I put up a fight about it, but Mary-E poked at me with pointy fingers until I gave in. In the end I'm glad I went because I would've missed Mary-E getting a monster fat lip and Ross coming urinal-to-urinal with his longtime crush, George Lagogianes. Plus, I caught up with an old friend, screwed my head on straight and met a new guy, Malachi, who later showed up…

The next noteworthy moment was when I received a 'naked-except-for-the- cowboy-boots' picture from a fan. Of course I had to bring it to school to show my friends, but somehow it ended up in Mr. Minetta's hands. He promptly handed it over to my vice-principal, who promptly called my parents, who promptly had a 'talk' with me about it. Except instead of the talk being about how I was grounded and porn was bad, it was about how I was off the hook and how porn could be good -- a theory they then supported with way too much information about their sex life. I'm still taking showers and trying to scrub that off. Then the next thing I knew, my father had worked himself up into a righteous free speech lather and was defending my right to 'good pornography' in front of my whole school.

Later on I joined up with Malachi and his group of activist friends and participated in my first protest - building a park in the middle of a busy city intersection to make a point about the lack of green space in the city. But I kinda screwed up and his friends ended up in police custody. Meanwhile, Mary-E's ongoing feud with the local crabby grocer had escalated in an ugly way, and she was in serious need of help. I tried to fix Mary-E AND Malachi's problems, but when I couldn't do both, I decided to stick by my best friend, which pissed Malachi off for a little while. But eventually, he came by my house and forgave me. And by "forgave me" I mean smooched me real good, so now we're officially "dating."