Princess Diaries Series: Third Time Lucky Part 12

2. Stop biting fingernails.

3. Achieve self-actualization.

4. Discover harmony between conscious and subconscious.

5. Break up with Kenny - but not until after Finals/Non-Denominational Winter Dance.

Tuesday, December 8, English What was THAT just now in the hallway? Did Kenny Showalter just say what I think he said to you?

Yes. Oh my G.o.d, Shameeka, what am I going to do? I'm shaking so hard I can barely write a" M What do you mean, what are you going to do? The boy is warm for your form, Mia. Go for it.

People can't just be allowed to go around saying things like that. Especially so loud. Everyone must have heard him. Do you think everyone heard him?

Everybody heard him, all right. You should have seen Lilly's face. I thought she was going to suffer one of those synaptic breakdowns she's always talking about.

You think EVERYBODY heard him? I mean, like the people coming out of the Chemistry lab? Do you think they heard?

How could they not? He yelled it pretty loud.

Were they laughing? The people coming out of Chemistry? They weren't laughing, were they?

Most of them were laughing.

Oh, G.o.d! Why was I ever born????

Except Michael. He wasn't laughing.

He WASN'T? REALLY? Are you pulling my leg?

No. Why would I do that? And what do you care what Michael Moscovitz thinks, anyway?

I don't. I don't care. What makes you think I care?

Um, for one thing because you won't shut up about it.

People shouldn't go around laughing at other people's misfortunes. That's all.

I don't see what the big misfortune is. So the guy loves you? A lot of girls would really like it if their boyfriend yelled that at them between second and third period.

Yeah, well, NOT ME!!!

Use transitive verbs to create brief, vigorous sentences:

Transitive: He soon regretted his words.

Intransitive: It was not long before he was very sorry that he had said what he said.

Tuesday, December 8, Bio.

Gifted and Talented was so not fun today. Not that Bio. is any better, on account of the fact that I am stuck here next to Kenny, who seems to have calmed down a little since this morning.

Still, I really think that people who are not actually enrolled in certain cla.s.ses have no business showing up in them.

For instance, just because Judith Gershner has study hall for fifth period is no reason that she should be allowed to hang

around the Gifted and Talented cla.s.sroom for fifty minutes during that period. She should never have been let out of study

hall in the first place. I don't think she even had a pa.s.s.

Not that I would turn her in, or anything. But this kind of flagrant rule-breaking really shouldn't be encouraged. If Lilly is

going to go through with this walkout thing, which she is still trying to garner support for, she should really add to her list of

complaints the fact that the teachers in this school have favourites. I mean, just because a girl knows how to clone things

doesn't mean she should be allowed to roam the school freely any time she wants.

But there she was when I walked in, and there's no doubt about it: Judith Gershner has a total crush on Michael. I don't really know how he feels about her, but she was wearing tan-coloured pantyhose instead of the black cotton tights she normally wears, so you know something is up. No girl wears tan pantyhose without a good reason.

And, OK, so maybe they are working on their booth for the Winter Carnival, but that is no reason for Judith to drape her

arm across the back of Michael's chair like that. Plus he used to help me with my Algebra homework during G & T,

but now he can't because Judith is monopolizing all his time. I would think he might resent the intrusion.

Plus Judith really has no business b.u.t.ting into my private conversations. She hardly even knows me.

But did that stop her from observing, when she overheard Lilly's formal apology for not having believed me about Kenny's weird phone call - any doubts about the veracity of which he managed to scatter today with his display of unbridled pa.s.sion

in the third-floor hallway - that she feels sorry for him? Oh, no.

'Poor kid,' Judith said. 'I heard what he said to you in the hallway. I was in the Chem. lab. What was it again? "I don't care if you don't feel the same way, Mia, I will always love you", or something like that?'

I didn't say anything. That's because I was busy picturing how Judith would look with a pencil sticking out of the middle of her forehead.

'It's really sweet,' Judith said. 'If you think about it. I mean, the guy's clearly got it bad for you.'

This is the problem, see. Everyone thinks that what Kenny did was so cute and everything. n.o.body seems to understand that

it wasn't cute. It wasn't cute at all. It was completely humiliating. I don't think I've ever been so embarra.s.sed in my whole life.

And, believe me, I've lived through more than my fair share of embarra.s.sing incidents, especially since this whole princess

thing started.

But I'm apparently the only person in this entire school who thinks what Kenny did was the least bit wrong.

'He's obviously very in touch with his emotions.' Even Lilly was taking Kenny's side in the whole thing. 'Unlike some people.'

I have to say, this makes me so mad when I think about it because, the truth is, ever since I have started writing things down