Welcome, Anthony Rapp! (part three) — Page 200

Hahaha, (a) Makes me talk a lot more than I normally do, especially to my parents.

I think we can all relate to that one.

I haven't told my mom about the message board, she would honestly shoot me. She's so paranoid about people coming and finding me. Once she saw my AIM info which had my middle name on it (Laura) and flipped a million and one sh*ts. So I don't think she'd approve of this at all.

Anyway, there are a lot of better places creepy people can go than broadway message boards to find innocent girls they can lure to "seedy hotel rooms."

I had to tell my mom about the boards because I'm trying to convince her that I'm going to New York in the summer. I just wish that the internet doesn't scare her as much as it does. It's just because she doesn't understand it.

Speaking of parents... I wanted to tell you guys that my dad finally rented and saw the movie! And he didn't fall asleep, which, if you knew my dad, means it was pretty okay. He's ALWAYS falling asleep during movies. He thought it was a "neat story" (I think that's what he said). Not something he'd watch again, but he enjoyed it nonetheless. Actually, he claims this was his first musical movie. Ever. How can that be?! My 14 year old brother actually didn't like it, which was very surprising! I'm a little disappointed. My dad's girlfriend's daughter, however, watched it four times before they returned it. I'm so proud.

Neither of my parents know about BWW. My mom freaked out once after seeing my brother reading a Sum 41 messageboard. So we just don't tell her these things, heh.

Weird. My mom just came into my room and asked if my sister has a Myspace (which she does) and told me she just saw on the news that it's a huge site for pedophiles.

I don't know how pedophiles can sit and wait for all of the html to load!

The wind here sounds SCARY.

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It's really nice out, though!

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Yeah, it's not snowing, the wind died down and there's nothing falling now. Is it sad that since I came to school, I've been able to fall asleep to the sound of snow plows?

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Whenever my mom asks me how I know something (like the signings) I always say I have "connections", lol. I'm pretty sure I have hinted at her that I have a myspace, and she knows something of BWW, but has no fricken clue what it is. If she knew that I had a SN she would break my arms and legs and watch me die. Seriously.

*insert frightened face here*

*throws snowball at you*

The sad thing, though, is it's understandable the way parents react. It's the way our society works. Most people watch the news, or read the paper, etc. What's on the news? Stories about people like us on BWW and how close we've all become? No. Stories of pedophiles and rapes and terrible things happening from meeting people internet. That's what they hear about. Only hearing about all these bad stories on the news and such makes out society an unfortunate very fearful one.

Fortunately, my mom knows all about BWW and knows of my good friends here and one of my friends even stayed over for a couple of days and she really liked her. Early on, my sister would tell me she called her panicking worried that I was meeting people, but is totally cool with it now. In fact, sometimes she's come to shows or concerts with me when I've seen a BWWer or 2 and I've introduced her to them.

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