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Sport was funny. Ball = bounce off tree, disperse seagulls.

Seagulls = do weird The Birds thing and fly around over our heads.

Year 11s = screaming and giggling.

We suck at softball anyway.

I spent most of my fielding time squatting on the grass staring at ants, and philosophising about the evolutionary importance of routines. We make everything as ordinary as possible because otherwise we'd be too terrified to do anything. Humanity is the most highly evolved species in the area of thinking outside routines - and we presumably have all these mental safeguards to ensure we use our amazing talent in the right context. This is why people don't like change. This is why so many people adopt an I-don't-care-about-anything attitude - it provides one all-purpose view of the world which you can apply to almost anything automatically, and you don't have to think. Of course instincts and feelings and things screw that up like hell, but this explains why so many people try. Also explains why so much of humanity is a fucking write-off - those damn safety mechanisms haven't evolved highly enough yet, and what with modern medicine they probably never will.

MY BUS DRIVER IS ON CRACK!!!

I handed out Bakers Delight scones at school today. And we aren't allowed to eat in the computer room, so I was joking about the clandestine manner in which I was distributing them - people are gonna be coming up to me in dark alleyways and going "pssst... got any... :shifty eyes: ...scones?" And the police will tape the conversation and go "hmmm... 'scones' must be a codeword for... CRACK!!"

At this point Nicky burst out laughing and sprayed crumbs everywhere. "I'll never be able to look at a scone seriosuly again! ...not that I did in the first place. But, you know."

I told my bus peeps about this, and Jenny (year ten one, not the other one) asked "Wait, what's crack again?" I said "Cocaine, don't you listen in PD?". The following conversation ensued:

"No, who the hell listens in PD? So whats pot then?"
"Marijuana. Cannabis. It's a plant."
"Right, so crack is nicotine"
"...no."
"No, thats not, i mean, right. So pot is tobacco-"
"LOOK!"
"Argh, wait no, what?"
"Tobacco is nicotine. Nicotine is tobacco. Pot is marijuana/cannabis, which is a plant. Crack is cocaine, which is... I don't actualy know what its made of."

At this point the bus driver chimed in with "It's a white powder made of ground up leaves of the coca plant. It's used to [bit I wasn't listening to cos I wasn't entirely sure he was talking to us]. Lots of ancient cultures and things used it."

Us: Uh... thanks?
Me: Wait, coca plant? Like chocolate?
Everyone: O_o
Jenny: I don't think so.
Bus Driver: No, but it's in the same family.

So, yeah. We kind of assumed he... knew what he was talking about? :nosetap:

I'm not sure why he chipped in. In other bus news, the boys commented on my bandanna with a "she's trying to look like mother teresa". I wasn't entirely sure what they were talking abot, so I just gave them the finger. But after actually ascertaining who she was, it would probably have been more amusing to say "I wouldn't help YOU if you were starving in the street."

ZOMG THE TV PEOPLE ARE SHOOTING FROZEN CHICKENS OUT OF A CANNON!!!!!1!!! ...good god. What will they think of next?

TryX | my favorite animal is the scapegoat says:
to achieve WHAT?!
Maggie your local scone dealer says:
escape velocity?
Maggie your local scone dealer says:
"and they said chickens couldnt fly! well WE PROVED THEM WRONG!!! AHAHAHA!"

Argh so much random.