The Day in the Life: Taylor,16 9/10/2011

715: Begin to wake.

930: Actually wake, turn on TV in my room. Watch Dance Moms.

1200: Hungry, but stay in bed because I am lazy.

1230: Call my mother to ask for food.

1245: Mom comes home, food in hand. (Chicken tenders from Hardees because I'm cool like that) I decide to eat them down in the family room. (To spice up my life :P)

100: Continue watching Dance Moms from the family room.

130: Get on computer. I compute around the internet. (i.e. Tumblr)

330: Take a shower.

430: Begin watching Fright Night, illegally via internet.

530: Not finished with Fright Night, but hungry. Not going to wait for parent to come home, so I make myself a Hot Pocket.

535: Eat Hot Pocket and watch Fright Night.

730: Finish Fright Night, tumble around internet.

822: Decide to make blogpost.

BOOM! Here we are.

-Taylor Koch <-- Electronic Signature. :)

This Generation Part 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Awakening

Spring Awakening should be called this generation's musical, even though it takes place in 1891. They deal with problems that are relevant today.

• Sexuality- Hanschen and Ernst are in a gay love affair.
• Spirituality- Melchior is a self-proclaimed atheist(fully supported by his parents) in a community strongly based on Judaism.
• Abuse- Martha is sexually abused by her father.
• Suicide- Moritz had been failing school and was kicked out of his home, thus he killed himself via pistol.
• Abortion- Wendla is forced, by her mother, to have an abortion. She dies as a result.
• Teen Pregnancy- Melchior gets Wendla pregnant after unprotected sex.
• Failure- Moritz is unable to memorize Virgil because he is afraid to sleep at night. He has been having erotic dreams that cause him believe he is going insane.
• Love- Wendla and Melchior fall in love.

In all these situations, the problem is brought about by lack of information. The parents and teachers of the community were all afraid of the children "growing up." Hence Wendla's curiosity. She wanted to feel what her friend felt (Martha/abuse); she wanted to be with Melchoir.

Her naive willingness to experience her friends pains lead her to Melchoir. She has him beat her with a switch; though he is reluctant, he does so. He begins to take out his frustration on her then runs away ashamed of what he's done.

Melchoir is an atheist and is very mature by the community's standards. They fall in love, nonetheless. They have sex. Wendla, as naive as she is, doesn't realize it. She then becomes pregnant. Her mother, who doesn't want Wendla to even know how babies are made, finds out. She takes her daughter to an underground abortion "doctor." She'd rather her daughter have an abortion than take responsibility.

The abortion goes awry; it ends up killing Wendla. Melchoir, after already losing his best friend (Moritz, suicide), has now lost his love.

Goodbye Brown Hair, Hello There Ginger:)

I've only dyed my hair once, in 6th grade. I had gotten Blonde highlights and they were extremely ugly.

The only picture of me with the highlights is my 6th grade school picture. I don't even think we have any left. They were atrocious.

So now, instead of highlights, I plan on dying ALL of my hair. I would love to make it red. Not Crayola Crayon red. (I hate it when people color their hair colors that don't appear in nature, i.e. blue)

In addition, I want to grow out my hair, at least a foot long. Mainly because that's the required length it has to be to be eligible to be donated to Locks of Love , which I want to do. It seems like such a good cause/organization.

*Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis.

I'm really excited about it.