I know its been awhile since I last made a blog post, but I have been busy with school and trying to find a part-time job, so I apologize.
Anyway, heres what has happened:
I passed all my classes for the school year (even some with A's and B's)
Im trying to find a job so that I can afford to have my tech repaired after years of neglect
The public opinion of trans people in my town has gone from "meh" to "BURN THEM ON A STAKE" (well, not quite that bad, but we sure aren't popular)
So, good news, Im back. Bad news, I don't know for how long. My school work load has increased an insane amount and the tests are coming multiple per day, which means that I am studying most of the time that I am not doing the homework. My family is still at about the same level of abusive, so it is just barely tolerable. My friends have been fairly distant for the same reason that I haven't been on (being that I didn't have time to even get together on the weekends). One of our dogs has a cyst on her eye (no one is sure how that happened) which is causing even more chaos around here.
This week was destined to be insane, I have 5 tests, a report, and the PSAT all in the next three days, but shit got real today as I found out that one of my oldest friends (we have been friends for 4 years) ran away from home and tried to commit suicide last night. He is fine now and is safe in a hospital, but the fact that a kid who was always so happy could do so just took me by surprise.
Anyway, everyone involved is fine and some of the other kids from the website that we use contacted the police when he posted his suicide note.
So today i wore an old 1960's era USAF rain jacket to school... And promptly had the police on me telling me to never wear the jacket to school again... The jacket is just a elongated raincoat that is a dark blue. I was told that "it looked scary and it looked like i was 'military' and that offended people." Which is BS because it isn't like it is a jacket with high capacity pockets and weapons holsters... Its a damn raincoat/wind breaker!
Thanks "the news" for making large coats into a sign that you are going to kill people.
Yesterday, I was making a masterpiece of a mousetrap car for my physics class (I am in high school, and i know that it says +18 but I've been coming here since before that) and today i come home and decide to put on the finishing touches and test it. I finish the construction and test it once... The damn thing falls apart, so i try to fix it, but I keep burning myself on the hot glue gun. Then the lever to increase the leverage fails, which means more hot glue which results in more burns, i cut myself with the box cutter slightly, and it still won't stay together.
Well... Im finally a junior, but it is bitter sweet. It means that I only have a couple more years with the few friends that I have. It will also mean that I will no longer be able to see my sister. My mom makes sure to remind me of that almost every day. Now that I am a junior, I am taking AP classes, which fills up my schedule. I am always in the dark as to what is happening to the chat room... I am taking two AP classes at the moment, AP English III and AP US History.
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