April Fools!

No, not really.

There haven’t been any good pranks at all today. I’m slightly disappointed.

Some problem came up with the garden today. The school district people want us to take down the fence that we built around it. It cost around $600 for all the materials and stuff, but they’re going to tear it down. All in the basis of “it’s not safe enough.” Instead, in it’s place, they will erect a 6 foot metal chain link fence. And guess what, it’s free of charge for us! Great, so what about the $600 that’s still invested in our white picket fence? Well, you see, that’ll have to just go away. Stupid adults.

Little dogs are cute. Little dogs that bark and try to attack you, aren’t. There are two such dogs in my court. My house is in between the two houses that have those two said dogs. Today, only one of them tried to attack me, the other stayed indoors and barked its head off. Keyword, “tried.” I’m really struggling against the urge to just lunge out and kick the dog. But since both households have two little girls, I can’t do that to their little dog. So I just throw things at it and scare it away. Annoying pooches.

College love is spreading around my high school. Seniors everywhere are chit-chatting about the college they got and the ones that got away. Some people are nice about it and don’t brag. Others are having fun rubbing it into other people’s faces that they’ve gotten accepted to every college they applied to. Jerks. It’s saddening to receive rejection letters, but see someone brag about getting into that school just really pisses you off. Unless of course, you honestly don’t give a care. Just a few more weeks.

Speaking of that, we have less than 50 days until school is out, less than 30 days until AP tests and a little more than 20 days until the new officers take over my club. It’s been a good four years with my environmental club. Ever since that one day during freshman year when I wanted to make a generic tree hugger club called “the Green Earth Organization,” and was shot down and forced to join the flower power club EPACT, I thought we’d get nowhere. Now that I’m the president of the club, with some awesome officers, we’ve done tons of things. Starting a recycling program at Leland and maintaining it for 2 straight years. Constructing a garden for the AP Environmental Science class. Visiting parks and trails to help clean up the trash. Man, I can’t believe we did so much. I’m really going to miss the club once I graduate. Of course, that doesn’t mean I won’t be visiting every now and then. Maybe I’ll start something like that at my college too. Maybe.

My friends are all slacking off. Their excuse is that they are second semester seniors and don’t have much homework to do. I, myself, am also a second semester senior. But I do have much homework to do. They must be doing something else. Maybe there’s a cheat code I have to enter that’ll give me less homework. Where to enter it?

War makes me cry. I don’t like crying. Especially at school. But seriously. I cry when I watch war movies. I have this odd tendency to get too much into a movie and somehow I can understand how much pain a parent feels when their son dies. Don’t know why. Now we’re going to read “The Things They Carried” and watch clips of Vietnam War movies. Joy. Not sure if books about war will make me cry, but I haven’t read it yet. I’m a big kid now.

Now for the quote of the day: “Welcome to the real world.”