I'm not cool enough to call marijuana anything except marijuana.

[mmmrorschach]

Same deal with Jay-Z. Some people can get away with just calling him Jay, but I feel like I have to call him Shawn Carter.

Just because I feel like I should have them written down somewhere,

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[ms_cucumber]

I like Monet except for his water lilies. They're just so overexposed. They definitely would be improved with some ducks in them! :D

[mmmrorschach]

Or maybe if there was a scuba diver looking up from underneath the lilies, like, What are you looking at?

[ms_cucumber]

XD

[mmmrorschach]

I feel silly saying any of the other ones. My voice cracks when I say reefer, I can't say ganja with a straight face, dope I always mean as dopey, pot is a cooking implement, I draw out the 'ee' in weed for way too long, and I always have to sing ♫mary ja-ane♫. It's just a mess.

And that's when you realize how many of your classmates have no idea what a French accent sounds like. I'm afraid I would have to lean heavily on imitating Lumière from Beauty and the Beast or Miss Spider from James and the Giant Peach. You know, there's probably a classroom in France where kids were forced to read a play in an American accent and some poor kid was doing his absolute best John Wayne impression. "Why is he calling us pilgrims?"

On the average, I have been fine. You know what they say, always regressing towards the mean.

[grrgoyl]

Wow. Total WordPress FAIL. This absolutely did not show up in my feed, even though I have you on the VIP list.

Awwww, I just want to hold your younger, awkward self's hand. You sound like me back then, only way, way worse. I was sort of ostrasized by people (in elementary school. Found friends in high school, though not many. Quality vs quantity, I always say). Didn't really care at the time since I was (and am) a loner. Being a loner is fine, but it's so painful when you meet those people who think they're doing you a favor by singling you out and bringing everyone's attention to you. Please. I'm fine on my own. You are not helping.

[mmmrorschach]

During lunch, I used to sit with any group who didn't actively shun me, but eventually I got to the point where I no longer cared and picked empty cafeteria seats like I picked parking lot spaces. But I don't remember being singled out very often.

[adam_0oo]

Ha, people who are so nice you can't tell if they are hitting on you. When I encounter these people I mentally squint at them, trying to figure that shit out.

[tastyradish]

My awkward moments as a child was whenever we were required to choose a partner. I would just sit or stand around silently and wait for the teacher to finally pair me with that one other unlucky lone individual. The worst was when there was an uneven amount of students though.

[mmmrorschach]

I was STILL doing that up to my very last semester of college. The worst was for a month-and-a-half long project and the professor gave us over spring break to form teams, but as soon as he dismissed class you could see groups of people clustering together like a bunch of human-sized fists all over the classroom. When we got back from spring break, he asked if everyone was in a group, and I just slowly turned my head looking for anyone else with the same panic-stricken look in their eyes. I got stuck with two other guys who could hardly speak English. We had to write technical papers for this project and everything they gave to me was completely unusable. I almost cried when I finally admitted to myself, "I am going to have to do everything."