I played volleyball when I was younger a little, but haven't played in like 10 years at all! I seem to have forgotten any good tips or strategies and now I feel like I just suck. Unfortunately, I don't have much time to practice, but I play on an intramural team once a week and am quite embarassed because I'm concerned everyone on my team thinks I suck. I'm
You know how you know those people that you kind of secretly despise because they are just all-around good at everything? It just doesn't make sense how they can know how to do just about everything and always come out at the top and yet still seem like good people? I'm not going to say that that used to be me, but at least my friends used to think so. I re
I know people can come up with an argument for pretty much anything as being evolutionarily adopted, but really some emotions we can do without. Yeah, yeah, without fear, you wouldn't necessarily kick in that "fight or flight" response that tells you that you're in danger, but I'm considering a less physiological approach. I just don't understand how being afraid
I've analyzed this one... most of the time it is true, but at the same time, I've noticed that sometimes people who show too much enthusiasm, especially about topics that aren't deserving, and it ends up sounding somewhat odd. And also, what fluctuates in your voice to make something sound a lot more enthusiastic?
You know how you talk to some people and just can't help but crack up at everything that comes out of their mouth, whereas other people will repeat exactly what the first person said, and you can barely crack a smile? Obviously this has a lot to do with the art of story-telling. This is why some people are born to be comedians and other people...not so much. This i
Ok, after reading Shovelheat's response, I have to add, I also quite often look in the mirror and have a difficult time connecting that the person staring back is supposed to be me. I think the image I have of what I look like is so different than the person staring back that I never know how to possibly look at the person and not be critical or analytical.
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So I'll admit that I'm known for not getting a particularly satisfactory haircut each time I go in, although most of the time it's just that I end up getting it cut too short. Since I'm in a new place, I thought I'd try a new salon as well. I've never found that one stylist that does my hair just right, so I had nothing to lose. I went in and explained ex
Locamama, I know how you feel. Funny thing is, like you're saying, it's not that you aren't thinking logically or you don't realize something. It's more like you know it completely, but just can't seem to have it sink in. Why is that supposed to be considered so weak though? Zoo, Thanks for the response. That's just it though. I feel like some people (ahem, me) don't know how to just suck it up and move on. There's always somethi
I just realized that one of the hardest things in life is to learn to let go. I'm sure this is not some type of epiphany but it kind of is to me because I realize it is the stem of almost allll my problems. I have definitely NEVER mastered this phenomenon and have never come close to being able to figure out how to even begin. It seems so much easier to just push t
Great article!! I met one on the train. She was amazing. I chose to ignore her for the first half of my train ride by putting my jacket over my head and falling asleep. When I woke up, I was irritated by her consistent attempt to make small talk about how she was frustrated that her daughter was moving back home. What an unappreciative punk, I thought to myself, why doesn't she learn to quit complaining. Something happened then and I have been
So the first few months at this new place were going well. I was pretty cheery, I had a lot of friends, I was starting to feel attractive, school was going well...for the most part things here were pretty settled. I thought to myself that finally, things were going to be good. And then it suddenly started to hit again. I don't know what it is. I am starting to fe
Wow...harsh. Trust me, I've thought about this. And I know it's not right. Ask me 3 months ago and I would have promised that I would never ever have anything with a guy with a girlfriend. Just as you probably would. But trust me, being in the situation, spending 24/7 with this person, realizing that he is really not that interested in this girl and knowing they are NOT gonna last, it's not as easy to suspend the whole matter by simply saying o
I completely disagree with what you are saying. First off, being attractive has very little to do with whether you're physically hot or not, and has 10 times as much to do with how you present yourself. You gotta be the first to think that you can be attractive. The guy that I was into looked weird when I met him and wasn't all that cute at all (he had kind of a weird hair cut and I at first thought he was a complete dork), but he was nonetheless sup
Thanks for the response Zoo...You're completely right in parts of it. I do agree that girls let emotions control them and guys let hormones control them and that both are idiots. And you're right that girls come back to guys that don't deserve them but guys do too. You would think that the "good guy" friend is the one that is kinda nonexistent to girls, but you're actually wrong about that. I have always been kind of a "guy's best friend" kind of g
Here's the shortened scoop. I accept some of the blame, but it's not all my fault that all guys are idiots and girls have been conditioned to hope for the nonexistent "good ones" (Oh Disney movies, how you do us wrong). Met a guy who was in a pretty long-term relationship (1.5 years), and was starting long-distance. Made it clear to me that he wasn't sure h
What I quickly learned during my first week of graduate school is that at this point, practically everyone is either hitched, soon to be hitched or in a long-term relationship. Problem: I'm not. Not that I have a problem with being single at all. What I do have a problem with is being attracted to non-single people. I quickly formed a judgement to realize
The weird thing is that the thing that's most been keeping me out of a deep funk for the past few months is the memory of it back in February. It was the only time I've ever allowed myself to ask for help from friends or to even let them know I was going through something quite crappy. That's when I quickly learned that even those who are your closest friends can't
Time and time again I've found that the thing that hurts me the most is that I feel like I have a one-way relationship with most people. I listen to them, help them, care for them. In return, I get a lot of "laters." I am fairly closed to begin with. I have a hard time telling people problems or telling them personal things about myself. The times I have tried, I
"Getting more books at the library than I can possibly read in 3 weeks!" Trudy, I used to do that all the time too. Limiting yourself is just too hard. It's a good thing you're addicted to cocoa and not coffee. Graffix, that's funny that you have the organization compulsion. I know people like that, but I think with them it's more of a control issue. Also, your wife mu
I haven't seen it yet, but I've been told by many that I shouldn't watch it because it'll take away all my time. I'm kinda afraid to start... but when the time is right...I just might. Would you definitely recommend starting from season 1?
Hey, I've never read any of your Music Reviews until now, but they seem pretty cool.
There are some things I have recently discovered I am randomly and unhealthily addicted to: - Grey's Anatomy - Lifehouse music - thinking about making fries in the oven and then not doing it - staying up wayyy too late - trying to neutralize my karma by not making mean comments about people...even fake people like celebs (and by neutralize I m
Strong blog. Don't you wonder why it is that most people learn most of what to do by following leads, even when they think they won't, while there are those few people that also learn everything they know by leads, but by seeing examples and understanding what it is they don't want to do in life? That's the tough thing. What differentiates the two? It seems you have the two things that are the hardest to have and the most useful to
There is a bright side...borderline diabetics give up pretty much all sugar...including a lot of carbs, chocolate, breads, juices, ICE CREAM!!! It's gotta be tough to find stuff without examining the sugar content every 5 seconds. Yet, still, I bet it does stink to dessert coffee. I empathize (even though I don't really like coffee).
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