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Headache, Dry Cough

And forced to go to school because they are literally putting pressure on us(Nearly forcing us) to fill out college forms and want us to be all here today. :waah:

At least I found a 20$ I got at Christmas.... I'l be able to buy tylenols during lunch.
02-03-2009 10:37 PM
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aww - hope you feel bbetter soon.
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I hope so too. My mom don't even believe I feel sick when I got trouble walking straight Wtf

She just told me that I should have went to bed earlier(Which is what I did because I felt like shit yesterday's evening).
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poor you - i hate going to school when i feel ill, especially when you are doing something tedious like fillng out forms.
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Cough all over the teachers, desks, and people you dislike for the lulz.
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KitsuneSefam Wrote:At least I found a 20$ I got at Christmas.... I'l be able to buy tylenols during lunch.
If I know my shit, you probably won't be able to buy any Tylenol. Some pharmacies won't allow anyone under the age of 18 to buy any cold medicine, as they can be used to get high.
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KitsuneSefam Wrote:And forced to go to school because they are literally putting pressure on us(Nearly forcing us) to fill out college forms and want us to be all here today. :waah:

"Nearly forcing" you guys? What about the people that don't even want to go to college?

[flashback]One of the reasons my senior year was one of the most, if not, the most, depressing school year of my mandatory education career was because of all of the college shit, and in general shit about the future. People kept asking what I wanted to do with my life, which college I was going to, etc. I didn't fucking know and I didn't fucking care.

Now granted, they're only trying to "prepare us for 'real life'." Y'know the same thing every level of school does. Elementary prepares you for middle, middle prepares you for high school, high school prepares you for college, college prepares you for "real life (whatever that is)" and "real life" prepares you for death. Too much preparing and not enough living, but I'm going off on a tangent.

Like I said, granted they were only trying to "prepare us," but some things were just out of line. For example, at the beginning of the school year, my English teacher made an assignment in which we were to write "college letters" (I forgot the actual name of them). It was basically what you type and include with your application when you're applying for a college. Kinda like a resume when you're looking for a job.

I was pissed off about that. Yeah, I suppose that it was nice and convienient for people who were planning on applying for colleges, but what about people like me, who, God(?) forbid don't know what they want to do yet and therefore don't want to waste time going to college? Then it becomes a waste of time. I realized this then and decided not to do the assignment. But my grade suffered. Okay, so my grade goes down in HIGH SCHOOL for not doing something that has to do with COLLEGE? That's some great fucking shit right there. [/flashback]

Oh, and I'm sorry that you're feeling under the weather.
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KitsuneSefam Wrote:At least I found a 20$ I got at Christmas.... I'l be able to buy tylenols during lunch.
If I know my shit, you probably won't be able to buy any Tylenol. Some pharmacies won't allow anyone under the age of 18 to buy any cold medicine, as they can be used to get high.

I bought 120 tabs of Tylenols this lunch, some cold medicine and a bottle of pepto bismol. If they'd have refused, I would have bitched at them because we aren't in a communist country.

Wadekarl-> The career counselors literally harass students who don't apply for college and they keep telling us about college and how much college is important in our lives. And yea, we have a class for college and career crap and we have to do documents on what we want to do(Everytime it's about the same thing) later if we want our grades in that class.
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I didn't know WTF I wanted to do in college until... well, I never did figure that out actually, but I took a year off after school to at least pick something. The actual course turned out to be stupid but the people were cool. Point is... forcing people to pick is stupid.

How's your cold?
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LOLOL. Fucking school, trying to control the student's lives. I mean really, epic consistency fail.

You're all individuals and we respect your interests so you should do something like GET INTO FUCKING COLLEGE RIGHT AWAY NOW NOW NOW NOW.

I mean, the ignorance is astounding and the only reason anyone thinks like that is because they're all brainless sheep who have pre-programmed responses to everything.
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SoulRiser Wrote:How's your cold?

I feel like total crap this morning and I have trouble walking straight due to the same stupid headache. Gonna have to take tylenols again =|

EDIT: My mom still forces me to go, she don't want me to stay 'cuz "school is important and you can't sleep all week 'cause you have flu"
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aww, let me know when you get better.
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My dad let me stay at home today, he doesn't care as long as I keep having good grades :>_>:
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