Saturday if you couldn't find me I was at my cousin's house at the beach. Sorry I left AIM on.

Some people said hi. Its funny how different people say hi. Some just say my name, "luke". Others say "hey". Very few of my friends say "whats up" anymore, thats fine, I know I wouldn't want to be bothered by trivial life small talk. There is someone who greets me as "rice bowl". I think thats cool too.

Ahhh now stories from the beyond.

At hermosa beach i met todd, or rather todd met the ground, then me. He was drunk wandering around, probably looking for his friends who ditched him. Just before todd got to the crosswalk button for Pier and Hermosa Ave, he fell backward like some gigantic white tree. I felt like yelling timber and laughing but actually he hit the back of his head pretty hard on the pavement. when he came to, he had a swarm of people around him all taking care of him just like long time friends would do, and i watched. Must have been embarrassing to him, i wonder what made him get so drunk. Lost a girl? I bet it wasn't habitual because he was wearing some pretty nice clothes. i asked him his name, he was so drunk i thought he said "tom". it wasn't until the last minute of meeting todd that i found out his name was actually todd. Meanwhile his friends pull up in a yellow cab, ask if he's alright, say good job buddy, and then take off in the cab, what asshole friends.

So it happened that we crossed that street where todd lay, many times that night. doing the poor man's "club hopping" where you just stand outside of various clubs and walk around, it was fun. Each time I would say "Hi todd", and he would make a sour face then smile. There were many more occurances with todd, such as when i told mimi there was a tall white guy named "Todd" hanging out with us. Its so cool to see the affect on a korean girl's face when you say you're hanging out with a tall white guy named "Todd". hilarious. haha maybe that was just mean.

the rest of the time we hung out at this beer--, i mean pizza place and had some buds.

the rest of the time at my cousins was uneventful with me and dean just playing more than 200 matches of very competitive street fighter, and 1 other thing....

pat punched dean. my cousins who are brothers almost got into a serious fight.

for the first time ever i saw pat punch dean in the face. over a fight about stupid food with stephanie. they were both intoxicated pretty much. i promptly broke them up and told them it wasn't worth it and our family is screwed up enough.

afterward for the first time i had an actual talk with stephanie. she promised me she'd lay off the drugs. she promised me she'd try to shape up. i told her not to bullshit me, and she said she wouldn't. i trust her to keep her word to me, maybe not to her brother's, but to me. then we'd go hang out this weekend at hurricane harbor or something. she's just 16 and she's done every drug imaginable. told you our family was fucked up.

i told her a lot of other things and i finally got an answer to something i have wondered all my life about her and my uncle.

anyway i'm glad to be home and with some halfway normal kids that just splash me with water instead of hard family truths.

whatever happened to todd? after mimi got to hermosa, he was just gone, and thats the last i saw of him. safe journey, todd.