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Dear Diary,
I now realize that living with my family and getting a college education is impossible. My brother suffers from a severe nervous tick that includes screaming, convulsions, and other violent behavior usually provoked by sounds that annoy him, such as people chewing their food. My youngest brother is nearly two years old and needs constant care, often I am asked to baby sit him, regardless of my homework schedule. My Father and Mother work at home, which would be alright, accept that neither of them like each other very much. That’s an understatement. To put it bluntly, they can hardly stay in the same room together without getting into an argument. These arguments tend to involve yelling, screaming, threats, slamming of doors and other disruptive behavior. Today my mother and my two brothers were out all day and my father was in his studio. I actually felt pretty optimistic and finished a lot of school. Within fifteen minutes of their return, I had a migraine and sudden lethargy. My brother had invited his friend over and the two of them turned on cartoons very loudly. I was asked numerous times, by mother to babysit my youngest brother and my father called twice to ask me to watch a TV documentary with him despite my telling him the first time I had a lot of homework to do. Because I can’t produce my best quality of work in this environment, moving into a school dorm would be my best option, problem is, with my grades I can’t get into a college with dorms and I can’t improve my grades without a quiet place to stay. It’s a cath 22.
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