I was homeschooled for most of my schooling, but I was in the eighth grade, in middle school, and it was a lot of fun. Three days into the year, if I remember correctly, a classmate informed me that I was wearing my socks wrong. To be specific, they should be down, but I liked wearing them up. I still like wearing my socks up as high as they'll go. It's sort comforting to have a couple of fuzzy things on you legs. Oh, heck. I really didn't like wearing my socks down then. They manually pushed my socks down. It actually got kind of ridiculous, but we had fun.

You can't have that sort of fun in high school. No one pressures you to be a certain way there, so I guess that no one can be so ridiculous as to make fun of your socks.

That's no fun.

Anyway, high school has a few events that weren't in middle school.

For instance, there's homecoming.

The basic idea behind homecoming, as far as I can tell, is that you pay, what, ten bucks, to see a bunch of your fellow classmates cream each other in a game of football or something then everyone goes to some dance or whatever. I, personally, don't think that sounds like fun. I hate to be a wet blanket, but I don't like watching sports games. Also, last year I was forced to go to two school dances, both of which were boring and inspired me to create "modern art". It seems to me that a bunch of people went to homecoming just because of the label.

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