***UPDATE:***
cnn.com greeted me with this story this morning. weeeeeeird.



so i crawled into bed last night at an obscenely late hour after quite the ridiculous debacle (which included lindsey passing out in my kitchen sink, something that i still can't quite fathom). i pulled the covers around my chin, breathed deeply, and settled into the quiet darkness of my room.

all of a sudden, a shrill ringing echoed through my room. it took me a moment to realize that it was my cell phone. joel's name flashed across its tiny screen, and that could only mean that he had forgotten something, seeing as my house had been vacated literally five minutes earlier.

"what the hell do you want?" i grumbled.

"ohhhhh," he said, sympathetically. "you were already asleep." i muttered some sarcastic affirmative and gruffly repeated my demand.

"well, i just wanted to let you know that i saw a bear relatively close to your neighborhood."

"what?" i asked, slightly more conscious. i could have sworn he said that there was a bear close to my neighborhood, but that couldn't be right.

"yeah, just a little black bear on 11th and 4th. i called 911 and told them about it, but they asked me if it was bothering me, and since it wasn't, they didn't sound like they cared very much."

what?

i didn't know what to say. i was barely conscious, so comprehending the fact that there was a bear close to where i live was slightly difficult for me. the fact that nobody cared was even more baffling.

i hung up and fell back into bed, but i couldn't help but feel like i could see two beady little eyes peering through my screen.

maybe that was just the skunk that's been haunting 16th avenue recently. that fucker scared me so badly the other night that i shrieked and ran down the street like i was a six year old running from a flock of geese or something. i guess the only ones that will get that reference are those who know paul's goose story, but still... i ran like hell.

anyhow, i hope that none of my fellow duluthians were mauled by this bear.

actually, i really hope someone else saw it and i didn't just dream this up. joel, back me up. please. oh my god i made it up, didn't i?

ps: despite cameron diaz's superb ability to annoy the snot out of me and saturday night live's recent suckiness, tonight's episode is really not helping my intense crush on billie joe armstrong (and green day as a whole). seriously, when did he get this hot?

i will reiterate that i am not above being shallow.

pps: i tried to switch my comments over to haloscan tonight, but it really messed a lot of things up. any other bloggers use it and have some kind of feedback on it?