The not happy thread

That rotts.
Just be glad you're alive --

 

Attaching files = slow ALL THE TIME!!!

I hate it.

 

The winters that last 6 months where I'm from Always so cold. I wish I could do little things like go out for midnight walks and stuff without turning blue. Sports, driving, everything is made difficult / unpleasant.

 

I'm sorry. I saw the end of the game and knew you would be upset. I was rooting for you guys!

Oh my god, Xe! I hope you heal quickly! What a painful experience.

Yikes, winter...I like winters in Arizona. Not winter at all.

 

It's okay, I can only assume last night was justice for naming the Olympic arena Canada Hockey Place. Besides, no one in Canada will remember what happened last night once we win the gold on Sunday

 

Little things have started going wrong within the last week or so, and it's starting to get me down
My relationship with my dad is seriously strained - his house was ruined by a pipe leak so he's living a two hour drive away and wont drive over here to see me. It feels like he's chosing his 'new' family over me a lot of the time, although maybe Im being selfish there :/
Thing between me and my best friend dont seem quite right and I can't figure out why
One of my closest friends has got into seriously cycling now and it's all she talks about, it feels like I dont know her anymore.
I've been told that my chemistry coursework has fallen through so if I want a decent mark Im going to have to do another chemistry exam instead.
I had a bad illergic reaction to a cat so my dream career has gone right out of the window. I have no idea what I want to do with my life anymore.
My friend can't come away with us in summer anymore so Im dreading the family holiday (I love my family to pieces, but the whole family is going away together on a boat this year, and coping with an 8 and a 5 year old without a destraction doesn't appeal)
My computer has broken. I may have lost a lot of my school work, music, and photos from the last 4 years.

 

That is a lot of shiit to deal with

 

i was hoping to be getting a tax return... instead, i owe the irs almost $500 (i haven't even touched my state tax)... how is that possible? i barely make anything as it is, but somehow they don't think they got enough. what am i supposed to pay with? the table scraps which is my salary? with the money i already used to pay for grad school and books up front?

 

Sounds grim, Kanga. Sure there's not a mistake there that you need to chase up?

I'm fed up because a) I have a stomach upset and b) My kids were getting supper ready because I didn't feel up to it. They put frozen baps topped with tuna fish to heat up in the microwave... and now, there is a fine coating of tuna over the entire surface of the microwave... and none to be seen on the baps...

 

I hate it when I have to go...I seldom get to spend anytime with my forum friends these days. "sigh"

 

You are in my head my dear!

 

I had a class today where over half the kids agreed that suicide is a courageous choice. I wanted to go on a rampage. And last week many of the students agreed that cheating on your spouse for a night every once in a while was a good thing to keep a relationship going. I don't know if I'm out of line saying this, but what the f*** happened to moral values in society?

 

This could also be an effect of Social Psychology, conformity and such. I bet if you asked a lot of the same kids on their own without the influence of their peers they would have a different answer....or I would hope so. The spouse thing really bothers me.

 

I thought this as well, but then I was even more bothered by so easily they can slip into this conformity. Infuriating.

 

*sigh* I despise going to a school that is, essentially, run by a church. All of the "higher ups" go to the same church, as well as many of the teachers. We are also so small that we get very little monitoring from outside sources like the school board (though we did get sued by the ACLU once).

This brings us to today's incident. I have to do a research paper. My original idea for a paper was to do one on teen pregnancy before Roe v. Wade. That was rejected by my english teacher. So we talked and talked and talked, and then we finally came to a tentative agreement and she told me to find things on the Sixties. I found something: the beginning of the gay rights movement.

She said "No, I will not read about that. Period." I brought up a few other subjects, feminism, the hippies sex freedom movement, and they were all rejected. It's just really frustrating, because all she wants us to do is political World War II stuff. Which we've done for three years, and heard done for three years.

 

How old were the kids? And what kind of backgrounds? I'm surprised - REALLY surprised. I can't imagine my kids (my own children) saying such a thing. But there are new definition of morals - sort of like when a society uses phrases like "ethnic cleansing" and they mean it as something that should be desired. Just because we "redefine" something - and that definition is accepted by many of the populace - does not mean it's a good thing. Or so methinks.

 

It's truly sad that people can be like this. Worse, it was a teacher. When I hear about things like this I am glad that the worst homophobia I experienced was some hassling in the locker room and being pushed down the stairs once. I never once experienced any sort of censorship from teachers.

 

These were people ranging from the age of 20 to 30 in my class. Some of them were married and had children.

 

From Evil Flamingo: These were people ranging from the age of 20 to 30 in my class. Some of them were married and had children.

Whoa! Crazy. And sad really. We have become so desensitized to so much. I'm sure every generation hears that from those that came before - but since I'm with an older one now - it is disheartening.

 

This came out of the short story by Kate Chopin titled The Storm. Read it sometime, it's quite frustrating, and raises infuriating debates such as this. It tells about a wife who has a few hour long affair with an old love interest of her's while a huge storm is outside. He then leaves promptly after the storm ceases, the husband comes home with their child, and everybody is happy because their oblivious to what happened.

 

Evil: I just googled Kate Chopin - and I think I remember studying her - but for the life of me I can't remember a word. The Awakening is what I think I read. And as I found out - and you no doubt already know - she either never intended The Storm to be published - or did not think even with her notoriety, which was large at the time she wrote The Storm - would have been able to publish it. At least she never submitted it anywhere - nor did she ever attempt to self-publish. I wonder if she wrote if for herself - and here we are making such a fuss over it. I wonder if she saw it as acceptable as we do today. . . She clearly had that "outer self" and "inner self" thing going - maybe The Storm was just a inner self that she never wanted others to see.

Just because we can do something -or think of something - doesn't mean we should - or even want to - act on it.

Keep the faith Evil - the world is a big place - lot of opinions - we need to find our own and not be pressured into a mainstream that compromises our trueself.

 

EDIT: Okay, that was a little inappropriate. But seriously, infidelity is no laughing matter. Adulterers are idiots. Commitment people, COMMITMENT!

And Kate Chopin was painful to read. Really, anything about infidelity being portrayed positively makes me wanna punt a puppy.

 

Ouch, Kanga. Joel's in the same boat-he owes like $300. Grrrr.

Wow, dude. I may have had to leave the room if I had been there.

I know we already talked about this, but I can't get over how ridiculous and frustrating that is. I'm so glad I never had to put up with teachers like that! The worst I ever had to deal with was a teacher telling me that I couldn't write a paper on Harry Potter...which I disagreed with, but at least he wasn't refusing every topic I presented him.

 

It would have been far less acceptable than it is today at that time. So my belief is that she didn't publish it for that reason. And yes, thank you, I try to stay away from being sucked into mainstream as much as possible. I've led a happier life because of it. It's things like this that just make my big picture mind have conniptions.

Edit: Thanks Sabruer, I laughed at punting puppies...now I'm a bad person...haha

 

I agree with you, I don't get it, especially from young people. Aren't we supposed to have some sort of shelfless idealism when we are young?

Anyway, about suicide, they were probably trying to be cool, unsentimental or whatever, in the classroom. Next time reverse the argument on them, and ask them if they would still think the same, if their kid did it. Will they still be cool about it?

As for cheating, that opinion is just an excuse to cheat. I bet it would hurt if it happened to them though. It certainly wouldn't keep my relationship going. It would make my baby go, though. Through the window and straight to @#$$%%!!!!!!!!!