posted 02-18-2009 12:16 PM               

Namely:

The way I feel about my next door neighbor. Mmm.
The way mommy and daddy feel about each other until you're old enough to know the truth.
The way we feel towards all our really good friends every day.
Certain flavors of Ben and Jerrys.
When the romantic lead is willing to sing a showstopping number about the other romantic lead.
What I feel everytime I think about the kids I left behind in Thailand.

posted 02-19-2009 08:05 PM               

hmmm, i dont know if i can come up with an answer as good as yours.

love can be very very confusing.

love is uncontrollable - what i mean is, you cannot, under any circumstance, control who you love (or dont love). sometimes it backfires in your face, sometimes its embarrassing, sometimes the feeling is returned (which is always nice).

love is both the bad and the good all in one. its a very complex feeling indeed.

i think that everything love makes you feel, both emotionally and physically...it can also make you feel the exact opposite and the exact same time. so strange.

posted 02-19-2009 11:02 PM            

quote:

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originally posted by valenticed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o0-unK69Zk

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I get it now! Thanks.

posted 02-20-2009 11:25 PM               

Love is secretly knowing about his boyfriend, and not being able to make yourself do anything about it.

posted 02-21-2009 08:25 PM            

SPOILER!********

I miss Zach, too.

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posted 02-21-2009 09:51 PM            

Aww, come on. Hodgins is kind of cute, in a puppy-ish way (or at least I think so), and he and Angela breaking up makes me angry. Cam's the one that bugs me, if I had to pick someone that bugged me the most.

posted 02-21-2009 11:35 PM               

I jsut don't see everyone's attachment to it. I've never found anything even the slightest bit compelling about it. It's not like they have a couple as obviously meant for each other as Catherine and Warrick from CSI.

posted 03-02-2009 11:22 AM               

quote:

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Originally posted by WitchBoy06:
[B]Does anybody think the lady on the Progressive commercials is cool?

B]

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posted 03-29-2009 08:34 PM               

by the way, i'm white.

posted 03-29-2009 08:39 PM            

WitchBoy- try this one, and see how it works out: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090113152331AASG29f

posted 05-25-2009 11:14 PM               

Have you ever had weeks where you felt like you had to work really hard to be honest? Like, where you felt like lying all the time?

A pal and I were discussing this and came to the conclusion that we both had, I was just curious if we were the only ones.

posted 05-26-2009 06:56 PM               

it's a bit depressing.

posted 05-27-2009 03:42 PM               

quote:

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Originally posted by helenbooktrip:
i have been lying A LOT lately. and i think i'm good at it...which is probably bad. lying is bad and i'm good at it.
ya, i feel like i've been lying for quite a while now.

it's a bit depressing.

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Why is that?

I mean I've been lying these days about everything, no matter how stupid. Just today I've lied about what I had for lunch, my plans for the evening, and what time I plan to get up tomorrow. All very useless things to lie about.

posted 05-28-2009 07:24 PM               

shame.

posted 06-28-2009 07:15 AM               

So my little sister turns 14 on Monday. I put in to have The 4th of July weekend off from work so I could drive down (more than three hours from home) to visit her for her birthday. The way it worked out I was given the time off and then some and I had a whole whopping five days! Now, I was very excited about this.

Problem is now that my boss has decided to tell me I have to come in on Saturday. Smack in the middle of my five days off. It costs me about $70 to go home and come back because of gas. So going down and just coming back to work won't be okay, I don't have the extra 70 bucks.

Anyway, so not only did my boss tell me I have to work on Saturday but when I said "Okay will you trade shifts with me so I can get out before dark?" She said no because she had plans she "really wanted to do." I less than politely reminded her that I had put in for this time off and that my family lives more than six times further away from our studio than hers does. And that it's going to be unfair to ask them to wait up for me to arrive after 1 AM because I couldn't get a decent shift.

She proceded to say "well I have something I really want to do that day so come in at 2:30."

So here's my question. I *know* that I have a job and as part of that job I have to be responsible and go in to work when I'm scheduled. And I do. Every time. But I wasn't even scheduled that day. As a matter of a fact, I had previously put in for that time off as per company policy.

Now in the past couple of months I've been more of an "on call" worker than having days off anyway. They're continuously calling me in 3-4 days that I have "off" in a row asking me to go in and run the studio for a while. Granted I live the closest to work when I'm at home and not trying to visit family and I've said that I don't mind going in. (Which of course I mind, but it's my job and I wanna keep being able to feed myself so I haven't said anything.) Not to mention that I've worked every single holdiay since I've been there. My birthday excluded b/c it was on one of my school days. (Thanksgiving, christmas eve, new years eve and day, v-day, saint patty's, Easter, Memorial day, mother's day, father's day, etc.)

But I just feel like my boss is taking advantage of the fact that I'm *usually* willing to go above and beyond.

Anyway, my question is this: What should I do about this weekend? Am I stuck working even though I put in for the time off? Should I contact uppper management? Should I show up and work until I have a reasonable amount of time to get home and then leave early? Just suck it up and do my job? (Even though I feel like it's not my job to be there when I'm scheduled off, especially when I put in for the time back in April.)

And no, I can't call anyone else in. There are only three of us there and the other girl (not my boss) called my boss yesterday to say she may not be able to work Saturday. So, naturally, I was told I have to stay in town in case I need go in. And that turned into "Well, why don't you just work that day." So, the best part is that my boss gets time off if the other girl decides to come in. I work either way.

FML

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posted 06-29-2009 01:40 PM               

exercise your rights LLK - you are not obligated to go into work on a day that you booked off way ahead of time.

thats that.

posted 07-01-2009 06:35 AM            

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posted 07-01-2009 06:33 PM               

I've done something like twenty sessions in the last two days and earned like 3K for the studio. Which for a WalMart studio is INTENSE. Haha.

Meanwhile, my next paycheck is going to be NIIICE. Can you say comission?

But, I feel like if I've earned 3K in the last two days then maybe I deserve a bit of a break. *shrug.*

I told them I wouldn't be here and to call me if they needed any help via phone--but that I wouldn't be coming in. I hope they can make do.

posted 05-18-2010 10:21 AM               

A 22 year old woman is givien a teaching job as she graduates from college. She moves to the city where her new job is at the start of the summer. Not long after she moves she meets a younger man and they start dating.

By the end of the summer they've been dating for a couple of months.

He's 18, by the way.

Her first day of school the young woman realizes that her boyfriend is not a freshman in college, as she thought, but a senior in high school. Furthermore, a senior at the school she's been hired to teach at. She immediately goes to her boss and asks what to do. He tells her to go home and he'll let her konw. The next day she's fired.

The woman decides to sue the school, feeling that she'd been wrongfully let go and that she handled the situation the best way anyone could have. The courts, however, decide in favor of the school saying that it would be condoning a student-teacher relationship. Which would be wrong at any level but they were especilly unwilling to set that precedent at the high school level.

So, tell me... if this had happened today, or in real life, how would it have gone down? And, who's wrong? Who's right? What are your thoughts?

Feel free to ask whatever you want about the scenario, I left facts out intentionally.

posted 05-18-2010 12:15 PM               

If they've been dating for a few months though, I have to wonder why the topic of where she was going to be teaching and where he was going to school never came up.

posted 05-18-2010 07:04 PM               

Also, I'm unclear as to the boy's intentions in keeping that info.

I do think she should've been removed from the staff, immediately. However, I'm not sure if they should've fired her. If they'd allowed her to resign it wouldn't have the same effect on her possible future employment.

Then again, any relationship of that type with a student shouldn't be allowed. And, I think she shouldn't be given any slack.

It's a tough scenario.

posted 05-19-2010 11:13 AM            

However, I want the REAl stories. Not just some thing on how it's supposed to be. I would appreciate if anyone would tell me about their first time asking someone out. If no one wants to that's okay too. Just, I would like to ask her out in time to see the new Shrek movie on Friday. So time is of the essence. Please

posted 05-19-2010 11:56 AM               

First thing: do not under any circumstances, ever, use one of those cheesy pick-up lines. Save that for 10 years from now when you're in a bar trying to score. No "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?" or "Can I have your number, I lost mine." They really DON'T work.

Second: If you are friends, even just in class friends, you've got an angle right there. Say that since the school year is ending you thought maybe you two could get together outside of school to do something so you'll stay in touch over the summer. Is she on your facebook? Start commenting on her wall, say stuff like "English today was funny when Jon fell down, wasn't it? But it wasn't nice of everyone to laugh at him. I hope he's okay now." Or whatever. It's good to keep the lines of communication open and it's great to move the friendship out of the classroom.

But, seriously... bring up that you guys have so much fun in class you'd like to see her outside of school. It's a good way to see how she feels about going out with you without feeling totally shot down if she declines.

Third: Do it. Don't let plans fall through. Make sure that you guys go out before the end of the school year. (I assume that's only a matter of weeks away for you. Though I could be wrong.) If you go out the first time before school lets out you have like 900x better of a chance of actually going out. Seeing each other every day gives you a good reason to make plans.

Fourth: Find something you'll both enjoy doing and ask if she'd like to come along. My boyfriend is taking me to se Iron Man 2 tonight. Granted we've been dating for a year... but still, it's something we both like. If she's interested in movies ask if she's like to see one with you. (And if you really want her to say yes, let her pick the movie.)

You could start the conversation like this:

"Are there any good movies playing now?"

She'll say something like "I kinda wanted to see blah blah blah."

If you wanted to see it say "Me too, it looks really good."

If not say: "What's that about again?"

Once you've talked about it a little while, suggest you go to see it together. Tell her you'll pay for the movie if she'll get the popcorn. This way it's a date if she wants it to be and it's no-pressure if she's not sure.

Fifth: Even if you don't do it my way, ask. If you don't ask her out, you won't go out. See the correlation there?

Sixth: If she declines, don't take it hard. There could be any number of reasons and she may not necessarily be shooting you down. Dust it off and keep being friendly towards her. That way she might say yes next time. :-D

Uh... I can't think of any other advice than that right now, without walking you through the whole first date. Which, you didn't ask for. Just have fun ;-) And, good luck.

I hope other people will chime in too. I'm not an expert dater by any means.

Good luck!