# I'm so lonely. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 27, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520 "2000-10-27T00:37:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/1 "2000-10-27T00:37:19Z")
My roomate moved out and won’t associate with me anymore. My fiance is in DC and I am in champaign-urbana. I can’t seem to make friends here. Everyone on my floor suspects everyone else of doing something gross in the bathroom, and therefore gives everyone the evil eye. I never have anyone to eat lunch or dinner with. I hate eating alone. The only way to meet people here is to get drunk, and I don’t drink. I have so much homework I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere, anyway. Speaking of homework, I should be writing a paper now. I’ll go now. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/2 "2000-10-27T00:54:45Z")
Try not to let it get you down mate. Don’t stress it and things will work themselves out. How about I hang out with you virtually? * * * If only we had a wheelbarrow ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/3 "2000-10-27T00:57:00Z")
But, relic dear~ How can you be lonely when you have all of us to talk to? And the best thing is, when you want to talk to us, we are here. When you want to be alone, but social, you can lurk. When you need to write a paper and want to be left ALONE alone, none of us will knock on your door. And you don’t need to drink to be social here. The best of all worlds, non? ((((((relic\_11)))))) Scotti ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/4 "2000-10-27T00:59:28Z")
And furthermore, if you are bored, dpr and I will be happy to perform a nice, sedate tango for you. Strike the sedate from that last sentence, okay? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/5 "2000-10-27T01:04:14Z")
and insert the word ‘enthusiastic’ instead… ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/6 "2000-10-27T01:07:12Z")
But I have so much work, I don’t know if I can BE on the boards much! I have, alltogether, 20+ pages of papers to write, _plus_ reading, _plus_ studying. ☹ I’m only a freshman! I’m not used to this!!! My only salvation right now is Jimmy Buffett. Ahhhhhhh. Island music… ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/7 "2000-10-27T01:08:27Z")
Thanks **Scotticher and dpr.** Y’all are dancing sweeties… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/8 "2000-10-27T01:09:33Z")
\ Can you _be_ on the boards much? \ Heheh, I’ll be going now. (Though I’ll be here if you need me.) ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/9 "2000-10-27T01:10:46Z")
Jimmy Buffet? MMmmmmm… cheeseburgers… Well if you’re studying sociology or even some aspects of psych you could do a paper on the social dynamics of net interaction and get each of us to write our own perspectives and then you can just do a bit of linkage and voila!!! _dips scotti_ ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/10 "2000-10-27T01:23:47Z")
But see, relic honey, that is the point! If you are too busy to BE on the board, you don’t have to pay any attention to us. But in the back of your mind, you will always know we are here, just waiting to talk to you. Doesn’t that make you feel less alone? And more loved? And BTW, I am a major Jimmy Buffet fan, also. I saw him in concert once. What a wonderful, crazy NUT! [hijack]:sigh: I have never asked for much in life. Just a gorgeous, intelligent, sensitive, honest man who is enthusiastic about dancing with me. And when I find him, just my luck~he lives half way across the world! Oh well, ya’ gotta take your good luck where you find it[/hijack] [sub]Scotti gracefully falls backward, being dipped in the strong arms of the divine dpr~gripping a rosewithoutthorns in her teeth[/sub] Hey relic, now that we are all pals, you can call me Scotti, okay? Scotticher sounds so FORMAL! ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/11 "2000-10-27T01:24:14Z")
**dpr** I _wish!_ I do have to do a 7 pg soc. paper, but it has to be on a certian book. How 'bout a 10 pg hist. paper on the evoloution of swords in medeveal times? ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/12 "2000-10-27T01:28:20Z")
**Scotti** (:)!), YOU SAW BUFFETT!!! I envy you… Oy! Must write paper! Must unplug internet connection!!! Never get work done otherwise!!! [sub]I feel less lonely now! Me happy![/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/13 "2000-10-27T01:36:11Z")
Hon, not only did I SEE him, but I saw him in my own small town! And I know people who KNOW him personally, so I got to meet him. I live in a college town, so I am sure that had something to do with him coming here. But I also think that the fact that he knew people here was a factor. As has been well established on other threads, I do not do “BIG CITY” well. So it was so wonderful to be able to see someone I really like without driving to Seattle or Vancouver. Not that I don’t like those cities, but I always have to weigh how much I want to see a concert against how much I don’t really want to go to the BIG CITY! I know, I know. I am just a country mouse. [sub]tangoing madly down the floor, stealing a hug along the way from my darling dpr[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/14 "2000-10-27T01:41:16Z")
um… _draws a blank on sword development_ Did I mention I’m a pacifist? But I know a net cartoon strip that mentions mdvl swords a lot… And scotti not only do you dance divinely, you talk very well with a rose between your teeth. Such talents!!! _when no-one’s looking kisses her neck softly then goes back to dancing_ ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/15 "2000-10-27T01:49:46Z")
Scotti softly moans, then swoons gently backwards as dpr dips her again~ “Heaven, I’m in Heaven, and my heart swells so that I can scarcely breathe!..[sub]can’t remember the rest of the words[/sub]when we’re here together dancing cheek to cheek” Fred and Ginger have nothing on us, darlin’! ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/16 "2000-10-27T01:56:47Z")
I’m in more of a Gene Kelly mood atm. Watched Singin’ in the Rain the other night… doo doo doo dododo doo doo doo do ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/17 "2000-10-27T03:08:44Z")
I love Gene Kelly, too. I have to say it, darling, “WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?” And furthermore, why are you not featuring in a major way in my email system? Just wondering, babe, not being critical. Scotti ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/18 "2000-10-27T03:41:27Z")
Swords, dancing…goldarn if this place doesn’t manage to blend it all. Not to worry, **Relic** , life in Shampoo-Banana is life just about life anywhere else. It isn’t a race, and it _sure_ isn’t a drink-off. Of course I’m a nerd from way back, but here’s truth: alone can be strength and comfort. Betcha the frantically popular folk are a million times less confident and happy than they seem. Dining (even on dorm chow) by yourself with a “comfort” book is centered and impressive. Don’t let surfaces fool you: take the experience at your own pace. And listen to Scotti; this place oozes bright, opinionated folks who think you are just damned _fine_ exactly as you are. You have all the time in the world and a buncha sideways, pissant Doper friends at your back. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/19 "2000-10-27T03:48:47Z")
relic, I understand. Freshman year can blow hardcore. It does get better! And meanwhile you have papers and us. (Don’t worry about the papers too much, either you will ace them with minimal effort or you will growl at the people who do. Use commas correctly, spell check, and you’ll be golden. Oh and don’t forget to cite. Most profs are used to freshies with no skills.) Go write your papers, we love you and will patiently await your return. (Meanwhile I think I have a Latin exam calling me… sort of…eventually.) On friends, you’ll find those too, and they won’t ask you to change. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520/20 "2000-10-27T03:51:34Z")
I just have to say~ I Love You, Veb! Scotti [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-so-lonely/38520.md?page=2)