No really, I do.

Want to hear a funny story? No? Well too bad, you're gonna hear it anyway. A few weeks ago, I went to the library right? And I borrowed this book that had been dubbed "The Indie Book of the Year 2009". I looked at the cover and read the blurb briefly but didn't actually pay much attention to it. Then I brought it home and dumped it on the end of my bed and didn't look at it for the next three weeks.

And then last night, I finally picked it up and started flicking through it. I then looked at the title of the book and it was called "Jasper Jones". So then I thought, "Hmmm.... why does this sound familiar?" So I flipped it over and read the blurb again:

Late on a hot summer night in the tail end of 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a
precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the regional mining town of Corrigan. Rebellious, mixed-race and solitary, Jasper is a distant figure of
danger and intrigue for Charlie. So when Jasper begs for his help, Charlie eagerly steals into the night by his side, terribly afraid but desperate to impress. Jasper takes him through town and to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.

With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion as he locks horns with his tempestuous mother; falls nervously in love and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend, Jeffrey Lu.

And in vainly attempting to restore the parts that have been shaken loose, Charlie learns to discern the truth from the myth, and why white lies creep like a curse. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.

Sound familiar Year 10s? Haha I suck, why didn't I read it earlier D:

Anyways, if you wanted to know, Jasper Jones' secret was that he found a young girl hanging by the neck from a tree in her "dirty lace nightdress". Says so on page 12.

On to more important stuff now, I AM IN YEAR 11. Kind of. Rollover *giggle* started today and it was awesomely gay. Gay because we're not in our good ol' familiar classes no more but awesome because I've got SIX FREE PERIODS PER WEEK.

I had my first double free period today and basically I just sat in the learning centre and er.... y'know just sat there. LOL. I kind of just stared at my modern notes a bit and then turned to discussing Jane Eyre and Harry Potter with Ms P. Then I walked out onto the balcony, listened to Mr Ebbot yell at his class and then walked back inside. & then the bell started ringing spastically and I was hoping that there would be a lockdown just for the sake of something to do. & then I decided that no, I wouldn't want a lockdown cause that might mean that I would have to crawl under the gum-infested table.

Tomorrow I'm going to have 2 more free periods and another 2 on Friday. What am I going to do? LOL. Ah well I guess I don't really mind. The learning centre has comfortable chairs... but it's a bit lonely. *SIGH* someone come visit me next time.

I have a feeling I'm going to hate Thursdays now. This is what I have on my timetable:

Period 1: 2 Unit maths with Ms Wheeler

Period 2: 2 Unit maths with Ms Wheeler

Period 3: PE

Period 4: PE

Period 5: Free Period (which isn't so bad)

Period 6: Free Period

Period 7: Maths extension with... you guessed it, Ms Wheeler

Period 8: Maths extension with Ms Wheeler

Like yay.

This is turning into a ginormous post so I'll just stop here.

BYE!