Hello! I just happened across your journal on the recent entries page; I frequent it when I should be working... I loved this entry for several reasons, so I just had to reply.
I am the same age as you, and recently went through an entire chest full of high school memorabilia. I had everything from my most prized research papers and book reports (and you thought you were nerdy!), to notebooks filled with all my angsty teenage poetry. It was really horrible, but so much fun to read through it and be able to laugh at myself. A lot of the same themes as yours, relationships, religion, social groups, suicide, depression, angst, raging "against the machine", etc. I think we were all pretty much walking cliches in high school!
I also really liked the poem you posted. It's very cute, and I like the idea of someone else's thoughts raining on me. :)
Thankies! :) It's funny how we think we're so cool (or not-so-cool) and so different from everyone else only to find later how incredibly pigeonholed we really were. I don't have too many assignments/papers from high school left (though I do still have one from middle school I wrote about Joseph Stalin, complete with self-illustrated cover), but I have kept all my work from college. I thank the nerd in me and the packrat in my mom for that.
Thanks! I have to be honest and say I stole this icon from someone else on some forum or other, but the screen name has been my nick name since I was small.
Misha, this is fabulous! So, now when my son asks where rain comes from I have the perfect answer! Glad you posted about your journal on myspace. I won't talk about yours as long as you won't talk about mine.
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I am the same age as you, and recently went through an entire chest full of high school memorabilia. I had everything from my most prized research papers and book reports (and you thought you were nerdy!), to notebooks filled with all my angsty teenage poetry. It was really horrible, but so much fun to read through it and be able to laugh at myself. A lot of the same themes as yours, relationships, religion, social groups, suicide, depression, angst, raging "against the machine", etc. I think we were all pretty much walking cliches in high school!
I also really liked the poem you posted. It's very cute, and I like the idea of someone else's thoughts raining on me. :)
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It's funny how we think we're so cool (or not-so-cool) and so different from everyone else only to find later how incredibly pigeonholed we really were.
I don't have too many assignments/papers from high school left (though I do still have one from middle school I wrote about Joseph Stalin, complete with self-illustrated cover), but I have kept all my work from college. I thank the nerd in me and the packrat in my mom for that.
Also, much icon and screen name love!
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Some I'm proud of. Some, not so much. :P
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So, now when my son asks where rain comes from I have the perfect answer!
Glad you posted about your journal on myspace.
I won't talk about yours as long as you won't talk about mine.
Hope you're doing well,
Becky
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So cheesy.
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