english class... yup. we're watching FOX NEWS live... kinda freaks me out. i mean g's.. we're actually watching our troops drop bombs on bagdad....
we had to type up our poems for our poetry book. i only actually like one of the poems that i put in...

The Battle with Anorexia, Beowulf-Style

Out of the magazines, from the sunny lands
Of Hollywood to the upper-class areas of New York,
Bearing little clothing and small waists,
Anorexia came, trapping girls into thinking that’s how they were to look.
The magazines traveled quickly throughout the country,
Going from home to home and store to store.
They knew the way; they’d been there before.
They crept into bedrooms where girls looked and looked,
Dreaming about looking just like the models they saw.
Pretty soon the dream became an obsession, a battle of sorts,
A fight that once started is hard to overcome.
Anorexia won, time after time, girl after girl.
But one night, it was different.
A counselor, working late in her office,
Got a call from a frantic parent begging for help,
For her daughter was being beaten by this monster.
The counselor came at once to do battle with Anorexia,
Bringing with her no weapons.
The night was a long one,
The counselor and Anorexia battled for many hours,
And played tug-of-war for the girl.
Anorexia was not easily defeated, for it made the girl feel in control.
The girl thought herself unwanted without it,
And was not willing to give it up.
Yet still the counselor fought.
Anorexia started to grow weak as the girl realized
That what the counselor was telling her was true,
That she was beautiful the way she was,
And she could live without this horrible monster
Clinging to her everywhere she went.
Anorexia was outraged when it saw this,
But it was too tired to fight back.
The counselor forced it to run
And lick its wounds somewhere far away.
The girl went to the hospital,
Helped by the counselor’s braveness.
And when the girl returned home again,
The counselor hung on the wall two pictures,
One of the girl and Anorexia,
And a beautiful, victorious picture of the girl without Anorexia.

i wrote that for an english assignment. we had to rewrite a section of Beowulf and make it about something different. i rewrote the battle of Beowulf and Grendel as if it were anorexia and a counselor... blah blah blah.

i have to work 4-close tonight. yuck. i think i close with danny. that's usually alright. i don't know who else works. if jordan does he'll probly just yell at me for some crap that i said last night. (btw jordan if you read this: i'm ok. don't worry about me!!!)

7 days till i see my heidi.... that makes everything better.... :)

i'm off to shop on e-bay w/kara...