North Rowan High School - Northern Lights Yearbook (Spencer, NC)

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Trying to get her accounting to balance can be frustrating for Renee Trexler as she yanks on her golden locks. Students in the next class many wonder about the hairs left behind. Photo by C. Weaver. With only one piece of bubble gum, the bubble can't do much damage. Tammy Norris chews gum almost constantly except when teachers rule against it. Photo by J. Jones. Risking an 'ink explosion in his mouth, Walt Brotherton chews on his pen. Although many students doodle in the margins as they take notes in history class, Walt prefers to chew on something. Photo by C. Weaver. 104 f Habits W 'ages ..-f When tests are finished, and turned in, there's some time to day-dream. Ginger Leazer drifts off into her thoughts. Photo by J. Plummer.

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1, iii, FACT vs Fanfafy F lying horses . . . talking dogs . . . people living through a fall from the thirty-first floor window . . . indestructible cars . . . senior citi- zens being kidnapped by aliens . . . Okay, maybe these things don't happen every day. Unless, of course, you spend your days in the movie theatre. The film industry is constantly producing more movies based on fantasy and unrealistic events such as playing babysitter to a bigfoot like the Henderson family so willingly did in the 87 movie Harry and the Hendersonsf' Not many people would take a monster into their home and treat it as one of the family. And it is not every day you come in contact with a man- eating, blood-sucking plant, as in Steve Martin's hit Little Shop of Horrors. According to avid movie goer Michael Gobbel, the latest movies have been, So unbelieva- ble they are hard to enjoy. You can't relate to things thathardly ever hap- pen. Not to say that they can't. Why pay four dollars to see a far-fetched, off the wall movie when the makings of a box-office smash are already surrounding you? Strange and far- fetched things that parallel movie happenings also happen to high school students if you just look around. Megan Weaver and Brie Barnes Fact vs Fantasy l 103

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H l Causing and relieving stress ou're sitting in class taking notes on facts you know will be on the next test. Behind you a young man chews on a pencil while to your right a bubble pops softly over the bubble gum chewer's face. Ahead of you a girl twists her hair. tYou are surrounded by poor unfortunates who have acquired habits.l Annoying habits are easy to come by but so hard to get rid of. If only medical science could come up with a cure for bad habits, short of electric shock treatments! The common cold will probably be cured before such common bad habits as described here. Have you ever had a conversation with a hair twister? Annoying, wasn't it? There you were try- ing to talk but your eyes kept going up to their fingers twisting through their hair. As you continue to converse, the suspense mounts. Will they pull their hair out? Will they be bald before they gradu- ate? They are probably not aware that as tension and frustration mounts, hair knotting begins. You know that they are not listening, even when they say they've heard every word, but they can- not repeat a single word you said. This person is the chronic day-dreamer. With scores of things on students' minds - academic and otherwise - al- most everyone can identify with the day-dreamer. Have you ever loaned a pencil to someone who returned it in such a condition that you were sure it had been attacked by beavers? Pencil chewers destroy thousands of pencils every year, leaving behind disgusting, wet stubs of wood. Although a helpful tool for relieving stress, the pencil chewer obviously didn't listen when his mother told him about all the diseases he could catch by putting unsanitary objects in his mouth! Don't they know that besides raising the risk of cavities, they also standing the chance of having that bubble pop all over their face? So what if it pulls their eyebrows off? They grow back, right? Maybe it is just an amusing way to entertain them- selves, or feed their sugar habits. Many of these habits seem to have therapeutic effects for the individuals involved, but can create stress and annoyance to others around them. Megan Weaver Habits i 105