Too many abbreviations.

AAA. NASA. AKA. UN. SOCHUM. DoD. FLSA. DPRK. MADD. ICC. ACLU. P.S. DRC. CWA. RADS. SC. MVHS. The list goes on... and on... and on... and on... and on....

It's so stupid to call a company, country, organization, or whatever else by the first letters of its name rather than by its name. I mean, it's gotten to the point where we are recognizing each of those things by the letters that represent it rather than what its name is and what it stands for. And you want to know why we cut those names down? It's so we can cut out a few more seconds of writing. Isn't that ridiculous? Why do we come up with huge names if we're just going to cut them down anyways? Come on. Their named with a reason, and its their name that distinguishes them... not their abbreviations.

Spare me from the horrifying, obnoxious, unnecessary, retarded... High School Drama!!!!

Help me! I cannot take it any longer! My poor mind cannot survive amidst so much... so much... drama!!!!!! I swear the exposure is making me see spots! I see SPOTS!!! I can count 53... no wait... 54! AAAAAHHHHH! I could drop down dead any second! OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Save me from this dismal disarray!!!!

One of the many things often associated with High School and teens is drama. The halls are pulsing with it. The classrooms are writhing with it. The lunchrooms are full of it. And it is the thing teachers fear the most at the end of term.

But even teens get tired of its incessant nature when there is so much of it around them.

...that's exactly how I feel this week....

I honestly wonder what on earth the "dance planners" were thinking when they scheduled the Sweethearts dance on the weekend following the most dramatic day on the High School calendar (Valentine's Day). They were probably thinking it would be so freakin' cute to have a huge ball centered around lovey-duby crap just three days after the lovey-duby day! Well, this week, I've heard non-stop gossip about the dance, the BIG day, flowers, chocolates, guyfriends, girlfriends, love, love notes, love life, red and pink, and all sorts of deep, dark secrets being revealed. And when I say it has been non-stop, I mean it.

Quite frankly I could scream.

Why has it been so dramatic lately? Because (and if you haven't got this answer yet, face it, you're stupid) it's love week! What does every single teenager need? More love! We're convinced that if no one loves us now, then we'll never be loved again! And if we don't get that flower and chocolate from that special someone (who doesn't even know you like them)... who knows, s/he may HATE us from the deepest, darkest abyss in his/her heart!!!!! OH NO!!!!

The truth is that I may end up hating the next person who comes up to me and starts crying because what's-his-face or so-and-so has been ignoring them lately!!!!!

ATS: Adult Thumb Suckers

(Pictures from thumbsuckingadults.com)

Yeah... look what happens when parents don't make their kids stop sucking their thumbs when they're little babies. It's ridiculous, and who'd've thought.......

Originally, my plan for this week's blog was based on child thumb sucking, but when I saw the site www.thumbsuckingadults.com on my screen, I couldn't avoid the temptation.

Adult thumb sucking. The Unknown American Curse. According to this website, which was based on a newsreport by Extra, an estimated 200,000 American adults still suck their thumbs. Worldwide, it's on a scale in the millions.

So, why do some adults still suck their thumbs? Is it 'cause they're nervous? Is it 'cause they're sad? Is it 'cause they miss their mommy?

"When we were children, [thumbsucking] gave us a lot of pleasure, satisfying the sucking instinct and even possibly compensating for less nurturance than we may have needed but, as we got older, this satisfying behavior became a habit"(thumbsuckingadults.com). There you have it... it's habit from infancy.

It's too bad parents do not make a bigger deal about making their kids stop sucking their thumbs. Thank heavens my mom did, or else I could be looking like one of those ill-fated, social rejects who got their picture stuck on public internet for anyone to see (above).

So, if this hasn't convinced any parents or future parents to watch out for symptoms of thumbsucking in their young or future young, I really don't know what will. This is a problem that too many people are not aware of, and that they most certainly need to know about. So spread the word for the sake of the poor little kids who may have picked up this tendency!