I feel old. Really old.

As a Sophmore, I'm the old man of the dorms here pretty much. Granted, there's one or two people older than me, but they spend most of their time elsewhere. All these freshmen coming in this year are talking about their relationships that are several years old and how they're considering marriage. I know I was engaged at a young age myself, but thinking about it now, I know it wasn't as serious as these kids are taking it. On top of it I'm just getting a bit bored waiting for them to grow up and get over the sudden freedom to drink and do whatever they want. I've been here a week and already walked up to my dorm room to hear unwanted noises about 4 times. I spend all my time working so I feel like the world's biggest dork.

I can't wait for classes to start so I can have a few more older people around, just so I don't feel so lame and old working all the time.

I know how that feels Ibas. Minus the old part, though.

I had a lot of freedom at home, so when I got to college it was hard for me to fit in with everyone else, because they were celebrating something I'd already experienced, so I just wanted to get on with my work. It was OK at first, because I liked my work, but it got boring eventually.

Heh, I feel that way just being around my mother and step-father.


Okay…I need help finding something. I don't know what the original animation it's from, but I need it so I can rip the sound file from it and use it in a mash-up animation.

It has to do with either a stickman or an animated person doing something really powerful and shouting something like, “WRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” in almost a robotic anime style. Someone on Newgrounds used the audio clip on a moving gif which showed a tank slamming down, being ridden by a stickman and then him puffing up his chest, arms out, shouting, “REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!”

I'd love the help

*deep breath* WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH MY LEFT EYE?! It always feels so damn weird constantly, and gets a ‘pulling’ pain behind it sometimes and I hear weird crackling noises. In fact, it feels like the uh…“strings” behind my eye are getting played with. It's all pretty worrying.

I know I bitch about this too much…but it is a very annoying problem to have when you want to draw a lot. ._. To top it off my glasses lens fell out again, only this time I lost the screw as well. So I'm back wearing “old blue” (my last pair of glasses). Going back to my older perscription didn't help much either, as I thought maybe it would because it's not as strong.

I guess returning to the eye doctor is my only choice, but I've had similar problems for a while now that I told them about, and they haven't seemed to have helped much yet. >_>

My mom keeps doing these weird, mean little things. Like yesterday she came up to me and she was like, “Hey, pasty legs!”
And a little while ago I asked my dad to buy chocolate chips so I could make cookies. My mom was there when I asked him to do that. When he bought the chocolate chips and put them in the cupboard, my mom hid them before I had a chance to make cookies and then made bran muffins with them about a week later. I know it wasn't an accident because I asked her about it and her response was more or less, “Yeah, I did that, so what?”

I understand that she doesn't like me or whatever, but I'd prefer if she just ignored me rather than going out of her way to push my buttons.

Hippie Van
My mom keeps doing these weird, mean little things. Like yesterday she came up to me and she was like, “Hey, pasty legs!”
And a little while ago I asked my dad to buy chocolate chips so I could make cookies. My mom was there when I asked him to do that. When he bought the chocolate chips and put them in the cupboard, my mom hid them before I had a chance to make cookies and then made bran muffins with them about a week later. I know it wasn't an accident because I asked her about it and her response was more or less, “Yeah, I did that, so what?”

I understand that she doesn't like me or whatever, but I'd prefer if she just ignored me rather than going out of her way to push my buttons.

Wow!
your mom is a jerk.
You sure she's your real mom?
Mom's aren't supposed to act like that.

I'll never understand why girls in relationships seem to enjoy flirting with me. I long ago made it very obvious that I have a moral aversion to interrupting or interfering with another person's relationship, regardless of how much I might like someone, yet they still act like they want me to get involved. The single women out there seem to totally refuse to joke around or flirt in the same way. Women are just plain totally weird.

The big thing for me though is that I've been struggling lately thinking about whether or not to continue Last Words. Going into a more serious school, I have less time to work on comics and I was going to have to drop daily updates anyway, so it seems like a convenient time to begin focusing on other stuff for a little while. I started it as an experimental way to improve my art, and now it's fulfilled that role and I'm feeling like I've hit the point of diminishing returns on it. I still love the characters and I have a lot of fun drawing them, but my sense of humor has changed in the last couple months and I definitely know I'm nowhere near the same guy as when I started it. I think it's just time for me to put it on semi-permanent hiatus and work on some more story-oriented pieces now. I know I'll eventually come back to it and do some more, but the couple short stories and strips I've done for guest comics ( Which I've only been working on for 2 months, but that's a totally different rant. ) and the DD Awards have been immensely fun and I think I'm at the point where I feel my art work is getting good enough for a longer piece.

lba
I'll never understand why girls in relationships seem to enjoy flirting with me. …

It's because flirting is fun, and doesn't work on their boyfriends the same way anymore. The relationship is a safety net, they can flirt without ‘responsibility’ so to speak. They just want the attention and the good feelings they get from havng someone flirt back, without the danger of starting something ‘serious.’ I don't really agree with that kind of thing, by the way. I find it sort of… rude, I guess, or egotistical. A little here and there, ok, but not much.

That's why single girls don't flirt so much, or in the same way. From a single girl, the flirting would be like an invitation. They can't just have fun with it because someone will take it seriously.



Today I had to wash the dog I'm dogsitting, AGAIN. She has poofy fur and is a mud magnet. She was starting to smell like dirt. I was hoping to hold off til tomorrow night when she goes back home, but today she was slopping around in a mud hole that would do any pig pen justice and she was just covered in liquid dirt. I had to walk her for an extra 20 minutes to get the mud all dry before I could risk letting her into my car to get home. T_T I miss just having my own dog around.

i had this idea for a story…it was my own original idea. i couldnt wait to get somewhere with a pen and paper to write it down. and then, i forgot what i thought up….and i can't even remember the premise….

and that leads me to starting another story, when i have 2, (count it, 1, 2.) dead in the water. part of me wants to continue ninja wedding, part wants to go back over it, and redo the art, and hopefully make the story a bit better as i stall for time to finish or at least get it going again.


also, i'm so jealous for my friend making the next rank, that i've been having dreams where i fail the test, and they let me take it over, and i keep failing. i'm quite worried that will become reality. while i may be spectacular at practical, i've never been good with academic. and in the airforce, academic is where it's at.

also i love and miss my wife.

p.s.

they just changed my schedule….to a completly opposite schedule. i have 24 hours to accommadate, then i'm going to work….luckily they werent like….“you start tonight, go to bed tonight”

I have a sickenly bad headache… And I'm at work. *uck.
It hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttsssssssssssssss….

seventy2
i had this idea for a story…it was my own original idea. i couldnt wait to get somewhere with a pen and paper to write it down. and then, i forgot what i thought up….and i can't even remember the premise….

Maybe your idea will come back to you when you're dreaming or even just daydreaming. I have a horrible memory, but that often happens to me.

comic pic

This was my expression seeing the very bottom:

I don't get it… she doesn't look bad. ???

The Myspace name? That taken along with the image does seem very desperate.

Screw Michael Phelps, greedy jerk. All the gold medals for michael phelps. Nobody else gets to get any gold medals. He has to have them all.

If he runs into me he's going to get the gold medal for being punched in the face.

I keep doing really stupid things. Yesterday I nearly walked out of a store with an empty basket for no particular reason. And just now I was licking a lollipop and accidentally hit myself in the face with it, making my face all sticky. It's weird.

Okay, here's the problem. The wife planned a vacation like we had last year, where she goes to a geneology convention and I tour an historical city.

This was planned before my accident when I walked without a cane and wasn't subject to confusion and vertigo. I'm going to be wandering around Philadelphia (on public transportation no less) subject to vertigo and confusion and unable to walk very far?

I wonder if the hotel has good cable/satellite TV.

I also hope that the school trips haven't started yet, I hate having to act as a tour guide (Every time… can't I enjoy someplace without having to give impromtou tours to school kids? Wow mister you're smarter than my history teacher… Well I'm a history teacher too, now go away you're bothering me. Okay so I can name every former governor of Virginia whose portrait is in the capitol building in Williamsburg)

Skullbie

comic pic

This was my expression seeing the very bottom:

maybe she's wearing hose or something?

kingofsnake
Screw Michael Phelps, greedy jerk. All the gold medals for michael phelps. Nobody else gets to get any gold medals. He has to have them all.

If he runs into me he's going to get the gold medal for being punched in the face.

Somebody's jealous! You just wish you could eat 12,000 calories a day.

Yeah, and he burns almost all of that, haha.



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So a “possible plot” to kill Obama was foiled…allegedly. So funny how they won't say an alleged plot, but they'll say alleged victim in reference to rape victims. Then again…It was CBS which was doing the reporting, so of course they are going to automatically start the shit storm to protect someone like Obama and point it at the Republicans.


Speaking of the DNC…is it any surprise that the “peaceful” protesters get violent at the drop of a fucking hat? I would have posted this in the Worst Pickup Line thread, but I couldn't find it.

Being the total asshole I am, I happened by the convention center today while I was in Denver. There was a group of tree huggers outside doing their shouting and whining, and being a general nuisance. I was on my motorcycle, so I was treated with a front row ear full and the louder I cracked my throttle, the more they'd fucking shout at me.

Well, I look over and see a rather good looking tree hugger as I'm waiting for the light. So, I keep my throttle down, pull over a little further and go, “So, you're all for helping to protected the trees, huh?” She looks over at me and kind of gives me this “what's the catch” look and says, “Of course we are. Isn't that important to YOU?” Of course that's when I spring my punchline on her, “Yes it is. As a matter of fact, I've got some wood you can hug.”

That's when all fucking hell broke loose. I don't know how these fuckers heard me, but five of them turned to look at me and fucking CHARGED. I didn't have the light so I made a right turn as quickly as I could. I'm no pussy, but when you have six hundred to one, discretion is the better part of valor.

I don't really blame them, Croi Dhubh! If you had said that to any of my friends or myself I would have probably gotten a little angry too. That's a pretty degrading thing to say.

I was in Denver today with a couple of friends peacefully protesting the horrible way Corporations (and the general population) treats the environment in front of the DNC. All of the sudden, some moron on a motorcycle started to try and intimidate us by gassing his bike in front of us (like that was really impressive or something). But when he started making lewd comments at my sister, he went too far. He thought he was really clever hot shit using a 30 year old pick up line (you know the one about “hugging wood”? Yeah my hippie grandmother heard that one in the 60's). That is, until a bunch of us went after him for his stupid comments.

SpANG
I was in Denver today with a couple of friends peacefully protesting the horrible way Corporations (and the general population) treats the environment in front of the DNC. All of the sudden, some moron on a motorcycle started to try and intimidate us by gassing his bike in front of us (like that was really impressive or something). But when he started making lewd comments at my sister, he went too far. He thought he was really clever hot shit using a 30 year old pick up line (you know the one about “hugging wood”? Yeah my hippie grandmother heard that one in the 60's). That is, until a bunch of us went after him for his stupid comments.

Fail joke is fail.

Hippie Van
I don't really blame them, Croi Dhubh! If you had said that to any of my friends or myself I would have probably gotten a little angry too. That's a pretty degrading thing to say.

That's one of the least “degrading” things I've said to someone.

I thought Croi was a dickhead before it was cool.

I really, really wish I hadn't spent all of my student loan, then I could've moved somewhere or stayed in the halls over summer instead of coming back home. I mean, I love my family (some of it, anyway) but the more I'm around them, the more I want to break something.

Croi Dhubh
Fail joke is fail.

adjective noun is adjective

Croi Dhubh

Hippie Van
I don't really blame them, Croi Dhubh! If you had said that to any of my friends or myself I would have probably gotten a little angry too. That's a pretty degrading thing to say.

That's one of the least “degrading” things I've said to someone.

Then you don't seem like a very nice person. A normal pick-up line is bad enough, but here you are taking this thing that this woman is obviously passionate about and using it to insult her and demean her by making it obvious you're talking to her only for sex and couldn't give a s*** about her cause.

Custard Trout
I really, really wish I hadn't spent all of my student loan, then I could've moved somewhere or stayed in the halls over summer instead of coming back home. I mean, I love my family (some of it, anyway) but the more I'm around them, the more I want to break something.

I know what you mean, except that since I live with my family all the time I actually do end up breaking a lot of things. We have 7 doors in our house and I've broken 4 of them. I put my hand right through the glass on our back door.

Croi Dhubh
… “So, you're all for helping to protected the trees, huh?”

Failed English is fail.

Hey, hey, hey, hey!


Please cool it on Cori a little bit eh? Yes, he's shown he can be a little… abrasive… but this thread is about people getting stuff off their chests and it being ok to do that (within reason), not about attacking them for it.

Please keep that stuff to a minimum.

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I wanted to warn rather than delete that stuff, because it makes good reading. :)
But still, that's enough ok?

ozoneocean
… but this thread is about people getting stuff off their chests and it being ok to do that (within reason)…

Actually, I always thought this thread was a dumb idea. Can I rant about that? :P

SpANG

ozoneocean
… but this thread is about people getting stuff off their chests and it being ok to do that (within reason)…

Actually, I always thought this thread was a dumb idea. Can I rant about that? :P

lol! Yep :)

If I were to rant about any thread, it'd be the “funny” pic thread in the WTH forum -_-

That thing is some of the milder nastier aspects of the net re-broadcast. Unfortunate. :(
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But this thread is popular, inclusive, easy to join in and social. Plus, it's always interesting. ;)
Sub had a good idea with this one, in my opinion.

ozoneocean
Cori

You always typin' people's names wrong!

Custard Trout
the more I'm around them, the more I want to break something.

Your fizzled hair ghost is so appropriate.