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This time tomorrow I might actually be doing homework. What a thought.

Week 2

    I am not doing any homework, but that’s mostly because I am so, so tired. I had forgotten how exhausting stupid schoolis. It doesn’t really make sense because when we were at the summer camp we were standing up and moving around and DOING STUFF all day and I always felt fine in the evenings. But after one day of just sitting at a bunch of stupid desks, I’m so tired I can barely stand. It’s so unfair.
    Today wasn’t totally and utterly bad, of course. It was nice to see some of the people we didn’t see as much of over the summer, like Emma and Jessie. And even though we have Mrs Harrington for English again this year, the class was actually quite interesting because we’ve been reading some good books for English and, to my great surprise, Mrs Harrington wasn’t as annoying as she usually is. In fact, she didn’t make a single reference to my mother’s books, which is not like her at all as she is scarily obsessed with Mum’s boring stories about kindly old ladies. As she hadn’t seen me for months, I’d assumed she’d be dying to ask me questions about ‘what lovely tales your mammy is thinking of now’ (that is how she always talks, so you can see how annoying she is). But no. In fact, she was so quiet I’d actually be worried that there was something seriously wrong with her if she hadn’t seemed pretty cheerful too. She just seemed a bit distracted. I suppose I should just be thankful and not question it too much.
    Actually, I always feel a bit bad giving out about Mrs Harringtonnow, who is irritating but means well. I do not, however, feel bad about giving out about Vanessa Finn, who does not mean well at all and who has somehow become even more annoying since the last time I saw her, which was only a month ago at the summer camp. Apparently a few weeks ago she auditioned for a big part in an advertising campaign, and she’s totally convinced that she’s going to get it.
    ‘I’m expecting a call at any moment,’ she said at lunch, making sure everyone in the room could hear her.
    ‘I’m sure they’ll ring soon,’ said Caroline, Vanessa’s best friend.
    ‘It’s so exciting, Vanessa!’ said Karen Rodgers, and I had to remind myself of how Karen had stood up for Cass at the summer camp because otherwise her smarmy tone would have made me get sick. ‘And you totally deserve it! An actor with your skills deserves a bigger audience.’
    Also, it turns out that getting this ad could be Vanessa’s only chance of being on television this year because her appearance in the reality show
My Big Birthday Bash
has been cancelled! Or rather, the entire show has been cancelled. I am quite relieved because we were all at her birthday party when they filmed it back in February and I don’t particularly want to see myself on telly. And Vanessa is pleased about it too.
    ‘Yeah, reality TV wasn’t the right outlet for my talents,’ she said.
    Though of course we all know she didn’t want the show to air because her party ended up with her being knocked into a cake by a pink pony. But no one mentioned that. Cass caught my eye and made a little neighing sound, but that was all.
    I did notice that Karen’s sidekick, Alison, was looking a bit bored when Vanessa was going on about all this. Ever since Karen and Vanessa became friendly I have been hoping Caroline and Alison would team up and escape their clutches, because both of them are quite nice when they’re not being sidekicks. But it doesn’t seem to have happened yet. Though Alison was on some sort of computer course during the summer and she was talking about that to Emma after maths (oh maths, I have not missed you) this afternoon. So maybe she’s escaping very, very slowly.
    Another person who hasn’t changed much is Miss Kelly. She marched into our first geography class of the year and immediately started going on about her environmentally friendly summer