Yesterday and today – I'm not any different. And I am now, officially, eighteen years old. Being eighteen, being legal, being the same old me: the Queen of Procrastination.
I'm in the process of trying to take over the world and preparing to be a college student. It's going rather smoothly. My goal of becoming an illustrator is working out pretty well too. After I graduate this year, I'm headed to Rhode Island where it is unbearably cold but I'd brave any weather to realize my dream. At least, I hope I can. My day started with the ending of "Life" on the Discovery channel. The two-hour show concluded at 12am and yet the beautiful filming of the numerous and diverse life on earth still has me enraptured. I cannot stop thinking about that small red frog diligently carrying her young tadpoles to safety and that majestic octopus laying her one thousand and some eggs and dying in the process of hatching them. But that was the current world in my mind. Outside, however, was a typical, very semi-mundane sunny school day. I slept late, woke up late, was almost late to school and ended up sleeping through almost – and I say almost – every class. Track practically ended my day, but as a sprinter it's difficult to escape the jaws of the ruthless coach. And after a near-death workout in the Californian heat I was subjected to late-nights for my school newspaper, Rampage, as a photo editor. But luckily the workload today was easy and I ended up only partially training my unmotivated successor. The conversation that's fresh in my mind is the brief but bold conversation between two juniors and myself. We conversed about Hitler and the Mein Kampf. Social Fascism. Government-centraled totalitarian society. My goal of ruling the world. Evil music plays. "Pinky and the Brain." I frantically drove back home after all was done at school, bought Chinese noodles that I cannot translate into English and buckled down to watch some "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"Today that inaugurates my first day of being legal is ordinary. And I can't fake my age anymore.________________________________________
About the author: Erica Lee is a college-bound student about to attend RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). She dreams of nothing but dominating the world and sleeping. Procrastination is a personality for her. You can find her at her amateur web design site Junk&Trash or her never-updated blog, Fifth Flight.
