Well, everyone told me North would rock, but I think I speak for a lot of people when I say I have mixed feelings.

Firstly, it's too much like Lanier Middle at this stage. Heck, even the supply list is near the same. I guess that my fellow freshmen are still immature, as there's a lot of laughing at stuff that's not funny. Does that last line seem funny coming from me? Good, because if you know me, it should.

The bus is horrible because although we just got a 2007 Cadillac-like bus, it's way overcrowded and lots of kids have to sit 3 to a seat. That works in elementary school only. The bus also gets REALLY REALLY hot when kids are first boarding in the afternoon, and I'm not talking in-the-sun on a 100-degree day hot, I'm talking inside-of-an-oven hot.

Every day before lunch we're forced into these gay talks in the auditorium, which don't mean anything, no one listens to, and just take away from our lunch time. I just sit there with my Creative Zen Vision: M and rock out. I wonder if anyone has noticed the odd similarity here to the talks given to sixth graders during the first week at Lanier? Anybody?

Lunch is the most horrible part of all, with half-hour waits in the pizza line and 15-minute waits in the "express" line (no joke!). I guess that's not helped by the above talks.

Eh, overall, it's not good so far. But it'll pick up, people will settle into whatever cliques they decide to enter this year, and I won't end up joining any of them and doing whatever the hell I want (while probably straddling the borders between prep, nerd, and rebel). What else is new?

I don't know if anyone's figured out this yet, but I'm not really gonna write anything until school starts. Sorry if you're mad, but I don't care.

I added a Meebo widget, so that should be cool. Go to Meebo.com, you can use it to talk to friends on AIM, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Jabber, or MSN all at the same time! (You can talk to friends on AIM and MSN at the exact same time by only signing on to one log-in page and they're loaded together in one buddy list. It's all in your web browser, so it doesn't bog down you computer.)