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CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE ALPHASMART
Second Edition

3.24.2009
So I have dyslexia, which let's me have an AlphaSmart in school. AlphaSmart are arguably the one of the cooler things in the special needs industry. It's got a full keyboard, and it's just like word on a mini laptop. I don't know, it's cool. But in 8th grade to freshman year, my friends started using the AlphaSmart as a free therapist. And well, it's junior year and sometimes we need a moment to ourselves. So maybe this will just an exercise in talking to ourselves or thinking we're clever when we're not. Any way it goes, these words will always be where we were, and it will be interesting and nostalgic, even if we're not nearly as cool as we think we are.
-Josie

Goldfinch: oh hey Alphie. I think I named you Alphie last time. So it's now junior year, and we're all stressed the fuck out over college and work and the AP bio exam I have in a few hours and the Latin homework that's due in about ten minutes. no wait five. fuck my life. ANYWAY. I missed you Alphie! I'll catch you up on my life at a later date. Ciao!

Tired.
cold.
overwhelmed.
too much work to do.
not enough time in the day.
story of my life.
-Genvieve

lindsay is stupid
-anonymous

Oh. Okay. So everyday my best friend from camp and I write a poem to each other every day. Or we used to, but it's to about a trickle. but I still try. So here goes:

Those Who Run on Empty
By Josie (3.24.2009)
There are two sort of emptinesses
in my opinion
there's one
that runs rampant through the masses
of the jaded
that comes with the realization
that nothing in their lives hole
a life without
can be anywhere
it's a black hole
a life without
can be anywhere
it's a black hole
a life without
can be anywhere
it's a black hole
a life without reason
but trying to live through it
and maybe
perhaps
they are the same
and I never knew
but that very isolated feeling
leads to an empty emptiness
that we can't define anyway

Meg was not your average stop and shop employee. She was a well deserved, beautiful, unique, and wise teenager. Never did she expect that her minimum wage remedial after school job would lead to her love story. a love story that came out of left field, and stayed there. this Jason character was an unexpected angel. little did either one of the know they would connect under such circumstances.
it was one slow Sunday night at stop and shop with lemons and apples being thrown around. Jason walked through the door, this time alone, without his kind mother. he headed straight for meg. he swept her off her feet and ravished her right in front of her co workers. he didn't care. the blushing and waiting was over. they would be together. she would rattle off codes for produce while he would pick her up after a long hard day and treat her to some Jason lovin.
-Meg

blahhh!!!
~becky starz

So i got mono last week. it sucks major ass. i hope my ex has it to so that he can't play baseball and the rest of his senor year and it will suck. So that's really all I have to say for now. I'm sure later I will have some other shit to ramble on about for hours. ;)
~becky starz

haikus are easy
but sometimes they don't make sense
refrigerator
-words of wisdom from a bumper sticker