A Curious Girl: Update on my life: Love, poetry, and driving

Did you know that I am the only person in the whole of Diaryland who has Chris de Burgh listed among favourit music? Does that say something about me?

Hopefully this will be a long entry as I haven't written a decent one in ages!! So let's see.

Tuesday I sent a Valentine's Card to Mr. Ginger (Eric's cat) from my cat, Minnie. It read, "I'm feline on top of the world... 'cause I love you with all my heart". I got one for Minnie on Thursday, with a cute grey tabby on it, and Friday I got one for me from both Eric and the cat, which I thought was very sweet of him. I must send him a letter. He is a lovely person.

We had a Christian Union meeting as usual on Tuesday, going further with our outreach ideas. It is very interesting. There was a meeting Thursday lunchtime just for the people who are doing it, but I was ill. Damn. Felt crap on Wednesday, actually, but had to go in because there was a meeting about a poetry competition, I had to go to the optician's after, and because I had a Valentine's card to give to someone!!! (Guess who... er, sorry, forgot that I've already told you)

Went in Wednesday wearing tinted blue sunglasses, a cute frilly blue top that Abi got me on my baptism, blue jeans and my blue fleece. Sense a theme here? I like blue. It was the sunglasses that really stood out. It was really grey and miserable until about break, when it cleared up. The sunglasses were mainly to make it look like a nice day (blue skies, obviously) and I didn't need them later, which was good. I went to the Peterloo Poetry Competition meeting. It costs Ł2 an entry, and you can have a maximum of ten entries. Mrs. Leatt (don't ask me what her first name is, I haven't a clue) wants them in after half term. So I'll probably fork out for the largest possible amount, after all, I like poetry and there's three Ł100 prizes for 15-19 year olds.

Abi and I went to the computer room for a bit, and for some reason shared a seat at a computer. Abi did the gender test, and it turns out she's also a man. She claims she's a straight man.

She went to A&E (Accident and Emergency, should I use this abbreviation again) to do something about her arms. Interesting really, seeing as it didn't quite qualify for 'accident' or 'emergency' - more emergency, certainly, than accident. She said they were fairly nasty to her about it, so in the off chance that any of those nurses are reading this, DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE WHO DO SI. Ignorant people.

(All right, I was going to say "stupid bitches". So I just have. Erm. But that's prejediced - some of the nurses might have been male)

Just had dinner. That was nice.

OK, so when I was in the computer room I stayed for longer than I should have, and saw David moving through to D2, the Geography room, presumably on his way to registration with his form. Didn't have the nerve to call after him, and by the time I'd got the card out, he'd gone. Went to registration and then off to Comms, but I was quite early, so I decided to wander up to the main block to see if David was going to come out. Met Nicky instead, and she briefly did a 'good side'/'bad side' thing like on cartoons - you know, when a little devil talks in one ear and an angel in the other.

Bad side:(Viciously) Skive off! Skive off! Communication is a useless lesson anyway!

Good side:(Reasonably) You know, Communication doesn't really have much point. You really ought to listen to your bad side for once in a while.

Went anyway, and do you know that half the class bunked and I only found out one thing of value? Still, maybe it was worth it just for that. Anyway, I think Nicky met up with Liz that period.

Had IT after that, so spent it with Saz and Abi, who both had free afternoons, and caught up on the diaries I read. Abi showed me 'Feed the Model' on adiosbarbie.com and I got quite good at it. It was hilarious. And the site is pretty excellent too. At the end of the day, I saw Mariah coming out of D2 and rushed up to ask her if she'd seen David.

"He's probably in there" she replied, motioning back at her Geography room. I got the card from my bag (cunningly moved to a more accessible pocket) and nervously moved up to the door. "You can go in," Mariah assured me, and although I thought he'd probably gone, I went in anyway, to find him still sitting down. "Hi David. I'm an undying romantic. Happy Valentine's Day." And I gave him the card. I was going to say "hopeless romantic" but I think I prefer "undying." He took the card, and asked if he could add eyes to the smiling face on the envelope. I let him. I said a friendly goodbye, and left after having just about used up all my nerve. Got outside the door and announced to my friends "I did it!" Sara and I celebrated the most romantic Valentine's Day ever (She'd gone out with a Year 11 for 5 seconds) and Abi congratulated me. Mariah merely looked confused, and said as much. I informed her of my triumph.

Went to the optician's feeling high as a kite (what a stupid but amusing expression) and discovered that my left eye is fine, although my right one is slightly long-sighted. There was a bit of confusion over whether I needed glasses or not, but I don't. Phew!

Got home and felt crap. Mum said I looked a bit run down, and I felt pretty awful too, so I asked if I could have Thursday off, which I did. Felt exhausted after merely hanging the washing up (or maybe that was due to lugging it upstairs) on Thursday, but eventually started to feel better and so I watched the Braithwaites (how in the heck are they gonna get out of this one?) and went back to school on Friday. Spent my first free in the computer room (I'm beginning to detect a theme in my lifestyle) intending on writing a diary entry but couldn't log on for some reason. Cookies or something, I don't know. It just didn't work. After about ten minutes David came in, smiled and thanked me for the card. It was lovely, he said. Spent the rest of the lesson (all right, the rest of the day) grinning stupidly. Kept smiling at David too. And when I left, I said goodbye to him and we both laughed in that way that Year Sevens do when they have their first crush and they've just told their best friend to go tell their crush that they want to go out with them. Felt high as a kite again. And the weird thing was, I was kind of feeling guilty for feeling so happy. There are lots of obscure reasons, but they are all so damn complicated I can't be bothered to list them.

But what the heck. It was a nice feeling, and I might as well enjoy it while I can.

Went to GB and Matthew Richards held me back to give me his poem. As poems go, it wasn't too terrible (quite romantic actually, although fairly cliche), but for one thing it was written scruffily on a scrappy piece of paper (call me a snob, but if you love someone as much as he claims he loves me, you'd surely attempt to present it?) and for another thing we had barely exchanged two words until the disco. So I'm pretty certain he is deeply in crush. Anyway, I told him I was flattered, it was a sweet poem (what I could make out) but I still didn't want to go out with him!! I wonder if he knows I write poetry quite a lot? (Having overheard me and Chris talking about that kind of stuff?) If so, did he do it to impress me? Or did he not know and think that I would be overwhelmed by his poetical skill, and surrender myself to his total lack of capital letters and scrappy paper? It's a mystery.

Oh well. Everything was all right romantically until I had the unrequited love that I'm responsible for on my back. Oh, that was so damn annoying. So I avoided him at tuck, but felt a bit guilty, because I know that would drive me mad if it was me!!

Hospital was quite good today. Carolyn took my driving instead of Phil, and she isn't as used to me as Phil is, or maybe as a teacher she doesn't suit me as much. It was quite a good lesson, though, and she was very friendly. I'll have her next week as well. We did quite a lot, driving around roundabouts and along main roads and doing 4th gear, all of which are fairly rare for me. Met up with Mum in Chatham, and we did a bit of shopping for various essentials, and then went home.

Phew! How did you enjoy hearing about four days? I've forgotten a few things of interest.

Oh well, that's all for now then.

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