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M’lady is a Cardinals fan. She got that way because she goes to school at SIUE (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville for those who don’t know) (Edwardsville is about 25 minutes from St. Louis for those still confused. Keep up.). Almost as bad, she was a White Sox fan before she converted to the Cardinals. This clues you in to who I root for… and yes, lots of the time I’m sorry too.

Two weeks ago the Cubs played a series in St. Louis; that same weekend, m’lady was here at ISU visiting yours truly. We watched the games and talked massive shit. She said she would *maybe* consider going to Wrigley Field with me, only once, and only if it were to see a game against the Cards. I returned fire, saying the next time I’m hanging around Busch Stadium I’ll pee on it. It took a lot to say that because I secretly want very badly to see a game there…but one has to keep up a facade when it comes to baseball.

The Cardinals won that series and I felt shame. We made a deal a while back that whoever won each series was owed $5, $10 for a sweep. I didn’t pay her. 

Then, a few days ago, another series against St. Louis had concluded in Chicago. The Cubs nearly swept those damn Cards and I had momentary visions of getting paid $10, less $5 for two weeks ago. Those visions were swept away with one swing of David Freese’s bat. M’lady has a crush on David Freese. Actually, lots of people’s ladies have crushes on David Freese. He is a handsome guy. 

The moral is, all is well with the world. The Cubs won the second series, we’re even-up as far as money goes, and as I sent a grumbling text message to her about her dream boy hitting a homer into left field, she told me she’d still choose me. I smiled. I repeated the words to myself that we said before baseball season started: “If we can get through this, we can get through anything.”

Written by: Tobias WallDaily Vidette Blogger

Sports and Dating.

Things my boyfriend does that make me hate him

Now that my boyfriend and I have just moved past the eight month mark, we’ve moved waaaaaaay past the honeymoon phase. If anything, we’re at the point where we hate each other excessively. I have created this list in an effort for him to stop doing all these things.

1. Not understanding my unspoken thoughts. We often get in fights because he doesn’t anticipate every one of my needs. He should know that when I say, “I’m not really in the mood to go out tonight”, I mean “I want you to come over, watch movies and eat frozen yogurt and then go to bed without having sex”. Why is this so hard to understand?
2. Slap my ass in public. I am not a cocktail waitress, behave.
3. Refusing to role play as Peeta from the Hunger Games in bed. I have a slight obsession with the Hunger Games, and I just want to act out the cave scene in bed. He thinks the Hunger Games is stupid, and whenever I try to make some moves on him, he rolls over and refuses to engage. Not cool.
4. Eat all the food in my apartment. I get that he’s poor and a bad cook, and I have excessive amounts of food and am a great cook, but I am also very poor. We have started keeping track of how many meals he owes me; we’re at 62.  
5. Refuse to role play as Peeta from the Hunger Games in bed. Seriously, it’s a big issue.

I strongly encourage all the girlfriends of the world to make “what I hate about you” lists for their boyfriends. When I read this to mine, he walked out right away in a huff (I’m assuming to think about how to better himself to make me happy).

Things my girlfriend does that make me hate her

My girlfriend made me make a list of all the things I don’t like about her. I couldn’t think of any and eventually she forced these out of me.

1. Stop pushing me to be more organized. My system has worked for 20 years, and just because you became my girlfriend doesn’t mean it stopped working. Stop creating so much more goddamn work for me to do, on top of my work.
2. I hate when you dramatically yell when I do something dumb. Big deal, get over it.
3. Say what you want. I can’t read your mind. We’re just going to end up miscommunicating because you’re not communicating. Saying I forgot something is a lot easier than asking me if I checked to make sure I have everything. No, I didn’t check and I wasn’t planning on it. Give me whatever I left in your room and let’s go to class.
4. Overreacting.  Acting like small problems are the end of the world is the worst thing you can do. Just because I coughed loudly or my clothes don’t match is not the proper way to segway into you talking about how you’re worried about your Spanish grade.
5. I do not want to role play Peeta from the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games is stupid, I don’t want to pretend to be some movie star just so you can justify imagining having sex with a kid named Peeta.

And now our relationship is fixed!

Written by Melissa Maris and her boyfriend

It’s funny, because I just said these exact words to my boyfriend yesterday. But I actually meant them.

I can almost guarantee that a man made his image. I’ve noticed that there seems to be an almost universal feeling among men that all good-looking women only care about money.

But I can tell you that almost ALL women (not just the good or not good looking ones) care much more about your personality than they do you bank account. Don’t get me wrong - there are some gold diggers out there. But by and large, if you want to make a woman yours, make her laugh, don’t give her presents. Trust me, it will take you much farther in life.

Written by: Melissa Maris
Daily Vidette Blogger

Less than a dollar so you know it’s reliable.

If you were to ask me any year besides this year, I would tell you that i think valentine’s day is stupid and sappy and I hate it. But now I have a boyfriend, and I think valentine’s day is awesome and sappy and I love it.  

Although I will admit that it is a stupid hallmark holiday, and it is meant to force americans into buying tons of shit we’ll never use again, I still cant wait to celebrate it. You better believe I’ll be handing out transformers valentines to my friends and wearing this awesome red dress with a pink bow in my hair.

I know that boys get the short end of the stick when it comes to VDay. They’re expected to do everything in the world for us, the whole nine yards, and we’re just expected to sit there and giggle and blush and enjoy it. As a boy with a girlfriend on valentine’s day, you are expected to, at the minimum, get me flowers, dinner, and a heartfelt card. But my boyfriend, oh no. He is expected to do much much more. 

Boys always talk about how they’re “romantics at heart” because they think it’ll get girls to like them and make them seem sexy. They just imagine all the girls getting wet left and right, talking about how sensitive he is and how they would totally get with him. My boyfriend is no different. He’s spent the past five months talking about how much he loves love and how he’s a romantic and loves to pamper girls.  

Well unfortunately, the day has arrived. Time to put up or shut up. I am seriously expecting the full nine yards, and if i don’t get it, he has no right to ever play the sensitive card again.  

Good luck men.

Written by: Melissa Maris
Daily Vidette Blogger

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Written by Toby Wall

Daily Vidette Blogger

I’d have made this case much sooner because it’s been a problem for a long, long time, but it makes sense that I wait til now because—shocker alert—Toby just got a GF. Those who know me know what a big deal this is. She’s great, by the way. Thanks for asking.

Word had leaked out a couple hours after her and I sealed the deal, and I was busy putting your grandparents to sleep doing my jazz shift at the radio station when the GF’s roommate posted on my Facebook wall that “nothing’s official till its Facebook official.”

I frowned. It’s true…sad, but true.

Here was my eloquent retort: “Facebook officialdom is a poisonous fact that our society has had to encounter, embrace, and compete with.”

At that point, to make a humorous rhetorical point, I would have immediately changed my relationship status to reflect the truth and try to get a laugh. It didn’t work—I’m mostly Facebook inept, so the joke fell flat. The GF had to figure it out. But that’s not the point.

The point is that “FBO” is a nasty little package of awkwardness…not because it exists, but because the interim period of “are we dating/are we not” before it becomes FBO is awkward as hell. It’s been a point of pride for me not to let that dissuade my use of the term GF even though Facebook may never have confirmed it.

I never have to encounter the problem because I never have a girlfriend. Until now. Sad how it runs our lives. You’ve been there browsing your online chat list wondering who to flirt with on any given bored night wondering who’s seeing someone and who isn’t. Creeper style, you find out whether they’re in a relationship—and you gotta be crafty there, because you might get a false positive. Girls like to get into fake relationships as jokes. I guess dudes do it too, but far less often. Because we don’t know how to work the damned thing.

My only solution to the problem might be to see if Zuckerberg and his buddies can make a relationship status option of “Irrelevant,” but I’m just one person and I don’t know how to make a petition.