Political & Elections

I bought 7 of these in bright blue. My other shorts are black and typically larger and they get used for tennis because they have the front slash pockets. These running shorts are great - they have a nice ipod zippered pocket in the back which is my main requirement. They're also on sale right now. Only downside is that they take forever to get here.

DW caught a truffle, today, Barssia oregonensis. 

3/4" diameter, ~3/4 oz. I was rich via DW, then she gave it away to her digging partner. 

I made about $4,500 on NKE and UA stock and used part of the proceeds to outfit myself with M stuff. My XLs and Ls were too big. My bureau now feels empty because the clothese take up so much less space because they are smaller and because technical clothing has less mass.

The Nike shirts run from $25 to $35 but I bought them mostly from $12.99 to $22. I bought 7 pairs of shorts at RoadRunner Sports. Adidas and New Balance sleeveless running shirts too.

I've made another $2K on NKE and UA in the last week or two - I could use a few pairs of track pants - my current 3 are all XL and fall off without the drawstring.

It was a time-lapse series. Pants or shorts with short or long sleeve shirt.

I have been asked to delete the whole thread, but since multiple members have posted, I do not want to delete things that posters want to keep - poofing a thread is not something that I feel comfortable doing without consent.  That would probably offend everyone and I don't want to be presumptuous about what they would like to censor or sanitize.

I will delete posts if people ask me too.  They can also delete their own posts. I will delete the threads from the poster who has asked me to.  

If you want me to delete your posts on this thread, please just send a pm or make a note on this thread.  

Thanks.  

what do you find disturbing?

An midaged, fit, successful prof looking for a new love commitment? The only difference between SAT and a 25 yo career girl is, 25 years. Is there anything else? 

I always thought the writing seemed surprisingly unpolished, but put it down to haste or something.  I tend to be too willing to give people the benefit of the doubt.

BTW, 

Move over to the dark side of this Board... Politics and perhaps you can teach us about finance. 

Yes BCeagle, I remember those accusations of you  being an 18 year old.

-- Edited by MadHatter on Thursday 1st of March 2012 08:41:30 PM

Perhaps all of this will be part of a college research project or an online version of "What Would You Do?".

Everytime I open this thread, I think we are being punked and that this is just a troll thread.

 

Yes! Yes! I thought the same thing. At least I hoped so because some of the things are just "what are you thinking/please see a counselor" - worthy. For some of these posts, I'd go so far as to say that badgirl is actually a badboy because there is no way I could picture a woman saying them.

I think someone has been busted!

Next move by Mr B: A text, on Monday or Tuesday. 

(This is partly because I don't have a clear idea of how much he has been the one to pick up the phone or to send an email that is not a reply.)

I hope he is in communication before that, from the conference, and I hope he contacts you soon to find out how you are.....but from the way he sounds, I surely wouldn't bet on it.

Looks like this may be the end, but I occasionally lurk here for the political commentary and saw just enough of the SAT thread on CC to get the drift of why it was shut down. I wasn't going to comment because I have thought all along that this may be a kid troll thread. BG, if your S is reading these threads and going behind the scenes to PM posters, where is he now? In my experience it's actually pretty rare for both a parent and a child to post on CC. The thought has occurred to me that it's the D or the S we are hearing here. Or a disgruntled student that found the jdate profile, which i assume is easy enough to do, and decided to have some fun. Or even one of Mr. B's kids or his ex-wife.

I find a lot of what you say to be unbelievable. Since CC, people have been pointing out that you are the one initiating almost all of the contacts. And today this is somehow all of a sudden a revelation? You continue to write to other men but are somehow surprised and shocked that B is doing the same? You spend the week, not even just a one night stand, but a whole week, at a conference with a married colleague but HE'S the sleazy one for calling you when he's on vacation with his wife? You post about things that could put your impending divorce in jeopardy and claim not to care about letting your young adult children in on all your exploits. What 50 year old mother, a college professor with a PhD thinks this way? None that I know.

I have to ask, what is in your jdate profile? Sight unseen, no photo, self described average looks, and men are just crawling out of the woodwork and lining up to date you?! This is amazing. At least two, including B got right down to suggestive topics. Why did they feel comfortable enough to do that with you? When someone alluded to the possibilty that your profile may be too explicit you didn't exactly deny it. If so, how are you seemingly so unaware that these guys consider you to be a player and will likely treat you that way. B? If this is all real, he sees you as a friend with benefits, and has done virtually everything possible to make it clear. You know what I 'd say to any guy who told me he's "busy" every weekend from now through May? Nice knowing you.






-- Edited by inthenews on Thursday 1st of March 2012 10:46:00 AM

sorry, but I find *deleted name's* latest post rather odd.

 

you had no idea of the possible hallucinogenic effects of certain substances, really? doesn't make sense given you are a professor and a mom who raised kids thru adolescence...

 

oh and you have commented on having a distant relationship with your d, which you shared with Mr. B.  I don't know but if my d felt my writing WTF on FB was juvenile, I'd STOP doing that.  I woudn't embarass my d that way.  something about this just doesn't ring true.

 

and your apparent discomfort and statement that this thread is a distraction so soon after Samurai's questioning post is very telling imho.

 

oh and this; "There is nothing wrong with the married guy other than that he's married. If he were single- I think we would have been living together already- that's how absolutely connected we were from the get go-- so bizarre. "  so you learned a lot about the need to get to know someone and not move so fast, stating you'd be living together already?  uh, you kind of missed the fact that for him, you are a sex buddy.  no more.  so to even kid about how you'd be living together is so ridiculously immature and clueless.

 

-- Edited by xannymom on Thursday 1st of March 2012 09:08:47 AM

-- Edited by xannymom on Thursday 1st of March 2012 09:11:50 AM

-- Edited by MadHatter on Thursday 1st of March 2012 08:59:16 PM

Everytime I open this thread, I think we are being punked and that this is just a troll thread.

Perhaps that's not a very nice thing for me to suggest, but from everything you write, deleted name, it sounds like you are a 50ish teacher/professor.  You can't be that naiive about internet privacy or the effects of pot. I doubt, seriously, if you grew up in a cave.

It might have been the WTF post that sounded like an overly dramatic middle school move that made me think troll again.  

If this is your real life and you are honestly trying to work this out, than my apologies. Sometimes though, the thread just sounds bogus.  

 

 

 

-- Edited by MadHatter on Thursday 1st of March 2012 08:00:35 PM

okay, I predict a text on Sunday.

 

btw~I find it odd that Mr. B had you drive him to get his car. Maybe I'm being hard on him, but a man with his means could have used other options; asked a friend, hired a car. He could have managed this detail of his own life during the down time of the weekend.

 

Frankly his request for you to do that qualifies as treating you like a girlfriend imho. I can see how this type of behavior would reinforce you feeling "special", particularly since you are the type that wants to help, do, be seen as capable.  For a man to ask you to help him with such a situation he should also know your two kids' names!

-- Edited by xannymom on Thursday 1st of March 2012 07:57:22 AM

-- Edited by xannymom on Thursday 1st of March 2012 07:58:10 AM

-- Edited by MadHatter on Thursday 1st of March 2012 08:58:37 PM

I'll play.. But to be helpful can you share the last time Mr.B called, Texted etc unsolicited by you. Also how did it come about you driving him to pick up his car from the shop. Was it part of a date?

-- Edited by MadHatter on Friday 2nd of March 2012 08:55:48 PM

Google betty white muffin snl on videos...very funny,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/betty-white-snl-muffin-vi_n_570195.html

Those stoners I know (and I am joking about that term) do not smoke weed in joint form. They use vaporizer pipes which reduce much of the particulate.  

Yes, weed is a drug.  Legal or illegal, depending upon where you live and whether you have a prescription.  

Then again, so is alcohol.  I don't particularly think weed is worse than alcohol and those that use it do far less destructive things under the influence of cannabis.

Don't do the brownie route.  Unpredictable results.  Think about it - some chocolate chip cookies have more chips than others.  Same with edibles.  

No, I don't do weed - but I have tried it a couple of times.  It didn't really excite me in any way, but my leaning libertarian mind tells me that it's not really the government's business what people want to do as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.  

In terms of ISP's, I think I am the only one that can track that.  I doubt if anyone cares about the drug use. 

You do have to be careful about maintaining some privacy on these boards.  I was in a Starbucks when someone that I didn't know very well asked me if I was littlegreenmom, which is the name I used at CC.  I then had to stop posting with that name.  I didn't think what I said was that obvious, but it was.

In terms of revealing whatever you have revealed thus far, it may not be that difficult for people to figure out who you are...and so, you should be careful.  Professionally and personally.  You also have to ask yourself if some of the information you provided on your profile is obvious enough that someone - a lurker, a troll, whatever, also has logged into jdate and figured out enough information to be dangerous. 

Stranger things have happened.  

Online dating is a lot like online discussion boards.  People tell sometimes more than they should, because they think it's anonymous, or easy or whatever.  I have found that most people are pretty nice, but you never know.

I do know that when my sister who had never been married found a guy on online dating about a decade ago, about a thousand bells went off about what this guy said he did vs. how he comes off in real life. Lots of stuff didn't add up. He also said he was single, but wasn't...and still living with his wife. So yes, she was the other woman and didn't realize it and never intended that. Why she stayed with him is because she was in denial about a lot of things and years later, still is in a lot of denial.  It makes me sad. My family wanted to run a background check on him because things...didn't add up.  I think there is a great deal of lying and embellishing on these dating sites - far more than in the CC world - and you need to be very careful.  

I can see the attraction of meeting a friend or soulmate on online dating sites, but I see a much scarier and treacherous world - especially after knowing the guy my sister ended up with.  I honestly think he is a pathological liar with a personality disorder.  I wish she would have kept looking for her "soulmate".  

I don't think I've ever heard a person describe any part of his or herself as beautiful before, though they might say, "people tell me I have beautiful eyes."  It really struck me.

I don't feel that there is anything wrong with BadGirl partaking of a bit of the weed with friends.  Probably better than having the first experience with Mr B.  Some people react poorly, get paranoid...

If it is as strong as claimed, a psychedelic ("trippy") effect is even possible.  Best to be a bit cautious.

BadGirl is in a new stage of her life and having new experiences....pretty interesting ones, I must say.

got it.. but you had said you never smoked before? you mentioned that Mr. B was going to introduce you to it. but before HE had a chance to do that for you, YOU got the weed and brought it over. he didn't go for it either interestingly now you're sharing getting high with your girlfriends on Friday night... I don't know...the folks I know who never got high in their teens/during college sure don't have such an adventurous spirit about trying it in their 50's. especially such rank, and potent stuff. something funny about this...

you asked a question about whether he minded you opening the hood to his car when AAA came. now maybe it's just me, but that comes across as a bit much, why would you open his hood? you have a way of communicating on the boards, perhaps not IRL or on dates, as a tad boastful. like you are wanting others to know how strong, smart, thin, etc. you are. I think this could be a turnoff. not suggesting you be any different. we should not try to be someone to fit someone else's desires. but just thought that feedback might be of use in general. imho you come across a bit intimidating/competitive.

NJtheatermom, "*deleted name* is in a new stage of her life and having new experiences....pretty interesting ones, I must say."

I won't be around (dead), we still got the Betty White phase after this phase passes. 

Did you burn the evidence? 

-- Edited by longprime on Wednesday 29th of February 2012 08:46:38 PM

-- Edited by MadHatter on Thursday 1st of March 2012 09:00:52 PM