The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part eight- Page 50

[Bohemian1232]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 8:52pm

What were you hoping for, Chole?

[Chloe]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:01pm

Naturally the first thing that came to mind was a priest counselling three nuns.

I was thinking maybe some kind of bedroom farce, with women going through doors and just missing each other, or some kind of series of confrontations with a cheating husband. There are lots of possibilities.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:15pm

Hello?

I need to figure out what the heck you guys are talking about. :-P *goes to read*

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:18pm

24 Hour Plays, Elph.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:22pm

heee, Elph. You're only the second person who has called me "Elph".

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:23pm

I'm lazy.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:26pm

I totally have senioritis.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:29pm

Totally understandable.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:32pm

So I'm told. :-P

All my friends have had it for ages, but I just got it recently. However, I still do all my work. Does that mean I don't have senioritis?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:33pm

Hm. Maybe not a severe case.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:36pm

Nah, it's still senioritis. I did all my work - just really quickly.

[guitargeek0624]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:44pm

I have freshmanitis...I'm seriously sick of school. Grr, 4 more months of hell...

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:45pm

I did all my work senior year, but I would still say that by the beginning of the second semester, I definitely had some form of senioritis. I've been in a really nostalgic mood all evening, and I was looking back through the Xanga I kept for most of that last semester of high school where I came across this paragraph in the entry dated 2/10/04:

I think I've come to an important conclusion: my life is boring. I'm definitely feeling a sense of senioritis-not the "screw everything, let's party" type of senioritis, but the going-through-the-motions, what am I still doing here type of senioritis. I feel like every day is the same thing-I go to my classes, sit there for 40 minutes, pay just enough attention to be prepared if I'm called on, and leave, not really feeling like there was any point to being there. I feel like I'm just sitting around doing nothing for hours upon hours every single day, and it bothers me. I look at my friends, and they seem to be having fun, doing interesting things. What if I've squandered what were supposed to be the best 4 years of my life, and it's all downhill from here?

I know, a bit melodramatic, but I've always been one to worry about stupid things.

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:48pm

Jessica, that describes exactly how I feel right now. The only bit I disagree with is that I know this couldn't have been the best four years of my life. While I haven't had a horrible high school experience, this better not have been the best experience of my life!

[Chloe]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:51pm

I feel sorry for anyone who feels high school was the best years of their life. I doubt if it's true for most people anyway.

[ElphieDefiesGravity]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:52pm

Exactly, Lexi. If these were the best years of my life, I should just stop living. Too. much. work.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:52pm

I doubt it's true for a lot of people, really, but I feel like it's "supposed" to be. I too often hear people say "high school is the best four years of your life!" It's weird.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:52pm

They weren't for me. I don't even think that the past three years in university are the best years of my life. It better get better.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 9:55pm

I think back then I was really bothered by people who should have known better (think close family friends) trying to cheer me up when I was upset by spewing crap about how the teenage/high school years should be the best times of your life because you don't have anything major to worry about. How could they not have realized that saying stuff like that would only make me feel worse?

Posted: 3/12/06 at 10:01pm

This is going to sound so incredibly melodramatic, so skip over this if you don't want to read that kind of stuff.

I've cried a good amount of times over my high school experience. While not awful, I've always had that "is that all there is?" feeling (kind of like the Peggy Lee song, heh). The experience itself doesn't make me sad, but hearing people going on and on about how high school is this awesome time for them and they're going to be so sad to leave their friends makes me incredibly sad. It hasn't been that way for me and it kills to admit that, because I've always been one of those "seeking acceptance" people. I've always had a few friends, even if many have come and gone, but I've never had a true "social circle" or even one really good friend.

It's funny, because I'm sure a good amount of people out there are exactly in the same position as me. I just can't stand to hear people talk about their awesome time in high school without getting emotional. I never really was that way until this year, either.

I'll probably think about this in a few days and ask myself why the hell I typed all of this up, but there are all my feelings about high school.

ETA: Exactly, Jessica. Updated On: 3/12/06 at 10:01 PM

[Chloe]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 10:07pm

I had a similar experience in high school, Lexi, probably worse. I think it's quite common for people who don't quite fit in the mold at their school for whatever reason to feel that way. Fortunately my experience at college was a whole lot better and really turned me around. I'm still in close contact with three friends I made there.

Posted: 3/12/06 at 10:09pm

Thanks, Chloe. Many people have told me that I'll probably enjoy my time in college more, and if the summer course I took is any indication, I probably will.

Sorry to everyone for using this thread as a catharsis!

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 10:11pm

*hugs Lexi*

I know exactly how you feel. I wouldn't describe my high school experience as "bad" by any means, and I definitely had my fun moments, but it wasn't the sort of amazing experience that will make everything else I do in my life pale by comparison the way society conditions us to think it should be. Even among my closer high school friends, I found myself feeling like the odd one out more often than I would have liked. Aside from a couple of people who really mean a lot to me, I don't really keep in touch with most of my high school friends, although I know a lot of them still hang out with each other.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 10:11pm

If these are the best years of my life, I should just kill myself now.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/12/06 at 10:12pm

I had a similar high school experience as well, and truthfully, in college... I have never been happier.

*pets Mandi's avatar*