Eeks

What's the world coming to? One of my entourage teens was telling me this afternoon about all the teens she has known who have gotten pregnant, including one that's not even a teen, an 11 year old girl in middle school! First of all that doesn't even seem possible to me because most girls haven't gone through puberty yet at 11, but then again with those freaky chicken hormones maybe it is possible. Creepy, but possible. Especially because it means that 11 year olds are having sex and I refuse to accept that. Or maybe this girl is just an urban legend, like the story about the woman who had a spider crawl into her ear and lay eggs. I had more than a few people tell me that story when I came back from South America and had a spider bite that, 2 months after getting it, became itchy again, and people suggested I had an egg-laying situation in my foot.

On a lighter note, I'm thinking, once again, that I must be allergic to my mid-sized Canadian city. For the second time in two weeks I have been violently sick on a sunday night - and this most recent time I had very itchy palms and soles of my feet, which led me to believe it was an allergic reaction to something. And there are so many things to choose from - bad beef, weird weather, cotton spores, pigeon shit, rednecks, 17 year olds who keep hitting on me - it could be anything, really. One could also consider the massive amounts of bacteria that likely live at the library in the teen area. Again, I ask - worker's comp? I think if anyone deserves it, it's me. If not for the illness, then for the fact I have to put up with so many fucking teenagers.