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Post by GratefulHippie on Feb 22, 2008 9:09:16 GMT -5
wooz said:
lionslicer said:
wait, the END of the bed? not the side?
....I'm also curious... I mean the side? ok.. but the end?
haha...no it was definitely the end. we even managed to hit the blinds on sliding glass doors and make lots of noise, which i'm sure my roommates enjoyed.
I have always heard the old saying about dating : "If your looking to find someone you will have no luck, as soon as you stop trying it will just happen"
Wonder if there is any reason for this? I was outa the game for a few years, so I had forgotten what it was like.....I think I may fit in the "looking to hard category right now"
Yea, ok I'll tell the story eventually...but for now I just realized I never posted a pic of myself on here to go w/ my profile! So here you go! Me at 3:15AM looking scruffy...
ok i need to know, and i dont' mean to offend...but are you wearing contacts or is that your natural eye color cuz the blue is insane...i love it...
OMG Photoshop hax. J/k Nice DMB shirt Going to rothbury this year
I have always heard the old saying about dating : "If your looking to find someone you will have no luck, as soon as you stop trying it will just happen"
Wonder if there is any reason for this? I was outa the game for a few years, so I had forgotten what it was like.....I think I may fit in the "looking to hard category right now"
People (especially my mother) say this all the time and while I'm sure people have had personal experiences like that, I think its really stupid to tell someone single that the reason they're single is because they wish they weren't. You can't just force yourself to stop looking!
Ugh, what single people have to suffer through. I'm only 20 and I can't tell you how many bouquets I've been pushed toward...
PS: Those are some electric eyes, carpedm!
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I agree herecomesthesun, at least that what my initial thoughts were. But then I started to get paranoid! I think I will chalk the last few months up to bad luck and or circumstance. Thanks for the insight.
Post by GratefulHippie on Feb 22, 2008 11:47:19 GMT -5
back when i was a teen, i always thought i'd meet the man of my dreams in college, and then get married after graduation.
now that i'm 24 and single, i can honestly say that i'm not a bit disappointed that my little plans didn't work out. i can't even imagine being married or having a family of my own right now.
I'm heading off toward the end of innocence. I'm about to be 27 and though I enjoy being single. The desire to be 'Domesitcated" becomes greater. But lately I've not talked to chick that I really spiritually connected too. I dunno I feel like I'm at a impasse in my life and I don't know if a relationship could sustain withing me. So I push alot of girls away. I dunno maybe
I have to admit, it scares me sometimes to think about graduating college single, just because it is harder to meet someone I feel like when once you become busy with being an adult, and that intensifies if you move somewhere you don't know anyone for a job. In my family, all my cousins were married before they were 22, so there's also that pressure to not be the abnormal one that everyone feels sorry for. When I get together with my family, I feel like wearing a shirt that says, "Nope, still single," just so I don't have to be asked the Boyfriend Question a billion times.
I have to admit, it scares me sometimes to think about graduating college single, just because it is harder to meet someone I feel like when once you become busy with being an adult, and that intensifies if you move somewhere you don't know anyone for a job. In my family, all my cousins were married before they were 22, so there's also that pressure to not be the abnormal one that everyone feels sorry for. When I get together with my family, I feel like wearing a shirt that says, "Nope, still single," just so I don't have to be asked the Boyfriend Question a billion times.
Hey I'm glad to see you're wearing that shirt if it's any consolation. Year like a few of my friends are married now. and you talk to them about their domesticated problems and such and it seems kinda surreal. I mean just yesterday you were the guy sitting next to me in jail sayin, "Man, that was fun" now you are talking about having kids. For me, I really dont see anything like that happening. I've come close but I find someway to screw it up. maybe I'm just predestined to die alone
Post by lionslicer on Feb 22, 2008 12:15:30 GMT -5
knoxville said:
I have always heard the old saying about dating : "If your looking to find someone you will have no luck, as soon as you stop trying it will just happen"
Wonder if there is any reason for this? I was outa the game for a few years, so I had forgotten what it was like.....I think I may fit in the "looking to hard category right now"
speaking as a man who has not had any real relationship in at least 3 years, and really hasn't tried at all, i can tell you that the theory is bunk.
it takes work and leaving your comfort zone on both ends of the deal, ya know?
Post by chicojuarz on Feb 22, 2008 12:19:19 GMT -5
herecomesthesun said:
When I get together with my family, I feel like wearing a shirt that says, "Nope, still single," just so I don't have to be asked the Boyfriend Question a billion times.
I have this same desire except in the Girlfriend Question way.
I understand your apprehension but let me tell you that at 27 I'm single in a large city and its awesome. Now I think having something to do on a regular basis is a big selling point but I think that as I age and spend more time around single women in their late 20's and 30's they are really awesome and for me I like being around women that are pursuing their own careers first.
OMG Photoshop hax. J/k Nice DMB shirt Going to rothbury this year
Nah, I wish...I dont have the time to go to more than one major festie, and since I saw DMB twice last summer, and I'm sure I'll see them twice again THIS summer, there was no question I was picking 'Roo as my festival of choice again.
"We're no longer called Sonic Death Monkey. We're on the verge of becoming Kathleen Turner Overdrive, but just for tonight, we are Barry Jive and his Uptown Five. "
OMG Photoshop hax. J/k Nice DMB shirt Going to rothbury this year
Nah, I wish...I dont have the time to go to more than one major festie, and since I saw DMB twice last summer, and I'm sure I'll see them twice again THIS summer, there was no question I was picking 'Roo as my festival of choice again.
Of course.. The patrone will flow like water there my friend. Ladies Are way hipper too. But just in case, I'm probably gonna attend both. gotta see how the other side lives.
Yea, well I am well past college age and thats how old I was the last time I was single.....so maybe things have just changed due to my age? I live in a medium sized city, but I don't meet people well. I suppose it will happen when it is supposed too, I guess I'm just anxious.
I mean what happened to this board. It's kinda falling off. I mean what lady wouldn't like a slice of mrbrown cake. I mean I'm organic for christ's sakes
I have to admit, it scares me sometimes to think about graduating college single, just because it is harder to meet someone I feel like when once you become busy with being an adult, and that intensifies if you move somewhere you don't know anyone for a job. In my family, all my cousins were married before they were 22, so there's also that pressure to not be the abnormal one that everyone feels sorry for. When I get together with my family, I feel like wearing a shirt that says, "Nope, still single," just so I don't have to be asked the Boyfriend Question a billion times.
Karma. Yeah i cant fucking stand that crap either. Irish Catholics are scary people. Where are you from in Missouri? I was born is St. Louis.
When I get together with my family, I feel like wearing a shirt that says, "Nope, still single," just so I don't have to be asked the Boyfriend Question a billion times.
I have this same desire except in the Girlfriend Question way.
I understand your apprehension but let me tell you that at 27 I'm single in a large city and its awesome. Now I think having something to do on a regular basis is a big selling point but I think that as I age and spend more time around single women in their late 20's and 30's they are really awesome and for me I like being around women that are pursuing their own careers first.
Yeah, I keep telling myself that its not like being single when you're out of college is a death sentence. Its not like I'm desperate or in a rush, but its just one of those things... if you're a planner, like me, you want to know what's going to happen down the road. I don't like surprises, and life is one big one!
I'm okay with things unfolding naturally... but I guess I'm kind of a control freak, is my thing. Though I have to admit, like hippie said, some plans I've made were not nearly as awesome as how life ended up happening. So.
Post by chicojuarz on Feb 22, 2008 21:26:48 GMT -5
This is how I explained it before: I'm a business analyst/project manager at a logistics company. What does that mean? It means I make up statistics to prove my point and bug people about when they are going to get their work done.
In reality I decipher contracts and do my best to make sure new projects get done on time.
You said you might intern or something up here this summer. Doing what?