I'm fine with it too. Usually when I'm away for stretches of time, I still come and glance really quickly at my messages just to see what's going on, even if I don't have time to reply. And then I'll see your comments on my profile and I have to reply. But I actually haven't been on the site for about a month...it's really weird, I don't know why I left it so long. I think I just lose track of time.

Yeah...it's this mid-twenties guy who's dating my friend from high-school. He was just such a complete and total jerk. There aren't very many people in the world who I genuinely dislike, but he's one of them. Ok, just to warn you, there's a huge massive vent coming in 3...2...1...

GAH! The guy's just...ok, for example, he was always going on about how 'fit, skinny' girls are so much more attractive (I'm not 'fat' but I'm certainly not skinny, and it was pretty obvious the comments were directed at me) and so that really pissed me off slash was a huge blow to my ego. And one day I was saying how I didn't want to go to grad school because I hate the 'academic' attitude...which is that snotty 'I'm going to university so I'm better than everybody else' attitude, and I can't stand it. Anyway, so I was talking about that, and he says 'well we are better' and then we had this huge argument, with me saying that he is absolutely not qualified in any way to judge the worth of a person based on any sort of criteria, and him repeatedly claiming his fucking superiority. I pointed out that if everybody was an academic then the world wouldn't run very well, and his big defense was that academics would make robots. Are you fucking kidding me? AARRGGH!!!! And then one day he challenged me to a fight, and I figured it would be one of those typical boy vs. girl play fights, but he was really rough. (and even ignoring the fact that I'm a girl and he's a guy, because I don't want to be sexist, I had told him that I'd never been in a fight before-which is what led to the challenge-and he's bigger and stronger than me) I really should have just told him that he was hurting me, but I'm a moron and I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of my submission, so I basically took a beating before finally landing a solid kick...which happened to hit his testicles...which honestly wasn't intentional, I meant to get his stomach, but my legs are shorter than I had anticipated. And then he went down and called it quits...wimp. But yeah, I wound up with bruises on my legs and arms and hip, and a massive massive bruise on my upper left arm that was bigger than a grapefruit and all red and black and blue. It was disgusting. I had to wear long sleeved shirts for two and a half weeks to avoid awkward questions...you know, people just automatically assume that you have a boyfriend who's abusing you. And then the one time a group of us were at a pub and somehow the topic of rape came in, and I'm not even going to go into what this asshole thinks about it, but suffice to say that the guy is a huge massive jackass. It's not like I think he's going to go around raping people, he just has virtually no respect for women. Example: he comes home from school one day talking about a group he was put in for a project. It was him and three girls, and his comment was 'there's nothing I like more than three submissive girls.' AGH!! Fucking disgusting asshole. And the guy's obsessed with sex. (he's a fucking hippy from Vancouver too...which is almost the worst thing about him) He resents his girlfriend (my friend) because she told him that if he's not willing to be in a monogamous relationship with her than she doesn't want to be in a relationship with him at all. And you know what, that's fine. Whatever. If multiple sexual partners and all sorts of kinky shit is what you're int, fine. I can respect that. But he doesn't respect that not everybody's like that. He thinks that if you don't have the same attitude towards sex that he does, you're sexually repressed. So he used to make fun of me because I'm not sexually active. Which didn't bother me because I would rather be like me than like him any day. He treats his girlfriend like crap (most of the time...about some things he's nice, but even when he's being nice, it's still in a very controlling way). They playfight a lot, and he is, once again, way too rough with her (and she is tiny and kind of a wimp). I mean, I've seen couples horsing around before, but the guy is always pretty gentle with the girl. When he hits her in the leg so hard that she's limping for 15 minutes...that's too much. Oh, and also, he's been comitting tax fraud. He was taking cash from people and not giving us receipts. And not claiming it as income. But about a month into my stay there he got reported because he doesn't have the proper paperwork and stuff to be renting out rooms. We were supposed to lie and say we weren't paying rent. And I wasn't going to lie for him. So I moved out. For this and many reasons do I hate the guy.

Ok. Wow. That was a really really long vent. Sorry.

Star Wars kid must have...like ten billion theoretical dollars!!

-Liss

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