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Cat's Official Week
Topic 1) A Couple More Shameless Plugs
Topic 2) Here's to the Night
Topic 3) The Discomfort of Irregularity...
Topic 4) Song of the Week
Topic 5) Webpage of the Week
Topic 6) Quote of the Week Cat's Official Week:
This week is People-Watching Week. Camcorder optional. Topic 1) A Couple More Shameless Plugs: - By Me
I really have nothing to write about this week, so I'll give a plug for a great band that I saw Friday night. Their name is Superchic[k] and it's definitely my type of music. With the motto of "one turntable and a megaphone," this girl-fronted band is happy, poppy, edgy, and has awesome uplifting lyrics. And y'all wonder why I'm such an optimist . . . It's all about the music.
Another shameless plug: Girl Scout Cookies! Please do not buy from those pesky little girls who come to your door, especially the ones that don't even know your name. It's my last year as a Girl Scout, and I'm selling cookies, too! We start Friday--by Girl Scout Honor Code. Since I'll be at Beta Convention for the weekend, please hold out until Tuesday so that you can order from me at school. Kim and Laura are selling, too! Topic 2) Here's to the Night: - By Travis Griffin
A few months ago, I was getting ready for work. I worked at a summer camp, and I usually went in after my mom left for work and before my step-dad woke up. I was a little late, and I was hastily putting on my shoes for another day of playing soccer and fending off the endless stream of children asking, ?Mr. Travis, can I have a piggy back ride??
This morning two unusual things happened: the first being that something other than a rap video or stupid reality show came on MTV. I looked at the TV as I grabbed my keys and cell phone and saw a video that I have never seen before. I missed the opening credits, so at first I did not know who the video was. The subdued melody caught my attention, and I decided to take two minutes out of my day to be a teenage cliché and watch MTV. I inferred from the first chorus that the song was entitled ?Here's to the Night? and I got up to go to work when something made me sit again. The words of the chorus caught my attention. I was not sure why, and I waited through another verse. When the chorus came a second time, I paid close attention: ?Here's to the night we felt alive. Here?s to the tears you knew you cried. Here?s to goodbye's, tomorrow's gonna come too soon.? The video showed what appeared to be a party before a departure, and then I realized that, in less than a month, I would be beginning my senior year of high school. In less than a year I would be moving into a dorm room of some university. I realized that I would be making my goodbyes to people that I have known for a dozen years.
I was petrified at this thought. How could I leave these people? I thought about my friends who had already gone off to college. Most of these were short time acquaintances or friends? older siblings, but these goodbyes were hard and laced with comments of ?I?ll write you all of the time,? yet this never happened. How can I function without my support base? I know many wonderful people that I know I?ll promise to write to, but I may be too preoccupied to do so. I thought about ways to stay here, but I can't do that. I have to go away to college and make a life for myself.
On the verge of tears, I got up and cursed myself for getting broken up over a music video. This is something that I will face, but all I can do is know that tomorrow comes too soon. I dedicate this letter to my friends. I love you all.Topic 3) The Discomfort of Irregularity (With Regards to Cable Television, Of Course) - By Jacquie Hauth
Ok, so what's with the cable company all switching around the stations?! I turned on the TV this afternoon for more nice, comforting, mindless dribble on MTV, my usual channel 55, when there was something like HGTV! I thought it was a fluke, so I changed it to my trusty TV Guide channel, but alas, 30 was no longer the TV Guide channel! Now, I know that change is good for everyone from time to time, but don't fucking mess with my TV stations!! ?whew, what a nice little outburst?
So, as I was about to say, exercise your TV privileges with caution, because you might end up falling asleep to the Portuguese Golf channel while trying to find an old Godzilla movie. Topic 4) Cat's Song of the Week:
"Super Trouper" by Superchic[k]. Guaranteed to make you smile, if even for a second. Topic 5) Webpage of the Week:
www.uproar.com Topic 6) Quote of the Week:
(Submitted by Ivana) "To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make me the same as everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting." --e.e. cummings (1894-1962) Closing:
Blah. Girl Scout Cookies! Have a great week y'all, and enjoy your Monday off.Previous Edition | Next Edition [ Get Involved | Home | Songs | Archives | Quotes | Websites ]
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