Well, there's a block party. We were invited. The front said "you're invited," then you open the card and it says "he's not" with a pic of a shirtless guy holding a beer and sporting a mullet. i read this book in college called the declining significance of race. what the hell was the author's name? william something. anyway, his theory, which many people including myself disagree with, is that racism no longer exists because it has been replaced by classism. i think racism definitely exists but so does classism. there wasn't even anything creepy looking about the guy. he was smiling and looked like he lived in galesburg. our block is retarded anyway. there are 50 million kids wearing helmets right now on trikes and scooters. i don't think my kids will wear helmets. what's the point? you're like 3 feet from the ground and unless you have a head the size of a watermellon, chances are you won't split your noodle open. we've had this "block party wagon" trailer sitting on the corner for the last two days. they paid for it. a specific block party trailer. that's dumb.

i've been looking online at cars and apartments. i wish i had more money so i could get a nice one of each but chances are i won't be able to. i really want a scion xa, but it isn't rated as the safest and i want the safest. i don't care really what it is as long as i'm not going to crunch up like tin foil if and when i get into an accident. and i want it to last me a good 15 years too. the scion xa is in the top 10 most fuel-efficient cars though, so it's still in the race. the honda insight is pretty bitchin looking but it's too much, whereas the scion xa is only about $10k if i get an '05. i want marroon. i looked at a picture of it today and i laughed at it because it's awesome.

jamelyn said she didn't want to live in warrenville because it's too "hickish." i disagree since it's still in dupage but i specifically want to live in a "hickish" area. lindsey says west chicago is little mexicano. i hate lindsey and that was a terrible thing to say. but good cause i am going to look into west chicago. if i still have to work in wheaton i at least will be working with refugees and living outside of wheaton. hollie says i have a lot of animosity towards wheaton. and by wheaton i mean the college and the town. it's true. i do. oh ya, thunder! i hope those helmets have metal in them. HAHAHAHAHAHA! stupid kid on a scooter getting struck by lighting cause of his dumbass helmet. hahahahaha. that's rich!

hollie and mom are at a bridal trunk show. i had so much fun trying on bride's maids' dresses. hollie is going to pick something too informal, though. she wants it to be a dress that people can wear more than once. seriously? that blows. i want fancy and hot! none of this calf length crap. boo! oh well.

addie got a new little bed. it's a wee couch and she looks so cute in it. mom pinched her nose. lalalalalalalalalalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalalalaaaaaaaaaaa.

today is sunday and tomorrow is monday. the day of my second interview and my bibley group. so i haven't opened my bible once this whole week. not a once. it's already bibley group again and i haven't done shit. that's no good. it'll be nice when i get a job that won't require me to work every sunday. then i can commit to going to a church. or at least commit to thinking about committing to one. i gotta say, though, that recently i really have wanted to move to chicago. i'm secretly hoping i won't get this job and that i'll find one in the city so i can move there. if i were to say that it is more diverse and open-minded in the city some people might disagree with me because people are people wherever you go. but i gotta say, i think that in certain areas or even in most areas, people are similar. galesburg had a certain type of person. st. simonds did and even aberdeen did. and believe-you-me, wheaton does. and i don't like it much. hollie read a quote that said if you surround yourself with like-minded people you end up not doing much thinking. well, i'm changing it a bit, but it's close. so bring on the atheists and muslims and lesbians and irish and latin american! hopefully this job will bring that.

oh boy this kids are chanting. hey, that reminds me. the guy at world relief said their biggest group of incoming refugees is a group of turks. anyone know what group it is? he said something like mankee or something like that. with an "m". anyone? yes? no?

i've been playing donkey kong for n64, which totally rules. but when you load your game it tells you how many hours you've played. i have surpassed 24. that's lame.