Heyy, it's all for the good of Rome, Peoplz

Yeah, so Caesar’s not running for class president anymore – big deal… Actually, I think we’ll all be happier with it this way. Nobody has to worry about friendship issues or competition or anything. In fact, just yesterday after school and first period this morning, Julius and I re-continued what had been a weak friendship. We made sure we weren’t enemies anymore. It was hard to do, because it is always a tough subject to talk about with anyone, including your very best friends. But it was all for our own good, and for the good of our school’s future. just think about it – what would have happened if the two of us had actually tried to make things work and run for ‘office’ together? Nothing would or could have come out of it. That’s why I think that both of us are really satisfies about our decision to forget about the whole thing. Also, the other candidates who are still running seem to be doing just fine without so much competition.

I also spoke in a group a few periods ago (during study hall) with Casca and ‘Trebo’ and Titinius and all of them to let them know how Julius and I had made up, and that they should probably leave him alone now… It took them awhile to get thatJ. They disagreed with me at first, kind of playing around with the idea that we should still be able to poke him around, but I denied it for his own good. It was also for the good of the school. In a sense, you could say it was for the good of Rome! (This was a bit of a stretch, but I had to beat it into their heads so they would at least hear me out on this one.)

Um… yeah, so now I’m just going on with regular life. I still don’t know whose side to take for the school election, because I was so caught up in my own activities.

I still take all my friend’s advice.

I still do all people tell me to do.

I still join clubs because my tell me to.

I still have a weak spot for politics.

But it’s all for the good of Rome

………………….Jus' keepin' it real, everyone……………………

Got a lot off my chest today

Alright, so today’s the one day anniversary of our ‘Caesar Shanking,’ and I haven’t seen much happen in the progress towards the elections. Julius isn’t making or handing out any posters or signs, like the other people running. This is worrying me, and I want to ask him about it – but what will it look like if, one day after we pretty much bullied him half to death, we start pleading for his help… It’s not lookin’ very good at all. If this keeps up, Julius might drop out of running in the first place – it seems unrealistic to me now, but it’s totally a possibility. Julius hasn’t shown any signs of even wanting to run at all, and every time Trebonious or Casca or I see him in school, he’s ignoring us and just moping around, silently doing nothing.

If Julius doesn’t do anything about this soon, I could be facing a huge friendship related problem. I don’t want to come up to him again and mention the possibility of being class prez. He’ll definitely change the subject or not answer or something. And on top of all that, I don’t know what the rest of the people running think of me – and I probably don’t want to. If news of this has gotten out, maybe the Deans have heard about it? Never mind. It’s just that something has to be done before it’s too late to change things.

I reluctantly came up to Julius today, during our study hall period, third period, and sat down next to him while he was reading some book for English class, or something. He looked up. I had a little bit of trouble starting, but it got easier as I went along. I had it engraved into my brain the whole frickin’ time that this would all be for the good of us, our friendship, and for the future of our school. I began to speak to him about just random stuff, like if he had homework, or if he’d seen some recent movies or checked out the new iPod Plasma Widescreen yet. Then I moved to the topic of the principles, and then the Deans, and then tried to talk about the election. I mentioned how decorated the hallways in the A-wing were with the candidates’ posters.

“Ummm, yeah, I really don’t give a crap about all of this election stuff anymore,” he said. And then he explained to me (and Casca, who’d overheard part of our conversation and was now trying to join in) that he wasn’t going to run for prez, or vice prez, or anything – not even with me. This, of course, came as really bad news to us. Apparently, we’d ruined everything with one really bad idea… I’d be sure to get back on Casca for this one.

--The rest of this week’s payback time... I'll post again tomorrow