i am tired.

Student attacks 19 classmates with needle
8-year-old sparks health scare at Philadelphia elementary school

The Associated Press
Updated: 7:21 p.m. ET April 29, 2005


PHILADELPHIA - A third-grader stuck 19 schoolmates with her mother’s diabetes blood-testing needle this week, and one pricked student tested positive for HIV on a preliminary test, officials said.

Health officials said the virus could not have been contracted from the needle stick, and they noted that preliminary tests can yield false positives. The risk to students who were stuck after the possibly infected child depends on factors including the depth of the stick, health officials said.

The 8-year-old stuck her Taylor Elementary schoolmates Wednesday at the school’s breakfast, at lunch and in the classroom, using a needle that was about one-third of an inch long, on the end of a device that looks like a pen, school officials said. They were unsure why the girl did it.

She was suspended and will probably be moved to another school, said Paul Vallas, the school district’s chief executive.

Most of the students involved were taken to a hospital for testing and treatment, school officials said.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of HIV infection after a needle stick is low, with an average of one in 300 cases leading to infection.

Reuters
Updated: 12:11 p.m. ET April 27, 2005


STOCKHOLM - Swedish investigators are baffled by a mysterious illness affecting over 400 children of asylum-seekers, mostly from former Soviet and Yugoslav states, who fall into a deep depression and lose the will to live.

The government presented its first study of the so-called “apathetic children” on Wednesday, after King Carl XVI Gustav added his voice to a chorus of concern from charities, church groups and politicians who want them protected from deportation.

“It is dreadful what is happening to these poor children,” the Swedish king told reporters.

The condition is known as Pervasive Refusal Syndrome and can be life-threatening. It affects boys and girls of all ages, but mostly aged 8-15, who refuse to speak, move, eat or drink for days or many months, and must be drip-fed to keep them alive.

More questions than answers
Virtually unknown before 2000, the condition has been seen on a large scale only in Sweden. But the researchers ruled out that the children were faking their condition.

“I have never believed that,” said researcher Nader Ahmadi. He has documented 409 cases in the last two years -- many more than the 150 cases originally reported. But the data raised more questions than it answered, as he acknowledged.

“Why have these cases apparently only happened in Sweden? Why do they mostly come from such specific places in the world?” asked Ahmadi.

Charities like the Red Cross and Save the Children have criticized the Social Democrat government for refusing to give the children an amnesty or legal protection from deportation.

Immigration Minister Barbro Holmberg has argued that all asylum petitions must be dealt with individually. Authorities continue to deport such children, when it deems their lives are not at grave risk and they will receive good care in their homelands.

But the father of two girls from Azerbaijan suffering from the syndrome who now face deportation said it was “not true at all” that they would receive good care back home. The family suffered violent persecution there for being half Armenian.

Elvira, aged 13, has been in a coma-like state for months and now her sister Eleonora, aged 7, is slipping into the same state. “Last week Eleonora refused to eat, drink or go to the toilet,” their father, Abulfat, told Reuters.

oooohh look at me scary for hallowe'en!!
i'm tired and the halloween party and trick or treating and cleaning up for/and after the party took a lot out of me. i hope everyone's holiday was fun and stuff.

look, there's an orb in the picture. i am surrounded by the deceased. :!

white castle burgers are fucking disgusting.

i remember one time when i was about nine yrs old, my teacher had gotten these really cool pencils, there were all sparkly and holographic, and i wanted them something awful.
so, during recess, (which i never got to participate in b/c of my asthma-but really my mom was loopy) i took these pencils. then, as i was hastily shoving them in my desk, one of my classmates (and an arch-enemy) named bridgett walked in. she always wore her hair in these two fat long braids. i really didn't like her. she says,
"oh! those are mrs. jenkin's pencils! i'm telling her your stealing them!"
and i probably denied this statement and told her to shut up. i can't quite remember.
so, recess ends, we're writing in our spelling books, and i look up to see a different teacher and good ol' bridgett walking into the classroom. seems that bridgett raised such a ruckus about me stealing some pencils the teacher finally went to mrs. jenkin's room to see what was going on. i watch them go up to mrs. jenkin's desk while bridgett is pointing at me frantically.
my brain is working a million miles a minute, and i know if they look, they'll find these god-damn pencils. so what i do is i chew off the eraser tips. then i bite all over them. see, i was trying to make them look used and old. well holy hell it worked. because now i got two teachers and fuck-face bridgett coming at me, and i sit there all innocent looking. they look in my desk, and find my old, chewed up pencils that do look quite like the ones mrs. jenkin's just got. but see, these are old and tore up. the two teachers are disqusted with bridgett now. mrs. jenkin's looks at her and scowls. she says, "come on, bridgett, these are not mine, mine were brand new. now i should give you a blue slip just for accusing ginger of theft and for wasting our classes' time."
so, i get away with stealing, but my newly stolen objects are so ugly i throw them away after school.

true story.

i found the house i want. all i need is a 7,560 dollar down payment. damn.