I am so glad the "whack-me, I'm-a-human-pinata" days are (somewhat) behind me ...

Let's face it:  I'm a walking magnet for bullies and/or tormentors ... or was.  I'm not exactly Mr. Popular, if you know what I mean.  I'm a walking geek nightmare!

I even look like a geek:  oily, stringy black hair that just flops everywhere, thick-lensed, black-rimmed glasses, a big honker for a nose, a think, pimple-marked face, big dumbo ears, a skinny body, sticks for arms and legs, big hands and clown feet ... you get the picture.

Add to the fact that I am smarter than smart:  hell, I'm probably even smarter than Albert Einstein!  My I.Q. is way up there!

I think this is one reason why people hate me.  I'm only fourteen, but I'm already a senior in high school.  Skipped ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades:  the courses they offer is stuff I already learned in elementary school!

I am only a baby-faced kid, and yet I am above most of my classmates academically:  while they have a year or two (or even three) of school ahead of them, I will be graduating in the spring of 2011, even though I am only fourteen!  They are insanely jealous of my academic achievements.

Now that the geek-bashing days are (somewhat) over, I can stop worrying about whether someone is going to stuff me into a locker or give me a swirlie in the boy's bathroom, or stop worrying about whether I will have to go by ambulance to the hospital because I injured myself again.  Or stop worrying about the other kids hog-tying me to the bleachers in the gymnasium and hitting me like I was a human pinata or something ...

I can get through an entire day now without fearing for my very life!

Here's the deal: I got sick and tired of having to explain to my parents about my latest crop of bruises, black eyes, or whatnot!  Now I don't have to do that anymore, and, believe me, I am very glad of that!  I got tired of acting like someone's human pinata!!