Princess in the Spotlight by Meg Cabot Read Free Book Online

Gupta was totally unsympathetic. Even when I brought up all the kids who stand outside the school and smoke. Do they get in trouble for bumming cigarettes off one another?
    And what about the cheerleaders and their Dexatrim?
    But Principal Gupta said cigarettes and Dexatrim are different from narcotics. She took my codeine cough syrup away and told me I could have it back after school. She also told me not to bring it to school on Monday.
    She doesn’t have to worry. I was so embarrassed about the whole thing, I am seriously considering never coming back to school at all, let alone on Monday.
    I don’t see why I can’t be home-schooled, like the boys from Hanson. Look how they turned out.
    HOMEWORK
    Algebra: problems on pg. 129
    English: describe an experience that moved you profoundly
    World Civ: two hundred words on the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
    G&T: Please
    French: devoirs—les notes grammaticals: 141–143
    Biology: central nervous system

ENGLISH JOURNAL
     
    My Favorite Things
     
    FOOD
    Vegetarian lasagna
     
    MOVIE
    My favorite movie of all time is one I first saw on HBO when I was twelve. It has remained my favorite movie in spite of my friends’ and family’s efforts to introduce me to so-called finer examples of cinematic art. Quite frankly, I think that Dirty Dancing , starring Patrick Swayze and a pre–nose-job Jennifer Grey, has everything films like Breathless and September , created by supposed “auteurs” of the medium, lack. For instance, Dirty Dancing takes place at a summer resort. Movies that take place in resorts (other good examples include Cocktail and Aspen Extreme ) are just plain better, I’ve noticed, than other movies. Also, Dirty Dancing has dancing. Dancing in movies is always good. Think how much better Oscar Award–winning films, like The English Patient , would be if they had dancing in them. I am always so much less bored at the movies when there are people dancing on the screen. So all I have to say to the many, many people who disagree with me about Dirty Dancing is: “Nobody puts Baby in the corner.”
     
    TV SHOW
    My favorite TV show is Baywatch . I know people think it is very lame and sexist, but actually it isn’t. The boys are as scantily clad as the girls, and in the later episodes at least, a woman is in charge of the whole life-guarding operation. And the truth of the matter is, whenever I watch this show, I feel happy. That is because I know whatever jam Hobie gets into, whether it is giant electric eels or emerald smugglers, Mitch will get him out of it, and everything will be done to an excellent soundtrack, and with stunning shots of the ocean. I wish there was a Mitch in my life to make everything all right at the end of the day.
    Also that my breasts were as big as Carmen Electra’s.
     
    BOOK
    My favorite book is called IQ 83. It is by the bestselling author of The Swarm , Arthur Herzog. IQ 83 is about a bunch of doctors who mess around with DNA, and they unwittingly cause an accident that makes everyone in the world lose a bunch of IQ points and start acting dumb. Seriously! Even the president of the United States. He ends up drooling like an idiot! And it’s up to Dr. James Healey to save the country from being populated by a bunch of overweight morons who do nothing but watch Jerry Springer and eat Ho Hos all day. This book has never gotten the attention it should receive. It hasn’t even been made into a movie!
    This is a literary travesty.

Even later on Friday
    What am I supposed to do about this stupid English journal assignment, Describe an experience that moved you profoundly ? I am so sure. What do I write about? The time I walked into the kitchen and found my Algebra teacher standing there in his underwear? That didn’t move me, exactly, but it was certainly an experience.
    Or should I talk about the time my dad spilled his guts about how it turns out I am the heir to the throne of the principality of Genovia? That was an experience,