What Goes On

I can already see that titling all my posts with names of Beatles songs will quickly become difficult. It was a nice idea, though. Maybe I'll throw in a couple of literary references every so often.

I finally talked to James the other night. About a month ago, he told me he had a girlfriend, then proceeded to ignore me. I was pretty much about to give up on him, but then he randomly started talking to me online. I think he just wanted to brag about how well he did in quiz bowl, though. I've noticed that I have a lot of "friends" like that, who talk to me and are fun to be around in certain situations, but ignore me in others. Will, for example, and Patrick. Maybe, being guys, the thought doesn't occur to them to be friendly unless it suits them. I don't know what's worse: having them blow hot and cold, or just not being friends with them at all.

I recently found a stack of old Auburn newspapers in my sister's closet (how they got there, I shall never know). The overall quality is just awful, but there are a few articles that are pretty good, and sometimes amusing. I enjoyed reading my own article entitled "Goths, Punks, Etc. Not Individuals," which at the time infuriated a bunch of people. This one kid sent me an angry letter saying that "50% of the Goths in America are trapped in jobs they hate," or some such random statistic. Which, of course, is ridiculous; no one checks a little box saying "Goth" when applying for a job.

The other article of my own that amused me is "Freshmen Deserve Appreciation." At the time, being a freshman myself, I completely believed everything I said. Now, of course, I understand that hating freshmen is just a way of life at high school. No one really beats them up or anything. I did laugh at this sentence: "Threats such as 'Freshman Beat-Up Day' circulate the school, frightening those poor innocents out of their as yet uncorrupted minds." I wonder what was going on in my head at that particular point. (Hence the title of today's post.)