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I've tried to get in on the Girls Chase Boys game over the years, but most of the girls are only interested in chasing the POPULAR guys like Bryce Anderson. Every so often during Girls Chase Boys, somebody will yell out and flip the whole game.

BOYS CHASE GIRLS!!! It goes back and forth like that until the bell rings and it's time to go inside. The only problem with that game is they never say what you're supposed to do when you actually CATCH someone. I remember the time in fifth grade when we were playing Boys Chase Girls and I caught Cara Punter fair and square. Cara reported me to the playground monitor, who made me sit against the wall for the rest of recess.

I'm pretty sure the school called my PARENTS, too. I think the school realized there are some kids who have trouble joining in with the others at recess, so a few weeks ago they turned the bully-reporting station on the playground into a "Find a Friend" station. I always thought the Find a Friend station was a lame idea, but it's not like I have a lot of options these days.

I don't know if people didn't notice the blue like going off or if everyone was just too busy playing Girls Chase Boys, but no kids came over. I think Mr. Nern must've felt sorry for me, because he walked over with a box of checkers. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE MY FRIEND? I guess it was better than nothing. But I hope Mr. Nern doesn't think this is gonna be a regular thing.

Wednesday OK, you KNOW things are bad when even your little brother has more friends than you. A family with a kindergarten-age kid named Mikey moved in down the street a few weeks ago, and Mikey and Manny hit it off. The two of them have been hanging out after school every day since they met. Mikey loves to drink grape juice, and I've never seen him without a juice ring around his lips. So he always looks like a forty-year-old man with a goatee.

The only thing Mikey and Manny do together is watch TV. As far as I know, neither of them has ever said a single word to the other, but I guess something about their relationship just works. And even crazier than that, now GRANDPA has a girlfriend. I didn't even know you could still DATE once you got to grandpa's age, but I guess I was wrong. I probably shouldn't be surprised. Dad says that at