Black Friday Woes

Amazingly, I have never been Black Friday shopping. As much as I drooled over the various notebooks and netbooks in all of the store leaflets that came with various newspapers, my parents were adamantly not going to take me Black Friday shopping. So, here I sit in the local Peet's Coffee and Tea with my decidedly anti-Black Friday parents writing about them. (I bet this is so much fun for you to read!) Anyway, good news is that I discovered that Rodarte for Target comes out on MY HALF BIRTHDAY!! Yes, that's right folks on December 20th I will officially be 13 1/2. so, there' a little tid-bit to celebrate on this dreary day. Hope today gets better!

Jerking's Coming-of-Age

So, I was looking at the New York Times Sunday Styles section, which I practically die waiting for all week, and of course I couldn't miss the HUGE cover article on jerking. I was super excited to see the absolutely ginormous pic of Julian Goins and his fly moves like BAM! right in front of my face. Anyhoo, to the point. It was supercool to see this huge story on jerking because it's huge at my school--almost everyone does it, or at least tries. The oddest things happen at dances because of jerking. There are a few people who are really spectacular and when they start to dance, the giant circles of people form around them and then, the only people who are dancing are the ones in the middle of the circle. If there is one thing that reigns supreme in an OC middle it's jerking. Hours are spent youtubing jerking videos. Even more are spent getting music and then setting the choreography for dance-offs, events the entire school relishes. Then, of course, there is the epic week of Star-Search at my school where jerking reigns supreme and the dance battles commence to the deafening screaming of supporters. There is no question about it, this is jerking's coming of age.

Good News: I've Been INSPIRED!

I've been inspired, or at least motivated, by the prospect of putting off my outline for a ginormous history report--National History Day (NHD) but oh well. Credit for my inspiration goes to TAVI. Well I know she's a bit cliched to write about (sorry Tavi) because of all of the recent press on her blog, but I must confess I'm a huge fan. But, more than drag this post out by going on about the absolutely ahmazing spontaneous creativity of the quirky-cool It-girl's blog I'd like to focus on the recent Teen Vogue article that was supposedly all about teen blogger sensation Tavi. I would like to draw the attention to the more that possibility that the whole article was simply a ploy to get the word out about Rodarte's line for Target (I nearly when ballistic when I read this, being a fan of both brand and store), while incognito as a tidbit about Tavi. I'm not a hater in the least, far from it, but I did want to draw attention to the attempt of Teen Vogue to try to pass this one. And, cheers to Tavi! (and to putting off NHD)

Well, the sad, sad fate that I haven't posted in more than a month doesn't hasn't really hit home until now... So sorry about that. I haven't yet found something inspiring yet to write about, but perhaps this is inspiring you right now to go and paint your toenails neon green (that would be supercool). Oh and don't you like my use of supercool? I like it. Here's something inspiring: thirty days until my half birthday!