I think that my textophobia towards velvet/velour is getting worse.  My roommate has a velour robe that she hangs on the hook at the back of the bathroom door.  I have been throwing up lately every time I go into the bathroom right after I see the robe.  I started having a panic attack the last time I went into the bathroom over the robe, so I took it down with oven mitts on my hands and threw it in her room.  I think touching it ever so slightly as I left the room and entered it made it worse.  Maybe with it gone I will get better.  I don't understand why it got bad again.  I, well I mean my roommate, hung a velvet painting of mine in the living room that I have owned for a few years and that doesn't bother me.  I bought the painting to help with my fear, but I never have to touch it.  I don't get it.

that is fucked up on a couple different levels man.
i dont have too many phobias. not even common ones like spiders or snakes.

i do have a fear of 2012.

I dont like touching velvet.

Yeah, deer dont like their antlers touched... try touching their balls instead.

I've never heard of this fear! Try telling your roommate about it and maybe she will make sure it's not randomly hanging around the apartment.

i do have a fear of 2012.

I also wonder what will happen in 2012 but I don't fear it.

I'm really scared of those haunted houses on Halloween, but other than that I don;t really have any fears that I can think of.

See you in November!

It's time zoomie knew...I hate feet. It's like the opposite of a fetish.

I will throw up if anyone clips their toenails within my hearing. The sound of the clippers is revolting. I can do my own, but other people's feet are horrible.

This all stems from traumatic childhood events. My grandmother used to make me clip her toenails because she weighed over 300lbs and couldn't reach them. You have no idea how gross that was.

That's hot!

super hot!

I know, right?

I still have to clip my 7 year old's toes, but I have to hold my breath while I do it...I am a trooper...

That's hot!

We're so entertaining. I wonder why new members always leave

I'm afraid of spending the rest of my life working 50 hours a week at a job which I find incredibly boring for 3 weeks of vacation a year.

Man, as regards velvet I'm a textophile.

I'd take one daisymae over 20 of the other simians any day of the week.

I'm afraid of spending the rest of my life working 50 hours a week at a job which I find incredibly boring for 3 weeks of vacation a year.

I dont get your crazy leave provisions... 2 weeks A/L for X number of years service, then 3 week's after X number of years service... That aint civilized!

And that's why I'll be making a career change to high school math or chemistry teacher in a couple of years, after I've gotten my professional engineering & plumbing design licenses.

Emp - I'm a child of two HS teachers. Their advice to me was to bust-ass in the private sector for 10 years and see what you could make if you wanted to be a teacher later in life

I have a totally irrational fear that bad things are going to happen in a day if I wear underwear that's a different color from the shirt I'm in.

Hypercolour undies !

Emp - I'm a child of two HS teachers. Their advice to me was to bust-ass in the private sector for 10 years and see what you could make if you wanted to be a teacher later in life

Well, I'm 1.5 years away from my professional engineering license and 3.6 away from the certified plumbing designer.  I'll have been in private industry for almost 6 years at that point.  I'll have some additional coursework to do along the way, so depending on how I fit that in I could be in private industry for as long as 10 years anyway.

Once I have the license & certification, I'll be able to take private industry work on a contract basis when I do transition to teaching.  So I won't entirely walking away from private industry if I still want to make some extra money - especially since the guys they bring in on a contract basis take home more hourly than the rest of us.

I also might explore whether or not my engineering degree + experience is worth anything outside of the US, too.  I can't see working 50+ hours (since they expect you to work longer with increasing responsibility) 48-49 weeks/year.  I'd like to work <40 hours per week and have more vacation.

See you in November!

Are you taking us to a haunted house full of people wearing velvet?

I'm going to leave you in a padded velvet room with Kyle and a bathtub full of jello

i'm fearful of how much sasha's personality continues to resemble that of my ex-roommate slash ex-best friend. she was irrationally disturbed and literally nauseated by my use of a random smattering of specific words, (two i can remember were 'damp' and 'moist', though not all had to do with wetness),  and i'd regularly come home to a living room devoid of all things green, including my vast array of plants normally seated in the bay window but then moved to the floor of my bedroom, along with books from the bookcase if they had any green on the jacket, etcetera. these things could also be moved to her room, just as long as there was no green in the living room. tough, considering everything in the common areas was my property, and green happens to be my favorite color. had to hang red curtains in the bay window that hung outside the frame in such a way so as to completely protect/hide my plants from view most of the time.

haha that sucks. I have so little sympathy for mental problems.

I also might explore whether or not my engineering degree + experience is worth anything outside of the US, too.

Sorry bud, the rest of the world uses the metric system and their threads are totally different. You're stuck here.

I also might explore whether or not my engineering degree + experience is worth anything outside of the US, too.

Sorry bud, the rest of the world uses the metric system and their threads are totally different. You're stuck here.

They pretty much only teach metric in engineering courses.

It's only out in the "real world" of US engineering firms that people use the bullshit useless system of measure.

Dang.

My greatest fear has been realized ~ my mom dying.

i'm just the opposite about velvet/velour ~ i love the feel of 'em, and lots of other stuff ~ i'm a "toucher" when i go to the store, and Dear tells me that it makes shopping take THREE TIMES as long...  He lies.

haha that sucks. I have so little sympathy for mental problems.

Unfortunately that's the case for most people.  I can empathize with the crazies a little better.

The cameras we've implanted in the eyes of the people around you have made us fully aware of how much you empathize with the crazies.

O_O