I'd better get rid of the old birthday journal.
I'm on holidays now, for a few months so I will have time to draw again. I plan on going camping in Eungella National Park with my brother, then I will be house-sitting (looking after dogs) for a relative. Probably won't be doing too much else besides working and swimming at the beach, given the summer heat. Ah, I wish for a white Christmas! Or at least a semi-cool one. I envy you northern hemispherians and your upcoming winter.
Good luck with your end-of-year exams whenever they are, everyone!


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A rape awareness chain thing, that I copied from *ZightAura's journal, dated 16 November 2009:

<sub>Guy: "Can we have sex now?"
Girl: "Can we do what?"
Guy: "You know, can I be your first, finally?"
Girl: "Um... no."
Guy: "Why?"
Girl: "Because you have a girlfriend, who happens to be my friend..."
Guy: "So? If you don't tell, I won't tell."
Girl: "Besides that, I'm waiting for someone special. Someone that I want to be with for the rest of my life, to be my first."
Guy: "I'm not special to you?"
Girl: "You're my friend. That's all."
Guy: looks forward and keeps driving

5 minutes pass.......
Guy: starts to run his hand up the girl's thigh.
Girl: moves his hand. "Don't touch me.".
Guy: tries to kiss her.
Girl: screams, "Would you stop!"
Guy: continues trying.
Girl: moves to the back seat.
Guy: parks on an abandoned street and gets in the backseat with the girl. Starts to kiss her.
Girl: pushes him off and scoots over, "Please, don't do this."
Guy: "Don't do what? I know you want it, I can see it in your eyes." Moves over to her and starts to unbutton her pants.
Girl: pushes him harder and says, "No, don't."
Guy: getting aggravated, punches her and tells her to stop 'laying hard to get'.
Girl: crying, continues to fight.
Guy: punches her harder, pulls her pants off, and holds her down.
Girl: screams as he penetrates her, "NO, please don't do this to me!"
Guy: puts his hand over her mouth.

An hour passes.........
Guy: pulls back and wipes himself off.
Girl: sits on the corner of the seat, crying.
Guy: looks at her and says, "You had better not tell anybody about this. If you're really my friend, you won't tell anybody about this. You know I love you." He reaches out his hand to touch her cheek.
Girl: pulls back, "Just take me home, now."
Guy: says, "Alright." Gets in the front seat and drives her home.

2 months later.........
Girl: "Doctor, what's wrong with me? I haven't had my time of the month in 2 months.
Doctor: looks at her, "You haven't been having your "time" for a reason."
Girl: looks at him and says, "Why?" dreading the answer that she was sure to receive.
Doctor: "You are pregnant."
Girl: faints.

The story gets out that she is pregnant, and people start looking to the Guy. He claims that it isn't his because she was sleeping with every guy in the school(which was a lie). He goes to her and tells her, "I'm telling you, if you lie to people and say that I raped you, I'll kill you."

The Girl is completely devastated. First, he took her virginity and got her pregnant...then he lied about it. So completely depressed... the girl commits suicide by drug overdose...

Girls, if this story touched you, put this in your journal as "No means no!" [raven: I don't really care if you do or not]
Guys, if this story pisses you off, put in your journal as 'I'll kill any idiot who does this to my girl, or any girl" [I don't advocate killing people. D:]</sub>

I would also like to point out that guys can be raped as well. Not every male is 'wanting it'.