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Earnest what do you do to Percy when I'm not at home!?!? She misses you something fierce. I can tell cause she's buffalo stampeding across the house from doorway to box and she even tried to climb inside your shoe. What gives?

 
happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear earnest.............happy biiiiiiirrrrrrrrthdaaaaaaayyyyyyy tttooooooooo yyyyooooouuuuuuuu! ouch, 25.....

 
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It's my birthday! Twenty-Freaking-Five! I love it! That's a lot of exclamation points!

 
It's my birthday! Twenty-Freaking-Five! I love it! That's a lot of exclamation points!

 
I agree with you to an extent. I recognize the difference between excessive drug use and experimentation. I even recognize that there is a difference between pot and heroin,for instance. But I don't think it takes a certain personality to be a drug addict. Pot doesn't build a physical addiction in anyone, people who are addicted to pot only have a psychological "addiction," and that requiress a personality type. On the other hand, many drugs create a physical addiction which happens on a level that the mind doesn't have the same control over. I agree, though, that Melanie has a personality which makes her more likely to do those things in excessive amounts, but no one is really immune to many of those drugs' addictions. But she's out, and hopefully Kam and Marissa are on the way in. If we can find an apartment or house for less than 1600, we'll break our lease here.

Another job fell through. BLAST! Don't they know how much I really, really want these jobs? Even a 99-cent store around the corner wouldn't give me an interview!


Bad news for Daddy Warbucks. The McDonald's deal fell through, so there will not be any Daddy Warbucks action figures in Happy Meals next Spring. That makes me sad.

 
mr. pettie, not to beat a dead horse or anything - BUT.......

drug indulgence is different than drug experimentaion. your ex rommate is two hits away from addiction. you know what i'm saying? yes, i was a pot head thoughout some of college, it wasn't experimentaion once i started to do it on a daily basis. i experimented with opium once - and never again. ask claire if that makes sense to her. it takes a particular personality type to be addicted to drugs. i was not addicted, i was even a modest head at best. but when one does crack or coke or whatever more than once a week, there's trouble. an addict cares only about one thing - a fix. now i'm not saying your girl is an addict, i don't know her. but she intimidated the hell out of me every time i talked to her, and now i know why. we were very different. her disregard for her living situation is unfortunate for her and for you - not beacue you'll be losing her, but because you'll be losing her money. i don't think you were wrong to harbor any fears about her as a person, and i think that looking at how she lives her life says everything about what kind of person she is.

put an ad in the paper for a rommate. you'll get responses, maybe you'll meet a person from cali!

 
JJJ, I do get mad, but I realize that most of the time, being mad is a waste of energy, like when I was mad at Amy's cat for pooping on my bed. What am I going to do? Give the cat 40 lashes?

I admit I wasn't excited about Melanie's moving with us. The night that Claire and I stayed in Melanie's room on graduation eve, I spilled all my fears about Melanie to Claire, but she insisted that I was letting my worries about Mel's drug indulgence color my opinion of her as a person, and that she could end up being a great roommate. But I think when you're the kind of person who would experiment with crack that that illustrates a major shortcoming as a person! Am I mad at them? If I could spit venom, I would. I have to credit Melanie with making it possible for us to afford moving out here, but that's the only thing I will give her credit for. I don't even want to be here when they move out.

Congrats on making the Daddy Warbucks page your primary blog. Tell Mike that I've got a Daddy Warbucks reunion tour in the works, but I don't know whether Peter Gabriel will be available to open.

 
Earnest Pettie! upon reading Mellifluence - as i do most days - i don't know if i have ever heard such a tone in your words! i'm a little shocked, a little sad, but mostly spilling over with pride! someone has walked all over you and you're angry about it!!! i'm glad you have amy with you. i know that the 2 of you have enough inginuity to pull it off. whatever this "lead" is you talk about - attack it. you've got no choice now but to become the best earnest you can be! i'm not going to say i told you so about your ex-roommie....which i should!!!!! :) but you know well enough now, and it sucks that you had to find out this way. you are living the dream, this is what all of the famous people talk about. and soon you'll be one of them, with a special someone - me - living in your basement!

 
Daddy Warbucks has risen again...sort of.....i am the only one that does anything though. mike said you've done a great job being our manager!