that not having internet really, truly sucks, as does Great Expectations

Due to unfortunate events including Hanukah lights, time management, dinner drinks, and groundation, I do not have internet at my house for the next two weeks. Therefore, all of my blog posts will be typed up at home, saved to my flash drive, and posted from one of the computers in the school library. In other words, I will only be able to post on days I have school until the Monday after Christmas.

By the way, groundation is a made up word, being the noun form of “grounded.” It was invented by my ex-boyfriend’s cousin and used in the sentence “I can’t play video games because I’m on groundation” at Zach’s birthday party last March. He was made fun of in good spirits by the adults and older cousins and asked if he was ground into the foundation.

Anyways… I hate Great Expectations. It’s the book we are currently reading in English class. We’re on chapter… I think I was supposed to read up to chapter forty-two. I read a couple chapters last night while have an insomniac episode (the Grammar Nazi is confused there), and am planning to SparkNote and CliffNote as soon as this is posted. And if I have time, I’m hitting the book fair on the other side of the library. We’ll see. I might just take another zero on the reading quiz and hit the book fair first… I have (or should have) money with me today. I still have Christmas gifts to but, and I feel like I deserve to treat myself to at least a new pen. Hmmm… I wonder if they have the multi-colored pens like the one I got for Christmas last year that Zach decided he just had to see if he could get two pens out at once and it exploded… he promised me he’d get me a new one, but he also promised me he’d never hurt me. Obviously, he’s not one to keep promises. But I refuse to be bitter. Anyways, back to GE. Great Expectations is the most boring and the second most confusing book I’ve ever had to read for school (the most confusing being Lord of the Flies, which was the last book we read). I have to read the same passage at least twice before I understand it. I just wish we’d move on to, say, Catcher in the Rye, which my mom says I’ll really enjoy. Or To Kill a Mockingbird, which I started a month ago and never finished only because it was NaNoWriMo month and I couldn’t finish it before its due date at the library. I really liked the first two books I had to read this year, Fahrenheit 451 and Of Mice and Men, never read The Pearl, or SparkNoted it, for that matter (that’s what classmates are for), was extremely disturbed by Lord of the Flies but kind of liked it, and I.absolutely.hate Great Expectations. I have absolutely nothing against Charles Dickens, but Great Expectations suuuuucks.