Saturday, April 3, 2010

Boys, Girls, and Losers

Oh, hi!
It feels good to be doing this again. This whole blogging thing. While I'm not looking forward to going back to school on Monday, I'm certainly looking forward to being Your Faithful Observer once more. :)

Ahhh. Spring break is coming to a close, so, of course, I'm procrastinating on my homework.
Long story short, I just re-read all of the blog posts here. And I've noticed a certain correlation between... almost all the people I've written about so far.

To give you some sort of idea of what this correlation is, I'm going to describe my English class for just a moment.
Our teacher did not assign us our seats, so everyone picked their own places, and the class naturally divided itself into three sections: Boys, Girls, and Losers.

This way it has remained.

And readers, Your Faithful Observer sits in the "Loser" section, with Brown Bag, the Paper Passer, Doodle Hands, the Loner, and Remus Lupin.

In this blog, I've written about five people in my English class: Brown Bag, the Paper Passer, Doodle Hands, the Loner, and Remus Lupin.

It's a bit funny that I wrote about everyone in the Loser section, and didn't even notice. There are forty kids in my English class, and I selected those five first. And it's not just them--The Frenchman and Glass and Ha-Ha and Fedora, while not in the Loser section, mostly stay to themselves. They don't talk.

So, maybe thus far the Unlimited Observer has been a bit limited.
I sort of naturally went for the people that I relate to the most--the people that I understand the most. And for whatever reason, it's easier for me to understand someone when they don't talk a whole lot.

I'd like to think that I'm a meanderer, that I can strike up a conversation with anybody at school, that nobody really considers me a loser.
But the truth of the matter is, I'm a chubby junior with thick glasses and hair full of split ends.
I'm a loser, and most of the time, I'm okay with that.

(I mean, I write anonymous blogs about my peers in the dead of night. I spend the majority of my Saturdays staying in and watching YouTube videos and writing poems all day. It's a good life.)

But as far as this blog, I'm going to try to branch out a little more. Write about more of the popular kids, and not just the misfit popular kids like Brown Bag and Glass and Ha-Ha. It may be a little harder to delve into their characters, but who cares, as long as I'm still observing.

Besides, I like to think everyone's got a little bit of misfit in them, so maybe it won't be as hard as I think. =D

1 comment:

  1. Maybe that's why I related to everyone so well! xD I think it's interesting that your class divided itself that way. Two of my classes were allowed to seat themselves and in both classes it ended up with sections divided among band, choir, ASG, journalism, sports, and physics kids with the sections overlapping a little bit and girls and boys mixed pretty evenly throughout the room. The losers ended up sitting randomly throughout the room wherever there happened to be a free seat, usually as close to the door as they could get.

    I love reading your blog, and I'm just now figuring out how to comment, haha. I can't wait for you to start up again next week. :)

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