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to DEB
january
Monday
Everybody in my neighborhood is outside today
enjoying the warm weather and sunshine. Well,
everyone except ME . Its kind of hard to enjoy a
heat wave when its the middle of the WINTER .
People are calling this wacky weather, but it
just doesnt feel right. Maybe Im old-fashioned,
but I think it should be cold in the winter and
hot in the SUMMER .
Ive heard the whole PLANET is warming up, and
that human beings are the reason. But dont blame
ME, because I just GOT here.
If the world IS getting hotter, I just hope it
doesnt happen too FAST. Because if things keep up
at THIS rate, Ill be riding a camel to high school.
They say the ice caps are melting and the sea is
rising, so Ive been trying to convince Mom and
Dad to buy a house higher up on our hill. But
they just dont seem all that concerned.
It kind of makes me nervous that Im the only
one in my family worried about this stuff. Because
if we dont do something about the situation
SOON , were gonna wish we DID .
Its not just the rising sea levels Im nervous
about. Those ice caps have been around for millions
of years, and there could be things buried inside
of them that should STAY that way.
I saw a movie about a caveman who got frozen in
ice, and when it melted thousands of years later
he was still ALIVE . I dont know if that kind
of thing could actually happen in real life, but if
there ARE unfrozen cavemen walking around these
days, the night janitor at my school might be one
of them.
If we DO figure a way out of this climate
mess, its probably gonna be someone from MY
generation who solves it. Thats why Im always
nice to the SMART kids, because THEY RE
the
ones who are gonna save our butts.
Whatever the answer is, I guarantee you
TECHNOLOGY is gonna be the key.
Grown-ups are always saying that too much
technology is BAD for kids, but I say the more
the BETTER .
In fact, as soon as I can afford one of those
high-tech toilets that learns all your habits, Im
gonna get the most expensive model.
Some people worry that one day well lose control of
our technology and robots will take OVER .
Well, if that happens, Im gonna make sure Im
on THEIR side.
Ive actually been PREPARING for when the
robots take over by sucking up to the appliances
in my house.
So when theres a giant robot
/
human war in the
future, Ill be patting myself on the back for
thinking ahead.
My brother Rodrick says that in the future,
people will have robot body parts, and well all be
CYBORGS .
Well, I hope I dont have to wait too long for
that, because if I could buy myself a pair of
robot legs, I could get a half hour of extra sleep
each morning.
I guess we dont really know whats gonna happen
in the future. And you could drive yourself CRAZY
worrying about it.
Even if we solve all the problems we have right
now, some NEW thing will come along, and then
well have to deal with THAT .
Ive read thats what happened with the
DINOSAURS . They were riding high for
a couple hundred million years, and then an
asteroid came and wiped them out.
Whats really crazy is that cockroaches were around
back then, and somehow THEY survived. And
theyll probably be here long after were gone, too.
Personally, I think cockroaches are disgusting. But
they must be doing SOMETHING right.
Speaking of SURVIVAL , right now, Im just
trying to get through middle school. And the last
few days havent been all that great.
Even though its warm outside, the thermostat at
school still thinks its WINTER . So the furnace
is on full blast all day, which makes it hard to
concentrate in class.
And its worse in the CAFETERIA , because there
arent any windows you can open to get fresh air.
The heat has been frying my brain, and Ive been
forgetting when my school assignments are due.
I forgot a really BIG one today, which was my
country project for the International Showcase.
Back in November, everyone had to choose a
country to do a report on. I picked Italy,
because Im a HUGE pizza fan.
But it turns out Italy was a really popular
choice, so my Social Studies teacher had to do a
random drawing to decide who got it. And she
chose Dennis Tracton, which isnt fair because hes
lactose intolerant and cant even eat cheese.
So the teacher assigned me Malta, which I didnt
even know was a country.
Anyway, that was two months back, and I didnt
give my country project a second thought until
TODAY . And the only reason I remembered
was because when I got to school, everybody was
