For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details Part 3 — Page 168

dancing, I'm really sorry about your aunt. Meningitis can be really scary just because of that; people assume it's the flu until it gets that bad.

It's not just young children that do that; I never thought about what my teachers were like outside of school. I just found out last summer that one of my 5th grade teachers was a lesbian and her partner was my 7th grade gym teacher. She told us they were roommates; I never thought to question it. But once I did hear about it, it just kind of made sense.

My mom yelled for me to come help her with something upstairs and I told her I'd be up in a few minutes. Like 5 seconds later, my dad walks in the house. Instead of getting my dad to help since he's already up there, she's still yelling for me to come help her while my dad sits in the same room, eating dessert and watching TV. Unless it's giving birth, I can't imagine my dad is unable to perform the same task she required of me.

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*sneezes* Musical theatre is coming out my ears.

The only game I've heard of is the "choking game" in which kids choke themselves until they pass out or are close to, to get a high. A lot of things obviously have gone wrong with this game and kids do end up dying from it.

Posting about suicide on a message board read by many young people is never a good idea. There's a fine line between prevention and inspiration.




I'm freezing. Everyone else came home complaining how hot it was and would turn the AC up, and I didn't say anything then, but now I'm sitting here in a fleece blanket and shivering.

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Updated On: 7/18/06 at 11:25 PM

I'm in Chicago this week. My mom is here for business and I just came along. So, I'm stuck in my hotel room all day because we're in some random suburb-y part of Chicago, and I can't really walk anywhere.

We're going downtown on Thursday though. And seeing Spelling Bee, so that's exciting.

I've been going to the hotel gym and watching movies (American Dreamz, United 93, and Failure to Launch so far. Ask the Dust, Hard Candy, and V for Vendetta are planned for the rest of the week.) and ordering room service. It's not that bad.

The Hyatt Regency. It's pretty nice. I wish we were downtown though.

The mall close to it has an H&M, so that makes me happy.

You know, I really don't know her official title. I think it has to do with software development, though.