Before starting to write this actual rant, I just want to say HOW MUCH I hate my computer at this moment, because it keeps giving me these C++ errors and shutting out Microsoft word, and there is no "Document Recovery" after this happens. I have a feeling that we will soon be burying our hard drive, which my dad says is the reason for all the buzzing that it does and the reason for the C++ errors. It’s been brewing all year, and perhaps even before this year. I have finally left my group. I am so tired of listening to Kayley D., who I am sure is a great person deep down, complain all the time and tease people. I'm sure that she drove Stephanie away from the table because she used to make fun of how Stephanie brought her lunch in a brown paper bag. I wish I had said more before, maybe I could've gotten her to stop all the teasing earlier. I bet she hurt Stephanie too. She also has an obsession with normal and not normal. This really bugs me; just because someone doesn't fit your perception of 'normal' doesn't give you the right to make fun of them. I'm not into normal and not normal, after all there is no such thing as normal, although there is such a thing as appropriate and inappropriate. It’s the constant teasing and making fun of people that bugs me, she's a real gossip. She also will bring up anything that you did that was dumb and funny, to her, repeatedly. For example, I accidentally picked up and bought a different drink than I had intended to for lunch one day. Getting back to the table, I noticed this, and mentioned my disgust for the drink, the icky pink grapefruit drink that I'd picked up instead of the wonderful Strawberry drink. So she made fun of my inability to tell pink from red. This was ok, the first time. If she'd only done it then, then it would've been ok. The problem is she brought it up over and over again for the next several weeks. Thus, I felt bad, because it felt like she was calling me an idiot. She also made fun of me over and over again for how slow I walk, calling me 'slowpoke'. That hurt too. Finally one day during lunch when we were in line together she was making fun of me for all sorts of dumb things, such as my vocabulary, I mean, who cares if nobody else uses words like 'lethargic' or 'vexing'? Why does she have to mock me for such dumb things? I finally got fed up with it and told her to stop because I don't like being teased ALL THE TIME! She replied 'oh, well I better do it more to toughen you up' then I told her to leave me alone. This isn't the remark that hurt the most though. It was when she told me that I should be 'less accepting of other people.’ I am extremely accepting of other people and I pride myself for it! Everyone is unique and that's why everyone is special, if you can't accept that, than just consider what the world be like if everyone was 'normal'. For one thing, we wouldn't have electricity because flying a kite in the wind with a key on the string is 'not normal'. We wouldn't have light bulbs because stuffing different kinds of wires in a jar is 'not normal'. We wouldn't have the United States of America, because revolting against the government and making up your own is 'not normal'. We wouldn't even be IN America because trying to sail around the world, which according to normal was flat, was not normal! The list goes on and on! Just think of all the medical knowledge that we have, we would have it if it weren't for 'not normal' people because cutting dead corpses to see what they look like inside is 'not normal'. Thus, I've come to the conclusion that being around this girl is not good for me. I am a hypersensitive person. This means that I need to be able to trust my friends, be supported by them, and not have to worry about them constantly teasing me. A little teasing is fine and fun, but all the time is just not appropriate. Thus, I've socially isolated myself, there isn't much time to pick up with another group of friends, I graduate at the end of this year, I have options, and I may pick up with Leah, who is in my ward, in the next week or two. I just need to cool off for a while. I bet I would've had a better time in high school if I hadn't had picked up with this negative friend. Basically, I've decided to take her 'advice' litterally for the moment, thus avoding her negative influence.