I wanted to start of this post by saying a little bit about myself. Nothing personal, just some stuff I thought you should know before I started all of this. I am a light board operator in our school's theatrical productions, and it's really fun. I come from a really big family. I'm not going to bother you with all of the numbers, just know that it is really big.
         
           So I was at rehearsals today, and our stage manager (let's call her Jan) told me that all she had eaten that day was half a roll, and she had only had a carton of TruMu milk to drink, and when I asked her why, she told me she just hadn't been hungry lately. I started asking her more questions and found out that in the past week or two, she had only had one 3-meal day, and that was yesterday, because she was with her mom all day, and she didn't want her mom to find out. I'm really nervous for her! I was able to convince her to eat a bag of goldfish. Immediately after, she got up and went to the bathroom, trying to puke it back up. She said she wasn't going to eat dinner tonight. I'm really nervous for her. She made me promise not to tell the counselor, saying she had already gone to the counselor a year ago for cutting.
           I already know I'm breaking that promise. I'm going to the counselor as soon as I can. I mean, I don't want to lose her as a friend by breaking my promise, but I don't want her to end up lying on a hospital bed on life support when I could have stopped it. I don't want to have to look at her on a hospital bed in the future saying "I told you so" if I can stop that from happening in the present.
           I think the scariest part about it all is that she knows exactly what she is doing. She knows exactly what could happen if she doesn't eat. And her body is already accustomed to it. She says she can go 3 days with no food without being hungry at all. That isn't normal! She is a teenager! A normal teenager can barely go an hour without food! I don't know what to say to make her change her mind, and I don't know how to make her care.
            She's a wonderful person, and I don't want to see her dead.

            Anyway. On to a different subject. You know how your parents always say don't talk to strangers? Or to get in a car with them? Or take candy from them? Well, what about Halloween? You talk to strangers and take candy from them. It isn't right. And all of your teachers and classmates at school are strangers, and if you get on a bus, you most likely don't know the bus driver. So if you never spoke to strangers, you would never talk to anyone at all, not even your own family members. You don't know them when you (or in some cases, they) are born. It's basic logic. Am I the only person who has thought of this? Be honest.
 
           I'm watching Phantom of the Opera right now, the movie version. I love it. Am I the only person around here who thinks that the Phantom is the only sane one around this place? I mean, he hides away from the world. He really is a genius. I decided I want to be Christine, but who doesn't? It's the part of a lifetime. Phantom of the Opera is really famous. Anyway, I'm going to stop writing now and enjoy this perfect movie! Hope I did all right for my first post!