Your Weekly Townsend Fix Column 39

Hey Everyone!

Well this is stressful. I"m supposed to decide what courses i want to take next year! I have to take chem (ick) and a couple other courses. Oh well...big deal. I was told by an english teacher that my writing is very quote "raw" yes raw. Now obviously there's a difference between the context because i'm positive that my paper doesn't look like a piece of red meat but is it any good? I told him that I'm only good at writing things "raw" if i'm interested in what I write about. For example, this column. I'm interested, an analytical essay on "Lord of the Flies"? Completely uninterested. I want to do so much in so little time that there isn't enough days in a week to accomplish what I ant to do these days. I hope next year it quiets down because I want to spend some time doing things like poetry, painting, and fly fishing...ok maybe not fly fishing...poetry and painting? Ok maybe those two I can start at.

My schedule is nonsense i tell you. Luckily school makes for a comfortable and nice environment. They made cheeseburguers and actually barbecued it for us...tasty. The only thing I hate about SH and I think all my fellow schoolmates, classmates, and Meg will agree with me is the STAIRS. If the theory that every step adds 7 seconds to your life, I think that all SH students have banked a good 10 years by graduation. And on top of that we have a lot of people cramed together like trout in the stairwells. And then we have the stupid people who sit in the stairwells that is just a broken leg waiting to happen. We DO though have some Townsend look alikes. Me in a relationship with any of them or even a possibility? No, for one they're already the crush of many and two...one of them looks like Todd and it weirds me out. There is a guy that looks like Matt...built like Matt too. He's a total Thespian...he's a theater boy...how cute is that?

Anyways enough with stuff people don't know what I"m talking about on. Haha did that last sentence make any logical sense? For the talented fluent speakers of the Kristen Language maybe you understood that last one. What advice do I have for my, in the words of William Golding, Littleluns (a/k/a younger members of the club)? I can tell you this, evaluate what you want and what you want to be looked at when you get into high school. I don't want to go all parental on you but it IS important that you start off on the right foot, study, and all that good stuff. But socially, establish yourself. I was quiet in grammar school. I saw someone i graduated with last month and he said that I had totally changed. He told me I went from fly on the wall to the other end of the spectrum. Get into high school and make friends. You think that your best friend is your best friend forever and ever don't you? Well that may be the case but I can guarantee you that you will drift apart, one or both of you are going to find a group of friends that you didn't know since fingerpainting on an easel in kindergarten. I like to say this though high school has allowed me to kind of dream. I think that I've been able to establish all of my personal goals in 2 years. It's made me really goal oriented too. I know some dreams (how come I don't like using that word? I think there's a better one but I can't pin it) are farfetched but I like to think that one day I'll be able to provide for my family so there won't be financial struggle, I can buy them a house, buy me a house, raise a family with a white picket fence on a street where everyone has lemonade on hot days. But then again I also like to think that I'm going to be famous...one step at a time...one step at a time. I think first it's a prioity for me to have a car...anyone has a convertable ford mustang in good condition? Yeah that's what I thought. So why did i just go off on that tangent (new word) about high school? Because in a couple of weeks for some of the members, they will find out if they have been accepted to the school of their choice. Good luck to all of you. And even though all of us high school kids say it's the "fasted 4 years of your life" and we say it over and over, it's because it's true. No matter how long it's been since you graduated you will always remember your alma mater, locker number, favorite teacher and favorite school cheer for the stands at games.

So I was talking about this column. I think that it's gotten to the point where I'm running out of things to say you know what I mean? I think that I've gotten the point where I feel more than I say about the guys. It's a good thing though. It's a totally good thing, maybe not for the content of this column but it's a good thing. I talk to Dom and for some reason i can't follow through with a thought. I can't get the words out right because it would be better if I hugged him instead (another good reason for any of you with a car that you can hand over to me). Other times when people ask me about the guys it's hard. My friends know that my smile will say it. It's one of those ear to ear, 5 miles wide type of smiles. My mom got worried. She said that I used to talk about them all the time. And when she realized that I've gotten to the point where I can only smile, that they're special. She was helping me on my church history project to make a "Coat of Arms" and she made sure that a picture of me, mom and dad was next to a picture of me, bob and wendy. She made sure that a picture of the guys were there, especially my big bro. The stage that I"m in reminds me of "Have You Ever?" by Brandy. There's one line that talks about how you just can't get the words out right. Other stations too have been talking the Townsend lingo lately. I called up Micheal Mann and Ivan at the Z probably 5 times within the last 3 months. Micheal Mann confuses me with people but at least knows me as "the girl with the grandmother who likes the townsend twins." Ivan kinda knows me because I called him a lot my 8th grade year and a couple times freshman year whenever I got into some sort of fight. I think of all the times I called him I was probably not crying in only 4 or 5 of the calls. He's sweet. But the Z knows Townsend. I think that all of us have done a successful job in engraving the name in their heads. After being 98% Hella Hott though I have yet to hear them play "Pour Some Sugar On Me." Maybe we need to dust off their brains a bit and do a bit more plugging. As for out of the bay area. I know that JoJo Wright of KIIS FM has heard of them. He wrote me an email in response to about 5 of my own telling me that he's "on it." He's a good man. KIIS in Vegas...I think they've got that covered.

Don't you love how a simple twist of fate has gotten the guys where they are today? Sure they're not home as much (for all us Bay Area buddies) but I think that them venturing to other parts of the neighborhood is pretty good. It's courageous too. I don't think I could get up in the morning, not with my own pillow (one thing that Todd aparently misses) under my head and leave early in the morning to set up a sound system for a questionable crowd. But not surprisingly, the guys have great responses so far. But then again if it were me...I'd probably be booed all the way to South America. I give the guys props for that. It makes me proud of them.

Who's nervous for the guy's performance tonight? I am...I'm going out tonight and half my thought will be on the guys. I'll be thinking to myself "what are they doing right now?" "Are they done yet?" "Did they do good?" "Is someone offering them some sort of contract?" "What was the reaction to their performance?" "Was the mic system okay?" "Did everything run smoothly?" "Did Todd's lips match his shirt?" Who knows maybe I won't be asking ALL those questions but there is a good chance maybe a couple of those will pop into my head. I wonder what song they're going to perform. I'm guessing "Pour Some Sugar On Me." Today in geometry class I could only remember "Looking like a tramp, like a video vamp" and everything after that. I was so missing the first couple of words. It took me till 15 minutes left of the class to figure out that it "Love is like a bomb baby come and get it on livin like a lover in a red eye thong." And if any of you Littluns are thinking "Wow they say that?" Yes it's true. Don't believe me? Check out the lyrics at www.lyrics.com under "Def Leppard." I think though the lyrics aren't all so "potty mouth" heck have you heard some of the songs they play on the radio? That's bad. Plus I also tend to wonder what it was like for our St. Matt to say those words? Oh well, ya gotta do what ya gotta do for the love of music. And so far...they've done it all without turning into big headed divos. (I made up the masculine form of "diva" haha skills...)

Anyways you guys, I got to go, I'm being let out of house arrest (haha) and I'm goin out since I prefer not to be home alone with a stack of scary movies...again. Take care!

Stay Safe & Stay You
Love Always,
Kristen
xoxoxo

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