Something's gotta give. I need someone to give me some attention. I can only handle so much of roommates thinking I'm crazy and then ignoring me, which makes me think I'm even crazier...
You know, people love crazies. They think they're great... until they have to live with them. But I am here to tell you that it's the crazies who win Nobel prizes and become professors and solve world problems and make a difference in the lives of children.
So what if I like to put the elf in the fridge and sing Vivaldi at 8:30 in the morning and hang gel clings all over the windows and read my music teacher magazines in the tub??
Being ignored is worse than living alone.
ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION.
ReplyDeleteAll for you. I sure wish we lived closer; we'd have such crazy fun. We'd invite the Piepers, and we'd all be crazy together. Because we understand what it is to be crazy. Good luck, friend. :)
Right?? Maybe someday when I get my masters and get over St. Louis I'll come teach at CSC. And I'll hire Meghan's dog as my personal assistant so they'd have to come too :)
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for the sweet comment. I wish we lived closer too.
ReplyDeleteDon't ask me why I'm commenting now, whilst I have never done so since I started following your blog in the dark (remove the last three words, it sounds like I'm stalking you) a good while ago.
ReplyDeleteI have been dubbed 'crazy' by many and shunned accordingly. Few have remained and to date they are still here. Crazies they might be though, it's difficult to judge.
I guess I feel I had to say something (to many Is and not enough yous - will correct).
DON'T GIVE IN.
Never.
Idiots are all over the place, strutting unashamedly in the full blare of the sun, lurking in every nook and crannies. There's no avoiding them.
JUST GO ON.
Always.
Your mind is bent on one goal, just follow the path, however lonely this might prove to be. Taking 'the road less travelled by' doesn't necessarily imply that you're wrong, far from it.
Good luck.
haha thanks for the encouragement! And yes, what you say is exactly what I'm realizing. It's a lonely path... seems scary at times, but the only one who can walk it is me. Because it's my story and no one else's.
ReplyDeleteThere's something to being a leading lady... once you become one, you can't really go back to being the best friend.
Here's to the messy process of becoming one, right? :)
I so wish people would ditch their old preconceptions and their a priori judgements. One of my best friends (a 'lady') was my boss for three years, and she is still my best friend.
ReplyDeleteLonely, scary, messy...that's the trademark of real life, innit?
You're right when you write that it's your story, and no one else's. The path one treads is eminently personal, and no one should EVER walk it for you (with you, why not ^_^).
:) We're working on that one -- the "with you" part, that is...
ReplyDelete(But I guess it would be more correct to say that we're waiting on that one. Not like I'm making a huge marketing push for it or anything)... It'll come when the time is right.
Haha! I really like your expression 'a huge marketing push', nicely put. Don't push things. Gravity has a nervous tendency to make them fall off.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with/finding the 'you' in the equation you + me = we.