Background knowledge: it's a well-known fact that all goth girls date guys who work nights, or work too much so they're unavailable at all or most hours. In this case, boyfriend said he'd be up around 6 am.


1. Having made arrangements with said boyfriend for lunch, the girl gets up around 9 am, gets dressed, and waits for a phone call. At 12:30, she gives up phoning and texting, and leaves.

2. Having been informed that her class that day will be group oriented, so you'd better damn well have read the stupid fucking novel or you'll look like an idiot in front of your group members, and considering it's Nov. 2, and her last midterm of four plus a presentation finally ended on the 31st, she did not have and fucking time to read much more of the stupid book (that had the absolute worst opening line she's ever read anyway), she decides to skip class.

3. It's her mother's birthday.

4. Having already gone up to the mall to look for a specific book for a birthday gift earlier that week and finding said mall out of stock in this particular book, girl decides to wait for the bus up to another shopping center with another, much larger bookstore.

5. Having checked the weather channel, girl sees that it is 7 degrees, going to be 11 later in the afternoon. Girl wears a skirt, and a jacket with quarter sleeves, no coat.

6. Bus that comes every 10-15 minutes is a half-hour late.

7. While standing at the bus stop, some old guy starts walking up the sidewalk (uphill) pulling a bicycle. Girl tries to back out of the way, fails, and falls into someone's flowerbed and bushes, getting filled with splinters, and itchy tree DNA. She may have also flashed said old man while falling.

8. Having finally reached the bookstore at almost 1:30, she's really hungy but boyfriend hasn't called, so she decides to go shopping first. The big bookstore also is out of stock in that particular book.

9. Having failed, she decides to look around for anything that looks like a good enough present. Unfortunately, they've turned 1\3 of the store into a child's play area.

10. She runs into a girl whose books girl failed to return 3 years ago, and subsequently leant them to someone else, who moved to Amstardam. Awkward.

11. Having extricated herself, girl hunts around and finds a book that her mum mentioned was meant to come into print this month, the final in a trilogy. Success!

12. In making her way to the cash desk, she runs into ... her old boss. Girl can't remember boss's name. Awkward.

13. Having paid for said book, girl makes her way over to hamburger joint accross the street for lunch. Boyfriend hasn't called, it's 2 pm and there's some hunger happening. She gets some food and sits down to eat, when 2 large families speaking what sounds like Russian and Chinese all invade the restaurant. All the children begin to scream simultaneously.

14. Having finished the meal, girl goes over to a shoestore that has her favourite stockings. Girl buys 4 pairs. Hooray!

14. Having completed this, girl goes across the parking lot to the supermarket to find some sort of birthday cake. As it was her own birthday last week, there is still some in the house. Girl is thinking brownies or some sort of squares, for variety. Unfortunately, all available brownies are smashed in their boxes.

15. Having decided not to purchase any brownies, girl walks around the baking department for an alternative. Some old bat decides that goth girl doesn't need to look at baking, and makes it her business to stand directly in front of the girl no matter which way she turns. It was kind of like a Seinfeld episode.

16. Having been sufficiently scared by this (perhaps unwitting) hostility, girl grabs a cheesecake and heads for the door.

17. It was apparently the most expensive cheesecake in the store.

18. Girl leaves the supermarket only to realise that the wind has picked up, the clouds have gathered, and it's really cold.

19. She goes through one parking lot, barely survives the walk across the gravel in the intersection, crosses the street, and gets to another parking lot adjacent to the bus depot. Her bus which comes apparently very seldomly, is turning into the depot. Girl can't really run, due to books, stocking horde, and cheesecake. Usually the bus waits at the depot. But today is Monday, and the bus leaves, goth girl being about 100ft away from bus.

20. Having failed at catching the bus and progressively getting more and more cold, girl waits for the bus to the mall and decides to suck up the 25 minute walk back home.

21. Some creepy guy tries to sit next to her, even though there's only 3 people on the bus. Including the driver. Girl wonders if throwing the hated cheesecake at Creep will distract him long enough to escape.

22. Having survived the bus ride, girl walks home, cold and clammy. The original bus passes her, going the opposite direction, towards the bookstore. Which is particularly annoying, as she wouldn't have fallen into the bushes earlier if said bus had had similar timing earlier that morning.

23. Girl gets home around 3:30, sad because class would be only a half hour over, and she wasn't able to do anything more productive than get cold and buy a cheesecake.

24. She puts the cake in the fridge, takes off her coat and sits down in the warm room, happy to be alone for a moment. Instantly, her mum comes home.

25. Girl runs to the other room to find wrapping paper. There isn't any.

26. Mom has had a bad day and is particularly bitchy.

27. The book that girl had bought was wrong. It was part 2, which mom already had.

28. They decide to go for pizza instead of cooking.

29. Girl realizes at the pizza place that she forgot to pick up her medication earlier that day because of all the excitement. They decide to pick it up before they head home.

30. The Pharmacy has a large, newly errected sign that informs her that she should have phoned in her perscription if she wanted to pick it up. She attempts to appeal to the pharmicist, who chews her out. They are told to wait 15 minutes and then come back for it.

31. They decide to go to the petstore, as they have several pens of rabbits out front. They are of course, horrifically adorable. Except for one, who is aggressively chewing on the metal portion of the water bottle.

32. Girl and mom notice that there isn't any water in the bottle. We inform the staff lady. She doesn't believe us at first. But she sees the error of her ways, and refills the bottle and brings a little bowl of water for them in addition. All rabbits leap up and drink almost the entire bowl. It makes her feel better to help.

33. They decide to wander deeper into the store. Near the back, there is a pen of birds. Goth girl likes birds. They are shy, but girl remembers that birds like shiny objects, such as rings. A bird likes the ring and starts to bite it. Then more birds start to bite it. Then they start climbing up her arm to get to her buttons. Then they think her hair is shiny and start to bite on that. Meanwhile, her mom has wandered away to look at kittens, and a family of immigrants laugh at goth girl.

34. Eventually, girl is freed of birds. They look sadly at her as she starts to leave. Girl is depressed for the rest of the day.

35. Having survived, they get the medication and go home. Girl realises the stockings she bought were wrong, and now can't return them.

36. Boyfriend finally calls at 8 pm, and doesn't ask about her day. She knows she'll have to spend an hour typing it all into deviantart later that week.

37. The mom didn't want dessert, so now the stupid cheesecake is sitting in the fridge untouched.

38. She goes to bed after washing her hair, thinking that 6 hours is enough sleep. But the retarded neighbors decide they need to start drilling up their concrete carpark an hour before her alarm goes off. They already spent all summer fucking around with it, drilling it back up, building it and drilling it up again.

39. Girl decides she has enough time for breakfast. She doesn't, apparently, and misses her bus.

40. Now she is sitting in class, having forgot to do the readings for this class, too. Also, the guy next to her has swine flu and just threw up.

41. Her boyfriend was supposed to call about going out for raincheck lunch. He has not.


What the hell.

Sorry for the ultra long entry. But if I didn't scream about it, I'd probably combust.