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Title pretty much says it all.

Love you guys still, but I think I've outgrown this site.

Plus I work 40 hours a week now.  Whee!

Because the new block "feature" is stupid, and more broken than it was in any way before, I'm compiling a list of things I've been BLOCKED for here to show how abused the "feature" is.  People aren't using it to avoid harassment, but in actuality to harass others and because they are inept at social situations.  I'm providing links where I have them, summaries of other instances (I will link them if I find the links though).  While some people are genuinely using the "feature" as intended, other people are downright abusing it just because someone challenges their oh-so-fragile ego:

- Sometimes innocent people are put on death row, and death row is more expensive than life in prison: comments.deviantart.com/18/161…
- Lady Gaga does have some musical tallent (blocked for "white knighting").
- I don't like being around a lot of drunk people, because I have negative experiences with that from the past.
- My Little Pony is a halfway decent show, and Transformers and GI Joe are catering to a different audience and have movie franchises associated with them.
- It is expensive to make your own clothes, and listing the reasons why comments.deviantart.com/18/164… for this comment comments.deviantart.com/18/164… but I wasn't blocked after I posted that, just the one about sewing being expensive.

Bawwlocks that other people have gotten:
- Disagreeing that women should be forced to cover up (chests) in public comments.deviantart.com/18/163…
- Seemingly no reason at all... comments.deviantart.com/18/163… (if you have evidence for why, please mention).

This list will likely continue until blocking is finally FIXED.

Rules, should you choose to obey:

You must (may) post these rules
Each tagged person must (except this really is not compulsory) post 10 things about themselves on their journal
You have to (again non-compulsory) choose and tag 5 people and post their icons on the same journal
Go to their pages and tell them you tagged them
No tag backs


1 -
I don't think I've filled out one of these things since I was 19 and still a freshman, with the exception of one or two of those stupid "Count the number of X's you put on next to things and that's how snobby you are!  Shame on you for being an adult with a car and an apartment!"

2 -
My favorite animal is goats.  But unicorns are pretty close, and so are sculpins (especially grunt sculpins and zebra sculpins; and if you don't know what they are, look them up because they are FUCKING COOL).

3 -
I really want yoghurt right NOW.

4 -
Someday, I'm going to make waffels, and they are going to be blue.  And then I'm going to make Jack Daniels syrup for them so I can get DRUNK OF BREAKFAST.  I also want to learn the fine art of making tableware out of bacon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZDv9p…

5 -
Probably one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to classes is when they make you go to compulsory meetings and out of class activities that weren't listed on the course description/easy to assume would exist given the previous courses in their series.  Especially when you can't go to any of them because you have a life outside of that singular class and there's no alternative assignment.

6 -
Last year I probably would have described myself as a biological reductionist (human behavior can be explained exclusively through biological functions).  Now I'm closer to extreme cultural relativist (human behavior is based primarily in terms of culture and biology plays a minimal role).  However, I'm not so far to the relativist side that I disregard all/most biology entirely.

7 -
I draw unicorns on EVERYTHING.  Fat unicorns are my favorite because they are so hugable until they impale you with their vicious unicorn fighting instincts!

8 -
When I was in high school I read non-fiction books for fun.  Now that I'm (a senior) in college, I have no time to read for fun.

9 -
The real world scares the living crap out of me.

10 -
I often wish that I could grow stylish facial hair and am disapoint that women are unable to do this (I wouldn't want to be a man, men have cooties).  I also often fantasize about putting top hats on penises and having a tea party.  My boyfriend unfortunately, does not share this fantasy.

BONUS
I love taking tango classes because the awkward faces people make when first learning to dance on the body are hilarious.


Btw you should totally read the book listed under "reading".  It's one I have to read for a class, but it's so well-written and just overwhelmingly amazing that you should give it a go.


Them tagged ones:

I got my cap and gown!  And a gigantic diploma frame.

Only 10 more weeks, and I will be free of school and forced to exist in the "real world".

I'm crap-my-pants scared.

There are too many stupid people on the internet.

I used to like hanging out and debating (though which I've had a great deal of fun finding people that I can both respect and disagree with at the same time, something that I put a lot of value on).  I admit that I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, but sometimes it feel like shouting at a brick wall would be a better use of time*.  Not to mention, there are too many trolls at the moment, and a good deal of this is starting to affect me in real life in ways that I don't like (like being cynical when I'm usually happy-go-lucky).

Ok, so not sure if it's the internet, or if it's just an effect of growing up and the current political culture where I feel that my life and the lives of those I care about are under constant attack by people only wishing to line their own pocketbooks.  Which is really not all that fun.

Plus, life is kinda scary right now.  I'm fat so I won't get a job.  I don't have big boobs so I won't get a job.  I know that the last one isn't realistic, but I constantly see my big boobed, small bodied friends succeed and get a multitude of opportunities where I feel like I'm sitting on a great big pile of none.  So the added stress of internet things is definitely not helping.

So I guess self esteem issues + stupid internet arguments = an unhealthy me.  Which isn't really helping me with anything.

Ughgh.

I'm going to bet an internet break is going to fail miserably and I'll never actually be away. Ugh.

*Not saying this is true from everyone, because there are people who have effectively shown me the other side of the picture and even if we didn't ultimately agree on an issue have been able to come to the middle.  It's not about the other person's opinion, but the way they present it and the reasoning behind it.