Haven't read A Tale of Two Cities, but I enjoyed The Good Earth. Especially compared to that book we had to read the year after, which was so awful it shall not be named.


Maybe. I do sympathize with you, but I've never gotten the impression that Chloe's home base is anything similar to St. Johns. Could be wrong though.

But -POOF- I'm gone, disappearing before JSK finds me and starts trying to convince me of Washington's greatness.

Also, hey, my house has internet now. Really, really spotty internet.

First of all, the cold/bored thing is due to my dad refusing to keep the thermostat above 56, and being pretty much the first of my friends back from school/not on vacation somewhere else

Anyway, living with my parents for a little while is great, I'm very thankful for having less responsibilities while here...but the passive-aggressive way they handle things is the main thing that just doesn't work well for my sanity

Plus my lifestyle at school is so different from here in like, every respect, and I am trying my hardest not to disrupt or change their own ways while I'm here

PPPPS(!!!): FINISHED 20 PAGE SEMESTER PAPER.

I would like to thank caffeine, nicotine, and honey for their starring roles in the project. I don't think I could have done it without them.

But seriously folks that's the longest thing I've ever written.

PS: My roommate bought me Mass Effect through Steam...

HR: ...but my computer can't run it...



...

PS: My apartment is so much more tolerable now that the fat, lazy a-hole has left for break...

ps: home. free food, woo.
uc: minor argument with the girl.
hr: what the girl just said, and now my being extremely mad at her.

What did she say?

UC: Joining the ranks of the soul-crushingly lonely.
HR: I still live with her.
HHHHHHR: Apparently we're going to continue that fact?

Guys, I'm not gonna lie, there will never be enough alcohol to make the third part follow the second.

Dude, that is god smurfing terrible. Really sorry to hear that.

I'm really sorry to hear that man. :/ Lemme know if I can do anything.

Damn dude, that sucks, is there no option for getting out of your lease/contract/whatever?

I don't know. The penalty for breaking the lease is double rent, and I don't have $540 to cover my half of that.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

Sorry to hear that :/

Just keep sane as you can, and MYSGSAB?

Honestly, right now I'm just trying to make it through work without puking on a researcher.

But I guess that'd be smurfing hilarious, thinking about it.

It needs to be stated once again.

Smurfs ain't smurf but hoes and tricks.

This is by far the most comforting advice I've ever heard.

That could be the byline for this entire website.

I'm really sorry to hear that, Widget. Is there a chance of reconciliation? Pull out all the stops...

I dunno. I think the damage has been done, and there's really nothing I can do to fix it.

Ultimately, it was kinda mutual. Mutual in that, we both agreed it wasn't worth trying to reconcile things if she was emotionally through with the relationship. Soooo, yeah.

i might be joining you later today depending on how this confrontation goes.

smurfs aint smurf, i guess.

(whether i am or not, i am back in az and we all prolly should get together for some good times, we all need them)

Guys, you're so money and you don't even know it.

Widget (and Roffs? (and other hurt souls?)), I'm um, sorry that we're hoes and tricks


Let me know if there's anything I can do to help

Well, see it's complicated.

Some women are smurfs.
Some women sometimes act like smurfs
The second group are what we like to call ladies.
The first group are hoes and tricks.

It applies to men as well:

Some, assholes, others, occasionally act like assholes. Most are stupid though.

You have no idea how long I've waited to hear that.

That's the best xmas present ever, Chloe.

(And yeah...the irony is not lost on me that she's Jewish)

it's not all women, it's just the one i happen to be dating right now. i dunno what you could do other than tell her that she should stop hurting me and pushing me away if she wants this to keep going, and that actions speak louder than words and my not being sure about her feelings after she says/does the things she says/does isn't distrust it's that she is directly contradicting the things she says

but it's not like she's listening to me, so i doubt she'd listen to you.

I think saying you weren't a good artist was a pretty good indication that there was something rotten in Denmark(and Duke).

That.

Yeah, you're welcome...I don't even care that YOU didn't give ME anything




I don't really know anything about this relationship (length, tone), but it sounds like she's going to have to clarify a lot to (re?)establish an emotional connection/comfort. And that is difficult.

I would give you a gift, Chloe, but my gift would be so wonderful and thoughtful, that it would ruin your expectations for every man that gave you a gift after me.

...is it bad that i read this as sung by ben folds and not dr dre?

no, that is how everyone should read it.

I don't think y'all are hoes and tricks. I just think I put myself in a smurfy situation by making moronic decisions and statements, and never negating those things, leading to a year of lack of confidence and insecurity.

Pretty much I've decided this is all my fault.

Ahh, well, if there's an upside, it's that now I can smurf smurfs? I think?

Hindsight is 20/20, don't beat yourself up over it. Though I would advise you and all others not to live with your significant other in college. It's obviously tempting for many reasons, but I think most college dating relationships aren't well suited to that situation, and stories like yours are too common.

i was scared that was the case. pleased for myself, but scared.

It's not bad that you didn't read it sung by Dr. Dre because it's Snoop Dogg that actually sings (raps?) the chorus.

The Ben Folds part is bad, though.



It's good that you've learned from things already, but I'm pretty sure I've told you before that there are a lot of things about your situation that are so not your fault, and aren't anyone's fault. Things aren't always destined to work out. Such is life.

Wow, life sucks for people on here apparently... I'm worried because it looks like it's my turn next :/

Thankfully, my HR is more of a UC: Every single time I volunteer in my mom's classroom, I'm strongly reminded that I have vowed never to have children, and I silently retake that vow every time. Or really, most times I see kids.

As has been said, it's good to learn from this kind of thing for future relationships, so you can be better, but don't beat yourself up over it. In my experience, it's almost never "all" one person's fault. There are a lot of factors that contribute to the breaking down of a relationship, and to a break up. Usually they stretch back pretty far, sometimes even to the very beginning, and involve a lot of miscommunication and pain on both sides. It's usually far too complicated an interaction for any one person to be the actual culprit. So yeah, learn from what you did wrong, but don't tell yourself it was all your fault. And don't feel guilty about any of it. You couldn't have done anything else based on your experience up to that point. Maybe you made mistakes, but they were mistakes you had to make to grow as a person. I know this probably sounds kinda like bullsmurf but it's true.



As to that last sentence, I clung to that as comfort for a bit after my breakup but I ultimately realized I wasn't particularly interested in that kind of thing, and it was just a temporary distraction from what I was feeling. It was ultimately much more important for me to come to terms with what had happened, who I was, and where my life was headed than to hollowly try to prove to myself that I was somehow "valuable" to other girls. But do what you've gotta do man. I'd just advise you to look deep inside yourself first and make sure that's what you really want to do.

UC: These damn Commies suck for blocking facebook. Every time I'm in this country I just want to start a revolution. Seriously get your smurf together just because you don't like public perception in a negative light doesn't mean you should try to block all that out. People here are also sick of this. You lock up your nobel prize winner and now this b.s. I hate it, thank god for America. God bless

The essence of the 21st century revolution.

Watch out, historians. I'm calling this one now.

My condolences to everyone getting hosed in a relationship. People are too blasted complicated.

Also, anyone want to start taking bets to see how long until the godfather ends up in a PRC prison for cyber espionage?

PS: Hangin' out with my best friend for a couple of days.
UC: I need a new toothbrush after a ferret rubbed itself all over my old one.
UC: I seem to have lost some of my caffeine tolerance. Granted, that was A LOT of soda, but I should not be awake right now.
UC: Ferrets, man...

??: woke up at 3:30 today
uc: 2/3 days i've been at home i've gotten over 13 hours of sleep. 1/3 days i've gotten 4.
uc: that is not optimal imho.

Ughghghg ring of fire.

UC: delayed flight.
PS: at least I have my roomie to chill with.
UC: I'll have less random conversations with strangers.

PS: I guess we're working things out?
AF: Could be pretty difficult.

WINTER BREAK LOG
days woken up at hour > 2pm: 1
days woken up at hour < 2pm: 3

problems: many

Hopefully a smurf ain't 1.

I am again wary of the future, my life's going quite well right now.

Wtf is gonna happen in a month.


Basically what I'm saying is once your lives improve mine will go south lol.