My new blog

Hey all, this is my new blog. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Erika. I'm 25 years old, and I'm a lesbian nerd. I love computers and technology, and I also draw stuff. Right at the moment, I'm mostly just surfing the web to stay awake because of the fact that I can't get to sleep before midnight no matter how hard I try. My cat TC, however, is a completely different story. He's all curled up all warm and snuggly in his spot on the back of the couch, while I'm bent over my computer on the floor trying to entertain myself enough to keep myself from making another futile attempt to go to sleep. But you didn't come here to listen to me whine... or did you? There seems to be a lot of whining about things you really can't control in blogs today. (Personally, I associate it with the growing emo fad that was inadvertently created by Hot Topic's lame attempt to commercialize goth fashion. [yeah, I'm so flipping Hot Topic/The Gap the bird right now, freg you, you unka-splats {For those of you who aren't hardcore sluggites like me, that's the way Kada from the Oceans Unmoving storyline curses.}, you don't even sell spiked collars anymore, or anything above a PG-13 rating for that matter] But what-the-frag-ever, don't even get me started on that shit, because I can write a fraggin' ten-page essay just on how multi-million dollar conglomerates are sending the world straight to the gates of Hell. [I've been there, and trust me, it's not a pretty site.{okay, not really, but yeah, whatever.}] I TOLD YOU NOT TO GET ME STARTED, NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!! ARE YOU HAPPY???? ARE YOU FRAGGING HAPPY?!?!?! But yeah, snapping out of psycho mode now... *slaps herself around until she snaps out of it*) But anyway, where was I? Oh yes, the melodrama that seems to run rampant throughout the internet, or the blogosphere, or whatever the frag you wanna call it. Personally, I mostly just call it home, but not so much when every other post you have people complaining about how lame life is. It's called reality for a reason, you can't change it (believe me, I've tried... Oh, how I've tried... The countless hours... THEY'RE COUNTLESS, I TELL YOU!!! INNUMERABLE!!! *slaps self around again*) But yeah, you can't change it, so you might as well fragging DEAL WITH IT!!! Get over yourself, stop whining about things you can't change, and try something that you can change, something you can actually do something about! For instance, I've taken it upon myself to try and change the attitudes of the whiny little emo brats who make countless blog posts whining about anything and everything imaginable, then go cut themselves cause they think it's cool, or cause it "makes the pain go away"... you know what else makes pain go away? A FRAGGIN' IBUPROFEN! HERE, HAVE SOME! *nails the closest emo kiddie in the head with a big-assed bottle of painkillers* And I'm sorry if I offend a lot of you little emos out there... wait, no, I'm not... you emo kiddies are nothing but little wannabe goth poseurs who can't even find the closest counter-culture store, so you settle for shopping at Hot Topic, the cause of nearly 1% of all the vileness in the world. (That's pretty much all that's left after the 99% that corrupt politicians like Mr. "Dub-ya" cause. I'm so glad he's almost out of office *does the Snoopy dance like Xander*) But yeah, you little emo kiddies gotta learn that there's better stuff out there than Hot fraggin' Topic, and you don't need to pretend to be goth, in fact, it's almost exactly the opposite. Goth culture is about being yourself, no, not your poseur self, or the little yuppie mold that society wants you to be, I mean your true self, the person you are when you strip away all the labels that society puts on you, all the bullshit that they want you to put on to make you look "better", all the crap that you do just because "everyone else is doing it." When you take away all the things that society wants everyone to do, all the "Oh, men are all supposed to drink beer and watch sports, and women are all supposed to cook and clean house and take crap from their husbands", all the "Oh, unless you're making more than $35,000 a year, you might as well be working at a McDumpster's", all the "Oh, you've gotta look professional, have a nice, natural-looking hair color (no, you can't spike it, that makes you look like a street urchin), have a nice, sleek dress/business suit, etc. etc.", what you realize is that, despite society's attempts to make us all look like exact fraggin' clones of each other, we're all unique in our own ways. Isn't that what they pound into your head over and over all through school? Maybe it was just the "Special Ed" kids, I donno... I didn't have the luxury of getting through school without being slapped with a so-called mental disorder. (For those of you who are curious, I've been diagnosed with Asperger's, a social disorder that makes it really hard for me to talk to new people face-to-face without getting really nervous. Except they didn't know whether it was just Asperger's or full-blown autism when I was in school, so they just slapped a "Special Ed" label on me and sent me off to play TA for the other "Special Ed" kids. That way, they could have their counselors keep an eye on me in case I was autistic, and in case I wasn't, they could just say "Oh, she was just TA'ing, she wasn't actually put in Special Education, so you can't accuse us of labeling her wrongly.") But yeah, where were we? Ah, right... Everyone is unique in their own way, and goth culture encourages you to let all of your uniqueness out, goths don't care whether you're straight or lesbian (like me XD) or gay or bi or transsexual or androgynous or whatever, as long as you be yourself. And remember, Hot Topic may be capitalizing a non-capitalist culture, but at least they got one thing right, "It's all about the music"... well, mostly... it's all about the music and the fashion. And goth music isn't just the obviously goth bands like The Cure, Rammstein, The Dresden Dolls, etc., goth music can be practically anything with dark themes. You know what I've learned? Johnny Cash was goth before goth was even conceived. Songs about death, prison, religion, they're all expressed throughout goth culture, and Johnny Cash was doing it all before even punk culture was thought up. That's why Johnny Cash is more goth than My Chemical Romance can even dream of being. And now I do believe that I've ranted way too long, for it is now nearly 1:00 in the morning, and I must get some sleep now, so a good night to all of you, and don't let the undead bite.