blog 65

Despite my sickness, I am still expected to drive the ten hours to New Jersey to visit family. My dad has an irrepressible knack for guilting the hell out of me until I have to do something. Reasons for not going? 1. I’m too tired; I’ve had a very stressful past couple of weeks and just want to relax. 2. I am now very sick and don’t know if I can even be confined to a car for an hour, much less 10 hours. 3. Now that I have received all of the wonderful homework for break (I already had a lot), I will basically be doing homework for the entire break. My dad’s response is, “You’re selfish and you’re gram is going to die if you don’t go see her now. You don’t have time to mess around she is very old and there will be no second chance.” After hearing something like that and considering that consequence, how could I not go? Sick or not, I know if that happened I would just be miserable as hell and hate myself for not going. So now I am going to wake up at 7am, go to the two lectures I have that my doctor has strictly ordered me not to go to, and then drive home to Dad’s house so that I can get in another car by 1pm and start the 10 hour journey to New Jersey, during which he expects me to drive most of the way because I am younger. Then once I get there I am going to continuously and monotonously work on chemistry, English, and math almost the entire time I am there. I will get frustrated and upset, and won’t be any fun during the festivities. I don’t really even have any idea what we are doing in English. The packet isn’t clear.