Comments | hyperbole: When in Hell, do as the hellions do

hyperbole

When in Hell, do as the hellions do

Dec 06, 2011 19:11

Finally, a breath of air. I wish there was some kind of magic balance I could achieve whereupon I maintain my current level of intellectual stimulation without being banished to the Bermuda Triangle consisting of school, work, and my apartment. In the midst of my recent all-nighters I can't shake the sense that each sleepless night I spend prompts ( Read more... )

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Marriage is always fun. So fun that many Americans have more than just one in a lifetime now! cloud3487 December 7 2011, 11:08:02 UTC

How much longer until the end of the current term?

http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday?feature=etp-gs-lif-00 (1:02:15-1:03:25)) hyperbole December 8 2011, 09:56:59 UTC

It just ended, and not a moment too soon. All I want right now is to just hibernate for a month and regain my strength before the next blitz begins. Unfortunately that's going to be impossible as long as the Germans still have their iron grip on my soul.

If my love life stays on its current course, I probably won't be married until I'm older than them cloud3487 December 9 2011, 04:40:37 UTC

As long as you're not hibernating, wanna take my finals for me next week so I can start hibernating early? Also, souls are overrated. The worst they do here is call me a heathen for not having a soul and throw the occasionally holy water on me.

rackjabbit December 7 2011, 22:27:47 UTC

Oh Mike... Poor deluded fool.

fool's gold rush hyperbole December 8 2011, 10:36:35 UTC

Tangling with ideas that people use to define themselves is always tricky. The implication that being wrong about something somehow reflects badly on you, or that evidence of your infallibility undermines your vision of yourself as a competent, intelligent person is pretty good at motivating people to completely ignore rational appeals towards ideas contrary to their own.

With that in mind I sometimes feel like I should lay off or pull my punches a bit...but then again, if you can't punch your family in the face by calling out their denial of the inconveniences of reality, then what's the point?

ಠ_ಠ plopplopplop December 11 2011, 19:10:50 UTC

Don't lay off. Some one needs to speak sense in to him before he follows through with all his horrible ideas. I would hope it would be you. As futile as it may seem.

Why are people so god damn eager to fuck up their lives?

?_? hyperbole December 14 2011, 04:45:10 UTC

I feel as if I've made my case the best I can and any further attempts at badgering on my part would do little more than strain our relationship further and undermine any hopes I might have to be able to talk with him about these things in the future. Half of being there for someone is giving honest feedback about the decisions they make (when that advice is solicited, and sometimes when it isn't) and doing the best you can to help them make difficult choices...the other half is respecting their right to ultimately make those decisions and if they do end up fucking up their life, helping them pick up the pieces afterwards if need be. I would only hope someone else would be willing to do the same for me.

Also, she said yes.