I forgot to mention that I have discovered my super-power: Musical Prescience. When we were in Port Townsend, we were at the Public House I thought I heard Stevie Nicks over the bar speakers singing “Dreams”. It wasn’t, at first. No more than 10 minutes later, it came on. I accepted the challenge, and chose another song: Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”. The next day, our next meal, it came on while we chomped down on barbecue. I relish in my new-found power.

While musical prescience may never help me save the world, I know it will continue to power me through minor and major disapointment, including getting my second rejection letter of the application season, from Seattle University. That’s it for Seattle, it seems, so perhaps next year we’ll be somewhere else, which is fine, because it’s likely we’ll end up back here anyway, and it will be fun to live somewhere else; I just hope somewhere else will accept me.

The next song? Johnny Nash: I Can See Clearly Now.

Or is it “Dentist’s Office”? I’ve been consistently biting the side of my mouth where my wisdom teeth have come in. I believe the term is “impacted”, but could very well be wrong, but the teeth came in very crooked, very sideways, and are moving the rest of my teeth out instead of i the beautiful (almost) straight order they once were in. I’m assuming they will find 10 or 17 cavities so I figured I’d surprise them about the wisdom teeth debacle. (Update: They never actually used the word “cavity” but I think it was pretty bad.)

All this by way of saying that I have a dentist appointment today. Last weekend Owl and I went to the Olympic Peninsula and frolicked in the sun riding bikes on the Olympic Discovery Trail and around Fort Worden. We heard someone say, “Let’s thank Jesus for such a nice day today,” which is the same sentiment we expressed, except a little less Christianized. The only problem was the Port Townsend Inn, which has paper-thin walls that make you susceptible to hearing old people have jungle sex.

Josh and Randa come into town on Wednesday. Friday, Owl and I will be helping out at 826 for the last Friday of every month shindig they are starting to have there. There will be a movie and possible movie trivia, which would be fun and could be disastrous. What movies are high schoolers watching these days?

Somehow, I was lucky enough to stumble into some tickets to the game tonight; for free (Thanks, LB). Despite the fact that my parents are coming into town, I will be there screaming in Owl and Amie’s ears whilst KF puts down a line of 0 Earned Runs and 147 strikeouts, shattering the single-game record for K’s, while being the only major league pitcher under the age of 20 to single-handedly put the Mariners in an automatic first-place for the rest of the season. I predict Johjima will pound another 109 HRs, silencing all those naysayers thinking his pace for the season will only amount to 108 dingers.

Then, I will go pick up my parents from the airport.

So see you at the game! I will be the one drinking seven beers and eating 10 hot dogs, yelling in Owl and Amie’s ears.