two days

Well, breathe easy everyone, I no longer look like a chipmunk. Yup, the horrible swelling has gone and even though it has left me with the grossest skin in the entire world, at least I no longer look like my face has been melted by a fire then injected with lots of air to make it puffy. I find that to be quite a relief!

There have been a lot of 'lasts' lately - last music rehearsal, last Chemistry test/Applic test/Lit Essay/History assessment/Media assessment/Politics Test, last debate, last double period, last Chapel service, last lunch ordering and so on. It's really not as sentimental as it sounds. It was pretty sad handing over Officials positions on Tuesday though - not that I'm sad to be rid of being an Arts Captain and having everyone hate you for being the bossy one, or for calling marching or being excessively organized and so on, but I'll miss the fun that came with all of that.

Two days left. Two days left of putting on grey stockings that have holes in the toes that cut off circulation. Two days left of learning things in class. Two days left of being really late to Politics. Two days left of looking all over the house for my tie. Two days left of skirts that come up to your armpits. Two days left of form with Mr. Diaz, the world's worst form tutor, who doesn't actually know what's going on. Two days left of loud and obnoxious lunchtime conversations, and being polite to teachers who actually know your name, and promising myself to clean my disgustingly gross locker, and dealing with the feral school bathrooms, and catching the bus, and hiding from the Death Table, and on and on and on.

Again, not really sentimental at all =] There are much more exciting things to be thinking about - like Father Daughter Dinner tomorrow night, the day we get to put down our pen after the last TEE exam (Lit!), Valedictory Dinner, Rottnest Leavers, Denmark, having absolutely nothing to do every day, and so on and so on and so on. It will be great!

Here's a fun tidbit to get you all thinking. Imagine you are heading somewhere to write an essay on a documentary you've just seen. And you see this statement: 'All documentaries have an ideological dimension to them, and are constructed within the context of a dominant ideology that is generally shared and understood by all members of the community'. If you can tell me what the heck that means, I'd really appreciate it.