with a cold. so im staying home from school today. i guess it's a good thing, since i didnt do my homework. :) plus there are a few people who i'd rather avoid at the moment..

The joys of being a moderator go far and wide. I get to interact with users on a daily basis over a variety of things I never thought I would before. Whether it is in a forum I never would have gone in before. Maybe you post a topic which I normally wouldn't respond in and I go in there to read through some posts and get intrigued and respond.

Another joy for me is being able to help everyone. Sometimes I will get a PM or a report and I help a user figure out what is going on with something and make things better for them.

Although, I think my all time favorite is when I get chewed out by someone for their own mistake. Getting yelled at about how it isn't fair. Then turn around and tell your friends and everyone else how much of an asshole I am. Sit there and pretend to play innocent and bad mouth me. Proving that your intelligence level is to far below the average for a person of your age. While I sit back and watch the entire thing happen without you guys even knowing that myself and other staffers are sitting there watching you do this. Making you and your friends feel justified when you do this. Showing your two-faced personality. Do you honestly think this is a popularity thing? You can go around and brag to your friends about how popular you are and that you 'showed' that staffer what was up?
Seriously, I think alot of people need to shut the fuck up and grow the fuck up. This isn't motherfuckin high school. This isn't your big shot at being noticed. This is a forum. Where the only thing that matters is your attitude and how people respond to what you do. Everything is watched by users. Users see what you do and they judge you by these actions. There is no need to sit there and bad mouth someone. It can be found through the forum search. There is no need to defend your innocence to anyone but support and staff. Having all your friends sit there and think your lie is truth isn't going to get your infraction or banning taken off. All it will do is make bitter attitudes. Which is why there are multiple staffers who rarely post outside of their little holes.

--Tony

I've had a lot to do lately, and a lot has happened. But this isn't about any of that. Today I was at Dragoncon. I got tired early and decided to go catch a nap. As I left the Metro and walked back towards where I was staying, an african american man asked me and the clump of people I was walking among for just one quarter. He pointed to a nearby studying student and said that he "was proud of that boy" and that if we would look inside the restaraunt we would see why. Of everyone in the group only I stopped, instantly actually. I gave him four. He told me that his world was pure, but not pure enough to tell me what he wanted to say. He said that I was pure, that he could tell, that god made no mistakes, that he would rather die then come into my life, because I was pure. I found that a little confusing until he said that he would rather die then "fuck up [my] life." He gave me two hugs, a kiss on the shoulder and looked me straight in the eyes. No one looks me in the eyes, I think he was surprised I looked him in his. He was, and is, one of the most, honest, sincere, caring and truly religous men, no, people I've ever met. I keep wanting to cry now, because I think he should be a father or a pastor or bus driver for young children somewhere. But he can't be. When I did move on I glanced into the restaraunt, but I didn't see anything but people.

Mene, I was wearing a medieveal dress and boots. He told me I "Was pure" and meant it. why is such tolerance and compassion so rare? Perhaps if there were more people like him in the world, the world wouldn't be in the state it's in. If every christian had even a measure of his character, I would be honored to carry that name. Something about that man calling me pure, made me feel more... worthy then almost anything I've ever felt.

Wow. I'm almost not a teenager anymore. Jeeeeez. How the time flies... And here I thought it wouldn't go so quickly. Wow. I remember like it was just yesterday when I started high school. Yeah... Now I'm sitting as a junior in college and considering a major for a career and so forth. Epicccc. I guess as my friends would say... "That's so saaaav" (Sav being savage, etc.)

Well... Here's to the rest of my life? xD :angel:

So I've started school, I'm starting work, I've started a new book, and I'm starting to do a lot of other things as well. My mom started working so its just me and my sisters home during the days most the time.School started and I'm enjoying my Biology the most so far. I'm starting to do stuff that will go towards my job next friday and its starting to get cold already. Theres a lot starting for me. However I Have so much extra time I don't know what to do. My RP's are a bit slow so maybe those will pick up.

One can only hope. I made a friend or two over the summer. A girl who's three years younger than me, but acts way mature, has befriended me and my sister and another friend of ours. My older sister has a ton of new friends, not me. lol I guess I'm not as sociable as I thought I was. :sweat: