September 1, 2007
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My Friendship With Michael
Things have gotten better. I wish I was more creative with my titles or just simply creative in general. I am officially registered in public school and I will be taking Japanese 1 on for first period. I am so excited I talked with the school councilor, walked around the building a bit and found my Japanese class. My best friend will be riding with me to school every morning! I joked around with her about how annoying I will be by the time the school year is over. I am not entirely happy yet but I hope on getting there.
If I do well in this year in my school work my mother says I can go to public school next year, if I want to of course. I am very much interested in this idea but there is so much thinking to do. I am happy with the outcome of my school; I am not ready to think into the future so I will just take what I got and work with it.
I’ve been listening to some pod casts again. Grammar Girl was talking about using the double the, and how it is strange would be to talk about something with the word “the” in the title. A listener asked, “Do I have to use the word ‘the’ twice? It does make sense to ask a friend, ‘Have you heard the Ghost soundtrack?’ But what happens if the name of the movie starts with ‘the,’ like The Fast and the Furious? It certainly doesn’t sound correct to say, ‘Have you heard the The Fast and the Furious soundtrack?” but logically it makes sense to say it twice.” The answer to this interesting question is to simply word it differently and be more specific. Say something like; have you heard the soundtrack from the movie The Fast and the Furious? I’m in love with the Fast and Furious theme song! I had this problem a long time ago and I never really got an answer up until now. So I am pretty happy. Also, Grammar Girl is having this awesome book give away. I register for it and I wonder if I’ll win.
Michael messaged me out of no where! I talked to him about our friendship and how I don’t like the way he treated me the last time we hung out. He said that he is used to acting like that with his other friends and he should have thought twice before doing that because I am not like that. I forgave him because he is still going though a tough time with his parents and stuff but I reminded him that I will always be there. Cathy on the other hand, did not seem quite happy with the way I handled Michael but that’s ok. I know more than anyone what he is going though, it tough, even though I cannot fully relate to his divorce and different conflicts. Michael has a reason to act the way he does now, he is hurt emotionally and nothing seems to go his way. I know he will get better one day, I know he won’t be anything like this. I have a strong memory of how he used to be before all this happened; I wish he will turn back to his old self….
