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:: Thursday, February 06, 2003 ::

I admit... I've been bad about blogging. There haven't been many blogs recently explaining clearly how I've been feeling, doing, how school is going, and what my mindset generally is these days. I thought this blog was going to be short of material and stretching for content, but then I re-read Chris' blog, and found a link to betsy's, which linked to Alexandra's. And I am no longer short of material.

First, the basic check in - and the excitement I have planned in the future. As some of you know, RUSH is going on right now - we're recruiting new pledges, and so far it looks like we're going to have a pretty solid pledge class. We may even get the 6 pledges our rush chair wanted, which is unheard of for a spring semester here - our best spring class before was 5, and one de-pledged so we only got four. If we get 6 guys, or even more... it would just be awesome. So rush is fun, I get to meet a bunch of cool guys and do a lot of cool stuff with the money we've been making working for our fraternity. And on Saturday we're going to have a huge party at Havana Breeze and it'll be a great time.

Speaking of Saturday, Model Party is that day - I mentioned it before, and if you're curious go to DCModelParty.com. My whole fraternity got invited, and we woulda been VIP'd cause Timmerman knows the owner. For the record, as curious as I am, I'm nowhere near as dissapointed as I sounded. Primarily because my plans for NEXT weekend have come together nicely.

I was supposed to go visit Sasha (and of all people, Kara) up at Skidmore, but things changed and he wasn't going to be there, so instead I'm going to see Andrew at Yale via NYC. That would be fun as is, but there's also a great Beta house up there so I get to meet another chapter and party with them as well. That would be all fun as is TOO, but that saturday happens to be the Yale Winter Ball. So Andrew's first reaction is, do you want me to try and find you a date? And I'm like hmmmm..... it would be a whole lot funnier if I take somebody who -doesn't- go to Yale, so we're TOTALLY crashing their party. And at this point, unless she has to work, it looks like Kate Taylor and I are crashing the Yale formal. On a minor related note, this is exceptionally cool because Kate and I had both expressed a little realistic dissapointment about the fact that once college came, we were probably going to be people who basically didn't see each other at all just by chance of circumstance. So it should be lots of fun to all go and rip it up at Yale.

And now, for the meat and potatoes of this blog.

Ok, so I said that Chris getting back into blogging was key, and I wasn't kidding - this guy and I blog off of each other so much it's not even funny. We just think along a few similar levels (along with lots of very different ones), but express ourselves very differently, promting thoughts within each other that would never have come up.

So... about Alexandra's blog. Heh. I didn't know where it was, so I'd forgotten it, but then Chris linked to Betsy, and Betsy linked to Alexandra, and you know honestly.... I'm not going to say anything personal because I don't know Alexandra well enough to do so, but I have a hard fucking time understanding how Betsy can be so close to Chris and be good friends with somebody who would so drastically and superficially misinterpret him. I guess it's just a testament as to the span and scope of Betsy's personality.

So Alexandra's original quotation was "I've never thought about relationships the way [Chris] does, just so shifty and shallow. Sleep with any girl because you have some sudden desire for resting your head on big breasts. Not because you know her well and really love her. I think chris would like to have more serious relationships with girls, but he's kind of afraid to get close to them."

First you'll notice that I sorta proofread that, because I couldn't stand to put it in my blog the way it was, but that has nothing to do with the point. The real issue is the drastic oversimplification she gives to Chris and, more ironically, how she is INCREDIBLY shallow in defining him by only his outward appearance and apparant attitude based on a few simple statements. I mean... not once in recent memory has irony literally bitchslapped me as hard as it did right there. I'd almost say that my favorite part is her assumption that "sleep with" means "have sex with," but irony is funnier... as for the lying on big breasts, you know, as comfy as that is it was probably a joke with a grain of truth. And as for Chris and his serious relationships with girls.... oh, my fucking, god. I'm not even going to go there. That somebody who has probably never spoken more than 10 sentences with Chris can POSSIBLY deem to judge the depth of the relationships he has with girls.... it just turns my fucking stomach.

Eek, you know... I went too far. I dug too deep into the bullshit I was reading, realized how incredibly shallow, superficial, PRETENTIOUS, asinine.... god, it just made me fucking sick.

I'm honestly glad it came from somebody three and a half years younger than me. Not because I think the age of the speaker invalidates the thought, but because I was so appalled by the attitude (snooty even?) portrayed that I hope to GOD that she still has plenty of learning to do. I know those three and a half years changed the hell out of me, but even back then I wouldn't have had the gaul to make statements like that about the personal life of somebody I barely knew.

In other news, I'm having a great time at college this semester.


:: Peter 12:07 AM [+] ::
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