An English class that speaks simian.

My most dreaded part of every day is not getting up in the morning. It's not sitting down and studying at night. It's not even the part when I overhear the neighbours yelling at each other and have make-up sex later. No, the absolute worst trial that I endure every day is English class.

At best, everyone sits there and does nothing. Usually I am one of those people, unless I bring real work from other classes to keep myself entertained. At worst, everyone utilises the nearest objects as projectiles to transform the room into a labyrinth of flying paper planes, balled up sheets from their workbook, dismantled pens and other generic office supplies. All sorts of things can happen in an English class, from sticking hands in moving fans to someone throwing someone else on top of a table and violently humping him, both of which have actually happened. The one thing that you can be sure doesn't happen is fulfilling work requirements.

It's not that the students are stupid... well there is that, but most are just disillusioned. Every class involved a multitude of arguments between student and teacher; she yells at the wrong person, they yell back, it escalates until someone gets sent out. Five minutes later it starts again, but with someone else. While this is funny to an extent, it's about time everyone grew up, and realised that nobody wants to be in that classroom but there is little choice in the matter. Trying to protest the system is the surest way to be entrapped within its constraints for even longer- if you spend all of your time yelling at the teacher then obviously it will be hard to pass the semester!

You would think that in such an imbecilic class, entertaining things would happen all the time. Sadly, this is not so. It stopped being funny after the first week- now it's more bleak than blithe. At least there's only another eighty or so hours of it this year. Fantastic.

In other news, my poor fatty cat has a chin infection. Two weeks ago the vet thought it was AIDS, but it turns out that it's just acne. Makes sense, it must be pretty easy to confuse the two!