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That's nice' date=' at least if you got friendzoned she was genuinely true to the phrase and meant to retain you as a [i']friend, and not as 'a person to whom I say hello and no other words', which is what I got...
Jup. Before we began our relationship a year ago, we were very good friends already. So I guess we'll still be at least very good friends. She even said to me: "5 months withouth talking to you, is just way too long. Lets make a deal that it won't happen again". So like what I said: we'll still be at least very good friends. And regarding the conversation of today, I think that will last really long.
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I heard they did actually have to deploy security to keep German fans safe. Riots began at the second goal against Brazil and went on throughout the match in cities across the country.
Geez, I'm not surprised. That match was ridiculous. My friend was checking the status of the match every so often as it was going on, and Germany's score just kept...going...up. Like, what. How did that even happen?
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For some unfathomable reason I'm excessively angry today. Weird that I have no idea what has caused this seething rage. Sufficed to say I'm not good company at present.
I get the same way on occasion....just will wake up in a "I hate everyone and everything" kind of mood. Usually Ice cream helps though:D
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early this morning I had a really bad nightmare that I got fired from my job for something I didn't do. For some reason' date=' that dream has unsettled and haunted me all day and thrown me a bit off course.[/quote'] Hey, welcome to my world! Almost every bloody day last summer and before I'd have nightmares of exactly the sort you're describing. This summer's been nicer though.
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On another note, I went to the National Gallery yesterday. Dutch school is still my favorite, but I like the late Spanish painters as well. By contrast, the German paintings were hideous. Also my Mp3 player decided that Manticora was the appropriate music - and so it was, in particular for the 'Voyage of Life' quartet by Thomas Cole. Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii by Randolph Rogers was great even if it was a very recent piece (1860). I was particularly struck by Gloria Victis for some reason...sure, it's an angel, but the power and compassion left an impression on me (again, listening to Manticora helped). So too Virtue Overcoming Vice was brilliant if only because Virtue was depicted as a nude woman giving a wriggling demon a proper hiding with a massive stick.

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So in other words it was a dramatised depiction of your encounters with campus feminists? Actually it sounds like the demon had a more pleasant experience.
The only time I actually got what I would consider a proper thrashing from any feminist on any subject was when I got into my first serious abortion debate, and that was my very first night on Georgetown campus. Even then it was mainly my nerves and lack of self-confidence, as later research and reassessment of my own views demonstrated that she really hadn't made much of a dent at all, she'd just thrown a lot of red herrings that, although important to consider, were also pretty irrelevant to the actual discussion. Other than that, my record is pretty good. Usually my approach is to point out that their stick is in fact an inflatable hammer with a leak.
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