The post that has cracked me up the most on The Teenage Construct yet is the most recent on the back-to-school experience. You could call it the story of my life. It's not about school life exclusively, because if being preppy and nothing-less-than-perfect is the essence your "school culture"and "social world" then it also drives your whole life. Considering how many hours of your life are devoted to affairs and thoughts of school...it's a big deal.
The word to sum up the vibe I'm being sent from my new school is quite the opposite - GRUNGE.
So funny, on the first day of school I overheard THREE separate conversations about how this school is "supposed to be 'Indie'" and how "apparently Indie people go here". And I swear someone said that they weren't finding it Indie. And these were people who don't fit the Independent Norm. And then they all went on about how Indie is now Mainstream and abusing the concept of "Indie".
Which brings me to this discussion I saw a few weeks ago on the World of Warcraft Forum titled "Hipsters". And there were pages and pages i.e. hundreds and hundreds, of people going on debating like this:
"Is Hipster here to stay, because I just wish hipsters would all die"
"Nah, I reckon there have always been hipsters"
"I can't believe people would label ... (e.g. type of sunglasses, shoes, jeans, books) as hipster"
"I always wore...and now that there are hipsters, I'm classified as one and people hate me for it."
"It sounds like you're a hipster because you're pretending you aren't..."
"Hipster is stupid. It doesn't even make sense."
"Hipsters are so stupid, they don't know....."
"I hope hipster goes away soon. I hate them. I wish they would ***** die"
AND I AM DEVASTATED THAT I CAN'T FIND THE PAGE ANYMORE!!!! Whatever. Fill in the blanks - you know how it goes.
For the past couple of days, I've been walking around and trying not to crack up. In Year Seven, my colour group, whom I spent most classes with, went through a phase of obsession with BONDS grundies. I SWEAR some of us (not me) presented a song to the rest of us for a group task in Music. Today I looked them up on the Internet and they weren't exactly the same sort of daggy underwear everyone told me they were. (These ones I saw had all these in-your-face kind of Australia flag designs...)
Yeah. And now to state the obvious - that I haven't been blogging in AGES. And also, I need to state that by saying this at the end of the post, I was trying to not be an ordinary person who states the obvious at the beginning of the post. If, like, you didn't get it.
