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2004-09-29 @ 8:38 p.m.

I just stepped off the weighing machine, and to my horror, I weigh 78 kg now. It's not like I eat a lot these days, especially since lunch in school is a sad affair. Okay, so I did have a smoked salmon sandwich at O'Brien's Irish Sandwich Bar at CityLink, and I haven't been swimming since God knows when. To think that I almost signed up to do a lifeguard course. I wonder how much they get paid? Not very much, I suppose. My new life resolution - to become a lifeguard! I can see everyone laughing already. The only person less likely than me to get involved in a job like that is a dead person. Exaggeration, but not that far from the truth. Do you think studying burns a lot of calories?

Finally completed one chapter of Sloman today, and my progress is appalling. I'm going to skip all my lessons tomorrow after Ms Lim's, they're not doing any good anyway. The class had a surprisingly good attendance today, 18 people. Why did everyone decide to show up on the shortest school day, especially if some of them left midway after Mr Purvis did English during GP? Got back the comparative essay today, and I think I'll give up trying to say anything other than what the writing makes me feel from now on and why. Haha, you'd think I'd have learnt that after the Middlemarch piece I did in Term 2. That brings me to a question I've given some thought to in random moments. Which is worse, having to live up to other's expectations of you, or when those expectations actually coincide with your own?