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I’ll be returning to college this week, much to my own disbelief. I’m relatively sure that I won’t know it’s happening until I open the first blank notebook with that over-confident, beginning-of the-school-year determination.

The best news all summer:

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I think I got my first taste of the downward spiral of adolescent behavior in high school when our 7th and 8th grade lacrosse team flashed oncoming cars from the back of the school bus on their way to a game.

This afternoon, after dropping online briefly to check my mail before leaving the house, I was greeted with an instant message from a 12-year old girl. “Hey bitch.” My sister had apparantly forgotten to sign off. The conversation went something like this:

CookieMonsterM314: sorry, this is her sister
xO PinkTwinks Ox: i dont care
xO PinkTwinks Ox: hoe, listen here, yall dont know me so dont be sayin shit
CookieMonsterM314: i have no idea who you are
xO PinkTwinks Ox: what if i am ghetto so now
CookieMonsterM314: i’m not saying you’re ghetto
CookieMonsterM314: you need to calm down. you’re 12
xO PinkTwinks Ox: bitch cuz i am
xO PinkTwinks Ox: bitch jus shut the fuck up cuz dont nobody want y abullshit

Even in high school, it seemed as if every year the hardass population ratio grew. Every year was worse than the former.

As humorous as the whole thing was, I was quite alarmed and even sickened. When did it become cooler to act like an idiot? What caused this? Does this girl talk this way as well, and how can her parents allow it? Someone, please, offer me some reassurance that not all children are falling into this conduct. I just hate to think that this is becoming the norm.

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Something about this summer was flawed. I feel as if I’m only beginning to settle down at home and enjoy that deep reminiscent calm that comes with spring. School begins in less than two weeks. Maybe I should just stop listening to Christmas music. Baby It’s Cold Outside…when clearly it isn’t.

In unrelated news, they’re filming a new teen movie at my high school (well, where I used to go to high school. My alma mater). It’ll probably be very O.C.ish and sentimental. I’ll probably cry when I see it.

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I discovered something new and relatively surprising yesterday. As I sit here stressing over life’s peril, I can rest assured knowing that my sister has a unique ability to form hilariously grotesque faces when the need for one should arise.

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Over the past two days, I’ve set foot in Arizona, Los Angeles, El Segundo, Dallas, and Charlotte. If only traveling weren’t so expensive, I would glady fly to several random cities on any given weekend, as long as I could spend more than two hours in each.One thing I noticed in El Segundo was the abundance of flowers. The airport was surrounded by gardens and palm trees. My hotel was covered in them. They were everywhere. Everything just seemed so…taken care of.The contest went well and the flights were wonderful. While airborne, I met a Korean mother of 12 (Bo-Bae), a 10-year-old linedancer (Becky), a Filipino man in the bottled-water business (Bayanai), a 20-something Italian girl who was running away to a new life (Andria), and an eccentric hippie photographer (who went by Raisin). I hearby swear to travel more, and often.

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My laptop died. Completely. It’s taking over a month for the thing to be repaired, and in the meantime I repaired our old PC out of sheer technological withdraw. And I probably still will never backup my junk.

Since everything needed to be redone anyway, I finally converted to WordPress. It was easier to work with than I had originally thought, and the end result is something so amazing that greymatter should have been instantly destroyed for even attempting to coexist on the same internet. It took a while for me to get the hang of it, but Modi has the patience of a goddess.

This time tomorrow I’ll be in California, probably suffering seizures as a result of 1.) the plane trip itself, 2.) the prospect of the 12 hour flight home, and 3.) the fact that I’ll be reciting a speech from memory that I should have had memorized weeks ago. Oh, and the fact that I have no idea what to do in airports, especially by myself.

I’ll be working on the content pages over the next few days. Hopefully by the end of next week, I’ll know where I’m going to college this semester.

Time to pack. Wish me luck.

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