This is my mom-inspired outfit. I'm wearing her sunglasses from the 80's and her 90's shirt I stole from a box in the garage.
So this weekend was pretty much awesome.
Friday was spent with Nick, Rob, and Dante. We walked around the mall and Barnes and Noble, commenting on whatever struck our interest and discussing zombies with a complete stranger.
Yeah.
That's we roll.
Oh, and Dante bought vampire teeth.
Which he dropped down the drain the next day.
That darn Dante!
Then on Saturday I had a fantastic time watching The Graduate with Cliff.
:]
I watched The Grammys on Sunday with my mom (is anyone else disappointed that MGMT didn't get Best New Artist? Oh, and I absolutely loved Green Day's performance!)
But then school had to start on Monday....
Sigh.
In the last two days, I've probably had about...oh, say maybe five hours of sleep?
Yeah, not cool.
You know, I was thinking the other day how it's interesting that we spend so much time at school and yet, our teachers really have no idea who we are.
I mean, we see these people everyday and we know virtually nothing about each other.
My biology teacher probably has a completely different impression of me than my English teacher or my math teacher or history teacher.
But none of these people know the real me, none of them understands me.
And it's sad because I don't understand them either.
I have no idea what's going on in their lives, who they're married to, who they're children are, if they have pets or their hobbies or their religion.
School dehumanizes that relationship in a way.
It's sad because when you think about it, even your own family members don't really know who you are.
People like your cousins or aunts or uncles have almost no idea about you either.
What's Uncle Gary's favorite color?
What's Christopher's favorite movie?
What's Aunt Georgia's favorite food?
I don't know.
My own family, and I have no idea.
It's like we exist differently to other people.
It's impossible to truly understand a person because they adapt to different environments and react to people differently.
There's School-Juliette, Friends-Juliette, Family-Juliette, Alone-Juliette, Imaginary-Juliette, Internet-Juliette.
How can anyone keep them all straight?
How can anyone truly understand another human being?
Friday was spent with Nick, Rob, and Dante. We walked around the mall and Barnes and Noble, commenting on whatever struck our interest and discussing zombies with a complete stranger.
Yeah.
That's we roll.
Oh, and Dante bought vampire teeth.
Which he dropped down the drain the next day.
That darn Dante!
Then on Saturday I had a fantastic time watching The Graduate with Cliff.
:]
I watched The Grammys on Sunday with my mom (is anyone else disappointed that MGMT didn't get Best New Artist? Oh, and I absolutely loved Green Day's performance!)
But then school had to start on Monday....
Sigh.
In the last two days, I've probably had about...oh, say maybe five hours of sleep?
Yeah, not cool.
You know, I was thinking the other day how it's interesting that we spend so much time at school and yet, our teachers really have no idea who we are.
I mean, we see these people everyday and we know virtually nothing about each other.
My biology teacher probably has a completely different impression of me than my English teacher or my math teacher or history teacher.
But none of these people know the real me, none of them understands me.
And it's sad because I don't understand them either.
I have no idea what's going on in their lives, who they're married to, who they're children are, if they have pets or their hobbies or their religion.
School dehumanizes that relationship in a way.
It's sad because when you think about it, even your own family members don't really know who you are.
People like your cousins or aunts or uncles have almost no idea about you either.
What's Uncle Gary's favorite color?
What's Christopher's favorite movie?
What's Aunt Georgia's favorite food?
I don't know.
My own family, and I have no idea.
It's like we exist differently to other people.
It's impossible to truly understand a person because they adapt to different environments and react to people differently.
There's School-Juliette, Friends-Juliette, Family-Juliette, Alone-Juliette, Imaginary-Juliette, Internet-Juliette.
How can anyone keep them all straight?
How can anyone truly understand another human being?
1 comments:
love the way you paired that t-shirt with black skinnies! also, thanks for the nice comment you left on my teen vogue feature. (:
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