Monica's Journal: my birthday - adopt a donkey

today's my birthday! turning 22 is somewhat anti-climactic. but i still feel damn old. i'm 22? what?

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    there's this girl in my British History class who only comes about half the time. she's weird because she has the fashion and the coiffure like she's probably paying full tuition. she also talks exactly like Six from that old tv show Blossom. but i learned today that even though she celebrates christmas, she's never given a christmas present. she says she's an only child and her parents always buy her presents and she's never had a job or money of her own, so they think it's weird to give her money to buy them presents. but what about other people in her life? that's just so strange. i often get my friends presents when they didn't get me anything, and that's ok, because one of the best parts is watching them open what you picked out for them. she's never had that experience. it was so strange.

    but other than that, she said that her grandmother had a donkey in italy, and that for christmas, they always get her something donkey-related, and one time they adopted her a donkey from adopt-a-donkey.com. and now every month the grandmother loves waiting at the mailbox for the update on what her donkey did that month.

    oh, and by the way, i didn't ask this girl about any of this stuff. nor was i interested. she volunteered it while i tried to walk away.

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    oh, and a friend of mine sent me this too. i think she thought it was serious: Americans for Purity, Winning the War on Masturbation.