as it turns out, the internet isn’t the best place for the secret journal you don’t want your roommate to see. but for the other party involved, it certainly makes for some fascinating reading.
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#1
Freddie
Frankly, I think it’s more passive aggressive to read something you know your roommate means to keep private (and yeah, I know, nothing’s private on the web) than it is to do the bitching in private. And screen capping it is definitely more PA than writing it.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:22 am rating: +5
#2
MeMe
So….let me get this straight. Either the roommate knew about the blog and the author MEANT for her to read it (definitely passive-aggressive), or the roommate did some digging and found the authors blog (which would be a little psycho IMHO)? If it is the latter, I have had it happen and it sucks ASS to have someone come across your blog that you don’t want to.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:56 am rating: 0
#3
ian
You have to blog as if you don’t care who reads it, otherwise you’re self-censoring and the writing will suffer. As long as you’re not being libelous, just publish and be damned.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:22 am rating: +2
#4
Kai
If this is MySpace (which it looks like it is) then there is a way to make your blog private (so only you can read it) or for preferred readers (a few people on your friend’s list). Supposedly, you have control over who views your blog, so if you don’t want your roomie seeing it, or your mom, or employer, make it private. You can even make your whole account private. If she made it public and her roommate found it, then, she has to accept the consequences of that. It’s just a bad idea to put things you don’t want others to see on the internet unless you can somehow make it private, and even then, probably someone can view it.
So, nothing that would suggest you’re a terrorist, threaten your relationship with your S/O, or put your employment in question should be online. The only way to post your work rants and confessions of bitter feelings is to make sure they’re private and/or anonymous. And vague enough someone couldn’t figure it out. People put a lot of personal information on MySpace, even if the roommate never knew about her account if she found her way to it it’s fairly easy to figure it out.
Be cautious out there, kiddies.
Judicious Kai
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:26 am rating: +2
#5
Kai
Ahaha ian and I just posted comments at the same time, saying the opposite thing! …It was funny to me.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:28 am rating: 0
#6
GVI
This is awesome, i love the whole blog rant/venting/not really talking to the roomie effect, i have done that. Hmmm am i guilty of being PA??
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:29 am rating: 0
#7
marla
Not cool for you to publish a private journal entry, if that’s what this is.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:42 am rating: 0
#8
The Gentle Sherpa
Privacy debate aside, I think the blog’s author sounds like a horrible, mopey, depressing pain-in-the-ass to be around. Can one be judged by the contents of their blog alone? The answer is probably somewhere on this website. Team ‘Friends Only’.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:45 am rating: +4
#9
Vampira
Do I not deserve the extra “s”? Awesome.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:50 am rating: +5
#10
aqua
For the people who think that it was wrong to look at a private journal, it seems that the only reason that the roommates found the blog is because it was on the internet (and therefore very public). Word to the wise… don’t put anything on the internet that you aren’t willing to say in real life.
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:18 am rating: +2
#11
KW
Anyone who posts anything on a journal accessible to the whole internet, and then is surprised when someone finds it, should seriously rethink her posting behavior. (And just saying “if you know me offline, please don’t read this” is never going to stop the people you least want reading it. It just isn’t.)
If it’s restricted/friends-only, you shouldn’t be surprised when someone reposts it, either, but then it’s because that someone is a jerk.
Team tl;dr.
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:25 am rating: +1
#12
Phil
hey. seems like xanga to me. I dont know, i would never ever post something like that on the internet. passive aggressiveness can turn you pretty crazy and i think that talking to the person concerned is the best solution. i bet it is not fake. it seems pretty real.
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:14 am rating: 0
#13
blondie
gold! absolute gold! whats dumber – searching for your room-mates blog and discovering they actually hate you, or writing that stuff under your regular screen name?
Sep 4, 2007 at 6:04 am rating: 0
#14
Quoibina
That peanut butter caked sponge was fucking delicious.
Sep 4, 2007 at 6:55 am rating: 0
#15
sb
hai guyz itz xanga
but the google isn’t being helpful.
Sep 4, 2007 at 7:47 am rating: 0
#16
Andy
“Bullshit and I are not tight. We do not do lunch.”
Okay, that’s awesome. I just hope that’s not someone’s nickname.
I have to say, if you were just posting to your blog to vent (or whine about how much harder life is for you, and how superficial people are, while you are enlightened), then make damn sure your venting targets can’t see said post. Otherwise, it was as good as covering the place with post-its.
I especially like how in this screen-shot, they quick muted their speakers (and probably are using a Mac). Don’t know why I like this, but I do.
The poster has great potential for turning into a perfect drama-queen lunch theft victim whiner at work when done with college. Wait! She’s working now, so she probably already is.
Get thee to her workplace and findeth some notes! Whee!
Sep 4, 2007 at 7:51 am rating: +1
#17
Jeff
All’s fair on the internet. If you post it, it’s fair game. If you post it private and someone broadcasts it, too bad. You shouldn’t have posted it in the first place. It’s like posting nude pictures of yourself on a “private” page and being surprised and angry when they show up all over. Shouldn’t have done it in the first place!
This has to be the most P-A post ever on here. She’s writing a letter directly to this roommate, but instead of posting it conspicuously in the apt, she puts it on her blog, obviously hoping (IMHO) said roommate would come across it/hear about it from mutual acquaintances.
And Gentle Sherpa: She was currently listening to Alanis Morrissette, Of COURSE she’s a mopey, depressing, pain-in-the-ass. It just makes sense.
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:31 am rating: +1
#18
joobs
Whine. Whine. Whine, whine, whine, whiney whine. There is just nothing good in this chick’s life. Whine, whinety whine whine. And she hates peanut butter.
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:36 am rating: +4
#19
Sair
Totally agree that you shouldn’t ever write anything ANYWHERE on t’internet if you wouldn’t be happy having it read by someone (anyone) you know – two words people: Public. Domain.
I think the whole poster/author/reasons for finding and sending to PAN is a bit vague – personally I’d like to know more. Who sent the rant in question to PAN? Was it the roomate the author is ranting about, or someone who knows the roomate? Or even someone who doesn’t know anything about any of them?!
And if this is a blog (private or otherwise), just how up-her-own-arse (hey, I’m a Brit) does this girl sound? Not only because she’s a whingey cow who wants to eat/work at a communal table and for those around to her to just KNOW she expects to be left in silence, but also because she has all this ‘I want to insult myself in front of others without anyone saying anything in response’ bullshit. WTF? Attention seeker anyone? I bet if her roommates all completely ignored her (which she makes it sound like she wants them to do), she’d be bitching about that before long too…
Team Grow-The-Fuck-Up!
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:49 am rating: +2
#20
Sair
Oh joobs, you’re my hero…
Team whine whinety whine!
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:50 am rating: 0
#21
Leshka
“Do I not deserve the extra “sâ€? Awesome.”
But don’t you leave off the last for savings?
Sorry, I’ll go to work now…
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:56 am rating: 0
#22
theblackscorpio
It’s “Looking at THEIR website”, not “there”, even if the page is a location =_=
Team Foreigners for the correct use of sound-alike words.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:01 am rating: 0
#23
BoggyWoggy
This one is sooooo good!
I think it should be submitted to Rantasaurus Rex. If you don’t read that site, you should!
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:05 am rating: 0
#24
claw71
Dear Diary,
My roomie is a big jerk who leaves crust on the plates and consistently deprives me of the extra “s” to which I believe I am entitled. Now I’m going to press publish so the whole world can feel my pain. And to make sure everybody knows what a drama queen I strive to be I will attach a sound file. Nothing captures self-righteous angst like a little Alanis.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:08 am rating: +3
#25
claw71
For the record, if you want that extra “s”, Jes, you’ve got to earn it. If you like I can attach a John Houseman sound file from those old Smith Barney commercials.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:10 am rating: 0
#26
claw71
You’re killing Anthony Grosso with your peanut butter.
Thank you Terry.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:11 am rating: 0
#27
Jessica
I am certain I have sounded just like her on my blog(s). Still – I think she needs some antidepressant meds. Seriously. I mean Christ, she’s only 18 and she’s whining this hard already? Meds.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:16 am rating: +1
#28
aliastaken
It looks like LiveJournal, not MySpace.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:20 am rating: 0
#29
Sorry, who's being holier-than-thou?
So the whole “I’m a better person than you because I have a job” was prompted by the roommate being upset that the writer didn’t leave a note about lunch plans? With this person sounding so anti-social, I’m guessing the roommate didn’t require a note every day but that there had been some unresolved discussion on the topic earlier. I’m not saying that she was required to leave a note, but it’s not like the roommate was asking for her to give up her day to go surfing.
I personally can’t stand it when people act superior because they have a job (or jobs). It’s not as though people with family money (or *gasp* an allowance) are bad human beings. It’s no one’s fault how much money the family they were born into has. And not everyone follows the no-help-from-parents religion. Some people view it as the parents’ role to provide for their children through college. I’m far from saying that those who work their way through life without parental support are bad people. I’m just saying that perhaps the writer should take her own advice and get off her high horse.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:29 am rating: +3
#30
southern girl
I hope the “s” is enjoying it’s well-deserved vacation, but the holiday weekend is over, so it really should get it’s ass back to reality and join the “j-e-s” before Jess gets more pissed off.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:32 am rating: 0
#31
Fraulein N
God, I’m glad I’m not 18 anymore. Still, leaving peanut butter-encrusted sponges in the sink is pretty damn gross.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:58 am rating: 0
#32
lauralaiwc
oh lord, i learned a loooong time ago to be careful what i said on myspace. im an actor, and i can get very opinionated, and i blog chronically, and the combination of the 3 can be LETHAL to your career if you don’t mind it. i dug myself a grave with a bulldozer and had to slowly work my way out of it with a spork.
and, furthermore, i was often (admittedly not always) RIGHT about what i was saying, and many people agreed with me but didnt make their oppinion so public. i became the scapegoat.
my link on my name takes you to my actors page. shameless plug!
moral of the story, unless you want to take the heat for negative anything on myspace, whether or not you are correct, dont post it!!! people react to negativety negatively.
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:18 am rating: 0
#33
Rachel
everyone who lives in this apartment sounds like a spoiled asshole, including the blogger. hey honey, at least mommy and daddy paid for books and tuition. there’s nothing worse than some middle class brat kvetching about how bad she has it next to some upper middle class brats. some people have real problems, princess peanut butter.
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:26 am rating: +1
#34
GVI
This chick said she had a full resume since she was 15, does she live in the 1950’s?, because all the places i used to look for work at that age only hire from 16 yrs and older.
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:33 am rating: 0
#35
Tosha
Not that it matters, but the person who wrote this blog seems to think that she has it rough when it comes to college … “abby gets $2K a quarter”… then she goes on to say that her parents paid for books and tuition and give her $25 a week. Uhm… I’m in college, I pay for books and tuition and do not get $25 a week. Maybe she should have left that out in her little rant.
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:33 am rating: +2
#36
GVI
Oh yeah that is true Tosha, so doesn’t that mean that she is living off her parents to, athough she has all her jobs???
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:36 am rating: 0
#37
Tosha
Exactly GVI. She wouldn’t be in college if not for her parents and she has a weekly allowance… and then, she also has the money from the jobs. Hope she is using it to pay her parents back. But I doubt it since she mentions that she hopes to pay them back “someday”…not now, but later.
I know people like that, owe their parents hundreds and go spend money on more tattoos and piercings because THAT, my friend, is what is important to life.
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:43 am rating: 0
#38
justmindinmine
i wonder if my sponge is a breading ground??
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:50 am rating: 0
#39
Andy
justmindinmine: Breading ground?
That breaded sponge was fucking delicious.
Ahhh, that was nice. Now I can get back to work.
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:19 am rating: 0
#40
john
My thoughts as I read this:
A wet sponge is a great microbial substrate with whatever random ass it has in it. I’m pretty sure the peanut butter isn’t specifically contributing to that (think about how long a jar of peanut butter can hang around and not go bad thanks to preservatives etc).
OMG WOW A FULL PAGE RESUME. whoopdideedo
Is the poster a man or woman? The Jes thing made me think woman but the being rejected by 500+ women thing made me think man. That shows an impressive amount of determination, however, as most of us give up way before we hit the 500 mark. And also we don’t keep track of the rejections really.
While the Alanis is a nice touch, I was really expecting more modern emo.
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:22 am rating: +2
#41
john
i forgot to add that the random nitpicking about the bacterial “breading” ground is because im a weirdo and a microbiologist, so i nitpick that sort of thing
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:24 am rating: 0
#42
Erin
Hey Jes:
Tough tits. Quit being a whiner.
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:36 am rating: +1
#43
Ivy
(first comment evar!)
I’m pretty sure the “rejected by 500+ girls” thing is about rushing sororities and not getting into any of them. The poor dear.
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:46 am rating: 0
#44
Iris
My favourite part is “They are in a messy scrawl that is paining. And that sucks.”
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:48 am rating: +1
#45
justmindinmine
I wasn’t sure if mine came breaded like JesS’ was
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:49 am rating: 0
#46
Zsa
I hate the internet sometimes. This is the kind of blathering that should be left in your head, not put on (metaphorical) paper. I have days where I think like this, but god knows I would never write it out thinking someone might consider it profound reading material. Do people like this not have friends they can vent to? Do they think everyone in the entire universe cares about their drama? Or do they put it out on the internet to see if anyone cares/loves them?
Team STFU
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:55 am rating: +2
#47
Mishee
wow…. I mean… wow… and she thought this wouldn’t be seen by the roommate somehow? Yeah, right!
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:09 pm rating: 0
#48
Nanna
OMG I have never read a more impressively whiny load of bullshit in my life! Jes needs to get off her OWN damn high horse and ditch HER holier-than-thou attitude. And for the love of Terry, blog private.
And writing a note to your roommate about all the things that are irritating you, with numbered items, but never bringing them up to her face? Beyond PA.
AND: Common areas of the shared living space are not a good place for privacy. You want to be alone? Take your 25 bucks and go to a coffee shop, or go to the park. if you have to share a room, tough. That’s what you get when Mommy and Daddy pay your way through college.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:16 pm rating: +2
#49
Peggy
I’m still stuck on the fashion=art, and why it all matters so much to the writer.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:23 pm rating: +1
#50
Amanda
Jess sounds like a whiny emo brat, but having said so, “did [the extra s] go on vacation and forget to leave a note?” made me laugh something fierce.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:23 pm rating: 0
#51
Amanda
aaaand at #35 Tosha:
From the aside about Pomona and $45K a year, I assumed that she goes to a private school and weeell… most private school kids do seem to have a slightly warped perspective about how much the money they get is worth.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:26 pm rating: 0
#52
joobs
#46 Zsa–Of course Jes doesn’t have a friend to vent this to! If she did, that friend would be up for sainthood. Would you want to sit and listen to her endless whiiiiiiiining about how special her clothes are and the dirty dishes and how she is misunderstood and deserves no love and is poor and hardworking and I Vant to be Leffft Alone? I think someone would need major therapy and meds after a bull session with her.
Oh, and Jes– here.
ssssSSSSssssSSSSSSSSsssssss
feel free to take as many as you want.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:42 pm rating: +1
#53
Kai
Well Amanda, I must step in and say I am attending a private school. Not on my parent’s dime. I got here by scholarship and financial aid. I’m paying for my food and books and other expenses through money I’ve saved up for three years while working. (That reminds me- I still haven’t gotten my last paycheck from my previous job- and he said it was sent three weeks ago.) So we’re not all entitled. But still, from what I’ve seen, a good number here are immature and self-absorbed. I guess I’m old (23) and jaded these days.
From re-reading the note, I’m not really sure what the roommate did… wrong. It seems more like the writer of said P-A blog was more put-off by “not being understood”…
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:49 pm rating: 0
#54
claw71
She’s not an emo brat if she’s putting Alanis in her sound track. I think the clique your looking for there is lame-o.
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:53 pm rating: 0
#55
Kai
My fiancée is also a Jessica like the writer of today’s P-A rant, but she is not picky about what I call her. Jes, Jess, Jessie, a whole slew of terms of endearment too embarassing to share- she doesn’t care. Honestly, I think Jes looks more feminine- Jess reminds me of the boy’s name. I’m still not sure what Jess is getting riled up about. She should be happy. I have the most unalterable name ever…. I long for a nickname.
-Kais (stole her s)
Sep 4, 2007 at 12:57 pm rating: 0
#56
emily
im on team “this chick needs meds” i used to bitch about stuff like this..then i got zoloft..magical stuff
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:08 pm rating: 0
#57
cre8tivewmn
What a whiner! So self-righteous while complaining about the same traits in others!
If you post or email anything on the net that someone besides you can see, consider it public. Once it leaves your computer you have no control over where it goes.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:08 pm rating: 0
#58
Goldie
One thing kept going through my head as I was reading this, how do you blog about your roommate and not have the common sense to lock your freakin post? This shit should not be visible to the general public. If you post something like that on a public site, then you’ve pretty much brought upon yourself everything that follows, such as your post being prominently displayed on PAN.com.
Secondly, I was in complete agreement with Jess on her working-girl woes, until I got to the point where her parents only pay for tuition and books. As a mother of two, both getting dangerously close to college, all I can say is… ha. Ha ha hah. Just tuition and books, and other than that she’s on her own. Hah hah. That is hilarious.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:11 pm rating: +2
#59
ALA
What did peanut butter ever do to her to incur this level of anti-peanut butter rhetoric? Poor, misunderstood, and maligned sandwich spread.
As for our author…as we say in the South, “bless her heart.” When used correctly, it’s either preceeded or followed by something insulting. In this case, “she’s just not matured yet. bless her heart.” or “bless her heart, she’s the biggest whiner.”
It’s unfortunate that she doesn’t seem like a complete moron…or I could use the new one I got when I was in TX…”bless her heart, she couldn’t poor piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the sole.”
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:21 pm rating: 0
#60
Jen
The comment about WHY she loves clothes makes me want to slap her. I’m shallow and happy. Maybe she should try that.
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:27 pm rating: 0
#61
GVI
She complains about everything under the sun in her rant.
1. Dirty dishes
2. Delicious peanut butter breaded sponges
3. Clothes that are not brand name
4. People who do not drink alcohol
5. Wanting personal time, but wantin to sit in a public area
6. People whos parents want to pay for their kid to go through college
This chick needs a man. lol
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:44 pm rating: 0
#62
Fraulein N
#49 Peggy – Yes, lord I got so caught up in the faux drama of it all I completely forgot about her fashion rant. Dude, who gets that worked up about fucking clothes?
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:46 pm rating: +1
#63
Mishee
GVI you are right, this girl needs a man bad… or a woman, whatever floats her boat…
Maybe she wants a woman but is battling herself internally over her sexuality, and she takes her anger out on her roomies and that’s why these blogs were posted publicly and they encompass everything under the sun, because she is mad cause she likes girls…
Just a thought…
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:51 pm rating: 0
#64
justmindinmine
I think JesS needs a puppy instead of a roommate…complete acceptance and unconditional love.But then again she’d blog about how it sucks for taking so long to poop or being to loud when it eats or maybe she should just live alone with her clothes…..
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:53 pm rating: +1
#65
Nanna
Maybe she is pushing her roommate away because she is in love with her and in denial about it, Mishee?
Sep 4, 2007 at 1:55 pm rating: 0
#66
Mishee
It’s a distinct possibility… from what I hear in stories from the city, lots of girls are saying they like other girls now…
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:03 pm rating: 0
#67
Nanna
She needs a cat trained to poop outside in other people’s yards.
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:04 pm rating: 0
#68
Mishee
Nanna, I am lost… where did the cat comment stem from?
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:08 pm rating: 0
#69
justmindinmine
lol Nanna….cats just won’t do….they are so judgmental. A cat wouldn’t care about her name much less her S she deserves.
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:15 pm rating: 0
#70
Nanna
Someone said she needed a puppy. The problem is, she wants attention but wants to be left alone. I thought a cat might be a solution. On second thought, have you ever tried to do homework while a cat was sitting on it?
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:27 pm rating: 0
#71
GVI
Yeah thats sooo true, cats don’t care about you one bit lol. She would blog about how her cat just lays around sleeping all day, not showing her any love and eating up all the cat food and stinking up the kitty litter box.
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:30 pm rating: +1
#72
joobs
Yes–but a cat would happily leave her alone, and not want the constant love a dog needs that she can’t possibly give.
I mean, what if the cat decides not to come in one night? Will Jes(S) feel once again rejected by yet another being? Oh, I can see it now…the half-eaten cat food in a lonely little dish…and Jes(S), furiously typing about how every cat hates her, because she is so unlovable…
And then she’ll wrap herself up in something Gucci her mom sent her.
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:30 pm rating: +1
#73
joobs
oops–I forgot…
Bless her heart.
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:33 pm rating: 0
#74
GVI
Ok after reading this for the millionth time, i need to know something….is Bullshit her roomies nickname??
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:40 pm rating: 0
#75
GVI
oh and where the hell is that “S” did Rene Hall steal it??
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:41 pm rating: 0
#76
mere
anyone else notice that this was published almost a year ago?
still hanging onto something? or bitter much?
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:47 pm rating: 0
#77
justmindinmine
dear cat,
licking yourself- do really NEED to do that in the livingroom when I’m trying to study? And whats with the endless purring? Its just gross.
Thanks, Jess
SEND
Sep 4, 2007 at 2:52 pm rating: +1
#78
Mishee
GVI – maybe she should just call her roomie “Bullhit” and take the damn S back that she’s bitching about!!
Sep 4, 2007 at 3:15 pm rating: +1
#79
TL
Jes needs to calm down.
Sep 4, 2007 at 3:48 pm rating: +1
#80
Mishee
In response to Sair’s – “Not only because she’s a whingey cow who wants to eat/work at a communal table and for those around to her to just KNOW she expects to be left in silence, but also because she has all this ‘I want to insult myself in front of others without anyone saying anything in response’ bullshit.”
Just had to comment that I love it when Brit’s call someone a cow! LMAO!
Sep 4, 2007 at 3:49 pm rating: 0
#81
CA Girl
I think it’s hilarious that she starts the whole thing off with her own twist on E.B.Browning’s famous line… Yes Jes, let us count the ways!!
Sep 4, 2007 at 3:51 pm rating: 0
#82
Mishee
ok, one more thing I just noticed too… in her rant about clothing, she states she loves the fabrics, the cuts, the lines, and the intensive work it took that goes into mass producing clothing…
So she condones the fact that some 8 year old in Cambodia probably worked all day for 10 cents to make the damn clothes? What kind of thing is that to be interested in? The mass production of clothes?? What the hell??? Maybe she’s like one of those people who is a Serial Killer Groupie also…
Sep 4, 2007 at 3:55 pm rating: +2
#83
claw71
I wish that I had Jessie’s “s”
I wish that I had Jessie’s “s”
Where can I find a letter?
Where can I find a letter like that?
Sep 4, 2007 at 3:57 pm rating: +1
#84
claw71
JeS:
WE haVe YoUr “S”!
pUT $45,000 in a BROwn PaPeR Bag and Wait FOR InstructiONs.
DON’t CalL tHE Cops or WE will Erase it!
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:00 pm rating: +1
#85
Mishee
are you trying to extort that amount so you can pay your tuition claw??
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:08 pm rating: 0
#86
Kelly
Wow. The part about people whose parents won’t “let” them work is especially obnoxious. I wonder if she’s considered the scenario in which someone’s parents are paying their way through school, and want to get the best value out of the money they’re putting into their child’s education? I was an engineering major, my parents put me through school – which I’m VERY grateful for, and now I make plenty money to completely support myself financially. My roommates who worked through college had less demanding majors than I did, and are still doing similar work now, and still need to borrow money from their parents from time to time. What an obnoxious brat.
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:10 pm rating: +1
#87
Zsa
Claw, you forgot— ThanK YOu TeRRY
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:11 pm rating: 0
#88
Kelly
Plus it sounds like her roommate is friendly and nice (trying to make lunch plans, chatting with her), and all she gets in return is nastiness..
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:12 pm rating: +1
#89
Mishee
zsa you just TOTALLY blew claw’s cover! now Jes is gonna know he’s actually Terry!
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:14 pm rating: 0
#90
jane
Get that poor girl some meds, quick!!! My favorite part was “I’m 18. I’m an adult” because I can totally tell…..
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:25 pm rating: 0
#91
LC
Bitch lost me at the table/conversation/alone time rant. Before that, I was team PMS Biotch, what with all the PB sponges…
Don’t wanna talk? Then don’t sit in a COMMUNITY AREA! Dumb ho. Community areas are never to be “off-limits” just because YOU want them to be at that specific time. Gah!
And most people think its a given, not a sacrifice akin to burning at the stake, that you close your bedroom door if you don’t want people to pop in and open when you do…
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:25 pm rating: +2
#92
claw71
The roomie might very well suck eggs for all I know but Jes is the one who posted a confessional on the internet. And where does somebody who doesn’t use caps get off whining about a wayward “s”?
By the way, Jes, 500 people can’t be wrong. Unless they work at the Pentagon.
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:26 pm rating: 0
#93
Katzendogz
“Plus it sounds like her roommate is friendly and nice”
It’s hard to say. On the one hand, the roommate has allegedly made complaints about other people’s messes without cleaning up her own, has apparently stated aloud that people who like nice clothes are superficial and given the impression that she is a better person for not drinking. At face value she sounds just as self-righteous and self-absorbed as the blogger.
Then again, it could just be the blogger’s neuroses. Casual comments by the roommate could have been construed as judgmental by the blogger because it touched her insecurities.
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:29 pm rating: +2
#94
anglophile
Yeah, I’m pretty sure you don’t deserve the extra “s” Jes. I’m highly selective about who gets double letters in their names.
Thank you Tery
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:38 pm rating: 0
#95
Zsa
Mishee- like she couldn’t tell it was TeRRy by the mad bomber writing? Come on now… she’s an adult.
Did Claw come to visit you this weekend? Cause he’s totally taking over your random-comment, got-tons-of-time-on-my-hands posting style today.
Nothin by love, Claw~any PA is cause you got that stupid Jesse’s Girl song in my head!
Sep 4, 2007 at 4:51 pm rating: 0
#96
Dave
Hey Jes,
That ’s’ was fucking delicious!
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:12 pm rating: 0
#97
GVI
Where is this damn missing “S”
we need to set up a commitee to find some detectives to go find that “S”
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:13 pm rating: 0
#98
Crystal
I completely disagree with those who say that it’s fair game because it’s on the internet.
Yeah it was pretty dumb of them not to make this journal entry private but people should be able to control themselves enough not to post other peoples journal entries all over the internet for petty self-serving reasons.
Both parties, the ranter and the bastard who decided to screen-cap this need to grow up.
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:14 pm rating: 0
#99
GVI
Well if she did not want her journal all over the internet, DO NOT have an internet journal.
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:21 pm rating: +1
#100
Mishee
Hear, Hear, GVI! I would’ve screen captured the shit outta a blog like that if it was directed at me or a close friend of mine!
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:22 pm rating: +1
#101
GVI
WOOOO 100 POSTS!!!
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:23 pm rating: 0
#102
will
I blog about my neighbors all the time but they don’t have computers and i don’t care if they read it anyway.
The writer should have the sense to make things like this private.
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:37 pm rating: +1
#103
Mishee
I am pretty sure she didn’t make them private because deep down she wanted the blog to be read by her roommates. I had a friend who is like that, and has actually done basically the same thing to me in the past – it’s called being a Drama Queen… and then the bitch got upset when I eloped and didn’t invite her (let’s not even get into her trying to take my man from me for like, 2 years – but that’s shame on me for letting it go on that long)… anyways, and Jes sounds like she should be in line for the Throne herself… she’s a Drama Queen the T!
Sep 4, 2007 at 5:47 pm rating: 0
#104
claw71
Sorry folks but this is 2007. Al Gore invented the internets years ago and we all know there is no such thing as “private” online. These are public tubes, people. If you post it, we’ll read it.
Sep 4, 2007 at 6:27 pm rating: 0
#105
Mishee
OMG, I was a freshman when Jagged Little Pill came out and it took me until just NOW to realize what the title of this posting was referring to… good one Kerry!!
Sep 4, 2007 at 6:56 pm rating: 0
#106
Alexis
I didn’t go to a private school but I sure learned how to capitalize the first letter in a sentence.
Sep 4, 2007 at 7:17 pm rating: 0
#107
Mishee
I was once again reading this (end of the day – getting bored) and god it seems like her roomies seem to LOVE peanut butter!!! Now think of all of the PB google searches that are going to lead people to this site now… LOL..
Sep 4, 2007 at 7:25 pm rating: 0
#108
claw71
Joobs, joobs
I love your boobs
I viewed them on the internets tubes
but I was seated in the office cubes
and might have been nabbed by the corporate rubes
so I couldn’t scroll down to see your pubes.
Sep 4, 2007 at 7:43 pm rating: 0
#109
GVI
Lmao nice one Claw
Sep 4, 2007 at 7:58 pm rating: 0
#110
Magwich
This stupid rant is almost a year old.
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:11 pm rating: 0
#111
dawn
“Aye yi yi! Aye! Yi yi, yi yi, oh yeah…
So many ways you irritate:
Won’t spell my name correctly and surf all day
It’s a black fly in my Chardonnay
It’s the high horse you ride on that makes me hate
Listen, I’m moronic…dontcha think?
It’s like rain on move in day
It’s a free ride when your parents have paid
It’s the “me” time that I just can’t take
Who would’ve thought…it figures
Ms. Decorate, leave the crayon – why?
Your tacky biiirthday sign is for a day passed by
Been working my whole damn life, so no time to write
And as I put myself down I thought
“Well isn’t this nice…”
And listen, I’m moronic…dontcha think?
It’s like rain on move in day
It’s a free ride when your parents have paid
It’s the “me” time that I just can’t take
Who would’ve thought…it figures
Well you have a funny way of sitting next to me
When I think everything’s okay and I can study alllll night
And you have a funny way of talking to me when
You think everything’s gone wrong and getting yourself all
In my space
A breaded sponge when you’ve already ate
A no-driiinking sign and no “Project Runway”
It’s like ten thousand spoons and an encrusted knife
It’s meeting Bullshit for lunch
And then hating her beautiful life
And listen, I’m moronic…dontcha think?
A little too moronic…and yeah I really do think…
It’s like rain on move in day
It’s a free ride when your parents have paid
It’s the “me” time that I just can’t take
Who would’ve thought…it figures
You have a funny way of sitting next to meee
Oooo, you have a funny, funny way; why don’t you move out?
Really, move out”
–Team “People who have any expectation of privacy about things they post on the internet are chuckleheads”
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:25 pm rating: +3
#112
claw71
Nice job Dawn. I was actually trying to rework “You Oughta Know” to fit this diatribe but every time I think of that song I think of Dave Coulier getting it on with Alanis Morrisette and I black out only to wake up with my pants around my ankles and the closing credits to the series finale playing on the TV.
Sep 4, 2007 at 8:56 pm rating: 0
#113
Nanna
Ew. That was a visual none of us needed, Claw71.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:03 pm rating: 0
#114
Jordan
That was funny shit Claw71 (#125) Quite a outloud chuckle I just had. Kudos. I just hope I don’t have nightmares.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:08 pm rating: 0
#115
GVI
I think we need 2 new posts tonight because we killed this one, here we are making up songs and everything.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:40 pm rating: 0
#116
joobs
(And claw–they’re real, and they’re spectacular!)
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:42 pm rating: 0
#117
GVI
Lets see em Joobs
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:44 pm rating: 0
#118
joobs
Only if claw shows his moobs. Nothing else. I don’t need to bleach my eyes.
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:46 pm rating: 0
#119
joobs
Back to the note, but just for a minute. Since this was written a year ago, I wonder what has happened to JesSs. Maybe there is a Mr. JesssS(s)s now. Wouldn’t he be a lucky guy?
Sep 4, 2007 at 9:49 pm rating: 0
#120
jess
for the record, i am jess…with 2 s’s. don’t ever just use one.
or i’ll blog about it. i swear to god i will.
Sep 4, 2007 at 10:52 pm rating: 0
#121
robins
gee, you must not mind having this entry(ies) up and posted here. mind giving the url to your fabulous blog, jeSS?
Sep 4, 2007 at 11:26 pm rating: 0
#122
Mierin
Yes, Rachel, I totally agree! It’s not my fault my family has money?? Fine, whatev. But people who’s mummy and daddy pay for everything have to realize that working your way through school is fucking HARD. You have no time, no money, and still have huge debt. I haaate hearing rich kids bitching about how hard they have it. Team OSAP all the way
Sep 5, 2007 at 2:11 am rating: 0
#123
Anna-banana
Team STFU.
Sep 5, 2007 at 8:55 am rating: 0
#124
Sazbot
Are you mad because you’re a shit housemate and the internetz knows it?
Post your housemate’s private blog on passiveaggressivenotes.com. That’ll help you regain your dignity.
Sep 5, 2007 at 9:25 am rating: 0
#125
Nanna
Of course I’m right. I’m always right!
Sep 5, 2007 at 12:20 pm rating: 0
#126
Anna-banana
Nanna? Are you really someone’s Nanna?
Sep 5, 2007 at 2:49 pm rating: 0
#127
GVI
i wanna see the pic of nanna
Sep 5, 2007 at 3:56 pm rating: 0
#128
Ym82
Whatever, this girl is just a teenager. Making mistakes, being totally self-absorbed, and having martyr complex are totally par for the course. Hopefully she will develop self awareness in the future…such as, it’s stupid to bitch about how your roommates are vapid lazy asses and then talk about how much you love clothes.
Sep 5, 2007 at 6:54 pm rating: +1
#129
GVI
Well i saw 2 girls and well they both do not look like they are old enough to be anyones Nanna, but they are cute tho.
Sep 5, 2007 at 7:09 pm rating: 0
#130
Nanna
lol I am 27. I think it is possible I could be someone’s Nanna. My name is Amanda, but my childhood nickname is Nanna becasue my two baby brother’s couldn’t say Amanda.
Sep 5, 2007 at 8:55 pm rating: 0
#131
Nanna
Oh god I must be tired. Don’t shoot me for the bad grammar!
I would be the one in the green shirt on that site.
Sep 5, 2007 at 8:57 pm rating: 0
#132
Zsa
Guess I know what I’m doing at lunch tomorrow~ Hope I can get a good shot, I havent looked at the notes for a while.
Hey, we could label Claw as “free range”! the cannibals will love it and we can get a premium price.
Sep 5, 2007 at 9:40 pm rating: 0
#133
Anna-banana
Mishee…I’m confused. ‘fess up! Are you indeed Mrs. Bender, or not? That is the question….
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:23 pm rating: 0
#134
GVI
Hell i think even Mishee is confused.
Sep 5, 2007 at 10:38 pm rating: 0
#135
Mrs L Carrot
Being bitchy in lower case doesn’t make it any better or magically make Jes humble. Doubtless she shares with a bunch of really annoying hoorays (sorry no idea what a hooray is in American… er… preppy?) but even so, they’re clearly trying to be friendly so clearly she should lighten up and if she wants peace and quiet then clearly sitting in the communal areas is the action of a class A Numb nuts.
Then again, there’s nothing wrong with having a good old whinge on your blog if it means you can keep a lid on it in the real world or explain to them why they are annoying you without punching them.
Sep 6, 2007 at 6:25 am rating: +1
#136
claw71
I’d rather not be free range. If I’m going to be livestock I’d like to be Kobe beef. I rather like the idea of being fed beer all day while receiving regular massages to keep by meat soft.
That’s right, baby, soft meat.
Sep 6, 2007 at 8:37 am rating: 0
#137
Anna-banana
I wish the submitter would’ve also added the 5 comments to this blog post to his/her submission.
Just who really are her roommates? Her friends?
Just as silly as her?
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:36 am rating: 0
#138
Sair
Oooo! Oooooooooooo! I got a comment from Mishee!!! Does that make me famous by association now?!
Moooooo….
PS So Mishee is Mrs Bender, and Mr Bender is Mr Mishee – and joobs isn’t related to either of you? Hmmmm – it’s all starting to feel a little incestuous if you ask me… Oops sorry, way off topic there – still on Team ‘Grow The Fuck Up (And Stop With The Weird Fashion Rant It Just Makes You Sound Like Even More Of A Silly Cow)’
Sep 6, 2007 at 9:57 am rating: 0
#139
Mishee
See, Sair did the cow thing again! You rock!! P.S. There is no Mr. Mishee on here, he doesn’t go on this site.
P.P.S. bacon is life
Sep 6, 2007 at 11:08 am rating: 0
#140
Mishee
you bet he does! we watch it together all the time…
Sep 6, 2007 at 11:35 am rating: 0
#141
Anna-banana
What about Naked Senators?
Sep 6, 2007 at 1:59 pm rating: 0
#142
claw71
Naked senators? I saw Hillary Clinton in the buff once and it wasn’t pretty. It reminded me of the time I saw my grandmother naked. Flapjack city, babe. I like to call them floobs and I would happily allow my tax dollars to go into a fund to escalate that front to a couple of well-rounded d-cups. If she’s going to be my president I want her to fill out a blouse.
With all the sex scandals going on I’m voting based on looks. I have no problem with George Michael looking for a bathroom boyfriend but when a shriveled old geezer like Larry Craig is running around putting his hand under stalls I get a little queasy.
As a guy I don’t want to have a liason with either of them but if I had to have a dude make a pass at me I want it to be a good looking guy.
Sep 6, 2007 at 2:19 pm rating: 0
#143
Mishee
yeah right claw – we all know you count seeing Hilary in the buff one of the single most greatest moments of your entire life!! comon now, come clean!!
Geez! Why aren’t men turned on by a woman with alot of power? Usually the opposite is true… hmmm.. mars… venus… whatever………
Sep 6, 2007 at 5:05 pm rating: 0
#144
joobs
So, claw, you’d vote for Hilary if she had a boob job?
Or are you voting for Mitt? Everyone where I live just LOOOOOOVES Mitt.
Sep 7, 2007 at 12:11 am rating: 0
#145
Sorcha
I just want to know what she does with all those breaded bacteria. Does she fry them, maybe?
Sep 7, 2007 at 12:19 am rating: 0
#146
Anna-banana
NO. I think she bakes banana bread with them & the panty gluten.
Sep 7, 2007 at 9:00 am rating: 0
#147
Pepelu
To those speculating about the blog site, it’s Xanga. Only Xanga has eprops, as you can see near the comments.
Sep 7, 2007 at 11:19 pm rating: 0
#148
gvi
#166 Eww Anna thats enough of that, now i have to go wash my brain out with bleach.
Sep 8, 2007 at 1:02 pm rating: 0
#149
dots
Though my parents payed for my college (they insisted), housing and some of my bills, I was EXPECTED to keep a high GPA, and work.
Not everyone whose parents’ payed for most of their schooling is a spoiled, sloppy inconsiderate rich kid. I knew some “poor kids” who didn’t do well in school nor worked, and complained about what they didn’t have. I found those people to be quite obnoxious.
Conclusion: some people are lucky financially, some are not, GET OVER IT. Everyone’s situation is different.
Also, If this person’s roommate situation is that bad, she should figure out a way to move out or if she is in a dorm, talk to the RA and see if you can do a roommate swap.
Sep 8, 2007 at 4:47 pm rating: +1
#150
Maria
She is fucking nuts!! I hate whiny bitches..ugh
Sep 9, 2007 at 1:58 am rating: +1
#151
Rain
so I stopped reading after the first 102 comments, and maybe someone else already said this . . . but that is definitely Xanga, and what’s funnier than anything about this is that most of the Xanga kids (and they ARE mostly kids) that I know are in “blogrings” with others in their school–so not only would it not be hidden, but it would be quite easy for others in their school circles to see and read this.
with that said, however, I’m going to root for the blogger, if only because a) we don’t know that her parents might not be taking massive amounts of loans out to finance her school and b) I know what it is to have to work and to be around people who DON’T have to work. I worked full-time (averaging 35 hours/week) during my undergrad, and am still under the weight of the loans I took out to pay for my education. When I heard someone say, “I can’t work more than 15 hours a week this semester; it’s just too much for me”, I about want to B@#$ slap them.
I also am a person who needs a lot of down time/”me” time, and have had friends who don’t understand that concept AT ALL.
I know I’m in the minority, but I feel for the girl.
Sep 11, 2007 at 1:43 pm rating: 0
#152
claw71
Here’s the deal, Rain. I like “down” time as well but I don’t have friends who bug me because I’m not manic. I know the type, sometimes you need to be loved by everybody and you’re on IM texting emoticons like a sixth grader but just like that you snap into a funk and want to brood under grandma’s quilt and listen to The Cure for hours on end. (this may not be you but it explains the mentality of our blogger, and you can’t expect friends to be equipped to deal with these dramatic mood swings)
One minute it’s “Love Me” by the Cardigans, the next it’s “Sound of Silence” by Simon and Garfunkle.
I don’t feel for the blogger at all. She’s a twit. First of all, people won’t know how you feel if you don’t tell them. Second, the internet is not the place to secure private musings. This is passive aggressive because the blogger knew damned well this would be read. She probably left this page up and on the computer in hopes it would be but instead of dealing with confrontation she can pretend her privacy was violated.
Sep 12, 2007 at 8:39 am rating: +1
#153
alix
Both girls seem like they suck. The writer seems like a bit of a bitch, but if the roommate was the one who screen capped and captured the blog entry, that’s PA to the max. It would have been the most constructive and non PA to actually confront the roommate about these issues, but it seems like the writer was venting just to vent which I’ve been guilty of before. I knew it wasn’t private, I knew there was a slight chance it might be seen by a rommate, and I didn’t care. I do sympathize with the dirty, not washed properly dishes thing, and the people not taking the hint that you’re not in the mood for a conversation thing. They both sound like people who annoy me.
Nov 13, 2007 at 5:46 pm rating: 0
#154 you oughta know
[...] related: who would’ve thought? it figures [...]
Feb 4, 2008 at 9:15 pm rating: 0
#155
Roommate Finder
Looks like the prelude to a new roommate search, if you ask me.
Feb 20, 2008 at 1:00 pm rating: 0
#156
pjc
Holy shit, this reads just like what my ex was blogging towards the end of our relationship… uncanny…
Nov 6, 2008 at 5:14 am rating: 0
#157
Inorpzook
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#158
sngfx
What a miserable and sad individual.
Feb 12, 2009 at 5:24 pm rating: +1
#159
keetoo
The part that really got me was the sour-grapes whining at the end about not getting in to Pomona. *I* went to Pomona, recently, and they do have need-blind admissions; I knew many people who worked their way through school on top of loans and scholarships. I guarantee, it’s far more likely her grumpy-gus attitude came across in the interview.
Apr 15, 2009 at 12:49 am rating: 0
#160
Private Villas
This is a good post although the layout of the site is slightly off in Chrome and in IE6.
Nov 9, 2009 at 6:48 am rating: 0
#161
SexiShelly
thumbs up! i linked to this post
Nov 13, 2009 at 9:32 am rating: 0
#162
Pamysmoxy
Acquire you till doomsday tried some swart hat or milky hat SEO grow your PR and results in Google?
Jan 20, 2010 at 1:07 am rating: 0
#163
cpalead
Hi there I would love to know where you got this site template from I love it!
Feb 19, 2010 at 5:07 pm rating: 0
#164
one tree hill
Well this is a nice one. I was just searching for some articles for my school homework. I was thinking that I will come across Wikipedia but I was simply shocked when your blog came first but now I understood that Google was right in placing your blog on the top.
Mar 3, 2010 at 10:41 pm rating: 0
#165
Older than 18
“I have an extremely long work history with REAL jobs,” said the 18-year-old.
Mar 4, 2010 at 1:43 am rating: 0
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