ritual of jellyfishing. You see, there used to be all these jellyfish in the place we used to fish. Me and Mike, what we'd do is, get these sticks right, and we'd tape nails to the ends of them. Then we'd wait for the jellyfish to surface and we'd spear them and bring them ashore. We had great fun doing this, but Mike furthered the barbaric behavior by setting the jellyfish on a wooden dock post and stomping on it with his shoe. The jellyfish would splatter all over the place. Throughout the years, there were fewer and fewer jellyfish, until one year they altogether disappeared. I can't help but feel partially responsible.

Those were great times though. We used to ride our bikes to the boat yard to get bait. I remember when bikes were the main source of transport. Jeez louise. Bikes could take you anywhere. I can't remember exactly when, but it was the time when they were repaving the streets and sidewalks of our block. Not only did this reduce the traffic of the block, but it created a playground of dirt and ditches. Man I miss those days. Whenever I got home, I'd be dirty as hell. I'd have scrapes and scars from climbing trees and shit.

Oh man, and Mike and I used to play with K'nex for hours. We'd each make cars and destroy them by colliding them with one another. K'nex were the greatest invention known to us at the time. One time I made a rollercoaster out of them. Mike recreated the Titanic with a huge model made of K'nex. My last project was a model of the Empire State Building, but I ran out of pieces before I could finish it.

I also remember making pillow fortresses. I'm sure all of you did it too. Those were the all time best. I used to make grand ones that I slept in at night. They were amazing. I utilized every pillow I could find and made this elaborate floor plan. They resembled igloos, if anything, with longer entrances.

I think I'd give up my whole future just to relive my childhood. I'm really not looking forward to anything at all, in fact, I never did. Pipe dreams, dad, pipe dreams. I'm a barber's son.

I hate it when the waffles stick together.

I went to my first class today, comn105. I woke up exactly at 9:30, so I got there about 10 minutes late. Of course, we had the quiz today. It was open notebook, which helped immensely. The first two pages of the quiz were easy, but then the shit hit the fan. He devoted one page of the quiz to the one chapter I didn't take notes on. Then he asked about 6 current events questions, none of which I knew the answers to. Bennett's a nice guy though, he said that we could cross out 7 questions we didn't want graded. I stil had about 3 I wasn't sure of. I really didn't know the answers to them and I couldn't make a guess as to what they were, so I just wrote remotely funny answers to them. One question was "Name two reasons for something." I wrote "Oh, this and that." Then I wrote "I think we both know the answer." to another question. Maybe he'll see it my way and give me a good grade.

There were two strangers sleeping in the common room last night. Does anyone know anything about it? All signs point to Marty's doing.

After the quiz, I went to the health center, finally. It was my first time there, cause I've never really been too sick at school. Truth be told, I don't get sick very often, but when I do, it's a doozy. They're really nice at the health center. They showered me with love, which was nice because I hadn't showered for two days when I went there. The first nurse was such a dear. Then the second nurse was kinda foxy. As far as nurses go, I'd let her take my blood pressure any day of the week. She was also nice. She said that if I didn't go there, I might have come down with bronchitis, whatever that is. So she just gave me all this cough syrup and these pills.

I should have held out for the bronchitis. I skipped the rest of the day and slept my ass off. I woke up at 5. Hahaha. I had a paper due in each of the classes I skipped. Hahaha. Oh man, that's funny. Ohhhhh brother. Holy toledo!