Joanna: So you wanna hear my story? — she asks this standing outside the classroom last night during break, just shortly before dr. allums walks back from his office to interrupt us. he calls her on a habit we all seem to have: “do you realize we’re always going around doing that to each other? one of us is constantly saying to another (pointing his finger menacing), `i’ve got a book you need to read’. right. like any of us ever have time to do that.” it dawns on me later, most people talk about sports, or movies, or restaurants.…
My hair is green. It’s not usually green, of course. It’s just sprayed green now for my part of Emerald City Denizen #1 in my school’s production of _The Wizard of Oz_. The director told me, “I’d dare you to go to school like that, but I know you would!” I did, actually. Yesterday, I went straight from the performance to school, having removed only my costume and makeup (and redonning my street clothes, of course). Dr. Garner, the straight-laced dean of humanities or something like that, looked up, caught sight of me and my emerald noggin as I entered…
augh. Sick… I’ve been up for about half an hour or so. Took a shower and got on here. Now I think I’ll go back to bed. Last night was bad. I finally got up and emptied the contents of my stomach around 4. There was a lot there from 8 the night before, which my mom took to mean a stomach virus. I’m pretty sure it’s the flu. Coldy with headache and vomiting. I dozed in the easy chair downstairs, threw up again an hour later. Then when everyone else got up, I was banished to my room. Mom…
Hmm.. Mom woke me up. She told me to stay off the line for anhour. I dunno why. They were eating supper downstairs. ButI kept getting knocked off or someone would pick up the phoneno matter where I logged onto. Mom would yell upstairs,“Joanna! I need the phone!” Or she wanted to do aflashsession on AOL or something. Everyone gets jealous of me. I have e-mail waiting whenever Ilog on. To just about anywhere. The AOL thing blasts out“You’ve got mail!” everytime I check. I tried to lower thevolume, but I couldn’t quite figure it out. I tried removingthe sound,…