the problem is all inside your head she said to me

[minorannoyance]

So there was a party downstairs when I got home last night. One of them keg type parties, with the usual underage people who come to them. Fine and good, I suppose; every gaggle of college kids living on their own ought to be entitled to one party that rages will into the following sunrise, but in my cantakerous old age, that's about what I can

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[saturn_in_rain]

these words seem rather familiar... circa 2003?

[minorannoyance]

possibly. I forgot to label the file, but that sounds right.

[lampetia]

Damn I hate underage kids. in fact, I can't stand most people under 23. We've been having an issue with college kids at work. Last week one drunk boy went nuts in the bathroom and ripped two urinals off the wall.

These punks don't respect other people's property. Fucking Duke bastards.

[minorannoyance]

I'm still coming to grips with the fact that by next year's incoming freshmen, I will be into double digits when they were born.

Some punk tried to follow me upstairs as I was walking in last night, and then asked me if I knew anyone who lived at this house. If I was really that bad when I was his age, someone should've put me down for the benefit of Earth.

[lampetia]

I can bitch with all sorts of snobbery since I've never been drunk in my life. I was a very boring teenager/young adult. Luckily (hah!) I have plenty of experience dealing with the party kids. For a while it was entertaining and it never seemed to bother me back when I was younger and my friends were like that. Now I'm just a crotchety old bitch. Shit. And you always vow you'll never be like your parents. Stupid maturity!

By the way, I don't know if I had congratulated you on the getting back into school bit so.. Congratulations!

[minorannoyance]

I'd be lying if I said I didn't imbibe some alcohol, but for the most part from 18-22 I was the person not drinking at the party. I do, however, remember being awfully uncouth to plenty of people who at best only half way deserved it (of course, with the crowd I ran with, that's really no shocker) but yeah, now that I'm old and grumpy, and it isn't people I know getting shitty drunk and yelling, I'm awfully boring.

The converse, however, is that school is much easier when your reason for being there has nothing to do with the social scene. Professors are happy to have at least one person with an iota of life experience, and the kids just don't know what to do with me.

Thanks. How did the rest of the drive go? Did you sample the fine back highways of Arkansas, or, the swill-hole of the south?

[pluribus_adelos]

I'm torn sometimes about feeling sorry for people that do blatantly stupid things. Moving a piano while wearing sandals qualifies. Being a woman, I'm certain she had other shoes ;) but perhaps none of them were any more appropriate for the job. I guess it's easier for me to not care in this case since I didn't actually have to see her face to face. Out of curiosity, would you have felt compassionate, or even as compassionate, if it had been one of the guys instead ?

[minorannoyance]

She actually wasn't even moving the piano onto the porch, but was standing off to the side, and the people guiding the piano swung the corner too close to her, and then dropped it.
One of the guys also had the piano on his foot, but he was wearing steel toed boots. Of course, the guys (by their own admission) were half drunk when the piano arrived.
It's probably also fair to mention that I've had the same thing happen to my toe, and I know exactly how she felt.

[pluribus_adelos]

Ooops ! Just standing too close to half-drunk people with heavy objects in hand. Not as stupid as I initially thought, but still a recipe for... well.. what happened. My compassion meter is moving now.

[minorannoyance]

The following witheld tidbit might move it back a few notches:

They were faux-hippies (or, as they like to be called, hippies)

[_lyra_b]

Piano - sandals - toe. ow.

Adds 'Lonesome Jim' to queue....I haven't watched a film in about three weeks. I really need to kick-start my movie watching.

I like the last two lines very much.

[minorannoyance]

I left out some pertinent details to that because it was just too gross. Suffice to say she was not feeling so good initially.

Well, it's a good month to kick start it. September's got some very good movies coming to dvd.

i sent it in to NSS because they were griping about not having any poetry submissions. unsure if it's getting used or not. *shrug*

comedians of comedy next weekend! whoo! for perhaps the first and only time, it's too bad you're in California and not NC, because I wouldn't want to miss Patton Oswalt doing stand up on the day before September 11th.

[_lyra_b]

Yeah, I'm guessing the word 'gross' doesn't so the incident justice. I lost a big toenail in a soccer accident in high school and all these years later it's still mesed up, I truly feel for her.

Yeah, I've got three weeks left before school starts - I expect to try and fit in a lot of films.

I'd like to send in some poetry but it always seems so personal that it's hard to share - I tend to take the Emily Dickinson route. I don't know how poets do it. I guess if you're so inclined you have to. Did you happen to catch the interview with the poet on NSS a few weeks ago? I have to admit I didn't care for his work - I thought it was a little too 'randomly' forced - but I did enjoy the discussion very much. He was pretty interesting.

it's too bad you're in California and not NC,
It's so hard not to say anything to that.
;)

Enjoy the show anyway...
:D

[minorannoyance]

I really only get to watch movies in class or during the weekend these days; otherwise the netflix stuff just sits on a polite pile by the tv waiting for Friday afternoon...

To be honest I kinda skipped the interview with the poet; it seemed to be going awfully long and I had homework that needed doing. Lately I find myself skimming the podcast in between papers and reading. :\

which is why, after all, I went out of my way to qualify the "one and only" time aspect of it. :p