Nate D

I have a pretty broad (but borderline useless) skill set, but I don't know if any of it is really going to help me. I've been told I'm a good musician, and I'm a pretty technical self-taught multi-instrumentalist. I have also taught a few people how to play, but I don't know if a career in music is a smart choice. I thought about being a teacher, music journalist or an instrument shop owner, but I'm not very sure how to get into those fields of work. And I don't want to monetize my music because I don't like that idea, and I don't think I could make it anyway.

I have some culinary skills, but nothing that can get me past working at a Diner or cooking for my family. Occasionally, I do like to try my hand at woodwork; I once turned a dresser into a wall unit. Also, I'm a pretty organized person (I theorize that I may have OCD) my mom once suggested that I do something in the area of organization. I thought about being a fire-fighter before, but I'm not sure if I can go through that.

Mainly, I want to do something where I can give back, and still make a living, but it has to be something I can enjoy. And I don't really want to do just one thing with my life, I want a career that can help me pursue my hobbies.

Basically, I want a solid base that can help me branch off into my other interest as well.

We don't know each other that well. We just have a lot of the same friends. Anyway, I always thought she was amazingly attractive, but I never liked her that much. She told one of my friends she had a boyfriend, then later, we found out that she didn't. Plus, I'm kind of interested in meeting someone new anyway, I'm not really attracted to any of the girls I know already. Being that it is summer time, I don't see her that much. I ran into her once, when she was hanging with one of my female friends. The thing that's bugging me is that I keep thinking about her, when I hardly know her. And I'm not sure if I like her because I'm interested in getting to know her, or just trying to rush things because more and more of my friends are getting into relationships. What do you guys think? And any advice on how to handle it?

Somewhere where artists/musicians and poets can share their work. Something less popular than DeviantArt (which doesn't even support the music community) and less snarky than Ultimate-Guitar. Does one exist?

Or is it overrated like The Dark Knight was

Let me start this off by saying I'm major geek. I watched all 10 seasons of Smallville, I love Psych, I have the complete series of Avengers: EMH and X-men: Evolution, a rather large collection of comic books, several sci-fi novels including Star Wars: Planet of Twilight, not to mention all 6 Star Wars films, and Superman I-IV, and I know exactly what System 32 is, so it's not that I don't get the show. It's more that I don't see the appeal. BBT, is one of the lamest shows I've ever watched. The jokes are predictable, I don't care a bit for the characters, the plots are uninteresting. The last episode I saw was the one where they were on an Amtrak, and I didn't laugh once. And I see captioned screen caps of the episodes all over Facebook and Twitter but none of them are funny. Is it all the pop culture references that gets people interested? Certainly it can't be the jokes, plots and characters.

There's this girl I think is absolutely beautiful. We've been going to the same school for 3 years and I haven't talked to her once, however. And we do have a few mutual friends, so she can't be too bad.

She used to be fun. She's a Facebook addict, and hardly goes outside. She pretty much lives there. After school, the rest of my friends and I (even the girls) usually travel places and hang out, like yesterday, we all went to Central Park (We all live in NYC) and she just went home, and spent all Friday night on Facebook. And whenever we have a conversation I find myself struggling to stay interested. On Thursday, she honestly spent the bus ride home listing her favorite kinds of beans. It's almost as if talking to her is like talking to a little kid who just learned a new word. I tried inviting her to go places, but she always flakes at the last minute. And I tried meeting her in the middle and talking over Facebook, but she's boring there too, all she does is text "lol :p" and then scrambles her fingers across the keyboard and sends something like "adfsdsdsrfssdfs". And then she gets upset when she loses my attention. Like I can have a deep conversation with one of my friends, and she'll interrupt us, say something like "I'm hungry" or "I'm tired" and nothing else. And on the rare occasion she has anything relatively interesting to say, all she does is talk about TV. Honestly, we haven't had a full interesting conversation since like November. And her best friend is her neighbor, but they hardly ever see each other. Her neighbor is even more socially active than me. Only uses Facebook once every 3 months. But my friend complains because her neighbor won't visit her, but that's because she invites her out, but she decides to stay home. How am I supposed to stay socially interested if she's just that boring?

My neice spilled some hot tea on my laptop and it spilled into my keyboard. Yesterday night, the "e" key, wasn't working, but today it's fine.

Currently, my g,h,q,w, comma, and none of the number keys except for 5 and 6 work. I'm having to use the virtual keyboard to type.

I'm in love with my best friend, a typical Twilight/BVB fan. Me and her have been close for 2 years and I've never been able to get over her. I've dated 3 girls since I've known her, and I've been asked out by one of her friends, but I never could stop thinking about her. There's just this thing about her. Whenever I look into her eyes and I see the green, the patches of grey and the gold ring arouns her pupils, I feel strong and exposed, and I feel like I'm floating almost. Thinking about her eyes just makes me catch butterflies. But the thing is, I don't like expressing my emotions to her, because she has a boyfriend. Thing is she's never met him; he lives in another state and he's a grown man. Her parents don't know about him either and her friends don't like approve. In fact, they wanted us together. But I back off because I know he exist. I never take her out. I never confide in her and I don't go to her house when she invites me anymore. I only hang if we're in a group. It's obvious things between them aren't going to last anyway. She's proven she's a bad judge of character. She assumed my 5'10, 170 pound man-whore friend she met over Facebook was a 5'1, 90 pound Yugioh enthusiast. And now she hates him because he "wasn't the guy [she] thought he was."

Most of her friends don't talk to her as much, and in her words I'm "the only one who cares". But, things have been pretty awkward lately. Fact is, I don't think of her in a sexual way. In fact, I tried, and I ended up laughing at the thought of her stripping for me. She's beautiful and has a nice figure, but she's not "sexual", which I prefer honestly. I always imagine us in a park, sitting under a tree and watching a lake during the sunset. But I digress, she's been acting immature lately. After I told her how I felt, she told me she didn't know if we would work out and I told her we should set up some distance, which she refused at first, but i got her to agree. And we don't talk as much anymore.

For the first time I've failed all of my major classes. I'm an AP student, I scored pretty well on my PSAT and so far I've passed all the required regents, but lately I don't see the point. I don't care about grades like I used to. I can't pay attention in class because I'm always in deep thought about something else. Everyone tells me about college as if to motivate me, but honestly I have no college (or life) plans. As a kid I wanted to be an Author, and then a comic book Artist, and then I wanted to be a professional Bassist and start my own Bass program. I don't really believe I can do "anything I want to" anymore, because honestly, I don't think I'm good enough for anything, and I feel like I'm wasting my time, preparing for a future that, in my opinion, isn't so bright. Lately I've felt pretty low, I keep having suicidal thoughts, because I don't think I'm ever going to be a success.

If I talk to or stare at or compliment another girl she calls them a whore or something like that (and they never are) and tries to steal my attention or she'll join the convo and make the girl leave. And if I even mention a girl I'm attracted to she gets quiet and tries to change the subject. But I don't get it. She has a boyfriend. And she doesn't do this with any other guy friends just me.

Sorry for the repost but I really need a second opinion

I'm starting to feel like our friendship is ending and I'm wondering if I we ever had a true friendship at all. It just seems like whatever friendship we had was just because they had no one else to turn too, I've had their back for nearly 3 years I stood by them through their toughest times, and whenever I need them they're not there for me. It seems like they only care about a few people in their life and I'm not one of them, I'm just that guy who's good for comfort and conversation, other than that I might as well be a stranger. I've been on the wrong side of a friendship like this before and I'd rather avoid it this time (honestly I'm still a little f*cked from that one)

CM Punk is a good technical wrestler, but he is NOT the best in the world, there are about 20 others we could say are (Undertaker Goldberg, HHH etc.). His wrestling matches are as repetitive as Cena's. Other than his ability to shock the millions by stating the obvious, there's not so much to this WWE Champion. He's entertaining at most, but not the best. And the whole pipe bomb concept isn't even original, it's just Stone Cold's theme (without the red neck aspect) with a name. But it's not even special anymore, it's not like it's controversial like before. Vince and WWE profit off of his pipe-bombs, people watch just to see him rant. It's just another house show attraction. I really don't get how or why people want him to face The Rock either that's only good for storyline, but I imagine that as a landslide victory for The Rock.

Seriously he's not that good. BVB was never a favorite of mine but they definitely suck now more than ever. What ever happened to good frontmen like Dave Mustaine, James Hetfield, even Ozzy (if you don't know those three but know Andy Sixx....**** you)

I hate that stupid feeling I get when Facebook tells me she read the message but she still takes 5 hours to reply. Frankly I hate replying quickly to late messages because I feel wierd and vulnerable because I replied faster, but at the same time I hate ignoring a text because that's a ***** thing to do. And I'm trying not to be a little ***** about this. What should I do?

I hate that stupid feeling I get when Facebook tells me she read the message but she still takes 5 hours to reply. Frankly I hate replying quickly to late messages because I feel wierd and vulnerable because I replied faster, but at the same time I hate ignoring a text because that's a ***** thing to do. And I'm trying not to be a little ***** about this. What should I do?

She's too dependant on him. He's immature for his age, 21, and for some reason believes he's a kid. She's 16, and sees the world from a pretty immature perspective. She has this unrealistic belief he will come over to her home (they've also never met in person) and sweep her off her feet and away from her family (nice people, but she takes them for granted), when the thousands of times he's promised to, he doesn't. He's not exactly in a good position either, he can't even take care of himself and he promises to take care of her. Point is she's going to be damaged in the end, she was hurt bad enough when she found out he cheated on her, then he even accused the girl he cheated with of being some sort of evil mastermind who tricked him into cheating (she believed him by the way -_-). Also she claims without him she'd be anti-social and suicidal. She's been suicidal before, I don't want to see that happen again. And she needs to reconcile with her family. They don't even know she's with this guy.

Just broke the E on my 4-string bass while tuning it. The only spares I have right now are G and D, D being the closest to.