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.

"Excuse me, did you ask me something? I was praying."

Connie's comment is my favorite. I almost want to spend a bunch of time in a stall to get the opportunity.

There was one person in particular that was mean to me in HS. He was a family friend so I went to his father's funeral with great reservation. He was overwhelmed to see me and have the opportunity to apologize and we were both very relieved. We were kids, it was history.

I guess I'm just mean, because when the guy who had an affair with EM apologized to me after they broke up, I told him to fuck off and expressed my fervent wish that he get elephantitis of the balls, and a permanent burning rectal itch.

Sounds appropriate to the situation.

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Giles said you don't forgive someone because they deserve it; you forgive them because they need it. Okay as far as it goes. But, leaving aside family and people who you want to maintain or salvage a relationhip with, it's not your job to care about what they need. If it's what you need, and in some cases it may be, that's different.

I wonder if the guys who threatened to kill me, persistently and aggressively, in high school are on facebook. I should look!

there are still a few fluffy snowflakes falling, but now it's so sunny i almost can't watch tv. almost.

The mean girl from my Jamaican high school denies being stank, and swears she always liked me. Which, really, is what I'm mad at. I'm not mad at anyone for what they did to me during school. Just don't pretend as an adult you didn't do it. That's rude. You don't have to bring it up, but don't lie.

I have one person that I really badly behaved to, and...I'm not bringing it up. We've caught up on FB even though we stopped talking in school. We're good. But? If she asked me, I'd admit to my cold behaviour. Which coincided with her father's death. Ouch.

I wonder if the guys who threatened to kill me, persistently and aggressively, in high school are on facebook. I should look!

One of the guys who spent most of high school writing rape threats on my locker tried to friend me. No message or anything, just a friend request. So much no.

Yeesh. Why are kids so awful?

I bopped over there, but then I couldn't remember their names, and figured, yeah, probably for the best.

I need to apologize to a male friend from hs I totally ditched for another guy who wouldn't give me the time of day. He's married with kids now.

Anybody write press releases? I'm trying to craft one for a fundraiser we're doing for the Village on Mardi Gras. It's kind of slow going.

I find that I have no animosity for the guys who used to bully everyone in school, me included. Because when I see them now, they are among the people I've know the longest, and we all went to the same school, and somehow everyone who went to that school bonded pretty closely. And even during the rough times, they were my friends almost as often as they were my foils.