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[Loud Whispers]

Look, I appreciate that you moths find my clothes absolutely delicious, but could you please not bleed on me when I kill you?

[Flying Dice]

I've known my (Chinese exchange student who knows almost as little English as I know Chinese) roommate for all of two days this semester, and I've already said more to him than I did to my previous roommate all year long. That, and I somehow ended up eating dinner with his friends. WTF, y u no let me be introverted shut-in? Of course, it probably helps that he isn't a dairy farmer's kid with a diametrically opposed worldview to my own.

[zombie urist]

That's funny cause I've only known my Chinese roomate for 2 days, and he's eaten lunch with my friends. Though he is slightly less introverted than I am.

[Jopax]

That isn't a neccessarily bad thing you know. I've had something similar (but less extreme I guess) happen to me. Basically meeting a dude at the uni who is so insanely open that I still can't belive he's so damn similar to me in everything else. And what this openness did is that it forced me to be open too (because really, if a guy is telling you about his darkest moments a month after you've met you kind of need to respond in a similar fashion, so it's not wierd or stuff (I guess, not sure about this, but I guess I consider it wrong to get told certain things by friends and you not telling them something in return)). And you know what, just talking about certain things that I was too scared or shy to tell anyone did help, atleast to a certain degree, and I guess it's always good to have someone to talk to.

So what I'm saying is, perhaps you just clicked and it won't be a problem to become great friends for you guys (except the whole language thing, but that can be overcome in time) and it would be a damn shame if you didn't try and take that opportunity by the balls to surf it on an awesome friendship wave.

[Yoink]

Wow, I just had (and remembered having) no less than four distinct dreams, seperated by brief periods of wakefulness before going back to sleep. I mean, I probably always have lots of dreams, but I either don't remember them, only remember one, or just remember them all as one big, long stream of dream.
But no, these ones were completely seperate. I only really remember the last one, but the first was me attempting to rescue some Bay12er from something after reading a post from them on the Sad thread, () the second I was this duck-person in some futuristic army (think that old mighty ducks cartoons, infact I was based off an action figure I had from that show) trying, along with a human comrade, to convince another duck trooper (this one thin with long blonde hair, whilst I was the big beefy one) to re-enlist at the end of our tours of duty instead of going off as he planned to work in a fast-food restaurant with his sweetheart, () the third one I don't really remember at all, () and in the fourth and final one (which I remember much more clearly) I was working in a bookstore owned and run by my family, chatting to customers, helping them find books and tidying things up and such, and my two old cats (one who passed away last year at a ripe old age after being with me pretty much my whole life, and one who disappeared a year or two before that when I was overseas) were out by the side of the shop, lazing about on this shelf/table thing and occasionally looking in through the windows at the customers, getting the attention of the incredibly old, kindly Russian couple who had been going through the store, looking at old books and reminiscing on the various stories they'd had a part in over their long lives.
And then as the last of the customers left the shop I (and various undefined family members) closed up the shop, cuddled my cats and left, waking up as I did so. As I was waking up, very happy from a nice dream, I was thinking something along the lines of, "oh, that was a nice dream! I think I'll go hang around outside with the cats, today," only to remember once I'd woken up that they were long gone.

So I went from being very happy to sad in such a short moment of time. It's always the problem with the best dreams, isn't it? You just don't want to wake up...

[Scelly9]

Japa just posted in the happy thread. What.

[Kamin]

I've known my (Chinese exchange student who knows almost as little English as I know Chinese) roommate for all of two days this semester, and I've already said more to him than I did to my previous roommate all year long.

That's funny cause I've only known my Chinese roomate for 2 days, and he's eaten lunch with my friends. Though he is slightly less introverted than I am.

I'm really happy for you guys finding roommates you like. Mine were all awful--one pissed on my things when drunk and brought back women from the scum bars on test nights, one blasted music for hours on end and watched TV loudly when I was sleeping, and one was just a fuck and tried (unsuccessfully) to get with my girlfriend at the time.

Depending on where your roommates are from in China, as well as their background, be prepared for a vast difference in personal hygiene, cleanliness, and eating habits (such as leaving dirty dishes and trash around your dorm room). The younger generation is a little better than mine in that they're more... "cultured," but it's just a fair warning--you've only known them for 2 days yet, after all. On another note, if you ever need any cultural or language reference, feel free to contact me whenever.

[Karnewarrior]

You're from China? Cool. Since I've never been off North America I don't get to see distant cultures that much, especially ones that are still Communist (Is China still communist? I think so.)

[Kamin]

You're from China? Cool. Since I've never been off North America I don't get to see distant cultures that much, especially ones that are still Communist (Is China still communist? I think so.)

The preferred term is "Market Socialist," bro. Jeez.

Hahaha, but no; China is ruled by the CCP, but it's not technically Communist. There are many types of governments that are centrally controlled, much like China is. China essentially stopped being Communist in 1976/1977, after the rise of Deng Xiaoping (the successor of Mao and usurper of Mao's chosen Hua Guofeng, who was obviously a suckass).

[lemon10]

There are two other lemon#'s (lemon16 and lemon114) registered on the forum.
There are also 14 users whose name begins with lemon.
Just struck me as a bit random when I was typing in my name to send myself a message and it suggested lemon16.

[Kamin]

I just found out I could "turn on sig images." I did and holy shit. Jopax even has a pack of cute running dogs in his! And here I was, thinking he was boring for not having one... WTF. 

[Scelly9]

And Karnewarriors!

[Kamin]

And Karnewarriors!

I feel like I've just been told there is no Santa Claus. Only the opposite.

[zombie urist]

Paperback book costs $95.

[GalenEvil]

what book... and that's way too damned expensive for a book unless it is a Giant Squid Leather bound book inlaid with platinum leaf... >.>

Damn... now I want one of those. *writes in his wish list of the future*