Apparently, Boris isn’t the only one who grew over the summer. Kenny also sprouted up a couple more inches. Except that Kenny doesn’t appear to have been doing any sort of weight training. So he just looks like the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz instead of Legolas.
Minus the pointy ears, of course.
Unlike the Scarecrow, though, Kenny actually has a brain. So he remembers all too well that the two of us used to go out. And that I dumped him for Michael. Well, technically, Kenny dumped ME. A fact of which he seems all too eager to remind me. He just went, “Mia, I hope you can put aside your personal feelings about me and allow us to work together in a professional manner this semester.”
I said I thought I could. The thing is, if I were still going out with Kenny, and Lana said something about him expecting me to DO IT with him, I’d have just laughed in her face.
But Michael is different.
The other thing is, what does Lana even know about college boys? I mean, she’s never even gone out with one! She could be totally wrong about Michael. TOTALLY WRONG.
I wish I had thought of saying this to her back in the jet line.
Kenny just asked me if I intended to spend this semester writing in my journal during class and then expect him to do all the work like I did when we were lab partners in Bio last year. Excuse me. I think someone is rewriting history here. I did NOT write in my journal during class last year.
Well, okay, maybe I did. But Kenny OFFERED to do all the lab work for me. And write it up afterward. I mean, he LIKES that kind of thing. And he’s good at it, too.
If everybody would just concentrate on their own personal strengths, the world would be a much better place.
I guess I’d better stop writing now or Kenny will think I’m taking advantage of him. And then maybe he will expect me to DO IT with him to make up for it.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ORBITAL MECHANICS—
SYSTEMATIC LONG-TERM CHANGES
Shape of orbit not constant circle—extreme ellipse over 100,000 years
Angle of tilt of axis varies—wobbles from 22 degrees to 24 degrees 30 over 48,400 years
Precession—21,000 years
HOMEWORK
PE: no assignment
Geometry: exercises, pages 11–13
English: pages 4–14, Strunk and White
French: écrivez une histoire
G&T: n/a
U.S. Government: What is the basis for Divine Right theory of gov?
Earth Science: section 1, define perigee/apogee
Tuesday, September 8, Assembly
There really ought to be some kind of constitutional amendment to abolish high school convocations. Seriously.
Because not only are they a huge waste of school resources (How many times can you sit and listen to some paralyzed dude talk about how he wished he’d never driven drunk? Hello, we KNOW.), but I’m also beginning to think convocations are just an excuse for teachers to take a break from teaching. I fully saw Mrs. Hill sneaking a cigarette outside the gym doors just now. I guess the front of the school isn’t the only place where we need surveillance cameras.
And any time you get a thousand teens in one room together, you just know there’s going to be trouble. Principal Gupta already had to yell at the varsity gi
rls’ lacrosse team for throwing Swedish fish at the kids from the Drama Club, who weren’t even doing anything, for once. Except, you know, looking weird, with their dyed black hair and facial piercings.