So I had this idea while in the shower yesterday morning (as most of my ideas either come from the shower or when I'm about to fall asleep) and it involved bringing a guest writer to the blog o' mine. The person would write about whatever he/she wanted to write. What was going in their life that week. Certain drama or achievements, or just plain old perspectives of daily life and routine. Parents, love, sex, anger et al.

Now, ok, that's kinda cool. Something fresh etc etc but I wanted to push it a little and have the writer be a teenaged girl. Ok, now before I lose you altogether, go with me here. You have to admit that peeping into the mind of a high-school/college aged gal could be a kind of unusual experience for all age groups of the readers out there. If yer a girl, you could compare what you read to your life, if yer a guy you could finally get into the head of how the opposite sex worked. Or maybe just simply laugh/admire/reminisce about all the shit you went through years ago.

Plus there is the whole voyeur thing which, in this day and age, has become taboo to just about everyone in politically correct America.

But where to begin. I am sort of tapped out with my teenaged girl connections. So I did what anyone would do when looking for an angsty teen... myspace! But who would have thought that finding a spicy 16-18 year old girl on myspace would be so difficult.

Myspace allows anyone to search by country which is kind of cool. Never really needed to "shop" for anyone on myspace in the past seeing how I was already dating kate when I was introduced to myspace waaaaay back in the day. So I started searching.

I'll tell you one thing though... a certain cold chill went down my spine when I set the age parameters to "18". *shudders* Am I really going to search for teenaged girls? (On the clock no less haha) It was a slow day after all.

After a few minutes of quick searching in the america section and noticing that EVERY SINGLE GIRL looked like they were employees of Hot Topic™, I moved on to farther spots on the planet. Sweden, Italy, Rwanda, Beirut, Ireland, Iceland... just about anywhere you want to look but something became suddenly clear to me.

Everyone looked the same. Everyone had the same goofy haircuts and the same goofy expressions and 1/4 face isometric photographic poses. Everyone was sad or angry or using CrZy TypE LiKe THiS. Wow. How did one website spread a style of life so rampantly? I mean, sure there were the few apples out there with their own unique look but all in all it was sort of scary.

I picked 2-3 hopefuls, sent off a quasi-creepy mail and hoped for the best. I got a few bites and one very nice reply but I still can't get over the "sameness" of everyone I saw. It makes me sort of happy that I guess as much as I grow up and look back at my teenaged life, I can sort of smile and know that everyone goes through the same shit. Everyone goes through the same problems.

I just never had myspace. Or the internet. Or Hot Topic™. (Fuck that makes me feel old)

I'm wondering if I was better off =)