My Best Friend

My best friend drives me crazy! We both play the same sport, and people are always asking us who wins in a match. I let her answer, and she always says, “Well, she wins most if the time, but I win when it matters, in the tournaments.” I don’t contradict this, because it is true—but it’s only true because I know her temper and pride and I know that when I beat her in a competition, it will ruin our friendship, because she has to be better than me in everything! I let her win in tournaments just so that we can be friends.

The last time we ran together in PE, I was staying alongside her the entire time. She ran so hard that afterwards, she was dry retching in the bathroom. But she still beat me, and my score, according to her, “wasn’t that bad”.

We are choosing high schools to go to now. I’m not applying to private high schools, but she is, because I didn’t like them and she did. We both shadowed our schools on the same day and we both loved them. I listened to her go on and on about how amazing this school was, and then when I talk about my school, she just starts lecturing me on how the school I chose “isn’t safe” and how I’m “going to get hurt”. The school is perfectly safe and I’ll be fine. Even if she doesn’t get into the private high schools, she’s not considering the one I’m going to. But she is considering the other private high school that has high pregnancy rates, drug rates and more anorexic and bulimic kids and kids who self harm. And the problem is she doesn’t even know if she’s districted for the school. So she doesn’t even know if she can go there. She’s supposed to be my BFF and support me and be happy for me like I am to her, but truth is, I think it might be a good thing we are going to different schools next year.

When Teachers Punish the Whole Class

Two kids were talking in class today, so we all got extra homework! Why can’t you just punish the bad ones?

My Sister, Part II

She acts like she knows everything. We recently got two cats and she said they need to stay in her room for a week to settle in. Really? They’re my cats, and you think I’m gonna say “YEAH, HOG MY CATS”?

And my mom said “no, let them explore their new home” and my sister said, “I KNOW MORE ABOUT CATS THEN YOU DO, MOM. THEY NEED A SAFE ROOM TO STAY IN FOR LIKE A WEEK OR TWO.”

Now I have to go another week until I can see my cats.

Cutting Your Nails Too Short

I really hate it when I’m trying to cut my nails to a decent length, but then somehow they end up so short it hurts.

Mourning

My grandma has been dead for almost three years now. Time is supposed to make you feel better, but why am I crying so hard I can barely breathe, and why do I keep hearing and seeing her? Why do I feel her playing with my hair? Why do I hear her telling me she’s always with me?

Waking Up Early

I’m a heavy sleeper, but since we changed our clocks for daylight savings, I wake up all grumpy.

Automatic Toilets

Come on, I’m still using the bathroom. Did I say I was done? I’m trying to poop and it flushes four times while I’m still on it. Then I stand up and and it won’t flush.

Annoying Animals Who Keep Me up All Night

Here I am about to fall asleep, when this cat comes out of nowhere and attacks my feet! I can’t sleep peacefully with this cat around!

Having Big Feet

It sucks. I wear a women’s size 11 and I’m only in 8th grade. I can never find any cute shoes. I wish I had at least a size 7. I feel like I have the biggest feet in school.

Teachers Who Mark Observations

I wrote down what happened during my experiment and my teacher marked it wrong. How can you tell me what I saw happen in front of my own two eyes is wrong? It’s an observation, which means you see what happens, then you write it down. Observations should not be marked, they are not facts.