Because Dustin is into crossword puzzles (the ones that appear daily in the newspaper), Amie is now into crossword puzzles. He let her work on one at his apartment, and now she’s hooked. Of course, he’s way better at it than she is because he’s been doing them for a long time, but that doesn’t change the fact that she’s determined to solve them.

So last night, Amie, Shauna, and I went to Ralphs just before it closed (at midnight) and bough a whole book of crossword puzzles. Then we went to Mae’s Cafe in Garden Grove (which is open twenty-four hours and serves excellent food for really low prices) and ordered some junk food and hot chocolate and worked on crossword puzzles. We quickly decided that the ones in the book were too easy, though, so instead we worked on one from the Saturday L.A. Times which we had purchased “just in case” on our way into Mae’s. It was so hard! We ended up only solving about a quarter of it during the couple of hours that we were there, and then we got tired of staring at the newsprint and called it a night.