Jesse got in the shower late last night and so he asked me to blow dry his hair so it wouldn't look all crazy in the morning. While I was getting the hair dryer out he was going a million miles an hour in the bathroom with me. You can definitely tell when his ADHD meds wear off. He was doing the talking thing. What came out was a long story about how when he grows up and has a cat he's going to get out the hair dryer one day and use it to blow dry the cat's butt. "And it first, he won't like it, but then he'll get used to it," he said. And I doubled over laughing. I had sort of been half listening to him, and he was talking so fast that it took my brain a few seconds to catch up with him and then comprehend the whole story he'd been telling me. "That's a really interesting plan, Jesse." And then he got the giggles. And we stood in the bathroom laughing hysterically at the idea of a blow dryer and a cat butt coming together one evening in the future.

Later we were reading together and he came to a passage that mentioned a car accident involving black ice. "What's black ice?" he asked. "It's ice on the road that you can't see very well. It looks like road." "How does it cause an accident? Do people run into it?" "No, it's slippery. Like a skating rink." And then he started giggling and explained that at first he was picturing a wall of black ice that people would slam into with their cars. Earlier while reading he had read how two character had "exchanged looks" with one another. "I always think about their faces swapping places when I read that," he told me. He is truly a visual kid. And those visions are very odd.

Weekend plans: SkooterPie and I are seeing "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" tonight with Ron and his lovely wife, Bethany. Then Saturday night the superb trivia team Big Jim Slade will face off against other Memphis teams in a $1,000 trivia tournament. Sunday night I'll probably be watching the Tigers lose another football game. I'd skip it, but they're retiring DeAngelo's jersey, and I really want to see that.