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enjoy a sporting event, movie, play, or
concert, they have usually paid the price of a ticket for their entertainment.
So it’s totally uncool for other people to try to ruin these gatherings by
chewing loudly, yelling stuff at the movie screen (well, okay, this can be fun
at a premiere or Rocky Horror, or whatever, but not ALL the
time), answering cell phone calls, talking to each other, screaming obscenities
at players on the opposing team, or SMOKING.

    A word to mouth breathers: So you
have a deviated septum or have to wear a bionater. Still, do you HAVE to
breathe out of your mouth? DO YOU??? Could you TRY putting your lips together
and breathing out of your nose??? PLEASE???
    We all have to live on
this planet. Let’s try to not get on each other’s nerves.

YOU’VE GOT
MAIL
by Kenneth Showalter, e-mail
afficionado
    Everybody loves e-mail. I
don’t know anyone who goes, “Oh, no, not again,” when he sees messages in his
IN box. People like getting e-mails, so long as they aren’t flames or
spam.
    I guess the best thing about e-mail, besides the
fact that it is a speedy, fun way to communicate with your friends, is that it
is an excellent method—if you don’t feel comfortable talking face-to-face with
members of the opposite sex—to communicate with the person you secretly admire.
Of course, certain precautions need to be observed if you don’t want to come on
too strong:
    â€¢ Stop e-mailing someone who doesn’t
e-mail back. That means he or she isn’t interested.
    â€¢ Excessively long e-mails or too many e-mails in a twenty-four-hour
period can be a turnoff for someone who doesn’t feel the same way about you
that you feel about them.
    â€¢ Don’t e-mail back the minute you
receive a response. You don’t want your crush to think you have nothing better
to do than sit around checking your e-mail every five minutes (even if that’s
true). Also, part of the fun of e-mail is wondering if/when
you’re going to get a reply. Make her wait a little!
    Remember, e-mail is a great way to communicate…but there’s a difference
between getting to know someone and, well, stalking them. TTYL!

    [If the person you admire is someone you have met in a chat room, keep in mind that they could actually be a mouth-breathing psycho or a double agent from a rival kingdom, or something. Proceed with grave caution.]
POPULARITY
by Shameeka Taylor, friend of Princess Mia Thermopolis and recently appointed AEHS cheerleader
    Everyone wants to be popular.
But as hard as some of us work at it, it just isn’t happening. I mean, Mia
Thermopolis is a princess, and she isn’t popular. I tried out for the
cheerleading squad, and even though I made it and everything, I’m still not
popular. Not that I want to be. That’s not why I tried out for the squad. I
just wanted to see if I could do it. And I did.
    I don’t
think anyone understands why it is, exactly, that some people are popular and
some aren’t. I mean sometimes totally plain girls are voted Homecoming Queen,
while really beautiful girls aren’t even asked to the dance, so it isn’t really
about how you look. And total jerks have been elected president of their class,
while nice guys sit home watching Deep Space Nine every
Saturday night, so it isn’t about how you act, either.
    I guess
being popular is more about an attitude. From what I’ve observed, the less
people seem to care about being popular, the more popular they are. So worrying
about where you stand in the social hierarchy of your school is pretty silly.
It’s more important to have good friends than popular ones,
and to do your own thing without caring what anybody else
thinks. That’s the only way to achieve that self-actualization thing that Mia
is always talking about—at least that I know of.

    [Even though Shameeka
joined the cheerleading squad, we forgive her because she has proved some