Irrationality

A convo with Pollackses:

[03:58:55] Kitten219: why are you still up, David?
[03:59:11] Kitten219: *note that i did not call you "pollackses"
[04:02:06] Perseus18: lol
[04:02:22] Perseus18: lol, I love your buddy icon
[04:02:33] Kitten219: isn't it prettyrrific?
[04:02:37] Perseus18: yup
[04:02:41] Perseus18: I'm about to head to bed
[04:02:46] Kitten219: lucky
[04:02:47] Perseus18: just been up handling crises
[04:03:00] Kitten219: the thing that happened at the rink?
[04:03:11] Kitten219: or something completely different?
[04:03:18] Perseus18: the thing that happened is really not a thing, and it's being blown out of proportion
[04:03:26] Perseus18: but basically, yeah
[04:03:41] Kitten219: how were you handling it? i thought ariela was asleep long ago
[04:03:45] Kitten219: *i hope at least
[04:04:06] Perseus18: I come in from a higher perspective
[04:04:10] Perseus18: I'm against the formation of camps
[04:04:19] Kitten219: ah
[04:04:20] Perseus18: so I go between the two parties
[04:04:26] Kitten219: hmmmm
[04:04:28] Perseus18: in this case I was talking with Sam
[04:04:33] Perseus18: also with Joey and Josh at the same time
[04:04:37] Kitten219: ah
[04:04:40] Perseus18: trying to asses the entire situation
[04:04:44] Kitten219: hmm
[04:04:50] Perseus18: something which no one else has seemed willing to do this entire time
[04:05:09] Perseus18: Sam brought a friend for ice skating
[04:05:12] Kitten219: see i was talking to josh about other things
[04:05:17] Kitten219: friend?
[04:05:21] Perseus18: and when emotions run high, irrational conclusions are drawn very very quickly
[04:05:23] Perseus18: yes, a friend
[04:05:27] Perseus18: she wasn't even Jewish...
[04:05:34] Perseus18: why does everyone jump on this friend thing
[04:05:40] Kitten219: see all i heard was josh say sam had brought a new girl
[04:05:43] Perseus18: Oy
[04:05:44] Kitten219: i dunno
[04:05:47] Perseus18: Well, Josh wasn't there
[04:05:47] Kitten219: lack of info?
[04:05:50] Perseus18: and it wasn't a new girl
[04:05:51] Kitten219: i know
[04:05:56] Perseus18: apparently Ariela thought she was
[04:06:03] Perseus18: hence my line about the emotions leading to the irrational
[04:06:04] Kitten219: and now i know that too
[04:06:29] Kitten219: it's called pms, not being over things yet, and mass bad moodness among all of us
[04:06:32] Perseus18: lol
[04:06:34] Kitten219: at least me josh and ariela
[04:06:36] Perseus18: It's because of the high emotions
[04:06:46] Perseus18: high emotions cause irrational conclusions
[04:06:48] Perseus18: It's natural
[04:06:51] Kitten219: i'm glad i wasn't there

So Sam does not have a new girlfriend, Baruch Hashem *for Ariela's sake*

Time to knit more, cause I cannot fall asleep.

Roomatics

Roomatics [room + politics] suck. Especially with Penn's Jewish community. I love my Jews, but there is so much unpredictability, and sometimes even back stabbing with rooms in High Rise North.

So there was some girl in Israel who Yael had been "set up with" to be the 3rd roommate in 309. Somehow this was overlooked because Andrea didn't realize how certain this was or something.

She called me during Sunday Night Learning [SNL] and I started to cry. Fortunately, Livia was my chevruta [person I studied with] so I didn't have to deal with having to talk to a complete stranger or break off my chevruta or something. I suppose there is some good in all this.

Also, everything with Josh is better. I am eternally grateful to have friends like Josh, Ariela and Ari. And Livia, Simone and there are others as well, though I don't see them as much. I feel like everyone here has been so nice to me, and sometimes I take people for granted, but a few years ago I would have never thought I could cry in the girls' room in front of an Orthodox girl, or even that I'd have any religiously observant close friends. I love you all.

Knowing that I can go into High Rise North and someone will always feed me. Or that I could sleep on a random couch and not have to walk back to Hill. Everyone here is so open.

And after the emotional fiasco with all of us, we will be better friends.

Josh had to remind me of all this, and quote from Brighton Beach and then Deuteronomy, the part that I read for Yom Kippur, ironically enough. And I can still do it.

So yes, I am feeling better once again. I am hopeful.