From merde@crl.crl.com Tue Sep  2 15:21:21 PDT 1997
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From: merde@crl.crl.com (Meredith Tanner)
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Subject: anti-wish list
Date: 2 Sep 1997 15:18:58 -0700
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things i could do without:

suicidal friends

friends who interpret my need for time alone as a personal
slight.  (bug me enough and i *will* start avoiding you,
goddammit)

friends who think that i will be "flattered" by their continued
passes at me, even after i have repeatedly asked them to stop
and dropped ever-more-specific hints that i am not interested.
(and what IS it, anyway, with men who absolutely require one to
twist the knife and destroy the friendship rather than simply
accepting that it's not going any farther?)

friends i don't want to introduce to my other friends

friends who feel like they have to pretend not to have certain
other friends, apparently believing i am such a child that i am
incapable of coping with the concept that we don't all like the
same people

friends who don't actually like me, but feel for whatever fucked
up reason as though they SHOULD, and therefore force themselves
to put up with me, becoming steadily more peevish and resentful

a phone

***

okay, it's true.  i'm a lousy friend.  i probably don't deserve
better friends than this.  i never return phone calls, even when
i actually get them.  i have random fits of antisocial behavior
and fail to show up places i said i'd be.  i don't really care
very much about the vast majority of the people i know.  i'm too
self-centered for that.  i'd like to say i'm too burned out and
gunshy, but that would sound like one of those pathetic whines
designed to make people feel sorry for me and excuse my behavior.
the catalysts are irrelevant; my response is the only thing that
matters.

my response sucks.

however, the vast majority of people appear to suck as well, so 
maybe that's fitting.

m

yeah, i'm cranky.  deal or get OUT OF MY WAY.
-- 
a large viper must be swallowed with extreme caution