good news bad news
the good news: my pen drive works splendidly! it's been dropped on concrete and washed in the washing machine, and it still mounts flawlessly on my desktop. what a marvillous piece of technology! i've garnered a whole new respect for my gritty little flash drive.

the bad news: my sister went to the hair cuttin' place to get dark red streaks. more like intense stripes, i guess. but not highlights. and that's exactly what she got. highlights, except it's mostly red. apparently there was a communication breakdown even though they had a picture of exactly what she wanted. it's not bad, actually. very cool, but not what she wanted. and it's not easy to pay $80 for something you didn't want. that's why i'm too afraid to want something, especially if people with cotton in their ears will end up distorting it.

speaking of cotton, i'm using cotton between my toes so my skin won't fester or "macerate," as the article said. we never went to the doc-in-a-box, so i decided to ask jeeves instead. the bruising and bluish-grey color of my toe and surrounding foot supposedly means it's broken, and if it doesn't get better in the next day or two, then it probably is broken. so meanwhile, i'm just splinting it with its neighbor. i've been getting around better, though. and since amber strained her ankle, she can't run away from me at school. heh heh.