my neighborhood seems to attract people who like to go door to door with things. last week it was a couple of people from a jehovah’s witness church, one time it was a little girl selling girl scout cookies, and yesterday evening it was a guy who said he was being funded to go to college, but then ended up trying to sell me magazines. he said that the company he was working for specialized in taking kids out of troubled homes or off the streets and sending them to college, which is great. but they make them sell magazines to pay for it? ok. i gave him a five and talked with him about how going away for college worked so well for me. he said he was from baltimore and was going to go to school at LSU. anyway, it seemed sketchy…and it was weird, i listen to his story about his situation, and then he has me read the list of magazines he’s selling. he asks me if i have any kids, because i guess the first page was kids magazines. so i said i didn’t have any, and the look he gave me was kind of funny. “you don’t have any kids?” as if i should have 4 running around behind me. well whatever. i hope the five dollars i gave him helped him with his college funding. i hope he was telling me the truth in saying that he was actually going to college and i hope he can get the home improvement job he was telling me about. he seemed nice enough, but i guess it just seemed odd. maybe next time i’ll just not answer the door. i get uncomfortable having to tell people i don’t want to buy anything when they are selling something i don’t want, like magazine subscriptions. i used to hate going door to door, but when i did it, i was selling wrapping paper to get points to get a clock radio or a radio controlled car. you know those sales things kids can do? selling magazines for college though, well, i just hope the people are actually going to college and not using the story as a front just to sell magazines.

today my friend ryan came over and we played dance dance revolution. it was pretty fun, and i lost almost every battle. crazy. i ended up standing off center so when i’d go to hit the arrows, i’d actually not be hitting an arrow at all. it was a lot of fun, and i can only imagine how much fun having four pads with people dancing on them would be.