I got a stick of dynamite, c'mere let me teach ya.

[raybear]

There is some major baby mama drama on livejournal this weekend. Luckily I'm not really knee-deep, so I'm able to just let my jaw drop and be amused and astounded by the nature of the posts. I often find myself on the outskirts of drama, without being too directly related. There always are some common themes.

1. "Everything is about me."
2. "I'm always right."
3. "You're more wrong for questioning me."
4. "Everything is about me."
5. "My actions exist in a vacuum."
6. "No one knows anything about me and should therefore shut up."
7. "Everything is about me."

Oh wait, those are the rules for my livejournal. I must have gotten my lists mixed up.

Seriously, it does bring back some fond and not-so-fond memories of some dramatic times from high school. What always cracked me up were the people who talked about how they were sick of drama which is why they stopped hanging around certain peope and found new friends but now there's drama there. For one, chances are, with a large group of people, there's always going to be friction and occasional conflit. Just handle your business and move on. Secondly, do these people ever suspect that THEY are the cause of drama, since it seems to mysteriously follow them everywhere?

My high school was a little rough. One of my favorite lines of all time came from a girl who was about to kick another girl's ass, and she requested her best friend to hold her nails and weave, lest they get broken or ripped. I've also heard the sound of a man's boot landing numerous blows into the ribcage of another man on the ground. It echoes. As do the grunts of the recipient. It's not pretty. I've even been in a mob of people fleeing the front schoolyard to get away from a knife-wielding bully who didn't quite go with the rule that if the person you challenge runs away, you've won the fight. They felt compelled to continue the matter after leaping the bushes and darting through the trailer classrooms.

But really, I went to a high school that certainly wasn't Dangerous Minds. It was just a far cry from every school in TV and movies. The one portrayal which was surprisingly reminiscent of my own experience was the school from the movie Girlfight. Except I didn't grow up in the Bronx. It was quasi-suburban Atlanta. Strange similarity, I know.

We had a good solid principal who worked hard to improve the school and make the students more successful. His primary piece of advice to students was 'mind your own business.' He was also fond of referring to large groups of people as "folk". In the singular. He often said, "I tell folk every year, mind your own bizness. Don't worry about your neighbor. Let your neighbor worry about hisself."

So I can't help but chuckle whenever Ludacris, the ole boy from Atlanta, talks about staying the fcuk out of his bizness, his biznass. I wonder if he went to Redan.



The Behind the Music of Hall & Oates was awful. The episode of Simpsons wasn't too bad -- they had a pretty amusing opening scene involving the gay pride parade. And maybe tonight after finally finishing the sound piece for Lisa's performance, I'll watch "Lord of the Wu-Tang" starring Jet Li. I'm hoping it will be as good as Gosford Park. Just in a different way.

Also, in some of the drama posts about T, I started to think a lot about my own dosage and talking to my doctor about changing it. Right now, I'm basically on half-dose, and on the gel (which I think actually achieves less changes than half-dose with shots). I'm hoping to either go back up to full-dose on gel (which I had excellent luck with) or if he wants to keep me on half-dose (there was some concern last fall of my T levels being so high that my body was converting it back into estrogen), that I switch back to shots (which I started with and did for the first 6 months or so). But I'm starting to suspect that my hormones have been battling each other for the past 4 months, so not only have the changes slowed/stopped, but it's affecting me in other ways. It can't really be good for my system to have such fluctuations (i.e. having PMS type estrogen highs, plus testosterone high levels).

Comments

[dannyboi.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I was thinking!! God forbid we talk about anything anyone else says! We had a right nice conversation going on about big corporations and ethics that had nothing to do with...*ahem* certain people who think everything is about them. I much preferred that to everything else that was posted. Thank you for the interesting part of that discussion!

[raybear.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree. And even Seb and Sean's discussion after us wasn't targeted specifically towards anyone other than each other.

I sometimes feel like people complain about drama and how they don't want attention, but the drama complaints inevitably make everything about themselves! I was actually rather shocked when the identities got revealed, since it seemed entirely unnecessary.

I really enjoyed discussing stuff with you too, and in case it wasn't obvious, I totally support your right to post.

Highlites

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

"Think Pink!"

"You do this every year, we *are* used to it!"
"Spoil-sport"

"We're Gay, We're Glad...But Don't Tell Mom and Dad"
"Wouldn't it be great if that man and that woman got together?"

"You're the perfect wet blanket, Marge. The kind I like to have wrapped around me."

Malcolm in the Middle was pretty good, too.

Re: Highlites

[raybear.livejournal.com]

I also loved the float celebrating brunch!!!

Re: Highlites

[masscooper.livejournal.com]

YES! A friend of mine had actually just been talking with me about brunch with gay men, so I was especially entertained.