Superficiality does not exist in my world.ladymirandaSeptember 24 2003, 17:58:40 UTC
That being said, I do hope that today bodes well and turns out a bit better.
Small stuff, love, small stuff.
You've still got a month and a half (or so) of marching season left, but you'll plod on through (no pun intended). Adults in general are rather dumb when it comes to dealing with teenagers. They suck (my mom admitted to this to me and Jenna before we left for school). Dunlap, while being a band director, probably has no earthly idea how to talk to and interact with people one-third of his age. He thinks that, because he's been doing it for x years, he knows what he's talking about and how every person will react to what he has to say, but that's just pompous adultness that comes with everyone who works with teenagers every day (namely high school teachers).
Your mom and Dunlap should not have had a conversation about you and your stress level and involvement without you there. That's just weird and wrong. Their assumptions as to why you chose to run cross country (both of them probably wrong) is another example of forementioned pompous adultness: they all act like they're experts on the individual they're conversing about and they know ever little detail and how every neurotransmitter and neurochemical is transferred from neuron to neuron in your specific brain. Bullshit.
I highly doubt your mom had a clue. She might have had some inclination, because mothers have this intuitive Mom-sense that's rather freaky sometimes, but then again she might not. If she did think that anything was going on, she probably would've asked you about it or managed to bring it up in a conversation somehow (although I'm not sure how that could be casually brought into conversation).
Parents do care. I'm amazed by how many people think that their parents are annoying, nagging individuals who don't care how their offspring are doing. The nagging is because they care. Anyway, your parents do care about you. And wasn't all that stuff going on when some other stuff was going on so they might not have been paying *as* much attention to you?
This is Sara the Prolific Commenter signing off.
I really should compile all my comments to you and put them somewhere. Or maybe I should work really hard to comment first and make everyone feel bad for writing something superficial and cliched, or last and upstage everyone. *grin* No, no ego involved there at all...
I'm not entirely sure why you meant by the subject of your commentlilbassgirl88September 25 2003, 01:04:01 UTC
Prolific comment *applauds* Sadly enough I actually have over three months of marching band left, but yeah, I'll live through it. LOL it's hard responding to your prolific comments cuz you say just about everything there is to be said! Yeah, adults are dumb. Just becuase they were teenagers once doesn't mean they understand me, hell, I don't understand me, how could they? I guess that I know my parents care, like when I really think about it. I just have this whole "my parents don't care" attitude like stuck in my head, for some reason... Haha, you should. Your comments rock.
Yeah they can be dumb sometimes, sadly I'm sure I have done that before though.lilbassgirl88September 26 2003, 04:13:19 UTC
Yeah, three. We're going to the fiesta bowl in december and marching in a competition down there and a parade. Like Dec 28-Jan2 or something like that.
Small stuff, love, small stuff.
You've still got a month and a half (or so) of marching season left, but you'll plod on through (no pun intended). Adults in general are rather dumb when it comes to dealing with teenagers. They suck (my mom admitted to this to me and Jenna before we left for school). Dunlap, while being a band director, probably has no earthly idea how to talk to and interact with people one-third of his age. He thinks that, because he's been doing it for x years, he knows what he's talking about and how every person will react to what he has to say, but that's just pompous adultness that comes with everyone who works with teenagers every day (namely high school teachers).
Your mom and Dunlap should not have had a conversation about you and your stress level and involvement without you there. That's just weird and wrong. Their assumptions as to why you chose to run cross country (both of them probably wrong) is another example of forementioned pompous adultness: they all act like they're experts on the individual they're conversing about and they know ever little detail and how every neurotransmitter and neurochemical is transferred from neuron to neuron in your specific brain. Bullshit.
I highly doubt your mom had a clue. She might have had some inclination, because mothers have this intuitive Mom-sense that's rather freaky sometimes, but then again she might not. If she did think that anything was going on, she probably would've asked you about it or managed to bring it up in a conversation somehow (although I'm not sure how that could be casually brought into conversation).
Parents do care. I'm amazed by how many people think that their parents are annoying, nagging individuals who don't care how their offspring are doing. The nagging is because they care. Anyway, your parents do care about you. And wasn't all that stuff going on when some other stuff was going on so they might not have been paying *as* much attention to you?
This is Sara the Prolific Commenter signing off.
I really should compile all my comments to you and put them somewhere. Or maybe I should work really hard to comment first and make everyone feel bad for writing something superficial and cliched, or last and upstage everyone. *grin* No, no ego involved there at all...
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Sadly enough I actually have over three months of marching band left, but yeah, I'll live through it.
LOL it's hard responding to your prolific comments cuz you say just about everything there is to be said!
Yeah, adults are dumb. Just becuase they were teenagers once doesn't mean they understand me, hell, I don't understand me, how could they?
I guess that I know my parents care, like when I really think about it. I just have this whole "my parents don't care" attitude like stuck in my head, for some reason...
Haha, you should. Your comments rock.
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Mmmm, yeah, I do have a way of overspeaking. I talk too much when someone gives me the opportunity and rather kill the topic at hand. Whoops.
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Ah that's okay, your comments still rock.
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