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

Thursday, February 18, 2010

LANGUAGES: Being Totally Paralyzed in the Face of Twitter is Worse than Puberty

I say it slightly shamefacedly, but yes, I "tweet."

For some people this is just a new format to broadcast the snippets of wit they're so adept at spinning, Wilde-esque, from the world around them. For others it's a platform for a view or belief system, like "what would tiny buddha say?" For many, many more it's a way to tell you what sort of sandwich they ate today and whether or not they're tired.

For me, it is an agony of indecision and overanalysis.

Is that funny, or just forced? If I put this observation about Hilary Swank's teeth up, will I be too offensive? Why did I lose 2 followers yesterday (mind, I don't even have 100, so this is a serious percentage drop)? And what about swears, and the word "penis," and other things that Michael Ian Black make seem so easy, but which I have a sneaking suspicion won't really fly for me? WHAT OF THOSE???

I think I'm missing the point entirely. Should I tweet that?

-Posted by Jilly
at 10:16 AM
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