I'm not cool enough to call marijuana anything except marijuana.

[mmmrorschach]

Same deal with Jay-Z. Some people can get away with just calling him Jay, but I feel like I have to call him Shawn Carter.

Just because I feel like I should have them written down somewhere,

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[phspopular2002]

Reading these awkward times of your youth remind me of one memory of when I was a middle schooler.

At the beginning of my 7th grade year, when the geography teacher was going over his classroom rules and regulations, I did not know at the time that a pager was another term for a beeper. I never heard of that word back then, seriously! I raised my hand and asked him what it was, and then my peers laughed at me. For some months later I got picked on.

[mmmrorschach]

That sounds unnecessarily harsh for just not knowing a word.

There's a whole slew of words I'm glad I never got the opportunity to say out loud before I found out how they were actually pronounced. Dais, banal, macabre, perpetuity...

[phspopular2002]

Well, that's middle school kids for ya; they tend to be very mean.

I hated most of middle school because of this. Well it was all part of the challenge of life--finding where I belonged among my peers.

I'm glad I managed to change things all around by the end of 8th grade. If I hadn't, then I would have had the hardest time in high school. I would've been a very miserable person, and a loner.