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| "I said this as innocently has a vicar, not wanting to stymie things by seeming too eager. I'd discovered in life that if you're too eager others seem to get less eager. And if you're less eager it tends to make others more eager. So the more eager I was, the less eager I seemed."
-From the book The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
I have never really thought about this much, but it is a general truth in life. Sure, it won't apply 100% of the time, but there does seem to be something in humanity that gets suspicious if someone is eager and that suspicion breeds a desire to squelch it. Even if it is a person we love or care about, the moment they get too eager about something we take a step back and try to reevaluate the situation. We try to figure out if we are being taken advantage of in some way... are we missing something that the other person comprehended?
And then this aversion we seem to have toward eagerness can be used as a manipulative tool, either consciously or not. I remember either someone I read about or knew many years ago who used that to his advantage with females. If he was in a friendship where he was seen as an "older brother" whom the female in question wouldn't even dream of dating, he would pull away and distance himself from her, thus creating (according to him), an increasing desire. Now, I suspect this was not one of my friends because that sounds too maniacle
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| Because everyone wants to do a meme now and then...1. A is for age: 23
2. B is for beer of choice: Weyerbacher Double Semcoe IPA
3. C is for career right now: University Attender/Bookstore Clerk
4. D is for your dog's name: Dogs suck, thus I do Not own one. (Yes, it is a long name, but if Sufjan can do it, so can I!)
5. E is for essential item you use everyday: underwear.
6. F is for favorite TV show at the moment: Phillies baseball
7. G is for favorite game: Hard to go wrong with Tetris, ya know?
8. H is for Home town: Lancaster, PA
9. I is for instruments you play: guitar
10. J is for favorite juice: anything 100% natural
11. K is for whose butt you'd like to kick: those guys whom I was hanging out with last night.
12. L is for last place you ate: Home: it was Sugar Bowl take-out.
13. M is for marriage: Who to? Until I know the answer to that question I don't have an answer for this question.
14. N is for name of first crush: Anna. That didn't last long though. I mean... it was a first crush. Nothing to it.
15. O is for overnight hospital stays: After birth, I guess. Never needed to go back since.
16. P is for people you were with today: Heather and some of her friends (the afore mentioned guys I want to ass-kick)
17. Q is for favorite quote: I can't just think of quotes on demand! But if you want material I quote a lot, check out the tv shows Futurama and Arrested Development. Book-wise read "I Want To Go Home" by Gordon Korman and "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.
18. R is for Biggest Regret: Never asking out my big highschool crush...
19. S is for status: tired, sitting on my bed, hungry, with the noise of my fan on high.
20. T is for time u woke up today: 9:30
21. U is for underwear you have on now: briefs
22. V is for vegetable you love: I don't love vegetables. I enjoy veggies... but not one specific vegetable comes to mind as being top dog.
23. W is for worst habit: Sloth, probably.
24. X is for x-rays you've had: At the dentist. You know... teeth/mouth.
25. Y is for yummy food you ate today: Last night at about 1:30am I had cheesy fries with Heather.
26. Z is for the zodiac sign: I have no idea... and I'm not looking it up because my ignorance on the subject is a lot cooler than me actually finding out.
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| RIP Madeleine L'Englehttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&adxnnlx=1189191828-26XbKyxB9vwAhW8ooxQy+Q
You'll be missed.
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| I am not leaving xanga.I have been on Xanga a long, long time. I have been on here so long that I could nab the name TheTheory for cryin' out loud. I have long enjoyed the social aspects of the site... posting and reading updates for and from friends. I'll continue doing that. But the fantastically fun and educational posts will now being going on to http://sirtheory.wordpress.com/ which is, like, totally, like, an honest-to-goodness real blog. So read. Because it will be fantastic.
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| Finished the last Harry Potter book. It was good. Sad to see it end, though.
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