{"id":4755,"date":"2006-04-21T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T18:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2010-07-14T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T02:17:14","slug":"people-are-idiots-lonely-lonely-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4755","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;People are idiots.  Lonely, lonely idiots&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveboink.com\/archive\/collegerelationships.htm\">Kyle&#8217;s Guide to College Relationships.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The college relationship is a curious one, more involved than a high school relationship, more intense than an adult relationship, and less mature than either.  It is a relationship founded upon ambivalence and, in retrospect, deep shame.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first step is to find a girl.  There is a temptation here to go out socializing until you find someone with whom you share many common interests and would like to ask out on a date, leading to a healthy, fruitful relationship.  Don\u0092t give in to this temptation.  You should immediately fall madly in love with the first girl you see, ideally someone deeply entrenched in your limited first year social circle.  The girl who likes your best friend, your roommate\u0092s sister, your sister\u0092s roommate, even your mate\u0092s roomsister are all fair play here.  The key is to alienate as many people as possible once you two start dating and to create as much fallout as possible upon the inevitable breakup.  We learn from our mistakes, so if your whole relationship is a mistake, it\u0092s like super-learning!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More humor to follow in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveboink.com\/archive\/collegerelationships.htm\">the rest of the essay <\/a>&#8230; much of it sounds eerily familiar to me (ahem junioryearofcollege ahem)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle&#8217;s Guide to College Relationships. The college relationship is a curious one, more involved than a high school relationship, more intense than an adult relationship, and less mature than either. It is a relationship founded upon ambivalence and, in retrospect, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4755\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20477,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/20477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}