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Roommate's philosophy major friend is over (my only friday class was cancelled, or I would be seriously annoyed about this), and man...they are both perfectly nice people, they really are, but sometimes it makes me actually physically uncomfortable to listen to them talk.

It's not that they are shallow and kind of boring - they are, but hey, I know the stuff I'm into is really boring to them too - it's that they are SO FUCKING PRIVILEGED. I mean, they are both very upper middle class girls from Asian countries going to an Ivy League level school, you do the math. They are self-centered and immature and really entitled. They spend their vacations going on cruises and book fancy hotel rooms for weekend trips to the city and anything they ever wanted their parents have bought for them. I don't think either of them have ever really had to go without something they needed. And what is perhaps more irritating, they think that they are so hard-off, that their lives are so difficult. And I just...I think about doing my homework in the dark because our electricity got shut off, eating peanut butter sandwiches every day for a week because there's nothing else in the house, going to school in the same clothes as the day before because my mom's boyfriend threw me out of the house - and I just want to grab them and shake them because I do not understand how they can so epically NOT GET IT.

It does not help that I had to listen to a long rant from roommate about her interview trying to get a job RA-ing next year which mostly consisted of her bitching about how haaaaard it is to want to go into investment banking because everyone thinks they are crooks and the industry has such a bad reputation now and they just want to kill investment banking because it doesn't make anything 'real' and they didn't do anything wrong, you guys, it was all a misunderstanding!

*headdesks*

I Has A Dreamwidth!

Guess who hit the Dreamwidth code lottery! I've got my account all set up, and now I'm in the queue for importing my journal entries - there's some old entries in this journal I'm a little embarrassed to keep importing to new journal sites, but empty space just weirds me out, and I like having my life backed up across the internet. So far DW looks very shiny and neat, and I'm really excited.

I don't think I'm ready to go all in and leave livejournal forever - there's too many non-fandom people I'd lose track of, for one - but...I don't know. I've been getting increasing wary of LJ and the way that they run things, especially with regards to fandom. The whole scans_daily thing really left a bad taste in my mouth, and it's just one in a list of things they've done that I'm not really okay with. So if enough people make the jump to DW and set up shop there, I might eventually make that more of my permanent home and just keep this as a RL/cross-posting journal. I don't know.

Anyway, maudlin musings aside, I'm very excited about this. I'm masterofmidgets over there - I thought about changing my name to Dancerinthestorm (...don't ask), but in the end I'm boring and uncreative and hate trying to keep track of multiple usernames, so. If you already have an account, drop in and DW-friend me! If you'd like an invite code, just ask, and I'll try to provide as they give them out - telyanofcelore  does have first dibs though.