Avril Lavigne and job security

What I'd like to know from the people who consider AL a poser, is this: what is she actually *posing* AS? She seems to me to just be a mixture of punk and pop. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing nless your both hardcore punk and also subscibe to the ridiculous idea of liking artists. You don't *do* that. You like *songs*, not the people who sing them. That way you don't come up with the embarrassing scenario of complaining how much you hate someone and then being confronted with a song of theirs which is actually good. Because avril does have good songs. Losing my Grip, Nobody's home - they're good. Admittedly the pretentously spelled "sk8er boi" and complicated kinda sucked, a lot, but that doesn't make *her* bad.

I don't think I'm going to get fired, by the way. Work today was tolerable, I think I'm pulling my weight at last. Competence level - going up! w00t.

Check t3h devart for a work-inspired Random Intro - guess which bits actually happened!
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/12760387/

If it's not one, it's the other.

I always found it amusing that soap characters always had something happening within their little circle - if one person wasn't havin a life-shattering experience, another was. But now I realise that it is like real life, only up the scale a bit. Okay, quite a lot. I mean, it's even evident in LJ. once I stop my depressive ranting, Mel starts - etc etc. I don't think you could ever find a week in which there wasn't a depressive rant on your friends page.

Why are we so depressive? DAMN YOU TEENAGE HORMONES!! They're just chemicals, people. Thy can be ignored, if you try hard enough. Admittedly I wasn't trying hard enough a few days ago, but still! So often, things don't matter as much as you think they do, they're just being magnified by your thrice-damned teenage hormones. Well, you know what? Fuck hormones. I shall grind you beneath my mental boots, bitch! Come on, everyone, say it with me! [insert pep rally here].

Hey, who needs antidepressants with me around :P

Or maybe more bipolar disorder than antidepressants. But whatever. Wasn't there a test thing which told you what annoying mental illness you were?

I personally think everyone has bits n pieces of a few mental illnesses, but you wont get diagnosed unless they cross the threshold of seriousness and start actually affecting your life and personality, as opposed to just annoying impulses which never leave your head. Like, everyones a little paranoid, a little social-phobic (or at least I am :P), a little anorexic, but not enough to actually matter.

Although that might not be physically possible - I have to find a psychologist to ask.