and with the way you've been talking, every word gets you a step closer to hell

okay so there's been a bit of a buildup of blog posts in my head that i wanna get to, but i've been busy with ending the semester and stuff. today is the last day i have any busy work (typing up notes, editing a paper, doing a homework) and then it's a walk in the park to ending my degree. three exams and i'm done. and since i dont see exams as the bane of my existence as most others do, i'm just waiting for today to be over.

but i felt like blogging before the work. i mean, this is my last chance to procrastinate undergraduate work ever ever again. i need to make every moment count. so today's post will feature a story thats not about me or anyone i know personally, but that i feel needs to be shared regardless.

my sister is a communications minor. she recently had a project do on media which was a bunch of group presentations and stuff. this story comes from one of those other presentations in her class.

a girl, i have no idea what her name is, is presenting, and starts talking about her ex-boyfriend. she had been questioning their relationship and so got a book to see how "they should be." this book gave her the courage to break up with him, because she saw that what they had was not true love. (side note: when i was hearing this, all i could think of was that book that dorian grey read. the power of books over people is astounding.)

anyone wanna hazard a guess at which book this was that gave her such great knowledge and courage and whatever else she got from it?? you probably know...

it was twilight. yes, this girl dumped her boyfriend because they did not have what bella and edward had. i think that girl may have been dropped on her head one too many times as a child.

i could go into a long rant about the absurdity of this girl and how much better off her ex is without her, but i wont. i'll leave that up to all of you. you'll probably do better jobs at it, too. i'm not even going to go into any details about how she needs to learn how to separate reality from fiction. if i, great lover of fiction that i am, can do it, so can she. instead, i'm going to tell you why edward, though seemingly almost perfect on paper, would be the most obnoxious boyfriend in real life.

first, he is so effing clingy. i realize that bella is just as clingy, so it probably goes unnoticed by both of them most of the time, but omg the clinginess would drive me mad. second, sometimes i dont like to tell people exactly whats in my head every second of every day. and if they get reproachful because i dont or because i take too long to tell them all my thoughts, well, they could just go die. i dont care if hes used to reading minds. third, he is way too controlling. you cannot tell me who i can or cannot be friends with, im sorry. and if you disconnect my car's battery cables so that i cant go out to see said friends, i will not leave my window open for you. and then, when you finally get over your controllingness a little, i will not view it as some amazing kindness and generosity on your part. fourth, he acts like he knows everything in the world a little too much. i realize that he has been around forever, so that is probably the case, but get down off your pedestal once in a while. fifth, someone constantly trying to save me from everything would get a bit annoying. the big, life threatening things okay, but small everyday stuff would get on my nerves. sixth, bella is constantly doubting herself around him. i'm sure i imagined this, im sure i really didnt see that. i would hate that. seventh, he keeps too much that has to do with her from her "so she wont get upset." i think that would kill me even more than anything else. someone feeling im not up to knowing whats going on in my own life. ugh. i'm sure there's an eighth and probably a ninth and tenth, too, but i really dont feel like thinking hard enough to come up with them. those were what were on the top of my head.

i like edward as a character, but i would never in a million years agree to a single date with him in real life. i dont care how much he sparkles.

i kinda feel sorry for the girl. she's always gonna be disappointed. she'll never find what she wants, and when she does, she'll realize how awful it is.

*Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks - Panic! at the Disco