We are all teenage girls.

Sometimes I miss the unrelenting emotions of adolescence. Plus: a poem, some stretchy pants, and a Y2K playlist.

I’m not sure if it’s because I finally scored tickets to see Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (I promise this won’t be another essay about Taylor Swift) but I’ve been thinking a lot about middle school and early high school lately – aka, the mid-late 2000s.

If you’re old, like me, you probably remember back in 2009 when the big thing was copy-pasting poorly word…