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        <title>ever get that feeling...</title>   
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        <p>that you&#39;re being left out of the loop? ...that people aren&#39;t being straight with you because they feel that it&#39;s not in your best interests or because they are involved in one way or other&#160; ...when even those who are supposed to be your friends do not even try to help you out, rather they feed the thoughts that eat away at your mind by not offering any kind of support but put you down instead or give half meant assurances while thinly veiling their annoyances at you...</p><p>...have you ever had that feeling, more than a hunch or instinct, only to be told that it&#39;s paranoia or that you&#39;re just blowing it way out of proportion and yet there it is right in front of you, and you are alone in this...</p><p>have you ever had that feeling...<br /></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>be careful of what you wish for...</title>   
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        <p>it&#39;s funny when you get to that point in your life that you&#39;ve worked so hard for... and it&#39;s not what you imagined... nor is it what you might want after all...<br /></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>huh. go figure...</title>   
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        <published>2008-06-12T11:24:42Z</published>
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        <p>all&#160;i&#160;really&#160;wanted&#160;was for certain people not to blast&#160;their music&#160;too loud. i&#160;mean it&#39;s bad enough that they have to be loud&#160;when they talk,&#160;cough or&#160;anytime&#160;they open their mouths.&#160;that&#39;s no exaggeration. to add to everything these&#160;people love&#160;to sing&#160;out loud and&#160;they are godawful at it but they love&#160;themselves so much,&#160;they do it anyways. i mean this is a freaking office and not college or high school, but apparently they refuse to let go of that part of their lives. i&#39;m all for things not to be too serious but if popularity and attention is what they constantly seek. i&#39;ve given up&#160;trying to complain&#160;to&#160;the admin office.&#160;all&#160;they&#160;do is send&#160;out useless notices and only after&#160;so many&#160;complaints.&#160;and&#160;the loudmouths often ignore such things and make&#160;things even&#160;worse just to spite me. how&#160;do&#160;i know&#160;these&#160;things? because there&#160;is also no&#160;real sense&#160;of confidentiality&#160;either, but&#160;that&#39;s&#160;another&#160;thing&#160;altogether... the worst part of it all, i&#39;ve become&#160;something of&#160;a pariah in the office&#160;for making such a complaint and i&#39;ve been flat out labelled a &quot;special child&quot;.&#160;those very same people said it out loud for me to hear. yes, like&#160;in&#160;the mentally&#160;challenged sense... funny stuff.                              </p>   <p style="clear:both;">    
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        <title>don&#39;t matter where you&#39;re from. a jerk is still a jerk.</title>   
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        <p><span style="font-size: 0.80em">for as long as i can remember, i have always wanted to have a place of my </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">own.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> this </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">november</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">, roughly 17 years on, i finally got my chance and took </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">it.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> late bloomer, yeah i know </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">haha</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">.  still i think </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">i&#39;ve</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> been prepared for it mentally, at least i thought i was.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 0.80em">	until the neighbors from hell made their presence known...</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">a bit dramatic yeah, but you might say the same thing if you had to put up with the same </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">thing.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> true enough this doesn&#39;t happen every day but it happens often, if </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">i&#39;m</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> lucky, at most three times a </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">week.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> blasting their music to the point that i could clearly hear the words to some dance version of la </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">isla</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">bonita.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> this happened today, by the </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">way.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> i know that was the name of the song because that&#39;s how loud it was, loud enough to hear the lyrics pretty clearly and those words going on and </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">on.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> usually its some generic </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">techno</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> thing, either way they play their music way too loud and sometimes at the worst times, once they did that at 3 </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">a.m.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">i&#160;say&#160;they&#160;because </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">the&#160;guy&#160;had&#160;his&#160;own&#160;apartment,&#160;same&#160;building,&#160;then&#160;got&#160;together&#160;with&#160;his&#160;current&#160;girl&#160;and&#160;moved&#160;into&#160;her&#160;place,&#160;about&#160;the&#160;time&#160;the&#160;noise&#160;problems&#160;started,&#160;according&#160;to&#160;the&#160;landlord. </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">it&#39;s bad enough that the walls are not that thick or soundproofed at all, the neighbors always have to talk loudly and more so when they fight or have friends </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">over.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> whoever says i can get out of the situation easily enough obviously </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">hasn&#39;t</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> rented an apartment </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">before.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> there is still the matter of the deposit and in this case is worth three months </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">rent.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> hard earned money that&#39;s not so easily </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">replaced.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> and so far the complaining to the landlord has done pretty much </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">squat.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> they listened to him for a week before going back to their old </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">ways.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> well not really, they&#39;ve&#160;gotten i </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">worse.&#160;</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">a simple bang on the wall used to get them to turn down the volume, now they only turn it up to spite </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">me.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> its enough to drive a person insane, to have to try to put up with something like this.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 0.80em">	...so much for contractual stipulations and building rules.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: 0.80em">or maybe there really is some sort of leniency on those rules that is being practiced here by the landlord, who </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">dont</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> get me wrong seems like an okay </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">guy.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> but the neighbor being a foreigner must get him some sort of preferential treatment or that&#39;s the way it seems until a change is actually </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">made.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> i cant say if things will turn out well for him or </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">myself.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> keeping my anger and irritation in check is getting harder by the </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">incident.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> as for the neighbor, he and his buddies fancy themselves bad boy party animals or </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">something.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> they even went so far as to blast their music in the parking lot once, standing in a circle and talking ever so </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">loudly.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">i&#39;m</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> not sure if the people in the houses right across or even the other tenants in the building made </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">complaints.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> who exactly were they trying to impress there, themselves? don&#39;t know, don&#39;t </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">care.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> but their attitudes speak </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">volumes.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> they think they can do whatever they want and no one can stop </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">them.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> so who&#39;s to say what they might do themselves to retaliate for something as simple as a complaint.</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">	so in the unlikely event that there is some sort of divine intervention or a truly kind heart helps me out and covers for the deposit as well as a month or two worth of rent, </span><span style="font-size: 0.80em">i&#39;m</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"> stuck here for five more months...</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 0.80em">	till then,</span><span style="font-size: 0.80em"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 0.80em">		&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;let the madness continue...</span><br /></div></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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        <title>4/4/2008 2:26:01 AM</title>   
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        <p><span style="font-size: 0.8em;">not&#160;one&#160;with&#160;much&#160;to&#160;do&#160;with&#160;words,&#160;why&#160;start&#160;a&#160;blog?&#160;<br />why&#160;else&#160;do&#160;people&#160;do&#160;it,&#160;to&#160;share&#160;a&#160;thought,&#160;an&#160;idea,&#160;experience&#160;or&#160;maybe&#160;simply&#160;to&#160;show&#160;something...<br />&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;for&#160;a&#160;start&#160;here&#39;s&#160;something&#160;that&#160;i&#39;d&#160;really&#160;appreciate&#160;if&#160;you&#160;took&#160;a&#160;looksee</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; http://ryanan.deviantart.com/</p><p>not as&#160;good&#160;as&#160;others,&#160;but&#160;my&#160;work&#160;nonetheless.&#160;drop&#160;a&#160;line&#160;or&#160;three&#160;if&#160;you&#160;feel&#160;like&#160;it&#160;and&#160;thanks&#160;in&#160;advance.</span> <br /></p>   <p style="clear:both;"> 
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