Hello, Goodbye.

Hi thrrr.

Just ignore that^ and we can move on...
So in case anybody is wondering, the critique went just fine. I'm doing everything correctly. All is good... for that class at least, but more on that at a later date. There is something more interesting I wish to tell you.

I pulled up this New Post and a Britney Spears song was playing on my iTunes (in case you're wondering which one) and I was going to mention that and go from there, but then the song was ending and Britney is talking to a girl (which is cut off in the link). They go on blabbing about a boy and how Britney 'gets no satisfaction' and then it fades out into Hank Green's "A Song About An Anglerfish." (I bet Hank Green never thought something like that would happen a few years ago...) And that is why I love music, iTunes, shuffle and nostalgia.

My iTunes just took me back to Elementary school and threw me into High School/College within 5 minutes. The Britney song reminded me of my beaded-curtain craze (because of her album cover) and how I was best friends with a bunch of girls who are complete polar opposites now. That's kind of how this whole music thing has gone for me. I listened to the typical Nsync, Britney Spears and Christina Agu-However-You-Spell-Her-Last-Name, but somewhere along the line I gained some smarts and started to listen to real bands. Growing up is a funny thing... especially when a lot of our memories of growing up are based upon the music we listened to at certain stages of our lives.

As for me, getting out of High School completely took me away from the Top 40 radio and what is "Popular" music. I'm starting to figuring out, even more than before, what music I want to listen to. That kind of thing throws into sharp perspective the friends from high school I still want in my life... and those that I don't. The latter category consists of my roommate. It's sad and it sucks, but I've realized that I can't be around someone like her. She brings me down and pushes me into being an even bigger 'hermit crab' than I was originally. She's doing all of this without noticing as well. She makes me feel uncomfortably inferior and I can't live like that during college. Students in dorms have it easy. They can switch roommates and all that jazz, but I have to find my own living accommodations and leaving the apartment/duplex I'm in now will be difficult because it's an easy living situation. Renting an apartment for $100 just doesn't happen in Minneapolis.

Anyway... obviously I have some pent up emotion over the situation. It sucks, but what I'm trying to say is that I'm growing up *aww* yeah, yeah, whatever. I like being able to make my own decisions and not have people looking over my shoulder at what I'm doing, which is why I need to move out.

Stuff was so much easier back in the day... back when Britney Spears was my idol and decisions were made for me by my parents, the radio and the world around me, but I like finding out who I really am. I like realizing that Hank Green's hilarious and entertaining music will remind of a time where I finally stopped caring what people thought about me. This is my life. I should be able to live it however I like and not feel shut down by people who were my friends in High School.

People change. The memories are good, but the choosing of a new direction in life is waaaaay more satisfying.
Goodbye old high-school-friend-roommate; Hello new possibilities.

Have a lovely Easter. God Bless. =)
xx