Moving on to the awkward adolescent phase...

Learning permit and driver's license, never having to ride the bus again

Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim

Sega Dreamcast: NFL 2K, NBA 2K, and Shenmue

Mix CDs

Gym class

Wu-Tang, Nas, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Eminem

$1 Whoppers

Carabiner clips and Rainbow sandals

PowerPoint presentations and senior project

Pep rallys

Baggy jeans and sweatshirts

Y2K panic

Matrix movies

King of the Hill

Napster

Surge

South Park

Youth group worship songs and mission trips

[Edited on April 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM. Reason : M&M]

4/18/2026 8:27:30 PM

Foo Fighters and blink-182

4/21/2026 5:32:39 AM

Paintball

Building ramps, riding bikes

Thinking about Fast-and-Furious'ing my ride, never doing any of it

Summer Camp

Worrying about what people think

Feeling too chubby to do anything with my shirt off

Video games

Go kart

Shooting hoops after dinner

Burning CD's

Napster

Dial up internet

Music videos on MTV and VH1

WWF and WCW

Memorizing every friends phone number

House phones

American Eagle

Malls

Having something to look forward to in life, not whatever this shit is now

4/21/2026 8:00:28 AM

Summer.

Just in general. In that when you are a [younger] teen and you don't have school over the summer, you typically don't have an expectation to have a summer job. So you can just... enjoy it. Stay up late, have sleepovers in the middle of the week, go swimming, hang around at the mall, whatever. Even when I was 17 and had a part time job over the summer, I still had tons of time to do whatever.

I think summer between my junior and senior years of high school was the last "kid" summer I had. After that, I either had a full time job I was working or was taking summer session classes at NCSU.

4/21/2026 10:16:04 AM

Flip phones

4/23/2026 10:53:24 AM

4/25/2026 2:33:46 PM

from like age 15 to age 26 my life was pretty fucking scary

I'm 42 now and I'm dealing with it in counseling

4/25/2026 2:50:51 PM

^Yep, I remember reading the Starr Report on AOL, probably didn't say much at dinner that night. Awkward subject matter.

Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy"

Natalie Imbruglia - "Torn"

Method Man - "Judgement Day"

Tom Green - "The Bum Bum Song"

Weird Al Yankovic - "It's All About the Pentiums"

3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite"

4/25/2026 2:53:22 PM

IOP1

4/25/2026 3:13:22 PM