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Thursday, April 06, 2006

i think nerinx fucked me up...

[upon a second reading i realized that there were so many angry feelings and cuss words in this post that i felt that it needed a disclaimer. consider this that disclaimer.]

it is my belief at this point in my life that nerinx has fucked me up. it is unimaginable to me that for someone (ie me) that attended a single sex institution for four whole freakin years (that's 1,461 days) it is next to impossible to establish healthy relationships (i mean friendships...no i'm still not a lesbian) with any of the girls on my residence hall floor. there is a huge variety of people and you would think that i could find one that shares some of my interests and aspirations for the future. but i suppose i have been spoiled with reasonable and coherent (or maybe incoherent and that's where i'm going wrong) relationships with so many girls back home that i have lofty expectations of girls to be rational and less melodramatic than the bastard child of a soap opera and a modern stereotypical chick flick. i suppose that is my mistake. or maybe it is just me and it has nothing to do with nerinx. or maybe i'm just absolutely insane. or maybe i'm just crazy by society's standards and i'm really the sane one. And now some quotes from some books i've had to read for 20th century fiction, just for you enjoyment.

"Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It‚’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it‚’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it." (As I Lay Dying)

"What do you think you are for Christ sake, crazy or something? Well, you‚’re not! You‚’re not! You‚’re no crazier than the average asshole out walking around on the streets." (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)

"I hope she‚’ll be a fool‚—that‚’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." (The Great Gatsby)

"So many women sit their sadness on an elbow. I wonder if she made the best with what she got or was she sorry because she couldn‚’t be all the things she wanted to be." (House on Mango Street)

"That is why I am going on my way‚—not to seek another doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone‚—or die." (Siddhartha)

"If I hadn‚’t spent so much time studying Earthlings,‚” said the Tralfamadorian, ‚“I wouldn‚’t have any idea what was meant by ‚‘free will.‚’ I‚’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."(Slaughterhouse Five)

"[S]ometimes I can even see Timmy skating with Linda under the yellow floodlights. I‚’m young and happy. I‚’ll never die. I‚’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy‚’s life with a story." (The Things They Carried)

and some lyrics of a song i stumbled across:
"If I had my way, I'd never speak to anyone again/I gotta say, I hate people I'm so sick of them/I just can't stand the bullshit I wish I was so far away from it/I'm just stupid and I'm angry is it immature for me to say/Fuck all you Motherfuckers/Fuck all you Motherfuckers/Fuck all you Motherfuckers/FUCK YOU!/Fuck all you Motherfuckers/Fuck all you Motherfuckers/Fuck all you Motherfuckers/FUCK YOU!/I feel so lame, 'cause that's the best I can do to express myself/It's always the same, say the "F" word maybe that'll help/I'm so sick of trying to fit in, I don't even know where to begin/I got friends but they don't know tell the world to blow me' (Forces of Evil)

Sorry for the pessississississism...

7 Comments:

Blogger Anna said...

they fuck you up,
your school and all that,
they do not mean to,
but they do...

i understand what you mean, but i think it's only temporary. we'll get more normal (maybe) or find more people like us.

9:16 PM  
Blogger pipsqueak said...

I've heard a lot about drama recently. Cheer up, and we'll all be home in about a month!!!

9:49 PM  
Blogger jacquelyn said...

being friends is a drama.

11:21 PM  
Blogger matty said...

carolyn, i agree with you a lot. though i might have other forces working against me too. i have no close guy friends here at all. the only people who have really gotten to know me here are girls and a gay guy. i can't handle the stereotypical macho jock guys, or the drugged up coke head guys. some of this might come from doing a lot of theatre in high school, but then again, once i was at sluh, i was unable to stay friends with guys who i used to play hockey with. single sex schools fuck you up. but it may be for the better. do you really want the melodramatic soap opera girl as your good friend when you get out of school???

11:30 PM  
Blogger Cajackster said...

nah matt, i'm just sayin...dinner gets lonely after like 3 nights in a row of eating by yourself cause you pissed someone off... and in turn pissed off like 12 other girls cause the story got elaborated...

and jax, being friends is a drama...couldn't agree more...but it seemed like in high school it was a drama i loved...it was like watching les mis at the fox...now i'm watching reruns of waiting for godot on a shitty black and white 9 inch tv with my great aunts...

12:45 AM  
Blogger ConditSJ said...

I have no idea whether or not this applies at the moment, but it's what I'm listening to and it's all you're getting out of me.

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played 'til my fingers bled
It was summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a Band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shualda' known we'd never get far

Oh when I lock back now
That jus' seemes to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life.

-Bryan Adams.

2:52 AM  
Blogger Ponyboy Got Goosed said...

i too find that it is hard to make friends that are girls up here. i think it does have to do with the fact that my friendship standards are rather lofty since you guys are so fucking amazing. i also agree with the drama factor that seems to come with these non-nerinx girls. sure we have our share of drama, but its just different somehow. the up side is making guy friends and having tons of those in place of the ladies. i find myself in more sausage fests these days than i would have imagined... in conclusion, hooray for you ladies rockin' my socks, and yay for making guy friends!

2:24 PM  

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