teenage gja So here I am. With two there and one more on the cusp. With all their redolent attitudes. With me just out of nappies and more than a little in love. A recipe for fun. And big fights. And a life. To live. 170321 ... or else fanclub 170411 ... epitome of incomprehensibility It would be wrong to ascribe blanket grumpiness to people this age, just as it would be to do so to the elderly, but glancing over my journals reveals certain moments of generalized negativity, aimed at everyone from George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein... (March 24, 2003) "United States is at war with Iraq. Again. They were looking for 'weapons of mass destruction', and since they didn’t find any, they decided to fight anyway because Mr. Saddam Hussein is a bad guy and he didn’t schoosh out of the government of Iraq. That was also dumb." ...to people who pronounce my first name differently. Oh, yes, to and a TV show I only saw previews for. (July 28, 2006) "This is the first day he’s actually called me Kirsten. And he says it right, too: not Kristen or Kursten or Kairsten. Nadine calls me Kairsten and she thinks she’s saying it right. Sometimes I wish I were called something else. Many of the people who do pronounce my name right then proceed to say, “Oh! Like Kirsten Dunst!” Well, maybe three or four said that. There’s also a character on a stupid TV show, The O.C., with that name." [quoted as is, except that I removed parentheses] 250526 ... e_o_i (also, I thought I pronounced my imaginary word for "getting out of the way" like "shkoosh" - scooch if it had more /ʃ/) 250526 ... raze for a whole pile of years that didn't mean much to me when they were mine, i had a very hard time letting them go. i never felt like i was who i wanted to be. if i could go back and do it all over again, i would kick that feeling to the curb and just enjoy being me. 250526 ... e_o_i Oof, same. Or at least similar. There was so much self-consciousness. 250526 what's it to you? who go blather from