There are good times in life and there are bad times. Bad times sometimes have a good side, like being sick getting you out of school. This only works if you are sick while school is on. You see, on Friday I caught a cold while at school. It was pretty bad, though all I got from sick bay was a few cough drops for my throat. So then I spent the whole weekend with a blocked and running nose, on and off headaches, a sore throat and the kind of coughing to wish you didn't have a throat.
Yes, life hates me. But now, finally, it's Monday. So I spent this morning, lying in bed before I had to catch the bus, breathing only through my mouth. This worked very well in that by the time mum came to see if I could go to school, my throat was so dry I could barely speak. Which means that right now I am all alone in the house while mum is at work and my little brother is at school. Yay me!
But... I still have a cold. The nose isn't running as bad as it could be, the throat is still sore and the coughing hurts a hell of a lot, but at least the headaches are gone and I don't have to talk to my history teacher today about not doing the homework properly. I am missing a flute lesson, but I'd be more cut if I was missing my piano lesson, which is on Wednesday. There is Chapel today, and I am very happy to miss that, though I would have liked to go to Art.
The thing is with these days off school is that every now and then I really need one. School is just so stressful that even one day away when I know I'm supposed to be there can work wonders on my state of mind. Of course mum would never give me a day off just becuase I'm stressed, so I have to overwork the 'sick factor' until she feels so sorry for me she has no choice. Nevertheless, I find it near impossible to fake it. So instead my only hope is getting truthfully sick, which is so rare it's annoying.
But, anyway, there was something else I wanted to write about, which is My Chemical Romance. Just yesterday I downloaded a number of their songs, namely 'You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison', 'It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Deathwish', 'I'm Not OK, I Promise', and 'Ghost Of You'. What I have noticed is that the lead singer, Gerard Way, can talk rather fast. I wouldn't call it singing, he rarely seems to do that, but I would say that he is rushing through these lyrics so fast I can barely understand what he's saying, even with them written down right in front of me. He is constantly twisting words with some unknown accent that leaves me wondering and just being plain incomprehensible.
Then there is the music itself. While I like the sound of songs like 'I'm Not OK, I Promise', 'Famous Last Words' and 'Welcome To The Black Parade', most of the others just seem to be a lot of random notes belted out so fast they're fighting the Gerard for who gets to cause the headache for the listener.
I will admit they are very good and clearly pretty popular, but I just don't get the facination people have with them. It's wierd, seriously. Then again, I've fallen in love with a band that the majority of people around me have never heard of. But that's only to be expected in a back-water country like Australia. Over here we get everything at least six months after everyone else, which means the good ol' US of A, how I hate Americans.
On that note, I need some honey and lemon water, my throat is killing me.
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