freaks and geeks

Hearing your alarm five hours before you would have wanted to is not what normally is desired. You have to rip yourself out of your warm sheets into the winter morning air. Then you have to worry about what to cover yourself with to keep warm; to keep cool and to look cool too. Wasting gas money to take yourself to school is torture in itself. But taking the bus as the added bonus of sharing your seat with a 7th grade girl who is prattling on about her Neopets. So it’s either waste money or have everyone know you as that kid who takes the bus their senior year. Getting in the building and traveling where you need to go is a chore inside of itself. Couples kissing at every corner and people talking right in the doorway of your first period class is not always fun. Going to your locker pod that can’t fit your textbooks or your sweater is just added weight that you have carry around all day that may just be the cause of that annoying scoliosis that you now have to wear a mortifying back and neck brace for. Sure the different classes are good for you when you have them. But when you are walking back from gym class and you are sweaty from not having the time to take a shower the last thing you want to smell is Global Gourmets interpretation of Chinese food. Walking into classes and sitting in a seat with unknown sticky, greasy stuff on it is just a little disgusting. So many people inhabiting one place is just a germ fest; a bacteria overload; and a stomach virus waiting to happen. So you think your day isn’t going too good? Well you have to deal with about 150 other people who claim to be having worse days or are just permanently in a bad mood. But act up just once and you will go to the fabled principles office; which in high school is just code for “your toast, forget about your future now, and that A that you wanted on the calculus test tomorrow. You will be spending that study time in Saturday suspension cleaning the sticky desk that you were complaining about in the first place.” Getting pushed and shoved in the hallway by people who are bigger than you and think that they are somehow more important can just make you even more late and lead to your next Saturday suspension. And with so many kids there is no way anyone would take you for an out of the ordinary kind of person; or a wow you are a real overachiever. There is always someone one level up. You lose yourself in the shuffle and in many ways you can’t find yourself again. All of these problems could be easily avoided by just sleeping in and teaching ourselves addition and subtraction on our own time