BLOG POST #9 "Pretty Boring" Page 46.

Describe the Rusty Ruins. What are they? What happened during this time period?

• "There's plenty out there. Real trees, hundreds of years old. Mountains. And the ruins." The Rusty Ruins are "the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and every one was incredibly stupid. And ugly." Only special hoverboards work out there, if you know how to trick them. To make them drift past the outer edge of the greenbelt, off-limits, and farther upstream where it's white water and too rough for skimmers. Then, you slink out of the city completely.

Define 'Peer Pressure'.

• A quick Dictionary.com search deemed Peer Pressure to be the "social pressure by members of one's peer group to take a certain action, adopt certain values, or otherwise conform in order to be accepted". There are two types of peer pressure: negative and positive. How odd, that the wrongness of giving in can be positive. And how sad, that there is not only the one, the positive. Peer Pressure, it seems, is balanced.

Think of a time when it happened to you or someone you know and explain the situation in a paragraph.

• As I rule out different experiences from the short decade that I have walked this Earth, I think: how can I possibly write a decent answer and not come out sounding insecure? I now place my fingers over the flat keys in anticipation, and begin to wing it:. Following protocol, my feet began to move in sequence with theirs, and I followed my friends. Always behind them. Then, at that precice moment, the sun shone down where I stood, and I began plotting the day that I'd walk beside them, in the front. :)

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