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[elphaba2]

Thanks everyone. Feyliya, those ideas are excelente! I've talked to my mom a few times about it, just because it's _so_ frustrating, but I had to talk her down from calling in to the teacher last time I did. I actually had to unplug the phone because I knew that if she did call, the next day I'd get a BIG smile and a "So, I talked with your mother last night." and then *somehow* fail her class. Something like that. I will start with the tape recorder though. I feel like a spy already!

{irrelevent} It sort of brightened my day when I checked the away of a former student of hers who I talk to sometimes and it said " 'teacher's name', you will always be the obnoxious slimy girl who never got asked to prom in my eyes". It's heartening to know other people had bad experiences with her and went on to be sucessful in theater (this person is doing a lovely job in the Dinner Theater near here and has been cast in an Off-Broadway show starting next fall) {irrelevent}

*deep breath*

Ange, you are a great addition to these forums and I hope you feel better. To the caffienecave!

Moop, I know exactly what you mean. Lots of sports fans have a bad habit of being loud and stupid (not that they all are, little bear).

FU, dentists suck. They suck a lot. I like to imagine mine in that horrible chair as I poke around her teeth with something pointy and shine a bright light in her eyes to disorient her.

I_am_the_best, I see we share a common enemy in idiot teachers. Unlike me, you had the restraint not to blather on about it. It's a great trait, and more power to you.

Little Bear, people over the phone who think they know the best thing to do are stupid. I suggest taking a moment when they are full-steam ahead blathering and pick out a song on the keypad. (Mary Had A Little Lamb: 3-2-1-2-3-3-3-2-2-2-3-3-3-3 and so on)

Snugs, Quoth and Voices, I hope you all feel better! *administers e-medication* Voices, have you considered hopping out from behind corners and croaking at stupid people? In full goth makeup? Might be a mood-lifter.

[voices_in_my_hea...]

It certaintly would! Espesilaly with the full costume on:


What even more fun than that is putting on my old halloween costume (I used to always be an angel) with the goth makeup on, and THEN jump out at stupid people......not that I would know or anything....

I'm feeling much better now, But still have alot to rant about:
I have been dragged all over town today, just to look for valentines, and ended up spending WAY more money than I needed to. I mean, c'mon people, $8 for a candy heart the size of my hand? Then, I had to talk my mom out of buying a pair of sweatpants, but theese wern't normal sweatpants, They were bright pink and had Big, replusive hearts on them. they were also $10, which was WAY too much....okay, maybe I was being a bit pushy, but she would have never worn them, and if she did, I wouldn't claim to know her....

[voices_in_my_hea...]

Since no one else has put up an rant lately, I'll do it:

Valentine's sucks. All day the really, really preppy girls talked about the dance
"so anyway, this is what I wore:(insert mindless blabber here)
and this is who I danced with: (more mindless talk)
and....um......oh,wow, I, like, forgot to breath."


And I'm not kidding.

[trunks_girl26]

Voices, you should see if you and your family might agree to celebrating Valentine's the day after- all the candy that doesn't get sold goes for at least half of what it was orriginally priced. My sister makes it a goal of hers to go to the mall every year after Valentine's day and get as much chocolate as she can for $20- and believe me, when she comes home, she's practically swimming in chocolate, lol.

As for the sweatpants- been there, done that. Parents never get less embarasing- I'm in college and my mom still pulls some weird stuff, but the best thing to do is to have as much fun with it as possible. Sounds impossible, right? It takes some getting used to, but it's worth it in the end.

And as much as being single on Valentine's day can suck, if you spend it with some of your single friends, you can have just as much fun as any couple.

Hmmm.....now for a rant.....I guess I could rant about how cold the rain was....I normally like the rain, but I DON'T like the cold. At all. Brrr...and I had to run in it to a class that ended half an hour early anyway. Not my cup of tea.

[Jaq]

I really hate how much time and effort people put into Valentines Day and how much emphasis is placed on it. My single friends get angry and stressed out and my friends who have an SO just get stressed out. It's a holiday that was invented (or at least popularised and commercialized) by a card company so that they could sell a bunch of cards that no one needed after the Christmas holiday rush and before Easter and Mother's Day. It's a silly holiday(holiday?! Pah! We don't even get this wretched day off!) and it makes everyone miserable. I remember having to sit up the night before Valentines Day and write out the names of all 32 of my classmates on my Valentine's Day cards so that everyone would have a card (school policy) and so that no one would feel left out, all the while making scads of money for the card companies and meaning nothing to any of the children who got the cards.
What little religious significance Valentine's Day had is long lost in the endless parade of cards, candy, flowers, diamonds etc. etc. etc. It's possibly the most commercial of holidays, and one of the most exclusionary of holidays and it's sad to see so many people take it so seriously. It's like if pepsi ran a marketing campaign where on May 5th people who had children gave each other 6 packs of Pepsi. It's silly, it's commercial, and doesn't it just make you feel that much more like a consumer whore?

[voices_in_my_hea...]

GRRR.....

I'll keep it simple this time:
I got in a *bit* of trouble for flicking some dude off.

He had it coming....

Also, Elphaba, have you tried out the tape recorder yet?

[elphaba2]

I brought it in today, but she was like cotton candy. All, "Ok, guys, Michelle's going to do her monologue now. Let's be respectful"

I think she has X-Ray vision.

I'm curious about the circumstances that led you to flick him off...do tell.

[voices_in_my_hea...]

Fine, but first I'll put up my rant for today:

I had to sit through the cheerleader tryouts today, And the last thing I needed was to see a couple of other 12-year-olds dancing (more of a seizure, If you ask me) around In Really, Really short skirts....
*twitch*

Okay, now here is why he got the bird. (and I should tell you ahead of time that I'm not in the habit of doing that to people, And that I'm usally pretty quite if someone gets on my nerves) First of all, he was being a perv. That alone was annoying enough, but he just HAD to make it worse. He wouldn't stop bothering me. I'm bad enough at math as it is, and I don't need someone sitting next to me Yelling to the whole class how horrible I am at it. Then, He decided to make this big deal about where I'm sitting, which didn't matter anyway, so he was just doing it to make me mad. Then, When I finnaly said something about it ( I don't remember what) he called me a bitch. I said he was a dumbarse and and gave him the bird.

See? he had it coming.

[elf]

i got my report card this week, my parents said it wasn't good enough even though it was 3 As and 3 Bs and i triedd my hardest and my father screamed at me for hours and grounded me and took away crap. i lost my wallet yesterday, it had $50 and i already owed people some money so that just made it worse, plus it was all i had. plus, last night i asked out someone and they had a very rude, unpleasant, not so pleasing response.. this morning my father got mad at me again and i was crying during my first class, when my former "best friend" who sits near me just stared at me and didn't care. five people called me the wrong name today (of said former best friend who doesn't even look anything like me) for no reason. i failed a math test and i'm getting bad grades in all my classes because i'm too tired and i didn't do my chinese class homework for a week because i skipped class and didn't know what it was because i didn't want to go to class crying.

eh, yeah.. just had to get that out, sorry.

[I_am_the_best]

Aww, *dishes out hugs to everyone*

Well I haven't really got much of a rant, but I will just say that I am soooo incredibly tired! Oh and my dad is sitting here bugging me BIG time, grrrrrr, why won't people just leave me alone and stop talking for once.

[voices_in_my_hea...]

eh, yeah.. just had to get that out, sorry.

no apologiy needed! That is the point of the thread, after all!
*more hugs to everyone*

Okay, so today I had an eye doctor appointment, which is okay, since that means I get contacts. Anyway, when I got to the appointment, they blew this puff of air into my eye, which they claimed was a test for something, but I think that they just wanted to see me jump backwards and nearly fall off my chair. Next, the doctor-thingy (I know they have a proper name, but I can't be bothered with it right now) Got really, really close to my face with the light. You would think that If your job involved Getting right next to someone's face and breathing REALLY loudly, then you would use a tic-tack or Something.
*twitch*
That dude Defined Bad breath....

[Arachnidoc18]

Some things I don't get.
What's up with C-2? it's basically diet Coke with a new name. In fact, it IS diet Coke with a new name. I can't believe people actually think its different.
Whats up with paneling? Who decided wall paneling was such a good idea? Why can't bricks and mortar still be in fashion?
Why do people think it's cool to have a green mohawk? Don't they realise they look really stupid?
How come nobody thinks a custom bike from Vegas is cool?
*/rant*

[voices_in_my_hea...]

Rant of the day:
My friend got a flu, and now I feel horrible about complaining about a stupid eye doctor appointment. My school never gets off for anything, even when it snowed 8 inches, so we're the only school in the whole panhandle of texas that's not getting off for president's day.

[I_am_the_best]

You have presidents day?! A day in celebration of George Bush?!

[voices_in_my_hea...]

Sadly enough, yes. I think it's more for abraham licoln(he's so great, and yet I still can't spell his name) and george washington...

Could you imagene celebrateing Bill Clinton? Oh, that would be an interesting day...

[I_am_the_best]

Sadly my knowledge of American presidents is extremely limited and stretches about as far as knowing that Lincoln was a dude with a cool beard, top hat and walking stick...

[Arachnidoc18]

Sadly enough, yes. I think it's more for abraham licoln(he's so great, and yet I still can't spell his name) and george washington...

Could you imagene celebrateing Bill Clinton? Oh, that would be an interesting day...

National "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" day?

[voices_in_my_hea...]

Mostly, yes.

[I_am_the_best]

Grrrr. I'm desperately trying to find out all the homework that we were given over ther holidays (on the last day before school...) and everyone seems to be telling me different things...

[dancing hamster ...]

I hate it when people do this:
(especially in "Personal concerns")

Have a hug *Hugs*

like people are going to feel so mush better from a virtual hug!

[I_am_the_best]

Oh fine. I shall go and change it (Yay for the 'edit' button)! But I hate it when people make quite obvious hints instead of just saying it straight. But I personally like virtual hugs because if you would have hugged that person in rl, you're sying that you would have hugged them, but you can't, and so it's showing them that you care! (I don't know if that made sense...)

[Wyvern]

Well it did to me and I appreciate the thought behind them on the rare occasions I do something warranting one

Now here's my little rant and believe me there's a wealth of feeling behind this one...

Im being made redundant, all customers have turned into evil gloating locusts and to cap it all one threatened to hit me for doing what the administrating company decree. How often will I have to repeat the phrase "without your receipt I am not allowed to exchange that because I must have proof of purchase"?!
Daft woman even admitted that I told her the same thing when I sold it to her last week before she decided trying to hit me would be a good plan!

Equally how can someone complain when a £150 ballgown is reduced to £25 and say its not cheap enough?!
Am I missing something?

I think as Statutary rights are apparently SO important to customers arguements it needs to be a legal requirement that they know them CORRECTLY so I dont have to keep correcting them when they get it wrong and kick off at my colleagues and I.

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!!

Thankyou all for your precious time Im now going to go fume quietly ready for tomorrows retail gauntlet.

[Quoth(The Raven)]

I hate it when people do this:
(especially in "Personal concerns")

Have a hug *Hugs*

like people are going to feel so mush better from a virtual hug!

Virtual hugs are the next best thing to real ones... They show people care. Having received a few recently, I can tell you they feel pretty good. So, *Hugs*

[dancing hamster ...]

Arrghhh back away, back away!

I also hate the librarians here - one of them thinks that work can only be done on "Word" and everything else must be games, and then they ban your accounts for something you didn't do...... arrgghh!!!!

.... just breath .....

[believe]

My rant..

I really, really, really, really hate it when people like to blame everything on organized religion. As if religion were the only thing people were idiotic or psychotic about. Ignoring that communist, tribal, ect nations all have their jerks and people that are less than helpful, there as well. Come on, do you really base a group of thousands and thousands on a handful of news sound bytes and a rant letter to whatever newspaper? Grr.