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first off. i surprised myself today. i found out i am an expert rat skinner. when i found out we were doing rat dissection this week i was a bit worried. i'm not too great with graphic or gross things in movies so i wasn't sure how i would be in class. i was thinking that i would just sort of being watching. but then when we got to pick our groups I obviously went with Paige and Katelyn. but i knew they wouldn't do anything. so i sort of had to step up. mind over matter. and it actually wasn't that bad. i first had to pick the rat up by it's tail out of the solution then rinse it off. then we observed it while it was still in one piece. we had a lovely female. via facebook i was just told that her name is now Gloria. then came the skinning. we had to cut her skin down her middle then up each limb. so i started off doing that and then Katelyn did a bit of snipping and then Katelyn but they didn't do it very well. and then i took over and just went for it. i was much better at it. and then we had to peel the skin off. you had to literally pull it off. it took a little bit to get the hang of it but i did. i sort of pulled the skin away with the tweezers and used my fingers to help it along and hold the rest of the rat back. i didn't think about it. i just did it. and then the other group of all girls were having trouble skinning it. one girl looked like she was about to pass out and the other two were just grossed out. so i went and skinned their rat too under the condition they didn't make any "ewww" noises while i did it because i still didn't want to get queasy. and then we had to identify muscles that we had no idea about because Mr. Broaddus wasn't smart and didn't make us learn anatomy beforehand. and then we had to cut away the muscle away to get at the bone. i did that too. i got right into it. if anyone should win an award for the best rat dissection it should be me. or rat exploration as i like to call it.

in other big news. children at my school have gotten suspended for bullying. they aren't really children. they are in my grade. yeppers. you might not know but right now there is a big case going on about a girl from Holyoke who committed suicide - bullying as the reason why. who knows the whole story but the bulliers of that Holyoke girl - Phoebe Prince - are being charged for more, they aren't just being suspended. i'm not sure what the whole story is about Megan, the girl in my class who is being bullied, i don't know if she is just doing it for attention or if she really has a bad. she is one of those girls who automatically is the outcast, she is on the bigger side, and such. the other day when she wore a dress everyone was talking about it. people can be so mean. apparently some boys sent her a carnation as a joke during Valentine's Day. but you know Ben who i was talking about before? he got suspended for bullying. that is hard for me to comprehend but at the same time it isn't. i remember him when he was just a little boy, when he didn't have all those huge muscles, and he wasn't tall, and he couldn't get whatever he wanted. and now look at him suspended for bullying. and another girl who i can see getting suspended for bullying who did is Ange Weaver. i think she had/has a thing for Ben. anyways some other kids were suspended too but they aren't worth mentioning. tomorrow i am going to scope out who isn't there. i wonder if that is what Megan wanted - them to be suspended. I don't think it's really going to help her situation. they are just going to be pissed at her and stay away from her. maybe that is what she wants. i don't really want to talk about this anymore. all i know is that because of it missed half of my english period because they were having a meeting in there or something.

jeez. while all of that rat cutting and suspension and bullying drama was going on Abby was having drama of her own. hopefully she was able to be confident and stand up for herself. because having enemies only mean that you stood up for something in your life. got that from a facebook group Dakota joined - it was on my feed.

i should probably do my homework. it's six o'clock. good thing i don't have much.

and this weekend may be extended to Abby as well because Ally invited her. I never knew that those two were good friends. Ally probably invited her for the same reason i would have invited her. but i would feel a lot better if Abby came with us. it would be a good excuse to get her mind off of stupid drama at school. yeah i really need to do my homework now.