it's my birthday. for a present i got a plant, among other things. i hope it stays alive. i'll keep my fingers crossed.
if i can't, i think that'll mean that i shouldn't get a dog. if it was only me. but my mom's here. she has a way with dealing with dogs.
today i realized that i admire teachers very much. i kno i sound like a brown-nosing, gooey lil goody-goody, but i relle do. if you think about it, they devote much of their lives to...us. i don't think i would do that if it was me. i mean, is there something just so very compelling about our generation? or generations in general? are we crying out to be taught? "help us! help us!" either there's something very good or very bad about high schoolers. devoting your life to teaching kids who are only half listening and grading their papers which they prolly resent you for anyway. not much appreciation. why do so many ppl become teachers?? and retire to teach on top of that? or i guess not so many if there's a teacher shortage epidemic. but still, it's enough. or it's not enough, which i guess is the point. there must be some secret, though, as to why there still are teachers. maybe they just wanna brainwash us. they're hired by the government to brainwash us. but the pay is lousy, so they say. or so they say. but i don't feel brainwashed. i just feel...stressed. well not so much today. today was just like, yay, sushi! teaching high schoolers for a living...i can't get over it.
i realize i'm being very unjust to, um, well everyone. but all i kno is i wouldn't put up with a lot of the bs that teachers have to. ppl will go to any lengths to save their grades. which reminds me that my english teacher told us before finals that it doesn't matter what grade you get, it only matters that you kno you did your best. sounds kinda cliche, but he mentioned how some ppl kno the grading system by heart. and focus focus focus on just that. well you can imagine the relief with which these words fell on my grateful ears, after a whole semester of getting back grades and despising every one of them. i was convinced that the only way for one to be happy was to go to a place where the word "grade" was a swear. but ppl like swearing a lot, so that wouldn't even have worked. but now i kno all you have to do is ignore them!
now i kno that was a load of bs right there. ...oh well. hm, reminds me. my french teacher last year said it's unhealthy to shower every single day. but what are ppl supposed to do? but then again he said a lot of other stuff, too. i wonder if he...never mind. eek. i'll never get over what he said about leonardo da vinci. i can never watch Ever After the same way again, and listen to the old gray-white man say, "a life without love is no life at all." practically the whole movie is ruined. but not relle. there seem to have been a lot of...um...weird ppl in history. the weirder the better, they always say. or always seem to, anyway.
hehe, ya kno a funny word? "Waterloo" sounds like a toilet. i read a book where the entire balance of a space-time continuum rested on the battle of waterloo. or maybe that was only the pretend space-time continuum. hm, all i kno is that it was a very humorous book. you should read it. if you could read. but you're a diary, of course you can, or else i've just been wasting my time. ya kno what, i have been wasting my time. my sleep time. g2g, good nite.
~G2~