Nookah

There’s a serious lack of drama in my life right now, and it sucks. Everyone else is off getting their hearts broken or having a lot of sex, and I’m here just playing a lot of IIDX and going into the office and getting a lot of money! :\
Anyway I done gone had a Hanukkah party at my mom’s today, which was really nice. I got my mom a present – a book with guides on common techniques in Flash – and my mom got me these teeth-cleaning pads you put on your finger and then you just rub your finger all over your mouth! :O
And I made latkes, like I do every year. We always just get the potato pancake mix, which is just like, eggs, water and starch, and that’s pretty good, but we had guests over and they brought potatoes and onions and everything, so I made both. I think people actually preferred the hokey mix we always buy. 😛 On a side note, I’m really good at pan-frying and totally anal about getting everything nice and brown.
Actually I said that today and everyone was like “you make things anally brown?” and I was like “yes.”
Before we had guests over, I moved computers all over the house, as per usual, but to get the internet hooked up into rooms in which computers hadn’t been for a while, I actually had to go into the attic and remove some wires that were crossing the entire house and hook ’em up elsewhere… and my mom’s attic isn’t the kind in which you’d actually put anything, let alone BREATHE, because it’s full of fiberglass insulation and there are the sharp ends of nails protruding from the ceiling everywhere. Just getting into the attic and getting a wire un-stuck was pretty hellish work. But fun nonetheless!
Oh boy it’s a Sunday and I have work tomorrow and I have to get a suit on and commute and everything. I’m all growed up. I’ll go play some more IIDX anyway.

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      2. Drama isn’t always a bad thing – there’s good drama where people are totally in love and all mushy and amazingly euphoric. That’s sometimes nice to have. Drama != bad.
        And even with bad drama, it’s at least combing your emotions and giving you some ups and downs. You get a lot of support (and attention) when you’re feeling down. If you haven’t had a good cry in a while, you start to miss that feeling.
        I’ve talked a lot about this in the past few years of my journal, where I’m basically talking about total stability vs. drama. Although nothing really drastic is bound to happen if you just go straight down the line, you’d probably lead a much more interesting life if those ups and downs happen often.

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        2. I suppose you missed this? In my previous journal before this one, I was a lot, A LOT, less reluctant to be vague about what I was going through, the trials and tribulations of daily life and interactions with others not withstanding. Reason being, I got much broader ranges of feedback from different people than what you say is chiefly, support and attention.
          If I did not turn others off from talking to me, purely out of presumed pessimism, or intimidation of candor, then it would have to be blatant hostility, or complete lack of concern altogether. I see people all the time, getting all kinds of attention, not even remotely related to the “good drama” you speak of, let alone the bad. And that is why I asked to have this explained to me, based on my observations and experience: it’s expendable.
          The dramatics of love are another contradicting thing: 1) Only the most shameless and perverse people will actually care to hear about another person’s sexlife. 2) Jealousy; omnipresent in everyone in or out of a relationship. Unrequited love is just as much of a bitch as it is pining for an ideal relationship when you see others obtaining it. I should know, I have two friends living my dream. 3) The scars of heartbreak, while in one way or another it’s inevitable, everyone deals with it differently. They can make, or literally break a person — i.e. twist their perception of people and disregard any moral excellence they’d once have.
          Now, unless you can refute this explanation to me which was almost completely subjective in nature, answer me this: What is it that makes a person’s life interesting? Did you even stop to ask me what was going on between me and my girlfriend at the time when I told you that she was bothering me? No, you just wanted what you came to get from me, after I wound up helping you.

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          1. I really can’t understand what you’re saying, but from the looks of things, you’re misinterpreting something very simple that I was saying. Uh, in fact, my remark in this entry didn’t really have anything to do with you – you’re not the only one who’s having troubles like this, by everyone, I mean, like, everyone. There’s a lot going on with a good number of my friends.
            But really, I don’t know what you’re saying. I think we might be talking about different things; almost none of what you said made sense to me. What’s expendable? What am I supposed to be refuting? What’s this about your girlfriend? And uh, who’s talking about whose sex life?

          2. I didn’t misinterpret a thing, I simply chose to stress why I thought drama was expendable. I know you weren’t talking about me in general, I chose to present my situation because it wasn’t as black and white as you made it sound. By refuting I meant my response to your explanation of why drama was a good thing to have.
            About my girlfriend: I had recently helped you on AIM around the second time we spoke, you IM’ed me and wanted to leech off me, and I had brought her up as stressing me. You brushed that off and just told me what you wanted from me and that was it. The “sex life” example was yet another elaboration as to why I think I’d rather prefer it if I did not have to hear about someone elses “good drama”.

          3. Forgive me if I’m still not getting you – you’re wordy.
            But yeah, I’m not one to be very observant and up-to-date with peoples’ personal problems. I don’t usually post those “*hugs* feel better” messages; they’re often implied as far as I’m concerned. Not like I don’t read what’s on my friends page, though.
            A lot of people who constantly post negatively about their lives are just asking for attention. “Boo hoo, I’m sad about someone who left me a few years ago (P.S. FOOTNOTE: I NEED SEX).” Yes, not everyone is actually like that, but that’s what it’s usually like.

          4. How do you “imply” your condolences when you do not show them, at all? As far as I know, you choose not be observant of other people, when you do in fact, read what’s on your friends page. So the way I see it, you don’t particularly care to inquire about anything that does not generally interest you at all. Case in point: The time I showed you that small litany about the guy who was arguing with crazy_rambles.
            Lastly, being wordy dictates that a person uses more words than necessary to convey meaning. I tried to break everything I said down to you. It’s not that difficult.

          9. I caught that right after the reply, funny enough, but I didn’t really feel it was completely redundant because it’s been used before in the same context.

          10. Oh, and to correct both of you, omnipresent by thesaurus context dictates “present everywhere in everyone”. So alone, omnipresence is talking about region, not individuals. You’d be right if I had said the words: omnipresent everywhere, but I didn’t.
            Perhaps you thought I meant omnipotent, but it would be beneficial to research the words someone else uses if you want to refute them, not to be cynical.

          14. If that were entirely true, there wouldn’t be an option to keep anonymous users out of people’s journals, and most of the time, it’s because they pry and harass with the benefit of having no name to identify them.

          16. Actually, I didn’t particularly care about a two-bit insult from someone obviously talking out of their ass, anonymously at that. Someone else doesn’t like anonymous posters for the same reasons I expressed either.

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