I am 17.5 years old

[JohnKleeb]

Jesus Christ, and so many regrets already.

[progmom]

1. wow

You're even younger than I thought.'

Happy half birthday?


on edit:
I'm not quite 2X your age, and I can tell you that it gets MUCH better. And sometimes somewhat worse.

[JohnKleeb]

3. actually yesterday was

how old did you think I was? God I wish I could be going to a four year college next year, I admit and I know they will dispute it but most people around my age who post here are smarter than me, I am not being humble.

[progmom]

9. i thought 19 or 20

See my edit above.

[JohnKleeb]

12. hah you know to be honest, thats how old I wish I was

[really-looney]

24. NOVA is a great deal.

Study hard get good grades find out what interests you and thank God, Allah, the tree in the front yard, thank whatever you want to thank(parents are always important) that you will not be graduating from college with $150,000 in debt while trying to start out your life. Jr. college is one way that education has become affordable. You will meet lots of new people, it will be great.

[JohnKleeb]

27. Yeah NOVA is good, its just I heard that the social life aint good

[really-looney]

31. By that I think you mean there is no dorm to get laid in

You will meet lots of new people and if it really sucks knock down the classes you need to transfer quickly.

I went to a commuter school in Boston and met some great friends that I still keep in touch with today.

[JohnKleeb]

32. hahaha exactly, I am horrrrrrrrrrny

[DemBones DemBones]

64. Whatever happened to sex in cars? It's the American way! nt

[really-looney]

67. Have you looked at cars lately

Poor Kleeb will never get laid if he has to rely on finding a comfortable position in a Honda Civic

[MountainLaurel]

76. Judging by

The large crowds of people who are clogging up my NOVA library computers in groups looking at anime and Korean pop stars and other groups sitting around chatting, there's nothing wrong with the social life here.

:mad:

And as someone mentioned, there's always sex in cars -- Annandale has a huge parking lot, and now that we're so goddamn underfunded that they have one contract security officer around after 5 pm rather than our lovely sworn campus officers with guns, there's little chance of you getting caught.

[tigereye]

72. John, you seem quite smart to me

Happy half year birthday!

[Left Is Write]

74. I'm more than twice his age.

[msgadget]

2. Wait.

The party's just starting! :bounce:

[JohnKleeb]

4. Sure is but damn I just wanna leave the state

[msgadget]

10. Again, wait.

You'll appreciate leaving even more.

[JohnKleeb]

11. yep and who knows maybe community college will be one of the best

things to happen to me.

[msgadget]

14. I hope that wasn't irony

because you never know what opportunities are waiting to fall on you while you're actively engaged in life. Being actively engaged at all times is the key. Where you start your higher education, a minor matter.

[JohnKleeb]

16. I know, its just 5 years ago, I didn't expect to be stayign home

but hey, there are probably gonna be some cool people there.

[msgadget]

20. And, it's possible you'll meet someone or do something or have an adviser

that help you go elsewhere. But, even if you don't, I know you'll make friends you'll call when your first kid is born.

[JohnKleeb]

25. I wonder about my first kid heh

I definely wanna have kids.

[msgadget]

62. Lotsa little Kleebs

I can see that. :)

[LDS Jock]

70. Kleeblets?

I want one.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. What do you regret?

My older boy is also 17.5.

[JohnKleeb]

8. too much

I regret not studying hard enough but damn high school math was just hard, so much. I regret not having enough fun though thats starting to change a bit. I regret being a little too shy. Its hard to explain erally.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Focus on the change, not the regret.

Change what you're really unhappy with...and learn to deal with what you can't change.

I hope you'll reconsider your regret for "being a little too shy". That sounds like a key element of who you are...not something you can make a conscious decision to change. :hug:

[JohnKleeb]

23. What I am doing is working my butt off in school

and trying to be a more social person.

[ralps]

63. I don't know how into relegion you are but there is a prayer

I've learned. It's called the serenity prayer
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference.
Happy half birthday
:hug:

[XanaDUer]

6. Happy Birthday!

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

7. yesterday was actually

:hi: thanks back.

[SmileyBoy]

13. You're still older than my snotty little brother.

He recently turned 16.

Damn, the time flies. I'm almost a quarter of the way through my twenties (22.5 on March 8th).

[JohnKleeb]

15. yeah he a sopohomore dude?

[SmileyBoy]

17. Yep. A pretty accomplished sophomore.

I take it you're a junior??

I remember when I was a junior. Damn, those 5 years since have whizzed by like crazy...

[JohnKleeb]

21. how dare you

I am a senior! Just kidding, not that upset.

[SmileyBoy]

26. Woops, sorry.

I forgot about the August 31st cutoff date.:)

Where do you plan to go to college, BTW??

[JohnKleeb]

29. Going to comm college first then I dream of GWU

[sandnsea]

19. You know what's funny

When we're young we always beat ourselves up because we're not cool, not fun, not getting all the guys or gals. It's usually because we're nice, mannerly, decent human beings.

So we decide to change. And we become shitheads. Then, when we get old, we regret that.

Don't toss aside your basic sense of self as you move into the bigger world. Hell, I wish I could just wrap you up and take you all over the country and say "This is the shining example of the best of the American youth". :loveya:

[JohnKleeb]

22. I sometimes think I am too nice

[bettyellen]

33. i don't know about too nice, but too shy isn't always good.

my mom was always shy in a really self concious kind of a way. she worried alot and was withdrawn, and very depressed. i was a great deal more like her when i was younger, very shy.
my dad was really warm and outgoing and had a much happier life than she did. my father and i were very close and he was the biggest influence in my life, but i had to make a concious decision to force myself to be more like him. it's not always easy, i geek out still sometimes, but it feels better to me when i don't.

[JohnKleeb]

34. Well I am not that shy

Shy people don't tell stories about how they learned how to use condoms and that using LSD is a great way to dodge the draft. I'll probably say something like that in chem tommorow, god I better not blurt otu that I was under the influence.

[bettyellen]

38. yeah, don't blurt that! but now you will because you'll be thinking about

it. ooof!

[JohnKleeb]

41. haha heh

Ive kept my mouth shut thus far but I feel so open in that class, probably because I have a good pal in there.

[bettyellen]

48. and youre planning on telling the condom story right off the bat....

remember john, first impressions are crucial. maybe you ought to save that until after you've warmed up the crowd. i'm just saying.
omigod. david sedaris
ten poems about dogs. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
shit
now i feel a little better

[JohnKleeb]

51. I already blurted that out Betty :)

[bettyellen]

55. OOps!

[sandnsea]

35. Nonsense

Nobody can ever be too nice. Too desperate, absolutely. But not too nice. There is a difference.

[really-looney]

53. Tip O'Neill was fond of saying

"Its nice to be important but its more important to be nice" I think he credited someone else for saying it but he really believed it. Its hard to beat the thinking of a Great Democrat like the Speaker

[sandnsea]

61. Maybe I should listen to Tip

"nice" isn't exactly my strong suit!

[The_Casual_Observer]

28. Regrets stem from missed or lost opportunities

You still have plenty of time to have no regrets.

Regards to you on your 17.5!

T_C_O

[JohnKleeb]

30. certainly is true and I thikn I am making some up

[bettyellen]

36. Hey, I just won the Insult Smackdown. Floggedy threw in the towel!

this is my big accomplishement today.

[JohnKleeb]

40. yay!

[miss_kitty]

37. dude I am old enough to be

your gramma. I turned 51 today...

[JohnKleeb]

39. but youre younger than my dad

[miss_kitty]

42. Well I could be old enough to be your mom too

but you know-guys have a longer 'shelf life' than the gals do. :)

[JohnKleeb]

43. youre older than my ma

yes I know, and thats what great about being a guy :).

[Left Is Write]

73. Happy Birthday, Miss Kitty.

[miss_kitty]

79. Thank you, Left Is Write!

:party:

[Tweed]

44. Congrats Kleeb

I can't wait for our paths to cross on the national stage. I can feel it happening someday. We will be part of the generation that brings the Democratic party back into power. Call us the 21st Century Generation Democrats if you will.

[JohnKleeb]

45. Well I'll be behind the scenes

I'll be the quiet speechwriter, thats my dream right now.

[Tweed]

59. I plan on that too

I want to be behind the scenes raising money for people and causes.

[mark414]

46. don't regret anything

no matter what you do kleeb, good or bad, your experiences have made you the person you are today

haha damn dude i wish you lived here, we'd hang out all the time

[JohnKleeb]

50. You got that right

Yeah, there are so many people on here if we lived nearer, we'd hang out. If you get out to CA, I'll give you a visit but I have to get ouver my fear of driving.

[5thGenDemocrat]

47. Young punk

I was in the Army when I was your age. That's one regret you don't have so far.
John
Hope to see you at FUNDAY, Young Mister Kleeb. There's gonna be free beer -- but don't tell anybody. Especially not your parents.

[JohnKleeb]

49. I need to learn how to drive

ha, yeah the army is something I wont touch.

[5thGenDemocrat]

52. Actually, I was in the Army not far from you

Fort Monroe, VA -- just outside Hampton. arwalden could've thrown a tastefully organic rock from his childhood home and bounced it off my barracks.
John
Anyhow, you don't need to drive -- we just have to find someone from the greater Baltimore/Washington metroplex to give you a ride 700 miles to the soiree. And then, of course, assign someone else to keep an eye on you for the day (I have a reputation, such as it is, to uphold).

[JohnKleeb]

54. I think I do need to learn

Hampton is sottheast of here. I want to learn too honestly.

[bettyellen]

56. Driving is fun. I loooove driving.,,,...

the speed, the power, the loud music.

[JohnKleeb]

57. I wish I could transfer all my iTunes music on to something

and get my MP3 player working. Because there are so many songs, I would loooooooove to blasssssssst.
Simmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmer dowwwwwwwwwwwn, control yer temper. heh thats what I am listenin to.

[really-looney]

58. Here's a thought on your grades,

Its 1:45, you don't have another 2 hour delay at school tomorrow, and you are up on the computer. GO to bed, get some sleep so you are not a moody teenager in the morning.

[JohnKleeb]

60. I was just about to head for sleep

[DemBones DemBones]

65. You lie like a rug, Kleeb. You'll be up another hour!

:evilgrin:

[DemBones DemBones]

66. Psst! Happy half-assed birthday!

:loveya:


Don't worry, man, life will happen, and you'll be old like me before you know it!

[da_chimperor]

68. Whippersnapper!

Happy unbirthday kleeb. :hi:

[Taxloss]

69. Great heavens. I am NINE YEARS older.

I put you at nine years older than me.

[Occulus]

71. Just WAIT till yer thirty, Kleeb....

just wait.... heh heh heh.... :evilgrin:

[XNASA]

75. That's 2,571.428571 posts for each year.

Approximately.

[Maestro]

77. It's normal

My life got tons, tons, tons better after getting out of my teens. Teen years suck.

[terrya]

78. I'm depressed because I'm old enough to be your father.

48 here, guy. And you're having regrets already??!! :-)

Don't. You have some good things going in your life. You're going to be an intern, right? That will be very interesting and educational. And the other good things will come along. Trust me.

T

[Bouncy Ball]

80. Our little Kleeb is growing up so fast!!!

:cry:

Why, I can remember when you were just 16!!!!!

:cry:

Stop growing up so fast, Little Kleebster!!!