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What is it with bio class????
It's odd, but I only ever want to journal when I'm in a bad mood. I SHOULD be talking about my awesome trip to Colorado to snowboard, but I won't. I'm going to talk about something depressing. We're doing genetic stuff in Bio, and most of our homework has to do with genetic disorders. Well, it's finally caught up with me. A little while ago (less than a month) someone in my mom's office found out that her little girl that she was pregnant with was going to have Trisomy 18. I didn't really know what it was, but my mom said that the babies were born with a few little problems, usually including mental retardation. Including that, these sweet little babies with Trisomy 18 never live past a year, so their parents have to say goodbye to them at a very young age. So, while doing my Bio homework with my usual I-really-don't-care attitude while blasting my music and looking at my depressing website with pictures to go with the disorders, my mom asks a question. I can't hear, so I take off my headphones and ask her what she said. She repeats, "Are you reading about Trisomy 18?" Because I get very easily angered by my mom, I snap a quick "no" and go back to my depressing work. Well, there was a particularly depressing picture of a Turner Syndrome child on the screen, and I have to awkwardly read about this disease while thinking about that poor baby that's going to die within a year. While finishing my homework and listening to happy music, I start to feel a bit bad. Then I get to a sort of mello song, and hit the obvious 'repeat' button, so my mood can stay at about the same place instead of getting worse. Then onto my reading homework, I look up anaphora, which is where you repeat a few words at the beginning of each clause. Did you notice that the famous quote in "A Tale of Two Cities" does that? Well, Wiki did. Listening to my mello music and reading the somewhat depressing quote that ends with something about us all going to hell, I can't stand that baby hovering over my head and I write this. Stupid, huh? The worst part is that this is never going to ever help anybody with anyone. Another depressing thought.
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