Misery loves company.

I am sick with what I believe is strep throat.

Isn't that awesome?

My dad has had strep throat since Christmas. Seems to be a recurring theme with him, actually. I can remember him not looking the greatest on more than one Christmas morning because of the great Strep.

You can have S.T for quite a while without having a flare up. Which is why it took him so long to go to the doctor and get medication.

My throat acted up for the first time on Wednesday, I believe. Then Thursday it dulled to just being scratchy. Then Friday, it was perfectly fine so, I asked mother to cancel my doctor's appointment for later that day. What's the point if you feel best kind, right?

Wrong.

Monday night I was in excruciating pain. I couldn't eat, couldn't drink, couldn't even sit there, without my throat erupting into pain. Then, of course, when I tried to go to sleep my ear decided to act up. I spent the whole night cringing while I swallowed and resting my ear upon a scalding hot water bottle. Needless to say, I didn't go to school this morning.

I e-mailed all the teachers whose class I missed today and almost everyone has e-mailed me back. So far for homework I have:

• A story of a cell's journey through the blood stream for Bio
• A worksheet of sorts, also for Bio
• A physics worksheet
• A small geography project

That's it, as of now. The story for Bio and the phsyics worksheet are not my main priorities. Although, the best story wins a prize. At the moment, the only thing from that list I would be able to accomplish is the biology story because I don't have anything else with me.

Anyways, I must go. I'm sure you're all enthralled with my strep story. (/No one even reads my blog)

If there is anyone out there who actually reads this sad excuse for a blog, check in because there will be another book review on the way!

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My heart is yours.

I am upset.

Last week was the end of my midterms. Thank-god. I struggled through the whole ordeal.

I got a couple of my exam marks back today and I am not happy to say the least. I won't go into detail but, let's just say that Geography is not my best subject. I should have gone with Histoire Canadien instead.

I'm interested to see how well I did on Bio 2201. I'm very nervous about it, though. I get my french mark back tomorrow as well. And I have to wait the whole day to get them, since they're both after lunch. I know for a fact that failing the french exam is a very real possibility. And I won't be surprised if I do. I am praying that I do not do as miserably as I am making up in my mind. I could even surprise myself and not fail. However, if I fail Bio, I will not be a happy camper. There will be tears. Bio is my favorite subject. Just writing about it now has me very worried.

It makes me feel kind of stupid that my best friends are all geniuses. They all got 90's on their exams. So the fact that my marks are dropping like flies doesn't exactly boost my confidence. Obviously I'm happy for them that they're doing so well. They were always smart anyways, so it's really no change. The change is that I'm doing a lot worse than I usually am. My overall average for Geography is now in the sixties. Sixties! I've never done that poorly on a report card before. Of course, this is my first year in high school. New things being done. I realize that. But it's still hard. And it really hurts when my parents are disappointed in me for the failure. I was the smart grand-daughter, niece, cousin. Now I'm the almost failing family member. It sucks. Especially since my mom is like, a genius. I feel stupid all the time now. I'm afraid to open my mouth for fear of sounding like a complete moron.

I have come to the conclusion that high school sucks. Life in it's entirety sucks. Ugh.

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Home.

Ah, this is the life.

I stayed home from school today, not because I was sick but because I felt the need to relax and have a bit of a boring day. Yesterday's events called for a day like today.

There was an assembly yesterday at school to remember the life of a boy who lost his battle to cancer. I never met him but I was still quite upset. There was a slide show with sad songs like Knocking on heaven's door by Guns 'N' Roses. Then our principal mentioned our missing teacher, Robert Banfield. That set my day up to be just wonderful.

So now, I am at home, drinking tea and playing computer games. It's a rather boring day that consisted of me eating nothing but vanilla cherry ice cream and chocolate but, it's great in the fact that it's very different from yesterday.

Off topic, my excitement for Christmas is rising. Me and my group of friends are exchanging our Secret Santa gifts on friday and then there will be less than a week before Christmas. My dad keeps teasing me about how my Christmas is going to be good but he's afraid that I'm expecting too much. I've chosen not to listen to him because a) I'll be greatful for whatever I get and b) two years ago he said the same thing when I told them I wanted season 1 of my favorite show Supernatural and it was very close to Christmas and the season was a bit expensive. I ended up getting it and everyone was happy.
I haven't peeked at any of my presents this year, either. I'm determined to keep everything a secret until Christmas morning. Not counting the traditional one gift me and my little sister get to open on Christmas Eve. :)

I will leave you now to go play more computer games (Oh, I'm cool, I know)

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*If you are in the St. John's area and have any information on Robert Banfield, please contact the RNC or Crime Stoppers.

He is described as 5'3" tall, 145 pounds, brown eyes, bald and clean shaven. He also frequently wears a red jacket.

Get Well Soon

Get Well Soon

This book is about 16 year old Anna Bloom who had just been admitted to a mental hospital by her parents. She was depressed and stopped going to school for fear of one of her panic attacks. She also has Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which is directly related to her panic attacks. The whole book is her writing letters, which she never sends, to her best friend Tracy, telling her about everything and everyone in the hospital.

I loved this book. It was surprisingly upbeat and lighthearted. It made me laugh, which is rare. It was just an all around good book.

The only thing I didn't like was that near the very end, she randomly switched from her letters to Tracy to just plain old narration. It was a little confusing. But, in spite of that small fact, I loved it.

I give this book 4 1/2 stars. It loses half marks for me because I don't think it's a book that I'd read again. At least not anywhere in the near future. And I would only not read it again because the jokes are old now. I read them once, I remember them, that's it. End of story. Once the jokes and puns vacate my memory, I will deffinately read it again.

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Gay rights.

I am not gay. I love men and everything to do with them. But my good friend Krash's latest blog post [http://wastoidz.blogspot.com/2008/11/you-can-take-your-tolerance-and-shove.html] has me inspired.

In grade nine, I wrote a speech on gay rights. A speech I never got to read aloud. But damn, I wanted to. I wanted to share with my classmates my beliefs, my feelings. Statistics about the gay population.

"...gay teen suicide attempts are four times that of heterosexual youth."

That was copied and pasted from http://gaylife.about.com/od/gayteens/a/gaysuicide.htm
Doesn't that turn your stomach? I know it fucking rots me.

I don't really know where I stand on a lot of important issues (i.e. Abortion) I'm just a confused 15 year old girl. But I do know that this Proposition 8 bullshit and everything surrounding it rots me.
If these people want to be with someone of the opposite gender, let them! It's not hurting you. You don't have to even look at them if you don't want to. Turn your head. Stop being so goddamn selfish.

With this, I leave you. I'm too pissed off to continue.

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Spider's Song

Spider's Song

This book is about AJ, a troubled girl who lives in Yellowknife. She lives with her grandmother while her mother, Cherry, is going to school. She has a blog called The Cherry Blossom blog and it is here that she talks about her life and follows a code for her moods. More often that not she's in code yellow. There's also a code blue, green, and, the code for her cutting urges, red.

She's ashamed of the fact that she cuts herself and she's trying to stop. She only ever does it once in the book; the rest being flashbacks.

She meets a busker at the local Caribou Carnival and immediately finds out he's her father. She keeps it a secret from everyone and brings him to stay at an abandoned shack that she used to go to for when she cut herself. The whole book is her trying to get answers from her 'father' Ed.



I have to say, the book felt like a bad fanfiction to me. But, it had a good hook. Everyone who asked me what I was reading, I told them I was reading a bad book. But, I couldn't stop because I had to find out what was going to happen. I knew there was something big going to go down between her and Ed. And I knew after that something big went down, she was going to spazz and go straight to what comforted her from the start; cutting.

The best part was probably fifty pages from the end. When things actually started getting interesting. The rest of the book really wasn't that great. Even the ending wasn't that great. It was left for a sequel, definitely. To be honest, I'd probably read the sequel. I have a tendancy to read bad books. Dangerous girls by R.L Stine, anyone?

I give this book 2 1/2 stars. Deffinately not the best book I've ever read. But if there ever was a sequel (or maybe there already is one that I don't know about) I'd probably check it out of the library. Or buy it second hand like I did this one.

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Blab

Hello.

It's been a while since my last post. And I can tell you that virtually nothing of overly great importance has happened since.

Report cards were handed out. I wasn't ecstatic but it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. I'm upset with Bio mark. I like Bio, quite a lot, actually. So, I just thought I'd be doing better. Let's keep our fingers crossed for next term.

I've had Animal Farm and A Christmas Carol passed to me for English. I haven't finished either, which is surprising because they are 98 and 76 pages each (approximately). I think, honestly, it's because I was told you have to read these books by these dates. I don't like being told what to do, especially when it comes to reading. And, weirder yet, they are two books I'm pretty positive I'd like. I had wanted to read Animal Farm even before I knew it was going to be a book we were going to be working on. I like taking my time when reading. Otherwise it takes the fun out of it. I think that's why I haven't joined a book club.

On the topic of books, I'm finally coming to the end of Spider's Song, so stay tuned for my review on that. I stopped reading for a couple weeks because there was a not so interesting part. It always happens to me. I start a book and stop mid-way because there's a part that doesn't hold my interest. I don't think the review will be anything great, guys. Unless the ending is amazing.

Tomorrow, 6:25 pm, I will be sitting in a movie theatre with popcorn in hand, settling down to watch Twilight. I have to say, friends, I am not very excited. At all. It honestly looks like crap. But, when I get home, I'll probably post a little blurb telling you what I thought. I'm really really hoping it exceeds my expectations. Twilight was my favorite book of the four and I will not be all too happy if it is ruined. Because, well, I like the book but, it is quite overrated. Just like Harry Potter. I know, everyone loves, HP! Well, I don't; not really. I think it's overrated. Everyone's too obsessed with it. But, even though I do quite enjoy the books, Twilight is just as overrated as Harry Potter.

I will shut up now. Leave the rest of the blogging for another day.
As I promised, I will be back for a Twilight and Spider's Song review!

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