wherein a young boy must make a life-altering choice. his name has been changed. spelling, grammar and sentence structure are the authors.
I was attending Junoior High Scholl when something changed the way I think. I was in the Eight Grade and in a few mounths I would be graduating and moving on to high school.
It was spring brake and my friends and I were going out having a lot of fun enjoying every minute of it. One Saturday I was in my kitchen when a knife was on the counter which I accidentally hit and it feel strait toward my feet. My foot was bleading a lot stoped after I tied it up. I though that it was just a little cut but it turned out that I had to andergo surgery for my foot because I was unable to move my big toe.
School opened on the Monday and I was walking normally. Two weeks after I went to the doctor and he said I had to undergo surgery in order to be able to move my big toe. I undergo surgery in the next few days. I had a cast on from my toes up to the bottom of my kness.
I had already missed school for one mounth and the doctor said that I have to wait another six weeks to take off the cast I kept the cat on for two weeks and had to make a decision which will deturmine my future. Which is to stay at home with the cast on and be one year behind in school or take the cast off and attend school. Well I chose to cut the cast off myself and attend school.
The decision made a big change in my life in which I had to choise my health or school. I really don’t know if my foot is OK, my toe works like normal but I need to go to a doctor to find out if it is really OK.
so i'm confused - why couldn't he have worn the cast *and* gone to school? i remember kids in casts and on crutches pretty often during my schooling. do kids still sign other kids casts? or are those who have suffered accidents merely objects of derision now? at any rate, i'm definitely not buying the "i accidentally hit the knife and it cut my foot" story. the fact that 13 year-old boys on spring break are prominently featured makes me wonder what kind of knife games they were playing.
Posted by jamie at January 12, 2004 12:54 PM"spelling, grammar and sentence structure are the authors." is this really what you meant to write? if those are the actual names of the authors, shouldn't they be capitalized?
Posted by: crispin at January 12, 2004 01:53 PMi could cheat and go back and edit the entry to correct the missing apostrophe. but i won't. instead i'll just say that the capitalization policy around here is arcane at best and arbitrary at worst.
Posted by: jamie at January 12, 2004 02:50 PMI like your blog :)
I don't get where this dead letter came from. (Whoever Crispin is will probably yell at me for ending my sentence w/ a preposition).
Posted by: Claire at January 12, 2004 11:32 PMthe letters are things that i have found on the file serer in my office. when somebody leaves the company, i usually have to go through their folders to clean them out, etc. when it's not obivous what something is, i open it and often times find some pretty amusing and/or interesting stuff.
Posted by: jamie at January 13, 2004 10:25 AM