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sorcyressI spent FAR too long typing this up, and I'm going to regret this in the morning.
Wow, and for once, I haven't even set foot in the bar.
Hey wait a minute...theres no bar tonight! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Right, back to this.
A dissertation on high school relationships, in response to my highly cynical writings of ninth grade, from someone who's now actually been there.
Relationships1. You STILL don't need one to be happy. That hasn't changed. There is more to life then being hooked. There is friendship and life and studying and school and goals and hopes and dreams andmost of those have nothing to do with being hooked, and they shouldn't depend on being hooked.
However, I will not begrudge acting on your crushes anymore. One non-existnent and ultimitly failed relationship and one stll going wonderfully non-failing relationship later, I've come to realize that being hooked is, in fact, a Nice Thing. (But not a nessecary one) Yes, theres pain, and isolation, and lonliness when it ends, not to mention the automatic deep-set hatread you have for the next girl, epecially if you were 'dumped' for her2, but that all fades after a while. And then you can be happy, and friends, and go to Camporee-prom and invent several dozen new uses for your towel.
Well, ok, thats only if you're a girl scout.
Who went to Camporee-prom.
Ok, fine, thats me and Veronica. But thats besides the point.3
Anyway, now that I'm wildly off-topic, lets steer our way back.
Relationships.
At the high school level definently, and at the college level probably, they should be highly nonsexual.
HIGHLY nonsexual.
That means, amoung other things, you really shouldn't have sex. And, in setting the tone for the rest of this rant with the use of a specific example, you REALLY shouldn't stoink freshman. Hell, let me rephrase that. Don't stoink freshmen. They're FOURTEEN! They're FROSH!! Are you so damn desperate for cock that you'll border on being a CHILD MOLESTER?!
Sorry, lost my cool there. But really, if you're going to date a freshman, don't have sex with him. Oddly enough, thats probably why his mother doesn't want him to see you. And if rumour mill is true, and you're cheating on the freshman you're stoinking...well...just...wow.
Back to my earlier point about acting on crushes: That means asking them to be you're SO and then being all 'Yay!!' and cuddling and snogging ocassionally and, on the whole, not actually having sex. And yes, if I've found a situation where the romantic tension is FAR too high, and it's completely obvious that the two people are only not asking each other to go out because they're scared of being rejected, and you two have already made out at least once already without getting together, then of COURSE I'll matchmake you together. idiots!4
And no, that wasn't a specific example. Much.
So yes, I've become a matchmaker. Who doesn't believe in high school relationships. And is tangled in one.
This essay is FAR too difficult to write. I think I've lost my touch. Damn you Blue! Damn you for destroying all my cynical people hating rantness with mellow happy places! No wait, thats good. Shite...
Alright, enough of trying to write essays. I have some more ranty goodness. And yes, these are specific examples from my life. Unfortunately.
Rant one: General Human Politeness:
Do not dump the girl you're with and get together with another girl the next day. Perhaps I should repeat that. Do NOT dump the girl you're with and get together with another girl THE NEXT DAY! If you're dumping someone for someone else, A) don't tell them that, as thats shitty, B) don't let them realize that by being with the someone else at a big public event where you're GOING to see each other, as thats shitty, and C) allow a cooling off period of at least two weeks before hooking up with someone else. Hooking up with someone the next day is just really horrible shitty of you. REALLY horrible shitty. It makes your ex sad, and her friends pissed at you. And trust me -word will spread. We girls have a secret girl network, and her friends will DEFINENTLY learn what happened, and, if they were friends of yours, they will most likely begin immediately reviewing your 'friend' status. Meaning you might get downgraded from 'friend' to 'dick I only put up with because I have to.' And thats not cool.
Rant two: General Couple Politness:
There is nothing, NOTHING worse5 then being in a big group of people and you're the only one without your SO hanging on your arm.
Sorry, let me rephrase that. There is nothing worse then being in a group of people and being the only onewho's not busy frantically snogging your SO.
I have yet to figure out weather it hurts more to be actually single or to be hooked and your SO's mother is a crazy bitch who won't let your SO come because logically, if she did, the two of you would spend the entire time in a corner snogging wildly.6 So your SO isn't there.
So the basic politeness here is, if you're in a group of people and roughly everyone has someone to snog besides you, politely detangle yourself from your fellow squid7 and go make conversation with the single-type. This will have the benefit of making the single-types respect for you take a dramatic leap. "But what?! Mr. and Ms. Squid are being respectable and chatting with me? Delights!"
Yeah...that was one of the few downsides to the aweso-tasticness of New Years. Because it's hard enough being odd girl out ANYWAYS, and I really don't need that to be hammered at me. Also, this rant is dedicated to Mac&Tuna, because I know he agree's with me that being the only one non-snogging in your peer group sucks.
(((Although granted, it does make it much more difficult to run around and kiss freaking EVERYONE on the cheek at midnight, if your SO is there. Well...maybe. I don't know. I shall have to test this next year.)))
And that would be all, but I have thought of a third rant. Part three: Proper use of bitching about your current state of singleness. For gods sakes, don't bitch unless someone asks. If someone ASKS about your current singleness state, you may deliver a short rant, but then zip it and be good. And NEVER make the mistake of ranting to someone who's lot is currently worse then yours. Example: Person A's SO can't show up at the party until 11:30. Person B's SO can't show up at all. Person C doesn't HAVE an SO, and for some odd reason, wishes they did. Person C is allowed to arbitrarily rant at anyone, Person B is only allowed to rant at person A, and Person A isn't allowed to rant at anyone, as the person on the recieving end will just get jealous and depressed. Also, if Persons B and C so choose, they may cuddle up together and gripe about how much life sucks. Especially after person A has wandered off with their SO who has finally arrived and especially especially if either A) It's frigid FREEZING cold outside on these stupid bleachers, and if you don't cuddle together for warmth you will both die, or B) It's a crowded party, and you're trying to conserve space by sharing a seat.8
Rant the last: Just ask...
If you have a crush on someone, and you strongly think that the feelings are mutual, for teh love of God, if you want anything to come of it just ASK THE DRATTED PERSON OUT! Please don't give me any of that 'I don't know if he likes me' or 'I'm not brave enough' bullshit, if you seriously want this relationship, you can be brave enough. And if it turns out that he DOESN'T like you, you be embaressed, run off, anf go cry in your room for a while. And then you get over it. And then you eventually become friends and it's all good and YAY!9
So to sum up: Don't be a dick. This means about relationships, about friendships, about anything. And ask the damn boy/girl out, it'll go faster. And always remember: There is more to life then relationships, and there is more to relationships thensexheavy snogging.
Thanks, and have a good day.
~Sor
MOOP!
1. For the purpose of this writing, relationships means romantic/sexual relationships.
2. I have none of this hatred whatsoever, I love everyone, remember? And I've forgiven everyone! I'm like Jesus!!
...Ignore that.
3. For similar rants about Camporee-Prom, check out my new book: "We had more fun then you, so HA!
4. And I will gripe about how friggen long it took with mutual friends whenever the urge strikes me. Because GAWD it took you guys forever.
5. Horrid lie. There are many things that are much worse. Getting your arms eaten off by the ravonous snow-monster things that were in WWN, for example.
6. Because I am SUCH a snog-centric person. Please.
7. Squid = face sucker
8. I am person B in both examples. You have to figure out the rest yourself. (I'll give you a hint: Everyone else has been mentioned, and person C is two different people)
9. And don't you DARE say it's the boys job to initiate the relationship! It is NOT! In a good relationship, both partners should be chivolrous and balanced. It is not 'the boy's' or 'the girl's' job to do anything!
*thump!*
~Sor
MOOP!
Wow, and for once, I haven't even set foot in the bar.
Hey wait a minute...theres no bar tonight! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Right, back to this.
A dissertation on high school relationships, in response to my highly cynical writings of ninth grade, from someone who's now actually been there.
Relationships1. You STILL don't need one to be happy. That hasn't changed. There is more to life then being hooked. There is friendship and life and studying and school and goals and hopes and dreams andmost of those have nothing to do with being hooked, and they shouldn't depend on being hooked.
However, I will not begrudge acting on your crushes anymore. One non-existnent and ultimitly failed relationship and one stll going wonderfully non-failing relationship later, I've come to realize that being hooked is, in fact, a Nice Thing. (But not a nessecary one) Yes, theres pain, and isolation, and lonliness when it ends, not to mention the automatic deep-set hatread you have for the next girl, epecially if you were 'dumped' for her2, but that all fades after a while. And then you can be happy, and friends, and go to Camporee-prom and invent several dozen new uses for your towel.
Well, ok, thats only if you're a girl scout.
Who went to Camporee-prom.
Ok, fine, thats me and Veronica. But thats besides the point.3
Anyway, now that I'm wildly off-topic, lets steer our way back.
Relationships.
At the high school level definently, and at the college level probably, they should be highly nonsexual.
HIGHLY nonsexual.
That means, amoung other things, you really shouldn't have sex. And, in setting the tone for the rest of this rant with the use of a specific example, you REALLY shouldn't stoink freshman. Hell, let me rephrase that. Don't stoink freshmen. They're FOURTEEN! They're FROSH!! Are you so damn desperate for cock that you'll border on being a CHILD MOLESTER?!
Sorry, lost my cool there. But really, if you're going to date a freshman, don't have sex with him. Oddly enough, thats probably why his mother doesn't want him to see you. And if rumour mill is true, and you're cheating on the freshman you're stoinking...well...just...wow.
Back to my earlier point about acting on crushes: That means asking them to be you're SO and then being all 'Yay!!' and cuddling and snogging ocassionally and, on the whole, not actually having sex. And yes, if I've found a situation where the romantic tension is FAR too high, and it's completely obvious that the two people are only not asking each other to go out because they're scared of being rejected, and you two have already made out at least once already without getting together, then of COURSE I'll matchmake you together. idiots!4
And no, that wasn't a specific example. Much.
So yes, I've become a matchmaker. Who doesn't believe in high school relationships. And is tangled in one.
This essay is FAR too difficult to write. I think I've lost my touch. Damn you Blue! Damn you for destroying all my cynical people hating rantness with mellow happy places! No wait, thats good. Shite...
Alright, enough of trying to write essays. I have some more ranty goodness. And yes, these are specific examples from my life. Unfortunately.
Rant one: General Human Politeness:
Do not dump the girl you're with and get together with another girl the next day. Perhaps I should repeat that. Do NOT dump the girl you're with and get together with another girl THE NEXT DAY! If you're dumping someone for someone else, A) don't tell them that, as thats shitty, B) don't let them realize that by being with the someone else at a big public event where you're GOING to see each other, as thats shitty, and C) allow a cooling off period of at least two weeks before hooking up with someone else. Hooking up with someone the next day is just really horrible shitty of you. REALLY horrible shitty. It makes your ex sad, and her friends pissed at you. And trust me -word will spread. We girls have a secret girl network, and her friends will DEFINENTLY learn what happened, and, if they were friends of yours, they will most likely begin immediately reviewing your 'friend' status. Meaning you might get downgraded from 'friend' to 'dick I only put up with because I have to.' And thats not cool.
Rant two: General Couple Politness:
There is nothing, NOTHING worse5 then being in a big group of people and you're the only one without your SO hanging on your arm.
Sorry, let me rephrase that. There is nothing worse then being in a group of people and being the only onewho's not busy frantically snogging your SO.
I have yet to figure out weather it hurts more to be actually single or to be hooked and your SO's mother is a crazy bitch who won't let your SO come because logically, if she did, the two of you would spend the entire time in a corner snogging wildly.6 So your SO isn't there.
So the basic politeness here is, if you're in a group of people and roughly everyone has someone to snog besides you, politely detangle yourself from your fellow squid7 and go make conversation with the single-type. This will have the benefit of making the single-types respect for you take a dramatic leap. "But what?! Mr. and Ms. Squid are being respectable and chatting with me? Delights!"
Yeah...that was one of the few downsides to the aweso-tasticness of New Years. Because it's hard enough being odd girl out ANYWAYS, and I really don't need that to be hammered at me. Also, this rant is dedicated to Mac&Tuna, because I know he agree's with me that being the only one non-snogging in your peer group sucks.
(((Although granted, it does make it much more difficult to run around and kiss freaking EVERYONE on the cheek at midnight, if your SO is there. Well...maybe. I don't know. I shall have to test this next year.)))
And that would be all, but I have thought of a third rant. Part three: Proper use of bitching about your current state of singleness. For gods sakes, don't bitch unless someone asks. If someone ASKS about your current singleness state, you may deliver a short rant, but then zip it and be good. And NEVER make the mistake of ranting to someone who's lot is currently worse then yours. Example: Person A's SO can't show up at the party until 11:30. Person B's SO can't show up at all. Person C doesn't HAVE an SO, and for some odd reason, wishes they did. Person C is allowed to arbitrarily rant at anyone, Person B is only allowed to rant at person A, and Person A isn't allowed to rant at anyone, as the person on the recieving end will just get jealous and depressed. Also, if Persons B and C so choose, they may cuddle up together and gripe about how much life sucks. Especially after person A has wandered off with their SO who has finally arrived and especially especially if either A) It's frigid FREEZING cold outside on these stupid bleachers, and if you don't cuddle together for warmth you will both die, or B) It's a crowded party, and you're trying to conserve space by sharing a seat.8
Rant the last: Just ask...
If you have a crush on someone, and you strongly think that the feelings are mutual, for teh love of God, if you want anything to come of it just ASK THE DRATTED PERSON OUT! Please don't give me any of that 'I don't know if he likes me' or 'I'm not brave enough' bullshit, if you seriously want this relationship, you can be brave enough. And if it turns out that he DOESN'T like you, you be embaressed, run off, anf go cry in your room for a while. And then you get over it. And then you eventually become friends and it's all good and YAY!9
So to sum up: Don't be a dick. This means about relationships, about friendships, about anything. And ask the damn boy/girl out, it'll go faster. And always remember: There is more to life then relationships, and there is more to relationships then
Thanks, and have a good day.
~Sor
MOOP!
1. For the purpose of this writing, relationships means romantic/sexual relationships.
2. I have none of this hatred whatsoever, I love everyone, remember? And I've forgiven everyone! I'm like Jesus!!
...Ignore that.
3. For similar rants about Camporee-Prom, check out my new book: "We had more fun then you, so HA!
4. And I will gripe about how friggen long it took with mutual friends whenever the urge strikes me. Because GAWD it took you guys forever.
5. Horrid lie. There are many things that are much worse. Getting your arms eaten off by the ravonous snow-monster things that were in WWN, for example.
6. Because I am SUCH a snog-centric person. Please.
7. Squid = face sucker
8. I am person B in both examples. You have to figure out the rest yourself. (I'll give you a hint: Everyone else has been mentioned, and person C is two different people)
9. And don't you DARE say it's the boys job to initiate the relationship! It is NOT! In a good relationship, both partners should be chivolrous and balanced. It is not 'the boy's' or 'the girl's' job to do anything!
*thump!*
~Sor
MOOP!
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on 2006-01-14 04:16 pm (UTC)Fine, lemme rephrase that. Don't tell them your dumping them for someone else and immediantely go off and snog the someone else. So tell them, but give the mess some space and the gossips some time to rest their tongues, and then go seek the someone else.
~Sor