20 minutes in the life of a teen... from a 21yo's POV

So, I was waiting patiently for the train after class today, reading Interview with the Vampire, and minding my own business. There were a couple of girls a few metres away from me, and even without a breeze I could smell their perfume quite strongly, which definitely reminded me of a few people I knew back in high school. Plus they were playing their Top 40 music loud enough for all to hear, but I still managed to ignore them. Then a group of three young teen girls girls walks past me and sits down a few feet away from me (watch as I seamlessly transition between the metric system and that other one used by other countries *wink*). They were chatting, and then one of them calls her father to pick her up from whatever station she was going to alight at. When he apparently got annoyed at her for being so late getting home (they were young enough that they would've had a time limit on their day out), she put on a high, whiny voice, and yelled at him for jumping to conclusions, saying that her friends went to the movies and that's why she was so late. So, apparently they held her at gunpoint and forced her to stay out with them. Interesting. Then she went on to tell him to be at the station because he had to drive her straight to dance, and then hung up. I know I haven't been out of my teens for many years, but when did please and thank you go out of fashion?
Then the other two friends started fighting about borrowed money, or something, one friend threatened to slap the other one, things got a bit heated, and then the one on the receiving end walks all the way to the other end of the station just to get away from her. This last bit happened within the space of maybe 7 minutes (though I wasn't keeping track of time). Guess what girl number 3, THOSE AREN'T REAL FRIENDS. I can just see them making up, the more dominant friend being apologised to by the other friend, after saying potentially damaging things about her behind her back, things will be awkward for a few weeks, and then it will get back to normal. How is that a good thing? High school sucks at the best of times, and when you have friends like that it actually makes it really bad for some of the time, but that is completely outweighed by the fact that you've actually got friends, regardless of how they treat you. I don't know how to stop this happening, and really it's none of my concern, but I can't help but think back to a few non-friends I had in my earlier years of high school, and how much better my life was when I got rid of them and found the group I finished high school with. They think that they're different to us older generations, and I probably thought the same thing when I was their age, but they're not. History is repeating itself time and time again, and the only difference is that we've now entered the 'Bubble-Wrap' Generation, where you can't say any negative words to children (eg instead of 'don't run inside' you must say 'walking inside please') because apparently a child will just fall apart otherwise. I've got news for you, when they go out and get real jobs their bosses aren't going to say 'Walking inside please', they're going to say 'Don't run in here, that's a major OH&S violation, which you should already know from training. Do it again and you'll be given an official warning.' I can just see this generation falling apart at the seams every time someone tries to teach them anything in the real world.

That's my two-cents worth

If music be the food of... well, everything really...

I'm the type of person that's effected by music. That's why I can't settle on a few favourite bands, or genres, because it's not the bands or genres that influence me. Sometimes I like rock, pop, even country on very, VERY rare occasions. Classical is good if I'm really in the mood for it, and I like to sing along to 70's and 80's stuff (which prompts my mum to ask how I even know any of those songs considering I was born at the end of the 80's) if it happens to be playing. Sometimes an unpopular song moves me because of the emotion behind the singing, or the lyrics. Right now I like Muse, which is following a bit of a pattern for me, liking bands that do some rock, and then throw in a soft rock song somewhere in the mix (like Falling Away With You), and of course I'm really into Rob Pattinson, who proves that just because most of the time no one can understand what you're saying, it doesn't mean that your message won't get across. On TWILIGHT TILL DAWN, I found a song called Almost Lover, and it became an instant favourite. I always used to get annoyed, because when answering questions like “What's your favourite band/singer?” I could never actually answer, and I thought it was because I had no original thought. Than one day I was randomly talking to a guy about music and he said that rather than only listening to the music I also feel the emotion of the song, which is why sometimes I really don't like some songs on the Top 40 charts, even though they sound fine.

Here's a random little thought I wanted to throw in, though it was something I was considering a while ago. I believe that Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls would've been a good song for Twilight, not only because it has the right sound to it, but because the lyrics really represent Edward's story. It doesn't matter what the words meant when they were written, but what they could have meant in terms of telling Edward's story, from his point of view. No, I don't have a lot of time on my hands, I just randomly noticed it one day... :)

IRIS – THE GOO GOO DOLLS

And I'd give up forever to touch
Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be
And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breath is your life
And sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
All the moments of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am
I just want you to know who I am

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Images from a Google search, and lyrics typed by yours truly.

Hmmm, A bit of a Twitter rant...

I'd just like to know what the obsession is with Twitter. Or more specifically, what MY obsession with Twitter is. Is it the allure of the limited character count that prompts me to share my random thoughts, or is it the fact that I instantly feel closer to celebrities because I can send them a tweet in reply to their own random thoughts? It's hard to say really, but all I know is that I'm finding it very hard not to tweet about things like my fascination with Twilight, shows I've watched during the night, movies I'm thinking of seeing, or have recently seen, and of course my neverending cynicism about whether certain celebs actually have a Twitter account or not. Come on guys, it takes two seconds to update, we should all have it!! I find the fact that my obscurity and the fact that I've never been anywhere, nor have anything all that interesting to say. leaving me with only about nine followers, completely disheartening. One day I may just say the most brilliant 140 character thing ever, and no one will be around to comment on it's brilliance. What a shame for the rest of the world. Thus the sarcasm continues, because I don't really care if I'm followed or not. If I got all the people on my Facebook to join I'd probably be as popular as a Z-list Celebrity, but that's not really the point. People will follow me because my world views are what they want to read about. Until then, I'm just going to continue following celebs, and hoping that I'll have something to contribute to the ever-important world of Twitter...

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Just another rant... continue life as normal...

Ah the beauty of a blog when one has nothing to write but still wants to. I suppose I could gripe about the fact that I have ten thousand plans for my life and I just can't seem to get one started, but I won't. Or the fact that one of my best friends is moving across the country at some unforeseeable future time, but again, I won't. How about the fact that one of my other supposedly good friends always comes to me when he's feeling down about his life and needs my reassurance? There's another no. Although so far this already seems like griping. It all doesn't really matter, I mean, these people matter to me of course, but that doesn't change the fact that I can do nothing about the situations at this point in time. I just need to get my own stuff done right now. I have an application to start a course I've considered doing over and over again but haven't gone for, that I sent a few days ago. Even though I'm a shoe in to get a place in the course it doesn't lessen the scariness of the situation. It's exciting too, though, it really feels like I'm starting to work towards what I really want, which is to move overseas for a while, and I can't do that without some sort of financially viable career, which is where the diploma course comes in. So it's all a nice, neat little package (as long as it all works out). Too vague for you? Oh well, I'm not one to go into specifics until I'm more sure of what's actually going to happen. It's sort of like the whole fairytale of making a wish, but not telling anyone because then it won't come true. Just in a more adult sort of way, less wishing, more doing.
In general I'm happy anyway, so it's all good. Though it's getting colder here by the day, but we are starting winter here in Australia, so naturally the whole drop in temperature makes sense. I do like the cold, but of course I can still complain about it, it makes it kinda hard to think when you're too busy trying to control the chattering your teeth make in the cold.
Random rant over, feeling much more inclined to go to sleep now (good old 12am).

Stay tuned in the next few days for part 2 of my Twilight analysis. Part 2: The Acting continued.

Laters

PS. Happy 23rd Birthday for the 13th May, Rob Pattinson. I hope you had a great, relaxing day, and that the fans left you alone a bit more to enjoy some quiet time.

It's time to escape from this one horse town... ;)

Do you ever get the feeling that change is coming? The kind of feeling that is strong, and confusing, because you can't really believe it's possible? Well, I've had that lately. It's strange, because I've started to accept that maybe the things that I most want in life will never happen, not in a depressed "why me?" sort of way, but more like "maybe it isn't SUPPOSED to happen for me" sort of way, because not everyone is supposed to get what they want. It's just that lately I feel like maybe I can change what's happening, and make my life a bit more interesting.
My main concern is the travel thing, really. Ever since I was a little girl I've been fascinated by the rest of the world, especially Europe (if I had to choose). I've studied all sorts of languages, and researched what exactly I'd have to do to go overseas, but it just hasn't happened for me. I keep hearing about all these people I knew in high school who have gone overseas multiple times since we graduated (damn Facebook constantly updating me on these things), and it just frustrates me that I can't seem to get it together. Yet over the past week I've been feeling like it's time to actually start planning and saving, and I'm feeling a pull towards England, so it looks like that might be where I'm headed. Who knows. I really want to believe that it's possible, but after spending so much time not believing in my ability to put events in motion I'm struggling to come to terms with facing what I want.
Anyway, I'm happy. Things may not always go the way that I want them to, but that hasn't truly bothered me for a while now. I think I've started down the whole "there are plenty of people worse off than me" road, and that's taught me that I can't let my own problems get me down. They still do, to a certain extent, but I'm not crushed by them. Plus, now that I look at it, I don't have too many problems to really worry me, and it'll all work out in the end.

I'm going to leave this with a quote that I really like, which doesn't have any relevance to the blog I just did, but I'm random, so it's inevitable.

Everyone says that love hurts, but that's not true. Lonliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these things with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain and makes us feel wonderful again.

Laters

Two blogs in one day... NOW who's overtyping...

Okay, so this rant is about social networking sites. They're all the rage, obviously, and I've used a few of them myself over the years. I just thought I'd run through my own opinions on the ones I've been on, because hey, why not?
MYSPACE: This was the first site that I was on. It was good for finding friends, chatting, and I liked that I was able to customise my page. I made it very bright and colourful. Unfortunately there wasn't much else to do on it, so when I joined Facebook I realised that I really didn't need two chat sites with the same friends. I am thinking of going back to it, though, there's stil interesting things on it, like a lot of new musicians just starting out like to use Myspace to get started.
FACEBOOK: I like this one because it has a lot to do. There's games, quizzes, fan pages, etc etc. Unfortunately you can't yet customise pages, so they can look pretty boring. Plus the administrators have an annoying habit of reorganising the site every now and then, which stuffs up the site for a while, plus applications also enjoy stuffing up a lot.
TWITTER: This is my newest favourite site. I know at first it looks like just a chat site, which technically is, but it's fun to write random nonsense whenever you feel like it, and plus celebrities like to write random stuff every now and then too. Don't believe every page claiming to be a celebrity though, there are a lot of fakes around, but Twitter page valebrity sources out the real ones from the fakes, so they're an excellent page to follow. It's easy to use, and you can customise the background and theme colours, so it is a good site if you don't have that much time to waste on a larger site.
BEBO: Apparently I have an account on this, but I saw no reason to use it. It's another chat site, and yeah, it's become relatively popular, but it's not that interesting to me. Finding friends is annoying, and you have to be in the same school network or something to actually make friends with them. I think it's more for younger people, so I can't really be bothered with it.
Yeah, so that's it for me. There are actually a few other sites as well, I can't believe how many there are even though there's really no need for them, and I'm certainly not planning on trying them out any time soon.

The Official Christina D blog

Have you noticed how everything a celebrity does has to say 'official'? Now, I can understand that, of course, there are so many people out there trying to impersonate celebrities that it takes A LOT of verifying before a page can be trusted (if you're on Twitter check out valebrity for real celebrities twitter accounts). Well, I'm no celebrity, but this IS my official blog, so I may as well call it that. I'm still trying to decide where exactly this is going to lead, whether it turns into social commentary (although I don't pay that much attention these days so it may be just commentary about the 'one-horse town' in which I currently live), or just continues as ramblings that may or may not have a solid basis in reality. Either way, it's gonna be crazy.
I've looked at a couple of blog pages today, and they are FUNNY. Funny strange AND funny haha. See, if I wasn't here in Australia, away from absolutely anything of interest happening in the world I'd have a lot more to write. As it is I just have to write about my own life. Which reminds me. One of my best friends is thinking of taking a spectacular job offer in Perth. For those of you who don't know Australia, that's about 3700kms away from where I live, which is about as far as you can move away while still living on continental Australia. Totally not my fault, I SWEAR... Nah, it's a good opportunity for him, but seriously, the other side of Australia??! What's the deal?? Plus there's a lot more desert over that side!! I'm just saying, let's see how great he feels after moving there and dying of dehydration... Rant over, super happy for soon to be missed top 5 friend's list friend.
Omg, how did it get to be almost 1 o'clock in the morning??

Gotta go, sleep calleth the tired (look at that sentence, I AM tired)