Aha. So, I was at school today as national law unhappily says, and - well, wait. That's not exactly how my day started. I suppose I'll have to begin at the beginning :
5 : 30 a.m. - Radio alarm goes off on the highest volume, shedding hazy static - like sounds throughout my room. Not wanting to get up, I push my pillow over my head and somehow fall back asleep for ten minutes, snoring gently.
5 : 40 a.m. - Realize radio alarm is still going off and, somehow, even more insistently. I drag my mis-matched pajama clad body, deftly picking through the war zone that is the floor of my room (I swear I've forgotten what color the carpet was, I think it's gray, but that's beside the point) and without opening my eyes turn on the faucet only to scald my hands with boiling water. Cursing and fumbling with the tap to put it on cold, I open my swollen eyes to only see an amibiguous white blob. It seems I had forgotten to take my contact lenses out last night, and now I couldn't see. Wonderful. I splash my face with the now thankfully cold water, and shuffle back, blind, to my bed. I fall instantly into a dreamless slumber.
6 : 04 a.m. - I stare at the blurry clock and roll back over. I still have a few minutes to sleep. I don't have to leave the house until 6:35. Pleeenty of time.
6:22 a.m. - Gaahhh! I'm supposed to be fully showered, dressed, put together, and eaten breakfast in 13 minutes! From sheer horror I leap out of bed and skid, Tom Cruise style in 'Risky Business', into the bathroom. I frantically rip off my clothes and hop into the shower, furiously yanking the tap upwards. Right on to the hottest setting. For the second time this morning. Yelping, I jerk it to the cold while scrubbing myself with Irish Spring soap. My hair sopping wet, I flee back into my bedroom five minutes later and attempt to drag a comb through my tangled head. Eight minutes left. Hair is finally combed while multi-tasking and brushing teeth at the same time. Five minutes. I look in my closet. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I've forgotten to do the wash! Frantic, I dig through my hamper and find the best smelling pair of jeans and shirt. Two minutes. I run back into the bathroom and pat on powder and quickly start applying eyeliner, which I poke into my eye twice. I put on a pair of flip flops and grab my folder, purse, and a slightly questionable looking raspberry poptart. Eight thrirty five! I run to the bus stop, gasping.
Of course, the bus is half an hour late. Oh, the irony. At least that gave me time to gnaw on my questionable poptart.
7: 36 a.m. - The bus arrives six minutes after class has started and I slide quickly into my seat as my Chemistry teacher gives me a glare. It seems today we are doing a lab on the solubility of sugar (oh, I can't wait!). As I walk over to my lab table, my stomach starts to jump around strangely and I find myself having little eggy burps. Concerned, my friend Tina turns towards me. "Are you ok?" I nod, focusing on the slowly dissolving lump of sugar. I am ok. Right?
7: 46 a.m. - I am going to throw up. It's like my stomach, intestines, and bladder have opened their own three ring circus and are doing acrobatics inside my body. It's that damned raspberry poptart. I knew it! I knew it looked questionable! I attempt to continue the sugar lab but it seems the best I can do is sit, willing my stomach to obey my thought not to unleash poptart all over the assembled beakers and hotplate. Ewww. Sizzling regurgitated poptart.
8 : 05 a.m. - I cannot take it anymore. Making sure Chem teacher doesn't see, I carefully hide my cell phone underneath my drying hair and dial my house number. Pick up, pick up, pick up......"Hello?" I say gratefully, relief sliding over my slick skin in oily waves. "Yeah, I'm sick. No really, sick. I'm sick. . I think I ate a very questionable poptart this morning, and now my stomach is flapping around like a trained seal. Thanks. Half an hour. Bye." I hang up the phone with a deep sigh, and with a last rebellious kick, naseau flows over me again. That damn stomach. Just to punish it I'm only eating broccolli for a week.
8 : 45 a.m. - I'm in second period, Chorus, with my schizophrenic teacher and where we do nothing. She still is not here. I'm talking to Daniel and the teacher puts on a Disney soundtrack with songs from Mary Poppin's amplified a thousand times when sung by a huge, overly enthusiastic chorus. The songs only add to my uncomfortable feeling. Kat, next to me, is going on about how her boyfriend of one week, Marcus, broke up with her yesterday and she was so upset she sobbed and couldn't go to school. Daniel and I glance at each other. One week and she's sobbing with reckless abandon? But it seems impossible to shut her up. Daniel, giving me a sympathetic glance but at the same time an 'every man for himself' nod, says, "I'm going to go to the bathroom." Unable to get up, I watch him go, helpless, as Kat rambles on. Somebody. Just. Shoot. Me.
9: 01 a.m. - Finally, finally, my little white slip to leave arrives. Hahahaha. I am gone baby, gone! Ughhhhh. Stomach, please stoopppppppp.......
I got home and crawled into the bathroom, and talked to the porcellin telephone for a long, long time. Groaning, I picked up my cell phone that was ringing at a painful volume. It was Andrea. "I have an extra ticket to the concert. Wanna come?"
WHY GOD, WHY?????