I like my best guy friend here, who has a girlfriend somewhere far away. I think he's really cool for many reasons and I can identify with him better than most here, but truthfully I think I like him most out of convenience and lack of someone better in my life at the moment. I should get over him, because we're just not going to happen (though if he didn't have a girlfriend we totally would... Is it bad that we're flirty enough that I can tell that?). But honestly, I don't really want to get over him. It's so much more fun and easier to keep hoping that "someday, maybe..."

Anonymous
3/01/2009
11:00:00 PM

It's a fairly surreal story -- my ex-lover sends me a postcard, I write back, my reply is found by a drifter who starts writing to me fan letters, calling me thought-provoking and "a very solid and legit young woman."

We've been carrying on this odd correspondence for a while now, and I enjoy having a reason to check the mail, and while I'm thinking about M. I can't be worrying about J. who was doing so well for so long until he nearly killed himself with poisonous mushrooms.

Sometimes I even think I'm not in love with him anymore.

I've been spending my time flirting by letter, doing what I can to avoid thinking about him, reading the books that M. recommends, digging up CDs of M.'s favorite music, saving my money to leave home although at the moment I have nowhere specific to go. I'm rebuilding a life out of secondhand cassette tapes and fifty-dollar bills. For now that's almost enough.

M. took a photograph of J. when they were staying at the same house for a few days. I found it partly by accident, and he looks so sick.

It's a new year, and I've already done so much to put the past in its place, but for now I have to pause and raise my glass to missed opportunities.


Anonymous
1/05/2009
11:04:00 PM

I know you were hitting on me all night but I ignored it.

I feel sorry for you, because I went through exactly the same thing after I broke up with my boyfriend--trying to find the next living, breathing human to fill that void.

Because things will not work out between us as a couple and I like you too much to let a two-week Christmas hookup come between our friendship.

So (I think) it's for your own good that I pushed your hand away and turned to kiss you on the cheek.

Please let this not be weird. You're the closest thing I have to a brother.


Anonymous
01:14:59 AM
12/28/2008

I have never been attracted to another girl until now.

We smoke cigarettes together and weed whenever one of us has any. We've drank together. She's the only girl I've ever had sexual thoughts about. And god, I want her so badly sometimes. We get into deep conversations, revealing things we've never told to anyone else, sharing our fears and our dreams with each other. We connect on the deepest levels on the deepest subjects. And I might let all this go except sometimes I get the feeling that she feels some attraction towards me too. I think about wanting to kiss her when we have sleepovers together. I honestly would like to let this go, but I can't when she asks me to come sleep on the couch with her at sleepovers with our friends or when she tells me I look good and almost flirts with me in inconspicuous ways. It gets exhausting sometimes not acting on what I feel. I'd like to kiss her just once to see if there really is anything there.


Anonymous
05:09:00 PM
12/20/2008

This guy and I have been kind of "seeing" each other over the past few weeks and it's getting kind of official. I've been really wary of labeling "dating" or "boyfriend/girlfriend" though that's what it's growing closer and closer to. So he's an amazing guy and everything but yesterday he wanted me to meet his best friend. His best friend is way more attractive, has the exact same interests as me, has the same sense of humor as me and has a slight romantic interest in me. I know this sounds terrible, but his best friend is such a better match for me that he is and we flirted really hardcore yesterday.

Oh no! What do I do?


Anonymous
12:54:00 PM
12/19/2008

How do I trust my boyfriend? He's done nothing to make me feel like I can't trust him, but he's just so fricken friendly that girls think he's flirting. How do I stop this stupid insecurity? Please help!


Anonymous
03:04:00 PM
8/06/2008

how do you define flirting?


Anonymous
10:11:00 PM

damn it why do you keep looking at me like that and flirting with me and such are you interested or not. You seem so random yet oddly attractive to me.
-confused guy


Anonymous
10:31:00 PM

how far is too far when flirting with a guy friend who has a girlfriend? i don't like him like that, it's just fun. but i don't know how much his girlfriend would like it.


Anonymous
08:37:00 PM

I don't know if you like me or not. I can't tell if you're flirting, or just playing. So I'll wait, and if you ask me, I'll know you're serious. If you don't, I'll know that you just like to waste my time.
But I won't ask. Even though girls ask boys all the time.
I'll wait.


Anonymous
08:44:00 PM

I'm single. I've been single for several months. I'm probably going to prom single. In all likelihood, I'll be single for the remainder of my senior year.

It fails to bother me. Flirtation ftw.


Anonymous
08:44:33 PM

Why am I so sad school is canceled?

Because my dad took MY car because its four-wheel drive and because I was going to drive you home. I washed with vanilla just for you.


Anonymous
07:50:12 AM

there are two guys that i'm kind of sort of interested in.... one of them is a slightly stick situation and the other is as old as my sister. and he's a freshman in college (but lives here).
and then all of a sudden random people that i liked before or even never liked at all have started flirting with me [again].... what the fuck?!?!

why are there so many boys?? and what do i do?!


Anonymous
03:06:20 AM

timing is everything...

me and my shyness and not trying not to come on too strong...

you and your shyness and ex girlfriend...

us..waiting on one another to make the first move...

we were listening to the same song but...you were listening to the trumpet while i was dancing to the flutes...













the one you forgot about...love you..


Anonymous
03:08:22 PM

I'm happy that my boyfriend isn't coming to my party. It gives me time to flirt with more interesting people.


Anonymous
11:58:06 PM

I had the most amazing dream last night. In the dream, I was dating what's his face, as I am in real life, and I was completely bored with him, also as I am in real life. You and I were flirting outside the west building in the freezing cold when you pulled me close to you and, in a characteristically awkward way, professed your love for me. It was beautiful. Even in my dream I had to stop myself from kissing your right then and there. Oh god, it was amazing.

I know it's terrible of me to want you so badly, especially when I already have "him". I just can't stop thinking about you. I stayed up until 4 in the morning last night to watch your favorite show just because it reminded me of you.

I know it sounds cheesy, but hope dreams come true.


Anonymous
11:39:02 AM

sure,i'll let you have my # its 1-800-get-a-life really its 1-800-s-t-a-l-k-e-r or for numerical digits 1-800-782-5537... ok everyone pull out your cell phones 7825537 spells stalker.

i wish i had the guts to do this to you.


Anonymous
12:52:48 AM

I've told both of them that I like him and asked them both to stop flirting with him.

They won't stop and they say they aren't flirting but they are constantly all over him and I'm jealous and I shouldn't be

They're a junior and a sophmore and he spends lunch with me everyday almost. I just wish I knew how he felt


Anonymous
10:33:35 PM

If they aren't talking to each other... and she would rather flirt with other boys right in front of his face... why don't they fucking break up already?


Anonymous
05:46:57 PM

there's this guy that sits next to me in one of my classes, and he's pretty cute... the whole school year we've had this friendly flirting-joking sort of relationship... and i know he has a girlfriend, but he doesn't really talk about her that much. and hes SO nice, and just a wonderful guy. well just today i realized that he kind of might be into me and that he isn't necessarily joking around... he actually is flirting.
and then he was talking about how he got out of this meeting early so he went to go hang out with his gf and i asked what they did, and then said "wait do i not wanna know?" and he said,
"oh no, we didn't do anything. we never do. yeah, the relationship's pretty lame."

and then continued to flirt with me.

what do i DO? what does this MEAN?!?!
ahhhhhhh.


Anonymous
10:12:45 PM