I want to tell Michael how I feel about him, but I can’t do that either.
I can’t even quit biting my fingernails. I am going to gross out an entire European nation with my bloody cuticles.
I am a pathetic mess. No wonder in the car this morning—after I accidentally closed the door on Lars’s foot—Lilly said that I should really look into getting some therapy, because if there’s anybody who needs to find inner harmony between her conscious and her subconscious, it’s me.
TO DO BEFORE LEAVING FOR GENOVIA
Get cat food, litter for Fat Louie
Stop biting fingernails
Achieve self-actualization
Find inner harmony between conscious and subconscious
Break up with Kenny—but not until after finals/Nondenominational Winter Dance
Tuesday, December 9, English
What was THAT just now in the hallway? Did Kenny Showalter just say what I think he said to you?
Yes. Oh, my God, Shameeka, what am I going to do? I’m shaking so hard I can barely write.
What do you mean, what are you going to do? The boy is warm for your form, Mia. Go for it.
People can’t just be allowed to go around saying things like that. Especially so loud. Everyone must have heard him. Do you think everyone heard him?
Everybody heard him, all right. You should have seen Lilly’s face. I thought she was going to suffer one of those synaptic breakdowns she’s always talking about.
You think EVERYBODY heard him? I mean, like the people coming out of the Chemistry lab? Do you think they heard?
How could they not? He yelled it pretty loud.
Were they laughing? The people coming out of Chemistry? They weren’t laughing, were they?
Most of them were laughing.
Oh, God! Why was I ever born????
Except Michael. He wasn’t laughing.
He WASN’T? REALLY? Are you pulling my leg?
No. Why would I do that? And what do you care what Michael Moscovitz thinks, anyway?
I don’t. I don’t care. What makes you think I care?
Um, for one thing because you won’t shut up about it.
People shouldn’t go around laughing at other people’s misfortunes. That’s all.
I don’t see what the big misfortune is. So the guy loves you? A lot of girls would really like it if their boyfriend yelled that at them between first and second period.
Yeah, well, NOT ME!!!!
Use transitive verbs to create brief, vigorous sentences.
Transitive: He soon regretted his words.