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13, which is surprising. Maybe I didn't answer right...

I took it again... trying to answer as accurately as I possibly could about myself, and got 12 this time. What the hell.

I must have missed this when it was posted, I just took it and got 27.

one of my best friends and I would just lie around cuddling because he was convinced he could break my hatred of hugs/etc

Sorry about coming back to this a few days later but it randomly occurred to me while I was in my 3rd hour of shelving books this morning that you are a genius, Meagan.

Do you think if I feigned hatred for cuddling and hugs, I'd get to do more of both? "I still don't like it. I guess we'll have to try again tomorrow!"

one of my best friends and I would just lie around cuddling because he was convinced he could break my hatred of hugs/etc

Sorry about coming back to this a few days later but it randomly occurred to me while I was in my 3rd hour of shelving books this morning that you are a genius, Meagan.

Do you think if I feigned hatred for cuddling and hugs, I'd get to do more of both? "I still don't like it. I guess we'll have to try again tomorrow!"

I was actually thinking that the guy is the genius for claiming to be holding and cuddling a warm female body just to help her get over her hatred of it.

I'm not even kidding. I mean, really?! Will girls actually fall for that? (No offense).

one of my best friends and I would just lie around cuddling because he was convinced he could break my hatred of hugs/etc

Sorry about coming back to this a few days later but it randomly occurred to me while I was in my 3rd hour of shelving books this morning that you are a genius, Meagan.

Do you think if I feigned hatred for cuddling and hugs, I'd get to do more of both? "I still don't like it. I guess we'll have to try again tomorrow!"

I was actually thinking that the guy is the genius for claiming to be holding and cuddling a warm female body just to help her get over her hatred of it.

I'm not even kidding. I mean, really?! Will girls actually fall for that? (No offense).

I doubt it.

Sometimes we made out to break the monotony...

That sounds about right.

Well, then. Settled. I hate cuddling.

I literally made a student's jaw drop today when I demonstrated knowledge of anime/manga. They also get a kick out of hearing what xbox 360 games I'm playing (and trying to get me to tell them my gamer tag ).

Bottom line: I love reminding them that teachers can be "cool".

I love reminding them that teachers can be "cool".

I hate to ruin your high but your students are nerds, just like you. And yes, yes, nerds are cool but one nerd impressing other nerds/nerdlings does not make you cool, it makes you in like company.

The real trick is convincing non-nerds that being a nerd is cool. That is an impressive feat, so get back to me when you've done that.

Once you start actually learning calculus, you come to think much less of the Model of a Modern Major General.

Also: first post since...June? July? I can't recall.

Once you start actually learning calculus, you come to think much less of the Model of a Modern Major General.

Also: first post since...June? July? I can't recall.

October?

Or ignoring those, September? August?

I fear you're here more than you think

Bwahahaha, we're like a drug.

That's true; and also the last month has moved by so slowly (due to just starting college and adapting to the workload and such) that every day felt like a week.

So there were only two people at book club meeting this month. LAME. But we had a nice chat.

so much catching up to do, drinking songs, aspergers, halloween, encyclopedia brown (read those books DOZENS of times as a child), and cuddling...

firstly, I love the song Wagon Wheel, particularly the Old Crow Medicine Show version (I actually have that CD, come to think of it) but it's worth pointing out that Wagon Wheel is a Bob Dylan song which is why it's so damn good. And I've never used the song as a drinking song but it would be a fantastic one if so used and anyways I would go to a bar that had drinking and singing and drinking and singing to that song. I'd probably even enjoy going to the bar were that the case. But in any event, it is Finnegan's Wake that is the best drinking song.

I wish I'd remembered to wish my old chem teacher happy mole day, i want the mole song that Brian sings so I can give it to him.

and I scored a 19.

For Halloween i dressed up as puss and boots (I couldn't find orange things so I did yellow (REALLY YELLOW) and didn't get a tail made and forgot my cape and didn't have a rapier (a pirate sword, really?) but it worked nevertheless) and gave my nieces little rubber rats and boxes of raisens that I told them were the finest gourmet rat droppings from france, a great delicacy. my niece was completely convinced that I'd given her poo and was not going to eat the raisins.

and megxers just gets odder, I love cuddling, last night was five months for us, I made bacon wrapped steak on a bed of arugula topped with blue cheese and served with sweet potato fries and an almond/apple/manchego salad (with greens and a lemon vinaigrette) and then we downed a bottle of 2005 silver oak and watched White Christmas together which I surprised her with since its her favorite christmas movie and seemed like a good way to kick off the holiday season, and we cuddled the whole movie. Was wonderful.

I wish I'd remembered to wish my old chem teacher happy mole day, i want the mole song that Brian sings so I can give it to him.

I'll ask him.

... and watched White Christmas together which I surprised her with since its her favorite christmas movie and seemed like a good way to kick off the holiday season, and we cuddled the whole movie. Was wonderful.

I <3 White Christmas. It's my favorite Christmas movie also, probably because Danny Kaye is in my top two favorite actors of all time. (Gene Kelly being the other.)

We were actually just talking about White Christmas last night. This summer while caving, my cousin and brother almost toppled off the side of a cliff after a rock that Brian was on tumbled and knocked my cousin in the shoulder, and knocked my cousin into my brother. My cousin's belt had been tied to a rope that was tied off on a tree up above. My brother grabbed for my cousin as they were falling and they both held on to each other while they were dangling over the side until they gained enough composer to climb up. Anyways, we were joking last night that anytime my cousin wants something, he should just rub his shoulder and give Brian puppy dog eyes and see if it works like it did on White Christmas.

it's worth pointing out that Wagon Wheel is a Bob Dylan song.

I thought everybody already knew that.

and megxers just gets odder, I love cuddling, last night was five months for us,

What's this, another pweb romance?

and megxers just gets odder, I love cuddling, last night was five months for us,

What's this, another pweb romance?

Oh, Adam, ol' 5 E's is going to be pissed when she finds this out.

Adam and Meagan, cuddling in a tree (not very smart, mind you),
Watching m-o-v-i-e's!
First comes wine,
Then comes (not) marriage,
Then comes a baby in a baby carriage!

[/juvenile response]

hehehe

no, not a pweb romance, awkward phrasing on my part. I can't believe Megxers dislikes cuddling, and so went off on a long tangent about the cuddling renee and I did last night, she and I met via OKC five months ago.

That's too bad...I was itching for a Pweb romance, to the disturbing point of trying to get a zero/Mich bromance going but that never took off the way I hoped it would.

That's too bad...I was itching for a Pweb romance, to the disturbing point of trying to get a zero/Mich bromance going but that never took off the way I hoped it would.

You can't force a bromance, Petrie. zero already knew that we were bros.

trying to get a zero/Mich bromance going

Can you even have a bromance with yourself?

I wasn't trying to force it, I was trying to encourage and nurture it!

but that never took off the way I hoped it would.

Psh, as if I'd broadcast to the board any bromances I may or may not be involved in.

Bromance is just generally a terrible word and should be excised from the English language.

If it's good enough for Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, it's good enough for me.

I do hate murse (man-purse) and similar words but bromance gets the okay because it has produced a movie (see above about Paul Rudd and Jason Segel) that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Bromance is just generally a terrible word and should be excised from the English language.

Don't be redonkulous. You just need to chillax.

Don't be like these guys.

Double Post! (I've been here long enough. I'm entitled).

I'm just wondering, does anyone else ever have the 'awkward door holding distance' problem? You know, when there's someone behind you and you reach a door, and you're not sure if they're quite close enough to justify holding the door for them?

It's not that you don't want to hold the door, but if they're too far away it actually becomes a burden for them because they feel inclined to greatly increase their walking speed so that they don't inconvenience you by making you hold the door for an unnaturally long time. But of course it's totally rude to not hold the door if you are within obligatory door holding distance.

And it works both ways. If I'm the follower I will intentionally slow my walk to make sure that I'm safely out of the obligatory door holding distance or speed up my walk to make sure that I'm well within it. Whatever it takes so as not to fall in the awkward zone.

Note: Obligatory door holding distance is greatly extended if the follower has their hands full or otherwise looks like they may have difficulty getting the door on their own, or if going into a building and the weather outside is unpleasant.

I too have this problem. I am more often the follower than the holder, however (probably something to do with chivalry and my femalehood). I consistently find myself in the awkward zone and have to quicken my pace. I secretly think this is because others enjoy watching people awkwardly rush into buildings sooner than they would like.

I vaguely recall an xkcd comic about this, but I cannot seem to find it. Am I crazy?

Oh man, I so hear you on this one. The worst is when I'm pushing a stroller through a door. There is a window of time when it's not awkward. Too early is actually okay in that case, but too late is often just a pain. People stand in the way to open the door from the inside. I know they're just trying to be helpful, but it can be frustrating.

And when my kid is begging to press the accessibility button that opens the door, you holding it open is actually causing problems. *sigh* But I totally get why people do!

Totally hear you. I hate that awkward zone. And it gets even worse if by the time the person gets to the door, there's a person or more people then close enough that you have to hold it for them, too!

Bromance is just generally a terrible word and should be excised from the English language.

C'mon, broseph, I think it's a brahsome word. You just need to brolax, bradooski; it's not the brolocaust.

(btw, a great title/rank for Rei would be "bro" :)