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Topic: Real Life Soap Operas
started by: CatKnight

Posted by CatKnight on Nov. 17 2000,02:26

My floor is just like a soap opera. It's a co-ed floor. I happen to know most of the people have g/f's or b/f's back home but they all flirt with each other like crazy. It's annoying the hell out of me. I like being an outside observer because I can laugh at how dumb they all act (like when they come back drunk on weeknights, its a battle to see who can pretend to pass out ontop of the hot girl first). My room mate just broke up with his g/f on the phone today, so things should start to get interesting very soon.

Posted by DuSTman on Nov. 17 2000,06:29

You're telling me you're not even slightly tempted to predend to pass out on the hot girl?

This message has been edited by DuSTman on November 17, 2000 at 01:30 AM

Posted by askheaves on Nov. 17 2000,23:00

Dude, they're having fun, and you're the only person judging them. If you join in, no harm no foul. The idea of college is to have as much fun as possible, learn a couple of things, and drink yourself into oblivion. That's how you make it from being a hellish 4 years into the best years of your life. Don't be an observer, nitwit... join in, get drunk, whatever.

Posted by CatKnight on Nov. 18 2000,00:29

bleh you misunderstand. i have friends, i hang out, i go partying, but they 1)way overdo it, and 2)look dumb doing it. the hot girl actually missed an exam for a class required for her to enter her major because she went out drinking on a thursday night. she has to take it over again next semester.

Posted by kuru on Nov. 18 2000,16:30

if you hate it that much, get a single room as soon as possible and keep the door shut and locked at all times.

these things generally do get better once you get away from large numbers of freshmen.

failing that, move off campus. life becomes much more sane when you and all your neighbours have actual bills to pay.

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kuru
'sex is one of the most beautiful and natural things that money can buy' - steve martin

Posted by damien_s_lucifer on Nov. 18 2000,18:11

all I can say is keep us posted... my life has become boring since all my friends decided to settle down.

ugh.

Posted by CatKnight on Nov. 18 2000,21:14

heh thats what one of my friends did at a nearby college kuru. she likes it a lot that way. funny how all during high school i couldn't wait to be in college, now that i'm in college i can't wait to get into grad school, by then i'll probably be itching to get a real job, and then i'll be wishing i was dead.

Posted by kuru on Nov. 18 2000,22:36

i love college... now that it's almost over.
seriously though, it wasn't too bad. but i definately wasn't cut out for the 'dorm life' where everybody is this big, happy family who all gets along, parties together, and leaves the door open. the 'group involvement' with all the girlie chicks who lived on my floor (co-ed buildings, single sex floors) was something i avoided constantly.

my first truly happy year of college was the first year i lived off campus. i put 2 miles between me and the school. not much, but enough that people out here don't crowd my personal space, and i'm close enough to have them over when i want.

like all things though, college has run it's course with me. i'm ready for a change. a full time job, the geek-yuppie life.

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kuru
'sex is one of the most beautiful and natural things that money can buy' - steve martin

Posted by askheaves on Nov. 19 2000,01:39

Kuru. A gf of mine in college was sort of like you... well, exactly like you with the dorm life. I think there was something different for guys vs. girls in communal situations. She didn't get along with the girls on the floor, thought they were loud and obnoxious, silly, and just didn't fit in. I, on the other hand, lived in the dorms all 4 years and I loved it. I even had 4 different roommates during that time (nothing wrong with me... honest

I kept my door open all the time, stereo bumpin', watchin' porno at full volume with my neighbors, drinking beers on the weekends, etc. It was the best time and I made the best friends ever. I love knowing that other folks are just chilling nearby and I can go talk to them if I want, or they come talk to me. We would even all go to the cafeteria and eat together twice a day.

I totally miss that now, since I'm in the middle of nowhere. I would have gone nuts living off campus during school. I love my job, and my freedom, and the money... but I would potentially trade it all back for another year in the dorms.

Posted by mqa on Nov. 19 2000,02:30

All of my older friends and relatives keep telling me that college is the best time of your entire life. One guy even told me to change my major at least 3 time to delay my entry in to the real world.

The way they put it is like this: you have no major responsablities, plus no real supervision. Once you start to work, its just a downward spiral till you die.

Don't waste your youth.

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Posted by kuru on Nov. 19 2000,02:54

it's not because i'm female. it's because i'm only moderately social. small groups, one on one, when i invite people into my space.

my friends in rl already know this. the dorm just isn't the enviornment for that kind of person. i never shared a room until college, always had a lot of personal space, and then i got to school and it was like an invasion. i live alone now. i'm happier this way.

i hang out with the guys, i go out to the bar, whatever. i like to be around guys. i avoid girls. they're too interested in hair, makeup, nails, and the mall. if i ever had roommates again, it'd be in a house with all guys. everyone with their own bedroom. either that, or i will live alone till i find my perfect geek, and then i'll live with him.

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kuru
'sex is one of the most beautiful and natural things that money can buy' - steve martin

Posted by askheaves on Nov. 19 2000,04:03

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Originally posted by kuru:
or i will live alone till i find my perfect geek, and then i'll live with him.

You're too good to be true, baby. Come on out to Tucson. A little geek-on-geek lovin'!

Seriously, though, I understand what you're talking about. I denied myself a singe room in the dorms because I would have to move away from the folks I came to know and love. My gf was very similiar. She wasn't into all that stuff (although, she does have amazing hair... aaaaahhhh). To each their own, of course. I would have loved to have had a single room... a fortress of solitude, but I sacrificed that because of my need for others.

Guys may be dumb stupid slobs, but at least they're interesting. (not that women-folk aren't).

Posted by kuru on Nov. 30 2000,04:53

i just feel more comfy around guys in general. guess i've taken a lot of heat lately for wanting too much male attention, but i still want my house full of male geeks with a sweet fast ethernet network and a couple dozen computers.

either that or just one special geek...and some computers.

anyway, i feel a bit like a soap opera because of the stuff on other threads, and it comes at a time when after a pretty bad time with a guy last year, i'm startin to think about wanting a relationship again. it's not that i'm looking here, but it just kind of gets to me that right when i start thinkin about romantic attention from males again, i get blasted for wanting attention from males.

maybe it also has to do with the fact that i went to the place i hate the most (the mall) and i got a cool new fleece hat at eastern mountain sports.. (outdoors outfitter)... or i'm hormonal and emotional.... or that it's 2:30 am so i'm tired and introspective.

i'm just caught in the weird irony of how this is kind of a soap opera... where people have said i play a character on the forums.. but that with the exception of a few, nobody here will ever know the "real" kuru. just some silly geek with lots of opinions... `sides, it's hard to be a tough chick when you still sleep with the stuffed bunny you've had for 18 years.

hopefully i won't get too much abuse for this post.

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kuru
'sex is one of the most beautiful and natural things that money can buy' - steve martin

Posted by DuSTman on Nov. 30 2000,14:59

yeah.. you try using live rabbits but its just not the same.

I'm working on attracting some cockroaches to my home at the moment to sleep with.

Posted by Willy Pete on Dec. 01 2000,09:15

Hope you've washed it at least once in those 18 years?

Well I suppose getting blasted is attention, but not quite the kind you want. Don't you remember when we were kids in elementary school? When guys fancied a girl they'd usually show it by punching them. Guys don't grow up, we just get older. Unfortunately, knowing that the punches meant the guy liked the girl didn't stop it from hurting.

Hey, I figure that the if you can feel the pain it means you're alive, so don't worry and risk living.

Posted by kuru on Dec. 02 2000,01:35

willy, you're not the first person to mention the 'punches on the arm' to me today... *plays twilight zone music*

and yes, i wash bunnyrabbit in the washing machine when he is dirty, and spray him with febreeze to keep him smelling nice

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kuru
'sex is one of the most beautiful and natural things that money can buy' - steve martin

Posted by DuSTman on Dec. 06 2000,18:33

Never bin decaying food. Instead leave it on the floor, near a door.

That helps.. Got one or two :]

Posted by Willy Pete on Dec. 07 2000,05:56

hehe.

I stopped punching a little while ago. That MACE spray stuff really hurts!.

j/k
Hey Dut#stman. Got any tips for getting those roaches? Has it worked yet?

Posted by Willy Pete on Dec. 07 2000,19:54

This is weird, I see mine and Dustman's last posts on the post reply screen, but it doesn't appear on the main forum screen.

Edited: ooops cache problem. all good now.

This message has been edited by Willy Pete on December 07, 2000 at 02:55 PM