Yeah, I was thinking about that little detail as well. He says his family restricted him because he was becoming "too indulgent" with the dog walks (it's hard to tell how much of what he reports is actually what people tell him, his interpretation of what they are telling him, or assumptions on his part due to a unique lack of curiosity/arrogance), so I wonder if they got some phone calls by business owners/police about what they initially thought was a vagrant sleeping and dumpster diving on their property.
Your confusion is certainly understandable, as Sweet's jeremiads involve experiences most associate with being an undergraduate: living in a dorm, eating meals in the caf', working on the student paper. But yeah, from what we've been able to piece together here, the timeline goes like: gets kicked off paper --> graduates --> enters graduate program --> (perhaps almost immediately after?) gets expelled --> gets banned from campus.
That's about right. It's been a while but I pretty clearly remember he managed to get his Bachelor's in English, then he got expelled super early in his Graduate program entirely because he acted like an entitled creepy stalker who doesn't understand or cares what "leave" or "no Jon fuck off" means.
It depends on the university. Some have dorms or segments of dorms set aside for graduate students, some only have on-campus housing for undergrads, and some only have on-campus housing for freshmen. I'd be very surprised if any that allow for graduate students have them in a suite or room with an undergrad.
Maybe not. But if he does, you know he’ll still be sperging about ASU.
Sweets has a ghostly YouTube channel. He videos himself in his room, averages single-digit views, continues. I have no interest in exploring his channel any further than scrolling through the titles. It sucks. I am not watching my videos, and not afraid that I am missing anything.
Sweets inability to understand things is precious and should be admired. He admits to frequently going dumpster diving with his dog, whom he then naps with behind a grocery store. It sounds an awful lot like he is lurking and loitering. He must look every inch the bum during these excursions, which last up to 4 hours. Unselfconsciously describing these "escapades" to the world is a good start.
As a Sweets connoisseur, what would you rate as excellent grade?
When Sweets fails to understand something simple and obvious, and then adamantly defends his confusion, he does his best work. Take the pennies being stuffed in his door, for example: Sweets saw it as a perk of being a journalist, a gesture of appreciation from his fans, and crowed about it. He did not understand he was being fucked with.
Is there a similar timeline for the Ashley arc? How does that fit into the expulsion timeline? It's never been that clear to me, but my sense is that for a spell, he was truly out of control and waging a two-front stalking campaign against ASU and the "love of his life."
IIRC, Ashlaaaaay first called him up on the chinaphone in early 1997, around the time he got booted from the school paper by The System. All of that stretched over 1997, maybe into early 1998.
That makes sense, I believe he mentioned she was a freshman co-ed and frequently emphasized her youth, her ”supple peaches ripening under the southern sun“ and so forth, implying that he was an upperclassman at the time.
This may come as a shock to Sweet, but in the 90s, many people in college were having sex! More than once! With multiple partners sometimes! Source: was college student at the same time he was.
I think the other girl that he claims was his girlfriend between Ashlaaaay dumping him and calling him up again later was a college student. He's claimed that Ashlaaaaay was a "barely-legal" townie, although I don't believe that he had any idea who she actually was, considering he only saw her IRL once for like five minutes. It was definitely in 1997 though.
I believe it was an Asian woman who he had lunch with once in the caf'. He later based the character "Tin Boo Tee" on her. He doubly hates Ashley because he thinks that he gave up a lifetime of happiness with "Tin" to get back with his "ex." (My memory is a bit hazy...this is some good old school Sweet content.)
Yeah when he was referring to "the sight of all that ripe and abundant lil’girl-flesh" I assumed he was basing all that on "barely-legal" Ashlay.
Where I went to college, once you were a graduate student, you were eligible for housing in the campus apartments, which had their own kitchen and bathroom. Since the youngest grad student was 24-25 and college freshmen tend to be 18-19, this worked out, because mobs of kids fresh out of high school getting their first taste of freedom are really, really obnoxious when you're over 21 or so. They self-segregated.
I do remember the Japanese student and Tin Boo Tee. It was hilarious how he sperged out trying to prove that it wasn't a racist name and how it totally made sense.