erin, you are not obligated to be attracted to anyone.

If you tell him you are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of attention he is asking of you, that should be understandable and relate-able enough for him to get the message. If he doesn't respond appropriately, then you are not obligated to continue the relationship, no matter how bad you feel about his situation. You are not a therapeutic implement.

I feel like a bad person being prejudiced against him for the baggage I know is there

You *aren't* prejudiced against him for his baggage; you're quite justifiably annoyed with him for texting you too much, and continuing to do so after you set a boundary. That's 2 vastly different things.

Erin, Trust your Spidey senses.

yes, it isn't a prejudice if he has been annoying you.

I think you should cut off all contact. you brought it up, you have been thinking about it and I endorse this line of action.

Hey Tep - insent.

Is anyone else getting a 404 error for Livejournal?

Never mind - seems to be resolved

Hey Tep - insent.

Back atcha.

I just ordered this onesie for my friend's baby. My friend and her husband met in a science PhD program, so it seemed extra appropriate.

Poor Tim. He's just trying to clean the outside windows (which need cleaned desperately), and I was enlisted to clean the inside. So instead of doing my part to clean the inside windows, I dropped my pants and pressed my bottom against the window.

Fortunately he didn't scream and fall off the ladder. That would have been a shame-filled trip to the ER.

erin I agree with what everyone says.

Steph that's funny. Glad Tim didn't fall off the ladder. It's certainly better than my experience with windows today.

I woke up to the sound of breaking glass. My first thought was "CATS! WTF!" Once I was more awake I realized my bedroom window as broken.

The cats had nothing to do with it - my landlady's daughter and the neighbor's son were in the yard playing and the neighbor's son kicked a soccer ball that careened off something and broke the window.

(My apartment is 1/2 the downstairs of a Victorian house, the downstairs is divided length wise. The downstairs bedrooms were the living room/parlor (or something) and face the front yard. My landlady lives upstairs and 1 bedroom wall was put in to create a landing for the stairs going to her apartment).

Luckily I was not sleeping in an actual nightgown and not naked or something. I threw on clothes, ran outside and around to the front to figure out what happened and look at the mess from that side. Landlady came down and saw what happened. The neighbor's kid got upset and ran home to tell his mom/hide . He was worried everyone was mad at him.

We (landlady,neighbor, and I) cleaned up the glass, the neighbor immediately offered to pay and apologize. The cats weren't in the window at the time so they weren't hurt. No one is mad at the neighbor's son and I have plastic up over the window until a replacement pane can be put in.

There was a brief moment when the landlady talked about having the whole window replaced with modern double pane windows, but she's just replacing the glass.

Then Will came over and we went for a drive and some how that wore me out and I came home and took a nap for an hour.