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Lol, forget how easily offended my brother is when you point out his flaws. It's funny because that's ALL he does to everyone else. He spent a good two minutes ranting about how overweight (I should mention I don't think I'm overweight at all) I am after I pointed out that he has bad skin.
Ah, fifteen years of non-stop insults from older siblings has made me unable to give a shit about their opinions anymore. This is great. And since they're not me, they get SO self-conscious about their flaws. I can poke at them all the time and they get so upset and when they try and retaliate, I simply lack the ability to care.
bwahahhaa, I'm probably an asshole from getting so much enjoyment out of this...
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Permalink Reply by DZMom on
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I've come to the same conclusions about my husband's criticisms of me. And it's been almost fifteen years for me, too.
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Permalink Reply by Nighthawk on
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School starts tomorrow. The last year of high school. Senior year.
AAAAAHHHHHHH....
I don't want to grow up. :(
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Permalink Reply by Contradiction on
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Same here, though it's junior year now.
Bah. This summer was the.fucking.best.
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Permalink Reply by EndOfTheEarth on
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Don't worry. First two years of college, not much changes.
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But are you still going to school in the same area/city/town/whatever? Living with your parents?
I mean, I'm really hoping everything changes... >.>
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No, I've gone from suburb to city, and live at the dorm.
I mean, people get over themselves socially, but beyond that, my Freshman year felt like 13th Grade. Still all general classes, still mediocre food, still your parents calling your mobile devices to bother you at inconvenient times.
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Ah, I understand. See for me, it doesn't matter for things like general classes, each year always feels radically different. Maybe it because I move all the time or something. I'm not sure, I just can always find huge difference from each grade.
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WARNING: This is as close to spam as anything I'll ever post.
The info could be helpful to the soon-to-be college bound. I'm posting it in lieu of "forwarding" the email I receive. Since I am unemployed and yet I've been receiving this newsletter for years, perhaps it is not very useful.
This is a response to the "growing up" discussion.
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I have five hours until bed.
Thus, five hours to do the following:
-re-read Gulliver's Travels, and annotate appropriately (hello, Sparknotes, old friend)
-finish annotating three New York Times articles (which is actually rather fun, albeit tedious)
-write a biography paragraph or two on the columnist whose work I'm annotating
-write a response "column" to one of the published ones
Holy shit, guys. You'd think I'd have learned by now that procrastination is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
*headcactus*
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