Romance

I'm pretty sure I've read something else, but the closest I can definitely remember coming to read Dahl is listening to Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

I read a few of them back when I was in school. Hated Boy because it was required reading and we had to write craptons of stuff about it. XD

Ugh. I once had a school assignment where I traded with another student so I could get to work on a book I had already read on my own time for fun, and I still hated rereading it because now it was work.

Romance related: This guy keeps following me around and sitting next to me in class and it is skeeving me out. I have limited justification in bringing up how uncomfortable I feel because all he does is make small talk.

Except for when we had to improvise a scene and he hit on me. Which was obscured by how another actor in that scene also decided to hit on me, just in a clearly fake way so I wasn't personally affected.

Ugh.

Could always tell him to fuck off because he's being annoying.

Yeah honesty is the best policy in a case like this. He's probably not gonna stop otherwise.

I'm too polite for my own good.

I mean, I'll get around to it but right now I only have this one weekly class and I have so many other things to do that I just sigh and make an excuse to leave the room.

edited 27th Aug '14 11:57:26 PM by Leradny

Yeah, I understand that problem. I'm a pretty meek person and don't really like confrontation or standing out in general...unfortunately sometimes it's the best or only option.

edited 28th Aug '14 12:00:28 AM by wehrmacht

I am occasionally mildly worried that I'm in the same sort of scenario, except I'm the guy. And I don't want to be. :|

Same here.

Honestly, if I'm bothering someone with how I'm acting toward them and I am legitimately unaware that it's bothering them, I'd prefer if they told me. Might hurt at first, but I'd take that over being forever known in their mind as "that creepy obnoxious guy."

i know for a fact i've been that guy before. i kind of wear my emotions on my sleeve so it's a bit hard for me not to be from time to time. i like to think i've since improved, but yeah, i'd prefer it being told rather than the person keeping me in the dark about it.

edited 28th Aug '14 10:52:04 PM by wehrmacht

Let me get this straight.

If a guy makes ME uncomfortable to even stand near him, it's MY responsibility to say so and make HIM feel better. And venting about my discomfort in a neutral area without revealing any names is the same as trashtalking him to people in the same circle?

...i don't think anyone was talking about you specifically or thinking poorly of your person. people just used your situation as a springboard for a different tangent.

nobody said venting about it on the internet was equivalent to trashtalking him to people in the same group either, though i probably should have worded my post differently. you're not doing anything wrong and if he's making you uncomfortable he needs to stop.

edited 28th Aug '14 10:54:39 PM by wehrmacht

That is why I said "Let me get this straight" first.

Another person on Ok Cupid called me cute

Throwing away my Monday off to spend a little time with my gf and a lot of time doing heavy lifting. The things I do for love.

Nice

I nominated my ex to do the Ice Bucket Challenge

She was not impressed

Well that could be interesting.

If I had an ex, I'd nominate them to do the LN 2 bucket challenge.

I want to be your next ex.

So I just realized that there is a key to being friends with your exes.

Sorry, I don't swing that way.

Does it involve not freezing and shattering them? Because then it sounds like it's no fun.

edited 29th Aug '14 9:09:50 PM by VolatileChills

Forget you had a relationship? I tried that, didn't work for me (but its her loss if she didn't want to be chums, I guess!). I think it's pretty good if you can still remain friends without it getting awkward.

I have several pretty good friends that I've dated at one point or another. It's not really a problem if your break-up wasn't an ugly disaster.