The Truth About This Special Time In Your Life

According to what we remember from pamphlets geared towards 6th-grade girls, puberty is regarded as one of the most awkward and scary stages in a person’s life. It’s a time of horrifying physical transformations, scary new feelings, and growing interest in activities that you are still not old enough to engage in legally. Common symptoms of puberty include: braces, frizzy hair, baby fat, having a crush on 8th grader Steve Julius, blinding body odor and lame extracurricular interests like the violin or Bedazzling.

However, if personal experience has taught us anything, it's that there are experiences in life far more awkward, scary and pathetic than puberty. Here is a list of things that are:


WORSE THAN PUBERTY

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

HOME EC/SHOP: Being Confused About the Day of the Week is Worse than Puberty

Most people out there are pretty well aware at any given time what day, if not what date, it is. This is because they have a thing called a "schedule," which operates on a standard week/weekend rotation, subdivided by various reality programming to break up the monotony of those 5 "on" days.

But then there are people like me, who work silly non-jobs, with "weekend" days rotating between sunday, tuesday, wednesday, and any other day that my babysitting and/or store-tending services are not required.

This means I don't realize things like "it's tuesday, and these are things I do on tuesday, things like write articles about my gripes" until it's almost wednesday.

And somehow I think this means I deserve a vacation...

-Posted by Jilly
at 11:42 PM
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