Pine Forest High School - Pifonoca Yearbook (Fayetteville, NC)

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a i lt. Did someone say something about Cheerleading practice? Stacia Ackcr and Natalie Marlisi take a break from the drudgcries of practicc to share thc latest gossip. l'ie got some dirt for you! Kclli Williams lends an car to hcar Lori l ail's very important words. student life

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Words tend to flow all to easily from our lips. Rarely do we consider the ef- fect of them until it's too late. All of the little comments about what she had on or who he was with are second nature to almost everyone. Talking about people is instinct. lt's inbred. All of our lives we've been surrounded by people talk- ing about people. We've all received the message that it is okay to gossip a little every now and then. Oops! Did I say gossip? Yes, gossip. You know, that idle chatter that usually winds up alluding to a certain someone and a certain thing they did. We have all done it at some- time and we will most definitely do it again. For some reason, we all seem to think that others' lives are public domain. Just look at the reading materials you can find while waiting in line at the grocery store. The headlines read some- thing like this: Elizabeth Taylor Adds Yet Another Trinket to Her Engagement Collec- tion Princess Di Screams Another Man's Name in Her Sleep What business is any of it to us? The tabloids who print gossip rely on the ' ' va 72- basic human desire to participate in it. Those stories are based entirely on her- esay and yet it sells. Why do people feel it's necessary to know other people's business'?'? That's easy, because people are curious by na- ture. lt's in our blood. Besides that, half the time our lives aren't nearly as excit- ing as others' are made out to be. Believe it or not, there is a positive side to gossiping. One does have to look hard for it, but it does exist. Talking about someone .is a form of release. In- stead of bottling everything up inside, gossip gives you the luxury of letting your true feelings be known. There is a chance that it will get back to the star of your gossip but a very small one if you talk to someone you trust. Gossip helps get a lot of things off your chest. Another, very simplistic, justification for gossip is lack of conversational top- ics. You can only talk about homework for so long. And the discussion of week- end plans becomes extremely boring af- ter living in Fayetteville for any length of time. People are the most fascinating things on this earth, so why not talk about them? They each have their own words, thoughts, styles and personal- 'ts I1 1 ll f student life He did what? Mark Taylor, Scott Fowler and Damion Etienne listen attentively as they prove boys do gossip too. ities, so it's highly unlikely that you will run out of things to say. Everywhere you look there is gossip. Perhaps, even more so in the high school. Not one day goes by when you don't hear or say something about someone. ln our school alone, rumors run rampant. If you do anything to stand out, expect to be talked about. Everyone is fair game when it comes to gossip. Nothing is sacred. In high school, appearance is ex- ,tremely important. If you don't look just right, you could easily be subjected to those little whispers that usually be- gin with something like, Did you see what she had on? Talking about peo- ple's appearances is probably the most common form of gossip because it's so easy to do. All you need is to part your lips the tiniest bit and the words just kind of flow out. Gossip is human nature, good or bad. Whatever the causes, it is a major part of our high school years. And let me tell you . . . Kim Braithwaite takes full advantage of her lunch period by recounting the day's gossip. .vs wt Wait! l've got to tell you something. Curtis James jumps at the chance to spread his news during Mrs. Byrd's Physics class. l 4 l

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llrm long 'till the bell , . . Kenny liclk and Chuck Kimball gllltl hopefully at u uiitch. l'm so hungry ,.. After Ray McDougal's inner clock seems to have alerted him of his hunger, he asks l.iiRcc l ubordc for the lime. A-nerwrfw crew,-4' Tick-Took. Tick-Tock. Bzzzzzzz. Huh? Oh, great, lim late!! I can't be- lieve this, ok? lt's exam day and l'm late! Wait ... l'm not late. In fact, l'm up early. How do you like that? I guess I'm just lucky. Lucky? Not really. Everyone of us has inner clocks that tick within us and ring when necessary. lt's imbedded into our system by repeating consistency. Our bodies go through basically the same routine daily. This causes it to grow dependent on our familiar sched- ule. To get ready for school, we usually wake up at the same time. When we're hungry, we know it. Finally when we're tired, our eyelids begin to droop. The above three types of inner clocksl' are the common among everyone. Allow me to give you a brief lesson in intra- chronologym. lEditoris translation - inner timej What time did you get up this morn- ing? Some of you, especially girls, woke up at around 6:30 a.m. Others of you, especially boys, rose at around 7:30 a.m. Of course, this is an unofficial av- erage. Remember the times you woke up all of a sudden and quickly grabbed your Timex alarm clock to find that you student life ' 1 still had about five more minutes? For some of you it was rare, but for others it was very familiar. Why did you do it? You didn't, your body did it. It was trained to do it by frequent repetition, You're in second period. ltls about 10:15 a.m. and you're trying desperate- ly to finish your timed writing in En- glish class. You try to concentrate but you can't because your stomach screams out Food, Food. Food Remember those times? It never failed, did it? About the same time each day you knew you were hungry by the funny noise your stomach made, You tried to hush it, to save embarrassment, but to no avail. It was your body's way of re- premanding you for making it suffer. It was an inner clock ringing loudly, telling you it's time to fuel up or refuel. Finding a derivative can be simplified often by using implicit differentiation, but not always. You may have a polyno- mial sentence which requires use of a simple derivative rule . . . Don't reread the sentence. It's only Calculus. Remember listening to the drowning noise of any class at around 3:00 p.m.? It was hard, wasn't it? You tried so hard to .listen so you wouldn't 0n7' get lost but your body wouldn't let you. The heavy eyelids began to get tired and they drooped, drooped some more, and finally, KONK! You were out in never-never land. It wasn't your fault, directly. But indirectly it was because you allowed your body to be trained that way. The tiredness was an inner alarm telling you it was bedtime. Intra-chronology, what is it? It's an inflated word meaning, inner time. All of us have some sort of inner clock im- bedded in us, Some are welcomed, oth- ers are a nuisance. How do you shut the alarm off? You can't. Therefore, you train your body to fit your schedule. You train it the right way so you won't be late for school or designated engage- ments and where you won't starve that body of yours when that rumbling Stom- ach starts to demand food. BRRRRRING Tammy Moats and Denise Brunswick quickly discover that their class is dragging.