Hey you pachucos!!!!

THIS IS A POST FROM TOM!!!!!
yessiree, this is our second-to-last day in the wonderful town of houston.
this is a secret message.
so, this is it... no more luke and nina, no more jambalaya/hot sauce/barbeque, nuthin but shitty ol' australie. (for people, like laura, who don't YET know, jill and i have both decided to emigrate to the grand land of the south to pursue higher education. in what?!?! in "aus. lit." and "gis".) granted, i don't have much to say, but at least i'm not raging like this guy (pictured left).

anyway, just thought I'd like to share a few thoughts and tender feelings with you, my close friends. first, the movie bubble was pretty sweet. second, you are all invited to stay with us, but NOT at the SAME time. we like to manage our friends--laura and jacob staying together at the same time? fine. cory and phil? no. how about... luke and hinchey? or matthew and jordan? no. here's a shot in the dark: jacob, matthew and cory? sure. but luke, jacob and matthew? definately not. and any combination including phil, other than phil and sue, or sue and hinchey (well, that doesn't include phil, but anyway), i don't think will work. but then, strangely, cory, luke, hinchey, laura and jordan DOES work. so that's that. janes is always welcome in any company. moving on....

number three:

This guy to our left is an axolotl, not to be confused with ye ol' water dog. the water dog was viewed first hand by luke, jill and me (nina was out of the area) in san marcos, and was quite disturbing to see. i won't go into details, but just think about seeing this thing (to our left) in a normal aquarium--it was pretty sweet/freaky. anyway, these guys--phil, heads up--have an interesting genetic thing where they can regenerate limbs. they are in fact still in a larval stage, which is why they look so disgusting--that's just how they work. HOWEVER, if you introduce large amounts of.... (i won't tell you WHICH element in case you do it, but you can look it up on the internet), they WILL indeed go to a mature state and look like the average salamander. so... freaky.

Peace homies, keep it real. i will communicate further from the land of the south.