OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! by Rae Earl Page A

1960s – there’s a deep spiritual trance and then there’s just being asleep.”
6.01 p.m.
    Looking around there seems to be more adult nutters than ever before. Perhaps it’s a virus.
6.18 p.m.
    Dimple told me that MGK is now officially telling people I’m her sister but “only vaguely”. Apparently MGK keeps saying “accidents do happen!” and laughing. MGK, YOU WERE AN ACCIDENT TOO!
    I’ll never actually say that to her. I know what it’s like to be a deliberately on-purpose accident. I actually don’t want her to feel terrible.
    OMG! I DO have Keith’s nice gene.
6.36 p.m.
    Dimple says I’m just lovely. And mainly I always have been and what am I getting worked up about?
    How do you explain to someone who knows where they come from that meeting the person you come from can be like putting your entire actual self in a massive fry-up?
    Thinking too much again.
6.55 p.m.
    Weirdo Jen says all the vegetarian food I’m eating is reducing my “natural aggressiveness”. Red meat makes you angry.
    I might have a tin of ravioli to test that theory.
7.22 p.m.
    I still don’t want to hurt MGK.
    I might have a Chinese-style pork mini riblet to see if that really pushes my temper over the edge.
7.45 p.m.
    I still feel calm. This must be a permanent personality change NOT a meat-based one!
9.22 p.m.
    Gran just had a MAHOOSIVE freak-out at Keith about MGK. Gran was yelling at him, saying, “You were always impressed by pretty, shiny things with money! For all this ‘Save the world!’ crap you haven’t changed. You’re still impressed by money and you’re always out to get some without working!” Apparently Keith busks with a converted biscuit tin, does odd jobs and has a market stall when he “feels like” working. Gran started chanting, “Work-shy! Work-shy! Work-shy! Work-shy!”
    Gran was doing ALL THIS after a cold beef-and-pickle sandwich! Jen is right! Meat does make you mental.
    Keith was really calm and said Gran needed to keep up. He HAD changed. It was a shame that SHE was still the old judgemental woman of old who was worried what everybody else thought. Gran went loony and said, “You need not have flown to Australia! I would have kicked you up the arse there. Well – you’re missing out on some wonderful children!”
    CHILD, Gran. CHILD! Nathan is not interested and MGK is not wonderful!
    I think Keith HAS made an effort though. In his way. It’s a weird way.
    God, I want to see Goose. I want to talk about all this with him.

W EDNESDAY 6 TH J ANUARY
4.56 p.m.
    We had Personal and Social Education at school. We were talking about equal opportunities. It’s always about “Men versus Women” or “Black versus White”. What about “Fit versus Not Fit” or “Designer versus Primark”? That’s what is REALLY happening! Feminism doesn’t affect me! I want to be able to shave when I like!
6.39 p.m.
    Gran just gave me the biggest lecture on women’s rights. She said, “Your generation don’t know they’re born. Feminism isn’t about having hairy legs! It’s about getting what we deserve! Being paid the same as a man, having the same opportunities as a man! Do you think that always happened?” Keith AGREED with her! “Your gran is right, Hattie. Women had to throw themselves in front of racehorses just to be able to vote!”
    Why did they involve horses? Were they on the men’s side?
    Gran told me not to be silly. “The point is YOUR generation has got to keep the fight up! Have respect for yourselves! Be independent. I protested for the likes of you!”
    I asked Gran where she protested, when she protested and what about.
    She really snapped back at me, “Well, I certainly felt strongly about it and shouted at the TV a lot!”
    Gran is the sort of person who just presses the “like” button on