I'm Still Alive!

Hey! I'm over here!
I haven't done a post since last month. I know, tsk tsk to me. But I haven't had any real reason to post, I think. I am undoubtedly a bad blogger.

Another thing. I think I'm changing the purpose of my blog. I thought in the beginning that maybe I could do commentary on current events, but it turns out that I'm absolutely HORRIBLE at that. :) Kudos to me, man.

So today I'm not at school. Why? Because of horrible, horrible uterine cramps. Which is quite ironic considering that my wonderful gym teacher, Mrs. Newton, expressed to us yesterday (the first day of 2nd semester) that periods will not excuse anyone from class. And in the event that they do, it means lost marks and there is NO way we'll get them back. The issue is that my mother and I both think I may have menorrhagia which is a fancy word for an abnormally heavy and prolonged menstrual period at regular intervals. This is just a google-inspired diagnosis, but there's a possibility there. From what I've read on the wikipedia page, it's pretty serious. We've gotten around to treating it with Advil (my favourite NSAID in the world) and it's seemed to work the last two times, cutting down my periods from lasting somewhere around three weeks to only one. Yay! although i'm pretty sure the fabled 4-6 tablespoons that is deemed normal has already left my body in the span of a day and a quarter.

And that's the story. I doubt I'll be able to tell that to Mrs. Newton especially since I've only been in her class once. I already have a hard time talking to teachers that I know at times. And then this happens. Hopefully my mom will explain my situation for me.

Today I think I'll do some writing. And maybe play some Wii Fit.


Cheers.

Remember, remember, some time in November.

Now that I've (re)started this blog it's just hit me that I'm going back on a lot of stuff. Things that happened months or weeks ago.
Well, here's another throwback in time.
Months ago (probably in November) my class had a substitute teacher. Now a lot of people would go without saying that a substitute teacher has to have some kind of problem. But this one had a lot of them.
He looked like one of those guys who worked out too much, and was going through a mid-life crisis at the same time. As soon as he walked in the room--sweatpants and all--I had a feeling that something was going to go wrong. And it did. During geography. If memory serves me right (and this isn't all of it), we were reading a part about NGOs (Non-governmental organizations) and human rights when he started to push his beliefs over on us. He ranted about how there is no such thing as child poverty. He rambled ad nauseum about how the UN is a horrible, terrible organization and all NGOs are, as well. He said that abortion was wrong.
And then I snapped.
I knew that it would cause some kind of uproar because I rarely speak up during class other than to answer some questions, but I had to do it. I had to put this misogynistic a**hole in his place. And I did, but the safe, Nerd way. By posing an argument and being intelligent about it.
It was one of the biggest rushes I had ever felt in my life. I could see his greasy face turning red when he ran out of defenses for being anti-choice and heard my classmates chuckling in the background and taking my side.
Ah, the feeling of triumph.