[its Jeanne-Marie]

it's almost not even an issue of sarcasm through text, like add a smiley. i don't think having a happy face after "having a scholarship makes girlfriend smarter than jm" would have made me feel any better about it. i appreciate that tim didn't mean to hurt my feelings, was just attempting to "joke around" and was only sticking up for his girlfriend when jim made his joke. but as i said to him-- taking another, this time deeper jab at me just becuase jim tried to joke back with tim about girlfriend's car is NOT really the best avenue to protect her. i know that tim is not mean spirited and i'm not trying to keep yelling at him. i get now that he didn't mean to upset me. but as ted, alex, and matt pointed out, it was harsh and really not a joke at all. saying "she is cooler" is a joke. questioning the intelligence of a person who is in a totally different point in her life is just ridiculous, not to mention never a joke. as ted said, not for nothing but this girl has not even experienced the first week of college yet, let alone the rest of her senior year of high school. maybe i didn't get a scholarship, and yes my parents paid for my tuition, but i worked my *** off to get a finance degree in four years and get accepted into law school while i was stil 21 years old. i realize that the issue is not that i'm not smart, so i won't beat a dead horse, but at the same time i felt i needed to clarify.