You know whats lame? Following your own blog. I think following blogs is gay anyway. lol I mean, in theory. It turns everything into a popularity contest. Oh! I've got five followers && you've got none. Seriously? I don't think thats what bloggings about. Why is it that all websites are getting hella myspace-y? Like, okay, Facebook. I fucking hate Facebook, no doubt about it, but I respected Facebook, for the fact that Facebook was not Myspace. It was nothing like myspace, which made it cool. Then, it went & added all the applications to make it just like Myspace. So now, not only is it irritating, its unoriginal. No points for Facebook.

And has anybody noticed myspace is reaching a new high on the lameness meter? The new myspace music almost had my mom in tears this afternoon. "Ashley! I put the song on, cus, I like it, but now its telling me I can only put on ten songs, and I wanna take it off, but it won't let me!!"

Speaking of MySpace, this girl in my philosophy class tonight didn't know who Sarah Palin was. & we're like, you don't read magazines? The paper? Watch the news? Open Yahoo.com & see her face in the election section? & then my friend Angelica pointed out that MySpace has made it completely socially unacceptable to not know whats going on. There's an election button on Myspace. They stream the debates live. So theres really no reason for you to not be up on your candidates.

I can't vote, so my opinion doesn't matter, but honestly, neither one of em seem to amazing to me.

Moving on. I walked home from school tonight. It took me like an hour. It was beautiful out. In a fall kinda way. A little chilly, but mostly just beautiful. Have I told yall that I love how rain smells? Cus I really do. Picked up some food on my way home, & now I'm watching Flashdance. Well, I've got Flashdance on pause, its like 15 minutes from the end. Whatever.

Another thing that hit me today? There's nothing new about our generation. Step up came out & we freaked the fuck out like that was just our new shit. Have you ever seen Fame? There is nothing new about step up. Nothing at all.

Another thing that was brought up in my philosophy class was how a lot of philosophers struck out to live on their own at age 17. And why it is that the people of the past, who I seriously believe are so much smarter than we are now, did so much on so little, and we, the new generation, do so little with so much? Basically the philosopher we're studying (who's name is French, so I won't bother myself with trying to spell it) says that living with our parents shelters ourselves. Not saying that anything in our lives actually changes. Basically like your parents are a safety net that doesn't actually exist. A placebo, if you will, for your well being. You think you're safer because they're around, when in reality, they can't protect you from anything. He says the moment we strike out on our own, stop taking the sugar pill, we gain new knowledge about ourselves and the worlds around us.

Why do we do what society tells us to when we all so openly hate society? We all hate trends and fads that make us all the same, yet hating the trends has become the trend, so we're right where society wants us, now aren't we? Why doesn't anybody do anything new? Anything different? Anything ground breaking? Anything completely and utterly fucking stupid? Why do we all just do nothing? Sit here in front of our computers, blog about our pasts, our presents, our futures, our hopes, are dreams, all the things we want to do, but we don't ever actually do anything? I'm sick of it. Is it because its never occurred to us to do something different? Be something different? Is it because we don't think we could? Is it fear? What is it, so we can get passed it. This generation is going to make a difference. The question really is, what kind of difference is it going to be.

I don't want to sit in front of a computer anymore and tell yall about what I"m going to do. I want to tell you what I've done. I want to show you where I've been. I honestly wish you all could experience it with me. Wouldn't that be cool? Just like, some people, in a van, on the road, going to anywhere? I want that so much right now.

Blah. I'm rambling.
Bye.