What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[BubblyShell22]

Yep, but you live in Cali, so the weather's different there. Actually, yesterday it was warmer than the day before. The weather can't make up its mind, and the meteorologists just don't know what the hell they're talking about.

[mysterycolor]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

The abruptly changing weather. We've gone from the 70's to the 60's now. Time to break out the jeans and long sleeved shirts.

i absolutely love the cool weather

[zkarlette]

Originally Posted by mysterycolor

i absolutely love the cool weather

Me too!

And we are supposed to hit 106 next week. bleh

[Jelly Bean]

flunking my first test of the semester.

[mysterycolor]

waiting for (medical) test results...

[BubblyShell22]

Yikes sorry to hear about that, you two.

[Sage Ninja]

Originally Posted by Jelly Bean

flunking my first test of the semester.

I flunked a test today to. I only got half the the questions on test right. WHat hurts is that I had studied with a tutor and I still failed.

[BubblyShell22]

Hey, I've been there, Sage. I had a tutor for Statistics and I still flunked the tests. The good part is that I still graduated with a B because the quizzes are also a part of the grade, and that's what saved me from flunking out again.

[Slade]

Stupid people

[BubblyShell22]

Oh, I hear you there, RTD. People can be very stupid at times and get very irritating.

[Slade]

Originally Posted by BubblyShell22

Oh, I hear you there, RTD. People can be very stupid at times and get very irritating.

Most the time it seems like the majority of people as well.

[Jelly Bean]

when I become jealous or insecure over friends sometimes. I am not one of those type of jealous or inscure girls who lash out and become manipulative and mean, but there are times when I feel really at loss on how to handle situations.

A friend that I grew up with and are good friends, even though we are a little different. She is also younger than me and just transfered to the college I am going to. The year that I was in college without my old friend from back home I met another girl who was my dormmate and we became good friends. My old friend graduted and is now at the same college as me. This is going to sound selfish but I dort of didin't want to introduce my old friend and my new friend to each other.

Indivdually I get along very well with them but when it is the three of us together, my old friend and my new friend are way more alike to each other than I am to either one of them. I was afraid I was going to become a third wheel since I'm not as similar to them as they are with each other if they got together, and that is kind of what has happened. For one they are both way more sexually liberated than me. I'm still a virgin (yes, I know I am a freak to be a virgin at 21, leave me alone! ) And they both like having social sex with people. Meaning, spontanious sex with a group of people.

Recently they have been just hanging out the two of them without even inviting me or asking if I want to come along. Like going to a movie or going to get pizza. Sometimes they make plans of what they are going to do with each other right in front of me. I can't even have individual time with them any more. I can ask one friend if to do something just the two of us (though, not explicitly stated) and the other friend will show up, and alot of times they end talking about things that I wasn't there for so I feel left out in conversation. It gets me because they hang out one on one with each other without me all the time now. I can't help it but I feel insecure and a bit jealous.

[Warrior]

Gear Grinders. Or the Locust Horde. (This is punnerfically lame.)

But on a slightly more serious note, people who think that they are the solution to everything and know something that the "mindless horde that is the masses" don't. People like conspiracy theorists or something. Drives me nuts that I know a good chunk of people who think like that and they're a pain to listen to.

[BubblyShell22]

Yeah, I had a friend I was really close to, and when she started dating this guy, it felt really awkward as I felt like a third wheel because I wasn't in a relationship at the time. Luckily, that changed for me, but I haven't heard from this friend in a long time.

And, yes, I hate those conspiracy theorists, too. So dumb.

[TheCanadiandrome]

Originally Posted by Raph_tha_Dude

Stupid people

Well if you work in retail I can relate there lol

[The Stryker]

Jelly Bean and Lisardo.

People change. Friends grow apart sometimes. It's not someone's job to stay on YOUR level to make you happy. You don't like how they act with their boyfriend? Tough! Don't like that you don't get special time with your friend anymore? Oh well! I'm pretty sure you don't own these people. You pretty much have 3 choices: Roll with it, Find new friends or go without.

I'm sorry but sometimes you need to grow up and get past that high school garbage.

[Lethal Lullaby]

Wow. I still get nervous doing presentations in front of class. Even when I'm not facing them. I mean I drew some funny and cute pictures and I felt pretty confident to present them for my psychology class. But I got all fidgety up there and had to explain the first picture again. Cuz they couldn't hear me. Oh and don't get me started on debates. I know a lot of ppl just love debates but I'm not really a big fan of them. Especially when I have to talk. I try to talk but I end up trying to overthink what I wanna say. Then some random person says, "Caitlyn, wanna say something?"
Me: O.O *thinking* uh nooo. *saying quietly and unsurely* well I think that err. *thinking again* damn it say something useful!

[BubblyShell22]

Oh, I hear you there. I used to get nervous when I first started doing presentations, but then my confidence came back and I managed to get through them. I never minded debates, but I always wasn't a fan of group projects because I was always worried that there would be someone in the group who wouldn't do any work and would make all of us do their work while they sat around.

[Sage Ninja]

My financial aid is all kinds of f*cked up right now I want to scream. For the first time ever while being in college I took at a loan to cover the remaining cost of this semesters college fees. I also was awarded a a scolorship that was supposed to cover most of the bill that was not covered by the pell grant, which was why I took at the loan. What was going to be left over was 400 dollars that I was going to have my loan take care of, because I just didn't have the money at the time to cover that.

I found out today that the scholorship I thought I had didn't go through because they thought for some reason they thought that I WASN'T ATTENDING SCHOOL THIS SEMESTER! And are trying to put it on me that I didn't follow up on something, when I remmeber sitting and talking with these people obout the portion that the scholorship would cover and what I would be responciable for. Now instead of having my loan only cover 400 it covered 2,723.93 of my fees and I really didn't want that. I know I don't have to pay it until after I graduate but I was really trying hard not to take out any loans because I already have alot of debt from other things in my life. Also I was trying to keep the money I would get out from loans as small as possiable so it wouldn't be a giant whopper for me the pay back six months after I graduate. I know it is not a big deal and I can just pay after I gruaduate, but I'm just frustrated on how things just got goofed up.

Also I've always been a little leery about the student loan thing and how it can come back to haunt you well into your 40's. One woman I know says that between her husband and herself they owe quator of a million dollars in student loans. My hope is the job market approves in the next few years. Not holding my breathe.

[BubblyShell22]

That sucks, Sage. And I doubt the job market will improve. It's going to take a long time for things like that to improve.

Political ads. I just hate them so much. They're always filled with negative crap and things I really don't care about. I'm not going to vote anyway because politicians are just liars and crooks.

Also: People who act like if you don't vote, you're nothing. Hey, I have my reasons, and that's the way it is. I don't have to vote.