No, not soon enough.
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Trudy Booth - Feb 24, 2011 12:29:03 pm PST #16110 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Daisy Jane - Feb 24, 2011 12:29:53 pm PST #16111 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
it would have been better if I had not behaved that way in the first place.
I was teased horribly in middle school and really don't have a problem with any of those kids. They were kids.
Well, actually, there's still one of them that I think is a horrible person, but that may just be because he turned into a giant Republican douchebag as an adult, so there's not really anything to redeem what I thought of him as a kid.
Toddson - Feb 24, 2011 12:56:20 pm PST #16112 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And if you're on the phone in the public restroom, you don't get to be annoyed by other people using the restroom for waht it was designed for.
I read somewhere that a lot of phones bite the dust (so to speak) by being dropped in the urinal or toilet ....
Steph L. - Feb 24, 2011 1:03:19 pm PST #16113 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And if you're on the phone in the public restroom, you don't get to be annoyed by other people using the restroom for waht it was designed for.
I read somewhere that a lot of phones bite the dust (so to speak) by being dropped in the urinal or toilet ....
Didn't bon bon lose 2 that way? I remember at least one.
beekaytee - Feb 24, 2011 1:07:47 pm PST #16114 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Looks like Gaddafi may finally be going down.
Amen to the not soon enough. I had a reservation on Pan Am 103, and lost my best friend. Having the story pop up over and over is...challenging.
I apologized to the adult who was the girl I marginalized in high school, and she was all, "What?"
This was my experience in reverse. I finally had to ask the 'mean girls' to quit with the apologizing because a) I'm fine thanks, b) they were embarrassing themselves for no reason. Once was enough. Really.
erin_obscure - Feb 24, 2011 1:12:32 pm PST #16115 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I'm still waiting for the mean girls to apologize. Heck, i accepted a couple FB friend requests assuming that was their intention, but not a peep. I forgave them years ago on my own, but it would be nice to get that kind of message acknowledging that they feel some remorse for destroying my self esteem in middle and high school so effectively.
ION, i lost 2 cell phones to unexpected toilet plunges before i started wearing cargo pants. Back when i was painting professionally the only place to put the cell phone during work was in a back jeans pocket. I think we all know how *that* can translate into a sodden phone.
IOON, it's snowing rather heavily here. And the overnight accumulation had *just* all melted from sunshine. (No, really, the sun was shining for a few hours.) Not it's dark like night and the snowflakes are enormous. I think i might have to take a nap. Glad that my yoga class happened during the sunny, melting time, since i'm loathe to go near crowded streets right now. Portlanders do not respond to snow with anything resembling uniformity or sanity.
Calli - Feb 24, 2011 1:43:31 pm PST #16116 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
it would have been better if I had not behaved that way in the first place.
I was teased horribly in middle school and really don't have a problem with any of those kids. They were kids.
I was bullied horribly, too. I totally have a problem with every single one of those kids. They were kids, but so was I, and I wasn't throwing rocks at their heads. I'd really appreciate an apology. I probably wouldn't friend back, but I would feel a lot better for hearing or reading, "I'm sorry for what I did."
It's hard to admit that you did something wrong, and I think it's great that you're making the effort, Scrappy.
Trudy Booth - Feb 24, 2011 1:48:14 pm PST #16117 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
They were kids, but so was I, and I wasn't throwing rocks at their heads.
Yeah.
sj - Feb 24, 2011 1:56:23 pm PST #16118 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I still have a problem with the girls that were awful to me in school, but that is partly because when I occasionally see them now they can't figure out why I'm not happy to see them, like we should be bffs. If I thought any of them would be self aware enough to know what they did and actually apologize for it, that would mean something.
Liese S. - Feb 24, 2011 2:06:42 pm PST #16119 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh! And I think I told you guys, but I saw my childhood bully (not an adolescent thing, physical since we were kids) on facebook and declined to friend her. And then later found out that she's still a horrible person as an adult and said all manner of nasty things to my friend who was going through her first of two bouts with cancer. So yeah, not expecting a reconciliation there, and probably wouldn't want one. I was just happy to have trusted my original instincts not to make contact.