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Dad gave me money to buy something from the vending machine. He was probably just trying to get rid of me for a little while, so he wasn't too happy when I came back a minute later with a box of jawbreaker's. Dad told me he really needed to finish what he was doing, so he asked me to find somewhere else to sit while he wrapped things up. He must've been really distracted that day, though, because he went home and left me behind. I might've being stuck there all night if the janitor hadn't found me.

爸爸给了我钱让我去自动售货机买东西。 他可能只是想暂时摆脱我，所以当我一分钟后拿着一盒碎糖回来时，他不太高兴。 爸爸告诉我他真的需要完成他正在做的事情，所以他让我找个地方坐着，让他把事情做完。 他那天一定很心烦意乱，因为他回家了，把我一个人留在了家里。 要不是看门人发现我，我可能整晚都被困在那里。

Anyway, Dad is pretty annoyed that Uncle Gary doesn't have any money and has been mooching off him. Mom has actually started giving Uncle Gary and allowance even though he doesn't have to do any chores for it, which feels wrong to me. I just hope Uncle Gary uses some of his allowance to pay for his own bubble bath. He used up all of mine on the second day he was here, and it's really not the same when the water is crystal clear.

不管怎么说，爸爸很生气，因为加里叔叔没有钱，一直在他身上揩油。 妈妈实际上已经开始给加里叔叔零用钱了，尽管他不需要为此做任何家务，我觉得这是不对的。 我只希望加里叔叔能拿点零用钱给自己买个泡泡浴。 他来的第二天就把我的水都喝光了，当水清澈的时候，感觉就不一样了。

Tuesday I really wish I didn't have to throw my jeans out a few weeks ago, because today at school I needed to look sharp. We're starting a ballroom dancing unit in Phys Ed, and Mrs. Moretta said each of us needed to find a partner. So it wasn't a good day to be wearying corduroy pants that are 3 inches too short. Mrs. Moretta said we were gonna choose partners by writing down the name of the person we wanted to dance with on a little slip of paper. Then she'd go

星期二我真希望几周前我没有把牛仔裤扔出去，因为今天在学校我需要看起来很帅。 我们要在体育教育课开设交际舞课，莫雷塔老师说我们每个人都得找个舞伴。 所以今天穿短了3英寸的灯芯绒裤子可不是个好天气。 莫雷塔太太说我们要选择舞伴把我们想跳舞的人的名字写在一张小纸条上。 然后她就走了

through the pieces of paper and pair us up the best she could. That was the same system she used LAST year for the square dancing unit, though, and I totally got burned. I wrote down the name of the prettiest girl in my class, Baylee Anthony. But she didn't write down MY name. She wrote down Bryce Anderson, just like every other girl in the class. Briye ended up picking McKenzie Pollard, and Mrs. Moretta assigned Baylee to be my dance partner because I picked her. At first I was really excited I got Baylee as a partner. But then I had to deal with THIS kind of nonsense for three weeks-

通过这张纸，尽可能地给我们配对。 那是她去年在广场舞单元用的相同的系统，不过，我完全烧伤了。 我写下了班上最漂亮女孩的名字，贝利·安东尼。 但是她没有写下我的名字。 她写的是布莱斯·安德森，和班上其他女生一样。 布里耶最后选择了麦肯齐·波拉德，莫雷塔太太让贝利做我的舞伴，因为我选了她。 一开始我很高兴能和贝利搭档。 但是接下来的三个星期里，我不得不处理这种无聊的事情

I guess Baylee didn't want a repeat of last year, either, because today she went around to all the guys who didn't have a chance with her and let them know. To be honest with you, I don't really care who I get paired up with as long as it isn't Ruby Bird. As far as I know, Ruby is the only girl who has ever been suspended from our school, and that was for

我猜贝利也不想重蹈去年的覆辙，因为今天她去找了所有没有机会和她在一起的男人，告诉他们。 说实话，我真的不在乎和谁搭档只要不是红宝石鸟就行。 据我所知，露比是我们学校唯一被停学的女生，那是因为

biting a teacher. In fact, the reason Ruby only has one front tooth is because the other one ended up in Mr. Underwood's elbow. I try to be pretty nice to Ruby whenever I come across her in the hallway, because she terrifies me. But today I got worried that maybe I've been TOO nice and she might think that I actually LIKE her. The last thing I need is for Ruby to write my name

咬老师。事实上，鲁比只有一颗门牙的原因是因为另一颗落在了安德伍德先生的肘部。 每当我在走廊遇到露比时，我都尽量对她很好，因为她让我害怕。 但是今天我开始担心，也许我对她太好了，她可能会认为我真的喜欢她。 我最不需要的就是鲁比写我的名字