I have been sick. I feel like the beetle Gregor in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I awake in my bed, finding that I cannot move an inch because of my weak state. I look around the room at my old self. The one that was lively and exciting. I try to get up and return to that self, but it seems impossible. My legs do not work, I like Gregor, has to relearn to use them. They are hot and weak and wobbly. Therefore I do not even move out of bed the first day. My parents come in and look at me, wonder what I could have caught. They bring me food, to my suprise the things I used to like I cannot stand. But then, I cannot stand any normal food anymore. By the end of the day, I try to eat the apples. Apples usually make my mouth itch, but I ate them without problem, unlike the rest of the food that was brought. My mom comes in, looks at the plate in dissapointment, and takes it away. I feel like Gregor, trapped, insecure, ill. However, I am not like Gregor, my family loves me and supports me. I do get better. I start eating more. I start walking more. I start thinking and reading properlly once again. The evil, horrible, stomach virus has left me to catch someone else. My brother's understanding and feeling of the same kind of miserable state strengthens me, while he becomes weak.!

I just finished my second reading of my favorite book in the wholeee wide and narrow world! and even though i read it the second time in english instead of german and even though i knew what was going to happen in the end, I still loved it. The ending is the most important...the second half, because it is so twisting. Anyone who loves romances will probably like this book, but it's not just that which makes me like the book, it's the characters and their unique and half realistic and half fantasy like being that makes the book so special...plus it is set in the time of World War II. This book is for those who want to escape life for a while and live a beautiful, but not always simple, tale of two people in love. I won't say more you'll just have to trust me...it's called A Song for Summer or Das Lied eines Sommers by Eva Ibbotson. This book is about a love that is so great it can only be formed from excessive devotion and longing for one another. THe kind of love many people wish for but only so many recieve.

I cannot understand how some people can support a candidate and totally ingnore any false things he says or any facts that conflict with his statue. Most people know both sides and just have to chose between one...but then so much goes into sabotaging the other candidate that it becomes humerous. I like how the emmies totally made fun of that with the actors dressed up as George Washington's opposers.