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Okay, so today was really weird for me, so weird that I actually have to write it all down to make sense of it. I usually don't talk about my problems or school issues or whatnot, but this time I think I might have to.

For starters, I get to school and go to my gym class first hour. The teacher calls us to the middle of the gym and tells us something horrible: a student from this past year's graduating class has died. They said the student's name and since everything echoes in a gym, the name was unclear. I got scared right off the bat because the name sounded dangerously close to one of my best friends'. I asked the name, and I was told it, as well as the fact that the student was a boy. My friend is a girl, so I breathed a sigh of relief, but I still felt horrible because of the news.

During my lunch hour, a friend tells me about this story:

You are not going to believe this...

After reading this article, I was appalled. What kind of a school would do this?

The last class of the day, my English class comes around. My teacher was really upset because the deceased student was in his class as well as on the academic team that he himself coached, so we just sat around and talked for the entire class period. Which was nice, but for all the wrong reasons.

Then I go home and listen to the normal everyday fighting (which shouldn't be normal but it in fact is and that pisses me off.) I don't have homework, also a usual (because of the aforementioned fighting my house is not a good working environment and as such I have taught myself extreme time management skills, but I digress.) As I'm about to settle down and relax, my brother calls me upstairs. We've had crappy weather all this week and it's been raining recently. We go outside and there's this huge rainbow encompassing a majority of the sky in front of our house, and it's a full rainbow. Not half of one, not a section of one, a full rainbow. I nearly started crying. My whole life I've believed in miracles, and I think that maybe that was the student's way of saying that he was okay. I'm not really a religious person although I do believe in God, but that's just how I looked at it. I didn't even know the kid but I'm still really upset.

On the plus side, I found out that I can use an anime series for one of my school projects, which is pretty darned cool. 3nodding


But yeah, so...that's it. I apologize for taking up part of your day with stories of my day's weirdness. sweatdrop

That's what I said! I was so mad when my friend told me about it!!
One of my other friends said something along the lines of "You can't help but be who you are. All our lives we're told to do just that, but whenever you do, you get in trouble," and I agreed with her.
Oh the fighting? Pish, I've had to deal with it from a young age. Only recently did it start to bother me. That's why I just hole myself up in the basement and stay online with cool people!!! =D

EDIT: Oh, and another thing with regard to the article. It mentions crossdressing, right? Well what if someone wanted to crossdress but the school wouldn't allow it because it was a stereotype? That would really piss me off, cuz right now my avi is crossplaying (kudos to anybody who knows the word lol) and I'm not...you know....

O-O'''

Oh. My. God.
Are you serious?!?! ...Wow.

And I think you've just put some of my innermost thoughts to light! XD

...pressed for time but still wanting a say in this, even though its shortness is emphasized by Lorika's long post...

I read the article as well...thank god my school's better than that(that and the principal is my dad's hunting buddy!) . I wholeheartedly agree that ignorance and blatant stupidity shouldn't be allowed like that. Old people are out of touch with the reality of change and open-mindedness...HEAR THAT US GOV'T? Yeah, I'm talking to you!!!

and if the school did it to 'protect the other students' or something like that, Bah upon them....I would have been weirded out were I there, but not in need of 'protection' that I could care less for.

Also:
Hurrah for anime+project=awesomeness!

Also squared:
I just remembered that my English teacher made us read sci-fi stories for a while in class because, 'reason-I-can't-remember'..I think it'd be cool if they forced high schoolers to read a volume of manga..just because, ya know?

-has read Loirka's recent posts-
...I think I hate schools now, because that never-hurt-a-fly kid was probably really smart, and his perfect record just got shattered because some elitist b*****d had money

If only this world developed a cure for the common a**...or better yet, it was the olden days again, where a jacka** egotist could be solved with a hired assassin or poisoned wine...

am I an anarchist?

@Lorika: Yes. Yes it is. XD

@Maborofel: I agree with everything you just said. *applause*
I think it's "Welcome to my Life", with an underlying theme of "Uprising" by Muse for the future....mwahahaha! twisted

EDIT: And they should allow students to read manga! Heck, I bet some people, even those who don't normally read manga, would like it better than some of the depressing and effed-up crap we're forced to read...*thinks of 1984 and shudders*

EDIT EDIT: For those who've read the article I linked, there is now a lawsuit being filed over it. Good for them!