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6/13/01

     I can't handle a lot of stuff. I'm just a difficult person. And, though there are hundreds of other websites with pages about stuff people hate, and though nobody really cares about any of the stuff on them, this page is meant to be an outlet for my angst and I'll put them down anyway! So deal!

what's in a webpage?

     One of the things that really gets to me(who knows why) is all the worthless space-wasting webpages out there. Specifically, worthless space-wasting webpages made by moody teenage girls. Call me a hypocrite. I guess, in some small way, I hate this page too. But anyway... if you're confused as to exactly which types of webpages I mean, I could be very specific. In fact, I think I will.
  • Pages with nothing unique to say. (i.e. pages that say "here is a picture of me. this is my boyfriend. I like SKATING")
  • Pages dedicated to boy bands, or made by people obsessed with boy bands, etc.
  • Pages like this.
     Those are the three types that really get to me. The first type just sucks, but the second might have been creative and interesting if the whole style and theme or whatever hadn't been beaten into the ground already, and if their content was interesting. I guess everyone's entitled to their opinions, and if there are so many sites like that there must be people who like to look at them, but since I am entitled to my opinion I still think they're crap.
     If you've got a webpage like the ones I just trashed, I'm sorry. But come on, crazy blasting midis playing on every single page and ~*~*annoying.little'`symbols)(between|[words}} get old REAL fast. So do lots of wiggling animated gifs that take forever to load. Why not make pages that are original and interesting once in a while?



dentists

     Dentist are no good. I had to go to the dentist twice last week. The first time, I went in, sat down, and endured half an hour of an antiseptic-smelling lady jabbing at my mouth and making me bleed needlessly ('teeth cleaning'). The second time, I apparently had some kind of dental crisis because they had to numb the left side of my face and stick two different needles in my mouth. Then followed some frightening instruments that made me shiver. They never told me exactly what they were doing. They also cost a whole lot, which I think is just outrageous since they never even told me what they were inflicting upon me.



wannabes

     Yes, I know everybody has a problem with people who try to look and act like something they're not, but hell, this is my webpage and I can whine if I want, right?
     They're everywhere. They're at school, in Abercrombie shorts and tank tops that say "PUNK PRINCESS." They're at the mall, in little gaggles of squealing AE-bag-toting middle schoolers. They're at the music store for chrissakes, bothering me while I'm trying to write stuff down.
     It's funny - us alternative types are the ones who get the bad reputation and get picked on, but it's stuff we do that the preps pick up and claim is their own. Early punks ripped their clothes and then safety-pinned them back together - now the skank stores sell pre-ripped, pre-pinned shirts that say "ROCK STAR" with little rhinestones. Ravers wore visors; it was just their thing. And, of course, now preps wear them everywhere, all the time. Then there's the whole surfer thing, which used to actually be a group of people who SURFED. Go figure. Now it's a thing for the preps to do, so they can feel beachy and have an excuse to tan themselves crispy. They buy shirts that say "Malibu Beach" from little Pacific Sunwear in Harford Mall. How authentic.
     Yeah, I know... who cares, right? I shouldn't, but for some reason it bothers me. People call us weird for the way we dress, and then wear the same styles. Makes a whole boatload of sense to me. In Kat's World, style wouldn't be an issue. But being the way it is, the least people can do is be genuine.