Chain Letter Rebellion

I remember as a kid the stupid lchain etters that use to come around to us students.

Though i am young, my childhood did not consist of writing emails back and forth amongst friends in elementary school. It was a little before the day when everyone had a computer in their household, in our school it was a luxury to use those puppies, especially on Oregon Trail Fridays.

So the way we recieved Chain Letters were through hand. It was sort of Ring-ish, before the creepy girl came crawling out of the tv. The letters found there way through several hands, before landing into your own. And of course when you opened it up the folded piece of paper, what would it say: "Give/Show/Send/Mail this to 7 of your friends and you will have 7 years of good luck. But if you don't send it you will have 7 years of bad luck, your boyfriend will dump you, you will grow a wart, and end up living in van down by the river" okay so it wasn't that dramatic but you get the point.

When i recieved those letters i instantly chucked them in the garbage. Sometimes i wish i could find the first person who sent the letter and shove it in their face, but instead i took my chances on luck, and i haven't grown a wart yet.

The fact is is that i hate chain letters, and with the popularity of everything internet, they have become even easier to send. It is totally frustrating and annoying to open up your email/myspace/facebook yadda yadda yadda account, and see some message starting with "YOU HAVE BEEN HIT..."with another stupid chain letter.

So today as i did my morning facebook check, i saw a stupid chain letter from Mike, stating that i had been hit by the:

PRETTY GIRL TRUCK '""";.., ___.
_..._...______==== ___..., ]
"(@ )'(@ )""""*(@ )(@ )*****(@

"ONCE YOU'VE BEEN HIT YOUR PRETTY MUCH FUCKED BUT YOU HAVE TO HIT 08 PRETTY GIRLS. IF YOU GET HIT AGAIN YOU'LL KNOW YOU'RE REALLY PRETTY! IF YOU BREAK THE CHAIN, YOU'LL HAVE UGLYNESS FOR 10 YEARS LIKE ALL OUR IMITATORS. SO HIT PRETTY GIRLS TO LET THEM KNOW THEY'RE PRETTY AND TO FUCK THEM UP. lol "

I tried so hard not to roll my eyes, but i still groaned and winced and cursed him all to hell. And then wondered "he thinks i'm pretty/" WHAT?!?! Chain letter or not the word pretty is in it which instantly means(in my mind) that he thinks i'm pretty.

I didn't mention the chain letter incident to him in math today, but he was gawking at me like a school boy in love. Ever since i told him about Waldo he has been acting differently towards me...perhaps even a little nice. It's bizarre, in trying not to think irrationally about this friendship i considered the new found niceness is that he is just happy to be around me. I mean who wouldn't be.

But today after the whole pretty girl truck letter, he kept staring at me during math.He kept glaring at me as i wrote down notes, and when i'd look at him he would avert his eyes. And this is not an over exaggeration, I mean seriously kind of creepy. I kept wondering if i had anything in my hair or something. After the stare fest he suggested we have a study session for upcoming math final. I'm thinking: i totally need a person to study with for math this is awesome we should study in the library next Monday or something.

NOOOOO. He wants me to go over his house, on the weekend to study. HMMMM. HMMMMM. HMMMMM.

Perhaps i am just reading the signs wrong, maybe this is what friends do. But me and Mike were never those friends, we were always see you in class/library/rooftop/some place on campus kind of friends. This is new and freaky. DAMN CHAIN LETTER BULL.

In other totally unrelated news i am writing a story for english. It's more of a script/story kind of thing, and i only a week to do it. For the end of the semester project we have to creatively come up with something that represents what we have read in class. At first i was going to do a simple Mix Cd about realism. That then turned into a soundtrack if a novel like Anna Karenina was turned into a movie, this then turned into me coming up with a movie in my mind for realism, thus i am now left with a soundtrack to compose and a movie/short story to write.

I've have decided to do an Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Apparently it is in the magical realism genre which we kind of talked about in class. I think it could be fun to explore a now grown up Alice in the city, yearning for her return to Wonderland...until she meets a particular stranger who also says he has been to this magical place and has the key to returning. I'm working out all the details but so far that is all i have got.

One more week of classes, then exams. I don't know want to do with myself. I'm already exhausted by this week and the battle has only just begun.