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buys plastic water bottles by the case. She never thinks about how much jet fuel she’s using when she’s flying around doing her consulting business.
    Does being smarter and a little more aware do anything? Does it change anything? No. I never say this to Jessica, though. She’s sensitive about her family because her dad had an affair when she was little and their family almost broke up. So there’s a “no talking about anything” policy in their house. Everything is FINE.
    The End
February 6
    Wow. I never got a D before. It felt kind of liberating. You can only go up from a D.
    Cogs didn’t look too well today. I hope he’s feeling all right. He stood over me for several seconds when we got our papers back, giving me the Cogweiller stare.
    After school I asked if I could do another makeup. He strongly encouraged me to do so.
February 7
    Hung out with Jessica Carlucci after school. We went to the gym to watch her sister’s JV basketball game. Jessica was talking about college stuff. All the smart kids are thinking about college stuff now.
    Last year when I broke up with Sadie, Jessica helped me a lot. That was the period when we changed from knowing each other to becoming actual friends. I wonder why we never went out. She does seem to like me. I’m not sure why. Because I understand her, I guess. I don’t judge her. I don’t know why I don’t judge her. I judge everybody else.
    Jessica is very pretty. And she wears really nice clothes and earrings and gets her hair done and all that. She’ll marry some good-looking rich guy someday. That’s what I thought as I watched the girl basketball players fall over each other chasing a loose ball. And she’ll live in the West Hills and take her kids to tennis lessons at the club. She will grow up to represent everything I hate.
    But you know what? Jessica Carlucci was the only one who understood what it did to me to break up with Sadie. Nobody else got it. Nobody else understood. She used to call me late at night, to see if I was okay.
    So there you go.
    James Hoff
    Junior AP English
    Mr. Cogweiller
    MAKEUP TO THE MAKEUP ASSIGNMENT: four-page essay on a person who has influenced you
KARL MARX
    One person who has influenced me is Karl Marx. He was a revolutionary and the first Marxist (duh), and an important thinker who has influenced people around the world.
    Karl Marx was alive during the Industrial Revolution, when the first factories were being invented. He looked around and saw that poor people were going to have to work in the factories, and he realized that the men who ran the factories were going to take advantage of the poor people, like make them work twelve hours a day and make little kids work and just generally screw them over in every way possible. It was a very bad situation and it was only going to get worse.
    So Marx got involved.
    Actually, he didn’t get involved. He went to the library and read a lot of books and let his hair grow so that when he became famous he would look distinguished and have a huge beard like other notable philosophers.
    Anyway, after he read a lot of books, he wrote The Communist Manifesto, which is awesome and one of my favorite books.
    The Communist Manifesto tells all those poor people to get together, not take any crap from the factory owners, and fight back. There’s some philosophy and other complicated stuff, too, so that people can study it in college and write books about it.
    The main thing I like about Marx is all those years he spent hanging around the library. Whenever I’m at the Central Library downtown and I see homeless people wearing pots on their heads or talking to newspaper boxes, I think: That might be the next Karl Marx.
    Or maybe I am the next Karl Marx. Because I spend a lot of time thinking about the evils of the world and wandering around the public libraries. Also, as soon as I can, I’m going to grow a huge beard because huge beards are