Okay, I don't get the whole "emo" thing. I really don't. I have no sympathy for a bunch of upper middle class depressed teenagers that listen to bad music, cut themselves, intentionally develop eating disorders and whine about how horrible their life is. Take your Prozac, get electroshock therapy, do something. Just don't wallow in it on LJ and expect everyone to feel sorry for you, then freak out when someone doesn't. WORD, Amy. I don't know if you guys have ever seen LJsecret (it's the community the Rentsecrets people got the idea from), but I really hope that half of the secrets on there are jokes. There are a gazillion "this is why I cut myself" ones, along with the "I wish I had an eating disorder," "[insert crappy band here]saved my life" (the number of secrets like that was so overwhelming that they had to make a separate community for music-related secrets), and the always-popular "my life is empty and meaningless because I don't have a significant other" secrets. Even in my most pathetically miserable moments, I don't think I was ever anywhere near that bad.
My day just keeps getting more and more sucktacular. I decided to treat myself to a nice lunch before my horrible 2:00 class, but the waiter brought out the wrong entree (is it
really that difficult to tell whether someone ordered "mussels" or "mushrooms"?), and by the time they had made the right food and I finished eating, it was 2:15. I decided to just not go to the class rather than show up 20+ minutes late and draw attention to myself, so I wandered around aimlessly for a while. Even though I absolutely hate that class and don't really pay attention in it, I still felt guilty about skipping for some reason. Now, I have to go lead a meeting about a group project for a different class, and it'll probably take at least an hour. Grrr.
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms
