I wrote this as a note on my facebook in April '08. I really like it because it is so true how your conceptions of growing up are when you are a little kid!
April 2008:
So I'm sitting here in my room today doing nothing because of the cloudy-ness and because of the sinus headache I have. I was flipping through the channels andI came across my favorite movie at age 12.....She's All That. I spent many sleep overs, weekends by myself and first time girl boy parties with my wonderful elementary/ middle school friends watching this movie thinking, "Wow, I CANNOT wait until I am in high school! Look how fun it is and look at all the hot boys!" But now, being out of high school for 2 years, I feel that at age 12, I was really misled. I always thought that there would be one super popular group of people, one nerdy girl and one super hot popular boy stuck in between the two....but there wasn't. So here is a list of this movie compared to my high school experiences/observations.
1.She's All that Version: Senior Spring Break! Partying in Florida with MTV's Spring Break...meeting a reality star with a large female fan base and dumping your hot popular boyfriend for said reality star and making him jealous.
My Version: Not enough money to go anywhere and parents not willing to pay for me to go anywhere....and I willingly dumped my "boyfriend"....not for someone famous but because he was an idiot.
2. She's All That Version: Cool Dj does the morning announcements with cool slang words
My Version/CGHS version: The morning announcements were done based on a teacher approved script read off a teleprompter and we always had to be really nerdy and smile a lot.
3.She's All That Version: Hot Popular Guy makes bet with friends that he could get a nerdy girl popular by dating him, then the boy falls in love with the girl.
My Version/CG version: I wouldn't doubt if the first part happened but the second part?....not so much lol
4. She's All That Version: Big controversy in the race for senior prom queen!! Super popular bitch against former art nerd.
My Version/CG Version: I don't ever remember voting for prom queen lol
5. She's All That Version: Popular Bitch's friend wears a middriff baring top EVERYDAY.
My Version/CG Version: Hello, dress code! I got in trouble everyday for just wearing T-shirts that didn't cover my shoulders.....stupid
6. She's All That Version: BIG HOUSE party at super rich popular boy's house with tons of dancing and alcohol while the kid's parents were out of town.
My Version/CG Version: There was never just one party
7. She's All That Version: Popular Boy's sister gives nerdy girl a makeover by cutting her hair, doing her eyebrows, giving her new clothes and putting on makeup revealing a hot girl underneath in a matter of hours along with a slow motion walking down the staircase entrance
My Version/CG Version: I totally can't recall this ever happening or any high school boy that would be generous enough to help a poor motherless homely girl become hot.
8. She's All That Version: Nerdy Girl gets revenge on Mean Art Bitch by putting makeup that looks like clown makeup all over her face while she is passed out.
My Version/CG Version: I so hope that happened because I hate the Mean Art Bitches lol
9. She's All That Version: Popular Bitch confronts Nerdy Girl at party and, with a loud record scratch stopping the music, she pour alcohol down her dress telling her she is a waste of yearbook space.
My Version/CG Version: Whenever I had witnessed something like this there was much more yelling, screaming, hair pulling, finger pointing and phrases such as "YOU DIRTY WHORE!!" or "BITCH I AIN'T PLAYIN!!!!"
10. She's All That Version: PROM!!! Awesome decorations, cool music, choreographed dances! Wow, prom is spectacular and dramatic with the race for prom queen. Unfortunately, the popular bitch wins.
My Version: Prom. Ok decorations, ok music but NO CHOREOGRAPHED dances?!?! I almost didn't go to prom but at almost the last minute I caved and decided to buy my tickets and go with a sophomore. I let my date dance with this girl he liked, listened to one of my best friends cry because she just broke up with her boyfriend, and danced with Natalie's little brother. Went back to Kelly's house, fought on the phone with my drunken kinda boyfriend then went to bed because the jerks where I worked made me work the next day. *SIGH* Prom.
11.She's All That Version: GRADUATION!! FINALLY! The hot popular boy decides he likes the girl but loses the bet and has to walk to get his diploma nude.
My Version/CG Version: I have NO formal complaints about graduation except that I had done something REALLY REALLY bad to my eyebrows and now all my pictures from graduation feature my eyebrow mishap. At our graduation, I had beach balls hitting my head and silly string in my hair but all in all....I was glad that my high school career was over. And I highly doubt that they would ever let a guy walk naked at graduation...which I'm kinda glad. : D
