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[miauw62]

I have no RL people to talk to while out in France (apart from my direct family, which is... Different), which somehow makes me feel really lonely. Hm...

[Helgoland]

I hear French chicks are easy. There's bound to be some pillow talk at least, and if you want you can even stay for breakfast and continue conversation there.

[Orange Wizard]

If I don't, that's my own fault.

... it really isn't.

* Orange Wizard hands Caroline a cup of tea.

...

They're trying their best. Unfortunately, 'best' doesn't always equal 'good'

With pre-emptive apologies to Godwin, I have to say that this is on the same level (if not the same scale) as Hitler's impression that he was doing the best for Germany.

[Tack]

They're trying their best. Unfortunately, 'best' doesn't always equal 'good'

^ they just sound like parents trying to deal with a typical lazy teenager.
The fact that Caroline isn't the typical teen is something which I don't think they notice.
Which probably doesn't make them great parents.

But mark my words, 20-something Caroline will almost certainly be going back and deleting all this. Adulthood has some weird way of making it all snap into perspective.
So, I guess, hold on and wait.

[Tiruin]

[...] Started beating myself again.

Don't follow up whatever punishment, in your context, with mental or physical pain. It does not teach--what does teach is seeking insight and understanding from what has occurred; taking a note on how your parents interacted...their methods are incomplete in understanding their child/children, and they're defaulting to a more...less mature way of handling it (ie You call someone stupid, they get the idea they're 'stupid', they make themselves better so as not to be called stupid) <<< with the orange part being an implied result...

So...please don't beat yourself up. Despite whatever may happen around you--seek and find the good to get insight from, and grow better from it (even if the delivery method is very crude ). In the long-run, that'll help you.

Though I seriously wish there'd be action for development there. x_x That makes me sad. But its a temporary sad...

But mark my words, 20-something Caroline will almost certainly be going back and deleting all this. Adulthood has some weird way of making it all snap into perspective.
So, I guess, hold on and wait.

We're unsure on all this--basically posts like that on this thread are OK in themselves because they display how the person is and their feelings about a certain situation :O What shouldn't be done is supporting whatever negativity exists there--like demonizing the offender, per se. The best path is to at least give guidance towards them...because that's the only thing that will actually help in the long-run.
Sure, saying rubbish about the offender may help--in the least, that attempts to describe their attitude--but does it really teach something beneficial for all parties involved?

Let Caroline vent :O But hold nothing bad onto her. Whatever bad thing happens...should not be a double-edged sword against the people there, but in the least by the attitudes they've got. And attitude is something you can change for the better.

[Tack]

Wait, are you saying don't demonize the offender, or don't demonize the victim?
'Cos I wasn't intending either.

[hops]

Why don't we victimize the demon or offend the demon?

[Spehss _]

Why don't we victimize the demon or offend the demon?

It's been done. Well, the offending at least.

[miauw62]

I hear French chicks are easy. There's bound to be some pillow talk at least, and if you want you can even stay for breakfast and continue conversation there.

French breakfast is pretty disgusting tbh
It's basically pure sugar.

Anyway, I just don't have any chances to talk to people :x

[hops]

Why don't we victimize the demon or offend the demon?

It's been done. Well, the offending at least.

That poor cyberdemon seems pretty victimized.

[Orange Wizard]

Welp, I've managed to nuke the master boot record on my desktop by trying to swap into a larger hard drive and repair said boot record. I'll have to unfudge the system tomorrow or reinstall Windows using my now invalid Windows license courtesy of recent hardware changes.

So much for my streak of productivity.

Protip: You can keep using an unlicensed copy of Windows indefinitely as long as you're willing to put up with intermittent popups saying "register this shit you filthy pirate" and a blank desktop background.

[Graknorke]

The company I ordered a nice new monitor from had a "pricing error" of nearly 100% of the advertised price when I paid for it. lel fuck that, order cancelled.

EDIT: And to be clear, "pricing error" is definitely deserving of airquotes, since they seem to have only noticed on the day it was meant to be dispatched, and it wasn't anything like a misplaced decimal place, just outright different numbers.

[Xantalos]

Spoiler: The Overly Rambly Lovestruck Thoughts of Xantalos on its Depression and Infatuation and the Possible Connection Between Them Part CCCMDDVMXDVVVIIIIIIDVCZXDIII (click to show/hide)

I can't tell if I'm depressed or just lovesick and am being a bitch about it. On one hand, I'm tired all the time, my sleep schedule's way out of whack, I hardly ever have contact with other people than my mom, I can't motivate myself to do anything, I'm growing to really dislike my job, my room's messy as hell because I'm too damn lazy to clean up after myself (and with family out of town for the weekend the house is swiftly descending into disorder too), thoughts of despair at my current predicament are becoming more and more common, with the way my job schedule works I never get home before around midnight which means I practivally never eat dinner anymore - in fact over the last few months I've been steadily eating less and less and I've actuslly lost 10 pounds sometime in the last 4 or 5 months, which is actually a bad thing at my age since I'm fairly young, and I'm slowly losing interest in stuff I do for entertainment like reading and RP and watching let's plays and stuff.

On the other hand, I knew my crush was working at our workplace so I went to visit her, stopping along the way at a few bakeries and delis she likes to get her food, hung around at the store where we work for something like 3 hours and ended up buying a bunch of other foods to share between us on her break, spending way more money than I normally do in a day, went home afterward all happy and made a really awesome dinner for myself, and am only back to my usual glum self now that the high's worn off and I've started to miss her again.

Maybe it's both now that I think of it, I don't think I've ever read anything that says you can't be in love and depressed at the same time.
I dunno.

[itisnotlogical]

My sunburn has progressed from "Hah, this is a neat thing that hasn't happened in a while" to "Oh god agony whenever I brush something too hard". I can't even lie in my bed except in just such a way that I am totally uncomfortable and unable to sleep, not that I could sleep anyway (I toss and turn in my sleep a lot, so I brush my sunburn against the bed or the covers and wake myself up).

[Helgoland]

You could try getting into bondage, though changing sexual preferences just for a sunburn may be a tad much.