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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #41940 on: January 11, 2012, 09:43:01 pm »

What a coincidence! I also read The Hobbit at a fairly young age; in fact, it was my first "grown up" book. I was complaining that the books at kindergarten were too easy :P

In fact, I still have it. It was a library book that never got returned.
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« Reply #41941 on: January 11, 2012, 09:45:41 pm »

The Hobbit was also my first novel, read at the age of 7.  Tolkien was a huge influence on me growing up.
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« Reply #41942 on: January 11, 2012, 09:46:09 pm »

And, well...  I read The Hobbit when I was 7 or 8, does that count?
Believe it or not, that's the target age for that book.

Reminds me of school, though. From first grade until sixth, we had a yearly competition for some minor prize where every student filed out a marker (usually a paper football or baseball) and lined them up on the wall outside the classroom, the student with the most markers in each grade winning. I always ran out of wall.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #41943 on: January 11, 2012, 09:48:29 pm »

Age inappropriate like what, I read Piers Anthony's Firefly when, iirc, I was 8. Either that or 10, somewhere between those two.

You people have no idea how much I flipped out when I heard Firefly was becoming a TV series. No freaking idea.

Hobbit at some point before that, though. Probably read it over a dozen times before I was out of elementary school, remember basically nothing of it now :P
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« Reply #41944 on: January 12, 2012, 01:20:51 pm »

Weather prevents me from driving to visit friends. Blah.
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« Reply #41945 on: January 12, 2012, 01:39:16 pm »

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As to the lack of callouses on my heart, I'm not sure if I'm reacting so heavily to this because of my innocent heartachey-ness, or because of my logical mind which is STILL trying to find the answers as to what really happened, and rebels against the confusing explanations she kept coming with.

Just figured I'd mention you aren't alone there. You'll probably get over it faster than me - It took me almost sixth months, and I nearly failed out of college that semester. The not knowing why it happened really is the worst (usually, sometimes the loneliness got worse), and the feeling you're being lied to by someone you once trusted so much. God, just thinking about it now brings some of the hurt back.

Ultimately, though, it sounds like she is the one who ended up losing out in this exchange, so maybe she's telling the truth. Whether she believes herself when she says she's you're too good for her, the fact that she would do what she did? It sounds awfully true. You really, really are. I was, too, and I'm glad every day she had the balls to leave me for it, because I was stupid enough to propose to her after a year and a half, and judging by my current day interactions with her, I would have ended up miserable as she dragged me down.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #41946 on: January 12, 2012, 02:08:52 pm »

Age inappropriate like what, I read Piers Anthony's Firefly when, iirc, I was 8. Either that or 10, somewhere between those two.

You people have no idea how much I flipped out when I heard Firefly was becoming a TV series. No freaking idea.

Hobbit at some point before that, though. Probably read it over a dozen times before I was out of elementary school, remember basically nothing of it now :P

Piers Anthony was one of the first authors I began to read when I was a kid. Yeah, some of his stuff was probably not age-appropriate. It wasn't like hardcore or anything but when I look at it now it was more of a juvenile sexual humor.

Also, Hobbit was one of my first, too.
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« Reply #41947 on: January 12, 2012, 02:23:30 pm »

Friend, some of Anthony's stuff is outright hardcore. Look up stuff like the Battle Circle or Bio of a Space Tyrant series, or Pornucopia. The Xanth stuff, which you're probably thinking about, is generally pretty tame, but there's at least one of those books that has a pretty much explicit sex scene.  His other somewhat safer series, the Adept stuff, has the same kind of thing go down. Anthony's actually a bit of a freak.

Firefly was not something a child should have been reading. At least one person in it died
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That book was where I first saw the word "Necrophilia." When I saw "Firefly" in relation to "TV series" I did not go to a happy place :P
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« Reply #41948 on: January 12, 2012, 03:26:36 pm »

I'm about one third through Pratchett's latest, "I shall wear midnight" (I think it's the latest, it's the latest I've got anyway), after warming up by reading the three preceding Wee Free Men novels. His writing has changed since he got diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Discworld books have always had a dark undertone but this one is just dark through and through. I noticed it in Unseen Academicals as well, there's something about the characters and dialogue that's different. Harder, less endearing.

I think I preferred the older books. There was always something in them to make you laugh, even when the story was sad.
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« Reply #41949 on: January 12, 2012, 03:44:53 pm »

Gotta move.  Dun wanner move or go to school.

On the other hand, I'm bringing way less stuff this time, I have way more self-confidence, my external hard drive space is barely scratched by the MGS1-4 LPs, and I have some good warmup problems to play with.  Not too shabby.
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« Reply #41950 on: January 12, 2012, 03:54:22 pm »

Fucked up a test pretty bad. I think. One defining my whole biology grade. So yeah.

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« Reply #41951 on: January 12, 2012, 04:02:28 pm »

I don't know quite how to describe this... I am having success anxiety.

I've spent my whole life poor, sick, threatened, abused, used, mistreated, in pain, manipulated, insulted, outcast, oppressed, hungry, struggling, in debt. I am getting very close to being in a position where all of those things are in the past. And I feel like I am going mad from it. I am not at all happy. The fuck is wrong with me, all I can focus on is how alone I am.
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« Reply #41952 on: January 12, 2012, 04:03:27 pm »

Don't dwell on it. Just move with the flow.
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« Reply #41953 on: January 12, 2012, 04:07:44 pm »

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I am not at all happy. The fuck is wrong with me, all I can focus on is how alone I am.
This is normal - the crapsackness of the world became a defining part of your own self image. They offered a sort of mental safety - and now, you're moving beyond that, into unknown territory. With nothing terrible to fall back on to excuse failure, you'll have nothing and no one to blame but yourself. With nothing terrible to look forward to, life becomes uncertain. And the things that ARE still bad (like being lonely), suddenly stand in stark contrast to the rest of the world instead of being one indistinct problem in a sea of troubles.
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« Reply #41954 on: January 12, 2012, 04:16:07 pm »

I was trying to sort out a "think about X" thingemy for the IF I was working on, but all my attempts failed. Someone online suggested taking a conversation extension and reverse engineering it for your purposes. But apparently my brain has turned to mush, because I really can't figure any of this stuff out.

Now I'm all depressed, and I want to distract myself but there's really no games around I can play that appeal to me at all right now.
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