What Are You Thinking? Continued 14

[cocokittysurprise]

From my sister and the wives of some of our friends. If I remember correctly they all went to SoCal schools.

Boosters are some of the most entitled folks I've had the displeasure of encountering. Especially if you go to a large D1 school.

 

[AllAmericanMale]

Boosters are some of the most entitled folks I've had the displeasure of encountering. Especially if you go to a large D1 school.

I can believe that

 

[HopefulRetirement]

Boosters are some of the most entitled folks I've had the displeasure of encountering. Especially if you go to a large D1 school.

I have no experience with this. I used military benefits while in the service to get my degrees and licenses. Traditional school? I can't.

 

[AllAmericanMale]

I wonder if NIL deals will have any affect on boosters. Make them worse or make them obsolete.

 

[cocokittysurprise]

I have no experience with this. I used military benefits while in the service to get my degrees and licenses. Traditional school? I can't.

Most folks aren't going to, really, unless they're an athlete, work for the athletic department, or run in those circles/hang out with athletes. I was 2/3, so I've seen/heard some things

 

[cocokittysurprise]

I wonder if NIL deals will have any affect on boosters. Make them worse or make them obsolete.

I'm a "friend of a friend" with an athletic director; their influence has dwindled significantly in regards to the big name athletes.... they generally aren't going to be able to "out money" a corporation, unless you're talking about the big money donors like the Pickens family (Oklahoma State).

The connections built are still beneficial for the ones that don't really have a chance to/plan on going pro.

 

[AllAmericanMale]

I'm a "friend of a friend" with an athletic director; their influence has dwindled significantly in regards to the big name athletes, but the connections built are still beneficial for the ones that don't really have a chance to/plan on going pro.

Sounds about right. Still not onboard with the NIL thing myself, but i get it.

 

[cocokittysurprise]

Sounds about right. Still not onboard with the NIL thing myself, but i get it.

I'm for it.

Those kids (and all the merch with their faces/names/likeness, etc.) are helping to bring in multiples of millions of dollars to some of these programs, and the restrictions placed on students athletes, particularly in regards to work limitations prior to the NIL talks, seemed patently unfair to me.

You can profit off my likeness, but I can't work more than 5-10 hours a week during the season (including pre-season)? Sounds sus, but okay.

 

[AllAmericanMale]

I'm for it.

Those kids (and all the merch with their faces/names/likeness, etc.) are helping to bring in multiples of millions of dollars to some of these programs, and the restrictions placed on students athletes, particularly in regards to work limitations prior to the NIL talks, seemed patently unfair to me.

You can profit off my likeness, but I can't work more than 5-10 hours a week during the season (including pre-season)? Sounds sus, but okay.

Fair points. Their scholarships have a monetary value though. It is costing the school millions of dollars worth of free tuition and room and board to make these offers to the student athletes.

Most college athletes, especially at D1 schools, are on scholarship. There's also an intrinsic value in the degree with regard to career advancement after graduation for those that don't go pro.

The NCAA has some kinks to work out with NIL yet. They've gone from one extreme (not allowed to pay athletes) to the other (what's going on now with transfers and things. Highest bidder scenario).

 

[AmberLGreen]

I am not working this week so why do I keep waking up so early

 

[Mo_Bandy]

I thought the goal was to f all of Lit?

I am almost there.

 

[ericalauren]

I don't know if they are considered crafting, per se, but in my spare time, I'm either brushing up on my sewing skills (so I can create outfits for my cat niece) or making soap.

That’s so neat!

 

[questquilya]

Fair points. Their scholarships have a monetary value though. It is costing the school millions of dollars worth of free tuition and room and board to make these offers to the student athletes.

Most college athletes, especially at D1 schools, are on scholarship. There's also an intrinsic value in the degree with regard to career advancement after graduation for those that don't go pro.

The NCAA has some kinks to work out with NIL yet. They've gone from one extreme (not allowed to pay athletes) to the other (what's going on now with transfers and things. Highest bidder scenario).

I'm all for NIL. Tuition and scholarships? Peanuts. Value of a college degree in a country that has been devaluing education? Student athletes are modern-day gladiators. Offered the promise a life out of poverty and debt for themselves and their family in exchange for generating hundreds of millions of dollars each year and helping keep the populace distracted through the so-called circenses of higher education while the latter has been made unaffordable. Effectively trying to buy themselves out of economic slavery. NIL is the least that could be given them while they have a shot at benefiting from it.

 

[Abeona1]

I'm thinking I'm still quite cross at being pulled up for entering a thread at the wrong time - see WWTLT.
Some times tech can be confusing and as you go to answer something Someone else gets there before you

No still cross on someone else behalf but it's also happened to me

 

[Carmina24]

The Ruin in His Kneeling

Yes, he kneels for me. But the meaning runs deeper than the act of submission. His knees touch the ground not because he is lesser - but because he trusts me to strip him bare and build him again.

Yes, my name is branded on his body. But that mark is more than ownership. It is a warning and a promise. A scar that says: he is mine to protect, mine to destroy, mine to resurrect.

To lead is not to take.
To command is not to consume.
To be a Domme - at least as I live it - is to cradle his surrender in one hand and press my hunger into his skin with the other.

He gives me his surrender, and I give him my responsibility.
He gives me his obedience, and I give him my hunger.
He gives me his heart, and I give him mine - fierce, relentless, unmerciful in its devotion.

And so when he kneels, the world may see submission -
but what I see is a man quivering in the heat of my gaze,
aching for the graze of my nails,
burning for the drag of my lips,
a man undone, ruined, and remade in the fire of my touch.

(Reposted from The Art of Getting Lit Laid)

 

[EvaLane]

Questions, so many questions.

Like why do Great Blue Herons (safe wiki link) stand in the water for so long??

I wonder if there are binoculars here?

Should I attempt a Walmart trip? Maybe a walk around town?

Breakfast? Coffee? Should I cancel my spa day and hide where it’s safe?

 

[dkak001]

Questions, so many questions.

I can help!

Like why do Great Blue Herons (safe wiki link) stand in the water for so long??

Because they're fishing.

I wonder if there are binoculars here?

Probably somewhere.

Should I attempt a Walmart trip? Maybe a walk around town?

Absolutely, the walk will unwind the stress the Walmart trip creates!

Breakfast? Coffee? Should I cancel my spa day and hide where it’s safe?

Yes to both, no to canceling the spa.


So, why exactly does the Walmart logo look like a puckered butt hole?
Is it that bad you need to advertise that you'll clamp right up when in the place???

 

[AmberLGreen]

I am almost there.

I hope you aren’t doing it alphabetically because if you are then I may have missed my chance for some prime Mo dick

 

[LaisDeMarieDeFrance]

Why do we stay in situations that make us miserable? The last year I held onto something that took me so deep into depression that I thought about suicide. Actually had pills in my hand, but thank God I put them away and thought about my family, specifically what it would do to my Dad. After working through the pain and rage, I am so much happier. I'm not sobbing everyday, my marriage is so much better, and I'm beginning to not feel disposable anymore. Still a lot of healing to do and I will probably never trust my heart to anyone again, but I'm actually beginning to enjoy life again.

Last week someone I went to church with for decades hung herself. Her son found her days later. Everyone kept saying how she was so sweet and how she always had a smile on her face. Nobody has a clue why she did it. They all feel guilty, like they should have known something was hurting her and should have done more.

You never know what someone is struggling with so I/we need to always default to kindness. If they annoy you, put them on ignore. If you think they're talking about you, put them on ignore. If everything they post irritates you or makes you feel guilty, put them on ignore. Don't make their life worse. Don't be that asshole.

If you currently feel hopeless, please reach out to someone. Seek help. A few dear friends here have been so supportive and listened to me time and time again. Without their true, present, always listening love, I might not be here today.

 

[munch2much]

Why do we stay in situations that make us miserable? The last year I held onto something that took me so deep into depression that I thought about suicide. Actually had pills in my hand, but thank God I put them away and thought about my family, specifically what it would do to my Dad. After working through the pain and rage, I am so much happier. I'm not sobbing everyday, my marriage is so much better, and I'm beginning to not feel disposable anymore. Still a lot of healing to do and I will probably never trust my heart to anyone again, but I'm actually beginning to enjoy life again.

Last week someone I went to church with for decades hung herself. Her son found her days later. Everyone kept saying how she was so sweet and how she always had a smile on her face. Nobody has a clue why she did it. They all feel guilty, like they should have known something was hurting her and should have done more.

You never know what someone is struggling with so I/we need to always default to kindness. If they annoy you, put them on ignore. If you think they're talking about you, put them on ignore. If everything they post irritates you or makes you feel guilty, put them on ignore. Don't make their life worse. Don't be that asshole.

If you currently feel hopeless, please reach out to someone. Seek help. A few dear friends here have been so supportive and listened to me time and time again. Without their true, present, always listening love, I might not be here today.

I’m sure it took a lot to write that. It’s very moving and I’m sure will help someone who reads it and feeling the same way

 

[cheekygirl75]

Why do we stay in situations that make us miserable? The last year I held onto something that took me so deep into depression that I thought about suicide. Actually had pills in my hand, but thank God I put them away and thought about my family, specifically what it would do to my Dad. After working through the pain and rage, I am so much happier. I'm not sobbing everyday, my marriage is so much better, and I'm beginning to not feel disposable anymore. Still a lot of healing to do and I will probably never trust my heart to anyone again, but I'm actually beginning to enjoy life again.

Last week someone I went to church with for decades hung herself. Her son found her days later. Everyone kept saying how she was so sweet and how she always had a smile on her face. Nobody has a clue why she did it. They all feel guilty, like they should have known something was hurting her and should have done more.

You never know what someone is struggling with so I/we need to always default to kindness. If they annoy you, put them on ignore. If you think they're talking about you, put them on ignore. If everything they post irritates you or makes you feel guilty, put them on ignore. Don't make their life worse. Don't be that asshole.

If you currently feel hopeless, please reach out to someone. Seek help. A few dear friends here have been so supportive and listened to me time and time again. Without their true, present, always listening love, I might not be here today.

 

[Mrtenant]

My hairy man-boobs don't make a very attractive cleavage and are not likely to get me out of a traffic ticket.

 

[AmberLGreen]

Why do we stay in situations that make us miserable? The last year I held onto something that took me so deep into depression that I thought about suicide. Actually had pills in my hand, but thank God I put them away and thought about my family, specifically what it would do to my Dad. After working through the pain and rage, I am so much happier. I'm not sobbing everyday, my marriage is so much better, and I'm beginning to not feel disposable anymore. Still a lot of healing to do and I will probably never trust my heart to anyone again, but I'm actually beginning to enjoy life again.

Last week someone I went to church with for decades hung herself. Her son found her days later. Everyone kept saying how she was so sweet and how she always had a smile on her face. Nobody has a clue why she did it. They all feel guilty, like they should have known something was hurting her and should have done more.

You never know what someone is struggling with so I/we need to always default to kindness. If they annoy you, put them on ignore. If you think they're talking about you, put them on ignore. If everything they post irritates you or makes you feel guilty, put them on ignore. Don't make their life worse. Don't be that asshole.

If you currently feel hopeless, please reach out to someone. Seek help. A few dear friends here have been so supportive and listened to me time and time again. Without their true, present, always listening love, I might not be here today.

This is heartbreaking

I am so pleased you had people that gave you the love and support you needed

A smile often masks a world of pain, anxiety and depression. I don’t always appear to be friendly or approachable but I am a good listener, without judgement and with discretion so I would say to anybody here who gets to this point in their life, please reach out. Everybody needs support from time to time

 

[LostHorizon]

Who is Robert anyway, and why does he get to make all the rules?

 

[Xerxes82]

You never know what someone is struggling with so I/we need to always default to kindness. If they annoy you, put them on ignore. If you think they're talking about you, put them on ignore. If everything they post irritates you or makes you feel guilty, put them on ignore. Don't make their life worse. Don't be that asshole.

If you currently feel hopeless, please reach out to someone. Seek help. A few dear friends here have been so supportive and listened to me time and time again. Without their true, present, always listening love, I might not be here today.

This is good stuff.

Funny, I was content to be a lurker. I was never going to post here again, I learned that lesson. But this is too important not to comment on. When last I was here, I was in such a dark place that I was a danger to myself. There were a lot of reasons for that, but I very much felt like I had no place to turn or any help I could rely on. It was actually a post here that was just about the last straw for me, because this was the place I could use to vent and get out the intrusive thoughts. When that was taken from me, I didn't know what I was going to do. But I got myself professional assistance and got through the ugliest of times.

Listen to Marie's wisdom, folks. She's wise. And she'll shank you if you don't!