i restarted running every day. i'm trying to be hardcore about it so i can really knock out this half marathon that is approaching a lot faster than i had hoped it would.

i quit smoking kind of too. i mean, when i drink, i'll probably have a few, but i'm also cutting back on my drinking. mostly i quit buying cigarettes because i have to pay all those fucking bills and shit. fuck.

jx and i took defensive driving last night. it was alright. it was supposed to be six hours of hell so i could get a lower car insurance rate and jx could erase a speeding ticket from his record. however, now they have a thing called the "comedy defensive driving" where a local standup comedian teaches the class. it was alright, and we ended up getting out of class after only 4.5 hours. the guy wasn't hilarious, but how many defensive driving jokes can you make in 4.5 hours? also, it was at joe's crab shack. so we ate decent food. however, we couldn't drink. i don't understand why we couldn't drink in a defensive driving course.

i smoked out with a couple of jx's friends from metro the other night. they were a lot cooler than i remembered meeting them. i was alright with that. then jx and i realized that this was the first time we had actually smoked pot together. what the fuck. we had both smoked it many-a-time since i had moved to texas, and many-a-time before i moved to texas, but never together. it was a cute moment.

also, our defensive driving instructor was super into Mitch Hedberg. I was down with that.