Wednesday, September 30, 2009

SOMETHING I REMEMBERED FOR NO REASON

WHEN I WAS IN THE SEVENTH GRADE, THERE WAS AN ORIENTEERING UNIT IN OUR GYM CLASS, WHICH WAS A SHARED CLASS OF SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS. WE WOULD HAVE TO GO AROUND THE SCHOOL GROUNDS USING OUR COMPASSES TO FIND THESE HIDDEN FLAGS, THE COORDINATES OF WHICH WE WOULD WRITE DOWN AND HAVE SCORED BY THE TEACHER AT THE END OF THE HOUR. ON ONE OF THE DAYS, INSTEAD OF GOING OUTSIDE AND GETTING RIGHT TO IT, THE TEACHER GATHERED EVERYONE AROUND AND STARTED LOSING HER SHIT ABOUT HOW SOMEONE HAD RIPPED DOWN ONE OF THE FLAGS, AND HOW IT WAS SO FUCKED UP AND DISRESPECTFUL, AND ASKED EVERYONE WHO DID IT. OF COURSE NOBODY CAME CLEAN, AND SO SHE SAID THAT UNTIL SOMEONE DID, NONE OF THE EIGHTH GRADE GIRLS WOULD BE ALLOWED TO GO ON THEIR CLASS TRIP TO CEDAR POINTE AMUSMENT PARK. IN THE LOCKER ROOM AFTER CLASS, THE EIGHTH GRADE GIRLS WERE FREAKING OUT, AND FOR SOME REASON THEY CAME UP TO ME AND WERE LIKE "ELIZA WE KNOW YOU FUCKING DID IT." (I DIDN'T) "WHAT IS YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM YOU HAVE TO TELL HER YOU DID IT". BASICALLY THEY WERE BEING COMPLETE ASSHOLES, AND I HADN'T DONE ANYTHING, BUT THEY PRESSURED ME SO MUCH THAT I WENT AND TOLD THE TEACHER THAT I HAD RIPPED THE FLAG DOWN. ALL IN ALL IT WAS A REALLY STUPID THING, I MEAN, ANYONE COULD HAVE DONE IT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, UM, THE GYM CLASS BEFORE OURS, A RANDOM PERSON WALKING BY, THE CROSS COUNTRY TEAM...YEAH, I DON'T KNOW WHY OUR TEACHER WAS SO BENT OVER A FUCKING FLAG BEING RIPPED OFF A TREE (IT ALSO MIGHT HAVE FALLEN OFF?) BUT SHE WAS, AND SO WHEN I CONFESSED SHE TOLD ME I HAD TO WRITE A TWO PAGE PAPER ABOUT WHY WHAT I DID WAS WRONG. WHEN I GOT HOME, I TOLD MY MOM THAT I HAD TAKEN THE BLAME FOR SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO, HOPING I THINK THAT SHE WOULD THINK IT WAS NICE OF ME OR SOMETHING, BUT INSTEAD SHE WAS LIKE "YOU IDIOT" AND CALLED MY TEACHER WHO SHE KNEW PERSONALLY AND TOLD HER WHAT I HAD SAID. SO THEN THE GYM TEACHER BELIEVED ME, BUT I STILL HAD TO WRITE A TWO PAGE PAPER ABOUT WHY YOU SHOULDN'T TAKE THE BLAME FOR THINGS THAT OTHER PEOPLE DO WRONG.

THE END.

5 comments:

  1. WHOA.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUZ9crtonlA

    I think this means you're going to get a chance with Brendan. So lucky! Just don't tell him you already have a boyfriend, because then he'll say "What's his FUCKING NAME?" and it will break my heart.

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  2. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU'RE A GIRL OR BOY, MAN OR A CHILD, RICH OR POOR, FAT OR THIN. YOU SHOULD NEVER BE A GRADE-GRUBBER. THEREFORE, DIGNITY IS A GOOD QUALITY EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE."

    remember when he brings that girl a cookie and he's like "now can i come to your party?" and she's like "but this didn't even cost anything" :( :( :( :( I totally saw that movie by accident and it totally freaked me out because I was like, 12 and I'd never seen anything like it in my life, so I would just watch it every week.

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  3. Aw the cookie! I want him. I want him and no one else. Except maybe Edward Furlong, and Brad Renfro before he got chubby and then ODed. I'd take him chubby too. I'm boy crazy.

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  4. seriously you think he's a babe? i agree with furlong and renfro but sexton is no good for me, maybe it's just because of his character in empire records. what about devon sawa?

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  5. I think he's so hot. I like his speech impediment. On Empire Records too. But I don't like that movie as much as everyone else does I guess. I never got into Devon Sawa, just JTT, who I wonder about at times, but not enough to type his name into Google Search. I also really like(d) Ewan McGregor and Johnathon Rhys Myers bc of Velvet Goldmine and Giovanni Ribisi bc of his speech impediment, especially on First Love Last Rites. Babes! These girls I know have this blog

    http://babesareforever.blogspot.com/

    It makes me think of you.

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