i was arrested a year ago today.. im a few days away from finalizing the rehab and paperwork that will cause the felony charges to be dropped and the arrest to be erased from my record. i havent seen the girl since then except for a couple of times we ran into each other, she's kind of not who i thought she was. all in all its been a helluva trip.
a year ago, Shik was happily in love with his girl, UM was pissing me off with his BS even though i realize now he is funny when im not under stress, and we were making jokes about ENTERPRISE being a cheating wife. oh, and i was on drugs back then and obsessed with making light of the great artist Eminem.
and we all hated BWC even though he really wasnt MIB. and i changed my publicly displayed name every couple weeks. and got a lot of threads closed.
Dear Lord Almighty, the fact that I have not been hired to rewrite the entire Television and Movie Industries is such a shame, it occurs to me.
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
Hey, Mike... your life's been a rollercoaster ride to hell and back, so I gotta ask... was it worth the entry fee? I mean: in retrospect, if you could get a refund and whipe the past six years clean, would you give up who & where you are in life TODAY and pick the Merry-go-Round instead?
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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
A year ago today, I got no respect at all on this forum. A year later... I still get no respect on this forum.
I'm in a rut, methinks.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
A year ago today I guess I would have been writing my last exams of HS. I would have been preparing to go the the prom, solo, because the one girl I wanted to go with was going with someone else.
As for today, I've been out of uni for a little over a month, I have a wonderful girlfriend (not the same girl as a year ago), and I have a full time job for the summer. All in all, pretty sweet. Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
A year ago, I was going back to college part time, and about to receive my acceptance to UD as a full-time, on campus student. Now, I'm finished my junior year and ready to graduate next June.
A year ago, I was still at Manhattan Bagel, the same run-down shop that I'd been working at off and on since the summer of '98. Now, I'm selling knives and stand to make a good amount of money if I can get off my ass and start calling customers. (It's not as bad as it sounds, really! )
A year ago, I was complaining to Rob and James (two co-writers with Renaissance) because their draft of the Season One finale was late. Now, I'm complaining because their draft of the Season Two finale is late.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
A year ago today I had just broken up with Vann a month prior, and would have gotten with Laura a few weeks into the future. Today, I have broken up with Laura a month ago, and so sit in limbo yet again (yet no good outlook on the horizon).
Also, a year ago today I was somewhat unknown around here. Today, I still am.
I hate when history repeats itself... Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, granted, this is actually slightly more than a year old, but all I can say is:
SHOVE IT UP YOU A-R-S-E!!
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Progeny!
Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :
A year ago today I lived alone, had no boyfriend, my best guy friend lived in Memhpis, I worked too much, and my best friend was sick and possibly not going to live through it.
Today I live alone, have no boyfriend, my best guy friend is in Memphis, I work too much, and my best friend is sick and will possibly not live through it.
*sigh* So much for progress..... Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
you know what Cart-Man.. there are very few things i would change.. i know what i've done wrong and what i got in trouble for certainly wasn't it.. basically, i'm fine because i've gotten away with it.. and 6 years? my life has only been really fuckd up for about 4 years.. and there's no end in sight, because im pretty happy right now, ive got my own place in the coolest place i could ever want to live, two awesome jobs, a bitchin rocknroll girlfriend who likes to watch dr who with me, and coming soon, i'll have the freedom to entertain myself chemically again, which, after a year of rehab, i have a new perspective on.
i pulled it off!
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
quote:Originally posted by CaptainMike: and coming soon, i'll have the freedom to entertain myself chemically again, which, after a year of rehab, i have a new perspective on.
Erm, I don't think that's quite the purpose of rehab... Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
"I'm in a rut, methinks."
Yes, yes, we know your libido is overly robust, darling.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
That first thread was nuts. I laughed at my repetition joke. Thumbs down to the pretentious "pissed in the Cheerios" closer, though.
I appear to loath Simon 2002 less than I do Simon 1998. OMG LOL!
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
I shudder to contemplate how history will judge Simon 2010.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Very quickly, before it is crushed in the grips of his pneumatic claws.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
By the way, you can now get Vanilla Coke over here. . . and I love it. It is too sweet, though.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
i cant believe how angry i got after that first thread.. just goes to show how irritable jail can make you.
as for missing the purpose of drug counseling, i get it. i've learned a lot, a lot about what i dont want to do the rest of my life and what i dont want to be. but i am still looking forward to my first bong hit since last august.
have other countries been inundated with retard sodas? we now have blue pepsi, vanilla coke, red mountain dew, orange mountain dew and fruit flavored sprite. my teeth are rotting out me head
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
I was forced to drink a thick, white, bittersweet penicillin ooze when I was a kid and had some sort of stomache illness. It was heavily flavored with vanilla to "make it easier".
So I gagged the first time I tasted Vanilla Coke, I thought it was the regular can. Oh, and I had a hangover too, bonus.
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
I was just thinking about Snoop Dogg, and then I got to thinking about Transformers, and then I got to thinking about Snoopy Doggy Dogg talking about Transformers, and then I thought that "Optimizzle Prizzle" was a funny name.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
My sofa hates your prizzle. Those are my parents.
Mike should stop bonging his belonging. s.
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Pepsi Blue is awesome, as is Mountain Dew Code Red. Haven't tried the fruity Sprite, haven't seen the orange Mountain Dew, and Vanilla Coke is gross.
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: A year ago, I was complaining to Rob and James (two co-writers with Renaissance) because their draft of the Season One finale was late. Now, I'm complaining because their draft of the Season Two finale is late.
Business as usual then, eh? HEHE!
Let's see, a year ago . . . my family and I were in another house, I'd finished my 3rd year of Uni and was preparing for another (final) semester (half a year). I was still writing the 1st line of the 1st paragraph of the 1st page of the first . . . you get the idea - fortunately I am now on chapter 5 of my first novel! WOW! Sadly I have a way to go before that's finished (29 planned chapters and two more books to complete the story), I have at least 2 other ideas for novels that are not related to my trilogy and a new joint project with a fellow novice writer has just been started - free time? What free time?!
I was buying book after book a year ago (my shelves were overflowing into boxes) and I'm still doing that now - much to my parent's dismay! Fortunately I have extra shelves in my new room; still not enough - I'll run out in about six months! I was single - still am, but no problem there as there's no woman out there at the moment who's appealing - sad but true.
Life was generally boring and uneventful a year ago. Life is generally boring and uneventful now - business as usual! Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
quote:Originally posted by Cartmaniac: Yes, yes, we know your libido is overly robust, darling.
What libido? I sold off all of my testosterone to pay for car repairs.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I know the feeling of the same rut, life dragging on from one meaningless day to the next, with no end in sight.
Other than that, everything has been great this past year.... Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
Let's see, a year ago.... I was about half way through my exams, which were not too bad. And I was preparing to slob through the summer. And i was getting on pretty well with a rather cute redhead. i was unemployed and in need of money.
Now, I've just finished my exams, which were hell, cos we only finished the syllabuses (sp?) the week before the exams. I would be preparing for the summer but I've got to go back to school in order to start the A2 course cos otherwise we won't finish the syllabus before the exams next year. I am still unemloyed and in need of money (desite my best efforts, although hopefully I will get an interview for a job in Ottakars soon). The redhead now refuses to acknowledge my existance. But other things are good.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
A year ago I was planning on going to Lipscomb University. I didn't have much of a life to speak of, no particular direction I was heading, no girl, I was in "see what happens" mode. I do that a lot. Now I've developed a very strong friendship with a girl named Cat, I've more or less reconciled with a very old friend named Amanda, exercized my remaining romantic interest in said old friend, and thanks to Cat I have a lot more self-confidence. I'm persuing a double-major in computer science and computer engineering, which if all goes well I can complete in six more semesters. I've also decided that if at all possible I want to work in youth ministry at my church. The kids are absolutely great, at least the vast majority of them are. Talking to them is just... refreshing. But even if I can't find employment in that area, I plan to stay at the church and work with them however I can.
I now have one girl that at the very least is attracted to me and enjoys flirting with me. No idea where that's gonna go, if anywhere. A second girl who I've met about half a dozen times over the course of my high school career gave me her phone number and e-mail address last week at Workcamp. Apparently she's not looking for a relationship in the near future, but enjoys casual dating, and gave me her info as a "see what happens" kinda thing.
Then there's Kate. I met her in Fall semester, had lunch with her once, and we got along pretty well. I thought she had a thing for me seeing as she laughed at every other thing I said, but apparently our senses of humor just coincide. Saw her a few more times near the end of Spring semester due to our schedules coinciding. She lives a couple hours away, but we've just picked up corresponding again because she just realized that she had my primary e-mail address written down wrong. In the last week we've come to the conclusion that we're both very attracted to each other. Physically, intellectually, spiritually, we're very near perfect for each other as far as we can tell. The only real problem is that she seems to have trouble making friends, and at the moment I'm about the only friend she's got. Her attraction to me may be based more on that than it seems, and we both know it. She won't take the risk right now, and I'd feel like I was taking advantage of her, so for now we just wait. Still, three girls have expressed at least some interest in me in a week, and I can't get one of them out of my head. This is very confusing for me. I'm a geek, and none of this happens to me.
In short, life is good. God so rocks.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Meanwhile, God continues to urinate in my breakfast cereal because I stole a communion wafer one Sunday at Mass.
I mean, damn it, the service was running long, and I was hungry!
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
So, god r0x0rz this year, but sux0r3d the previous two?
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
No, because the previous years lead to this one. Think long game. Really long game.
Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :
Lotus Notes: Yahweh personal edition. ------------------------------------- To do: Short term ---------- Review entrance submissions Do Bad things to Good People Ignore prayers
Long term --------- Appear in some fruit in Venezuala Extend the Pope's lifetime well beyond reason Get Omega the Ladies
If I get around to it --------------------- Famine, AIDS, disease, hate Shave nipple hair
HAHA! I AM SO INCINDIARY! LIKE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE! HAHA! +100 To "Oh man, look, you is talking smack about God, good for you little man!"
(Though, on a more real note of realess: "Long Term," Omega?
Like: "Oh no! I am fifteen and things do not look good for Homestar Runner!" (Let us presuppose things don't not look good for each and every fifteen year old in the whole world, for a minute.) Now: "Things are looking up for the Eighteen/Nineteen Year Old me!"
I think this happens to everyone in the world because all their angst eventually oozes out of their face at some point.
Also, though this is not nearly as high on my list as Teenagers who've ever said "Oh, we'll last forever. He loves me," it's still up there. Along with "I'm different," and "I'm seeing someone," and "Get the fuck away from me pervert."
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
What?
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by Topher: Pepsi Blue is awesome, as is Mountain Dew Code Red. Haven't tried the fruity Sprite, haven't seen the orange Mountain Dew, and Vanilla Coke is gross.
I avoid eating things that don't occur naturally in nature - i.e. BLUE things. The only blue food is Blue-berries and they're not really blue!
Although you could always pretend it's Romulan Ale!! (pepsi are missing a whole untapped market).
I suppose there is that Blue Gatorade that could be a Romulan Ale substitute... OR
You're good ole Caracoa SP? That blue liquer!
Andrew
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote: What?
He has just summed up the entire adolescent experience.
Personally, I'm finding teenageness to be a well out of which I cannot climb.
Oh! And the song I am listening to just now is all topical suddenly! "I don't care if you're beautiful and young / your day will come"
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
"Personally, I'm finding teenageness to be a well out of which I cannot climb."
Simon 1998 and Simon 2003 really don't get along, do they?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Well, no, but that is only because they have so much in common.
But what I was getting at was that the supposed clarity of purpose that is supposed to grace ones twenties has so far eluded me.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"The only blue food is Blue-berries and they're not really blue!"
If you were eating blueberries, and they weren't blue, I submit that what you were eating may not have been blueberries.
Posted by Cartmaniac (Member # 256) on :
"I avoid eating things that don't occur naturally in nature"
So you're on a diet of corn, fruit, and raw vegetables?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: But what I was getting at was that the supposed clarity of purpose that is supposed to grace ones twenties has so far eluded me.
It tends to happen between 18 and 20 I find. By the time you actually hit your twenties, all the big changes have happened, and then it's just a slow slide down the well of "I don't like modern music that all the young people listen to nowadays."
Simon loves that slide.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Oh yes, that's for sure what I want to be. Music was better on wax cylinders! But it wasn't. The past is terrible. I watch nothing but MTV to find out what's going on, now, because I am desperate for youth.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Welcome to my world.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
You have a bit more of an excuse though, being old. Er.
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Sadly I have a way to go before that's finished (29 planned chapters and two more books to complete the story), I have at least 2 other ideas for novels that are not related to my trilogy and a new joint project with a fellow novice writer has just been started - free time? What free time?! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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