Lately I’ve been pissing off my friends and I don’t know why. Sometime last week, something happened to me that caused this bizarre behavior change which has made me 4x more irritable. My friends seem to be mad at me and lately have given me dirty looks. My best friend whom I’ve barely raised my voice with for years, has gotten in shouting matches with me in heated arguments. A girl I’ve been interested in tells me we don’t spend enough time together even though she has a huge summer school load and I have to stay up from 12AM to 3AM just to talk to her on AIM once a day. Recently I’ve been spending more and more time sulking in my room angry and frustrated about the whole thing. I feel that it is something I’m doing if it is affecting so many other people.
Care to elaborate on what this “something happened to me last week” business?
At least that would give your fellow Dopers something to wrestle with.
“Something happened last week” is just a teeny bit too vague.
It could be that you’re not getting enough sleep what with all of those late night AIM conversations.
Haj
The problem is, I don’t know what caused this. But it started last week, and I would presume that it was something then that caused the change.
Who knows. Maybe aliens implanted a device in my brain which has been making me antisocial. I have been having nightmares about crop circles and pod people…yeah that sounds about right
You’ve obviously been watching those previews for M. Night S’s Signs for too long.
I suggest you go out and see Mr. Deeds and that should take all of your troubles away.
Ok, seriously, is there anything that happened to you last week that you think might have flipped a switch?
Incubus
Maybe this is what’s really at the root of it, and is why you are turning into the Grouch Monster with everyone else? Prehaps you’re feeling frustrated with her because she hasn’t realised that you’re trying to do your best in order to talk to her? Is there anyway you two can meet up face to face and talk it out, without it developing into a row? Then do something fun together? Maybe if you tell her how you feel, she can jiggle her schedule and you can be together, thus calm will be restored in the Incubus household? 
Its something I’m working on, but it feels like every choice I make, or every effort I make to try to fix things gets perceived as insincere, or makes things worse.
Lately she’s been telling me we don’t talk enough, or go out and do things enough. For the past three weeks, almost every day, I ask her if she’s free to do anything. She isn’t. For reasons beyond me, she doesn’t plan things, so its moot to ask her ‘lets do ____ next tuesday’.
Another thing I’ve only realized yesterday is that many of my friends are having tough times lately. We’re all going through turmoil one reason or another. They’re not just mad at me, they’re mad at everything right now.
Been diving recently?
It sounds like it sucks. I’ve had years like that.
Incubus. Try inviting her to a specific event. “Hi Becky Rottencrotch, it’s me, Incubus, minor devil. I’m inviting you to see a movie with me this Saturday. It’s called Meg Ryan’s Romantic Comedy, and it starts at the Hellstorm Movieplex at 7:20. I thought I’d pick you up at about quarter till seven. Would you like to go?”
Some of the women folk like to be formally invited to things and not just hang out. Go figger.
If she says no, call up some other girl and ask her.
Add another supporting voice to the “get more sleep,” camp. Sleeping regular does wonders for the general mood. That “sleep is for the weak” idea that infests collegetime is basically an excuse for people to justify being twitchy grumpy assholes.
Also, your friend gets angry because she wants other people to have control over the laws of space and time. It sounds like she’s well on her way to becoming prime management material, so deserves congratulations there–economy needs all the help it can get.
I think you’re stressed out. Try to dial it down a bit…tell the GF you won’t be IMing her for a few days, since you have to recharge your batteries.
Take a weekend (if you can) and pamper Incubus…however one does that (no, I’m not volunteering, but I do open the floor for suggestions…)
Pamper Incubus weekend, I’d suggest sleep, a nice trip to the gym and a bout with a hot tub and new book-for-fun.
And watch yourself, if you keep being grumpy, go get therapy. This sounds disturbingly like what my ex roomate did. He was grumpy, then grumpier, then attacked me and threatend to kill me after I asked him what was going on with the Internet connection.
Bad juju.
So get sleep NOW, don’t hurt people. They will just send you to jail.