...и целуй меня взде, семнадцать мне уже!

Today, being September 27th, is the 17th anniversary of my avatar being exposed to the toxicities of this earth and the almost-instant start of the oxidization of my cells. Well...I for one was ecSTATic! No - it really was a great birthday. I hate cake, so when my mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday dessert, I replied "a pumpkin roll", which she had my dad buy at Wegman's the morning of. My uprising in school didn't exactly go as rigidly as I had "hoped" for...to my knowledge, no one who participated in the protest against the soon-to-be-mandatory pledge of allegiance got in trouble to tell the reason why they were protesting in the first place, myself included. I was hoping to be sent to the principal's office and demanded of an answer to this 'disruptive behavior'. The reason for the protest wasn't to protest the pledge, or the "under God" line, or the people who choose to stand and say it...the motivation was the simple fact that the government can even THINK they can force high-school students into doing something that is a pure opinionated activity and not even entertain them the fact that they can choose to opt out. The audacity of the teachers to even practice the sort of child coersion that they do when saying "stand up and say it or you'll be saying it alone" is unspeakable in a situation like this. My main goal was/is to has a school- wide announcement, verbalized over the intercom directly before the pledge of allegiance, that tells the student body that the teachers may not do anything about their choice in whether to say the pledge or to not say the pledge, that it is their right to stand OR sit, as long as there is no disruption of those choosing to 'opt-in'. There are some who belive that this is, in some retarded way, against America or American Values in general... <=that is total bullshit. If they weren't busy kissing George Bush's ass, they would realize that there's a difference between the government's opinion of freedom, and the real definition defined by our (excuse the cliche') Forefathers. Forcing ANYONE to say the Pledge of Allegiance is a direct stripping of the freedoms and rights guaranteed to the American people in their own United States Constitution and Bill of Rights and, I would HOPE, that the one's most upset about this coersion and forceage should be the PATRIOTS! - sadly, this is not the case, for the patriots are also blinded and cannot think for themselves. In this situation, opinion cannot exist whether an action like this is a violation of freedom - it's pure fact which cannot be denied. Also, this protest was not AGAINST saying the pledge, for we (those who participated/expressed interest in/or are in the same mindset as those who protested) are pro-CHOICE, not pro-SAY or anti-SAY. As I drink my refilled bottle of Aquafina, I ponder what is next for America - maybe another huge hurricane, or some wintry drought...both quite scary if you live on a well-water system. Unfortunately, because of our presidential status and a few other deciding factors like RETARDED OFFICIALS IN THE GOVERNEMENT, when the chemical attack from the middle east comes, millions will probably die, and THAT I really and truly am scared of...For the past three weeks, I have been intently watching the many facial expressions of my trigonometry teacher, Mrs. Terry, who is the head of the entire mathematics department of my school district. She's an ancient woman with a range of vocal patterns - from screech to growl in two seconds flat. I realized, after the second week of study, that there was one particular expression that reminded me of someone I see quite often, but I couldn't EXACTLY place my middle finger on it. With absolutly NO warning, it hit me. When she is explaining cubic roots and imaginary numbers squinting her eyes, wrinkling up her forehead, and leaning over with a half-grin half-smile half- smirk look on her face and pauses mid-sentence, she looks just like George W. Bush when he's telling a lie. <==You know that look and curt laugh...like he just tied someone to the railroad tracks just that "heh heh, that's right Dick, spill the oil" gag.