Mark Arbour

Sometimes kids have the clearest view of things. Sometimes.

LOL @ Will getting attention. His issue is more to be annoying, rather than to dominate the conversation.

Didn't you know that kid in school that did gross stuff? I tried to think of something appropriate.

The Yes song was a great flashback for me. And you even fit another BSB song in. I thought you ran through all of them.

September 19, 2000 Malibu, CA Will I pulled open the front door of the SUV. “Get the fuck out of my seat!” “I can sit here if I want to,” JJ said defiantly. “You want to sit in the front seat; you get Michael to drive you. You’re in my car, you sit in the back.” “Yeah, like it says ‘Will’ on the doors. It’s not your car, asshole,” he said. “In about a minute, I’m gonna beat the living shit out of you. Now fucking move!” I was screaming by the time I finished

That really cracked me up! The Elizabeth Danfield School for Evil Overlords.

To add to my comments on winning, here's an article about Colt McCoy, and some of the issues he had with coaching. Not every coach is warm and cuddly.

Ponder this. It's not so much about whether the program they're in (Stanford Hockey) is all that good (it isn't), it's about winning, and leadership. If you're achievement driven, it doesn't matter if you're at Stanford, Cal, or LSU, winning is VERY important.

I have to follow my muse. Besides, I'm lucky I had the time to write what I did.

Thank you! The stage is set for some drama, just a bit, and I think you've done a good job of lining out some of the potential problems ahead. If Matt and Wade have conflicts, the "battle lines" will be very confused. Who would Brad back? JP? Stef? Good think they're all calm, rational men.

Glad you liked it! I'm keeping my options open.

Yeah, well who say's he isn't? Maybe he/they truncated the name. ;-)

Remember back to the first CAP story, when Stef was banging Carol, Jeff's girlfriend.

I'd comment on this, but it would probably give away too much of what's coming down the road. I think the nature of Matt's crisis becomes less vague after Chapter 6. After that one's up, I'll explain it a little more in the forums.

There's a basic imbalance in Matt and Wade's relationship. One way or another, it has to come to equilibrium.

September 18, 2000 Malibu, CA Wade Gathan and I walked along the edge of the water, our pants rolled up so when the water surged around us they didn’t get too wet. Our shoes were back at the house. We’d walked for quite a ways, then turned around and were almost back to Brad and Robbie’s sumptuous Malibu pad. “Hard to beat this,” he said, trying to be cheerful. “It is beautiful, but there are a lot of beautiful places,” I opined. I thought of our farm and the horses in

Poppycock? Actually, it was in response to a topic of discussion loosely starting here. There's no implication here that gay men can't or don't have sex with women. In fact, it's just the opposite. Sigh.

In the forum topic "Paternity," the question came up as to whether or not gay men experiment, at least once, with women. So out of curiosity, and for you gay guys only, I'm wondering if, in your exploration of your sexuality, you ever took a walk on the wild side. This is NOT a public poll, so your name won't be listed.

Wow. Sharon was simply hoping he got hit by a bus.

Thanks! It was a pretty scary time! This was, and is, one of my favorite CAP stories.

Drastically wrong: probably. Besides, as I mentioned before, just because he gets a girl pregnant ( a big assumption there) doesn't mean the girl has to have the baby. To be honest, I have thought that Will may have a heterosexual moment or two. To me, that seems pretty realistic. But I didn't really contemplate that a pregnancy would ensue. That just seems to contrived. Then again...

That's because I'm no longer allowed to smite people at regular intervals.

I'm on the other side of the table, so I'll give you my perspective. You should get valid feedback from your prof, because you're supposed to be able to use that to improve. That's not optional, and it's not negotiable. However, hearing someone whine about their grade is entirely different. In her opinion, you did C- work, and that's what she gave you. The discussion is about what you do to improve, not that you deserved a better grade. You have another twist on this, since it's an online course, so I don't know if that means a face-to-face meeting is even possible. You'd probably get more info from her via e-mail. I'm assuming she uses turnitin? If so, didn't she give you feedback on your paper? Comments and the like. Two other thoughts. First, I don't know which school you go to, but going up the ladder is most likely going to be useless at most institutions, especially if it's a Research 1 university. What you can do is nail her on her evaluations at the end of the term (you do get to do those, I'm assuming). That gives her feedback, gives her bosses feedback, and if she's up for tenure, it goes in her file. The second thing is that before you take a class, you may want to look up your future profs on ratemyprofessors.com. It's incredibly invalid, because anyone can post anything on there, yet it seems to be remarkably accurate nonetheless. Do your fellow students a favor, and go there and post a review of this woman. They'll know to dodge her classes.

You know, one way to broach the topic is to tell him what you heard him say while he was sleeping. If you hit him square off with "Hey, are you gay?" he's probably going to freak out. But, if you warm him up to the topic first, maybe he'll react better. What he'll probably do is blow it off, and say that it had something to do with a dream and he doesn't remember any of it, but he'll know that you have your suspicions now, and it may just give him a nudge into opening up to you. If you want, you can even embellish and throw the other guy's name in there. "You said 'Hey Bill, I just want your dick. I love to suck it'." I don't know. Maybe a dumb idea. The line itself has me curious. It almost sounds like he's asking this guy (who I named Bill) for something he may not want to give up. He "just" wants to suck his dick. I'm wondering if that means that "Bill" doesn't want to do more than that, he's just trying to sound all sexy and romantic, or "Bill" thinks he wants more than to 'just' suck his dick?

Only if Sharon has her way.