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What the ******** is up with this "Standard?" Everywhere i go, and everyone i meet, they always look down on my just cause i haven't moved out yet.

Case in point, the guys at school. Yes, they are a great bunch of people, but any time i mention living at home, they immediatly get awkward, and have a hard time talking to me. What is it? Oh, i'm sorry i don't have enough money to get an apartment, and honestly. I think its smarter to just live at home until said college/university is over with.

I mean, personally. I'd prefer this life over one where i have little to no money to my name. And am ankle deep in bills. I mean, i being that broke university student, still have no money. All that i do have goes to food, and general living anemnities. But at least, i don't have as much to worry about. What, you think less of me cause i didn't move out?! Why?! HM?! WHY?!

It's just so frustrating. I live over an hour away from my school, it costs me over $140 a month just to get a bus pass, along with the $10 a day for food. Not to mention the now 44k debt on my head. If i were living on my own, or with a roommate. This wouldn't get any easier, and yet here i am. I try to convince people, i live on my own, just so they won't think any less of me. It's ridiculous, it really is.

Now, along those lines, i've been invited out to Karaoke Night at the Met, a night club in downtown Vancouver, actually, its just up the street from my campus. I'm not comfortable drinking with people i don't know, and yet. I'm willing to, just cause i want my fellow classmates to respect me. Now even i think that's stupid. I shouldn't have to get totally s**t-faced, just so these people will respect me. I think it's ludicrious.

Even now, i'm planning on moving out in hopefully Spring Break of next April. I have a solid week off, so that'll give me time to move all my stuff. I'm hoping we can move out to Burnaby, or maybe somewhere closer to Lougheed Station. Now, i know what i just said conradicts what i just ranted about, but here's the difference. Sean, is letting me live there rent free, until i get out of school. I'll be living with his gf, along with my own. So the rent will be spilt four ways eventually, so it won't be so bad.

But yea, this whole Standard. You know, move out when you're 18, blah, blah blah...it's all bullshit. In this day and age, even if you've been working since you were 16, the probability of moving out is still quite slim. Unless that is....you've come from a well endowed family, and you've gotten you're parents to pay for it. Anyway, i'm done.

I have class at 6:30, tonight, and a 9am class tomorrow. Ciao.