So here's a tired cliche for you: I guess
life really doesn't stop for anyone.
I mean, I'm back at school and I'm all caught
up with my studies.
The chores that used to be done by Matthew
are being done by Marilla, I suppose.
I think I really should be more helpful with
that but she's not really good at asking for
help and I can't just do them all by myself
because I don't know how to to do them the
way she wants them done.
The fridge is full of pies and muffins that
everyone in town brought us because they feel
sorry for us and... yeah.
I don't think things are ever going to be
normal like they used to be but...
they have sort of settled into this new kind
of normal.
And I suppose that it's a good thing.
Something out of the ordinary did happen the
other day, though.
I was walking home from the church youth group
which I was late from because I helped clean up
or something, I can't quite remember.
Anyway, I was walking down the street and
I ran into Minnie May, who is Diana's little sister.
And, well, you probably get what I mean if
I say she was out of it.
And she was in the part of town where you
shouldn't really walk when you are fourteen
and drunk off you face.
Not that Avonlea is dangerous or ghetto or
whatever.
I mean, it's a little town in Canada, but
you...
Yeah, you just don't want to do that anyway.
We have creeps here too.
So she was really, really out of it and she
didn't know where she was, she didn't know
how to get home.
She wasn't quite sure how she ended up there
and she was only wearing a tank top and a
short skirt so she looked like if I left her
there, she would freeze to death.
You know, it's not that warm.
It's a little town in Canada.
Anyway.
So I just, I gave her my jacket and took the
bus to Diana's with her and just sort of left
her on the porch and knocked on the door and
left before her mother could see me.
So that's the good deed of the week, I guess.
I did get a job but the tutoring job I got
is at White Sands High and I'm sure it's a great
school but the bus trip there and back is
going to cost me like half my pay.
Besides, I wouldn't be able to take as many
lessons that I would otherwise because after
school I would have to take the bus there
and then I'd have time for maybe one or two
lessons and then I have to take the last bus
back.
In reality the only tutoring job that would really 
give me the benefit that I need right now
is Avonlea High but, guess who got the position.
Well, I'll tell you who.
Gilbert.
Gilbert Blythe.
Figures.
I'm seriously considering changing schools
to White Sands because, I mean, that way I
would be able to add a few lessons, you know.
We'll figure it out, surely.
No pun intended.
