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the rest of the year. This summer Abe moved away to California and took the Cheese Touch with him. I just hope someone doesn't start the Cheese Touch up again, because I don't need that kind of stress in my life anymore. Thursday I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school. My summer did not exactly get off to a great start, thanks to my older brother Rodrick. A couple of days into summer vacation, Rodrick woke me up in the middle of the night. He told me I slept through the whole summer, but that luckily I woke up just in time for the first day of school.

这一年剩下的时间。今年夏天，Abe搬到了加州，并随身带着Cheese Touch。 我只希望别再有人开始做奶酪润色了，因为我的生活中再也不需要那种压力了。 星期四，我真的很难习惯夏天已经结束了，我每天早上都要起床去上学。 多亏了我的哥哥罗德里克，我的夏天并没有一个好的开始。 暑假刚过几天，罗德里克半夜把我叫醒。 他告诉我，我整个夏天都在睡觉，但幸运的是，我醒来的时候正好赶上开学的第一天。

You might think I was pretty dumb for falling for that one, but Rodrick was dressed up in his school clothes and he set my alarm clock ahead to make it look like it was the morning. Plus, he closed my curtains so I couldn't see that it was still dark out. After Rodrick woke me up, I just got dressed and went downstairs to make myself some breakfast, like I do every morning on a school day. But I guess I must have made a pretty big racket because the next thing I knew, Dad was downstairs, yelling at me for eating Cheerios at 3:00 in the morning. It took me a minute to figure out what the heck was going on. After I did, I told Dad that Rodrick had played a

你可能会觉得我太蠢了，竟然相信了他的话，但罗德里克穿着他的校服，把我的闹钟调到前面，让它看起来像是早上。 另外，他拉上了窗帘，所以我看不见外面还是黑的。 罗德里克把我叫醒后，我就穿好衣服，下楼给自己做早餐，就像上学的每个早晨一样。 但我想我一定是大吵了一场，因为接下来我只知道，爸爸在楼下，因为我凌晨三点吃了麦圈而对我大吼大叫。 我花了一分钟才弄明白到底发生了什么。 之后，我告诉爸爸罗德里克打了个

trick on me, and He was the one that should be getting yelled at. Dad walked down to the basement to chew Rodrick out, and I tagged along. I couldn't wait to see Rodrick get what was coming to him. But Rodrick covered up his tracks pretty good. And to this day, I'm sure Dad thinks I've got a screw loose or something. Friday Today at school we got assigned to reading groups. They don't come right out and tell you if you're in the Gifted group or the Easy group, but you can figure it out right away by looking at the covers of the books they hand out.

他才是那个应该被骂的人。 爸爸走到地下室去痛骂罗德里克，我跟在后面。 我迫不及待地想看罗德里克得到应有的惩罚。 但罗德里克很好地掩盖了他的行踪。 直到今天，我敢肯定爸爸还是觉得我脑子有问题。 星期五今天在学校我们被分配到阅读小组。 他们不会直接告诉你你是属于天才组还是普通组，但你可以通过看他们分发的书的封面马上就知道了。

I was pretty disappointed to find out I got put in the Gifted group, because that just means a lot of extra work. When they did the screening at the end of last year, I did my best to make sure I got put in the Easy group this year. nkledc. Mom is real tight with our principal, so I bet she stepped in and made sure I got put in the Gifted

当我发现自己被分到天才组时，我非常失望，因为那意味着要做很多额外的工作。 当他们去年年底进行筛选时，我尽了最大的努力确保我今年能进入轻松组。 妈妈和校长关系很好，所以我敢打赌是她插手让我进了天才班

group again. Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't "apply" myself. But if there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing at all.

组了。妈妈总是说我是个聪明的孩子，只是我不用功。 但如果说我从罗德里克身上学到了什么的话，那就是把人们的期望值定得很低，这样你就可以什么都不做，让他们感到惊讶。

Actually, I'm kind of glad my plan to get put in the Easy group didn't work. I saw a couple of the "Bink Says Boo" kids holding their books upside down, and I don't think they were joking. Saturday Well, the first week of school is finally over, so today I slept in. Most kids wake up early on Saturday to watch cartoons or whatever, but not me. The only reason I get out of bed at all on weekends is because eventually, I can't stand the taste of my own breath anymore. Unfortunately, Dad wakes up at 6:00 in the morning

事实上，我还挺高兴我被安排进“易”组的计划没成功。 我看到几个“宾克说布”的孩子把书拿倒了，我觉得他们不是在开玩笑。 嗯，学校的第一周终于结束了，所以今天我睡过头了。 大多数孩子星期六早起看动画片或其他什么，但我不是。 我在周末起床的唯一原因是，我再也不能忍受自己呼吸的味道了。 不幸的是，爸爸早上六点就醒了