Our home room class got a new class mascot! It's a ferret, and we named him Snuggleface. Well, a couple of kids wanted to name him Dr. Monk "Marvin the Martini" Martin, but Mrs. McGuire stepped in.

I just started an afterschool swimming program. Every other day, we do the differentstroke for at least a half an hour. I don't mind it much, except I wish we'd do it in a pool, not a swamp. Though I guess the vicious swamp sharks are good motivation to swim fast! I've already lost 2 candygrams! Not sure how much that is in whatever weight unit you guys use.

My dad went a little crazy last night and painted my whole room rose. And I mean the *whole* room. So now my sheets are all stiff and everything smells like wet paint. Do you know how to get paint off of a video game? I'm seriously jonesing without my Dragon Age 1.5 -- I mean, I just unlocked the variant Diamond Mount before all this happened!