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Alright, I'll admit: I COMPLETELY forgot about blogs all week. The "time management" points that will be deducted with most definitely terminate my 'A' grade, in this class, but I suppose that is my own fault as a maladroit AP student.

So, today my best friend forever, Lucas Hall, and I went to the Palisades mall. My father was busy and my mother didn't want to go, so it was an opportune time for me to get some more highway-esque driving practice without my parents around. I remember a time when my parents would seriously deprecate parents who left their young-teens alone at the mall, which is fully of sleeze and perfidy. And now, I'm driving there by myself. I guess my parents are starting to cede their power over me at long last.

Anyway, at the mall, Lucas and I first went to H&M, where I didn't get a sweater. Then we went to Forever21, where everything was absolutely gaudy. After that I agreed to go into Hollister with him. I personally see the store as a behemoth of over sexualized, over-priced clothes that have the potential of turning tweens into spoiled brats. But that's just me.

But just look at this "advertisement:"



He isn't wearing anything! How can they be advertising clothes if he isn't wearing any? Maybe he just isn't wearing any of the clothes because they aren't that great. No offense Lucas: YOU obviously look awesome in Hollister, but you already know that I just don't really get it.

And man, that stuff is beyond over-priced. Par example, take a look at this bracelet:



In case you can't see the price, it was originally $7.95. People, IT WAS A PIECE OF STRING. Oh but, I'm sorry, it went on sale for $4.90. A MUCH more reasonable price for string.

A person that pays almost $10 for a piece of string is just so credulous to believing that brand names will make them ~cool~. I feel bad for the parents that have to deal with their whining tweens begging for this garbage (a.k.a. my parents, circa 2006). Yes, I begrudgingly admit that I used to be a consumer-crazy preteen that is now anathema for me. Alas, we all have our low periods.

But besides Hollister, the mall was really fun. Mostly because I spent it with my twin. There was one point where we were cracking up, completely losing our sang-froid in public (as usual...) about something and some idiot came up in our faces and made a horribly piggish laughing sound, trying to mock our ebullient moment. Well, it didn't even matter, because pig-man only made us laugh harder.

Making fools of ourselves 2010, yeehaw.