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[eva_c]

I got my ears pierced. (pain: minimal.) I really want to wear big, silver hoop earrings but apparently I have to keep this in for six weeks. This will not arrive in time for school. School has not sent me a list of supplies. Creative Writing wasn't scheduled in place of lunch. Damn incompetent school counselors

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[velena]

Congrats on the ear piercing! Pretty soon you'll be moving on to navel, then nipple, and then who knows after that? Hehe.

A little wisdom that I learned from four years of high school: Being cool is overrated. I promise. It looks like it matters for the first couple years, but then you realize that there is so much more out there than high school, and this is just a pit stop on your way to greatness.

Also, once you stop caring about the nasty popular people, they completely disappear. I was actually discussing with one of my friends (during our Bad Teen Movie Marathon), how much I was disappointed at the lack of mean girls in our high school.

Me: "I wish we had actually had nasty popular people that I could have revolted against. There wasn't anyone like that at our school."

Becky: Um, yeah there was.

Me: Huh? I never heard anyone make snide comments. Nobody ever said anything to me, and I was neither a cheerleader nor a basketball player (the stereotypical 'popular' girls, you see)

Becky: That's because people were afraid

[eva_c]

"Pit Stop on the Way to Greatness". Sounds like a good book title. :D

Hmm... yeah, I don't really have the overbearing clique feeling and I always felt those teen movies exxagerate that far too much, at least in my experience. Are kids really that mean? :P

Intimidated, eh? *backs away*

[franzeska]

Being popular is mostly about self confidence. People will flock to anyone they see as being less depressed and loserish than themselves. Expensive clothing and pre-existing social circles help, but it's really all about attitude. Also, as people get older, they start being less and less interested in hanging around mean jerks. If you like yourself and everyone else too, people will love you.

As for people not knowing the real you... try talking about slash at school. Don't be confrontational, just describe it as though it were the coolest thing ever. Stun them with the force of your perkiness! Then, while they are incapacitated, indoctrinate them.

[eva_c]

The trick is just actually getting over the self-conciousness and doubting and just acting less "depressed and loserish", I suppose. :) In other settings, my confidence and perkiness are overwhelming. I walk up to random people and introduce myself. I'll work on your advice for transferring this to the school environment. :P Y'know, things are just different there...

the faint whispers of bigger things

[0100111]

I'm wondering if I can go into this year like I've never met them before. Because that would be really nice.

Dude. *hugs* We're long lost sisters, I'm sure of it.

My love for fresh starts comes from this, from the promise of every new school year and the disappointment that inevitably follows. After CTY, I set myself up for a steep road down. Folks tell me that one day, school will be nothing more than a sidenote in my biography. What a strangely glorious day that would be.

No rest for the wicked. Maybe we're too young to have nothing to prove.

Re: the faint whispers of bigger things

[eva_c]

Ah! Your great biography! When are you intending to write it? You could do it a bit early as a volume I and then do volume II during your mid-life crisis.

Gah. Yeah, the CTY people tend to be so awesome. So unfair there couldn't be a school like that, eh?

Re: the faint whispers of bigger things

[0100111]

Yeah, the CTY people tend to be so awesome.
CTY is utopia, man.
I got my first kiss there, too. Winkity wink, and such.

Re: Get on the bandwagon!

[eva_c]

Really? From what i've heard of your social life, I would be more worried about keeping it. ;) I guess I'll try joining some stuff and sticking to it instead of dropping out of all of them after a month.

And dude. Yeah. Hoop earrings. <333

[runcible]

I remember being really obsessed with popularity (blame it on those angsty middle school chapter books) a few years ago and always planning on making myself popular at the start of the new school year.
Is it bad to say I still do this? I am so sad. ;_;

[eva_c]

*pats* I bet you never had it as bad as me, though. Then again, I do things mindbodysoul for short spurts of time with frightening intensity.

Do you know there's a book called "How to be Popular in Sixth Grade"? >:D Seriously.