Tanya's Column!
by Tanya_Walsh@hotmail.com

Some time last year I was walking up the stairs outside the tuckshop
with my friends Brooke and Renee. We were talking about some of the
more embarrassing experiences in our lives. Well, Renee and I were.
Brooke was rather silent, until she blurted out. "I've never had an
embarrassing moment." This statement left Renee and I silent, in a
total state of shock.

Honestly, how can anybody go through 15 years without having an
embarrassing moment? That thought is so incredible to me, so
unbelievable, so Incomprehensible that the concept is almost ALIEN to
me.

I guess it's because I'm the "Queen of Embarrassing Moments" I mean,
when you look like I do you spend your whole life being totally embarrassed
whenever you go out in public before you even do anything. And then when I get
there. Oh god **cringes at some certain memories**. I think I accumulate at
least 1 embarrassing moment a week, my embarrassment scale has gotten so
high it's practically about to break the building down. I've had embarrassing
moments of all kinds; and you're not going to find out =)

But the point of today's story is to tell you about an embarrassing
moment I had about a week ago. It's a pretty pathetic embarrassing moment and
it's so stupid I'm embarrassed to tell you. But here goes. I have to
write it down because it's been burning a hole in my brain for the last week or so.

OK, me and a couple of friends were in the computer rooms. OK, so we're
deprived pathetic little people who go to the computer rooms at
lunchtime. Well, kind of. I was actually typing my english story out.
(I'd had a flash of creativity and HAD to get it down before it was too
late) and my friends had come along to read backstreet boy fanfiction
(?) (Don't ask).

Anyway; it was really nice there cause it was another REALLY hot day!
(It's autumn now!! It finally registered! Well, Spring for about 90% of
you guys) and the room is airconditioned. It was REALLY crowded; all the
computers have the internet so everybody comes on at lunchtime to use
the internet and chat and e-mail and there's nothing else to do in the
school anyway. I was reading this really cool Lois and Clark fanfic in
the background ("Heliophobia"! Read it!! It's in the "what's new"
section of the archive and you have NO idea how good it is!!) (BTW, I
just read Bella's story, "Is he or Isn't he" - the one Cristin mentioned
for best comedy and I agree!! Read it if you haven't already! It's
hilarious =) I'm still laughing.

So we were all quite contentedly reading our fanfic, when Shoba walked
in. I'm not going to say that much about Shoba, but she's VERY loud and
VERY unshy. So she walked up to my screen, which I wasn't fast enough to
minimise and screamed out at the top of her lungs... "LOIS LANE? CLARK
KENT? LOIS AND CLARK?"

Silence. The entire body of the computer room froze and stared at me,
the deprived person who was reading STORIES about a TV show that had
been taken off the air 2 years ago. Shoba, sensing her audience and
ignoring my red face (another thing about embarrassing moments. My face
goes bright red which makes me even MORE embarrassed) screamed out
"YOU'RE FANTASISING ABOUT LOIS LANE?!!?! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA"

Ohmygod.

Thanks Shoba.

OK I have to go play soccer now =) Lets see if I can actually kick the
ball this week.

¿?Tanya?¿

Defender of Truth
Champion of the bad hair day.