Break me off a piece of Internet

I've decided to make an outlet for this fashion obsession thing I've been dealing with for a while. We'll see how it ends up.

I won't apologize for who I am....

Since I've been sort-of obsessed with clothes and "fashion" for the past few, oh, I dunno....months? weeks? fortnights? I've decided to talk about SCHOOL and FASHION.
Oh my, will those two words ever go together? Especially since most of the girls at my school wear Abercrombie, Aeropastle ("air mail" in French!), American Eagle, Hollister, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Oh, and I forgot to mention: Uggs or very clever look-alikes. (I swear I saw five-thousand zillion pairs of them every day during the winter. Those and this type of clogs.)
Even one of my best friends has started to wear Aero and these Ugg-ish boots. 
GGAAAAAHHHHHHH. When will high schoolers ever decide to stop conforming and dress the way they like to dress? Now, I'm pretty sure that some people actually like the clothes from A and F, Aero, and AE, but others just wear it because everyone else is wearing it. 
I think that in all human beings, there's a need to feel like you belong somewhere, with a group of people (no matter what group it is). So, by dressing and looking like everyone else, you'll be able to belong to the huge collective group of "everyone else"? I don't think so.

Compromising yourself to fit into a group that you don't like that much is not very effective. You don't feel like yourself, and the other people probably just think that you're just another one of the Abercrombie-wearing group, and thus don't really get to know you.

But, not all of the people at my school are Aero-followers (and just because you wear that stuff doesn't neccessarily mean that you are an Aberzombie [credit to Style Rookie for that term!]) There are a few girls who actually wear things that are different from the mainstream--they create outfits that are whimsical, unique, and expressions of themselves. They don't worry about trying to fit in, because they know who they are and are not afraid to tell the rest of the world.

Spring Break!

Hallelujah! Spring break is FINALLY here. After a day of grueling tests and quizzes, I have managed to escape the jail-like school and break out into the REAL WORLD OF THE INTERNET. Okay, so not everything on the 'net is true, and it only connects almost everyone to everyone else.

I wish I was going somewhere (doesn't everyone?), preferably Washington D.C. The last time I went there it was during high summer and I was 8 or something. So, I couldn't remember anything except for the unbearable heat and the refreshing coolness of the air conditioning in the Air & Space museum. Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh. So, I want to go there and see the INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM! Especially after I read Gilda Joyce: The Dead Drop, by Jennifer Allison. The entire series is wonderful and Gilda is such an inspiring dresser. She does everything FEARLESSly.

But I'm grateful that I'm still in school and therefore still get a spring break. I wonder how adults make it through the whole year without designated breaks?

Beware the Ides of March! Beware them!

Which is today, by the way. So, if anyone is reading this today, BEWARE. Julius Caesar died this day many a day ago.

A few weeks ago we had a sub for homeroom who was, well, a little more elderly than some previous subs we'd had. Anyway, she was all of five feet tall, and was having trouble keeping the goons (aka hormonal immature teenage guys) controlled, so guess what she did?

She walked up to the goons on the far side of the classroom, and said, "If you guys don't start behaving, I'll be IN YOUR FACE! And you do not want that!" And she was, like, sixty.

This, of course, sent the entire goon-half of the class into peals of roaring laughter.

Definitely the awesomest moment of my entire high school experience, so far.

Quixotic

Oh yeah--vocab wrds are totes boss, yo. Idealistic, btw, not that you asked, but...whatever.

Ahem...

QUIXOTIC

I envy those

who do not need prose

to explain their deepest feelings

I envy those

who can use prose

to depict their inner minds

I envy those

who are allowed to goes

To movies, like Alice in Wonderland (TIM BURTON 3-D ALICE JOHNNY DEPP W00T!)

I envy those

who stick their nose

in places they should not be in,

and have the courage

to follow the rabbit

down his wee-little hole.

I envy those

who can write the prose

and set it to music

and have it make sense

I envy those

who have a voice

to sing about

and can sling their voice

out into the crowd

of critics and scrutinizers

and poets and spin doctorers.

I no longer envy those

who plant the rose

and use the hose

for play.

I can see the day,

no more delay,

when night comes

and no one can work.

I must therefore,

get off my butt,

and get going,

before the going catches up.

Another Alice thing...

Well, not so much Alice as it is Wonderland...

Rei Kawakubo's F/W 09/10 collection is called Wonderland, and the show and the clothes all fit that name very well. In her own words:

"Wonderland, where nothing is as it seems."

A few words, but more than enough to describe it.

Avril in Wonderland!!!

TWO OF MY FAVORITE THINGS ARE COMING TOGETHER. AGAIN.

Favorite Thing #1: Avril Lavigne. I just LOVE her music. It's the greatest. There's just something about their atmosphere and lyrics and rhythm that make them very real, bold, and empowering. But enough of that fangirl chatter. On to...

Favorite Thing #2: Alice in Wonderland! As evident from my last post. The whole story is awesome. And I just finished a book called Finding Alice, by Melody Carlson(which is another 2-fave-things-mixed-together: Melody Carlson & her books, and AiW [of course]), about a girl named Alice Laxton (Alice Liddell? ahahahahahaha) who's inherited schizophrenia paranoia from her grandmother, and how she overcomes it and how it almost completely takes over her.

So...

Avril + Alice = "Alice", Avril Lavigne's new single for the official soundtrack of the new Alice in Wonderland movie directed by Tim Burton!

I LOVE THAT SONG. Well, the refrain/chorus is a little...meh, but the rest of it is EPICLY COOL. Quite as cool as "Keep Holding On", the song Avril did for the Eragon movie (that I haven't seen. Yet. I still haven't read Eldest or Brisingr. Series-reading-fail).

Alice in Wonderland!!!

In honor of the upcoming Alice in Wonderland movie, I decided to recreate the Mad Hatter's costume using random bits of clothing I found. Voila!

Face is blocked out because I am paranoid and Lemony Snicket's secret twin. It's actually very warm, b/c of the coat and gloves and hat and being indoors and all.