So today was the "day of silence" at our school. Kids take a vow of silence for a day to show support for gay rights. There's some symbolic reason... I forget exactly what it is. Anyway, I didn't do it. I do support gay rights and I'm not afraid to say so, but I ended up being, of course, too lazy. Julian went around with fliers this morning telling people that the day of silence didn't actually start for five minutes and that it wasn't too late to sign up. I thought about it for a second, but then I remembered that I had to see the band director about my trumpet. Oh yeah, and that I like to talk. I thought it was cool that Julian did it though. I mean, I think it's harder to be a guy and say you support gay rights than to be a girl and do it. There's a lot more pressure. And by "pressure" I mean "rabid homophobia."
...You know, watch him actually be gay. That would be bitterly ironic.
Anyway, there weren't too many kids who did it - I'd say maybe ten percent - but there were enough so that I knew people who did it. Kevin did it, and actually remained silent throughout Latin. Ivy did it (now THERE was an upside to today) and so did Toby because she does everything Ivy does. The goths who sit at the other side of our lunch table were all silent, and trying to develop some kind of sign language, which apparrantly is cheating.
When the topic came up in Latin because of Kevin, Dave shrugged and said "I don't really feel like supporting... that. And besides, if I did it, I couldn't BUG the people who are doing it." He started poking Kevin and laughing.
Molly looked uncomfortable and said, "Well, I suppose I have to respect the people for doing it..." and then trailed off. Molly's church teaches that homosexuality is is sin. This is one of those things that she and I have learned just not to discuss.
I said, "I don't know why I didn't do it - I should have. Dave, stop poking Kevin. That's not cool."
During gym the fire alarm went off several times successively, such that I only actually spent ten minutes in gym. So for about an hour I stood outside with Dave and Tom and tried to think of things to do in the ska band and watched Tom continue to draw an elaborate maze that went from his fingers to his elbow. (Apparantly he had been working on it all day.) It was a lot of fun. We have way too many inside jokes. I suppose that would have been one drawback to the day of silence.
Oh, I also did see the band director (we'll call him Mr. Thomas. He'll come up again.) and he told me he might be able to get me a trumpet by TOMORROW so that I can have it over vacation! The deal is that you can have a crappy instrument for free if you'll fix it up, play it in something at the school, and give it back when you graduate. He's offered to give me free lessons too. I really hope he has it when I go to see him - it would be awesome to get started so soon.
Oh, and apparantly Adam hangs out in the band room every day with his supposed ex-girlfriend. At first this upset me, but then I thought, "You know what? Fuck you. My obsession is in the process of being transferred."
See? I knew this would end up happenning. I'm too weak to eliminate the obsession, so I just transfer it to someone else. Oh well. I suppose it's nothing serious yet. And if it grows to be something serious, at least this time it's based off of personality.
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