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Kodak Moment
02/21/2004 1:09 AM JAKE GOT HIS FIRST DWS (DISCIPLANARY WANRING SLIP ) TODAY!!! It happened in Spanish class -- such a Kodak moment. People were bringing it up all day. Jake got away with not finishing all of his homework the couple of times he forgot in seventh and eighth grade, but today he couldn’t avoid it. He got the DWS because he didn’t complete the workbook assignment due in Spanish class. I’m going to tell Mr. Kocis about it first thing in the morning on Monday (if I remember). Kocis’ll probably be disappointed it wasn’t him who got to issue the DWS to Jake. The rest of the morning was pretty fun (and funny) because of that moment. After Spanish class was over, Jessica R. went through the halls and said,"Jake got his first DWS!” and before the start the next period, almost everyone in my grade level knew about the incident. At the end of Algebra class something funny happened. Everyone had finished their test and had turned it in, so everyone was at their desk working quietly, aside from the rustle of paper and the shuffling of books. Suddenly it got very quiet and then -BOOM!- thunder roared. No more than half a second later, the bell rang for the end of class. It started raining and a few more claps of thunder were heard. By the beginning of the next class, I was passing around the idea that the thunder and rain were signs that the world was ending now that Jake got a DWS. We students should’ve asked if we could check the weather channel to see if hell had frozen over. Even though people teased Jake for the rest of the day about that whole him getting his first DWS thing, he probably liked the attention. Whenever someone would make a clever comment about it and I laughed, he’d say to me (not in a mean way),”Shut up, you’ve gotten one before too!” which is true. But I’ve been at this school for ten years, and I only got my first two DWS over the span of the last two years, whereas Jake’s only been at this school for three years, and he got his first DWS his third year. No, my whole day wasn't based around Jake's mishap -- it was just the most interesting thing that happened today. :P Well, I had a bad time at P.E. today. Because of the rainy weather, the class was stuck inside a classroom; but instead of our usual study hall, we were dragged into doing Tae Bo. Now I think I will forever hate Taebo because of Mrs. Stockwell and her stupid P.E. classes. We went through a Billy Blanks Tae Bo tape, and I did the stupid motions that made me look like an even bigger dork; and when the tape was done, Mrs. Stockwell wrote five names on the board and said those people weren‘t showing any effort. My name was listed. Everyone whose name wasn’t on the board could change back into their school uniforms while those who were listed had to put desks back in their original rows. (We did the Tae Bo in a classroom with desks, so we had to push the desks against the wall when the tape was playing.) I wouldn’t feel so bad if we just had to move desks back and be put on a guilt trip, but we also got points taken off our grade, which means I’ll be saying goodbye to my A+ in P.E. On the way home from school, I was trying to think up ways to avoid class whenever we have to do Tae Bo. I was thinking maybe I could hide in the bathroom through the period and sneak to my babysitter‘s car at the end of class, but that couldn‘t work. The school‘s so small that they would know I didn‘t show up for a class, and they‘d either ask me or my parents where I was or what I did, and I don‘t want to have to go as far as having to lie to them. So then I was thinking that I could text message my parents before a Tae Bo class and have them pick me up earlier, but that would take too much work to make it work. But now I’m feeling rebellious and thinking that I won’t even care about my P.E. grade from now on when we do Tae Bo. S’not like stupid P.E. is counted when averaging a grade point average anyway. Doesn’t Mrs. Stockwell know how much normal self-confidence I lack already?? Guess not, and I won’t be the one to tell her. People normally don’t see anything else except the for the cheerful Jeannette that is always willing to smile -- I don’t wanna seem weak or vulnerable when I can help it. I’m crying quietly right now just because I had the urge to do so out of frustration on the way home from school, and it’s making me feel a lot better. I have something else that pisses me off that I need to vent about. Buttons. Those 1” pins you can get at Hot Topic. I love those little things, and now my school has said they’re not allowed. That is completely fucked up. Those pins were the only cool things I really liked, and school is the only place I wear them to; but now that’s gone. So now buttons are added to the list of things not allowed. Here’s everything from the list I can remember from the top of my head: no gum, no patches, no sweatshirts unless they’re the crappy $25 ones you can buy from the school office, no CDs, no CD players, no cell phones turned on, no writing on your hand (you know how people like to write To Do lists on their palms), no hats, no beanies, no aspirin (all medicine you need to take has to be turned into the office before school begins), no magazines, and now to pins. I can understand why all that other crud wouldn’t be allowed at school (minus that stupid sweatshirt rule and the beanies rule [it can get cold even in California!]), but why pins?? Why can’t it just be only crude pins aren’t allowed?? Why all?? C’mon, let us have some some way to be able to express our tastes. Who thinks being a bunch of zombies will help a person grow up into who they need to be?? But I guess I have to laugh because at the end of the year when yearbooks will be handed out, my picture will be the first one on the 9th grade page, and there on my shirt will be my Clay Aiken “919” pin shining proudly. I will raise hell if they try to Photoshop it out. :P Oh, here, before I go, I wanted to post a picture. My friend Sarah likes to draw in the Paint program, and she’s really good at it (except when it comes to drawing people, she admits), so she made this and sent it so me:
It’s me and Clay! ^_^ How fun. Well, it’s about time I finish up this entry and go to bed. My pick-me-up lyrics for the night: And now I try hard to make it. Cuz we lost it all; And just FYI, if you are issued three DWSs, you get a negative. Three negatives equal a suspension, and two suspensions equal an expulsion from the school. That’s how my school’s disciplinary system is set up. And if you didn't get why Jake getting a DWS is such a big deal, then you don't know Jake. I guess you could call him a goody-two-shoes and a teachers pet, but at the same time he's pretty cool. P.S. Not like it makes any difference to anyone, but I updated my locked journal. :P
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