Hello monica. I am a teenager, and I am home sick today as well. “Did you write a paper too?” you are obviously wondering.
No.
I sat my lazy self down at the computer and read the SDMB. 
Why don’t you post it here and I can give you a fake grade (most likely a C+ or less I bet :))?
Wow.
When I was a teenager, I would stay home sick from school and spend most of the day watching porn and masturbating a dozen times.
You are to be commended.
I watched the O’Reilly Factor when I was 13.
I KNOW I should be saying “Wow! Well done” and things like that. BUt my brain just can’t seem to get past - “WHY?!”
No your definatly not an average teenager why don’t you get a normal teenage hobby, like…umm…okay so there aren’t any ‘normal’ teenage hobbys but why not pierce something or get something tattoed that would provide an interesting poking game for hours on end…I’m not crazy, I’m a normal teenager
Some kids eat paint chips, some run into walls… 
At least you outgrew it, dear.
Well…as for hobbies, right now my current favorite is theatre. As for piercings, got my navel done last year and my cartilage done this year. 
I’m sure that after a while you realized how much more mature you were than Bill O’Reilly after a while though.
on a different note, i’m a teenager (18 years, so i’m almost done teendom) and i’m not very normal either. not normal in the sense that my mother has told me more than once that i need to get laid. any other mother would be happy with such a self-sufficiently chaste daughter. but no. not only is it about time i had a damn boyfriend, but that virginity thing is holding me down too now.
no mom, let’s not talk about college or a career. let’s discuss my sexual inactivity. thank you ever so much.
of course, there’s the I-Enjoy-Movies-Circa-1930-1960 factor that makes it hard for my friends and i to rent movies together…
but i think the fact that i don’t want to have sex but my mother thinks it would be good for me is a little more astounding. just a little.
Well, Lucy, you are from Lansdale…
Y’know what I read during HS? Neiztche, Sartre, Shopenhauer, etc. Man, I loved that stuff.
When other teens were out getting drunk, I was in a coffehouse reading Philosophy. And my mom thinks I turned out poorly. Pffft. Just you wait till my sis turns 17.
The world is coming to a terrible, terrible end.
Monica, don’t worry. It’s a GOOD thing not to be an average teenager. You can have sex any old time, and if you don’t do it for another decade it’s no big deal. Most guys your age aren’t worth the trouble. (I said MOST. I hope neither of the decent 18 year old guys out there will be offended. I’m referring to all those other jerkasses. You know who they are.) Trust me on this. And good on you for enjoying writing. College will be easier for you than for most.
Anyway, I knew you weren’t an average teenager when you spelled “definitely” correctly.
Your MOTHER is presureing you to have sex?! Thats terrible! It’s your choice!
I’m 18 too, and my mother wanted me to wait until marriage. But didn’t push her beliefs onto me. When she found out I was/am sleeping with my boyfriend she was fine with it.
Heehee. You sound a bit like me.
Only I used to write my papers on my religious (atheist) theories and economic ideas. And conspiracy theories. And I did it when I was unemployed after high school.
Now I work for myself in a nice apartment filled with alcohol and yummy food with a grocery store across the street, and my room-mate’s cable TV. And what do I do? I sit here and draw and post on my livejournal.
And eat ramen.