Hang on, the face one is pretty crazy too, let me find it.



BMI still says I'm pretty overweight (one point away from being obese), though. =/

I hate the idea that you're supposed to grow up and not do things anymore. It's a crock of shit.

Isn't it? I still go to the parks and roll down hills, and I totally get strange look from parents. I'll pay my bills and taxes but otherwise, I don't care to "grow up." Life's much more fun this way!

Oh hey, so I look different.

It's the same thing as judging your peers for other various interests. We all have our things we think are lame, whether it be video games, movies, or music. Even though I'm quick to get defensive when someone gives me shit for, say, liking World of Warcraft, I'd be just as quick to make a snarky remark if I found out she/he was a War and Peace by Dostoyevsky fan. It's all the same, isn't it?

Man I hate fucking cheaters >.<

Men are horrible! (yes I'm aware women cheat too)

Glad to hear you're doing better now.

That was the second time, too. Both were friends. Now granted, we're both pretty open-minded as far as relationships/sex goes. We've been known to do stuff with our friends together, too. I'm even interested in open relationships so long as we discuss every little thing that happens. It was less about the physical act that bothered me, and more about how he broke my trust. He did something behind my back and then lied about it when confronted. If he had asked, he could have had as much sex with her as he wanted. But if you hide a single detail about your life from me after nearly five years of being together, that completely undermines every declaration of love and trust you have for me. To clarify, though: I'm not a naggy woman who pries and must know everything because I'm super jealous and nosy. We've always been ridiculously close and both feel bad when we keep something- even something so insignificant and mundane as something that happened at work!- from one another. In fact, I've always been the more brooding and private of the us. He's the one who has to usually work to get me to not close myself up and lose myself in my thoughts. For him to keep this from me meant he knew he dun goof'd and wasn't mature enough to be held accountable for it.

I'm not really new, buuuuut it's sort of been a year or more since I've posted here. Oops? In any case, I figured it made sense to re-introduce myself after so long a hiatus.

So, yeah, hi! My name's Criss, and I'm a 23-year-old nerdy girl hailing from the ever-humid area of southern Louisiana. I deal cards at a casino for a living, and I like it only because I get to be snarky and not-so-subtly tell stupid people off while passing it all off as a joke. I'm a huge, huge, HUGE (massively HUGE!) book nerd and truly get anxious when I don't have a book on me. One of my biggest goals in life is to have an impressive library, and considering I have more books than I do articles of clothing, I'm well on my way to that goal. When I'm not reading or taking people's money, I'm either snarking it up in various internet communities, playing video games, or making "d'awwww" faces at how cute my cats are. Seriously. My cats are fucking awesome.

So, uh.. see you 'round and all that.

Why are all the females underage? It makes the whole "nudes or GTFO" meme a little risky.

Meet Zedd!

Understandably, I'm going to make all of you feel older just by reading this post, but whatever.

I'm nearly 22, but I've always carried myself considerably older than my actual age. Even now, I consider people in their 20's to be "young," considering most of my friends are at least 30. I'm the oldest sibling, and I'm not exactly my a fan of my parents, so once I graduated, I got the hell of out there.

Anyhow, enough of a backstory. My little sister, my baby sister. She's 16. And she just posted some pictures of an older guy on top of her, making out and groping her on myspace. Now, just the other day, she was telling me about this 19-year-old guy interested in her. Said she was "the one" for him, but he didn't want any commitments because he wasn't ready for a relationship. But she told me she saw him fondling another girl just a week before, so she agreed with me that he just wanted sex from her.

And there he is. On her myspace. She's 16! And worse, she's very young for her age, mentally and physically. She's very, very naive, and unknowingly lets people walk all over her consistently.

The thing that kills me, are my parents. My dad and stepmother have myspaces. They know what's going on. My older stepsisters both had babies in high school, one at 14, and one at 15. They won't do anything about this little punk that's trying to use my baby sister for sex, and because I got as far away from them as I could, I'm too far away to do anything myself.

Agh! I'm livid!

Thanks! I had some computer-related questions (which, I see, you've already started to tackle, thank you!), and what better place to ask than here? It's nice to be back, really. I've just been so caught up with my new job lately.

I'm probably going to make myself look like a complete dumb ass here, but I'll deal with it.

My initial break from college, taken to "rediscover" myself and figure out what career path I wanted to pursue, is about to reach four years. And very little has stood out to me, as far as careers go. But I was thinking about it a few weeks ago, and trying to compose a mental list of things I enjoy as hobbies I could make a career out of. Computers was one of the top of my list.

However, I have very little even basic knowledge of computers. My knowledge is very sporadic; I learned a little here, a little there, but missed a little this, and a little that. For example, I know a good bit of html and css, and can easily code a pretty decent website. I've not too much experience in it, nor do I have any actual training in it besides trial and error, but it's something. And a few weeks ago, I wanted to use SMF and TinyPortal for my WoW guild forums, and didn't particularly know anything about how to go about it. And in the end, learned a bit about php and javascript (tinkering around with module/block scripts for fun little features!). And I'm pretty decent in Photoshop.

I can't even figure out how to add more memory in my computer, though, and I don't even know even more basic things about a computer, such as the need to defrag every so often (I found that out the hard way- my computer was exceptionally sluggish.. for half a year, oops). But I know I'm a pretty intelligent person, and I have the capability of learning more about computers considering the little I've learned from, well, trial and error. I'm pretty decent at graphics and art, I enjoy coding and designing things, and I learn quickly.

So here are the basic questions I have for you if you've gotten past my incessant ramblings at this point:
1) "Computers" is a very broad subject; are there any sort of, uh, sub-genres I could narrow it down to? An actual field or a job to aim for that you think would appeal to me based on what I posted above?
2) What sort of training would I need for it? And would the training start at the very, VERY basics of all computer-related things?
3) Where do I start? Are there any sites/books I can read? I went to Books-A-Million the other day and realized I had no idea what to start on. I was drawn towards more website-based books since that's the area I'm most familiar in, but obviously, I want to broaden my knowledge.
3) Or should I just go back to the kitchen and make a sandwich?

Long time, no see!

I take a three or four-month hiatus, and my first post upon returning is showering praise on an introduction thread, woo!

But I confess, I do feel a little.. flattered someone noticed I hadn't been visiting as much!