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xpost And a golden shower.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i had way more girls who were friends than girlfriends. it was kind of like being hungry and given a 7 course meal sealed in a lucite box.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I did the whole "friends who are girls" thing, too. Now I know I was just doing that classic thing where you think they'll appreciate your sensitivity and fall madly in love with you if you pretend you are beyond lust. Or something. Really all it boils down to is being a huge pussy.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Most of my friends in high school were girls, too. I had small crushes on a couple of them, but mostly I just enjoyed their company. Although the other night at the reunion, I revealed to like four separate people that my best friend from back then (female) was really a friend with benefits.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, "what's Stacie up to?" was like the question I was asked most often. I had to be like, "I dunno! I called her mom last year to see if I could re-establish contact and she said she'd pass along the message, but girl clearly doesn't want to be friends with me anymore, cuz I never heard from her."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I was just doing that classic thing where you think they'll appreciate your sensitivity and fall madly in love with you if you pretend you are beyond lust.

uhm, no, not what i was doing. i was upfront about wanting to give them the rail but they totally did not take me seriously. and now that i think about it, between the mohawk and the stick figurishness and the general pain in the assiness i can't blame them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost) I mean, I'm not COMPLETELY surprised, because things ended on sort of a weird note -- basically, we continued to be "involved" with each other long after it made sense to be, and so maybe she suspects that I haven't moved beyond those impulses -- but it's been over 5 years since I last talked to her, and I know I'm a lot more mature than I was back then, so I wish she'd give me the benefit of the doubt.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

When I was in HS I had a COLLEGE GIRLFRIEND.

Really all it boils down to is being a huge pussy.

So horribly OTM.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I am totally leaving early today. No boss, general blah vibe in the office, sleepy, grey, meh. And I have shit to do.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Haha, all of us PWNED by Jordan!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I am totally leaving early today. No boss, general blah vibe in the office, sleepy, grey, meh. And I have shit to do.

I wish I could do this sometimes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't do it too often, but I think this is a special occasion. I'm going apartment hunting. No one will deny me that.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/gems/katherine-harris-holds-possum.jpg

Katherine Harris and I have something in common.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Part of what I mean is that I'm not a salaried employee and so I'm at the mercy of an electronic timesheet system. If I ever leave early, I just have to make up the time before the end of the week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

you have impressive tits? xp

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I had girlfriends in highschool, somehow. But I probably could've had more if I wasn't a BIG PUSSY.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know what she saw in doofy high school me, but after my senior year of HS we both went to college at Madison for a year and then she broke up with me to date Mexican dudes.

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― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

John, I am a salaried employee, and I am also at the mercy of an electronic timesheet system.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago) link

i had one boyfriend in hs, and otherwise just pined over guys who didn't notice me. it might have helped if i hadn't spent most of the time in hs hiding behind my long hair.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Scrolling to the end to say two things:

1. Nov. 22 is my birthday. Come here then.

2. I want to have Thanksgiving at our house. I want you all to come over, and your mothers, too. But, there is not enough room at our house for everyone to come over - there is barely room for six or seven. SO... I will be happy to help plan/come cook at someone else's house where there is more room. Otherwise, I think we'd be better off going to Simon's all day like we did two years ago.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll go if we can go to simon's. is it open all day?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

(xp) I forgot you're a JFK-assassination baby.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Our first T-day in Chicago, Jesse, Jeff, Sayjal and I went to the parade and wandered into Simon's at about 11 AM where we proceeded to get utterly BLOTTO until we made our way to Andee's for dinner at around 7 or 8, with some stranger from the bar that I invited to come along with us who was apparantly a real asshole but I barely remember anything after 3 pm or so and thus hold myself blameless.

Yes. I was born the day they shot JFK. The way you look at me sucks me right down the sidewalk. Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

My presence might be required in Jersey for the actual holiday but I could come to Chicago the week after...tho if I can get out of the NJ family thing I totally, totally will.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Speaking of high school, I'm halfway though Freaks and Geeks now, and I have to say, as the series continues, it makes me more and more uncomfortable. This is one of the reasons I love it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I "was" Nick Andropolous from that show, sans stupidity (I'd like to think) and shit home life.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i was upfront about wanting to give them the rail

Perhaps it was your phrasing.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh and I was into punk, not prog.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps it was your phrasing.

i didn't speak colloquially when pitching woo.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

There's an essay I love that is, at least in part, about the word "woo".

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

You weren't really Nick at all, were you?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

TS: pitching woo v. spitting game

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Laurel, I hope it's better than Nicholson Baker's 50-page meditation on the word "lumber."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, but the drumming, and the recreational drug use, and the tallness, and the general awkwardness with women (don't want to give too many spoilers but there is an episode that hit sort of close to home...)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I was into prog. :( I haven't see F&G yet, though.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I may have just seen that episode. Unless there's another one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe I will watch it after I see all of Battlestar Galactica and then perhaps the Wire (girl that I am hanging with just had to watch a whole season of the Wire for class!!).

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, it's better than just about anything. It was in Best American Essays of 2003, ed by Anne Fadiman who as far as I'm concerned is a manifestation of the divine on this earth. I have not, however, found a listing online yet.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Who's the author of the essay?

I think of all the F&G characters, I relate the most to Lindsay.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Mostly because of my striking resemblance to Linda Cardellini.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I was going to say, because you're always wearing that fatigue jacket.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, the essay is by Brian Doyle, and it's called "Yes".

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Speaking of Battlestar Galactica...

Jeff and I have watched the first four episodes of season two and sent back another movie unwatched so we could get more MORE MORE BSG discs. I loved the pilot, was ready to give up on the show by the time the Tom Zarek episode rolled around, and then got all caught up in it again by the time we got to the season one finale.

There's some pretty lofty shit happening. I hope they can carry it through.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Really? I was never even close to giving up, somehow it got past all my critical faculties and I watched it as if there were no other options than the way things were done...like it was fact! I R SUCKER.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I had my first BSG experience the other night.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

QUICK JESSE MAKE THAT INTO A GAY THING!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I refuse to watch BATTLENERD GEEKLACTICA

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought I'd had my fill of space operas, but I think I'm hooked.

I never saw the original BSG, but I want to now that I see Dirk Benedict was in it! I love that dude. Tarantino should hipster him up in his next movie.

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Tom Zarek's character needed a little refining, I thought. And I got sick of the pro-military rah rah totally uncritical of your superior officers crap. I'm still a little sick of that, actually, but...

I can't say anymore!

Oh, those handful of episodes that were dripping with dad issues were a little sickening, too. Basically, as soon as they started focusing on the CYLONS and all their attendant evil I was back into.

― jenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought I'd had my fill of space operas

hahahahahahaha

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 October 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

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