11/11/2002 - 9:19 a.m.

Why do they say May Day? It's just a bank holiday.

I always have paper with me. Always. Except this morning (figures). But I did have a pen (luckily).

I went to bed about ten last night. It didn't happen that way on purpose, Emma did it to me. So, I woke up at seven this morning and was in class by 7:45. That's 15 minutes early for anyone keeping track.

I was sitting in class and I just let my brain wander and all of a sudden I had a John Lennon writing Nowhere Man moment. A poem just came to me, absolutely complete. I sat up and pulled out my pen and wrote it out on my hand. The two jocks on either side of me think I'm absolutely nuts. Ah well.

I happen to think it's a really good poem. I just have this creeping suspicion that it's not mine, that I've heard it someplace else. So, I'll write it down, and if you recognise it, let me know.

Moonlight covers the distant pines.
It glows where brilliant creeper twines.
It passes over hill and dale
To meet two sitting lovers pale
In moonlight white with filmy sheen.
How can words every really mean
Anything when said here now,
Moonlight shining on every bough.
Too beautiful to quite believe,
Pains this moonlight does conceive.

I really hope it is mine, because it's rather good. Well, I think it is.

All I want to know now is why this lovely national holiday, Veterans Day, Armistance Day, whatever you want to call it, why it's not a day off for everybody. Same goes for President's Day. Some places that means that things close, and other places that means that things are open and having a sale. Could we please decide whether or not the schools should remain open on a national decision? Everybody gets Christmas vacation (Winter vacation my ass, it's done for Christmas and we all know it is) and that's religion, why not these state holidays? The schools are supposed to be more aligned with the state than the church. Martin Luther King Day is a day off school, but not other state holidays.