Won’t stop until your brain is found

School was school. I was kinda hoping classes would be suspended today simply because my brain was still sleeping and refusing to cooperate. But it never rains during the morning so my spark of hope was short-lived. We finally got the June-July issue of the school paper, Screeve today. See how completely abnormal my school is: the June-July issue comes out in October. After scanning my eyes down the literary and poetry section, I immediately regretted being such a lazy-ass slacker. I submitted my short story, Ten Minute Run, to my editor but when she sent it back to me so I could fix my errors, I didn’t get around to sending the retyped version back. Needless to say, the school paper sucks. Not only is it filled with stale news but the literary and poetry section is as corny as hell! And I am not the only one who thinks this. The stories are these really awful stories about friendship or love with equally cheesy titles such as, One True Friend, Answered By Heaven and Always You. And the poems! My Lord Jesus Christ…they are all these rhyming love poems with titles such as “Waiting For Your Love”, “Love In Silence” and “Forgotten”, which have all the same themes of either unrequited love, a love that wasn’t meant to be, or you’re-my-friend-and-I’m-in-love-with-you-but-I’m-too-scared-to-tell-you. Uhh…is this Mills and Boons or the school paper? The thing is, four or five of these terrible poems were written by someone simply called “baby” and then three more were written by someone called “03″. Which is dumb because I think that only one poem per person should be allowed so others would have a chance to be published. Well, I had my chance to be heard and I didn’t take it. I feel like a complete idiot.

If there will be a next issue (Sometimes the school paper comes out only once a year, how sucky is that?), I will write a really awesome short story with minimum grammatical errors so it won’t have to be sent back to me to be retyped. I will write a story that will outshine the rest and make the school paper actually worth reading. I was kind of flattered when some people were asking me how come I didn’t have anything published. Well, I won’t disappoint them next time! The thing is though, I’m actually not really sure what I should write about. I can’t exactly write about the same kind of stuff I write in my journal unless I want to be even more unpopular than I am right now. Hopefully I will be inspired to write something more substantial than my last short story. It’s been awhile since I really wrote stories and I’m still kind of rusty.

I’m thirsty.