The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part four- Page 60

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:10pm

For the record, I didn't mean to offend anyone by my last post... go see shows as much as possible! But, do appreciate it every time you go, because a lot of other people would love to be in that position. It's not exactly as universal as going to the movies, even if it gets to seem that way after a while.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:13pm

I understand what you mean.. I live in New York, but on long island.. so I grew up looking in from the ouside, hehe. I lovee the days that I get to go to the city, its my favorite place in the world, I wish I could go there all the time. I'm only 15 (as of next week) so I have to go when my mom wants to take me..which is like every couple of months





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[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:18pm

I saw Brenda Braxton as Velma. She is AMAZING.

My mother is torturing me. She needs a hobby.

I... try not to be flippant about it. I certainly take advantage of being here, and I hope (I try not to, anyway) I don't come off like it's my right to see stuff and all that jazz.

*hugs nia* Your mom changes her mind entirely too often. It's not fair to drag people along like that. But maybe there's hope in the fact that she changes her mind all the time? Don't put it to rest just yet.

Off to go spend inhumane amounts of money on textbooks. woo.

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:19pm

Nia, you remind me so much of me last year. I really have nothing to say other than college decisions are inherently ****ty and you'll be over them soon enough (of course the parental pressure never really stops, but it decreases after you've been officially accepted). I obviously don't know the particular circumstances surrounding your college decisions, but as a general rule of thumb, your situation will improve a lot halfway through senior year.

It's worrisome that you might be stressed to the point where it's become counterproductive to what you're actually trying to accomplish. I think some stress can ultimately be a good thing, but I hope your stress isn't actually having an adverse effect on your academic performance. If you truly feel that it is, I think you should gently point that out to your parents... it gives a reasonable justification as to why you shouldn't be under pressure 24/7. Other than simply saying you're too stressed, if you impact the claim (God, I'm slipping into debate speak) saying that the stress is actually making you perform WORSE, they might see your point. Who knows, my parents bought it.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:19pm

I saw my first Broadway show when I was 16. I saw my second Broadway show January 8th, 2005.

It wasn't until this fall that I really started seeing a lot of shows in NYC. I just realized that if I was going to be able to see the shows that I wanted to, I would have to make more of an effort, and so I figured out ways to make it happen.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:21pm

I would love to see a show in New York. That's always been one of my dreams.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:27pm

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[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:27pm

CS, aren't you in Toronto? I'm pretty sure the bus that brings me to NYC originates there.

Mel, I'd seen the link posted elsewhere already, but thanks.

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Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:30pm

xM3L24x, I saw the link... I think we're all just hesitant to address it openly. (And to be honest, I do already have it on my hard drive.)

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:32pm

kk i took it off..someone posted it on livejournal-- and i thought ud guys might be interested

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:41pm

Google video is annoying.

*pets OBC DVD*

It'll be down from LJ in about 3 seconds.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:46pm

Yeah, I could bus down, it's just a 10-13 hour trip. I'd have to make a weekend out of it.

[DancNdaMoonlite]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 5:48pm

OBC dvd?

Like the whole show?

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 6:01pm

they didnt post it..they just posted what to search to find it.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 6:19pm

I wish my mother would buy that, SD -- that stress is going to make me do worse. Today she told me she thinks it will make me do better.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 6:31pm

I think I was 9 when I saw my first Broadway show (I know I saw Grease a couple of days after my 9th birthday, I just can't remember whether I saw Beauty and the Beast before or after that), and it was something that I would do with my mother a couple of times a year (I can definitely relate to Mel's situation, having grown up in Queens - a bit closer to the city than Long Island is, but I couldn't go to the city without my parents). Now that I go to school in the city and live there during the school year, I'm really trying to take more advantage of the opportunities I have, something I really didn't do freshman year (too busy sitting in my dorm room pouting and stressing over the roommate from hell and the classes I hated).

Em, whenever I complain to my parents about being stressed out, they tell me "stress builds character." It takes everything I have not to just scream "F*CK CHARACTER! I NEED SYMPATHY!" Of course, if my mother knew I said words like that, she'd probably disown me [insert eyerolling smiley I don't know how to make here]

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[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 6:39pm

I was misguided in thinking I could get sympathy from my mother. My mom doesn't DO sympathy.

something I really didn't do freshman year (too busy sitting in my dorm room pouting and stressing over the roommate from hell and the classes I hated).

I tended to do the opposite; still do, actually. If stuff is bad, I put it on the backburner and just go DO something. Sitting around and pouting works for me sometimes, but other times I just don't want to think about everything that's going wrong. So I'll go escape for an hour or two; there's too much here to sit around and pout!

Eye-roll smiley: @ . @ without spaces.

This morning, on AIM, I told my mother that I roll my eyes in her general direction. She didn't think that was very funny.

Posted: 1/18/06 at 6:40pm

Heh, I was actually kinda directing that post to Nia, but I guess it's applicable to your situation as well. Sorry to hear that won't fly with your mom, though.

I do believe that stress can help to a certain extent, but once the stress level passes a certain point, I tend to focus more on freaking out than getting actual work done. I guess that probably holds true for most people.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 6:41pm

It's universal! Ish.

My mom says she thinks more classes will make me do better. Seriously.

....

Oh... kay.

She probably means I'll buckle down and waste less time, but it still means I *have* less time.

[Billboard Girl]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 7:02pm

Yeah, I know that plopping down in my chair and doing nothing isn't a good way to deal with stress, but it just seems like the easiest option sometimes. I'm very much a creature of inertia - if I'm out doing something, I'll want to stay out, but once I go back to my room, I don't want to go out again.

"I do believe that stress can help to a certain extent, but once the stress level passes a certain point, I tend to focus more on freaking out than getting actual work done."

Same here.

My mother is always telling me that my time-management skills have gone to s**t since I started college, but that's just because I don't do things the way she would do them. I often crack jokes about how I was born 3 weeks early and she's tried to keep me to that schedule ever since - she isn't too amused by it, but it's the truth.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 7:08pm

"Creature of Inertia." I like that. It's a really good euphemism for "lazy." I'm gonna use it.

My time management skills HAVE gone to sh*t.

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 7:16pm

I've never had time management skills, which has always been my downfall.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 7:20pm

I've never had time management skills either. Partly because I'm ADHD, but now that there's no one around to make sure I'm doing the work, like there was when I lived at home, it's gotten infinitely worse.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 7:39pm

As I thread-jack here, I've found a person who actually read the "Adam and I are like making out and Cybele walks in" type fic! o.O

*is scared*

*thought Anthony was making it up*


Return to your conversation.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 7:41pm

I kept saying I wouldn't be surprised if it actually existed. Someone from InAppropo insisted that because she'd never seen it, it didn't exist.

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