The Scary Youth of Today

Am I old? Am I one of those people who looks at the youth and shakes her head in bewilderment????

APPARENTLY I AM.

I went to the mall today, because it seems like I haven't been to the mall in years. Seriously. And you know who was at the mall? The typical young kids of our day. But it is SO FUNNY how malls are filled with the same aged kids but then some how this particular mall was filled with all the freakiest kids I've ever seen.

Okay I get that goth is somehow cool now and everybody wants to be emo and dark and depressing, but seriously! It is so weird when these crow-like metal-adorned pierced, hairdyed kids are walking around the mall past the stores that are all Gap and Guess and American eagle with all their bright colors and preppy styles. And not just them. The wanna-be ghetto kids from da hood were thugging it around in their designer thug gear.

It made me nervous, so the nerd I am, I ran and hid in the bookstore and felt safe at home.

I should work in a book store (except that I hate working) because I spent like 2 and a half hours there without noticing. I went through every section and looked at hundreds of books. And bought one.

I didn't mean to. I wasn't trying to buy anything, it just jumped into my arms and it screamed, When will you ever see me again if you don't buy me now!!!!

So I bought it. I don't even know if it's good. It's called LOOK AT ME by Jennifer Egan. It has a siilver seal on it what more can you ask?

The last time I bought a book (I was also in the bookstore for hours until it jumped into my arms) And that book was this huge bible of a book called House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I say that anyone with a middle name that starts with Z is a good person. Anyway that book was awesome and I totally recommend it. Crazy weird and fun. Except II totally hated the narrator. Drove me mad. I didn't care about him or his life at all and I found a way to actually read the book with out having to read about him at all, but i did go back and read it all. I think i need to reread it to remember and appreciate it fully.

So here's to books. I broke my resolution of not buying a new book until I read all the books I own now that I've bought and never finished. I was working at it. There are six books on my nightstand all with bookmarked pages and I have a go at them every now and then.

Tsk I'm bad.

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