Drawbacks of Being "Unattached" #23:
May. 7th, 2004 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ferenTonight was the first quiz in my MGMT 408 class. I came in completely unprepared: I didn't know what chapters the quiz was going to be on, I didn't study either of the two possible chapters all week and I only briefly skimmed the material from the handouts in the five minutes prior to class. I got through the test before anyone else in the class and handed it in with a feeling that I'd either done very well or very poorly. It turns out that I got an "A" on the exam.
It turns out I was the only one to get a score that high (I was the only "A". The only one. Mind-bending!). Everyone else was in the "C" or "D" range, with five of the nineteen students (counting myself) receiving an "F."
As a reward the professor gave me two free tickets to any show of my choosing at a landmark improv comedy club in downtown Chicago. This is the same club where names like Chris Farley got their start and then remained regular for years afterwards. This is really cool and one hell of a massive ego stroke.
The drawback is that it's two tickets, so for me to get any real value from these I'd have to find somebody to take with me. One could accurately describe this situation as "needing to find a date who wants to go with me to a comedy show."
Yeah, right.
I didn't know you had any feelings.
It turns out I was the only one to get a score that high (I was the only "A". The only one. Mind-bending!). Everyone else was in the "C" or "D" range, with five of the nineteen students (counting myself) receiving an "F."
As a reward the professor gave me two free tickets to any show of my choosing at a landmark improv comedy club in downtown Chicago. This is the same club where names like Chris Farley got their start and then remained regular for years afterwards. This is really cool and one hell of a massive ego stroke.
The drawback is that it's two tickets, so for me to get any real value from these I'd have to find somebody to take with me. One could accurately describe this situation as "needing to find a date who wants to go with me to a comedy show."
Yeah, right.
I didn't know you had any feelings.
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Date: 2004-05-07 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-08 06:56 am (UTC)Bren may be willing to go... as a last resort. ;)
Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 07:30 am (UTC)This leads of awkward "so, you wanna do something tonight?" phone calls to guy and girl friends which no one ever takes me up on. What kills me is that I don't know if it's my problem or theirs.
I ended up going to see Captain Yonder at Fredrick's Music Lounge alone, if only to respond to people asking what I did this weekend with "I saw captain yonder." "Hey, is that the new ILM movie? I heard the effects are shit!" But there will be more on all that in my own journal.
As for you, just get by like I do - tell yourself that your friends suck and commit to getting some new ones. Pipe dreams and complete bullshit, but it helps.
Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 08:02 am (UTC)I do feel compelled to jump to the defense of my friends here. Yes, I came to discover that some of my so-called "friends" sucked more than a black hole. Some were arrogant, self-absorbed little brats while others were intolerant shitheads who masked their bigotry with phrases like "tread softly" and "Love as you will so long as it does no harm, but marriage isn't love," (one guess what THAT statement was in relation to). One in particular turned his back on me and several others just so he could have a wet pussy to put his cock in now and then. Once I realized what a complete set of assmunching hatfuckers the individuals in question were I cut my ties. It sucked at the time but in the long run has had a multitude of benefits: first, my quality of life has improved drastically since I no longer associate with them -- I'm not being drained of money and I'm not being dragged into their bullshit histrionic fits of manufactured drama (OH NOES!). Second, it freed me up to meet people who didn't want to destroy my soul and who genuinely care about my well-being. I have a lot of respect for people who don't play bullshit games with people's emotions in some psychotic attempt to curry favor or power.
Most importantly, I can feel confident in saying that the ones who remain in my good graces are some of the coolest folk in the world and I'm honored to count them as my friends. Despite how few there are now I can -- and do -- trust them implicitly. They've been tested by fire and have never given me reason to doubt them. Many of them I love as family. I'd lay down my life for these people -- they would do no less for me. It's quality over quantity.
So yeah... stupid sentimentality, but it needed to be said.
[Pipe dreams and complete bullshit, but it helps]
Spoken like a true cynicist, m'friend. Let's go booze up and riot.
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Date: 2004-05-08 08:03 am (UTC)And we're going dutch on dinner -- unless he puts out on a first date.
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Date: 2004-05-08 08:06 am (UTC)Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 08:08 am (UTC)We love you too. ;)
Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 08:15 am (UTC)Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 08:19 am (UTC)Saying things like "d'aww" and "we love you," then having Vir waving at me... that isn't helping things, you know.
Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 08:20 am (UTC)Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 08:21 am (UTC)We vant to sex vu up!
Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-08 10:56 am (UTC)(But seriously: we loves ya, hon. Don't ever change!)
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Date: 2004-05-08 11:05 am (UTC)Date?
Date: 2004-05-08 05:54 pm (UTC)Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-11 01:22 pm (UTC)Have you considered going by yourself and selling off the other ticket?
Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-11 01:37 pm (UTC)It'd be sort of lame going by myself. Even if it wasn't, I can't do what you suggest because it's only one physical ticket (the single stub admits two people).
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Date: 2004-05-11 01:42 pm (UTC)Re: Gah
Date: 2004-05-11 01:51 pm (UTC)Ahahahaha. Yeah, right...