Understanding Adolescent Idiocy.

'lo, all. sorry i haven't been posting too much, though i'm sure you don't mind. i've just been kind of preoccupied with evan and i haven't been going on too many expeditions with bethany and ashley because spring hasn't quite decided on being warm yet. the three of us did hang out last weekend: we ran around in places that were probably quite illegal to be running around in, we sang creepily in a very echo-y tunnel that led us under the new bypass, we made plans to go back to these places in the summer, when it's warm. we've decided to have rubber duck races in this creek next to some sort of bridge thing. we will hang out under that bridge often, i think, and we've decided that it may be quite fun to draw on the concrete walls. bethany, of course, is hesitant about vandalizing it to the extreme, but no one will ever be under there but us, guaranteed. it'll be fine, bethany!
now, i don't mean to beat the dead horse or whatever that expression is, but it seems that ashley and bethany are getting very fed up with adolescent behavior and i feel the need to put my opinion out there (again and again and again). they're sick of the drama, they are. thing is, guys, you're no better than the rest of us because you are teenagers, too. i'm not trying to say that in a cruel way, it's just the truth. maybe you don't get all worked up over some of the more popular things that teens get worked up about; i don't think i do that much, either. well, for the most part. we all know that i enjoy talking about boys just as much as "normal" girls, but other than that, i think i'm on just about the same level of teen drama as you. well... maybe not. i'm very melodramatic. but hush! i'm trying to explain, here! you guys get more upset than you need to sometimes, too. we all do! bethany, do you remember when a certain clarinet player said a certain something that irked you, and you grumbled about it for a whole week or two (sorry if i'm exaggerating)? and ashley, you and i both - actually, all three of us - have been way worked up over other friends' decisions and actions. i'm not trying to make you look bad, i promise, i'm just pointing out the fact that we all do it. we all do, regardless of our age. i mean, look at all of our parents. i usually have it pretty easy, i know, but when my mom disagrees with me, she really disagrees with me. i mean, i'm banned from FML because she wouldn't even look at the site to see what it was! so difficult, so dramatic. and your parents can be awful. i've heard the stories. and hey, they're not teenagers!
teenage drama in particular is kind of fun to me. i mean, think about it. we've nothing better to freak out about, so we ('we' as in teenagers, not 'we' as in you and me) blow up the teensiest things, just to give us something to do. i know i enjoy going on rampages about random crap; you know i do, too. sometimes it's just easier, focusing on the petty things like that so that we don't have to focus on anything real. i mean, look at me! i couldn't tell you a thing about politics, the war, israel, or anything important going on in the real world. i tried paying more attention to politics, but it just worried me too much. i would go outside after the presidential campaigns and just talk to myself about how everything was going to be so messed up after obama changed everything. i got concerned about political parties and which one i supported more: i really did not want to be a republican, but i didn't want to be a democrat, either. i will continue to call myself an independent, because that's easiest, and i'm not going to worry about things i cannot help. real problems just aren't fun! we're young, we're healthy; why ruin our fun with reality? lock up that Reality Monster, and keep him locked up 'til you can't hide him any longer! take comfort in the fact that we can dwell on petty things at this age, that the Reality Monster isn't chewing our ass off all day. sometimes he takes big chunks from our cheeks, but imagine the asses on adults! they've got everything to worry about: work, money, houses, cars, spouses, children, time... i say it's best to just enjoy life while we can.
i'm certainly not saying that the only way we can have fun during adolescence is to blow up over the little stuff, but i'm saying that if the petty things are pissing you off, just lay back and bask in the simplicity of it. i don't know, maybe i'm wrong. but it makes sense to me. also, i know i'm a hypocrite sometimes. i'm just trying to help, and to blog about something, anythiiiiing.

I Don't Have an Audience, But Here's to You, Buddies!

i'm not sure how to talk to you anymore, blogger. i'm just experiencing a regular old high school life: nearly failing classes, rushing to get grades up again, being pressured into things by my friends. today they pressured me into trying out for Children of Eden, which is some dumb FaCS musical... that's what it is, right guys? FaCS? i don't know! but yeah. i was just going to go in there, fill out a sheet, join the non-dancing chorus, and hightail it outta there. buuut, i ended up signing up for the dancing chorus and went up to audition for a solo. what the fuck, dani. it was honestly the worst i have ever sounded, i promise. i can sing. i know i can sing. maybe i'm not fantastic, but there's something there. there wasn't anything there tonight. oh, well. solos can fuck themselves, anyway. i don't mind. now a few of the cast knows that i am a nervous wreck and that they should avoid me at all times 'cause i am one crazy bitch. too bad they think i can't sing. that's always sad. but guess what! i've some good news for you.
all my romantic agony has lead up to this: as of friday, i am now dating evan. i'm listening to his CD'S and my shirt smells like his house (i'm probably making that part up). actually, i was kind of stunned that he even had a house. i mean, i knew he wasn't homeless; that's a given. but he never talks about home or family or any of that, so i didn't have any idea what his house could possibly be like, therefore it did not exist. but now it does! i've been there, man. craziness. i didn't have permission from my parents or anything... but i went! nobody was there but him and me...
we played video games.

I Adore You, Blue Lava Lamp.

man, if i could stay up for all hours of the night, it would be so wonderful. maybe i would get so bored that i would have no choice but to do my homework. maybe being an insomniac would give me some extra hours to get motivated and get stuff done. all that extra time would also force me to actually think. i try to distract myself from thinking about important things, like college and career choices and the possibility of settling down one day. i guess i'm counting on my charm and wit to get me out of those situations somehow. i know i've got to get my shit together and start doing well in school so i can get into a good college and get a good job and live a good life, but knowing you have to do something and actually doing it are two entirely different things. eh, i guess it doesn't really matter, anyway. it's not like i'm failing or anything.
on an entirely different note: i can see why my friend evan is so tired all of the time. he wakes up at the crack of dawn to do some stupid-ass extracurricular activity, he sticks around after school to do more stupid-ass extracurricular activities, and to top it all off, he has been listening to a lot of Mogwai, which is some indie instrumental band. i've been listening to Mogwai radio on pandora tonight, and it's so mellow and relaxing that i kind of want to go to sleep and maybe wake up in some serene, silent place where i can proceed to go back to sleep in the soft grass. i'm enjoying it. i'll probably definitely use Mogwai as a sleep aid tonight (if my homeless older brother doesn't show up and take the laptop from me), so maybe i'll sleep tight and be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed tomorrow.
i kind of don't know what i'm doing right now. with anything, i mean. i'm just floating along, observing the speech team, which is all stressed out about state, which is this saturday. it seems a bit silly, really. everyone's so determined to get me to join speech team, but watching them just makes me want to stay away. they all hate each other at this point, because they want their groups to be perfect, and if anyone's flawed in any way, their team gets all pissed off and snaps at them. bethany never liked her musical theatre group much, and we could tell, on stage. i don't think the audience (the audience that knew the actors and actresses, anyway) would be surprised if someone wigged out and punched a co-star in the face. and it's all about blaming others at this point! everyone's all, "oh, so-and-so doesn't even care about this group," "so-and-so is ruining this whole act," whatever. i'm not pointing fingers at individuals, because it seems as if the majority of people in speech team are doing it. i'm not irritated by it, i guess, because i understand that they're all really stressed, and when it's all over, they'll be good friends again. but i don't want to be that chick that gets blamed for the lameness of a team, you know? the newbie who hasn't had a voice lesson or acting lesson in her life, the insecure spaz who freaks out when asked to do anything at all. i would blame me, sure! it would probably definitely be my fault if the group i was in sucked majorly. oh, well. i guess i'm expected to be that chick next year, because i signed a contract.
i don't know what i'm supposed to be doing. am i supposed to be in a cutesy little relationship right about now, making cutesy little plans for prom, buying a cutesy little WAY TOO EXPENSIVE dress? am i supposed to be looking forward to valentine's day? i mean, i've no reason to. i, um, disposed of my one main suitor, and though i may have a couple of others, i don't expect anything from them. they're a couple of my better friends, and i don't think they would try and be all mushy with me. am i supposed to be looking forward to my "sweet sixteenth"? it's on the nineteenth. seven forty-five A.M., to be exact. sixteen, man! i should be getting my license, driving out to pick up my friends and have a grand ole' time, but i've only driven twice, so obviously i haven't taken driver's ed. eh, driving isn't really something i want to do. it would be fun to be able to go anywhere i wanted at any time, but i would get creepy or something. i would probably drive to peoples' houses and leave things on their doorsteps. i'm sure i would get my revenge on bethany for giving me a can of (whisper) peas for my fourteenth birthday... anyway, what's so "sweet" about being sixteen? it's half way to thirty-two, which is half way to sixty-four! sixty-four is old! i don't want to be old. old people are gross. ack! at this pace, i'll have a mid-life crisis by the time i'm twenty.
what's so freakin' exciting about prom, anyway? i swear, if i hear one more word about that silliness in my history class, i will turn around and punch the speakers in their perfect, smiling mouths. i guess prom is alright this year, because it's at the new civic center, and the theme is marti gras. but still. what is prom for? do the girls imagine that they're Cinderella, that they're beautiful for the night but after they've changed out of their dress and face paint, they'll just be their regular old selves again? ugh, i can hardly stand looking at some of the makeup that chicks wear to prom. it's funny when their face is a completely different color than the rest of them because of their foundation. and i don't know, i think my eyelashes would fall off if i coated them with so much fugging mascara. what ever happened to natural beauty, anyway? i don't think i look bad when i have no makeup on... i kind of think i look like a trollop when i've got blush, mascara, and lip junk on. i can handle a little mascara every now and again, and a little bit of lip junk. but i cannot stand blush. i mean, i blush enough as it is, naturally. and if i was really that worried about looking drained, i could pinch my cheeks every now and again or go outside in the cold for a bit. that'll turn your face red, no problem.
what's so romantic about prom? tuxedos are sexy, sure, depending on the man that's in 'em, and how comfortable he is with being so formal. i don't know, i think most of the people at prom just look awkward. no one is dressed according to who they are as a person or anything. men just shove themselves into identical tuxes and chicks try to outdo each other with insanely poofy dresses. everyone seems so uncomfortable, so out of their element. i don't know.
yeah, my homeless brother wants the laptop. i guess i don't get Mogwai tonight. thanks, homeless brother.