In High School and throughout College, I could never understand the people who can't be entertained by themselves for periods of time. Now I am far from a loner but I also hold friends to a higher standard. I had lots of acquaintances in HS and College but only a few people I would call friends.

 

I quit playing HS baseball because of an asshole coach and asshole players who not only thought they were gods personal gift to the world but also couldn't go a night without "doing something."

 

Fuck, having to always be "doing something" is my new pet peeve.

 

Tim

I know the type you're referring to Tim, and I can't stand them. Those that get up at like 4:00 in the afternoon after partying hard all night, put some clothes on and go out to do it again. I usually don't get along with those types at all because I'm the most non-spontaneous person you'll ever meet, I'm always punctual and I get angry when plans are changed. It's just how I am. That doesn't mean I have to know exactly what I'm doing every day in advance, but I need a general idea and people who are late and people who sleep past 10AM are probably my biggest pet peeves. I'm the type that even if I stay up until 5AM, I'm up by 10-10:30 at the latest, and it always bugs me when I'm supposed to do something with someone in the afternoon and I make it a point to get up and get ready and they're sleeping. Not everything has to be planned, but when a plan is made, it's pretty iron clad as far as I'm concerned.

That happened in college at times with me. I went out most weekends but I just wasn't up for going drinking or clubbing or heading over to someone's place every single day when I had studying and work to hand in the next day. I also am of the mindset it's better to go out on the town and do it properly rather than do shitty little things every day and burn out my money and body. For some odd reason the idea of being perpetually shitfaced and tired when at college didn't gel well with me unlike others.

 

Goodhelmet, what the hell is a pocket protector?

It seems to really annoy people that I can adjust my sleeping schedule. Like, if I don't have anything to do on the weekends I've been known to sleep till 1 or 2 PM. Yet, if I have something to do (like go to work) I have no problem getting up at 6:30 AM.

 

Apparently you must always get up early no matter if there's a reason to or not.

Being woken up when you were intentionally trying to have a lie in = reason to kill.

Sleep all day if you don't have plans. That's cool with me. Just don't oversleep when you've made plans. You're cool in my book, sek.

I've never been okay with the big partyers, either. Do your thing once in a while, but I don't see how it gets old. Then again, I guess they could say the same thing about posting on a messageboard or watching the same things over again. Different strokes and all that.

 

I'm now the only one in my closest group of friends that isn't 21, so things have been weird the last few months. I'm still included in plans, but it seems that ever since my last non-21-year-old friend turned 21, things have been a bit worse. He's really taken to the drinking thing, whereas I think I saw him drink twice before in all the years I knew him.

 

Now, every Tuesday night, he (sometimes the other two) hits up the pub for dollar draft night. I don't think drinking itself bothers me so much, it's how some people act about it. In my experiences, it just makes people act fake and generic. I hate to sound like the wet blanket, but the attitude while drinking is rarely different. People act like it's something special to get loaded, but it's not. That's why I couldn't ever stand parties. Four or five hours of people walking around, talking about what they're drinking or how much they've had or how far gone they are. Rarely anything else. Just boring in my eyes.

 

Drink if you wanna, but don't act like you're so great or talented because you're doing so. I don't care how much or what you drank, I don't care how messed up you were, and I don't care how often you get wasted. It's not interesting and I don't see how people can actually be entertained exchanging stories of that ilk with each other on a near-daily basis. Damn. //rant

I'm surprised this has gone for 3 pages without a D&D player popping up.

I think we had some but they don't post much now.

Goodhelmet, what the hell is a pocket protector?

Pocket Protector

 

 

 

 

As for my NERD/GEEK tendancies: I used to collect wrestling figures (still have a few in the package, but packed away in storage), Barbie dolls (still in the boxes), and Eeyore stuff (anything to do with him). I used to watch wrestling hardcore, but rarely watch it now due to lack of interest. I spend 7 hours a day (Monday - Friday) on the internet. I occasionally play Magic: The Gathering. Also play Canasta on the weekends. I like video games...but more old school stuff like the orginal Nintendo and Atari games. The comics I own are sleeved and in good condition.

What exactly is the point of those things if all your pen nibs are at the top? I figure they are meant to prevent ink running from the pens and staining your shirt pocket, but they seem like tits on a bull.

Well, some pens are those clicky bastards that have the point of the pen at the bottom (like the first pen in the picture above).

 

I think it is more for the sense of being "organized".

Let's see...

 

I spent too much time on the Net talking wrestling before I got my job.

 

I spent too much time watching wrestling before I got the job.

 

I have like 400 DVDs and virtually no time to watch them.

 

I really like to be by myself most of the time and usually don't like to go out all that much. It's not that I'm anti-social, it's more that going out requires spending too much money and I'm cheap.

 

I'm also kind of an all-or-nothing type person. When I get interested in something I feel compelled to complete collections, to the point that I would periodically go down to comic shops to complete my collections from 93-95. A few years ago I decided that I just HAD to get every issue of Guy Gardner and spent way too much time and money to do so. I read them once, boarded and bagged them and haven't looked at them since.

 

As far as being a typical Magic The Gathering and Chess playing, computer dork, that's not me. I don't play video games much at all (and the only one's I ever play are WWE games), and sometimes regret wasting my money on a used Gamecube that I never play anymore.

I'm a nerd.

 

I'm anti-social, have few friends, haven't had a date in years and I watch wrestling.

Let's see...

 

I'm watch wrestling, almost to the point of obsession.

Whenever I have free time, I'm on the computer, and that's usually about wrestling too.

I'd rather go to an indy show than go out and go to parties.

I don't mind being alone, which isn't a bad thing though.

Never had a boyfriend.

I pretty much love Math. No, seriously. It's my favorite subject in school, besides PE.

I also like studying art. Actually doing it? Nah, the nerds study it, not do it.

 

Really, the only non-nerdy thing about me is that I like and play sports. But I don't obsess over pro-sports, just casually watch.

I used to plan my life around wrestling. I'd never go out on Monday or Thursdays when shows were on. It was even hard to get me to come out if WCW Saturday Night was on. That stopped around the time they fucked up the whole HHH/Angle/Steph thing and HHH just suddenly interjected him into the who hit Austin thing.

I enjoy being around my friends a great deal of the time, but I'm also a person who values his alone time. It may sound weird, but whatever your relation to me, there are just times where I'd prefer to be chilling alone and doing something that interests me (i.e. on the computer, watching a movie, etc.). No matter how good of a friend someone is, I can't be around them ALL the time. I just start to go nuts. In fact, I don't believe there's anyone who I can be around non-stop and not start to feel a little flustered. Just how I've always been. I'd like to think that I don't need to rely on having another person with me just to enjoy myself.

I know how you feel. I've always made it a point to always live by myself.

Did somebody say my name?

 

1) Went to a math competition

2) Participated in Quiz Bowl

3) Played in the high school Marching Band

4) Sang in the choir (senior year)

5) Played D&D and other pen-and-paper RPGs

6) Played Magic: The Gathering

7) Was valedictorian of my high school

8) Graduated with a double major (one of which was computer science)

9) Knows five programming languages (C/C++, Java, PHP, Gawk, Intel x86 assembly)

10) Owns virtually every video game console of the last fifteen years

11) Owns a comic book collection (including Witchblade #1, w00t)

 

So, yeah - who thought they were a nerd again?

 

Goodhelmet, what the hell is a pocket protector?

OMG THE POCKET PROTECTORSZ UNITE

OMG A.W. STIFFWARD III~!!!

The most awesome idea for a posting clique that never took off EVER.

 

G. Hood had Yuna Firerose eating outta the palm of his hand.

*misses joke, waits for next one*

Fill in the blank!

 

NAKED _________ TELEGRAM

I have a comic collection and am part of the computer lab staff (work study job but I made $880+ last year).

Fill in the blank!

 

NAKED _________ TELEGRAM

IS IT SINGING?!