we have been emailing a girl in houston named samantha about subleting the extra bedroom in her house for the summer. samantha seems nice enough, has a fenced-in yard and three dogs of her own and a one-eyed cat that lives on the porch. rent is pretty cheap and it's close enough to where we need to be, and she even offered to help us get around if the mini decides to take a vacation in the form of neglected oil changes and blown out starter cables. (do starters even use cables? all i know is she goes "click-click-click" when i want her to go "vrooooom". it's basically a conflict of onomonopeia.)

the only reservation i have about samantha is that all her emails are written in purple or pink and she uses a minimum of three exclamation points after every sentence. (really!!! i'm not kidding!!!!). c'est la vie. i'm sure it will be fine. i mean, how bad could a girl with three dogs and a one-eyed cat be? (really!!! it could be worse!!!! much, much worse!!!!!)

in other news, i was officially accepted into graduate school. my future career as a librarian is sealed. now i need to get one of those heavy steel bikes with a huge basket on the front, a motorcyle helmet, and some sexy lingerie, and i'll be set. all i have to say is watch out dewey decimal. the card catalogue ain't never gonna be the same.