Tag Archives: high school
Nov. 21, 2011
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October 10, 2011
2:08:22 AM
thegurlwholived:(censor sister name) called me tonight, she was just asking me if I’d remembered to turn in her time sheets and it turned into an hour of boo-hooing about her situation with not being able to support heself and momma being unable to help anyone. I wish I had someone I could cry to like that. I’m doing well in school and everything but I still feel something is missing and just as I feared I’m not really making that many friends or connecting to people because I don’t live on campus and I just go and then come back here. Also, as I feared, I’m still locked into my families drama instead of being able to escape. I’d like to be far enough away that noone could call me and expect me to help or bitch at me for something I was doing. Maybe next year….
July 7, 2011
Old Post + List of things I’ll miss from childhood
The List of Things I’ll Miss about Being a Kid
- Waiting anxiously for the next Harry Potter movie/book to come out
- Nap time
- Snack time
- Homework taking all of 10 minutes
- Seeing a kid in a movie who’s fictitious life I’m am jealous of and actually being the right age to imagine myself in their place
- Hoping to get a Hogwarts letter
- Imagining when I’m going back to school that it is that year at Hogwarts (10th grade = 5th year)
- Referring to my senior year AP exams as N.E.W.T.S.
- Some of the cooler teachers that I was friends with
- Being carefree
- Not having to/being expected to drive
- Â Looking forward to the future
- Being able to enjoy inane, immature humor in cartoons and movies
- Not caring about my appearance and not having anyone else care either
- Having an imagination so powerful that, at night, you could literally convince yourself that the shadowy pile of clothes in the corner was a monster
- Not even being remotely concerned about money
- The kind of optimism that if you try hard that you really can achieve anything
- Having all your friends be on the same page with you and not being bothered with having a social or love life
- Not being worried about my weight because if I could keep it steady then eventually I would grow into it
- Never even seriously considering being older than 12
- Imagining that when I hit puberty I would finally get my mutant powers and move to the X mansion
- Being the same age or younger as the people in the shows you like to watch on TV
- Getting special attention at restaurants
- Being considered ‘cute’
- Getting lollipops at the Bank
- Getting the child tickets at the movie theater
- Elementary school
- Recess instead of gym
- Being fascinated by the toys at Wal-Mart
- The ‘fort’ in Pat’s closet
- Going to the Mall with Pat on the weekends
- Getting excited over the little things
- Going to Girl Scout Camp
- Always being ahead of the curve
- Cluefinders and JumpStart Games
- People my same age not being complete dunderheads
- Imagining one of my teachers might become something like a surrogate father
- Having time to take elective classes
- Actually being stoked enough about the toy in the happy meal to order it even though it won’t fill you up
- Having Saturday morning cartoons that were actually good enough to warrant getting up at 7am on a Saturday
- Not bleeding once a month
- Coloring books
- Story books with the sound effect buttons
- Invader Zim
- Rugrats
- The original Yu-Gi-Oh
- Xiaolin Showdown
- Magic Tree House books
- Magic School Bus books
- Being considered too young to be privy to less savory family secrets
- Never even remembering a time when your mother wasn’t the most exemplary person you’d ever known
- Ice cream days at school on Fridays
- Watching Zoom and thinking it was awesome
- Enjoying Barney
- Enjoying Mr. Rogers
- Enjoying Dora the Explorer
- Cyberchase
- Hey Arnold
- Catdog
- Going down the swirly slide
- Playing in the play places at fast food restaurants
- Thinking that anything and everything available in the entire world can be purchased at the Mall right next to your house
- Thinking that anything and everything that you could ever want can be purchased with $200
- Being astonished at your family’s wealth when you go to the bank with your parents and they take out $100
- Loving toys and their silly effects enough to spend 30 min in the toy isle at wal-mart
- Playing volleyball/dodgeball with the huge beach ball size balls that come out of the ceiling high container at wal-mart
- Having sword fights in the middle of the store with a cheap plastic toys
- Making sounds effects for stuff you mime doing and not feeling silly about it
- Not being so familiar with TV/movie plots that you can nearly always guess the ending before half the story is up
- Being one of the youngest out of your family members
- When you could actually seriously consider yourself still pretty young because people your same age weren’t getting pregnant yet
- When you were in a group of friends having a humorous, sexually related conversation and they didn’t begin to discuss personal sexual experiences
- Getting read to
- Feeling like you’re in on a huge, privileged secret when you got to go to a high school or college campus
- Imagining you could actually graduate valedictorian from Harvard
- Being excited about you’re next birthday
- X Men Evolution
- Watching Dragonball Z and not realizing how stupid it is that Goku is the only one who doesn’t have to obey any of the ‘Universe laws’
- The smugness that comes from being ‘ahead of your time’ and developing faster than others
- Being ecstatic that you were over a head taller than everyone else
- Show and Tell being an exciting day of school instead of sounding just plain dirty
- Enjoying Sesame Street
- The feeling of getting away with something when you managed to watch South Park
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Being enthralled enough with a movie to watch it a million times and still be interested the next day
- When Futurama wasthe funniest show on television
- Macaulay Culkin being cute
- Arnold Schwarzenegger being a good action hero
- Roseanne
- The Cosby Show
- Gilligan’s Island
- I Love Lucy
- Home Improvement the show
- Family Matters
- Growing Pains
- Golden Girls
- Reading and loving Dr. Seuss
- Powerpuff Girls
- Wishing the Cat in the Hat would come to your house
- When villains were to be pitied, laughed at and even sneered at but never truly feared because the good guy always won in the end
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- Even if you were bigger than most kids grown up clothes were still HUGE on you
- Being able to retreat inside that Winnie the Pooh coat like a turtle; arms, legs, head, everything fit inside
- Believing in Santa and all the other fictional entities
- Throwing birdseed onto the roof because your parents told you it was ‘Reindeer food’
- When taking the time to play board games was the absolute best thing your parents and siblings could do for you EVER
- When they asked you who you’d vote for President and you based your decision on the only thing you knew; how they looked
- A tank of gas cost about $20
- Chocolate and ice cream were your favorite foods and it didn’t seem to matter how much you ate, you never got sick or hyper
- You could get anywhere you could possibly want to go by car in under a couple hours
- The best vacation was to some kind of amusement park
- Getting to hug the giant ‘characters’ at parks was actually something that you wanted to do
- No matter how many years your parents had taken you to the local fair none of the rides ever got old
- The conundrum of why you couldn’t move, even with no harness in the centrifugal force spaceship ride was enough to demand a ride any and every time you saw it at a fair, park or parking lot
- The REAL original Loony Toons
- Tom and Jerry
- Space Jam
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- When anything over a week or two was ‘forever ago’
- All dogs were cool and must be petted and cooed over
- Anytime you discovered something new that you liked whatever it was was like the Holy Grail and the only thing that interested you for some time
- If you liked a character or person it meant that you should try and integrate some of their mannerisms with your own
- It was the best moment in your short life if you knew something your parents didn’t know and you were only too eager to share it
- Learning Spanish was fun because all you really did was sing songs
- Keenan and Kell
- The original All That
- Loving Winnie the Pooh
- Not being too proud or grown up to ask for a hug when you really need one and not just jokingly
- Having irrational fears and then having equally irrational reasons to get over those fears instead of getting over them because you realize they’re irrational
- Feeling so close to God that you can ask him for any old thing (even if you don’t need it) instead of only going to him when you’re in deep shit
- Acknowledging your needs instead of always trying to explain them away or cover them up
- Being able to watch Kids Next Door and imagine you were an operative
- Not having to write long ass papers
- When there was some type of writing assignment, it was writing a story based on some prompt
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Just some test I took online a long time ago that had scarily accurate results.
Feeling stressed out due to her current situation and the demands which are placed on her. Working to release herself from all things that hold her back or tie her down.
“Looking to stand out in the crowd and wanting to keep her rank and status. her current situation is irritating her because she can’t seem to find anybody out there who values the same high standards she does. she is feeling isolated and wants to give in to her carnal urges, but can’t bring herself to appear weak in the eyes of others. Wants others to see her unique qualities and character but can’t stand to come off as needy, so instead she has an “”I don’t care”” attitude and pushing people away. she turns her back on those who criticizes her behavior, but beneath her indifference is a person who is in desperate need of approval.”
“Seeking to broaden her horizons and believes her hopes and dreams are realistic. Worries she may not be able to do the things she wants and needs to escape to a peaceful, quiet environment in order to restore her confidence.”
His arrogance causes her to take offense quickly. Only those closest to her know deep down she is sensitive and sentimental.
“Looking to make a good impression and be recognized for her achievements. she has a strong need to feel appreciated and look up to. she is very sensitive and will be hurt if she is rejected, unnoticed, or not given adequate acknowledgement.”
“Has been disappointed and let down, believes it is pointless to come up with new goals as they will most likely disappoint as well. Needs to be recognized and respected, but is worried about the future. Reacts by avoiding situations where she will be criticizes or others will attempt to influence her. Tries to take charge of the situation by controlling the details and strengthen her position. “
“Needs to be viewed and respected as an outstanding individual, in order to build her self-esteem and self-worth. Resists any type of weakness and sets high standards for himself.”
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Ziva giggled slightly and Gibbs smiled.
“But, notice that it will only be your backside that hurts. I promise that I will never smack you anywhere else. There’s a line between discipline and abuse and I will not cross it, I promise. You can trust me Ziva. This will hurt for a while but there will be no lasting damage and when we’re done here it’s all over and you have no need to feel guilty any more. Okay?” He held his hand out to her.
Nervously, she put her small hand into his large one and nodded. “Okay.”