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design | host we elves try to stick to the four food groups- candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup. so now it's officially the Christmas Decemberween time... and mom's already got decorations up. when dad gets home, we're putting up the tree. so our house is really tiny and my mom still keeps buying decorations and we're running out of places to put them. she's got at least 4 little nativity sets. and about... a billion snowmen. but it's our family so it's our weird christmas time so it's all good. i'm stalling. i'm supposed to be writing a long long long paper on tuesdays with Morrie by mitch albom. it was a really good book--- it was just a bit deep for me. i mean,,, it's meaning of life type stuff. i'm too young to do anything with the meaning of life- and even if i survive to an old age-- i don't know. the whole book just seems a little unbelievable. this old guy finds out he's going to die from Lou Gehrig’s disease, and poof, suddenly he's got all this clarity and he knows all of the answers about life and we're all screwed up and if we listen to Morrie we'll be happy. i mean that's what i saw. i'll make up something that sounds like what teacher wants to hear. i'm only 16- this book wasn't really written for my demographic- at least that's what i've been telling myself to stall writing this stupid paper. bleah. i just checked microsoft word... the paper fairy didn't magically write this one for me yet. i better not hold out for that too long. "All this emphasis on youth- i don't buy it. Listen, i know what a misery being young can be, so don't tell me it's so great. All these kids who came to me with their struggles, their strife, their feelings of inadequacy, their sense that life was miserable, so bad they wanted to kill themselves... and in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you dno't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy- and you believe them! it's such nonsense." - Morrie Shwartz... from Tuesdays with Morrie ... on the 11th grade English nonfiction list. i'm going to leave now...
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