106. Ballet
July 14, 2008
It hurt a lot. Of course it hurt; breaking your leg always hurts. But at the moment I heard the bone snap, I was relieved. Even in my pain, I was ecstatic.
Here’s what happened. It was the middle of June, and I had a whole summer vacation stretching gloriously before me. My big sister had a summer job selling computers at the mall, and Mom and Dad were working too. I was too old for a babysitter and too young for a job, so I would spend the summer blissfully alone. I would answer to no one.
When Mom dropped the bomb, I had already blown through a week of vacation. I spent that first week reading comic books, taking long walks slathered in sunscreen, and watching DVD’s that I got at the library. When I got bored of all that, I surfed the internet, updating the Wikipedia entry on Buffy the Vampire Slayer when I spotted a mistake.
So I was a geek; so what? I was going to spend the perfect geeky summer. Read the rest of this entry »
