The Just Thought I'd Share Thread

[Ghost_Tracker]

Caitlin a.k.a. Enchanted Stevie had posted a thread on That Other Board called "Just Thought I'd Share" - - - It ended up being really popular. It also helps to save a lot of space and keep things from getting really disorganized with a million different threads. I asked her if it's okay with her if I borrow the idea and start one in here and she said to go for it. :cool:


The idea is you just post any ol' random thing - news, an update about what you're doing, thoughts you've just had, ideas, wishes, hopes, dreams, w/e it's ALL good!

So here we GO! Have fun! :p

Here's one to start:

Definitely wanna enjoy some sun this Labor Day, so I'm gonna go
out in the back yard and read now. :nod:

Just Thought I'd Share. (JTIS.)

[golddustdrummer]

great thread!

just thought I'd share what I've been up to on this fine Labor Day...

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[Ghost_Tracker]

great thread!

just thought I'd share what I've been up to on this fine Labor Day...

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That's awesome!
Nice choice of song, too - I've always loved that.
It's very "jazzy."

JTIS.

[LikeAWillow]

I'm just getting back from a walk where I ran into my drug dealing ex-roommate/ex-closest friend at Wellesley, and.....couldn't have had a better time talking to her again. Such is my life.

JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

I LOVE Brown Eyes. So much.




San Francisco was absolutely beautiful yesterday. Capitola (a quaint little beach town) was gorgeous today. And Marissa isn't responding to my texts.

JTIS.

[LikeAWillow]

Some hottie named Dani claims I'm ignoring her, but I haven't gotten a text from her all day, and it kind of makes me cry inside.

JTIS.

....erm, until I just checked my phone mid-post. JTIS again?

[daniellaaarisen]

We fail.

CALL THE BANK.

[LikeAWillow]

We fail.

CALL THE BANK.

Dude, I WENT to the bank today on top of calling. Both closed. But I'm trying to purchase again right now. I'm really pumped to post a bought my tickets, JTIS.

[LikeAWillow]

I'M GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO!

And someone needs to pick up her phone so we can celebrate.


JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

Marissa and Dani. San Francisco. Halloween 2009.

JTIS.

I'll stop spamming this thread now.

[trackaghost]

I'M GOING TO SAN FRANCISCO!

And someone needs to pick up her phone so we can celebrate.


JTIS.

Marissa and Dani. San Francisco. Halloween 2009.

JTIS.

I'll stop spamming this thread now.

Did you both meet through The Ledge? I always got the impression from your posts you knew each other in "real life" until I read this. Sorry if I'm being nosey, it's just that I am, well, nosey!

[Cornflake Girl]

great thread!

just thought I'd share what I've been up to on this fine Labor Day...

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That was brilliant! I love Brown Eyes, definately one of the sexiest FM songs.


I ran into an ex-friend today. On a train. One of the worst places to run into someone you don't want to talk to is on any form of public transport, because then you have an awkward journey full of inane questions and one word answers. I wanted to be listening to the Weepies album I had just put on my Ipod.

It's 2am and I'm now watching old episodes of The View on youtube and getting het-up over topics that were pertinent a year ago.

[daniellaaarisen]

Did you both meet through The Ledge? I always got the impression from your posts you knew each other in "real life" until I read this. Sorry if I'm being nosey, it's just that I am, well, nosey!

We did meet through the Ledge. We essentially haven't stopped talking for the past few months, though, so I'm sure that impression isn't random :) I was supposed to visit her while college shopping back east but since I had to cancel due to school obligations, she's coming here for Halloween instead :)

[trackaghost]

Ah cool :) You guys sound like best friends that's why I was surprised to see you hadn't met.

[Ghost_Tracker]

I want to come back as the owner of a pet store in Paradise Valley, that sells Yorkshire Terriers. :nod:

JTIS some Stevielove! :thumbsup:

[vivfox]

I want to come back as the owner of a pet store in Paradise Valley, that sells Yorkshire Terriers. :nod:

JTIS some Stevielove! :thumbsup:

Paradise Valley is beautiful but they also have lots of Scorpions.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Paradise Valley is beautiful but they also have lots of Scorpions.

I LOVE Scorpions!

There's NO ONE like them!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/20scorpions.jpg

[Ghost_Tracker]

So let me get this straight - Obama is going to give a speech about education - - -
to SCHOOL KIDS? :shrug:



JTIS the Sarcasm. :p

[FMlex]

I hate having my classes so spread out time-wise throughout the day.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have my first one at 8:00am and then my next (and last) one at 3:30pm.
Ugh. I have no one to blame but myself. ****ty scheduling on my part.

JTIS.

[LikeAWillow]

I hate having my classes so spread out time-wise throughout the day.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have my first one at 8:00am and then my next (and last) one at 3:30pm.
Ugh. I have no one to blame but myself. ****ty scheduling on my part.

JTIS.

Ugh, that is awful. I have five 8:30's this semester, but I'm done by 12:20 all but one day. We'll see how it goes.

[FMlex]

Ugh, that is awful. I have five 8:30's this semester, but I'm done by 12:20 all but one day. We'll see how it goes.

See! Marissa = good planner.
That's the way it should be done!

I'm perfectly fine with having early classes... just as long as I'm done at a reasonable time. You've got it made, girl.

[golddustdrummer]

JTIS that dry sockets suck all different kinds of ass.

[daniellaaarisen]

JTIS that dry sockets suck all different kinds of ass.

They are my BIGGEST phobia. I don't know why, but I'm scared to death of them... good luck :(




My super, super sexy English teacher gave me 20 of his poems to read over the weekend, ranging in topics from existence to sex to his dark Irish roots to fatherhood to his dad's death. I spent two hours giving him feedback but more importantly, talking to him about some of the most monumental events of his life and seeing him get emotional about it.


So. Beautiful. I am so obsessed with this man.

JTIS.

[carrie721]

My super, super sexy English teacher gave me 20 of his poems to read over the weekend, ranging in topics from existence to sex to his dark Irish roots to fatherhood to his dad's death. I spent two hours giving him feedback but more importantly, talking to him about some of the most monumental events of his life and seeing him cry about it.


So. Beautiful. I am so obsessed with this man.

JTIS.

that's pretty inappropriate. :lol:

[jannieC]

that's pretty inappropriate. :lol:

Ya think? :shocked:

daniella, sosunds like you've got that one in the bag.

[hippilil86]

Letting a 5 year old paint my fingernails with her blue peel off nail polish probably wasn't the best idea. I think my nails are stained blue forever.

I need to stop biting my cuticles. My hands are starting to look horrible! It's not my nails, it's the cuticles and skin on the sides of my fingernails. Yikes.

I just got 2 new jobs, and a new apartment, with a new roommate. Now I think I'm ready to date someone. Where is he?

[carrie721]

Ya think? :shocked:

daniella, sosunds like you've got that one in the bag.

no joke. but still wildly creepy.

he should know better and if you cared about his career you wouldn't be talking about this stuff on a forum where everybody knows your facebook page and where you go to school. :shrug:

[hippilil86]

no joke. but still wildly creepy.

he should know better and if you cared about his career you wouldn't be talking about this stuff on a forum where everybody knows your facebook page and where you go to school. :shrug:

I think it's fine, as long as you don't mention names. It may be inappropriate for him to be doing that, but as long as it doesn't freak Dani out too much.

[jannieC]

I think it's fine, as long as you don't mention names. It may be inappropriate for him to be doing that, but as long as it doesn't freak Dani out too much.

I think that there may be lots of Dani's and some may not be as welcoming of his insanely inappropriate behavior.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Letting a 5 year old paint my fingernails with her blue peel off nail polish probably wasn't the best idea. I think my nails are stained blue forever.

I need to stop biting my cuticles. My hands are starting to look horrible! It's not my nails, it's the cuticles and skin on the sides of my fingernails. Yikes.

I just got 2 new jobs, and a new apartment, with a new roommate. Now I think I'm ready to date someone. Where is he?


Long Island? . . . . . :wavey:

[Ghost_Tracker]

no joke. but still wildly creepy.

he should know better and if you cared about his career you wouldn't be talking about this stuff on a forum where everybody knows your facebook page and where you go to school. :shrug:


All I'll say is that it's not exactly as if this is shockingly original, and Dani, you're smart enough to know that. I know it might not actually be "such a big deal" but don't forget to view things from the outside.
It's too easy to go fast up and down the highway without seeing a goddamn thing.
This is your senior year and you only get one of them. Have fun.

I think that there may be lots of Dani's and some may not be as welcoming of his insanely inappropriate behavior.

"Oh, there's no warning
That takes you to the promised land
Hearts made of crystal
Crumble like castles of sand

Echoes of emotion
And the visions of a fool
Echoes of forbidden ground
And it's too good to be true -
Love is dangerous."

[Enchanted_Stevi]

So today my Intro to BioTechnology class was okay. She did an overview on Chapter 1 and then we went over the Lab Safety stuff. After class my friend dropped me off at work so I could get my mom's car to get my labcoat for my BioTech and BioChem classes. Its fancy! Well as fancy as one can get with a white lab coat..lol Its not like a boxy one. Its form fitting to make you have a sillouette. The brand is "Grey's Anatomy" and its rather soft for a lab coat too. I cant wait to wear it! Oh and I also went to Target and got some Special K bars to eat on Thursday's cause I have classes from 9:30-4!!

JTIS

[fleetwoodtrick]

I have atleast one FML moment a day, so this is where I will share them with my Ledgie friends.

Today, my boyfriend told me we needed to talk. Those four words together in a ny way, shape, or form almost never means something good, so I started freaking out.

BF: What's going on with you and that new guy?! You hang around him more than you hang around me. If there's anything serious going on, I want you to tell me now.

Me: :laugh:

BF: ...What?

Me: :laugh:

BF: -angrysadface-

Me: That's my cousin remember!?!?!?

BF: ....Oh.

Me: I guess you weren't listening all those times I was telling you about him coming to our school... wait, weren't you listening when I introduced him to you!?!!?

BF: ....:o

I then proceeded to give him one of those hugs where you leap into the person who's going to catch you's arms. (Which is quite hard because he's 6 foot something and I'm on the low end of 5, yet taller than Stevie minus platform boots.)

I know a lot of you will be thinking that he's a bad boyfriend and stuff, but he's really not. When you ramble as much as I do, it's hard to find anyone to listen to you! (Besides, my dad does this to my mom all the time! :lol:)

JTIS

[daniellaaarisen]

He's been a mentor figure for the past two years and people are widely aware of that. He's done the same thing with my writing and I don't see a problem with him asking for feedback in return :shrug:. The emotional aspect of it was unexpected-- and fine. I go to a relatively small private school where this type of stuff isn't normal, but isn't shunned, either. I have two teachers who I am very close with (the other is female)-- babysit their kids, get lunch on weekends, they've come to my house for dinner-- my parents are aware of it, my classmates are aware of it and the school is mildly aware of it. Even so, I am one Dani from California who goes to a private shool and has abnormally close student-teacher relationships. If someone wants to report it, have fun trying-- I think that is outrageously nosy and ridiculous, and I will be deleting some friends if anyone else considers this a legitimate concern. :D

I consider myself so, so lucky to be able to have these relationships. :shrug: Sorry it weirds you out.

[iamnotafraid]

whoa!!!! we've got a soap opera going on here.

Tales of Ribaldry (Jon Lovitz, SNL)

[Ghost_Tracker]

He's been a mentor figure for the past two years and people are widely aware of that. He's done the same thing with my writing and I don't see a problem with him asking for feedback in return :shrug:. The emotional aspect of it was unexpected-- and fine. I go to a relatively small private school where this type of stuff isn't normal, but isn't shunned, either. I have two teachers who I am very close with (the other is female)-- babysit their kids, get lunch on weekends, they've come to my house for dinner-- my parents are aware of it, my classmates are aware of it and the school is mildly aware of it. Even so, I am one Dani from California who goes to a private shool and has abnormally close student-teacher relationships. If someone wants to report it, have fun trying-- I think that is outrageously nosy and ridiculous, and I will be deleting some friends if anyone else considers this a legitimate concern. :D

I consider myself so, so lucky to be able to have these relationships. :shrug: Sorry it weirds you out.


Meh, don't be too pissed at us. We just don't want to see you getting hurt, THAT'S all!
I guess us Fleetwood Mac and Stevie fans are over-protective of each other. :nod:

[daniellaaarisen]

Meh, don't be too pissed at us. We just don't want to see you getting hurt, THAT'S all!
I guess us Fleetwood Mac and Stevie fans are over-protective of each other. :nod:

I'm not pissed! I just consider today's conversation one of the top few of my life and yes, its inappropriate-- but there's also nothing really hidden about it. I don't know how to describe it. Maybe I just don't see it as such a big deal because I've always had these type of relationships with my teachers....

[ILoveFM]

I was accepted into the college I've always wanted to attend the day I took my last AP test in May. I had been placed on the 'wait-list' in March and they finally called me and told me that I had been accepted!!.. But it was for Spring semester. I cried and cried that whole day because I felt like a loser for only getting accepted for Spring semester. Anyway I've been playing it off for months to family and friends that I'm so happy to have this semester off and I'm getting to save up money for college and I'm so happy, etc., but I still feel like a loser who will never leave home. I have a fear that it'll all be taken away from me any day now. Ah, crazy irrational thinking I'm sure.

JTIS because who's better supporting than fellow Ledgies :)

[daniellaaarisen]

I was accepted into the college I've always wanted to attend the day I took my last AP test in May. I had been placed on the 'wait-list' in March and they finally called me and told me that I had been accepted!!.. But it was for Spring semester. I cried and cried that whole day because I felt like a loser for only getting accepted for Spring semester. Anyway I've been playing it off for months to family and friends that I'm so happy to have this semester off and I'm getting to save up money for college and I'm so happy, etc., but I still feel like a loser who will never leave home. I have a fear that it'll all be taken away from me any day now. Ah, crazy irrational thinking I'm sure.

JTIS because who's better supporting than fellow Ledgies :)

:) I'm applying to colleges right now and I totally understand the anxiety. If I don't get into Kenyon, I will be sooooooo upset. :(

Can I ask what school you are talking about?

[ILoveFM]

:) I'm applying to colleges right now and I totally understand the anxiety. If I don't get into Kenyon, I will be sooooooo upset. :(

Can I ask what school you are talking about?

Yea, I'm going to the Univeristy of Georgia. The last few years it has been come increasingly harder to get in to but they tend to accept more students from the area now. I'm lucky to have gotten in I know that, I just wish I started when everyone else did.

Good luck with those applications!!!! I remember getting so upset filling those out.

[iamnotafraid]

Yea, I'm going to the Univeristy of Georgia.

GEORGIA???????? WHAT THA???

What about BAMA?

[ILoveFM]

GEORGIA???????? WHAT THA???

What about BAMA?

Oh Gawd! I hate BAMA ewwwwwwww!!

I bleed red and black. :D

[daniellaaarisen]

Do they have a fall option for you? A friend of mine is going to Cal (UC Berkeley) and got in for the spring semester but he's taking like, optional courses first semester.

[ILoveFM]

Do they have a fall option for you? A friend of mine is going to Cal (UC Berkeley) and got in for the spring semester but he's taking like, optional courses first semester.

Not at UGA. I could have taken a few classes at one of the local tech schools around Athens but they're are just too many issues (transportation, MONEY, deadlines for other schools, etc.) that get in the way of me going to school anywhere but Georgia.

[carrie721]

He's been a mentor figure for the past two years and people are widely aware of that. He's done the same thing with my writing and I don't see a problem with him asking for feedback in return :shrug:. The emotional aspect of it was unexpected-- and fine. I go to a relatively small private school where this type of stuff isn't normal, but isn't shunned, either. I have two teachers who I am very close with (the other is female)-- babysit their kids, get lunch on weekends, they've come to my house for dinner-- my parents are aware of it, my classmates are aware of it and the school is mildly aware of it. Even so, I am one Dani from California who goes to a private shool and has abnormally close student-teacher relationships. If someone wants to report it, have fun trying-- I think that is outrageously nosy and ridiculous, and I will be deleting some friends if anyone else considers this a legitimate concern. :D

I consider myself so, so lucky to be able to have these relationships. :shrug: Sorry it weirds you out.

trust me, i don't care enough to report anything. and we're not friends on facebook, so don't worry about deleting me. LOL. you realize that you don't have to be someone's friend to see what networks they belong to, right? again, i'm not about to start interfering in your january-december fauxmance. i don't even know who you are.

alls i'm saying is that within the teacher-student dynamic there is always an inherent power structure that is skewed toward the teacher, and this kind of situation reeks of sexual impropriety, whether or not it is overt.

All I'll say is that it's not exactly as if this is shockingly original, and Dani, you're smart enough to know that. I know it might not actually be "such a big deal" but don't forget to view things from the outside.
It's too easy to go fast up and down the highway without seeing a goddamn thing.
This is your senior year and you only get one of them. Have fun.

i am never quite sure what your posts are trying to say. you acknowledge the seemingly understood dangerous and cliched nature of the situation, advise that some wider perspective is needed... and then say "have fun." wtf? :lol:

just because something is not "shockingly original" does not mean that it is appropriate. your argument is specious and suspect.

priests molesting altar boys is not exactly "shockingly original," but i would say that it is completely inappropriate. on the other hand, our good friend mary kay letourneau really put a twist on the old lolita bromide, but that is neither here nor there. maybe if you come up with more astute testimony, we can have a discussion along these lines.

"Oh, there's no warning
That takes you to the promised land
Hearts made of crystal
Crumble like castles of sand

Echoes of emotion
And the visions of a fool
Echoes of forbidden ground
And it's too good to be true -
Love is dangerous."

oh dude, that's just sad.

please allow me to provide you with a list of songwriters whose work, if you are trying to be cerebral, it is in your best interest to quote (none of whom, i should mention, has ever been addicted to tranquilizers, let alone for one third of the questionably productive years of her ouvre.).

-rosanne cash
-chrissie hynde
-dolly parton
-tom petty
-bob dylan
-joni mitchell
-neil young
-lennon/mccartney
-jagger/richards
-gram parsons
-and while we're at it, neil friggin' diamond

OARP!

[daniellaaarisen]

trust me, i don't care enough to report anything. and we're not friends on facebook, so don't worry about deleting me. LOL. you realize that you don't have to be someone's friend to see what networks they belong to, right? again, i'm not about to start interfering in your january-december fauxmance. i don't even know who you are.

alls i'm saying is that within the teacher-student dynamic there is always an inherent power structure that is skewed toward the teacher, and this kind of situation reeks of sexual impropriety, whether or not it is overt.


Yeah.... not on my list of concerns. Your point is taken and understood, though.

[Ghost_Tracker]

i am never quite sure what your posts are trying to say. you acknowledge the seemingly understood dangerous and cliched nature of the situation, advise that some wider perspective is needed... and then say "have fun." wtf? :lol:

just because something is not "shockingly original" does not mean that it is appropriate. your argument is specious and suspect.


Me honestly thinks you're analyzing the details of my post WAAAAY too much.
We're not being tested on this. My meaning was pretty simple and wasn't intended
to be complex - or graded. It was simply to express that this situation MAY be
more complex than it appears to be on the surface; and that senior year should be
a FUN year - for example all the dances that high schoolers go to - with each other.
It seems to me that you're automatically equating my general statement "have fun" with
the specific idea of "having fun" with the older teacher.

At any rate, in my honest opinion we've let this expand a little bit more than anybody ever intended.
Danni had a great, meaningful conversation with a teacher and after asking her about it, she's confirmed
to us that there's no problem and that everything's okay. As we all know she's a very smart and
mature person and I'm sure she has everything "under control." So let's
just feel happy that she had this meaningful conversation that she's chosen to
share with us; and I hope we can just leave it there and move on to sharing
other great stuff. :D







oh dude, that's just sad.

please allow me to provide you with a list of songwriters whose work, if you are trying to be cerebral


Who said anything about trying to be cerebral?

I was trying to be nice.

Oh by the way, like Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power said, "Never use the big word when the small word will do."
"Specious" isn't exactly college-level . . . That's high school. Assuming and implying that a person is unintelligent and "trying to be
cerebral" just because you don't like every little detail of their argument or because you disagree with them
is Junior High School. And hurtful.

We now return to our "regulary scheduled programming."

[jannieC]

He's been a mentor figure for the past two years and people are widely aware of that. He's done the same thing with my writing and I don't see a problem with him asking for feedback in return :shrug:. The emotional aspect of it was unexpected-- and fine. I go to a relatively small private school where this type of stuff isn't normal, but isn't shunned, either. I have two teachers who I am very close with (the other is female)-- babysit their kids, get lunch on weekends, they've come to my house for dinner-- my parents are aware of it, my classmates are aware of it and the school is mildly aware of it. Even so, I am one Dani from California who goes to a private shool and has abnormally close student-teacher relationships. If someone wants to report it, have fun trying-- I think that is outrageously nosy and ridiculous, and I will be deleting some friends if anyone else considers this a legitimate concern. :D

I consider myself so, so lucky to be able to have these relationships. :shrug: Sorry it weirds you out.
I think it's cool that you have mentors. In today's world, teachers are generally not able to show any special interest in their students, and it's a shame. You are obviously a very bright and unusually talented girl and I imagine that most of your teachers find you to be a breath of fresh air. That being said, you called this teacher "sexy" and said you were "obsessed" with him. Whether you mean that in a girlish crush type way or not, I'm quite certain that he is aware, even if only slightly, of your feelings. In light of that, sharing with you such personal information is inappropriate.

ALL THAT being said, :) no one is going to call DSS.

[Enchanted_Stevi]

He's been a mentor figure for the past two years and people are widely aware of that. He's done the same thing with my writing and I don't see a problem with him asking for feedback in return :shrug:. The emotional aspect of it was unexpected-- and fine. I go to a relatively small private school where this type of stuff isn't normal, but isn't shunned, either. I have two teachers who I am very close with (the other is female)-- babysit their kids, get lunch on weekends, they've come to my house for dinner-- my parents are aware of it, my classmates are aware of it and the school is mildly aware of it. Even so, I am one Dani from California who goes to a private shool and has abnormally close student-teacher relationships. If someone wants to report it, have fun trying-- I think that is outrageously nosy and ridiculous, and I will be deleting some friends if anyone else considers this a legitimate concern. :D

I consider myself so, so lucky to be able to have these relationships. :shrug: Sorry it weirds you out.

I'm close to a couple of my teachers as well. My Pre-Calc teacher from High School(senior yr) I am still friends with her and we text eachother and stuff. Same thing with my HS English teacher. PLus, he lives a street over from me and I'm friends with his daughter. I am also friends with my college math teacher on facebook; we also IM and text.

[ILoveFM]

He's been a mentor figure for the past two years and people are widely aware of that. He's done the same thing with my writing and I don't see a problem with him asking for feedback in return :shrug:. The emotional aspect of it was unexpected-- and fine. I go to a relatively small private school where this type of stuff isn't normal, but isn't shunned, either. I have two teachers who I am very close with (the other is female)-- babysit their kids, get lunch on weekends, they've come to my house for dinner-- my parents are aware of it, my classmates are aware of it and the school is mildly aware of it. Even so, I am one Dani from California who goes to a private shool and has abnormally close student-teacher relationships. If someone wants to report it, have fun trying-- I think that is outrageously nosy and ridiculous, and I will be deleting some friends if anyone else considers this a legitimate concern. :D

I consider myself so, so lucky to be able to have these relationships. :shrug: Sorry it weirds you out.

I also have very close relationships with some of my teachers in high school. I remember going to a teachers class every day senior year when I thought I was having mental breakdown and she would just talk to me and listen and hug me. She's now a friend on fb, we text, I visit her often. I also had another teacher who I considered mom. This also happened senior year. She helped me with college stuff. Also a great mentor. So I understand Dani! I think it's great :)

[camchristo]

^Yes, but your situation, it appears, is different - your mentors were female. Dani's is male. And she said he was sexy and she was obsessed with him. And she's mentioned several times on these boards that she is into older men.

When I was in junior high, the assistant principal tried to be buddy-buddy with me. I babysat for him a few times (during which his daughter told me she hated her dad). My mom despised the guy and kept major tabs on the situation. I'm glad she did. He was convicted of child molestation the following summer and sentenced to nine years in prison. Looking back now, I can see he was trying to set it up to go down that road with me.

Granted, I was 13 and Dani is 17. However, I don't care how mature you are, or think you are. You just are not equipped as a 17 year old to handle a relationship with a lates 20's or 30 something teacher. And shame on him for not finding someone other than a student to share these deep emotions with. Some lines should just not be crossed.

I don't know Dani and I'm not going to lose sleep over what she decides to do with her life. I'm just expressing my opinion, as one of the older members of this board (since it is now overrun with teenagers), and trying to provide some perspective from an old lady's point of view.

[trackaghost]

Dani, I don't want you to feel like we're all ganging up on you, but I have to agree with Carrie, Jannie and Cam. I have to admit I was pretty shocked by your post. The teacher is in the wrong here 100 per cent, I mean, I think it's great that many of you feel you are friends with your teachers, but your teacher should not be spending alone time with any of his students and pouring out his life story and feelings, no matter how special said student is. I would say he's pretty aware of the fact you like him, and that makes it all the more inappropriate.

[BTFLCHLD]

rather disturbing...the 'sexy sexy' teacher and his sex poems. yikes. :eek:

[jannieC]

I'd like to add that your age has little to do with my opinion (though it is in the back of my mind, making me uncomfortable). I think Carrie mentioned it, but it's the balance of power, boundaries, etc. that makes it disturbing. This is why it's inappropriate for any teacher, therapist, employer, etc to be emotionally involved with their student, client, employee, etc.

[David]

I'd like to add that your age has little to do with my opinion (though it is in the back of my mind, making me uncomfortable). I think Carrie mentioned it, but it's the balance of power, boundaries, etc. that makes it disturbing. This is why it's inappropriate for any teacher, therapist, employer, etc to be emotionally involved with their student, client, employee, etc.As you know, any time is a good time to interject Beethoven The Immortal, but now especially.

Beethoven pined for several of his female piano students, and sometimes dedicated compositions to them or even proposed marriage to them. These relationships usually floundered when Beethoven forced the young lady into a (figurative) corner, pressing his feelings, & compelling her to tell him bluntly that she wasn't interested in him in "that way."

The inappropriateness of Beethoven's behavior extended to his eccentricity in dress. Count von Keglevics, the nephew of Beethoven's pupil Barbara, wrote: "He had the whim -- one of many -- since he lived across from her, of coming to give her lessons clad in a dressing gown, slippers, & a peaked nightcap."

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/Beethoven.jpg

[jannieC]

As you know, any time is a good time to interject Beethoven The Immortal, but now especially.

Beethoven pined for several of his female piano students, and sometimes dedicated compositions to them or even proposed marriage to them. These relationships usually floundered when Beethoven forced the young lady into a (figurative) corner, pressing his feelings, & compelling her to tell him bluntly that she wasn't interested in him in "that way."

The inappropriateness of Beethoven's behavior extended to his eccentricity in dress. Count von Keglevics, the nephew of Beethoven's pupil Barbara, wrote: "He had the whim -- one of many -- since he lived across from her, of coming to give her lessons clad in a dressing gown, slippers, & a peaked nightcap."

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee197/clivebrook/Beethoven.jpg

David, you always know how to snap me back into reality. :xoxo:

[Black_Moon]

I started sixth form today. Incase anyone isn't aware of the British school system, sixth form is like college, except all I had to do is stay at my secondary school. I didn't see the need for upheaval to move to another school, and then get acquainted with everyone, with teachers I didn't know. At least this way I know I've got amazing teachers, and will achieve the grades I want.

Anyway, I found out I got onto my Pyschology course. I was ecstatic, because I didn't get a high enough Maths grade at GCSE to do it (I got a C, a B was the minimum requirement. English has always been my subject anyway) so I think some strings were pulled and they took into account my English grades. I've got two years of English Literature, History, Politics and Pyschology. Apparently I've took some of the hardest subjects you can take. :lol:

We don't start proper lessons until Friday, tomorrow is "pirate day"! Supposedly it's a lesson in improvisation and problem solving skills, because we have to build something and the short notice to design our costume is a lesson in having tasks thrust upon you and being required to deal with them.

[LikeAWillow]

I'm just expressing my opinion, as one of the older members of this board (since it is now overrun with teenagers), and trying to provide some perspective from an old lady's point of view.

Speaking as someone who has met and spent time with you, I about spit out my water at you describing yourself as an old lady. If I didn't look atrocious in the picture of me, you, and Michelle, I would share it, and let the rest of the ledge enjoy the humor in this :xoxo:

To make this more relevant to the thread- Cammie's a little bit beyond gorgeous. JTIS.

[Ghost_Tracker]

^Yes, but your situation, it appears, is different - your mentors were female. Dani's is male. And she said he was sexy and she was obsessed with him. And she's mentioned several times on these boards that she is into older men.

When I was in junior high, the assistant principal tried to be buddy-buddy with me. I babysat for him a few times (during which his daughter told me she hated her dad). My mom despised the guy and kept major tabs on the situation. I'm glad she did. He was convicted of child molestation the following summer and sentenced to nine years in prison. Looking back now, I can see he was trying to set it up to go down that road with me.

Granted, I was 13 and Dani is 17. However, I don't care how mature you are, or think you are. You just are not equipped as a 17 year old to handle a relationship with a lates 20's or 30 something teacher. And shame on him for not finding someone other than a student to share these deep emotions with. Some lines should just not be crossed.

I.

Dani I hate to say it but I think I agree with what this person and others are saying today. Trust me on one thing: It's easy for a smart person, when they're 17, to feel that they completely understand something or to feel that they "have something under control." And it's natural to feel that you have enough life experience at this point to understand what's going on. That's the trap, and it's easy to fall into it - almost everyone does, in one way or another. Part of being smart is being wise and yielding to the voice of experience; and listening to people who are older and wiser than you when they tell you that you may be wrong and that there may be more going on than meets your eye. You're saying you know how to solve this Freshman-level calculus problem, and a bunch of professional mathematicians are telling you that it's actually a graduate-level exercise in 12-dimensional math.
Maybe we've all made "too big a deal" - but so what? Nobody gets hurt if you listen to the voice of experience and carefully, logically consider what some fairly wise friends are saying to you, en masse.

[LikeAWillow]

Dani I hate to say it but I think I agree with what this person and others are saying today. Trust me on one thing: It's easy for a smart person, when they're 17, to feel that they completely understand something or to feel that they "have something under control." And it's natural to feel that you have enough life experience at this point to understand what's going on. That's the trap, and it's easy to fall into it - almost everyone does, in one way or another. Part of being smart is being wise and yielding to the voice of experience; and listening to people who are older and wiser than you when they tell you that you may be wrong and that there may be more going on than meets your eye. You're saying you know how to solve this Freshman-level calculus problem, and a bunch of professional mathematicians are telling you that it's actually a graduate-level exercise in 12-dimensional math.
Maybe we've all made "too big a deal" - but so what? Nobody gets hurt if you listen to the voice of experience and carefully, logically consider what some fairly wise friends are saying to you, en masse.

Here's the thing. I agree with you that everyone who's posted has given really good advice, and generally has the attitude of the objective observer trying to give a little perspective. I mean, really, I don't think anyone here's calling Dani a harlot except me. And that's neither here nor there.

I'm going to keep up with Ghost Tracker's math analogy to give my thoughts on the situation. This might get a little more suspect than Stevie Nicks's grasp of grammar. I apologize in advance.

Like I said before, we're all standing outside the classroom (no pun intended) and trying to help her see that the homework problem she's working on isn't as easy as she's presented it to be. Advice, though, is only as valuable as the knowledge that goes into it. In our case, we know the graduate level mathematics that we think are required to solve this, but what we're hazy on are the actual details of the problem...because Dani hasn't shared them.

Is this man a current teacher or a former teacher? Does he have any actual power or authority over her? Just how old is he? What details/tears/emotions might Dani have already shared with him that pushed their relationship from teacher/student to friend/friend? How far is Dani from 18? Has he ever entered into a relationship like this with a student previously? Just how much sex was actually in the "sex poem"? How much of Dani's "obsession" is an actual crush, and how much a glamorization? And, of course, to what extent do we all tweak the true details of our lives when we present them to others?

I think the answers to these questions determine whether or not this man should be judged for his behavior (because I think most of the fervor sparked by Dani's post stems from the sex poem, a work whose contents we have no idea of), but whether or not we judge the teacher, the student should be implicitly blameless. If we're assuming Dani should have known better than to get herself into a bad situation, we're also assuming she's an adult capable of making those decisions, and if she's an adult, then why are we bothering with this relationship at all?

The moral of my story is really that Dani shouldn't share anymore, because she ruins everything. God.

[Cornflake Girl]

We don't start proper lessons until Friday, tomorrow is "pirate day"! Supposedly it's a lesson in improvisation and problem solving skills, because we have to build something and the short notice to design our costume is a lesson in having tasks thrust upon you and being required to deal with them.


You mean Johnny Depp isn't going to make a visit to your school?! Sad times.

Congratulations for getting into psychology! I took a course in psychology last year at uni and really enjoyed it and I'm no mathematical marvel either. I'm sure thhe fact you're naturally gifted in english will serve you well, especially if the grades are based on essays.

[Cornflake Girl]

I have atleast one FML moment a day, so this is where I will share them with my Ledgie friends.

Join the club. Today I got my hair caught in a revolving door, sometimes I think my life is an episode of 'I Love Lucy'.


I know a lot of you will be thinking that he's a bad boyfriend and stuff, but he's really not. When you ramble as much as I do, it's hard to find anyone to listen to you! (Besides, my dad does this to my mom all the time! :lol:)

JTIS

Sometimes I think ears are as pointless a part of the male anatomy as nipples. :lol: Seriously though, judging by your boyfriend's jealous reaction he really, really likes you.

[Black_Moon]

You mean Johnny Depp isn't going to make a visit to your school?! Sad times.

Congratulations for getting into psychology! I took a course in psychology last year at uni and really enjoyed it and I'm no mathematical marvel either. I'm sure thhe fact you're naturally gifted in english will serve you well, especially if the grades are based on essays.

I wish! There are too many menopausal women in my school for him to even consider coming! You've got to love my school's attempts though of getting us to socialise with people and their idea of "fun" is sadly different to mine. Mine would consist of a day in bed and not even considering rising from the lair until noon. ;)

Thank you! I'm glad you found it good, I'm really considering a career in pyschological profiling if I don't end up becoming a divorce lawyer. My grades are based on both, I prefer doing coursework though than writing under pressure. I think the home-based essay part will be my strength. I'm a slow writer and that tends to be my downfall in exams.

[FMlex]

Just got back from being stuck in the Philosophy building while it decided to storm and hail outside.
After only about thirty minutes of heavy rain, this darn campus turns into a lake.
Now I'm soaking wet and I wish I could jump into a dryer because I'm pretty sure it also dropped twenty degrees outside.

JTIS.

[Cornflake Girl]

I wish! There are too many menopausal women in my school for him to even consider coming! You've got to love my school's attempts though of getting us to socialise with people and their idea of "fun" is sadly different to mine. Mine would consist of a day in bed and not even considering rising from the lair until noon. ;)

Thank you! I'm glad you found it good, I'm really considering a career in pyschological profiling if I don't end up becoming a divorce lawyer. My grades are based on both, I prefer doing coursework though than writing under pressure. I think the home-based essay part will be my strength. I'm a slow writer and that tends to be my downfall in exams.

:lol: I hear you, my school used to encourage 'student bonding' and 'interpersonal communication' and various other bullsh*t terms. We had a 'health fair' every year where the slogan was 'Be All You Can Be' and 'Simply the Best' was the theme tune, even Oprah would have cringed at the cheese factor. I guess they have to do it to tick some box on a checklist from the local authority. I considered that week an extra holiday. :p

That sounds like an interesting career! If you have an analytical mind (which you probably do since you're so strong in english) you'll be very good at that. I always do much better with essays than exams (I'm a panicker). The only thing that helps with it is practice sadly.

[Ghost_Tracker]

The moral of my story is really that Dani shouldn't share anymore, because she ruins everything. God.


:lol: Well I don't agree with that at ALL!

Please keep sharing, Dani. :D

And I don't think anyone's "blaming" you for anything at all - - -
We just "felt a little concerned."

Strange . . . The Universe doesn't seem to have exploded yet due to this discussion...

:rolleyes:

[iamnotafraid]

I hate BAMA ewwwwwwww!!

I bleed red and black. :D

Then I bet last year hurt didn't it?
Bama wins again!

[ILoveFM]

Then I bet last year hurt didn't it?
Bama wins again!

Oh God, last year was really terrible. But we did win in 2007 in overtime on the first play... :)

[daniellaaarisen]

This has gotten ridiculous.

He has been happily married for 10 years. He is a family friend. I know his wife and his kids. He knows my parents. EVERY girl that has ever had him as a teacher thinks he's gorgeous, and thats fine. It has never once gotten in the way of our relationship. The other teacher I am close with (significantly closer, actually) knows all about this and she isn't weirded out at all-- and she's his COWORKER.

The sex poem was very, very ambiguous and vague. It was very tastefully done and nowhere close to explicit. I was excited because I've known and deeply respected him for a long time and anytime someone shares his or her work, it opens a new area of vulnerability that can really benefit a relationship. That's what this was-- I simply got to know him better through his writing and in the process, I was able to give him feedback. That's all he was looking for-- a professional opinion on the quality of his work.

Although I appreciate the concern here (trust me, I do), I think that a lot of people are jumping to a lot of conclusions. However, I should have censored my post more carefully and realized that it would come off as inappropriate. If I thought that it was at all innapproriate, I would never have posted it. The fact that I did shows that my mind wasn't working that way at all-- I like to think you guys know I'm smart enough to keep myself out of deep waters if I can see the possible bad reaction.

I just think this is insane, I really do. :/

[LikeAWillow]

I just think this is insane, I really do. :/

STOP RUINING EVERYTHING. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Then have my babies. Thanks.

[daniellaaarisen]

STOP RUINING EVERYTHING. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Then have my babies. Thanks.

Take Marissa for example! She's heard more about this guy than all of you combined and she's not weirded out. :shrug:

....I suck, I know. And gladly!

[Ghost_Tracker]

:lol: I hear you, my school used to encourage 'student bonding' and 'interpersonal communication' and various other bullsh*t terms. .

Was that before or after the school bully took some poor schlep out to the playground and shook him down for his lunch money while the teachers looked the other way and pretended not to notice? :rolleyes:


(Who, me? Critical of our Educational System? :p )

JTIS a half-baked "Educational Critique."

[LikeAWillow]

Take Marissa for example! She's heard more about this guy than all of you combined and she's not weirded out. :shrug:

....I suck, I know. And gladly!

Joking aside, I'm not creeped out because I know the details of the situation.

You're still a harlot, though. :wavey:

[LikeAWillow]

Just got back from being stuck in the Philosophy building while it decided to storm and hail outside.
After only about thirty minutes of heavy rain, this darn campus turns into a lake.
Now I'm soaking wet and I wish I could jump into a dryer because I'm pretty sure it also dropped twenty degrees outside.

JTIS.

Ugh ugh ugh. This was my day. Except, for a little added fun, my dorm just got a new boiler system that takes ten minutes to heat up your shower. YAY WEDNESDAY. This is why they charge 50k a year, apparently.

[daniellaaarisen]

You're still a harlot, though. :wavey:

Love you too, bitch.

:)

[FMlex]

I just got an e-mail from a person that I was good friends with from 3rd grade until 5th grade. Then middle school came and he was kind of unusual so my "group" stopped hanging out with him, therefore I saw less and less of him... that continued throughout high school.

Anyways, here's part of what he said in the e-mail (yes, that part in parentheses is him talking about himself in the third person):

I always saw you around school (Highschool)... but you never talked to me, so I figured I wouldnt talk to you!

(I understand you not wanting to talk to John... He was kinda odd....)

I'm feeling like a pretty crappy person...

JTIS.

[hippilil86]

I love the new Fox show "Glee". JTIS.

[Ghost_Tracker]

I just got an e-mail from a person that I was good friends with from 3rd grade until 5th grade. Then middle school came and he was kind of unusual so my "group" stopped hanging out with him, therefore I saw less and less of him... that continued throughout high school.

Anyways, here's part of what he said in the e-mail (yes, that part in parentheses is him talking about himself in the third person):

I always saw you around school (Highschool)... but you never talked to me, so I figured I wouldnt talk to you!

(I understand you not wanting to talk to John... He was kinda odd....)

I'm feeling like a pretty crappy person...

JTIS.


Sounds to me like he's feeling kinda lonely and depressed and socially awkward...
Hey - maybe the COOL kids will name a BAND after him!!!!

BUT . . . probably not.

JTIS some thoughts.

P.S. - I totally missed Obama's big speech tonight.
Maybe I'll check it out on Youtube tomorrow.
JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

I love the new Fox show "Glee". JTIS.

Agreed. :nod:

[jannieC]

I just think this is insane, I really do. :/

I wouldn't get in a tizzy over it. People were merely responding to the initial post. The way it was worded was disturbing. People do react and respond on message boards. :shrug:

[GypsyBlueEyes]

JTIS...it has officially been a year since I've had any coke (the drink :p )...I can't believe I made it a whole year :)

[Black_Moon]

:lol: I hear you, my school used to encourage 'student bonding' and 'interpersonal communication' and various other bullsh*t terms. We had a 'health fair' every year where the slogan was 'Be All You Can Be' and 'Simply the Best' was the theme tune, even Oprah would have cringed at the cheese factor. I guess they have to do it to tick some box on a checklist from the local authority. I considered that week an extra holiday. :p

That sounds like an interesting career! If you have an analytical mind (which you probably do since you're so strong in english) you'll be very good at that. I always do much better with essays than exams (I'm a panicker). The only thing that helps with it is practice sadly.


Oh God, I wonder if at these board meetings where they design these activities they actually sit and go, 'RIGHT, think of something that will indefinitely put the whole school 0ff wanting to freely participate in this days.' I wish they were extra holidays! We really don't get enough, all of the cheese takes it out of me.

I do have an analytical mind, sometimes works to my advantage, sometimes makes me paranoid. :lol: I'm exactly the same, I prefer working to my own time limits. Plus, I'm godawful at allocating enough time to get things done. I know, "practise makes perfect" and that, but still. I can never be arsed to practise!

[BellaDonna]

JTIS...it has officially been a year since I've had any coke (the drink :p )...I can't believe I made it a whole year :)

That is A-Freaking-Mazing!!!!!! I wish I could stop drinking sodas... I'd like to be more healthy.. for the future n' stuff... but it just ain't gonna happen. :lol:

Glad you could do it tho! :thumbsup:

[ILoveFM]

I'm watching Big Brother!

JTIS :D

[vivfox]

I've been watching All My Children for 32 years and One Life To Live for 16 years.

[fleetwoodtrick]

Today, I had volleyball practice then an eye appointment. I just finished dinner, and I have to take a shower because I was like drenched in sweat from practice. I now have to do toooooooooons of homework. Yet I choose to watch Malcolm in the Middle instead. :laugh:

[BellaDonna]

I'm watching Big Brother!

JTIS :D

I just watched it... I'm so happy for Jordan!

[ILoveFM]

I just watched it... I'm so happy for Jordan!

Haha yes! Natalie is going home and she knows it!!

[Ghost_Tracker]

I've been watching All My Children for 32 years and One Life To Live for 16 years.

Remember "Patch?" lol

(My best friend had come up to college with me for one semester, and was my roommate
- he somehow had gotten into "One Life to Live." :lol: )

[vivfox]

Remember "Patch?" lol


He was on the show B4 I started watching. I would have sworn he was a character on General Hospital though.

[Ghost_Tracker]

"The Wall" just started on VH-1 Classic.

Awesome, awesome movie. :)
It's very educational. ;)


http://www.petbrick.com/brick.jpg


JTIS The Wall

[Ghost_Tracker]

So how many people in here are "on a mission for position by the end of the night?" :rolleyes:


http://mtblog.glamour.com/beauty/blogs/girls-in-the-beauty-department/2008/10/29/1029-hillary-duff-reach-out-makeup_bd-1.jpg

Just Thought I'd Ask.

[FMlex]

^ Aw so sorry to hear about that.
I hate that feeling of knowing that there isn't much you can do about the situation - being stuck in your seat on a plane isn't the first thing you want to do when you feel sick.
Glad you're feeling better though!

And yeah, I can guarantee everyone that flew today in the U.S. felt a little uneasy.

[ILoveFM]

I have a bad bad fear of flying too! My first flight ever was to NYC. I had a panic attack that everyone found so funny ;) A few years later I flew to California.. It was really long but I survied. The ride back was awful though. There had been tornados that whole weekend in Atlanta and we flew back at the end of the weather. It literally took 20 mins more to land. Another panice/anxiety attack. A few months later I flew back to California with a best friend. It wasn't a bad flight at all. Again the flight back was awful but I had a friend with me so it was calming.. Anyway I so understand that feeling! Flying is so scary to me.

[Ghost_Tracker]

My Dad had gotten my brother a movie documentary about Woodstock for his birthday - We're gonna watch it later today.

JTIS! . . . . . :wavey:

[Cornflake Girl]

Was that before or after the school bully took some poor schlep out to the playground and shook him down for his lunch money while the teachers looked the other way and pretended not to notice? :rolleyes:


(Who, me? Critical of our Educational System? :p )

JTIS a half-baked "Educational Critique."

I love this post. That is all I have to add.

[sara1998]

I don't care how mature you are, or think you are. You just are not equipped as a 17 year old to handle a relationship with a lates 20's or 30 something teacher.

I have a 17 year old. Trust me. They know everything. (Sorry, Dani, don't know you, but I know more 17 year olds than I do people my own age right now)

and trying to provide some perspective from an old lady's point of view.


To make this more relevant to the thread- Cammie's a little bit beyond gorgeous. JTIS.

Old lady, hell! Cammie is a bit beyond gorgeous.

Anyhoo... Sara's gone to mamaws, Samantha is out of town, my house is clean, and I'm home alone... for the first time in months. It is a little bit of heaven.

[jannieC]

Anyhoo... Sara's gone to mamaws, Samantha is out of town, my house is clean, and I'm home alone... for the first time in months. It is a little bit of heaven.

Wish I could come over and hang out! :xoxo:

[sara1998]

Wish I could come over and hang out! :xoxo:

C'mon.... haha! I'll make sangria while I wait...

[jannieC]

C'mon.... haha! I'll make sangria while I wait...

You'd be hammered by the time I got there and wouldn't recognize me. :shocked:

[sara1998]

You'd be hammered by the time I got there and wouldn't recognize me. :shocked:

Probably right.

[Ghost_Tracker]

FOR SALE: ONE KINGDOM.

Asking Price: Negotiable.

Contact The Ghost_Tracker via The Ledge or Seven Wonders Online.

;) . . . . . . . . :lol:


JTIS My Love for GDW.

[FMlex]

If I see one more Facebook status about the stupid Kayne West thing, I swear...

No one cares. Gahh everybody's just giving him the attention that he was craving when he did it. (I know I'm talking about it on here, but only to complain!)

JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

Yesterday, it was 95 degrees here. Today, it is 65 and grey, stormy, DARK and ETHEREAL.

I couldn't be happier.

[hippilil86]

"The Dance" dvd is like my security blanket. I love watching it whenever I'm feeling depressed. Love it so much.

JTIS

[ILoveFM]

If I see one more Facebook status about the stupid Kayne West thing, I swear...

No one cares. Gahh everybody's just giving him the attention that he was craving when he did it. (I know I'm talking about it on here, but only to complain!)

JTIS.

Apparently some people do care. I thought he was so rude and tasteless. But I do agree I probably shouldn't because I'm giving him the attention he wants.

JTIS.

[iamnotafraid]

Kayne West should come to Alabama.

[rubytuesday]

Kayne West should come to Alabama.

so they can lynch him?

[daniellaaarisen]

Despite the perfect weather and the outstanding aura around my house/neighborhood right now, everything I'm writing is crap.

JTIS.

[LukeA]

Apparently some people do care. I thought he was so rude and tasteless. But I do agree I probably shouldn't because I'm giving him the attention he wants.

JTIS.

Pretty sure this was staged.

[jannieC]

Pretty sure this was staged.

I didn't see it. but that was my first thought when I heard about it.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Despite the perfect weather and the outstanding aura around my house/neighborhood right now, everything I'm writing is crap.

JTIS.


Maybe you should do like STEVIE does and make an APPOINTMENT to WR-

oh wait.... ;)

Yesterday, it was 95 degrees here. Today, it is 65 and grey, stormy, DARK and ETHEREAL.

I couldn't be happier.


If it were Stevie, that would cause her to cower under a table
with a pen a paper and "just write!..." . . . . . :angel:

[ILoveFM]

Pretty sure this was staged.

Who knows. I'm sure if it was it'll be let out of the bag soon enough.

[Cornflake Girl]

I do have an analytical mind, sometimes works to my advantage, sometimes makes me paranoid. :lol: I'm exactly the same, I prefer working to my own time limits. Plus, I'm godawful at allocating enough time to get things done. I know, "practise makes perfect" and that, but still. I can never be arsed to practise!


And this is why I love you.

I can drive myself crazy over-analyzing things people have said and/or their body language and somehow I always manage to come to the conclusion that what they were implying was something negative about me. :laugh: I really need to learn how to switch it off and only use it for practical things.

I always intend to do some revision or practice exam technique, then I remember how messy my room is/suddenly have the urge to watch Murder She Wrote/need to go to Tesco for milk etc...

[fleetwoodtrick]

Okay, I have time for one post.

Kanye's a douche. But Billie Joe Armstrong was insanely hot. Reallyreallyreallyreallyreally hot.

JTIS. :xoxo:

[iamnotafraid]

so they can lynch him?

Let's just say "we" would welcome him.

Just saw his crocodile tears on Leno.

[LukeA]

I wouldn't spend a day (or even 12 hours), or even otherwise be caught dead in Alabama, even if I was paid $10,000.

JTIS. (no disrespect to Alabama's rich historical "heritage" intended)

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Since last night, its been a bit harder for me to figure out the whole Kanye situation. The signs are there that would suggest that he was trying to get attention/drum up publicity- his co-headlining (with Lady Gaga- what a pair, right?)) arena tour was announced today, with the first batch of dates on sale this weekend. Plus, it just seems too stereotypical and predictable, since he's done this exact same thing before (even performing in an SNL sketch about it).

But, maybe he's just a complete egomaniac asshole who's oblivious to everything and everyone.

[iamnotafraid]

I wouldn't spend a day (or even 12 hours), or even otherwise be caught dead in Alabama, even if I was paid $10,000.



We would be glad to "welcome" you too LukeA.

[daniellaaarisen]

I love Alabama. I've been to Guntersville a few times and I adored it.

JTIS.

[iamnotafraid]

I love Alabama. I've been to Guntersville a few times and I adored it.

JTIS.

I knew I liked you Dani.
You should visit Gulf Shores!

[daniellaaarisen]

I knew I liked you Dani.
You should visit Gulf Shores!

I'd love to go back there and see some places outside of Guntersville-- I have a good family friend who is originally from there and we go back and visit with them every once in a while. ::)

[vivfox]

Yesterday a local radio station I listen to was talking about the new Kid Cudi album they received from the record company. They said they were the first ones to have it. Thay said they even got it B4 Kid Cudi got it. They said Kid Cudi was recently there and he was even looking at it.
Imagine that.

The radio station gets a copy B4 the actual artist gets one!

[vivfox]

On another FM station I listen to they have a 3 minute segment everyday titled "Tell 'em why you're mad." It gets annoying listening to some of these complaints. But today I heard a man say he "wishes parents would teach their kids to want to grow up to be Senators, Lawyers, Doctors and Presidents. Not Gangsters, Drug Dealers and Thugs."


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[vivfox]

Darn, I forgot all about Bible Study until right now, and now is when it ends. I have too much on my mind. I really needed that wisdom too.

[FMlex]

"Wake me up when September ends" -- no really! I'm ready for October.

Every weekend of October I'll be with family -- I love taking mini road trips :)

Then November comes and I finally get to go home for Thanksgiving break
And who doesn't love Christmastime?

:blob2:

Okay, back to homework... I'm just procrastinating...

JTIS.

[LikeAWillow]

"Wake me up when September ends" -- no really! I'm ready for October.


JTIS.

Hear, hear. I'm starting October off in New York City and ending it in San Francisco with Dani. Sigh. It needs to get here.

So, I'm just coming back from tea'ing a Wellesley society, and I don't think I've ever encountered a more ridiculous thing in my life. Pearls, cardigans, sandwiches and tea. I don't believe I'll be going back.

JTIS.

[FMlex]

Hear, hear. I'm starting October off in New York City and ending it in San Francisco with Dani. Sigh. It needs to get here.

I'm excited for you to go see Dani too so that I can hear all about how yall's Halloween goes!

]So, I'm just coming back from tea'ing a Wellesley society, and I don't think I've ever encountered a more ridiculous thing in my life. Pearls, cardigans, sandwiches and tea. I don't believe I'll be going back.

Hahaha!

~~~~~~~~~~~~

So I just got an e-mail from my accounting professor saying that class is cancelled for tomorrow because she has flu-like symptoms.
I don't know whether to be excited for no class or scared to go back on Tuesday. [Swine] flu is going around here early this year.
JTIS.

Now back to homework... for real this time!

[daniellaaarisen]

Halloween is going to be ridiculous.



I just won the annual English Literature Achievement Award for my school. Out of 2000 people. I am giddy.


JTIS.

[iamnotafraid]

I just won the annual English Literature Achievement Award for my school. Out of 2000 people. I am giddy.


Congrat's Dani. Glad you're giddy!

[Ghost_Tracker]

Halloween is going to be ridiculous.



I just won the annual English Literature Achievement Award for my school. Out of 2000 people. I am giddy.


JTIS.


Yeah but what are ten synonyms for giddy? . . . . . . ;)



Oh, and there was something else . . . hmmm . Oh YEAH CONGRATULATIONS! :]

[vivfox]

I just won the annual English Literature Achievement Award for my school. Out of 2000 people. I am giddy.


I told you your opinions were valuable!

[Cornflake Girl]

Halloween is going to be ridiculous.



I just won the annual English Literature Achievement Award for my school. Out of 2000 people. I am giddy.


JTIS.


Congratulations!! I'm not at all surprised though. ;)

[Musicman408]

Danielle- congrats!!!!!

I just thought I'd share that I am now sick.... Everyone in the music department here has gotten sick, and I thought I was going to avoid it.......

But NOPE!!!!

So now I'm in my bed, doing nothing- and wishing I didn't have to go to my 2:20 class.

[LikeAWillow]

Halloween is going to be ridiculous.



I just won the annual English Literature Achievement Award for my school. Out of 2000 people. I am giddy.


JTIS.

Congratulations! I'm so proud but not remotely surprised.

P.S.

I won the same award for my high school back in senior year...which is one more sign that you should come to Wellesley. Just sayin'.

[daniellaaarisen]

Thanks everyone! I'm so happy...





And Maris, we've already established that we're the same person. Just sayin'.


OH and its currently 89 degrees in Mountain View, CA. Summer is apparently not over. JTIS.

[jannieC]

My daughter had her one year check up today and had to have FIVE shots. Not a happy day. :(

[jannieC]

My brother in law sent this to me and it cracked me up, 1:19 and 3:00 are the best. I love silly stuff. JTIS.

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[daniellaaarisen]

Flight of the Conchords!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!


Good call, Jannie. Bret and Jemaine have my heart for life.

[LikeAWillow]

My brother in law sent this to me and it cracked me up, 1:19 and 3:00 are the best. I love silly stuff. JTIS.

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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Oh god, that's going to be stuck in my head all night.

[daniellaaarisen]

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[ILoveFM]

I deicded to watch 'Divas' on vh1 tonight because for some reason I expected to see Stevie (silly right?). I quickly realized it wasn't an award show and that it was really just a concert from 'today's singers'. So I was dissapointed but I'm still continuing to watch it anyway. I just watched Martina McBride and Jordan Sparks sing a duet and I was blown away. So it hasn't been as bad as I had thought it would be :D JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

Ten days: September 12th to September 22nd.

Four concerts:
Power to the Peaceful Festival (Michael Franti & Spearhead and Alanis Morissette being most notable performers) on Saturday
Lynyrd Skynyrd Tuesday
Ben Harper Thursday (tonight)
AND Bon Iver this coming Tuesday.



I am so tired BUT these shows are so worth it... I am the most excited for Bon Iver, though.

JTIS.

[Ghost_Tracker]

If I were the Queen of England, I would make a law that they have to go out and erase all the graffitti around town saying "Eric Clapton is God." It's heresy!


http://ickmusic.com/pics/artist/knopfler_mark_dire_straits.jpg

JTIS that Eric Clapton needs to siddown and shuddup. :laugh:


;)

[ILoveFM]

I have a beautiful cat and her name is Jewel. She's 7. All black. She's my baby, I'm her momma.

But she has major issues. She will just eat and eat and puking ususally follows (this started recently). She sleeps in the weirdest places (the bathtub, dryer, in my closet, on my tummy, etc...). She obsessivly cleans herself for hours. Sleeps. Wakes back up and starts cleaning all over again. She's jealous of anybody I give any attention to other than her. She hates my mom's boyfriend. She has issues hahaha.
JTIS because her weirdness reached an all time high today. And she's on my tummy right now cleaning herself. She won't move, I've tried moving her. Aahhhhhh!!

[Ghost_Tracker]

I have a beautiful cat and her name is Jewel. She's 7. All black. She's my baby, I'm her momma.

But she has major issues. She will just eat and eat and puking ususally follows (this started recently). She sleeps in the weirdest places (the bathtub, dryer, in my closet, on my tummy, etc...). She obsessivly cleans herself for hours. Sleeps. Wakes back up and starts cleaning all over again. She's jealous of anybody I give any attention to other than her. She hates my mom's boyfriend. She has issues hahaha.
JTIS because her weirdness reached an all time high today. And she's on my tummy right now cleaning herself. She won't move, I've tried moving her. Aahhhhhh!!


:laugh:

Funny. But I wonder if maybe Her Highness has "indulgences," rather than "issues?" I'd suggest asking her but she might get
pissy about it and then have even more indulgences for the rest of the day. . . . . . :woohoo:

[FMlex]

Tomorrow is officially the first day of fall!

And it's going to feel like it here -- the high is only supposed to be 67.
Texas isn't supposed to be that cold, guys!

[vivfox]

Tomorrow is officially the first day of fall!

And it's going to feel like it here -- the high is only supposed to be 67.
Texas isn't supposed to be that cold, guys!

Cold?? Cold? That's a beautiful day here in Massachusetts!:blob2:

[daniellaaarisen]

There is nothing more irritating than finally making amends with your closest friend in the world after 6 months of barely speaking.... only to have a mutual aquaintance shake up the trust again.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaretrhhhhhhhhhhhhkladghjaklghklafhkljahkjlfhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!


JTIS.

[vermicious knid]

I have recently begun making a concerted effort to eat less salt. Heart health and all. It is in so many foods, and it's so easy to go over the amount considered safe to eat! So I'm always comparing nutrition labels. Entire sections of the grocery store are practically off-limits now.

[Ghost_Tracker]

Ghadafi is a complete rambling bark-at-the-moon nutbar?

Who KNEW!? . . . . :shrug: . . . . . :rolleyes:

JTIS

[daniellaaarisen]

1. I went to the best concert OF MY LIFE at my favorite venue last night. Bon Iver at the Fillmore. Honestly the best show I've ever seen bar none.

2. I got in a car accident today. Some dumbass with no license or registration (debatably no insurance) decided to stop in the middle of an intersection. I was behind him so legally, I'm at fault but we're hoping the entire no license thing works in my advantage. I was bawling on the side of the road for about an hour, mourning over my poor little Jetta. There's a slight chance she's not totaled.... I am devastated. That car is my life.

3. I got my hair done today. It looks really good. Chocolate brown and 3 inches off (but its still ridiculously long...). Yay.

JTIS.

[Ghost_Tracker]

1

2. I got in a car accident today. Some dumbass with no license or registration (debatably no insurance) decided to stop in the middle of an intersection. I was behind him so legally, I'm at fault but we're hoping the entire no license thing works in my advantage. I was bawling on the side of the road for about an hour, mourning over my poor little Jetta. There's a slight chance she's not totaled.... I am devastated.


JTIS.


Yike! SO sorry that happened! . . . . :(

Little "tip" for future reference - Never stop if you can swerve.
(It takes MUCH less time to yank the steering wheel to the left or right and go around, then to move your foot up, over and down on the brake - plus swerving takes advantage of momentum, whereas trying to stop means you're fighting against the momentum of the car.) Naturally you have to use your best judgment in each different case; and obviously sometimes you'd want to dump as much speed as possible if you're obviously gonna collide.

I don't mean to sound "preachy" or imply it was your fault or anything like that, it's just that that "little trick" saved my Dad's life once, or at least saved him from extremely severe injury. He was doing a good 60 mph on the highway and some a-hole who had just gotten into a road rage incident swerved out from the shoulder right in front of him without even bothering to look first - I guess he was still yelling at the other guy - instead of trying to stop - 'cause he knew he wouldn't be able to - my Dad just simply jerked the steering wheel to the left, and so instead of having a head-on collision kind of thing, he hit the other car with a "glancing blow" and so there was much less energy and force involved. Car was reparable and everything, too.

For whatever it's worth, that particular accident was immediately ruled the other guy's fault (he had admitted it was, too...) and so his insurance had to pay for it.
Anyway I hope it works out with getting your car fixed, etc. Glad you weren't hurt!

[daniellaaarisen]

I probably would have done that simply out of instinct if I had the time/space.... this was a 30MPH zone and he wasn't too far ahead of me. And he literally stopped DEAD in his tracks-- I wouldn't have made it out if I had tried.

:/ NOT a fun day.

[Steviefan49]

1. I went to the best concert OF MY LIFE at my favorite venue last night. Bon Iver at the Fillmore. Honestly the best show I've ever seen bar none.

2. I got in a car accident today. Some dumbass with no license or registration (debatably no insurance) decided to stop in the middle of an intersection. I was behind him so legally, I'm at fault but we're hoping the entire no license thing works in my advantage. I was bawling on the side of the road for about an hour, mourning over my poor little Jetta. There's a slight chance she's not totaled.... I am devastated. That car is my life.

3. I got my hair done today. It looks really good. Chocolate brown and 3 inches off (but its still ridiculously long...). Yay.

JTIS.

No Danielle... that's exactly what happened to me- #2.. Except the dumbass in front of me had his license and registration..but decided to stop in front of me when the light was basically green turning yellow because he was "afraid" of being caught on a camera..:rolleyes: Needless to say his car only had a small scratch on it, but mine was totalled.. Still don't know wtf he was thinking.. but what do we do..? lol.. I hope they can fix your poor car up.. and most importantly, I hope YOU are ok...

Hugs,

Arlene

[FMlex]

So I had a dream last night that I got kidnapped.
And it felt very real... really scary.

I woke up this morning and my knuckles on my right hand hurt and they were red.
Hmmm.... :shrug:

JTIS.

[markolas]

For the past week and a half, I've been having what 2 doctors and my therapist have assured me are panic attacks. The ER doctor prescribed me some Xanax and Ambien last week that are supposed to last me until I can see the psychiatrist my therapist recommended - on the 30th. I feel like I'm going to die or go crazy every single day. At the moment, I'm strung out on Xanax, so it's not too bad right now. But earlier today I was in a tizzy for a good few hours. The panic attacks themselves don't last too long, but I have overwhelming feelings of fear, nervousness, and anxiety nearly all the time.

This is not fun, people.

Don't you feel sorry for me? :laugh:

[iamnotafraid]

This is not fun, people.


Hang in there markolas.

_________________________

Sorry about the car wreck Dani.
Glad you're ok.

_________________________

I'm taking a 10 minute break from
playing the old 6 string.

[Ghost_Tracker]

For the past week and a half, I've been having what 2 doctors and my therapist have assured me are panic attacks. The ER doctor prescribed me some Xanax and Ambien last week that are supposed to last me until I can see the psychiatrist my therapist recommended - on the 30th. . . . .
This is not fun, people.




Yike. Sorry that you're going through that.
If it helps any, I studied some neuroscience in school - the feeling seems to be that it's totally caused by a neurotransmitter imbalance - I THINK it's serotonin "but don't quote me" - so it's totally not "psychological," they think - just something in the brain that's a little out-of-tune and needs to be fixed. Look at it this way, though, at least they know how to get things back "on track" with this kind of thing, these days.

[vivfox]

Right now I am frying onions mixed with red and green peppers and it smells soooooo delicious. Tomorrow morning I will mix it into my scrambled eggs.

I am listening to Plies sing about Becky too.

[LikeAWillow]

Not to be all Stevie Nicks in the 85 interview currently posted in her forum, but I swear to God, I woke up this year, and I was suddenly good at math. I just came back from my calc class, and after missing two days, I still seemed to understand the lesson more clearly than most of the other students did. Before a few months ago, that NEVER would have happened. I'm going to break down the reasoning behind this for you all, though I'm sure no one cares.

High school was fairly valueless for me. I rarely went when I was enrolled, and in the middle of senior year, I graduated early. I knew I had been or would be accepted to most of the colleges I had applied to, and working and earning money seemed a much better use of my time than sitting mindlessly in a classroom. I felt like I had played the game long enough. The only thing I really regretted was that I felt that I never understood math. I could memorize what formulas we were taught and memorize what problems to apply them to, but I never knew *why* I was applying them, and I didn't quite see the use in being graded on my memory.....so I just didn't try. At all. I didn't do my homework, I didn't study for the tests, and I only managed high grades because even barely attending, if you hear a formula again and again, it's eventually going to stick.

So. I got to Wellesley. I had a vague notion of what algebra III was, an even vaguer notion of what pre-calc was, and feeling ignorant while floating around with people who had taken math in the 10th grade that I've never even dreamed of started to really piss me off. I decided to take calculus just for the exposure, though I was sure I would flounder and fail. In the span of one week, I became more than comfortable with concepts of pre-calculus that I felt I had no hope of ever really grasping before because, for the first time, I was taught the why of it, not just the how. I can work with a "why." Learning a "why" makes sense to me. I might actually bother to do it. Now that we're on to actual calculus, I'm even more intrigued. There are graphs, there are theories behind the graphs, they physically make sense and offer explanations.

The moral of the story is that I'm currently having a love affair with mathematics, JTIS.

Oh, except downside now? I feel like I've garnered what I needed to from college, that it's the governing principles, the big ideas, the "why"s, behind any idea that are far more important than the actual idea itself. I'm kind of over college.

[Erin]

Not to be all Stevie Nicks in the 85 interview currently posted in her forum, but I swear to God, I woke up this year, and I was suddenly good at math. I just came back from my calc class, and after missing two days, I still seemed to understand the lesson more clearly than most of the other students did. Before a few months ago, that NEVER would have happened. I'm going to break down the reasoning behind this for you all, though I'm sure no one cares.

High school was fairly valueless for me. I rarely went when I was enrolled, and in the middle of senior year, I graduated early. I knew I had been or would be accepted to most of the colleges I had applied to, and working and earning money seemed a much better use of my time than sitting mindlessly in a classroom. I felt like I had played the game long enough. The only thing I really regretted was that I felt that I never understood math. I could memorize what formulas we were taught and memorize what problems to apply them to, but I never knew *why* I was applying them, and I didn't quite see the use in being graded on my memory.....so I just didn't try. At all. I didn't do my homework, I didn't study for the tests, and I only managed high grades because even barely attending, if you hear a formula again and again, it's eventually going to stick.

So. I got to Wellesley. I had a vague notion of what algebra III was, an even vaguer notion of what pre-calc was, and feeling ignorant while floating around with people who had taken math in the 10th grade that I've never even dreamed of started to really piss me off. I decided to take calculus just for the exposure, though I was sure I would flounder and fail. In the span of one week, I became more than comfortable with concepts of pre-calculus that I felt I had no hope of ever really grasping before because, for the first time, I was taught the why of it, not just the how. I can work with a "why." Learning a "why" makes sense to me. I might actually bother to do it. Now that we're on to actual calculus, I'm even more intrigued. There are graphs, there are theories behind the graphs, they physically make sense and offer explanations.

The moral of the story is that I'm currently having a love affair with mathematics, JTIS.

Oh, except downside now? I feel like I've garnered what I needed to from college, that it's the governing principles, the big ideas, the "why"s, behind any idea that are far more important than the actual idea itself. I'm kind of over college.

Just wait until you have to get a job. Believe me you'll be over that even sooner!

[Ghost_Tracker]

Not to be all Stevie Nicks in the 85 interview currently posted in her forum, but I swear to God, I woke up this year, and I was suddenly good at math. I just came back from my calc class, and after missing two days, I still seemed to understand the lesson more clearly than most of the other students did. Before a few months ago, that NEVER would have happened. I'm going to break down the reasoning behind this for you all, though I'm sure no one cares.

High school was fairly valueless for me. I rarely went when I was enrolled, and in the middle of senior year, I graduated early. I knew I had been or would be accepted to most of the colleges I had applied to, and working and earning money seemed a much better use of my time than sitting mindlessly in a classroom. I felt like I had played the game long enough. The only thing I really regretted was that I felt that I never understood math. I could memorize what formulas we were taught and memorize what problems to apply them to, but I never knew *why* I was applying them, and I didn't quite see the use in being graded on my memory.....so I just didn't try. At all. I didn't do my homework, I didn't study for the tests, and I only managed high grades because even barely attending, if you hear a formula again and again, it's eventually going to stick.

So. I got to Wellesley. I had a vague notion of what algebra III was, an even vaguer notion of what pre-calc was, and feeling ignorant while floating around with people who had taken math in the 10th grade that I've never even dreamed of started to really piss me off. I decided to take calculus just for the exposure, though I was sure I would flounder and fail. In the span of one week, I became more than comfortable with concepts of pre-calculus that I felt I had no hope of ever really grasping before because, for the first time, I was taught the why of it, not just the how. I can work with a "why." Learning a "why" makes sense to me. I might actually bother to do it. Now that we're on to actual calculus, I'm even more intrigued. There are graphs, there are theories behind the graphs, they physically make sense and offer explanations.

The moral of the story is that I'm currently having a love affair with mathematics, JTIS..

This is actually VERY interesting to me personally; for many reasons. Only one of them is that I'm really interested in the field of Education and I think it shows much - for one thing, to me it shows exactly how are colleges are succeeding (or at least leaning somewhere in that general direction) and our public schools are failing.



Oh, except downside now? I feel like I've garnered what I needed to from college, that it's the governing principles, the big ideas, the "why"s, behind any idea that are far more important than the actual idea itself. I'm kind of over college.

Well, don't forget, knowing about the gears which make the engine go, is an entirely different thing than understanding the gears themselves.

One other thing I'd like to point out - I think this is a general "rule of thumb" across ALL majors in college: After you graduate high school, you can take a vocabulary test of college-level vocabulary words, and do well on it. After your Sophomore year or so, you're starting to use them, even when hanging out with your friends. After you graduate college, you're talking like a college-educated person. And I think that's a good thing. Sorry, but "Like, I was watching Jay Leno last night and he like was so FUNNY!" doesn't exactly cut it at the water cooler. ;) Communicating effectively and being able to make a persuasive argument (in my opinion) really are important for success - regardless of what jobs or careers one ends up having over the course of a long life. Granted that can be learned in places other than college - but it really is true (i.m.o.) that the students learn just as much - or more - from each other than from classes.
It really is a "learning environment" - even if a somewhat LOUD one! lol!
Just some ideas. :)

[LikeAWillow]

Communicating effectively and being able to make a persuasive argument (in my opinion) really are important for success - regardless of what jobs or careers one ends up having over the course of a long life. Granted that can be learned in places other than college - but it really is true (i.m.o.) that the students learn just as much - or more - from each other than from classes.
It really is a "learning environment" - even if a somewhat LOUD one! lol!
Just some ideas. :)

I agree that students learn more from each other than they do in class, but I've actually found that I've learned much more about how to communicate in the business world from internships than from anything else. I spent the last summer interning full time at a law firm, and I fill my time at school working as the head coach for an SAT tutoring program for low income students. The mix between working one on one with professionals and instructing a classroom full of unprivileged students taught me nuances of communication that the classroom, or the student body of my college of pretentious elites, never could have.

I think your comment on the use of college vocabulary is interesting, but here we part ways. I've found the most effective communication is clear and concise, and it rarely, if ever, requires a lexicon above that of a moderately gifted high school sophomore.

Oh, and I'm dying for Luke to jump in, one, because I'd like to flatter myself and believe that I've finally said something he'd find interesting, and two because I believe he left college early after he had found a better way to meet his goals.

[Black_Moon]

Yike. Sorry that you're going through that.
If it helps any, I studied some neuroscience in school - the feeling seems to be that it's totally caused by a neurotransmitter imbalance - I THINK it's serotonin "but don't quote me" - so it's totally not "psychological," they think - just something in the brain that's a little out-of-tune and needs to be fixed. Look at it this way, though, at least they know how to get things back "on track" with this kind of thing, these days.


I'm studying this in Pyschology at the moment. There's a few different theories as to why people become anxious. You're right about serotonin, that's the chemical that makes us feel "happy". Obviously, reduced levels of serotonin will make someone feel depressed or anxious. Other factors come into it too though. The environment plays a factor too - what's going on in your life, work, things like that. We're always told to take a "multi-perspective" when looking at behaviourial abnormalities as they're called. It tends to be a number of different things that cause us to feel emotions, so some of it is pyschological.

[Ghost_Tracker]

I'm studying this in Pyschology at the moment. There's a few different theories as to why people become anxious. You're right about serotonin, that's the chemical that makes us feel "happy". Obviously, reduced levels of serotonin will make someone feel depressed or anxious. Other factors come into it too though. The environment plays a factor too - what's going on in your life, work, things like that. We're always told to take a "multi-perspective" when looking at behaviourial abnormalities as they're called. It tends to be a number of different things that cause us to feel emotions, so some of it is pyschological.

Okay, sure, fair enough. I may be a little "behind the times" on some of this stuff, at the moment. :o

[Ghost_Tracker]

I agree that students learn more from each other than they do in class, but I've actually found that I've learned much more about how to communicate in the business world from internships than from anything else.

i.t.a.

I think internships are very important, for many different reasons. I personally didn't do any - and now I wish I had.
They're starting to move towards "integrating" outside experience with classroom work - which I think is GREAT. For example, somebody might do an internship at a law office, and the work they do there would also be discussed in a pre-law class. Meanwhile there could be a club to join which focuses on the same issues that the law firm does; and meanwhile a history class could cover the history behind the legal issues being discussed. They're trying to present the big picture and how it all connects together, in other words - I think that's fantastic, personally. At the least it should make it much more interesting - and practical.


I think your comment on the use of college vocabulary is interesting, but here we part ways. I've found the most effective communication is clear and concise, and it rarely, if ever, requires a lexicon above that of a moderately gifted high school sophomore.




I can actually agree with that, at least to a point. I can tell you that there's a writer I admire very much - Samantha Power - the Obama advisor that got in trouble awhile back for calling Hillary a "monster" - I consider her a VERY good writer - she won the Pulitzer Prize so it's not like I'm the only one with that opinion. Anyway, they once asked her about it and one of the tips she gave was, "NEVER use the big word when the small word will do." What she really meant i.m.o. was "don't use the big word - use the right word."
At any rate though, I can tell you that when I was taking graduate classes in Education at S.U., I noticed that the students - no matter what their major - were talking (in general) at a high school or even junior high school level when they entered (although I have no doubt that most would do okay on a writing and vocabulary test) - but by the time they got to junior or senior year, they were talking like "educated adults." Of course, it's totally debatable, how much actual influence the college had on that; it could easily be argued that it's just "normal maturation" or whatever. But i.m.o., college at least let them feel encouraged, that it's "okay" and even expected to talk that way. Granted communication isn't everything - persistence, hard work, and all of that, of course - but considering what people are paying in tuition these days I figure they might as well get their money's worth. Syracuse University undergrad in my opinion is a PERFECT example - they're talking about something called "value per dollar" in Education these days - the VALUE of an S.U. undergraduate education is (i.m.o.) very, very high. But the COST is so ridiculously expensive that it may literally not be worth it, from any point-of-view. SUNY Buffalo for example may not (in some majors) provide as good an education as S.U. But the "value per dollar" at S.U. might be, for example, 0.9, whereas it might be 2 at SUNY Buffalo. That would obviously make Buffalo the better choice - whether S.U. likes it or not. And that means that S.U. has some thinking to do...
All "i.m.o.," of course.

[daniellaaarisen]

I have an interview with my top college choice next week. I am flipping out. Kenyon better love me.

Now its nap time. I slept on a couch in my English teacher's office during lunch today. I was THAT exhausted.

JTIS.

[Ghost_Tracker]

I have an interview with my top college choice next week. I am flipping out. Kenyon better love me.



JTIS.


I'm sure Kenyon can use a person like Daniella. :p

[nailatixela]

I slept on a couch in my English teacher's office during lunch today. I was THAT exhausted.

JTIS.

:eek: DID YOU NOT LEARN YOUR LESSON LAST TIME YOU JUST THOUGHT YOU'D SHARE?!?! WHY DO YOU THINK THIS THREAD GOT SO POPULAR??


( ;) sorry I had too!)

[LikeAWillow]

I have an interview with my top college choice next week. I am flipping out. Kenyon better love me.



That's my girl :thumbsup: And psh, everyone loves you.

[daniellaaarisen]

I might have just written an awesome college essay. But it's 2:30 in the morning so I'm doubting my judgment right about now...

JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

Had my interview today with Kenyon College. Little did I know that Stevie would help me with this guy... he asked me what individuals I would want to meet and what I would ask them and the second her name came out of my mouth, he audibly gasped and started jabbering away about Rumours.

Thank you, La Nicks.

[FMlex]

Had my interview today with Kenyon College. Little did I know that Stevie would help me with this guy... he asked me what individuals I would want to meet and what I would ask them and the second her name came out of my mouth, he audibly gasped and started jabbering away about Rumours.

Thank you, La Nicks.

THAT is amazing, Dani.
I'm so glad it went well!!!!!!!! :)

[ILoveFM]

Today is the one year anniversary of my great grandmother's death. Even though she was 87, her death was unexpected. As my grandpa said, we all expected her to live until 100. I was super close to her and had spoken to her just 2 days before she died. I was able to say goodbye to her before she died in the hospital but I refused to look at her in the casket. I went through major denial. I KNEW she had passed away, but in my head it didn't make sense that she could really be gone. I almost had a break down. BUT I was finally able to grieve and accept that she was gone through a lot of music and some therapy. I'm in such a better and healthy place today. She's with me where ever I go and I'm going to celebrate her life today.

JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

Today is the one year anniversary of my great grandmother's death. Even though she was 87, her death was unexpected. As my grandpa said, we all expected her to live until 100. I was super close to her and had spoken to her just 2 days before she died. I was able to say goodbye to her before she died in the hospital but I refused to look at her in the casket. I went through major denial. I KNEW she had passed away, but in my head it didn't make sense that she could really be gone. I almost had a break down. BUT I was finally able to grieve and accept that she was gone through a lot of music and some therapy. I'm in such a better and healthy place today. She's with me where ever I go and I'm going to celebrate her life today.

JTIS.

This post makes me smile :) Healing is so underrated sometimes.

[Ghost_Tracker]

"THERE'S no fighting in the WAR Room!..."

JTIS "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."

(a.k.a. "Dr. Strangelove.")

[FMlex]

I have absolutely no motivation for classes this week.

It's been cold and dreary all week so far. Friday couldn't come soon enough.

I actually decided last minute to go home this weekend! We have "fall break" which basically means that we have Monday & Tuesday off so naturally I'm taking Friday off as well.
I'll be flying because it takes nine hours by car... and as much as I would love to listen to Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks for nine solid hours, by myself, singing at the top of my lungs... I'd rather just fly. It's quicker, although 28593x more expensive. :rolleyes:

JTIS!

[daniellaaarisen]

I have absolutely no motivation for classes this week.



I hear ya. This week is death week.... especially since I have a five day weekend this coming weekend. Which means a two day week next week. The week after that is homecoming. The week after that is the one prior to Halloween and I'll only be at school for 4 days because Maris is coming on Thursday.

So basically, if I survive the next two days (doubtful), all hard things about October are over. Too bad I have four tests tomorrow, three tests Friday and a huge King Lear essay due Friday that I am ABSOLUTELY SCREWED for.

I hate this.


BUTTTTTTTTTTTT Marissa comes three weeks from tomorrow.
JTIS.

[Amlyn]

I'm in the Cape Cod area this weekend for my brother's wedding and today I went to Martha's Vineyard with some of my family.

We heard Carly Simon owned a store there, but who da thunk she'd actually be in there just hanging out when we walked in. I tried really hard not to gawk as did everyone else in the store at the time, but it was pretty surreal being there, literally 3 feet away. My aunt managed to make eye contact and said hello, but that was as much as we all had the nerve to say.

Then about 3 hours later we're all sitting on the street eating ice cream and Bill Murray walks by with his family, or at least we think it was his family.

I never have random celebrity experiences, so to have 2 within just a few hours was pretty insane.

Oh, also I heard Holiday Road in one of the stores I walked into. So of course I hung around till the song played out.

JTIS :)

[fleetwoodtrick]

I have absolutely no motivation for classes this week.

It's been cold and dreary all week so far. Friday couldn't come soon enough.

I actually decided last minute to go home this weekend! We have "fall break" which basically means that we have Monday & Tuesday off so naturally I'm taking Friday off as well.
I'll be flying because it takes nine hours by car... and as much as I would love to listen to Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks for nine solid hours, by myself, singing at the top of my lungs... I'd rather just fly. It's quicker, although 28593x more expensive. :rolleyes:

JTIS!


How cold is cold in Texas? It snowed in Wisconsin today. :eek:

JTIS

[FMlex]

How cold is cold in Texas? It snowed in Wisconsin today. :eek:

JTIS

Well it was about 43 degrees Friday morning walking to class, but in west Texas we've got severe WIND issues. So with the wind chill, it was about 35.
And it's only October!

It'll snow at least twice this winter. Haha.
But this is Texas, not the midwest or east! We're not supposed to have seasons! :laugh:

[vivfox]

It snowed in Wisconsin today. :eek:
JTIS

I live in Massachusetts. I've already had two snow dreams. The first one was this year(in my dream) and it was snowing on the day before Thanksgiving and a few nights ago I dreamed that instead of the rain we were supposed to get, we had a blizzard instead. Last year it snowed once a week through most of the winter. It felt endless.

[daniellaaarisen]

Tonight was absolutely incredible. There's something about having the best conversation of one's life in a awesome foggy graveyard (Viv! I did it!)... immediately after seeing Bob Dylan live from essentially the third row that just makes life beautiful.

I just got home and it's 4AM. JTIS.

[Black_Moon]

I'm so hungover it's not even true.

JTIS that I'm dying right about now.

[Ghost_Tracker]

I'm so hungover it's not even true.

JTIS that I'm dying right about now.

To quote an old bit on Saturday Night Live,
"I HATE it when that happens!!!"

Try drinking lots of water, that helps. Maybe eat some toast or an orange or two when you can, also... :D

And just keep thinkin', "World turnin' . . . I gotta get my feet back on the ground." . . . . :nod:

[vivfox]

Having the best conversation of one's life in a awesome foggy graveyard (Viv! I did it!).

In Connecticut I drove past a very old cemetary and was very attracted to all the stones and the many mosoleum's but didn't walk around in it because I had no coat and it was cold.
Another time I will get in there. It's in Norwich, Ct.
So Dani, you and I had the same idea yesterday.

I'm glad you enjoyed Dylan.

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[Gypsycat999]

How cold is cold in Texas? It snowed in Wisconsin today. :eek:
JTIS

Aww I'm jealous! I looooove snow. But pity it doesn't snow often here in South Germany :distress:

[jannieC]

I planted 18 pansies and some fall mums yesterday and now my ASS MUSCLES are killing me. I'm surprised that I have muscles there, honestly. Ow.

[samthrax]

How cold is cold in Texas? It snowed in Wisconsin today. :eek:

JTIS

What part of Wisconsin are you in? I haven't experienced any snow yet in Milwaukee (or at least that I know of. ha). In fact, my boyfriend went golfing yesterday. But I think he'd do that even if there was snow if they let him.

My friend in San Antonio said she had to turn her heated seats on yesterday. I couldn't roll my eyes back far enough. ;)

[jannieC]

Silly. Next time plant them with your arms and hands instead of your butt!

Fortunately, those mysterious muscles have already recovered. :) You should see how pretty my yard looks!

[daniellaaarisen]

It is raining SO HARD here right now.... and it was 75 degrees yesterday. I'm confused, but definitely not complaining-- I loooooove this weather.

[GODDESS6]

It is raining SO HARD here right now.... and it was 75 degrees yesterday. I'm confused, but definitely not complaining-- I loooooove this weather.

we had snow, saturday & monday~

[fleetwoodtrick]

Well it was about 43 degrees Friday morning walking to class, but in west Texas we've got severe WIND issues. So with the wind chill, it was about 35.
And it's only October!

It'll snow at least twice this winter. Haha.
But this is Texas, not the midwest or east! We're not supposed to have seasons! :laugh:

Ugh, it was supposed to be 35 the day it snowed, but it ended up being waaay colder than that! I was freezing my ass off, because I was working an event outdoors. My boyfriend let me use his extra jacket. :nod:

I wish it only snowed twice. I like snow, the first 2...3... times. But then I hate it. It need to die. (And I'm not trying to bring up Global Warming/Enviornment controversy here! :laugh:)

[fleetwoodtrick]

What part of Wisconsin are you in? I haven't experienced any snow yet in Milwaukee (or at least that I know of. ha). In fact, my boyfriend went golfing yesterday. But I think he'd do that even if there was snow if they let him.

My friend in San Antonio said she had to turn her heated seats on yesterday. I couldn't roll my eyes back far enough. ;)

@Gypsycat... NO YOU DON'T!!!

I live a little bit outside of Milwaukee, but I was in the southern part of Wisco that day. (It's so cool that there's so many Wisconsin Ledgies. WISCONSIN LEDGIES, UNITE!) The snow didn't stick, luckily! I was helping work a charity event down terhe. :D And I feel ya on the golfing thing, my dad would do the exact same thing!

Not to offend anyone here, but I tend to roll my eyes too at people who freak out when they live in a much warmer climate than them! I think I only roll my eyes because I'm jealous though. :distress:

***

Sorry for the double posts! JTIS that I'm in a superrr pissy mood right now. We just lost all three of our matches in our volleyball game. And we have our last tourney Friday and Saturday. UGHUGHUGH. -headdesk-

[vivfox]

I'm honestly not tyring to be mean but I can't figure out for the life of me how Michael Jackson was able to make his black skin disappear and white shin appear?
In the other thread of him with his kids, in that picture his skin looks so natural. I don't buy that bleaching theory because bleach is lethal. Vitiligo occurs in real life but that makes skin spotty.

[LikeAWillow]

I'm on an epic quest to write an 8 page paper in a matter of hours. It's 4 o'clock and I'm on page 2. I've vowed that this will be the last time I put off a paper until the last minute...this semester.

JTIS.

[FMlex]

I'm on an epic quest to write an 8 page paper in a matter of hours. It's 4 o'clock and I'm on page 2. I've vowed that this will be the last time I put off a paper until the last minute...this semester.

JTIS.

Oh man, Marissa! Good luck -- you can do it! I've been putting things off too lately. It's like I have zero motivation... which is not good, kids. Not good at all.

For instance, I had a philosophy midterm an hour ago.
We've been on "fall break" for the past five days and today was our first day back to classes. So yeah, not exactly great timing. I definitely didn't open my notes all weekend.

I'm pretty sure it totally just kicked my ass. Hopefully I was able to B.S. some stuff to make it sound good hahaha.

JTIS. :)

[LikeAWillow]

Oh man, Marissa! Good luck -- you can do it! I've been putting things off too lately. It's like I have zero motivation... which is not good, kids. Not good at all.

For instance, I had a philosophy midterm an hour ago.
We've been on "fall break" for the past five days and today was our first day back to classes. So yeah, not exactly great timing. I definitely didn't open my notes all weekend.

I'm pretty sure it totally just kicked my ass. Hopefully I was able to B.S. some stuff to make it sound good hahaha.

JTIS. :)

Page 3 now! What philosophy class are you in? I took a seminar on George Eliot and the Philosophical novel my first semester where we read her translation of Feuerbach and absolutely loved it.

I'm sure you scored much higher than you think :)

[golddustdrummer]

Oh man, Marissa! Good luck -- you can do it! I've been putting things off too lately. It's like I have zero motivation... which is not good, kids. Not good at all.

For instance, I had a philosophy midterm an hour ago.
We've been on "fall break" for the past five days and today was our first day back to classes. So yeah, not exactly great timing. I definitely didn't open my notes all weekend.

I'm pretty sure it totally just kicked my ass. Hopefully I was able to B.S. some stuff to make it sound good hahaha.

JTIS. :)


JTIS
that it gets worse...just wait until you are a senior.
I have 6 months until I graduate college and I feel absolutely NO motivation to do any school work.
so far it hasn't impacted my grades but I'm sure it will if I don't get a fire going under my ass.
where are my matches?

[Black_Moon]

Page 3 now! What philosophy class are you in? I took a seminar on George Eliot and the Philosophical novel my first semester where we read her translation of Feuerbach and absolutely loved it.

I'm sure you scored much higher than you think :)

I've got approximately an hour and a half to write two History essays. I know how you feel.

[Ghost_Tracker]

JTIS
that it gets worse...just wait until you are a senior.
I have 6 months until I graduate college and I feel absolutely NO motivation to do any school work.
so far it hasn't impacted my grades but I'm sure it will if I don't get a fire going under my ass.
where are my matches?

Be lik me dont stude four skool. It dozunt effect anytheeng. ;)

[fleetwoodtrick]

I had a Spanish quiz third hour today... that I forgot about. >.<

And yesterday I had a Physics test... but I "forgot" to study for that one. I got 105%. :rolleyes: Which means I got all of the questions including the extra credit right. Studying normally does me no good. All it does is make me freak out that I'm going to fail. :shrug: All of my friends make fun of me for this tatic, but they don't have 4.0s! :cool:

[FMlex]

Page 3 now! What philosophy class are you in? I took a seminar on George Eliot and the Philosophical novel my first semester where we read her translation of Feuerbach and absolutely loved it.

I'm sure you scored much higher than you think :)

Ha thanks, girl!

This is Beginning Philosophy. So honestly, it's not that hard but for some reason my mind just doesn't wanna process it.

And Shawna, don't tell me that it gets worse from here!! Haha I've got awhileee to go.

[LikeAWillow]

9 pages, done. Thank you, Boston, and goodnight. And by the way, you look BEAUTIFUL!

[vivfox]

This is for you Dani:

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and just for the fun of it:

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[daniellaaarisen]

This is for you Dani:

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Yay graveyards! I'm so creepy and I love it.

[estranged4life]

has 70 (!) semi-trucks carrying the equipment to put on the show...So many trucks that the streets around OU's football stadium (aka Blow-U) has been closed since Tuesday.

I'm not attending the show, But I am impressed with the stage setup being constructed.

[golddustdrummer]

and just for the fun of it:

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in Key West right?
I thought that looked familiar!
I think I had my mom take my picture beside it.
that graveyard way creepy in the day time, I can't imagine going in at night.

[vivfox]

has 70 (!) semi-trucks carrying the equipment to put on the show...So many trucks that the streets around OU's football stadium (aka Blow-U) has been closed since Tuesday.

I'm not attending the show, But I am impressed with the stage setup being constructed.

I am very impressed too! This is a picture of the setup. You might have been the first one to show us this photo?
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[vivfox]

]in Key West right? [/B]
I thought that looked familiar!
I think I had my mom take my picture beside it.


I don't know from where. I just liked the picture in a morbid humourous sort of way.

[ILoveFM]

I took a friend home from work tonight. We live in the same neighborhood so of course I didn't mind. I warned her I'd be playing some FM. She didn't even know who they were, so she was worried. I had the very best of in my car. I played GYOW really loud to scare her haha. I actually played that first because I figured she'd have to know that one. Well she didn't. I was like wowwww. Anyway I played Sara second and she seemed to like it. I went to disc to and played the chain. She really liked it, and then I played don't stop and she actually said " wow, see this isn't that bad" and I was like I know right! They're such an amazing band.

Friends don't let friends not listen to Fleetwood Mac.

JTIS.

[vivfox]

Tuesday night was my first date with Juan R. We had a great time together. How refreshing, after a six month dry spell. JTIS:xoxo: I'm going to bed now.

[FMlex]

Friends don't let friends not listen to Fleetwood Mac.


Spot on, Sara! :thumbsup:

[fleetwoodtrick]

Today, in study hall, (which I have in the room where tech ed. is taught in 2 rooms) I looked into the shop room and saw that someone had written Fleetwood Mac on the board in this form:

http://www.todayfm.com/Libraries/Gallery%20Two/Fleetwood%20Mac%20(1).sflb

It was not me. I pretty much ran with arms flailing screaming into the shop room where my study hall supervisor (haha) / shop teacher was sanding some wood and I was all like "WHO WROTE FLEETWOOD MAC ON THE BOARD!?" And he was like "Dunno."

I left a note on the board w/ an arrow pointing to the writing that said I think we need to meet. I just realized that they will not know who I am. Oh well! :laugh:

[bucklind17]

Last week, I took a mile barefoot walk with my (other) favorite band, Hanson. They started doing the walks in 2007 as a way to encourage their fans to "walk in someone else's shoes", or in this case, what it's like to walk without shoes. In the beginning, it was largely in support of Toms Shoes (http://www.tomsshoes.com), who provide one pair of shoes for children who have none for each pair you purchase. Since then, the band has created their own charity, Take the Walk (http://www.takethewalk.net). For each fan who walks a mile before a concert , they donate $1 to that fan's chosen cause, ranging from building fresh water wells, to donating cell phone minutes for AIDS medication notifications, to donating shoes, to building schools. They also donate $1 per person who participates in a walk organized by a fan. Their goal prior to last fall's tour was to add up the miles walked by each individual and have them combine to match the number of miles it would take to walk around the world. Through band and fan hosted walks, they succeeded and are now well into the second lap. Aside from raising thousands of dollars to help children in AIDS ravaged South Africa, they have also helped to show their many fans how simple actions can combine to create large results. I've been lucky enough to be a part of seven walks and their work has definitely opened my eyes!

I'm so excited and proud to be a part of this action, so, like the thread title says, just thought I'd share!

[jannieC]

I cried at work today- I have never done that before. No one saw. :o

[daniellaaarisen]

I cried at work today- I have never done that before. No one saw. :o

Always a weird experience. The few times I've cried at school, I mean...

:(



Last week, I took a mile barefoot walk with my (other) favorite band, Hanson. They started doing the walks in 2007 as a way to encourage their fans to "walk in someone else's shoes", or in this case, what it's like to walk without shoes. In the beginning, it was largely in support of Toms Shoes (http://www.tomsshoes.com), who provide one pair of shoes for children who have none for each pair you purchase. Since then, the band has created their own charity, Take the Walk (http://www.takethewalk.net). For each fan who walks a mile before a concert , they donate $1 to that fan's chosen cause, ranging from building fresh water wells, to donating cell phone minutes for AIDS medication notifications, to donating shoes, to building schools. They also donate $1 per person who participates in a walk organized by a fan. Their goal prior to last fall's tour was to add up the miles walked by each individual and have them combine to match the number of miles it would take to walk around the world. Through band and fan hosted walks, they succeeded and are now well into the second lap. Aside from raising thousands of dollars to help children in AIDS ravaged South Africa, they have also helped to show their many fans how simple actions can combine to create large results. I've been lucky enough to be a part of seven walks and their work has definitely opened my eyes!

I'm so excited and proud to be a part of this action, so, like the thread title says, just thought I'd share!

So awesome. I love hearing about this!

[ILoveFM]

I cried at work today- I have never done that before. No one saw. :o

I cried last Sunday at my job for the first time ever. My boss saw me and tried to stop me and calm me down, but I was so overwhlmed, it was pointless to try.

I hope you're ok now though!

[jannieC]

I cried last Sunday at my job for the first time ever. My boss saw me and tried to stop me and calm me down, but I was so overwhlmed, it was pointless to try.

I hope you're ok now though!

I'm fine- (thank you!!!) it wasn't an all out sob, just a teary rant. We recently lost funding for a very important program. I was feeling the weight of all of the sexually abused children that we aren't able to help because of it. Just have to do what we can do and keep plugging along.

[vivfox]

Tuesday night was my first date with Juan R. We had a great time together. How refreshing, after a six month dry spell. JTIS:xoxo: I'm going to bed now.

I just came home from dropping Juan off at his apt. We had a great time tonight on our 2nd date.

[fleetwoodtrick]

I went home sick today. But I don't think I have Swin Flu or anything. (Or H1N1, whatever you want to call it.) I also stayed up until midnight last night to look over and correct over 20 Algebra II assignments and then got up at 5 to continue. I went to school a half an hour early so that I could get help on some of the problems I didn't understand, but my teacher got there fifteen minutes after the bell rang. He then decided to not collect assignments. I was severly pissed. And I have slept all of 5 hours, but I'm still not mentally tired. Ugh.

-endofrant-

[FMlex]

Earlier this evening, I finished day one of Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred.
I survived.

Talk about intense!

JTIS.
Now off to go outtttttt :)

[daniellaaarisen]

I'm fine- (thank you!!!) it wasn't an all out sob, just a teary rant. We recently lost funding for a very important program. I was feeling the weight of all of the sexually abused children that we aren't able to help because of it. Just have to do what we can do and keep plugging along.

Posts like these remind me of why I like you so much. :)



I just came home from dropping Juan off at his apt. We had a great time tonight on our 2nd date.

I'm so happy for you Mark! That's always a good feeling.






Let's see. I got a text from a previous teacher of mine last night saying, "there's a Fleetwood Mac biography on the Bio Channel right now! Go watch it." Today, she told me that she watched the entire hour long program and she wants me to burn her more of their music (she only has Rumours and The Dance). My crazy Stevie antics have gotten me far in life. As Sara so wisely said, friends don't let friends live without Fleetwood Mac.

[vivfox]

Let's see. I got a text from a previous teacher of mine last night saying, "there's a Fleetwood Mac biography on the Bio Channel right now! Go watch it." Today, she told me that she watched the entire hour long program and she wants me to burn her more of their music (she only has Rumours and The Dance). My crazy Stevie antics have gotten me far in life. As Sara so wisely said, friends don't let friends live without Fleetwood Mac.

It's called Unbroken Chain. It's filled with a lot of wrong information but it has a lot of nice pictures in it though.

[luckydimecaper]

Last week, I took a mile barefoot walk with my (other) favorite band, Hanson. They started doing the walks in 2007 as a way to encourage their fans to "walk in someone else's shoes", or in this case, what it's like to walk without shoes. In the beginning, it was largely in support of Toms Shoes (http://www.tomsshoes.com), who provide one pair of shoes for children who have none for each pair you purchase. Since then, the band has created their own charity, Take the Walk (http://www.takethewalk.net). For each fan who walks a mile before a concert , they donate $1 to that fan's chosen cause, ranging from building fresh water wells, to donating cell phone minutes for AIDS medication notifications, to donating shoes, to building schools. They also donate $1 per person who participates in a walk organized by a fan. Their goal prior to last fall's tour was to add up the miles walked by each individual and have them combine to match the number of miles it would take to walk around the world. Through band and fan hosted walks, they succeeded and are now well into the second lap. Aside from raising thousands of dollars to help children in AIDS ravaged South Africa, they have also helped to show their many fans how simple actions can combine to create large results. I've been lucky enough to be a part of seven walks and their work has definitely opened my eyes!

I'm so excited and proud to be a part of this action, so, like the thread title says, just thought I'd share!



OMG you're a Hanson fan?? So am I! They're still one of my favourite bands :)
Ha, sorry to butt in, I'm new on here, recently got into FM again.. so um, hi! *waves*

[bucklind17]

OMG you're a Hanson fan?? So am I! They're still one of my favourite bands :)
Ha, sorry to butt in, I'm new on here, recently got into FM again.. so um, hi! *waves*

Yes! Hi! I don't know too many people who like both FM and Hanson, so yay, this is exciting!

[FMlex]

I need to stay far, far away from eBay.

And Facebook, for that matter.

JTIS.

[ILoveFM]

I need to stay far, far away from eBay.

And Facebook, for that matter.

JTIS.

Oh man, me too! Have you seen that tote with Stevie on it by American Apparel? And the Rumours T-shirt? I've been trying to find a way to spend all of my birthday money bwahaha.

[FMlex]

Oh man, me too! Have you seen that tote with Stevie on it by American Apparel? And the Rumours T-shirt? I've been trying to find a way to spend all of my birthday money bwahaha.

Yes and yes!

I could spend hundreds of dollars on t-shirts, posters, pictures/portraits, tour programs, rare vinyls, and other randomness.

Thank goodness (sometimes) I can get my fix just by browsing through everything while listening to Stevie and not actually clicking the "Buy It Now" button lolol

[fleetwoodtrick]

Ohmygod I Want That American Apparel Shirt/bag So Much!

[FMlex]

I don't look around on PostSecret, but a friend sent this one to me today and it's kinda ringing true to me, especially lately:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/SuOmk2UcuGI/AAAAAAAAKIM/EHnEjtj6tXA/s1600/hopper.jpg

JTIS.

[daniellaaarisen]

I'm OBSESSED with PostSecret.com. I actually sent one in a while ago....

[ILoveFM]

Ohmygod I Want That American Apparel Shirt/bag So Much!

ME TOO!! It's calling my name, the tote especially... And I get paid tomorrow. So tempting. eBay is evil :)

[fleetwoodtrick]

ME TOO!! It's calling my name, the tote especially... And I get paid tomorrow. So tempting. eBay is evil :)

I knowww. I LOVE how it looks. :D But hey, you can treat yourself, atleast you have the birthday excuse! I have to wait another month! :lol: I saw in the picture thread that you have a half moon necklace. I am extremely jealous.

[ILoveFM]

I knowww. I LOVE how it looks. :D But hey, you can treat yourself, atleast you have the birthday excuse! I have to wait another month! :lol: I saw in the picture thread that you have a half moon necklace. I am extremely jealous.

When I talked to my dad about my birthday present, he basically said it just some cash, that maybe I'd like to buy that necklace I was wanting to get. I just started laughing :lol:

But yes I have one! It's the silver one which isn't too bad. I wish I had the jewel incrusted one though!

[vivfox]

ME TOO!! It's calling my name, the tote especially... And I get paid tomorrow. So tempting. eBay is evil :)

Post me the link please. I want to see it!

[fleetwoodtrick]

When I talked to my dad about my birthday present, he basically said it just some cash, that maybe I'd like to buy that necklace I was wanting to get. I just started laughing :lol:

But yes I have one! It's the silver one which isn't too bad. I wish I had the jewel incrusted one though!

Ugh I'm trying to make a Christmas list for my parents... but I realize that I will be buying all this stuff for them anyways because they don't get eBay... or most of the internet for that matter. :lol:

That's just what I want! Is it from Camia's or the Enchanted Mirror? I'm not sure which one I want.

And viv, here's the link for the bag:

http://cgi.ebay.com/american-apparel-STEVIE-NICKS-urban-Rock-rare-tote-bag_W0QQitemZ200381120910QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2ea7a5418e

I'm just wondering, how do we know what color we're ordering? There's no option that I can see! I want purple. :]

[vivfox]

ME TOO!! It's calling my name, the tote especially... And I get paid tomorrow. So tempting. eBay is evil :)

It's only $14.00!!! Oh it is very nice. You must buy it!

[vivfox]

And viv, here's the link for the bag:

http://cgi.ebay.com/american-apparel-STEVIE-NICKS-urban-Rock-rare-tote-bag_W0QQitemZ200381120910QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2ea7a5418e


Thanks for the link! I really like it!

[fleetwoodtrick]

You're welcome :D

I'm 99.9% sure that tote needs to replace my backpack.

[ILoveFM]

Ugh I'm trying to make a Christmas list for my parents... but I realize that I will be buying all this stuff for them anyways because they don't get eBay... or most of the internet for that matter. :lol:

That's just what I want! Is it from Camia's or the Enchanted Mirror? I'm not sure which one I want.

It's from Camia's (or however you may spell it :) ). My dad saw the price tag before the picture and said no. He tried to say college stuff was more important... I mean I agree with him, but it's just so pretty! I want it :lol:

And about the bag color, I think it just comes in white. Maybe you could call American Apparel and request a different color ? I'm not sure...

[ILoveFM]

It's only $14.00!!! Oh it is very nice. You must buy it!

I probably will! It's too cute to pass up.

[luckydimecaper]

Yes! Hi! I don't know too many people who like both FM and Hanson, so yay, this is exciting!

Well all I can say is we both have very good taste, haha ;) I hardly know any Hanson fans anymore, so it's always nice to meet a new one! How was the tour? I hope they come over to the UK next year with the new album *fingers crossed*

[daniellaaarisen]

This is my first time logging onto the Ledge at school. I'm currently sitting in a classroom on a laptop, outlining about "Strictures and Implementation of Western Bureaucracy." I hate this class.

JTIS.

[bucklind17]

Well all I can say is we both have very good taste, haha ;) I hardly know any Hanson fans anymore, so it's always nice to meet a new one! How was the tour? I hope they come over to the UK next year with the new album *fingers crossed*

I'll hope for you! It seems like they hope to get a few more places after the new album comes out. Tour was great, they're busting out some great and random stuff (Zac's been dong "Don't Stop Believin", amazing!) and it was great hearing the stuff from the new EP live. I don't think it's possible to tire of seeing them live, they're put on such amazing shows! Feel free to PM me if you want to chat more!

[vivfox]

This is my first time logging onto the Ledge at school. I'm currently sitting in a classroom on a laptop, outlining about "Strictures and Implementation of Western Bureaucracy." I hate this class.

JTIS.
What is a Stricture?

[daniellaaarisen]

What is a Stricture?

Stricture (n.): a restraint, limit, or restriction


says dictionary.com :)



Basically, just guidelines and regulations.

[vivfox]

Stricture (n.): a restraint, limit, or restriction
says dictionary.com :)
Basically, just guidelines and regulations.

Thank you Dani. I was too lazy to look so I let you do the work for me. I love you.:xoxo:

[vivfox]

I have another date with Juan tomorrow evening. I'm getting a haircut and a shave so I can look my B-E-S-T. Ooh yeah, ooh ooh yeah!:woohoo:

[vivfox]

I have another date with Juan tomorrow evening. I'm getting a haircut and a shave so I can look my B-E-S-T. Ooh yeah, ooh ooh yeah!:woohoo:

I never got the chance to get my haircut but I still had my date with Juan tonight. I really like this guy. A lot! He was so tender and sweet tonight. This may sound foolish but of all the guys I've dated in my life, so far he's the best in so many different ways. I really sound silly because everyone knows the beginning of any relationship is always the easiest.
Anyhoo, he asked me to pick him up Friday evening at 8:00PM for our 4th date. The next 3 days are gonna feel like an eternity. I can't wait, I can't wait.