It must be real exciting to get to fight ogres and monsters all the time! I've only ever seen one ogre -- Mr. Whitfield, my Geography teacher. He's got a big pot belly and snaggly teeth and hair growing out of his ears and he's real grumpy all the time, so I'm pretty sure he's an ogre. He made me stay after class and feed the blackboard because I couldn't remember the name of some dumb river. If you're ever in town, I'll find out where he lives so you can hit him with your sword. That'll teach him! Ha ha ha, see what I did there?

They're holding try-outs for the school play next week. They're doing Rise of the Goblin Tribe. Regan Clements is gonna be playing Princess Regan'rond, so if I got to be Mason'born I'd get to kiss her! Last time I tried out for a play, though, I had to be the stupid goldfish, so it's probably not worth the gamble.

I still have to sweep my room to earn my allowance, and I usually blow it on comic books and bubble gum. My favorite comic right now is The Further Adventures of Dirk Black -- I can't believe the stuff he gets up to every month!