I only just realized two days ago that sawyer the cleaner's name is a pun.

Guys, you're looking at being an adult all wrong.

You don't have to decide what's ok to wear for you or what's ok to have on your computer or whatever else.

That was for when you were a kid, and there were other people who could tell you what to do.

Now you are an adult, there's no one to tell you what is or isn't ok to do as an adult. That's the whole point. YOU get to decide what being an adult means for the next generation.

Does it mean wearing conservative clothes, having conservative haircuts, not playing games, watching the news at the exclusion of all else, and being boring as piss?

Does it mean watching old saturday morning cartoons in your underwear while eating chocolate chip cookie dough inside of a giant ball pen?

Or, more likely, does it mean some sort of happy medium between those two extremes?

Really--wondering if you're 'mature' enough or 'adult' enough is just allowing the preconceived notions that your parents' generation had about society to continue to shape you. It's just being a slave to the same forces that wouldn't let you do what you wanted as a kid.

Time to be free, I say! Time to throw off the shackles of societal expectation and make this generation's adulthood be about doing whatever the fuck we want, while dressing however the fuck we like, eating whatever the fuck we want, watching whatever the fuck we want, and to hell with anyone who says that it's for kids.

Agreed! I think it is incredibly annoying how some people seem to think that I spend too much time on my computer and playing video games, when I should be going out and getting a girlfriend and going to college. I'll do those things when, or if, I feel like it. For now, I'm a do what I want. The point of life is to be happy, so I'm just gonna focus on that and see how that turns out.

Here's something fun for you all to chew on!

Take V's symbol. Y'know, from V for Vendetta. Yeah, it's simple, but you'll need it.

Now over that symbol, put a Joker smile. Without exceeding the edges of the circle. That is very important.

Now. Turn it 180 degrees.

Is your mind blown?!

For those of you too lazy to do so, it's basically the Anarchy insignia. Fun, eh?

So... your big revelation is that if you put a sloppy rounded line through the letter V and turn it upside down it becomes the anarchy A?

Ball pens are the greatest achievment of the human species
 

Hell

Fuck

YEAH!

It was pretty stunning when I first realized that two symbols of fictional characters that stood for chaos and anarchy could be combined and then rotated to form yet another symbol of chaos and anarchy.

Well, I should say I realize all that, and I'm not going to suddenly get all stale and boring just because I aged. My free time is mine. What I'm more worried about is my not-free time, such as school, and soon, actual work. Like, I'm supposed to be getting an internship this semester, which means I'll be getting on-the-job IT training and will be expected to dress and act professionally, meaning conservatively. Actually, it's right on the syllabus USING conservative in the description. Aside from that, I tend to use my laptop for both school and personal use, and while I'm not planning on using it for work, too, being in IT, I know just how much they can dig out of you if they can pin down your IP address. I don't know how to do any of that stuff, myself, but they made sure I knew other people could.

On my own time, hell if anyone's going to tell me how to dress or what to do.

Unless you're shooting for a really, really high-profile job you're not going to have to worry about that. That, or you don't want to work for the company anyway, because that's a blatant breech of your privacy.

Getting a job is good. But there's always jobs out there where you don't have to work for crazies.

I didn't realize Austin Powers was a parody of James Bond until I was 12.

In my defense, I hadn't ever actually seen a James Bond film at that point.