  Really, I do. They are creepy and icky and I wish it was Fall already so there wouldn't be as many of them around. Thank you, Heather, for the Aveeno Anti-Itch stuff. My nickel-sized spider bite and I are forever in your debt.
&nbsp; Robert's blog entry about high school combined with the descent of hundreds of high school kids upon my office have made me think about high school. I feel like so much has changed since I was in high school, like some sort of line has been crossed. Kids seem to be much less innocent than they were ten years ago when I was a freshman. All the girls seem to want to emulate Britney and her plastic wunderkind and all the boys want to be pimptacular.
They all want to grow up too fast. I remember feeling lots of pressures back in the day, but we didn't look like little Britneys. And the biggest thing I let myself worry about was getting into college. Now it's changed. Kids are trying to grow up so fast, and we who are older and possibly wiser look and them and want to scream at them not to rush things.
At least, I do anyway. Sometimes I long for the days where everything was simple and all I had to worry about was what to wear to school and whether or not I'd be able to stay awake during first period. But maybe I'm alone in thinking this. I feel like a grandma waxing poetic about "the good old days" when I had to walk 15 miles to school barefoot on ten feet of snow. 
