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Post by Kai'ichi on Dec 17, 2013 16:35:42 GMT
Wow that's awesome ^^. pixie: It's pretty frustrating when it's like that. It makes me pretty mad too, but I think at the heart of it that's humanity as a general whole. Don't understand something, then...it must be wrong. And people must somehow function differently if they don't tick boxes X, Y and Z. I'm a little said to hear about that guy though; I'm reading a web comic with a character like that. I am a little surprised that her hair style is causing the assumptions (even if they /are/ right), since it's become so common for girls to have short hair (even v.short). That said, it seems to be one that's pretty ingrained *sigh*.
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Post by pixie on Dec 19, 2013 1:05:07 GMT
^yeah, the whole thing is frustrating and sad. It's more upsetting to me when it's happening to my friends because I'm very vocal about standing up for myself if someone is picking on me, but I can't always do the same for her, since she doesn't want to be particularly public about her sexual orientation and would be upset if I said something to a stranger who was being a jerk. Meh.
glee: found these vines of the graduation ceremony at my school and basically, now I'm excited to graduate. Every graduation ceremony I've been to has been super boring, but it looks like my school will do it epically.
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Post by pixie on Dec 27, 2013 6:32:28 GMT
yo, how was Christmas for everyone?
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Post by Kai'ichi on Dec 27, 2013 15:14:56 GMT
Pretty good, thanks. Got some nice stuff, spent time with the fam, ate good food...
Luckily our boiler/heater worked over those few days, we've been having real troubles with it meaning no hot water or heating. The run up to Christmas was pretty worrisome really, but it worked out fine.
For you?
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Post by Wanderer on Dec 29, 2013 0:16:42 GMT
^CONGRATS!!! what schools have you been looking at / do you know what you want to study?? (I was super stressed out through the whole application process) Gah sorry for not responding earlier. I got accepted into Georgetown and Northeastern early action, and have also applied regular decision to Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Dartmouth, University of Chicago, and University of Southern California. I'm not sure what I want to study, but I'm definitely leaning toward English and the Social Sciences. I might study English, government, gender studies... I don't really know I'm applying undecided everywhere. But yes. Application process has been EXTREMELY stressful. I just have to submit 2 more applications and keep my grades up for this last semester of school, and it'll all be over! (Then I might finally be able to enjoy my senior year.) Also Christmas was pretty great! I got an iPhone for Christmas! I'm super excited about that. Also, in general, the winter holidays has been extremely pleasant and somewhat busy. My friends also threw a really huge Winter Solstice Party and we had about 100 presents under the tree, and I got a lot of great new books and posters, including a gigantic poster of Benedict Cumberbatch's glorious face. It was pretty amazing.
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Post by pixie on Dec 29, 2013 1:25:59 GMT
I'm glad everyone seems to have had a good Christmas! meh. going to have an angsty annoyed rant for a moment: My sister is home for the holidays and, while she is much easier to get along with than she used to be, I still can't handle being around her for more than a few days and she has now been here for almost two weeks. This is my complaint. She is an adult. She is 25. She should know what is appropriate behavior towards her 20 year old sister (me) and our parents. However, this does not stop her from making rude, offensive, and downright cruel comments towards me. It does not stop her from throwing huge fits if she doesn't get exactly what she wants. This does not stop her from ignoring everyone else's schedule and assuming that everyone will do exactly what she wants when she wants. And to make matters worse, my parents (particularly my mother) completely enable this. I'm told not to say anything back to her because it could upset her. I'm told to change my schedule because of what she wants. My mother refuses to address the inappropriate things my sister says to me because she's worried that my sister (who lives across the country and doesn't come home often) will get mad at her and stop visiting. And just now, when I wasn't feeling well and lying in bed, my mom came upstairs to inform me that I have to play the board game they're playing because my sister already set it up for 5 players (one of my sister's friends is here) and that she didn't want to upset my sister by making her change the board. I'm sorry. She's a fully functioning adult. She lives in a house. She pays bills. She has a job. She's in graduate school. She can f*cking set the board up differently because I'm sick and don't want to play the stupid board game. I'm am consistently verbally attacked by my sister in front of people. My mother never steps in or says anything. Her excuse is that "it won't change her behavior, so there's no point." How about the point is that I'm not left getting attacked in public every day?? It's to the point that my sister's friends have taken to defending me against her. ugh.
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