on friends and friendships

days since getting sick: 42 (i still have tummyaches and dizzy spells so this count persists. don't worry, i'm going back to the doctor).

just a few quick thoughts on the topic of friendship while i take a well-deserved break from cramming for midterms.

• if you don't oppose proposition 8, then you're not a very supportive friend of mine. it's not a religion issue, it's a civil rights issue. and if you are in favor of prop 8, then you are not in favor of me having rights. if you don't think i should have the right to marry, then i don't think you should have the right to have an abortion, or have cookies before bedtime, or whatever.
• it's human nature for people to talk about each other. but when it devolves into talking trash about your friends, then it makes me question the nature of the friendship as a whole.
• on a related note, if i am acting oddly, don't assume it's solely to garner your attention. and don't tell everyone else that that's why i'm acting as such.
• i know that i can be overly emotional, outrageously tactless, and irritatingly stubborn. you don't need to point these things out to me every time we talk.
• if you want to have a good political argument with me, bring it on, but remember that my beliefs are highly inconsistent with each other and will therefore most likely not even close to what you believe in. there is no need to try to hit me over the head with your own ideology.
• don't try to cheat me out of money.
• don't complain to me for not inviting you out to lunch. you could have done the same.
  
• don't get mad at me for not inviting you to crash at my place after you get smashed at apex on a thursday night (which i didn't attend) and then act all nonchalant toward me while complaining about my alleged lack of thoughtlessness to my other friends.
• if i tell you that i have a crush on you, don't pretend that you didn't hear me.
• there is no need to remind me that you are x years younger than me (in cases where x > 4). hey, you're the one hanging out with the college kid, and in all likelihood, i've had more life experiences than you anyway.
• on a related note, if you have y more degrees of higher education (in cases where y is any positive non-zero integer) than i do, you don't have to remind me of that either.
• just shut up and help me bury the body. (just kidding... in a literal sense, at least)
• i will ask you one more time: are you, or are you not, dating him?
  
• remember: i know your secrets.

i'm going home in 5 weeks. and i can't wait.