How are you inadequate? I know that I can't be the only one, that I can't be the only person who's totally convinced that they can fuck up anything and anybody. So how are you inadequate? Did you never learn to tie a tie? Do you suck at relationships? Are all your friends lawyers and doctors while you're struggling to remember to put your underwear on inside your clothes?

Spill it.

-- Meghan (meghan@blurredlines.com), May 26, 2000

Answers

I don't know if i'm inadequate. Occasionaly I feel that way but that's when I'm not in my usual blah mood. I actually know how to tie a tie from watching my brother do it everyday before school and when I was younger watching my dad do it. Do I suck at realtionships? Assuming it's like girlfriend and boyfriend relationships.......is the Pope Catholic? (yes he is meghan) does my car need to be put out of it's misery? um lemme' think, yeah. My friends are all stoners and alcoholics although some of them could do some damn good things with their lives if they would cut that shit out.

-- kelly mcg (jacksfan30@aol.com), May 26, 2000.

No, dear, you're definitely not the only person who's totally convinced they can fuck anything up. I can't tie ties (not that I wear them), I DEFINITELY suck at relationships, and well...my friends aren't all super-successful but a huge majority of them are graduated from college and/or married. (Compared to little ol' single, academic fuck-up me.) I am exceptionally talented when it comes to fucking up school. Seriously. I keep trying to tell my parents that, after FIVE STRAIGHT YEARS of taking classes, I need a break. No deal. They want me out...NOW. Nevermind that I'm so burned out and stressed that I don't even want to go to classes, which of course leads to me failing and having to spend even more time in school. I fucking hate school.

Yours in fucked-upedness (<-- one of my favorite non-word words), Jenn

-- Jenn (Hockeygirl_68@yahoo.com), May 26, 2000.

I have a tendancy to feel more inadequate when I'm with some people in particular, which I hate. Like, my mother, always makes me feel like I could do better, could do more. Which might be good, I don't know. Or, au contraire, my boyfriend, who makes me feel that I'm the best thing in the world at everything.

But I'm pretty sure I can fuck just about anything up too. Sigh.

-- Anna (bubble@mbox301.swipnet.se), May 26, 2000.

I'm as fucked up as the rest of you!!!! If not more. Let's see...how does this get ya??!! 31 in school for a second AA degree...enough credit hours to probably graduate with a 4 year degree....want to switch majors AGAIN because I feel this isn't what I want to do AGAIN....I mean I can't take myself anymore I am that fucked up!!!! I've been fucking up going to classes since I am too fucking depressed to get my fat ass off the sofa in the morning!!!!

I learned to tie a tie but I've forgotten how since...and everytime I do it looks like some kind of fucked up knot!!!!

Yes, I SUCK at relationships, too!!! I end up picking up every loser and incompetent in town!!! It's like I have a fucking neon sign hanging on my forehead that flashes and says 'ALL LOSERS APPLY HERE!!' I'm fucking serious!!!! And I wasted NINE YEARS in a relationship with an alcoholic!!!!!

And if that wasn't bad enough...I'm in love with this woman who pretty much doesn't give a fuck about me...I don't even know why I'm in love with her...I mean I've been pretty much straight up to this point...I just find her so damned adorable...it's a long boring story..so I'll spare ya the details...But it's kinda ironic...she's like 25 years older than me....so Go Figure....I must be completely fucked up!!!!

Yeah, all my friends have moved to Seattle and our married and have wonderful jobs, blah blah blah....I'm still stuck in the same dead end job I've had for 13 years now! Yeah, I''m a loooossssseeerrrr...I tell you...

Where's my super glue??? Ah. there it is...I'm taking off the top and pouring over the back of my hand....there...I just made my hand into an L shape and have stuck it on my forhead!!!!!!!! lllllllooooooooooossssssssseeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

How's that for being completely inadequate???!!!!!???

~Amber

-- Amber (amber_star_cat@hotmail.com), May 26, 2000.