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He's ACTually pretty hot harharharhar

Slytherin year

"Does this make my butt look big?"

annnnnnd Oprah comes out tomorrow as black.

I was the 2nd guy with the wooden boards...could you not tell?

The London Men's Collection for Fall/Winter 2013 http://shine.yahoo.com/photos/ive-seen-future-mens-fashion-slideshow/-photo-2567348-210500977.html My favs -

Lance Armstrong duh

Yeah he seems to like women who look 40...so right up in your alley.

AJ McCarron *drool*

It's not a waste of time. If anything, people get to find out whether or not they really have the capability, time, energy, attention span, space, money, etc to do what they want to do. It's self discovery. I actually kinda enjoy this new gym rush. There's always room to do something Mattypoo, unless every inch of the floor is taken, you could try yoga share the space and try something new, kinda like how the people invading the gym are trying something new. Ashtanga sun salutation, bitch. (Every once in a while someone would strike up a convo with me on what it was I was doing and what it was good for. I lurrvvv ittt) Whatever happened to the lemon/lemonade thing? People sign up/drop off the gym for lots of reasons. I wouldn't presume it's all for empty promises and lack of effort. Remember gyms are first and foremost businesses that take this time of the year to compete with each other to up their memberships and do everything they can do get those signatures on contracts. You can't even ask a gym a simple question without a full-scale sales approach launched at you. If you're set on a place and want to sign up, it's one thing. Totally different if you're browsing around taking a look or gathering information. I'd say more than 3/4th of new sign-ons are from people who said "no" the 1st time. Strong marketing/sales technique during a period of time when people are most curious and willing makes for the highest possible profits. Once you or I sign on, it's just like any other new thing in your or my life - interesting in the beginning and slowly losing appeal over time. Maybe you realize you actually didn't have time to do this everyday or you just lose interest in an idea that was so thrilling at the beginning of the year, or maybe you already got what you wanted or realized this wasn't what you wanted, etc. I also think most new year resolutions fail because the goals we set are too big and vague. "More", "better", "-er" are not targets that have definite bounds. "I would like to lose weight" is not effective unless it's coupled with steps and details like "I would like to lose 5 pounds by the end of the month and the way to do that is 1), 2), 3)". We all want things to change but not many really know what to do or how to make it happen. New year gymers remind me of classes in college. Everybody goes at the beginning of the semester, as the weeks go by, class sizes diminish until only the most committed show up every day, and funny enough, sometimes people who never show up still end up doing better

btw we all know you're keeping it super hush-hush so that when you don't end up making it, you can just pretend you never made the resolution in the 1st place and no one would know... way to be sneaky and insecure MJ, let us know when you're actually ready to make a change in your life and what that is.

Resolve to do something opposite of what you want...when you fail, and you most likely will, you get what you want.

You can't turn into what you're not already wired to be, but the realization and acceptance of who you are and what you like is something that is always changing.

HAPPY OLD

Mileage will vary depending on city and location. I been to the gay bars/clubs in Austin and Dallas....completely different. Completely Austin was my 1st couple places and were as underwelming as they could have been. Small, dirty, expensive drinks, weird people. I went with my boyfriend a couple times way back when I was in school. I doubt I would have gone if it wasn't with him. Not a good place to meet people or talk. People who go are either young folks who went in groups and are far too self-conscious to tear away from their cliques to mingle with others or just weird people trolling. I don't recall really talking to anybody with all the times I've been other than 1 time I ran into someone I half-knew and had an slightly awkward moment. Bartenders are losers. Austin is just a shitty town with the exception of a select few good places to spend time (6th street and campus area). Regular bars are incredible on 6th street. Dallas gayborhood is incredible, not just saying that cuz I live here. Huge, upscale, cheeeeeaaappp during the right times, hot fun people. I went by myself once just to check it out and have taken a few friends who come from out of town and never been. People are still cliquey but every time I've been, and I mean every time, my friends and I have met other guys, chatted, sat down, bought each other drinks, had a good time. I got molested once out in the open but didn't care cuz I was drunk. I dunno, for some reason, people like me better here? and it's weird cuz Dallas natives are in general more attractive and better off than an Austinite so you'd think it works the other way around but Austinites (the gay ones) are far less approachable imho, it says something about people. It's like the more attractive and better off people are the ones who are more relaxed and comfortable enough to mingle and have fun and the ugly loser types are the ones who facade themselves to death with this shroud of unapproachableness.

When I was with my ex, towards the end of the relationship, I strongly felt like he was taking advantage of me. Whether it was unintentional cuz he's clueless or intentional cuz he's a SOB, it crossed the line and got ridiculous. I did everything, he did nothing, I took him out, he got taken out, I cooked, he ate, I bought him shit, he took shit, etc. At the beginning I didn't mind at all but eventually I looked at the situation and wondered why this was happening and if it meant anything. I thought about it for a long time. It's not that with everything I did, I felt he owed me back. Giving is part of every relationship and giving made me happy. Everything I did, I did cuz I wanted to but it would have been nice if he returned the favor, and he did, but it was extremely unbalanced. I casually brought this to his attention once, he got pissed off. It got to the point where eventually every time I did give, it did start to feel like he owed me. Like I'd keep a mental tab and that's when things really started to fall apart. So like Graeme said, relationships are give-and-take but it's not owing-and-crediting and if you feel that way, you're not gonna get far.

*sigh*

I've always wanted to talk to TetRefine, or even just say hi but every time I see him come in the chat room, I just can't get the courage to say anything, I'm afraid I'd babble and just make a fool of myself. Sometimes I'd have the PM box open with "hi there" typed out but I just thought there's no way he'd ever talk to someone like me, so I'd just stare at my screen wondering if I should really do it. One time I summoned the courage to push enter but in the same moment, he logged off. He really seems like a great guy, I wish I can get to know him. He probably doesn't even know I exist.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-turnstile/changing-times-espn-shows-bowling-champion-kissing-husband-233141613.html Bowling, now there's a sport I like how right when they kissed, the crowd went quiet

There would be no point. The media is set out to highlight and entertain. People aren't entertained by the real reality.

Walmart

Eat more, drink more and go to the gym less I like food, I spend too much time at the gym and my blood alcohol level is far too low.

http://www.gayauthors.org/forums/blog/241/entry-12299-blast-from-the-past/ I had another friend in high school this time who I did go a little further with but he got a girlfriend and dropped off the face of the earth after hs and I couldn't find him on facebook or anywhere, he's literally missing from life. But both those guys just scratched the surface of my adolescent curiosity and it wasn't like I was in love with either of them...but there were a couple guys I did feel a lot for but we weren't incredibly close...one guy I did like a whole lot and spent my entire junior year hanging out with, he fucking died 2 years ago before we got a chance to reconnect. So I'm incredibly frustrated with all of the above, and the common denominator is that none of those guys are accessible. When you go completely MIA or die, people can't reach out to you anymore and in my worst angsty moments, I wanna find them so badly but they can't be reached. Point is that you got the luxury of still being connected to your friends in some way, and even if they go back to school, they're coming back (I'm assuming), so before you guys actually lose touch, I encourage you to tie up all loose ends or y'all are gonna lose each others numbers, one of them's gonna move out of the country or whatever one day and you're gonna be like "fuck...."