okay. for some weird cosmic reason, the past week was spent bonding with the high school people, specifically with the condemned ones.  let me break it down for you: tuesday: i spent quite a few hours yakking on the phone with nicole, talking about senseless things such as why the word 'manok' did not rank at the 'most commonly used terms to replace words relating to sex' list. yeah baby, good ol' honest-to-goodness bonding time! wednesday: for some reason i can't seem to remember what happened on this day. oh well. thursday: after our RLE's evaluation exam in the morning, i…