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Ever laughed so hard you could barely breathe? It started with me going random in the hallway. I do that now and again, okay, more often than now and again. Okay, okay, I go random with the boys ...

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I looked at the mother’s note and then at the grinning boy standing before me, both arms blood red from fingertips to elbows. Technically, his problem was a grooming violation and every teacher ...

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“Miss Mack, I’ve got a terrible headache,” said the boy in my office doorway. Hmm. Maybe, maybe not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Always in the back of my head… T...

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Here’s the edit and the admission. I’m an idiot. My life is so slow and boring of late that I have nothing to write about and still have the compulsion to write something anyway. (There’s also a ...

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“Miss Mack! Miss Mack!” D’marr’s hand is up and pumping like a piston from the third row of boys in Penance Hall (as detention in a Catholic institution is sometimes called). It’s a bumper cro...

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I could sit down and write an entry about New Year’s stuff, reso-illusions and such, but I’m actually working on one of them right now and really oughtn’t use this journal (which I’ve been negle...

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Okay, if the kid had been older I would have written him a detention for being inappropriate and a smart ass, but he was just an earnestly ignorant eighth grader. He really didn’t mean anything ...

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Rubber bracelets, there’s one for every cause - diseases, sobriety, religious groups… All sorts of concepts and mottoes are stamped on every colour conceivable and worn to proclaim support. The...

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So Tommy was sitting in Biology class today. Apparently Tommy was just a tad bored by the anatomy lesson being presented. As the teacher was lecturing, I am fairly certain that classwork at tha...

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“What are you going to do about it?” she hissed in that self-righteous everyone-else-especially-you-is-so-wrong-sheous tone. Lord how tired I am of aggressive egocentrism and those who attack ...

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It wasn't easy spending that kind of money on a gadget, but I made a number of nifty rationalizations and convinced myself, with the number of pedometers I've lost over the last couple years, I m...

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It's Friday afternoon. Time to leave this hall of concentrated adolescence drama and go home for a blissfully boyless week-end. I close down my computer, lock my door, and leave the building. ...

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