For those of us who still spend unfortunate days in a school

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Back to school:

We know,

it sucks.

Today was the second day of school this year,

and I'm flat out exhausted.

My mind is tired

and so is my body.

Spending 7 hours in school is nothing. I've been doing that for years now.

It's the walking 1.7 miles home with a fifteen pound (or more) bag on my shoulder that really gets me.

I usually only walk home only about .9 or so miles, but because of budget cuts in our county (thank you very much, to all of you stupid people who voted against 3A and 3B. I get it. You don't want to pay more taxes. You don't give a shit about education or what this means for little kids, you're just trying to evade paying more money than you already do for your ritzy little house in the suburbs and fast little cute sportscar.) I now have no bus.

But hey, at least my bag will be a little lighter by the end of next week, I just have to carry everything I need for school in my bag right now, even when I don't need to take it home, because we haven't been assigned lockers yet.

I really really really hope my locker is in a good location this year.

I also hope it actually locks, unlike my locker last year.

Let me tell you, it was certainly interesting to go to my locker between classes to drop off a binder or something and find some random child I didn't know either putting their shit in my locker (when there's already limited room because I share with three or so other people [my locker partner invites her friends into our locker]) or just looking through all the crap in there, possibly for something they put in there earlier, or maybe because they are just bored and want something to do, like sift through other people's things.

who knows.

Anywho,
this year should be pretty cool other than my walking home situation.

Also because of budget cuts, we have shorter classtimes this year. which in the long run is bad because we have less time to cover material, but good in the short run, cuz I mean, it's way cooler to spend 45 minutes in class than 55 minutes in class.

Aaaannnnddddd, we have an open campus this year. Which means:

LONGER LUNCH! Yes! because they need to give time to people who leave for lunch to go someplace, eat lunch and come back. I don't have my license yet, so I can't go anywhere (there' nowhere close enough to our school to walk) but it's still nice to have a long lunch. And plus it will be nice when my junior/senior friends (or friends in my grade who can drive) are nice and drive me somewhere.

ha.

And also, I just have really good classes this year.

Theater 3, Hell yeah!

and Speech and Debate

and REGULAR english instead of honors this year. I took honors last year, so this year will be like a break. Sweet.

I'm also taking AP Euro, which, though it will be hard because of the material, will actually not be too too difficult because Mr. Patrick is cool (despite what I've heard from my friends who had him last year. That's just because he doesn't like freshmens or something.).

and so we actually take two weeks to cover a chapter.

Which is longer than I took to read a chapter of the textbook for the class as summer homework.

Sa-weeeet!!!

Exciting stuff man.

I have a feeling it's gonna be a good year.