went to amy's house to give her lots of stuff (including a carpet-cleaning machine thingy). we made origami stalks and badges, although i hadn't printed out any pics of the hales bros. but when i do, (and bwahahahahahaha!) i'll be fulfilled.

ETA: completely downplayed the significance of the above for denial is not just river in egypt. there needs to be a last time for everything and that really was the end of an era. i'll miss you but i'll see you again. i won't put the lyrics up again, but there's this song and it's called Morning Blues and it's by this little band called RUTH...

had very, very fatty roast duck.

(canard gras?) can feel my arteries clogging up. just explained to my mother how I'm fifteen going on fifty five and that she needs to learn how to use a defibrillator because i can expect a heart attack any day now.

going shopping tomorrow. however, i am forbidden to purchase anything. it's not a spending money thing (although it sort of is), it's more of a "your suitcase isn't big enough" thing.

actually, if you analyse it, it is all about money. i can buy as much crap as i want and send it to my house via super quick, super expensive airmail. and once it gets there, if i run out of space, i can buy a bigger house. right. I'm off to win the lottery. 18 million will solve all my problems. if i invest wisely, i'll travel by concorde to London every weekend to see all my friends. and aqualung.

tried to copy little sketches of matt hales from the if i fall single sleeve early this morning (4am). first did his profile. before i tell you how it looked more like ben than matt (dammit i just did) i want to say how much profiles suck. the only case of an aesthetically pleasing profile is the queen, and that is only on coins when she was young.

i was going to tell you that my sketch of matt in profile looked more like ben, but i have already, so instead, i'll try to subtly link this to the thing (articulate much?) where everyone says they look completely different. from my little profile exercise, we can conclude that this is not the case. i don't want to over-analyse, but� who am i kidding? i love over-analysing. as alanis morissette once sang in All I Really Want, i don't wanna dissect everything today/i don't mean to pick you apart you see/but i can't help it. (and how many times have i quoted that to justify my so-called brain-juice? man, i love the grossness of that term.)

back to dissecting everything: i don't want to recall all my biological knowledge, and my selective memory isn't helping, but: meiosis split�s each chromosome in half. what if somehow (it's so beyond unlikely that it's pretty impossible) but somehow, two siblings get completely different genetic material from each parent because the gametes that make their zygote happen to be split exactly the same way, but they get the "different halves".

what I'm trying to say is that, say the mother's cell is split by meiosis into ova A and ova B. the father's cell is split into sperm A and sperm B. if sperm A fertilises ova A and sperm B fertilises ova B, then the two embryos that are formed would have inherited completely different genetic material from each parent. (of course they can still have the same genes.) in that case, one would be female and the other male. and anyway, that's so improbable it's impossible, like 0.9 recurring equalling 1.

YOU CAN READ AGAIN NOW. i just went on and on about something that has nothing to do with what i wanted to say. my point is that the brothers hales do share genes and that they do look alike, you just have to be a crap artist to see it. i don't believe i just said that i was a crap artist. I'm a Fabulously skilled artist. what i meant to say: you just have to do draw one of them and realise that the drawing looks like the other one to see the resemblance. it is there.

and ticca, it's unfair to say that matt inherited all the good-looking genes. i didn't say that it's impossible since i just proved it, because that would be assuming exactly half the genes are good-looking and the other half aren't. and anyway, how do you define a good-looking gene? beauty is completely subjective and is in the eye of the beholder. as a beholder, my eyes say that both matt hales and ben hales are beautiful. and that, ladies and gentlemen of the floor, is my humble opinion.

no wait, it's all wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ignore it. ignore it all!

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th since 5th october 2001