Monday, April 04, 2005 -- 5:57 PM

It's Official
The pope is dead. Sources also indicate that, more importantly, I'm going to be a college student in the fall. The irony is that here I sit, just getting over the fact that I'm eighteen years old. I didn't recently celebrate my birthday either, it was last July, but it really has taken this long for me to realise it, and not just in a now-I-can-go-get-liquor kind of a way either because that one came pretty quickly. No, it's really more the what-the-hell?-now-I-guess-I-should-start-acting-more-mature kind of way. No worries though; framing has taught me a lot about hard work and not putting up with other people's bullshit, much more so than when I was framing last summer, for an intense variety of multicoloured reasons. I also am feeling no desire to take this college thing too seriously. I find that the people that revel in it are more pompous and asinine and less scholarly. Dammit, I'm just not going to put up with that bullshit!