George

[keiramarcos]

In high school, I rode the bus to and from school. I hated high school, which is I think a pretty common theme on my flist based on my last post's comments.

Anyways, I rode the bus and I always did everything I could do to avoid talking the other people on the bus. My tenth grade year, my mother bought me a cd player which I used to avoid everyone as much as possible. Losing myself in music became as much of a hobby as anything else I had in my life at time --reading, writing, pretending to be interested in quilting when my mother was in the mood for it.

Listening to George Strait on the bus and thinking up stories to go along with his music kept my mind active and creative in an environment where I was essentially miserable and unstimulated.

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[ladyholder.livejournal.com]

Go George!

High School was a combonation of a lot of fun, boredom and impatience. While I am glad that it is over, I miss the feeling of surety I had about my life then.

Oh well.

~L

[auntbijou.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, so I'm not the only one. It never fails that when I admit or say how much I hated high school, the person I'm saying it to invariably says, "Oh, but I LOVED high school," and then looks at me like what the hell is wrong with you that you didn't enjoy the best time of your life?

Um, sorry, that came after I left hell high school.

I spent the entire time chanting, "There is life after high school, and you don't ever have to see any of these people again," to myself, over and over.

I spent a lot of time with my nose buried in a book, either studying, or reading. I was in band and athletics, but even then, I was either marching and practicing, or working out and practicing. Not socializing.

I had my writing. And I had my music.

And absolutely none of the people I call friends now ever went to high school with me. I think that says plenty right there.

[ocean22193.livejournal.com]

I've been riding the bus since elementary school. I learned back then to kind of avoid the kids. I only really talked to the kids who went to my school who rode my bus. The kids who are on the bus with me now, are pretty cool, but in the I'm a borderline delinquent way. And now that I can drive I don't take the bus as much as I used to. I actually have liked my high school experience, especially my senior year. It may be because I go to a private all girls school that is pretty diverse, and all my classmates, well most anyway, are great. I know I'm going to miss my friends, classmates, and some of my teachers when I graduate. I guess everyone has a different experience.
I completely agree with the losing yourself in the music thing. I do the same thing, if I'm not reading.

[fanarts-series.livejournal.com]

High school and bus were some of my favs memories in my youth with friends, walkman (yes i'm so old lol, laughs and stupids and innocents stuffs, so it's sad that it was bad to you, .

[atuinsails.livejournal.com]

It isn't to much that is was bad. Everyone has some bad and some good experiences in high school. My problem has always been those that refuse to hear that high school is worse for some than for others. I know people who went to school with me who swear I just don't remember how good it was. No, they just don't have my frame of reference. There are still two people I would punch down in the street if I were to meet them.

[melonbutterfly.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I did - and still do when I take public transport. I listen to music and make up stories for the songs; most of the time, somebody is singing them. It's completely cheesy but very entertaining, haha.

[keiramarcos]

Well, if I had a dime for every time I imagined John out on a balcony singing Ocean Front Property....

[atuinsails.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god, now I have to go find a copy of that song. You are so evil.

[keiramarcos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AgVX4xYwk

[atuinsails.livejournal.com]

O.K., maybe just the diet coke of evil.

[keiramarcos]

Smooches!

[atuinsails.livejournal.com]

I might award you the diet cherry coke of evil for the Ties that Bind. Hmmm?

[melonbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, it'd be so hilarious if Atlantis were in Arizona. Just imagine the chaos - but I quite like the spirit of that song.
It's a bit more embarrassing with me because I tend to go down the sort-of-emo route, as in Stranger Things Have Happened (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEIeb85DkCs).

[jx-walker.livejournal.com]

Lake Havasu in Arizona has one of London's Bridges. They moved the whole bridge there, so they could put Atlantis in the lake, though it's probably not a big enough lake. Wikipedia says the lake is 19,300 acres, max depth is 90 feet, average is 35 feet.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

I hated high school. I was picked on and beat up. I had no friends and hated the people I went to school with who were all like the bitch Keira met at the cafe the other day!

[weebeanie.livejournal.com]

The 40 min bus drive was actually my favourite part of school day as I travelled with my brother and friends from my village but none of them were in my classes - all of them older or younger.

I could be chatty, snarky and smart mouthed with my bus friends and a few friends in school but with everyone else (popular, confident kids)I felt this paralysing shyness like I wasn't worthy of their attention. I wasn't bullied but I was incredibly shy and always felt invisible. I always felt like I'd missed the day the Rule Book for being a teenager had been handed out.

I did get a lot of reading done though :)

[chris-king-2005.livejournal.com]

I escaped the great tradition of daily torture through school bus. I walked to school every day, from kindergarten until I graduated from high school. I did, however, ride it on occasion when visiting friends, and in later years, to get to the riding stables.

The entire experience was always surreal. It's no wonder you lost yourself in your imagination. Hell, you should have told your stories aloud - you would have had the entire bus entranced!

[burningchaos.livejournal.com]

High School was an exercise in torture and what they now label as bulling for me. I hate it with a passion that still (and mind you this is 2 divorces later)rivals nothing in my life.

Anyway I had a cassette player for the bus, and it was always Corey Hart or Bryan Adams. Mostly Corey Hart, I wore out five cassettes of Boy in the Box and three of Fields of Fire.

[bemus-ed.livejournal.com]

My worst years were actually in elementary- I got picked on and teased alot so when High School came around and people just basically left me alone, I was really relieved. One of the first people to remeber my name in that school was the Librarian- apparently people taking out books just to read was rather rare. I did the discman thing on the bus as well and to this day I "escape" the real world by thinking out stories or fanfics in my head. I don't have your talent for transfering them onto paper but I love exercising my mind with plots and kind of working out my frustrations through it. It also really helps when I'm obsessing over something that has gone wrong as I just switch my brain over to story mode. I eventually made three really good friends in High School: we would sit in the school hallways at Lunch and read together. Our group favourites were Harry Potter and Dragon Lance.

I was in 4 different high schools

[belladonnaf66.livejournal.com]

And I wouldn't go back being a teen if you paid me a million bucks. Lonely, out of my depth and didn't make any friends because most kids had their friends already...

[toscas-kiss.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I had the same 'Halleujah! Saved!' reaction in Form 4 when my parents bought me a Walkman. That's a cassette walkman BTW (hey, I'm old).
I still remember phases of my life by which album I played over and over and over again.