This evening I got into a discussion about high school yearbooks, and specifically about the writing style of girls in high school year books. I think a communications major should do their masters thesis on it. It's a style all its own. The subject came up as I was talking to a male friend about how to write like a high school girl for an excerpt in a fiction book he's working on. He had dug out his old high school year books to look at examples, and I was trying to tell him that wasn't necessarily a representative example. I couldn't put it into words very well at the time. Anyone want to give me a grant so I can study it in depth?

Maybe I'll see if I can find some journal entries from my own high school years, just so I can see how my writing style has changed and maybe show him an authentic example. I really fear it hasn't changed much at all. My spelling is probably better, though. The immediate feedback from them newfangled auto-spellcheckers has made it easier for me to learn the correct spellings of difficult words like "water."

Oh, you really should go take a look at www.mutantx.net soon. A guy on my staff worked hard yesterday and made it purty.