"I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing." ~ Calvin

Shall I dive into hopeless egotism? Why not? Isn't that what xanga's all about? Well then, I shall have at it with complacent good grace. Favorite occupations: Pulling collective brothers' noses. Collecting clocks that do not work. Accumulating books that will fall apart in ten years. Burning Bagels. (Those are very twee -- each bagel has its own little flame! I highly recommend it as splendidly therapeutic.) Tree-sitting.

This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is who he has been searching for. This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story.