Comments on: Trust me, these kinds of chapters hurt me more than they hurt you.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:44:22 +0000

Nooooooo!

By: warren

warren — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:06:49 +0000

This story has a kind of bittersweet perfection. Maybe if you kissed her it would have all turned out the same way. Absolutely wonderful writing, by the way.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:13:25 +0000

Dude!!! you are breaking my heart:-( You actually managed to make a couple of tears slide down my face…this is so sad in a pathetic sort of way. You’re a brilliant writer by the way:-) i’m loving this!

By: The Blonde Blogshell

The Blonde Blogshell — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:08:07 +0000

Nooooo!!!! Say it’s not true! Say it was a horrible nightmare and that you woke up next to her and she wrapped her arms around you! Awww, C’mon!!
Excellent - just excellent..writing I mean. Not excellent that you threw up in the rain…oh dammit, you know what I mean! :-)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:15:29 +0000

I’m changing my name to Tchaikovsky and writing an overture about this.

You are one of the most consistently brilliant writers I’ve seen on the web. It was agonizing waiting for this entry, as it will be for the next!

By: TheGiftedMonkey

TheGiftedMonkey — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:05:57 +0000

It might have been the alcohol, but if your confidence can sway that much from some stupid comment like that, you don’t deserve her until you can push past all doubt. Confidence is key. Believe in yourself above all else. That is the basis of attraction.

By: Rupert

Rupert — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:28:56 +0000

ahh this is terrible! it happened 4 years ago though, we feel so behind..

otherwise, im going to act like you havent spent some sizable amount of time thinking about these events over the past years and critique you anyway.

cmon man, i think there is, in fact, a name for this sort of thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerence

ah, there. now you know. but seriously, her suitemate?! god, talk about catastrophic.

well, keep it coming, part four should be interesting.

By: MikaP

MikaP — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:44:32 +0000

I have not one but two similar stories of total confidence blow-outs just when the time was finally, FINALLY right… I hope you, at least, learned from your mistake! Can’t wait for more!

By: brandi

brandi — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:03:55 +0000

oh my god! im crying!
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By: KaB

KaB — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:53:03 +0000

‘With tears on my face, I threw up into the grass next to the sidewalk.’ - after reading such a lovely post & then this…at the end…no man! I actually wanted to start laughing…it’s like one of those movie scenes…where everything is just so perfect & then real life happens!

I’m sorry that that all had to happen…is a bugger up…but like you say…you pick yourself, dust off the bollocks & move swiftly along!

Pucker up, smile!

I love the way you write by the by…it’s just fabuluos! I’ll be back for more…

By: Incognito

Incognito — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:40:46 +0000

I remember reading a comment on one of the chapters by one of your RL friends saying you told her “It’s just gonna get better”. I remember thinking there’s no way that could happen and the story is coming to it’s inevitable and possibly anticlimatic end (and I mean that as a compliment - there are few probable satisfying endings to this wonderful romantic-drama).
Thank you for proving me wrong.

By: Reader

Reader — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:25:08 +0000

I want to know when the movie version is coming out! I certainly hope you’re working on the screenplay as we speak and that’s why we have to wait so long in between posts!!

By: girlinyellowdress

girlinyellowdress — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:55:56 +0000

Oh my. I checked your site in hope of an update…and immediately freaked out and screamed for my sis to shut up.
Your writing is absolutely incredible. I mean, you almost made ME cry and that is rather hard to do.
And come on! Her SUITEMATE! Girls are idiots! I am a girl; so I know!
Also, this entire story has given me the guy perspective of these situations. I worry I may have been…or I am…a high school HCE. As in the way I have treated a certain boy.

By: girlinyellowdress

girlinyellowdress — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:04:43 +0000

Oh! Is this in MAY 2003? Cause that’s when she spent a week in your apartment even though she was someone else’s girl. In what month did this entry take place! Oh how I wish it is after May. But it says spring of 2003…and May has the first day of SUMMER in it, doesn’t it? ARGH!!!

By: jesstagirl

jesstagirl — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:31:04 +0000

I’ve been following this for some time and this is the first time you’ve actually made me cry. When’s the book version coming up? This would be the kind of book I wouldn’t be able to put down.

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:29:42 +0000

I was looking forward to the update for so long! It’s a bittersweet moment though. I love reading your writing, but this was so sad. =( If you wrote a book on this, I’m sure you could/would make it big in the publishing biz. Hell, I’d definitely read it. Can’t wait for the next update! Hang in there!

By: impossiblesike

impossiblesike — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:10:41 +0000

thst would leave too amy if’s for my taste. she definately was into you at that moment. She told you not to go. She wanted you there!!! Then again, I’m not the best critic for any relationship.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:56:51 +0000

How sad…: (

By: Savannah

Savannah — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:56:45 +0000

“Hours later, fully drunk and after losing to her in Scrabble enough times to seriously turn me on”

Hot.

By: Seamus

Seamus — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:57:11 +0000

You need a “Have Box of Kleenex Nearby” warning at the top of this blog. This was so sad. Please write more soon, all I want for Xmas is part 4 of this chapter.

By: piglet

piglet — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:20:08 +0000

Ah, sweet pain. I feel ya brother.

By: Heartslam

Heartslam — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:48:52 +0000

Phwoar. I’m sorry for your pain. I love your work.

By: bailey

bailey — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:16:37 +0000

ohmygoodness. I love how fucked up your life is/was. I’m quite glad that your misery is so heartbreakingly entertaining. I’m one of those nerdy, awkward girls that has plenty of well-constructed things to say…but only ends up telling crazy moshing dudes at bars that I think they’re morons. …and then my friends change the subject and get me the hell out of the bar before my smiling, drunken little face gets bashed in.

I am glad that guys like you exist.

By: Cuindless

Cuindless — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:33:55 +0000

Two more chapters and we’re at this part already. This can only end in total tragedy. I do not know you, but I have been you.

By: MarkyMark

MarkyMark — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:24:11 +0000

man… seriously. write the book.

By: Lo

Lo — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:44:06 +0000

I agree… write the book.

By: VzlanReada

VzlanReada — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:24:46 +0000

…1st just wanna apologize for my english in advance… you’ll find mistakes all round it. But I’m not to blame. I’m from Venezuela and just learning English.

Dude, excellent story. not tears..just enjoyed readin it. Sometimes, ur writin took me to one of “The catcher in the rye” settings… some others… I was taken into “The rule of four” ambiance.

U make an excellent writer indeed. About the story…we tend to destroy with our feet what we built with our hands -a sayin we commonly employ here in my country.

Wish I could read more stories from you…u’ve got a venezuelan fan!!!

By: Victor Khaze

Victor Khaze — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:32:53 +0000

Whow…just, whow….

By: Becks

Becks — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:38:44 +0000

Groan. I’m sorta reading your blog haphazardly and then I start with the story and I’m like okay… this is not funny anymore. But brilliant non-the-less! Well done.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:14:01 +0000

haven’t you made us wait long enough for the next installment? you are a great writer.

By: me

me — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:54:36 +0000

pleeeeeeeeeease, an update for new years!

By: Everyone

Everyone — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:27:42 +0000

Gyaaaahah!!!! Jeez, man, write something!!! We’re dying here- especially those of us who are/have been in the same boat. Send us a beacon of light, or at least dig the hole deeper. We are but rats in your love cage. Feed us.

By: RatInTheLoveCage

RatInTheLoveCage — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:48:27 +0000

Yes, feed us!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:52:59 +0000

Wow, your writing is extremely interesting.
You sound like the perfect guy sometimes, actually caring about smarts as equally as looks. What do you look like?

By: Lumen

Lumen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:12:54 +0000

Well, I just found this blog about two hours ago, and I’ve already read Parts I - III. It’s a great story told by an excellent writer. I pretty much ignored tonight’s GOP debate to read this, and I’m a political blogger, so that says alot. I’m obviously in the wrong business, though - no women have fallen in love w/ me for my blog. I’m looking forward to Parts IV and V!

By: Bridget

Bridget — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:34:55 +0000

Thank God for Ruby and her blogroll! I have been wondering for months what this blog was called! Will commence catch up! I love it! Oh and yeah … you really ought to work on this nerve thing man! Actually, don’t we couldn’t read this then. You’d just have a happy ending and get all soppy!

By: JR

JR — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:08:54 +0000

thanks…. completely captivated the whole time… i only wish i could express my feelings like that through my writing, it usually just comes out angry and bitter and when i go back to read it never seems the sames.

again thanks.

By: Heartslam

Heartslam — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:25:18 +0000

How can you leave us hanging and destitute for over a month? It’s almost like you actually have a life outside blogging. Someone fetch the chains. Justin needs to get back to the computer, for the good of the people.

By: Awkward Things I Say To Girls » Blog Archive » Q & A

Awkward Things I Say To Girls » Blog Archive » Q & A — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:11:13 +0000

[…] Gyaaaahah!!!! Jeez, man, write something!!! —Everyone […]

By: Delle

Delle — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:51:45 +0000

Damn… I thought I’d found this late enough that the story would be complete! I didn’t imagine I’d be one of the avid readers pining for you down the bottom of the page :]

I imagine I’d have done the same. I’m JUST as c h i c k e n.

By: Delle

Delle — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:05:58 +0000

Another thing Justin…

Considering your apparent awkwardness, I wondered whether you are at all familiar with ‘awkward turtle’?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:25:30 +0000

i’ll get the AK-47, you tie the roommate to a chair

By: lordwiggly

lordwiggly — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:44:48 +0000

Bro I’ve just read your entire INAD series. Your writing is sheer brilliance. Your story is gut-wrenchingly sad. I’m waiting in anticipation for the entry that reads “Then I met a woman who totally blew HCE out of the water and obliterated her from my memory like a swarm of locusts being consumed by ten thousand crocodiles. And this new woman fell in love with me and we are really really ridiculously happy together.”

That paragraph (or similar) better come.

By: The Shark

The Shark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:40:11 +0000

I agree — your writing is incredibly skilled. I also just read the entire series thus far and am dying to read what happened next. It’s obvious that, ultimately, you don’t end up together, but I think what is so appealing about this story is your ability to take something we can all relate to and make it seem so intense and significant. Great job of dramatization while keeping it realistic. I can relate with a lot of what you’re writing here!

By: auvs.

auvs. — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:22:51 +0000

ay . kudos to you mate .

tell us when ya make the book yeah ?

cheers

By: Elle

Elle — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:39:51 +0000

=O but but but NO! Brilliant stuff as usual (:

By: Arelis

Arelis — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:15:56 +0000

What? That’s it? You seriously need to post again…please…

By: Alicia

Alicia — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:37:30 +0000

oookay…time for a new post!!! I’m dying here!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:05:05 +0000

I love you. I love this. Delicious. Bittersweet is always my preference.

By: Eli

Eli — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:26:34 +0000

Hello. I just wanted to thank you for writing all these entries about your awkwardness. I was feeling awkward, so I typed in awkward in google and ended up here. I’m a 19 year old who enjoys multi-variate calculus and maths of all sorts. Last night I ended up sleeping beside a boy who is as socially awkward as I am, but I am so inexperienced at everything having to do with dating that I don’t think I handled the situation well at all. He was trying to be a gentleman and respect my boundaries, but the physical tension was too much for him to be able to get to sleep. He muttered something about genders before asking me to leave. So I did. At 4 in the morning. During the time we were in bed together there was no touching except one of us putting our arm around the other awkwardly. At one point he told me my hair smelled fantastic. I really like this kid, but I’m worried I missed a good opportunity to tell him how I feel, or to make a move on him. Hence the current awkwardness. In any case, I can completely relate to you.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:35:49 +0000

Hey, I’m one of your heterosexual male readers. This blog is amazing and I basically relate to everything completely. Anyway, not to say what everyone else has already said, but you can’t leave us hanging like this! We need some updatage!

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:00:43 +0000

Justin, I have been reading this blog for a year and a half, and I am agonized by the lack of updatage! I’ve reread INAD at least thrice, each time in the vain hope that perhaps, just maybe, THIS time we’ll get some of Part IV.

My only hope is that you’re writing up all of Part IV as one massive novel-length update, and it’s just mere days away.

+Sunshine

By: Peg Leg Bess

Peg Leg Bess — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:03:29 +0000

Knights of the Old Republic what?

By: Alisha

Alisha — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:52:23 +0000

Your writing is amazing, brilliant, and so easy to relate to. I found your blog last night and fell in love.
I feel a sort of weird kinship with you. I can write something that sounds fine and normal (and sometimes genius, if I do say so myself), but according to those closest to me I lack the social skills involved with dating. And say really awkward things that weren’t meant to be so awkward.
Maybe I should start a blog about them, too.