Oh man, I needed one of these! Okay so, on Thursday, we had to do all of these awful excersizes the whole time, and when the class (as a whole) was like slightly goofing off, she just made us all run around the gym unitl she told us to stop, and then yesterday we did a fundraiser where you run around the blacktop/playground area but I was still sore from gym on Thursday, plus I was really tired, and then we had to go do a service project and for seventh grade it was play bingo at the retiremnt home and I was s o  t i r e d . AND, we were playing this game that's like four square and tips mashed together, and whenever I got in, this really annoying kind was ALWAYS the Ace and he just got me out and I had to go to the back of a really long line. Really though, Yesterday as a whole was pretty okay despite all of that (we had watered-down slushies and played in bounce houses, plus we didn't have to learn anything, so that was a plus).

Music class is a literal nightmare. I have to sit in-between these two guys who are best friends and are insanely annoying. They like, whisper dirty jokes to each other during class and treat the teacher like she's a complete idiot. And the guy to the left of me is the worst. literall. worst. He makes up all the dirty jokes that go around our grade, he acts up in class, makes fun of like everybody (including me), says bad words everyday, and has like the most annoying laugh ever that I have to constantly listen to during music because, if he's not talking, he's probably laughing. (Also, spit gathers at the corners of his mouth and he doesn't even care and it's just,... so gross.)

And my classmates. Oh my Kyngdom. There are only 40 of them, meaning there isn't much diversity of... anything. They're all just so competetive. And angsty. And whiney. And quick to judge. I swear, I bet a good number of people just pretend to be angsty to fit in. So basically, because I'm mature and nerdy and care about my life, the "popular" group thinks I'm weird and the boys act weird to me and laugh when the guy I mentioned before calls me "Galiza" in a singsong voice and shakes his hands around like he's having a seizure (a triple insult- making fun of me for the hand shaky-thing [which I guess I used to occasionally do when I was excited? But I don't anymore], making fun of The Schuyler Sisters song from Hamilton [cause it's really dumb to like things that are actually good] and calling me a name.)

And I can't be myself anymore. Because everybody either likes all the same stuff or pretends to like all the same stuff, Hamilton, Harry Potter, singing, hecking Captain America- just sneered at slightly, like '"Oh, don't you like Harry Potter?" *evil smirk*'. Literally, someone who I thought was my friend kind of implied "you're weird" when I hinted at my beliefs about LGBTQ+ stuff.

And the above mentioned person I thought I was my friend, just,... you know let's not even go there, because I honestly don't know what. happened.

And then, making jokes about mental illness. Oh, my gosh. It happens too often. I don't think I can go into detail, but the thing that get made into jokes... I just can't. I don't get why it's funny when someone says something that should be concerning. I don't. 

Seriously all my friends (*cough* 5 people) and I just want to change schools. Really. Because in addition to  my classmates, we have uniforms and our band room is literally the cafeteria. And there's a lot of unnecessary focus on sports. 

I also keep trying to put my problems in perspective to others' around the world who don't have a school to complain about or legs to be sore, which isn't quite helping, but it does kind of shut up my first class problems. 

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This rant is not serious but: Guys.

The first two maze runner books?

I think tHEy'Re nOt gOoD

They've gotten so predictable that I'm probably not even going to bother with the third one. Like, I can guess right now what will happen in the third book and I'm probably going to be right.

Minho the Super Cool Tough Dude is going to die, Tereasa the mary sue is going to die, Tomas decides that "WICKED is good", and the earth is still super burnt up and depressing. The end!

Also why does Dashner capitalize every single word that he invented? Like "shank". Nicknames for groups of people don't need to be capitalized unless it's a nationality like "American". ALSO: What does the word "shank" even mean? I thought originally it was just another word for "glader" but then the kiddos break out of their eViL gOvErNMeNt sImUlATiOn and just start calling everyone in sight a shank for no discernable reason. Why??!?

And 'the flare'. Ohmigosh 'the flare'. Why would heat make you slowly lose your mind? Why is "crank" capitalized? Why are humans just creepy weirdos now? Why are some people immune to this? Why is "flare" capitalized? You don't capitalize the names of diseases. I know many of those questions are probably answered in book three, but I don't really care. Also, why is there snow on the front cover of book three? Actually, I don't want to know. If that snow thing's on this post-apocolyptic sunburned earth science is just going to quit.

But if the snow business is indoors, it probably exists because Mr. Dashner doesn't like his characters and wants to see them suffer. We've already given them The Changing and The Heat Exahstion and The Grievers so let's give them The Hypothermia too! Did I mention these books have capitalization problems?

Book one is "Wow isn't this soooo mysterious?" Book two is "Who cares about plot and character development when you can throw some cheesy-out-of-place-romance and nasty lightning bolts into a desert?" Book three is... ok, actually I might have to read it because I'm allergic to cliffhangers but I know if I do I'm just going to be really annoyed.

Also those orange zombie lightbulb pimple things from book 2 are really gross. I know that's irrelevant but I felt the need to point that out.

(please don't publish this in the magazine XD)