AFG Sallies

[[ Grynn Wolf ]]

Okay....
I'm really freakin' out about my roommate situation.

To start, I hate that my university doesn't let us know about roommates until just under 3 weeks from the first day for move-in. Stressful because I don't know where I'm staying, what type of room I'll have, who my roommate is and what appliances he's bringing and what I need to bring.

Well, I found out who he is yesterday and what room I'll be stayin' in. The residence hall seems wonderful...

So I looked up his profile on Facebook...
To start, very very social guy, but that's not a bad thing, but its still the opposite of me.
He's also a very religious man, but says he has very liberal political views...so that really makes me nervous.
Our majors aren't even very similar...
We don't share any common interest in music (from what I can tell...).

Now I'm just really freakin' out because of this.
On my Facebook profile, it says right there that I'm gay and a furry and therian and what being a furry/therian means to me.

His status message was something like "pissed because the school hasn't told me where I'm living".
So, I sent him a friend request along with a message sayin' "Hey, looks like you've got a place to stay. And it appears we're roommates."
I got home from work, and he had replied with "yea i kno".

No real effort to get to know me or anything, just kind of a 'whatever' attitude toward the whole thing. Now I don't know about anybody else, but I know for sure that if I got a message from my roommate after waiting 3 months and starting school in 3 weeks, I'd want to get to know him and talk some....wouldn't you? (Rhetorical Question BTW)
I mean, not something like "Hey, tell me your life story." but just something along the lines of "Hey, glad we finally got room assignments. You ready for school to start?" or something to get a conversation going.

I'm just worried as hell because I'm going to have to spend a lot of time in the room. He may not be there, but there's a fairly decent chance.
The university ******** up and accepted too many people to live in dorms, then realized they had more freshman coming in than planned, so there's an overflow of 250+ students. For that reason, a lot of the lounges are being converted to be used as dorm rooms.
That means that there isn't going to be many places to go until about half way through the semester at the earliest. Not like I'll be getting out much anyway.
I'll have two desktop computers as well as a tablet PC with me, and working on all three simultaniously. Even though I may not be doing school work right away on all three, probably not until the Spring semester, I've still got to get them set up and running the way I need them to be. I've got to completely re-image my current PC because I screwed up the partitions last time, and then I've got to rearrange all of my files. I'll be buying a Mac Mini about a month into the semester for art/photography work, as well as development later in school, so I've got to get that set up to work with my existing monitor and figure out a layout for having 2 keyboards and 2 mice. The tablet PC isn't a problem, since I can just slip that in and out of a bag when I need it, and it shouldn't take too long to set up. My point is, I'm going to have to use these computers a lot starting sometime this semester and definetely next semester...

So I'm really freakin' out that we're just going to have a "Hey, what's up?"
"Whats up..."
type of 'friendship'. I cannot live with someone in that situation... If I live with someone, I need some type of interaction.

I don't even know what to do now. I don't know if I should keep sending him messages, or just say to hell with it and bring my own appliances... Part of me wants to do that latter or just wait another week or so to see if he makes an attempt at anything....

EDIT: Yes....Doomie's not the only one with huge posts. 3nodding  

[[ Grynn Wolf ]]

DoomNeko

Today, I threw away 75%+ of my art archive. It was all signed under the name of an artist I'd rather leave forgotten. My real name, which I now try to avoid like the plague. I know running away from problems doesn't solve them, but this will at least buy me some time for my own sanity. My friends know me as Doomie, my peers know me as Doomie, and my new aquaintances know me as Doomie, so best it be and stay that way.

Of course, while I was pulling out the huge drawers and filing cabinets and stuffing industrial garbage bags full of 7 years worth of art, neither of my parents who were both down in the basement at the time said a single word to stop me, lest even ask me why, or what I'm doing. They just stood there, arguing, more enthralled about the look of the room, even though I was there doing it for a good 4 hours. When I got 200$ for my grades in Arts and Communication back in highschool they came running though. I don't even want to think about what kind of a conclusion I should form on all this.

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7 YEARS OF ARTWORK?!
Holy...gods Doomie.

*Hugs ya tight.*
I know it's something you want to forget....but there isn't a better than throwing it out? Even if it's signed under your real name, its still your work.
Names are just a label...but art...art is something entirely different. Names can change, and so can art, true....but the art is still a depiction of you. Its like a representation of yourself. The artwork on that page says more about you than the name signed next to it...

Then again, I guess I don't really have room to say anything on this subject. I just had to move houses, and am leaving that house in three weeks... I threw out so many objects that brought back childhood memories, more recent memories, or just momentoes from different places/people. I have two 18 gallon tubs and two small boxes packed with stuff, and then one box packed with books. Other than that, I really only saved my day to day items and some room decorations.
I know what you mean about wanting to leave it all behind and just try to stay away... I'm pretty much in the same mindset right now. I just want to leave my current life and start off again under "Grynn Wulfe". All of my photos are copyrighted under the name "Grynn Wulfe" and from this point forward, if I ever print/sell an image, it will be signed as "Grynn Wulfe" if not signed as my real name along with that...

I really hope things get better for you...you've had too much going on that you shouldn't have to deal with....  

[FogSage]

I somewhat enjoy coming to this thread, because when I read about all the s**t that people go through that I never have, it makes me look at my life and say, "What the hell do I have to be unhappy about?!" Sorry if that sounds bad, but it's the truth.

Doomie, I am so sorry. Your parents sound like real Neanderthals, and about every bit as appealing. =_= They seem to count you among the faceless millions out there that have no purpose other than for sheer amusement. A sad thing that parents can be as dissapointing as that. Very sad indeed. I'm sad that you threw out most of your artwork, but if that's the price you pay to make a advance in your life, then maybe it's a mixed blessing. After all, you can't go through the tollgate without paying something for it first, right?  

[Selene Aries]

DoomNeko

lots of other text
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Is this what life is about?
I dunno... I'm starting to think it's not as cracked up as some make it out to be. Then again, maybe I just listened to Hakuna Matata too often, and expect too much on the common sense level from other humans. Ugh.

Trust me when I say there is a better life for you out there waiting. The sad thing is that it probably is not going to get better till you get out of that house and away from any dependancy on your partents. Remember, there are those out there that truely care for you and love you and are more than willing to lend you support. Never forget that you have them in your life and the happiness they will bring once you are together.  

[Sonya Khatsworth]

FogSage

I somewhat enjoy coming to this thread, because when I read about all the s**t that people go through that I never have, it makes me look at my life and say, "What the hell do I have to be unhappy about?!" Sorry if that sounds bad, but it's the truth.

Schadenfreude.
If you've never heard the term before, look up the song of the same name from the Avenue Q soundtrack (the original soundtrack on which "The Internet is for Porn" appeared); it's worth it.  

[Selene Aries]

DoomNeko

FogSage

I somewhat enjoy coming to this thread, because when I read about all the s**t that people go through that I never have, it makes me look at my life and say, "What the hell do I have to be unhappy about?!" Sorry if that sounds bad, but it's the truth.

Schadenfreude.
If you've never heard the term before, look up the song of the same name from the Avenue Q soundtrack (the original soundtrack on which "The Internet is for Porn" appeared); it's worth it.

OMG I heard that "The Internet is for Porn" song, it was pure genious. rofl  

[Araclast]

I know i havent been around much...but now ill be on less school is starting and my parents are being bitches about my internet "addiction" there just a bunch of hippocrits who cant get their arses off the TV and find reasons to keep me off the comp, so sadly it might be a while until im on at a regular time. ahwell hugs and kisses  

[Record Producer Jay-Z]

Avenue Q eh? I love them, they are just Sesame Street for adults X3  

[Sonya Khatsworth]

Diana Vulpes

OMG I heard that "The Internet is for Porn" song, it was pure genious. rofl

The entire soundtrack comes from a broadway show called Avenue Q, which like Nanaki said, is Sesame Street for Adults. It's worth seeing, or at least, hearing the rest of the soundtrack.
With titles like :
- The Internet is For Porn
- Schadenfreude
- Everyone's a Little Bit Racist
- There is Life Outside Your Apartment
- If you were Gay
- My Girlfriend (Who Lives in Canada!)
- What do you do with a B.A. in english?
Lastly;
- I'm not Wearing Underwear Today
 

[Record Producer Jay-Z]

Her name is Alberta she lives in Vancouver, she sucks like a hoover << >>  

[Eddily]

shoki_de_nai

What the hell? Photobucket has decided that some of my art is offensive and violates their ToS. Four of mine were revmoved because of this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/shoki_de_nai/shepsketch.jpg
There's an example. I reloaded it under a new name to show. What's wrong with that?! Besides, there's others showing a similar amount of body that are still fine...or maybe they haven't gotten to it yet.

In other news...I may lose my job. My boss JUST found out about my condition...and needs to talk to my doctor. If she tells him that my job is causing it to get worse, by Iowa law I have to be let go. And I was just gonna get a $0.50 raise!

You mean they told you why you were banned? They didn't bother telling me, I just couldn't log in one day. xp  

[Rainey_angel81]

I'm happy today. I was finally able to let the dog I'm training off leash in the open space. She's a pit bull and she's sort of one of the bad ones. It's taken me a whole year to manage her dog aggression and it's not fixed, but now she acknowledges me as pack leader so she turns to me for protection before protecting herself. And then she has mild people aggression, but has never snapped or bitten anyone..yet.
Other reason I'm happy is because I saw a coyote and a bobcat today too. You mostly NEVER see bobcats in the open space anymore. But it was trotting on the hill above where my dog and I were hiking. And then the coyote was just a pup and was sitting up on the hill howling/barking.  

[UglyCoyoteNG]

At about twelve, i got a call from my "sister" Jolene. She was crying, and I could hear Gavin, her son, crying in the background. She wanted to get ahold of mom,and she couldn't. So she tried me instead. She said her weener dog, Poopy/Poopsy was having a seisure. She was flopping around like a fish, and now she was just crying loudly. Now, Poopy had been acting funny for a week or two. I tried to tell them that, but they didn't belive me.

Yesterday, she pooped in Jolene's room, and then kept going from place to place laying down, i belive she may have been trying to find sompleace to die. Today, she seisured, and kept haveing nerological seisures. When i got there, she was laying infront of the heater, she'd died, her heart had stopped, her breathing had stopped, and her eyes were closed. However, somehow, before I got there, she had come back and was simply laying there. I pinched her toes; no reaction. She was aware of me being there, and who i was, she fallowed me with her eyes, and if i touched near her eyes, she'd close them. Her tail would wag when i pet and talked to her.

We took her to the vet the second mom got here, wraping her in warm towls, and carring her off. We were set in a waiting room, where we talked to her and pet her, and told her whne she got better, she was going to have a nail trim. She wagged her tail while we let and talked to her, she fallowed us with her eyes.

Then she had another nerological seisure, her eyes spasumed and her head was twitching. Then she started grunting/growling, and pulled her head back, her body tenced up, and we called a vet in right away. I belive that was the stroke, and erlier today, when she was 'flopping around' it was a seisure. The stroke was massive, and before we got a chance to put her down, she made the choice for us. I wish I could have been there when she died, I didn't want her to be alone... So now, we're waiting for Quinn, Jolene's husband to come home, so he can burry her, and pick her up from the vet.

In other news, i have a new cellphone. Yay..  

[Krissim Klaw]

Eddily

shoki_de_nai

What the hell? Photobucket has decided that some of my art is offensive and violates their ToS. Four of mine were revmoved because of this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/shoki_de_nai/shepsketch.jpg
There's an example. I reloaded it under a new name to show. What's wrong with that?! Besides, there's others showing a similar amount of body that are still fine...or maybe they haven't gotten to it yet.

In other news...I may lose my job. My boss JUST found out about my condition...and needs to talk to my doctor. If she tells him that my job is causing it to get worse, by Iowa law I have to be let go. And I was just gonna get a $0.50 raise!

You mean they told you why you were banned? They didn't bother telling me, I just couldn't log in one day. xp

I didn't know they even had restrictions on what you can have.

Eddilly, do you log in at least once a month? I think they dump your account if you don't log in enough or something. XP

Rainy- That sounds great. I'm glad your making progress with the dog. Most people wouldn't have the skill or patients for an animal suffering from those issues and it would have been put down.


Ok Woot minor mantis victory dance. I finished the cage seperation for the travel and am currently testing Siren out in it. He seems to be fine with it except for the usual complaints about only having half the room. Mantises aren't the best at shareing.

On another note I am happy to see Siren is getting back to his usual self. About a week ago I noticed he had developed a big hand shyness. He would get really nervous and would veer away whenever something was placed before him instead of climbing up like he used to do. Also movements around his head and body would make him nervous. Not sure why he suddenly developed it since that had never bothered him before. I'm also the only one to handle him so I know it wasn't because he was hurt or had a bad scare. Been givining him some extra attention and taking it slow and he seems to have regained his confidence so it makes me feel better.  

[Shinigami Whistle]

And when I heard the whistle I knew I had been chosen...

@ Grynn - I know what you're going through. I didn't get my roomate's phone number until about 2-3 weeks before I had to move in, so it was pretty tense. Although I didn't know anything about her other then the stuff we talked about on the phone.

And my roomate is kinda active and she goes out, and only sleeps and talks on her phone, so I feel it's pretty one-sided here as well. You get used to it, trust me. In ways it's nice if only cause you dont' have to worry about them breathing down your neck all the time about stuff.

As for the appliance and stuff, just send him a note saying specifically "Hey, what are you bringing so I know what to bring." Dont' need to make idle chatter before that, just stick to the point if he isn't showing much sign to actually talk to you that much.

And who knows, maybe he's just shy when it comes to talking to new people, you never know. And for all you know, he may be feeling nervous and stuff just like you are.

Give it some time, if anything bring some stuff with you when you move in, if you realize you need other stuff, then you can bring it back one weekend when you go home or something. It's what my roomate and I have been doing, for the most part.


Anyway, I wish you luck with that, it's defiantly a big move and difference in ones life, I know it has mine. *has been living here for about 2 and a half weeks now.*

...to be the one who decides who goes next.