Pointless Announcements

LOL who still gives a fuck? Hopefully no deal ever happens so the Kings stay champions forever and ever and ever.

I like Cam Ward though, he's a pretty good goalie who deserves a better team. Anyway, I have long since given up on a season, so I would be pretty happy if it actually happens.

I realize this and I'm working on myself.

But she's so smart and pretty... and... a dork.

This is hard.

If I ever see you at a bookstore I'm going to stare at you the whole time.

I'll pull a Pepper and fill the Cult with fullstops. Someone I know in real life lurks around.

Instead of properly replying to these annoying emails, I'm just going to send them links to Christmas carol videos instead. Grrrrr.

On a brighter note, I got my Bruce Springsteen tickets this morning!

my oatmeal tastes metallic

That's a Flaming Lips album I think.

wayne coyne you asshole, I just want regular oatmeal

There's a nicely dressed Asian gentleman next to me watching a YouTube video titled "911 Clues EVERYONE MISSED," while also playing Minesweeper on expert difficulty. I just thought that was interesting.

God damn it, I post a lot. I'm so angry I could cry right now.

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It's Chuck Palahniuk.

YOU'RE GIVING STUFF AWAY!

It took me 2 hours to do the editing. Fuck my life, it's like burning my diary.

Sorry!!

So are you not going to post here anymore?

Thank you, Tuffy.

I am, I just won't talk about college anymore.

perhaps this might mean the return of the chat room?

Is it silly of me to expect an apology for this brutal invasion of privacy? Thank heavens we have a 4-day weekend.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect anything from the kind of people who would go to this much trouble. The best you can do is act like it doesn't bother you. I had compromising photos of myself leak out all over a very large and popular forum a quite a few years ago. I thought it would be the death of me, but life went on.

Let's hope so.

What happened Irina?!

I had a topic made about me on a forum, in which all of my friends unknowingly slandered me for the terrible things that were said about me.

"unknowingly slandered" because it was not revealed by the person that made it that I was the actual subject until everyone there I cared about, including the person it hurt worst to have chime in, had chimed in to say how awful of a person whomever it was about must be.

I lived.

I thought I would die. But I didn't.

Of course I never had to look any of those people in the face. But it was still completely heartbreaking.

edit- this is a lame attempt at some comfort, Irina.

My best friend has a saying for this. "To hit it against the fence". It comes from the idea that a clumsy person would hit the cart in a fence when trying to pass through the gate. Basically, to botch it.

This was my reaction today when we read the book thread (edited now).

Well from the sounds of things this is pretty bad, invasive stuff. It's awful when your personal internet life is invaded. Some people don't respect that, even if this is a "Public" forum it doesn't mean it's okay to invade it.

I met up with some guy off the internet once and he found this place and made fun of me for stuff on it, felt very creepy and uncomfortable, hope you're alright!

I am seriously overwhelmed. Tears, even. If I could, I'd hug you all right now.

Maybe I'm just overreacting and feeling like a teenage girl caught day-dreaming, but it really bothered me.

What the hell, Irina? I'm sorry this has happened and that you had to change anything you've posted. Whoever did this is creepy as shit.

Nah, you have every right to be upset. When I think about all the stuff I've said that's so personal - particularly when I had a dreadful crush on a lecturer - if someone had found that or shared it or something, I'd have been absolutely gutted. But then I think about it like anyone who does that is a bit of a creep, not me, and so it might be embarrassing for a while but you're the normal one. People talk about stuff that's personal on the internet, it's fine.

I talk about more private stuff with you than I do with my girlfriends. I post here every day, I pour my heart out, this is like an interactive diary for me.

"Oh, Tuffy! Why don't you talk about your private life more?"

QED

Of course, I've had a stalker who stole my mail, broke into and robbed my place of business, told my then-wife that he was "going to make you mine", and told the Nice FBI Agent that he "expects that I (meaning the stalker) will probably have to kill him (me)."

The Nice FBI Agent advised me, "Get a gun."

He's still out there.

WHAT THE FUCK.

And just like that, my problem is a breeze.

holy krampus.

Ouch

I, too, have a list of names (plural) to be given to the authorities if I ever disappear.

Not a joking list. A 'these are the complete psycho's who have good reason, even in if only in their own warped heads, to want to make pepper go away.' list.

But they all already know where I live anyway. And I do keep much to myself and never mention it here at all.

Never anything like that, however. That is some fucked shit.

So, when Noah says, "Tuffy, I want your life," I get defensive.

μολών λαβέ, hipster!

Reasonable.

But you know it is still nice to hear your thoughts on things even if you aren't sharing so many personal details.

Okay. Edit. Edit. Edit.

that sounded like I am either trying to sound cool and or I hang out with really rotten people. neither is true. Life has just fucked with me a bit and thrown rotten people at me.

Jesus shit people are assholes.
Fly me over to your side of the world and I will get an apology for you. Or do something so outrages that everyone will forget about anything you have ever done.

I have done nothing productive for the past 4 hours and a half. Didn't even read. You have all made my day so much better. It hasn't happened in years that I cry with gratitude for how nice people actually are to me.

You're all so sweet, even those who I've wronged in the past.

We love the crap out of you, NOW SMILE.

Okay I feel like death today and my mind is not in its right place. So if I come off a little more off than usual its because I should be in bed tryng to sleep. I will babble, make even more spelling mistakes and probably confuse myself and others.

You smile too! Do you have to go to work?

We like you. And it is crap what happened to you.

Also, you always write "four hours and a half" and it is super cute, but usually the way people would say that is 'four and a half hours' or 'A year and a half' instead of 'one year and a half' et cetera.

I've been wondering if you do that because that is the way the grammar is in Romanian?

Yes. I didn't even notice. Good to know. I find myself sometimes saying things in English the way we'd say them in Romanian, and not the standard English way. Sometimes my brain likes to play tricks.

I am at work, I work 12-9 weekdays. which is why I am hear almost all day. You guys know me better than some of my closest friends and I feel more comforatable talking to you all about shit than most people.
You all keep me level throughout my work day.

Guys what should I make for dinner tonight?

We have:

ground turkey
turkey Italian sausage
pork chops
pork loin
chicken breasts
steak tips

^This. I don't talk to anybody else every day. Maybe once every two days, but I'm here all the time and the way you've all reacted today made me realise how fucking lucky I am to have you, yeah, as cheesy as it sounds. I can't stop sobbing, seriously, that's how much you've warmed my heart today.

I hope tomorrow I'm not a ball of mush anymore and can actually be reasonable and DO stuff. I'll go read some more Moby-Dick before shut-eye and try and focus on that for a while.

Thanks, everybody. DEATHHUGS all around!

All of the above?

So I was just randomly thinking that some of you would do well ditching your current usernames and going with something more stylized. Like uh, I don't know... starting a new account as DeFrumusețe or something. Hahaha, that'd be dumb, don't do that. But it would also be kinda cool. But nah, it's stupid. Or is it? Nobody take that name. Unless they really want it, I don't care, I'm not the name police. Just do it, okay?

I didn't notice that but that's really a great way to say it. How do we get America to start doing this?

You're going to have to hold a book so it won't be creepy.

It was. Thank you. Sincerely.

He wants you AND your wife?! That's just greedy.

Also, Nice FBI Agent is nice but utterly useless.