Jillangill is 12!
Year 12 was very traumatic for me. I was just starting junior high and on the first day of school got dumped! So awful, and my little heart was broken. Yes, this was back in the days when going out with someone meant absolutely nothing, and you get dumped by way of the guy’s friends. The journal entry I’ve chosen for you today involves one of the more humiliating events of my junior high career, or at least, it seemed humiliating at the time. The back-story is that I’d just found a new dude, Adam, to have a crush on, and I’d just learned that my favorite teacher was moving (she was replaced by a really large, unpleasant woman who used to make mumus out of the school shirts for spirit day).
Wednesday, 9:36 p.m., September 13, 1995
Well, today was kind of a let-down day. Nothing special happened between Adam and I, and tomorrow I have to turn in two big assignments, have a chair test in F major in band, and I have to study for a quiz in math. But now I’m going to tell you about the biggest let-down of my entire day. This has to do mainly with Mrs. Barnett. Ok, Jennifer and I always go to the library during Reading, because we just need to talk to each other and stuff (since the only other time we see eachother is lunch). Anyways, two girls named Ashley and Sarah were there too. Now, I don’t want you to get the wrong idea, Jennifer and I don’t always go to the library to fool around, but that day we were. Well, we decided to play hide-and-seek for a while. Jennifer was “it” and I hid over by where Ashley and Sarah were. They asked what I was doing, and when I told them they said that I should be going to the library to read, not play. Well, hide-and-seek gold old really fast, so me and Jennifer decided to play with the computers. We were looking up Psyco Hosebeast, when one of the librarians came and asked us what we were doing. Jennifer said that we were doing a report on Psyco’s, and she kicked us out. Now, I had almost reached the classroom when I heard someone say my name, I listened closer, and sure enough, Sarah and Ashley were tattling on us (very mature, don’t you think so?) I mean, they were acting like stuck-up first-graders. Anyways, by this time the whole class had heard. I was so embarassed. Mrs. Barnett gave us two speeches (that I’m sure the rest of the class heard) and now we can’t go to the library from that class ever again. How unfair. (frowny face)
Ah yes…I remember this well. Being yelled at by your favorite teacher in front of the whole class does sting. But I love how me and Jennifer (my best buddy) were running around the library, then I was pointing the “how immature” finger at the other girls for telling on us. Granted, tattling? Really? What’s up with that? And lastly, it’s no wonder nothing came up for “Psyco Hosebeast.” We totally spelled it wrong! Those librarians were such kill-joys. Props to Jennifer, wherever she is, on the quick thinking about the report on “Psyco’s”. Totally believable.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Hahahahaha, good story! As always, thanks for sharing
October 27th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Wait, was psycho hosebeast actually something or was it just completely made up? I’m not sure I ever used the library as an excuse to ditch class, especially to go and play hide-and-seek in. You guys had computers in the library when you were 12?? Makes me wish I had lived in a school district where the newest building was not built in 1925…
November 4th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Haha–psycho hosebeast was made up…more accurately, it was a made-up insult we used.