Optimist - someone who, when finding himself in hot water, decides to take a bath

I quoted that quote in gym today (Sorry, I've totally forgotten the source). Because I suck at gym, I paired with someone else who sucks at gym. My friend, because she is normal, was miserable ("It's gym, urgh, I'd rather die,"), so I said this quote. Naturally, we ended up taking the piss out of the gym lesson. Yay!

So this week has been a tad hectic for me, despite only going to my current school for two days (they only went back yesterday).

Basically, like rightbefore Christmas, another school offered me a place (I spent Mon-Wed there for like "taster" days). Not only is this at the most annoying time (way to disrupt my holidays), but it's also made me have to make a really hard choice! (Lots of venting ahead, skip down to the bottom if you don't want to read it.)

I am the most indecisive person ever. Pros of my school now are friends, no swimming (a general hate of mine), I'm not that new, meaning I know places/teachers/the way the school works (despite the joys of being nicknamed "Newbie"), the people are wittier/funnier, the pupils are a bit brighter (thus lessons are faster paced and more "crammed" - which I like). There's nothing wrong with it. Apart from the fact it costs £7,000 a year (~$14,000), including forms of scholarships. Everything else about the school I either like or don't mind. There aren't a lot of things I have a problem with.

Pros of this other school are that my sister's there, and that it's free. Eventhough money isn't everything etc, it feels as if I'm saying no to £7,000 - maybe something only a madman would do. The bus journey is a lot longer - up to an hour on the bus, and I can't sit still for twenty minutes. Though one of my old best friends is at the school round the corner, so I'll at least have someone on the bus to moan to. I'm not a big fan of the school's uniform - blue shirt, blue jumper, pleated blue skirt (Don't you just love the colour contrasts?). I'm kind of tired of being the newbie as well. The kids aren't as bright, the lessons aren't as testing (something I like 'cause I'm a nerd and all). Oh, right, the my classmates aren't as funny, but they're nicer (not that my "now-friends" aren't nice, it's just the fact these other people are like. Tres sympa.)

Unfortunately, my mind's a little too strange and believes humans can get used to anything. Even misery at school.

But there's nothing that's pushing me towards either side. I just want one school to tell me they don't want me studying there; that would just solve everything.

And people are like "Oh, just go with your heart, dear." Well, I apparently don't have a heart. It's been missing since the day I failed to make decisions. If money weren't the issue, I'd obviously stay at my current school. But money is an issue, and I am prone to guilt - I'm not a big fan of spending other people's money, even my parent's.

So I am pleading for help. How would you pick? If you're feeling nice (crosses fingers) please stick it in a comment (speaking of comments, sorry I haven't really commeneted on many).

Also, anyone else noticed the amount of posts we're getting per week? It's all seven posts a week 'till it's like the end of September, when it all goes to fives and fours. Just a little thing I found entertaining ;) On a good note, look! Blogger's now catorgarised our posts as 2008/9! Yay!

Ah, and book updates. I'm still only on the third Harry Potter book. Almost there, though. I spent the last two days reading 'The Wide Sargasso Sea' by someone whose name I've forgotten. It's like a spin off of Jane Eyre - it's the story of Bertha, Rochester's first and mad wife in the attic. I thought it was really good, so I recommend it if you've read Jane Eyre.

Hope y'all have a good weekend
(And sorry for the venting post.)

(P.S. Lysky! Sorry, I forgot to comment on your post. Happy birthday! Grats with the knee socks, haha)