The Update for Everybody Else

[anvi]

I've just learned that the manuscript I wrote last year will be published as my second book next year.  Woohoo! 

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

I've just learned that the manuscript I wrote last year will be published as my second book next year.  Woohoo! 

Congratulations!

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I've just learned that the manuscript I wrote last year will be published as my second book next year.  Woohoo! 

Congratulations, my friend.  Awesome news!

[anvi]

Thanks much, guys!  Lots of work, so it's always nice to learn that, in the end, it paid off! 

[Kitteh]

Also, I love how it seems like p much everyone here was on drugs friday night

yeah damn right i was up from like friday to sunday night #yolo

I was up until around 6am friday, then slept until like 4pm on saturday, then woke up and ate a giant meal (because I hadn't eaten anything since thursday), then went back to my room and fell back asleep, woke up again at 1am Sunday and stayed awake four hours because I wasn't tired, then went to sleep and slept until late Sunday afternoon. So basically my entire weekend I was either high or asleep o.o

Overwhelming surge of self-hatred in me right now. Can't go to sleep until I've dealt with it. Convinced I'm worthless, stupid, an incompetent and fraudulent student of my major, deserve to die, et cetera.

I'm really sorry to hear that, self-hatred is one of the worst feelings in the world for sure. Not really much I can say without really knowing you, but as someone just barely scraping through my first semester of undergrad I have immense respect for anyone who manages to keep going through this and is actually close to completing a major, especially despite other emotional issues on top of it. Life is hard :/

[Leftbehind]

Yeah, there's quite the contingent on here who've experience of this blight, Nathan. Hope you're better now? 

[opebo]

Overwhelming surge of self-hatred in me right now. Can't go to sleep until I've dealt with it. Convinced I'm worthless, stupid, an incompetent and fraudulent student of my major, deserve to die, et cetera.

I spend my entire life feeling like a total fraud but what helps is realising that almost everyone feels that way anyway. Hope you're coping okay.

Good lord guys.  Don't take these things upon yourselves!

[Pheurton Skeurto]

My girlfriend and I just broke up.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

My girlfriend and I just broke up.

At your age you'll  say that about 30 more times before you find the right one

[Pheurton Skeurto]

My girlfriend and I just broke up.

At your age you'll  say that about 30 more times before you find the right one

Yeah and surprisingly, this is the first time in my life that I am not suicidal over a break up or a girl in general. Making strides. Getting older. Hair where it wasn't before. Blah blah

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Last night, while working into the wee hours of the morning, I received some startling news. While I'd been quite sure I'd be going to Sigma Pi's Hooters outting tonight, Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) has seen fit to invite me to their bid dinner, apparently based on the fact that I went to one of their rush events for like an hour. While I'd like to invest in Sigma Pi and I'm optimistic that I'll get a bid from them, at the very least I'd like to respect KDR's decision to invite me. Sadly, it'd mean missing the last Rush event with SigPi before they hand out bids at midnight. A bit of a dilemma and I'm still thinking it through. One caveat for KDR is that the dress is business casual and they're probably going to a higher end (relatively) restaurant, which would probably be less my style. For Hooters I can probably still dress like a homeless man. Also, I have like two shirts that I could pass off for business casual, maybe three, and my preferred one is currently awaiting a wash.

So yeah, unsure of where I'll be going this night. I definitely don't want to say an utter "screw you" to KDR, especially if, for whatever reason, things don't work out with SigPi, but I'm pretty optimistic on that front.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Well, looks like my dilemma may be resolved, for the moment. On the way to lunch I ran into some Sigma Pi brothers asking if I'd be at Hooters tonight. When I stated my dilemma and that I wanted to respect KDR's offer, they were like "Well you're already in our good graces, so go ahead". In any case, I said I hoped to be seeing them midnight (when they hand out the bids) and they seemed pretty certain that they'd be handing one out to me. Looks like I'm good. Now to pull off business casual... But first, working out and homework.

[anvi]

Overwhelming surge of self-hatred in me right now. Can't go to sleep until I've dealt with it. Convinced I'm worthless, stupid, an incompetent and fraudulent student of my major, deserve to die, et cetera.

Hope you feel better, Nathan.  Try not to feel so bad when certain things go poorly.  I feel worthless, stupid and incompetent every time I get in front of an undergraduate class these days.  So, fwiw, people feel that way on both sides of the classroom sometimes.  From what I've seen on here, you're an outstanding student of your major, so don't even think about that.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Looks like both Sigma Pi & KDR need token beard guys.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Found out today my mom will be saving $1000 per month on our health insurance costs (plus free dental checkups in January) thanks to that evil Obamacare law.

[Morning in Atlas]

So, despite the fact that I thought it was a good idea to jump on a 4/10 as a wingman for my friend and listen to her brag about "touching my dick", I fell on my ass and bruised it, and I managed to call my friend a cogendist for not going, I'm doing it all again.

I'm crazy, I know.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Plan on pledging Sigma Pi tonight. I think I'm heading up to U of M tomorrow, but that depends on the ability of this one guy to respond to my damned texts. Will call before the day's out. He's probably sleeping 'til 2 again like he was last week.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Have officially pledged at Sigma Pi. Now to get through the next seven weeks...

[windjammer]

Found out today my mom will be saving $1000 per month on our health insurance costs (plus free dental checkups in January) thanks to that evil Obamacare law.

$1000 per month?

[afleitch]

Our Halloween Tree...

[Leftbehind]

Found out today my mom will be saving $1000 per month on our health insurance costs (plus free dental checkups in January) thanks to that evil Obamacare law.

$1000 per month?

Free market at its best.

[opebo]

Found out today my mom will be saving $1000 per month on our health insurance costs (plus free dental checkups in January) thanks to that evil Obamacare law.

$1000 per month?

Wow, that's one family who will spend a lot more in the economy.

[Torie]

With romance in the air around here in that thread, my update is that I am falling deeply in love with Dan. Just why such a kind, sensitive, intelligent, worldly, talented man would put up with such a self absorbed, difficult and opinionated hopeless sinner like myself, and fall me for, totally escapes me, but I guess miracles do happen after all (and no, opebo, Dan doesn't give a sh*t about my money (he cares even less about things than I do, and he is the one who when we were kind of joking about the matter, brought up a prenup as job one), so don't even go there please - thanks). Man I have been just so fortunate in my life. Anyway, it may well be that I might end up getting hitched before Bushie does.

And speaking of Bushie, hey Bushie, Dan has lost about 30 pounds in 3 months on the Torie plan (the plan that Torie himself used). 30 more pounds to go, and Dan will be just about the hottest man in Laguna Niguel.

[afleitch]

With romance in the air around here in that thread, my update is that I am falling deeply in love with Dan. Just why such a kind, sensitive, intelligent, worldly, talented man would put up with such a self absorbed, difficult and opinionated hopeless sinner like myself, and fall me for, totally escapes me, but I guess miracles do happen after all (and no, opebo, Dan doesn't give a sh*t about my money (he cares even less about things than I do, and he is the one who when we were kind of joking about the matter, brought up a prenup as job one), so don't even go there please - thanks). Man I have been just so fortunate in my life. Anyway, it may well be that I might end up getting hitched before Bushie does.

And speaking of Bushie, hey Bushie, Dan has lost about 30 pounds in 3 months on the Torie plan (the plan that Torie himself used). 30 more pounds to go, and Dan will be just about the hottest man in Laguna Niguel.

That's wonderful Torie Opposites attract, they truly do because you end up finding similarities even within the different personalities. Kudos on the weight loss. Which way to the beach?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

With romance in the air around here in that thread, my update is that I am falling deeply in love with Dan. Just why such a kind, sensitive, intelligent, worldly, talented man would put up with such a self absorbed, difficult and opinionated hopeless sinner like myself, and fall me for, totally escapes me, but I guess miracles do happen after all (and no, opebo, Dan doesn't give a sh*t about my money (he cares even less about things than I do, and he is the one who when we were kind of joking about the matter, brought up a prenup as job one), so don't even go there please - thanks). Man I have been just so fortunate in my life. Anyway, it may well be that I might end up getting hitched before Bushie does.

And speaking of Bushie, hey Bushie, Dan has lost about 30 pounds in 3 months on the Torie plan (the plan that Torie himself used). 30 more pounds to go, and Dan will be just about the hottest man in Laguna Niguel.

I am absolutely delighted to read this.