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[Dazed]

Hey blog thread.

I played my drums for about 3 hours today altogether. I've kinda been off with my playing all week, but today I was fuckin' awesome. Pretty much made up for the rest of the day being stunning in it's utter mediocrity.

[ampersandwitch]

No because then I would not be able to hit on him anymore. No fun!

And whose fault would that be, Liz?  He's still the same person, he just has a vagina.  Also, I honestly don't think he would mind.

[Liz]

Well he would not. But I do not hit on women, that is all.

Jordan what I am saying is that I would like you to keep your penis. Please do not get rid of it.

[Jimmy the Squid]

So the university admissions centre (UAC) website says that the application dates for my postgraduate course next year closed on the 31st October. This is in contrast to the university's website which says they close on the 12th of December. Naturally I am concerned about this and will be phoning them tomorrow to find out what is what. I'm fairly certain that there is a late admission option (where you have to pay a little bit more for the application) but I don't want to use the website to find out as they charge you a $50 processing fee which is non-refundable "under any circumstances" before they tell you if you can still apply. If I can't apply for this because of bureacratic shitcuntery I will be very pissed off. Though it would increase my chances of coming to Chicago I guess.

[ampersandwitch]

Jordan what I am saying is that I would like you to keep your penis to yourself. Please do not share it.

[Liz]

Hey guys lets get a few more people to skew my words with a clever quote!

Also, Jens, why the hell are you up so late/early?

[Ozymandias]

Dicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicksdicks

[Liz]

Thanks for playing!

[Slick]

And Jodie, on some computers (less these days, but you never know), not all the USB ports are the same speed - perhaps you made an unfortunate choice of port?  On USB2, my player takes about 8 hours to do 60GB.

See, my firewire port works really well. I do not want to be that dick mac user who is all like 'my firewire rocks USB sucks chumps' but it is just a lot better for that kind of thing. I am doing the same thing with my iPod soon, and will see how long it takes to do the 20GB.

[pwhodges]

Firewire's not a lot of good for a USB device, though.  I use FW for my location recording, though, 'cos it's the best way - on my PC  laptop.

[Social Bacon]

I feel extraordinarily restless. For the past two years I've been working hard physical labour with overnight shifts on top of school. But I haven't gone looking for a job since I moved into uni, plus the school work so far has been super easy thanks to my awesome highschool teaching us university level stuff. In light of this I have decided to pull an all nighter to make myself feel like I'm busy.

[Slick]

I know PCs have it too, but whereas it's an Apple thing (it's their branding of something they helped develop, which I am sure you know but am stating anyways for posterity) and it comes on most (used to be all) Apples but not all PCs, it's the kind of thing that can be associated with mac snobbery if touted as superior.
Of course it's no good for a USB device, I just think it just makes sense to have any large storage device on firewire instead of USB, but maybe if I hadn't had firewire I wouldn't mind USB.

[Emaline]

So, uh, I feel vaguely pathetic because my friends ditched me this evening(well, ok, they decided to do school work instead of go get ice cream, so I guess its understandable   )so instead of doing something productive, I spent my evening looking at pictures of Brian Viglione. Sigh.... Oh! And other than being hot and adorable and everything, I guess he plays drums too.


Swoon.

[jodizzle]

I am actually having trouble with my silly mp3 player

I decided to try switching usb ports, and while I had it disconnected decided to see if it had actually loaded on.  The computer said there was a crapload of stuff (none of it in folders, what the hell is up with that?) but there was nothing on my mp3 player.

Cue general crankiness.

So I deleted all the phantom music again and tried again.  It seems to be working faster now so maybe Paul was right.  But this all depends on whether or not it is actually going ON to my device.  I will be so mad if it doesn't and i don't have music to carry around anymore.  I don't understandwhy it isn't working right!  Boo.

[CamusCanDo]

Oh yes I am now listening to The Dresden Dolls.

to be fair, kids that young haven't fully developed the cognitive capabilities needed to make moral judgments and understand that comments like that are inappropriate. they focus more on concrete physical characteristics of people and apparently will still tend to notice and comment when some kids visibly look different from others, regardless of whether or not their parents or teachers are even racist at all. the best thing that can be done in this situation is to maybe talk to teachers at that school and make sure they make it clear to kids that comments like that are not okay and hope their their parents do the same, so the problem doesn't escalate from noticing physical differences to full-blown discrimination as they get older.

See, I totally understand this, but all I think is goddamn kids bullying my neice. I think both my mum and my sister are going to talk to her teacher tomorrow and see if they can sort this out ASAP.

[Edith]

I want a new MP3 player.
I want an xbox.
I want a new tv.
I need to save money until I move.
Then I'm gonna spend like the consumer freak that I am.

Speaking of moving, it looks like that will happen on November 22-24.

[valley_parade]

Dear Economics thread,

I listened to hockey in French last night. C'est boring.

[Lines]

Dear not econ thread,

I am sitting in the car dealership waiting area and it's hella nice. Not only do they have wireless, but they have those home theater chairs (the 4 connected ones that have cup holders and recline) as well as an LCD tv. I kind of want to steal it and take it home, but alas, my car is too small.

But as I'm going to be here a while, as I'm here for maintenance over the whole car (dunno what they'll find, but hopefully it's not too bad), I think I'll do what I haven't done for a loooong time - game. EDIT: Uh, after I download two months of patches. Crap.

[ampersandwitch]

Jens that is a good idea and if anyone could pull it off, it would be you. (Or Terry Pratchett.)

Blog Thread,

I have no friends here, ergo no social life, so I will replough my efforts into doing really well in classes.  Last night there were at least three major parties on campus (or slightly off) and I stayed at home talking to my friend in DC about seeing Gogol Bordello for the new year, and then I finished tidying my room.  Additionally, I have a bag of salt to make a saline solution for my nose piercing, and I've placed it out conspicuously because it kind of looks like cocaine and I want my roommate to be afraid of me.

This is why I can't have nice things. 

[David_Dovey]

I am current working on an outline for a text involving time travel and warring between factions of baroque (religious zealots, moralists) and renaissance (scientists, utilitarians). Spouts of neoclassism and romaticism will also be included. I haven't got any details yet but I am thinking probably a machinery (Steam-propelled helicopters and such) versus some sort of magic, divine assistance or religious technology (church organ artillery guns etc).

Is the idea a bit too silly? I don't know.

BONERS

(this means that I sure do hope that you do pull this idea off because oh my science man)

[Liz]

Jens it sounds like a fabulous idea, as long as we get to read it when you are done!

[Liz]

Aww dang. Well, maybe Kristin will help you translate it all eloquently?

[Metope]

I kan du dat, mai englesh is beder dan Jens's englesh anyvai.

[Liz]

haha, for a second I though that was Norwegian. Then I was all "oh wait I think it's English."

[Jace]

Deare Blogge Threadde,

I am current working on an outline for a text involving time travel and warring between factions of baroque (religious zealots, moralists) and renaissance (scientists, utilitarians). Spouts of neoclassism and romaticism will also be included. I haven't got any details yet but I am thinking probably a machinery (Steam-propelled helicopters and such) versus some sort of magic, divine assistance or religious technology (church organ artillery guns etc).

Is the idea a bit too silly? I don't know.

edit: (Kristin, in case you are really terrible at reading between the lines, this means I will borrow all your exphil books)

Honestly, I got about halfway through that and then finally stopped thinking "its gonna be a Doctor Who fanfic?"


But that's because I've been watching a lot of that lately.

Guys, I bought a new deck, subwoofer, and amp for my car, since the others were stolen a few months back. In my installing them (which I didn't finish) I managed to turn off my turn signals. My friend who is much better with cars will be helping me later today.

[Metope]

edit: (Kristin, in case you are really terrible at reading between the lines, this means I will borrow all your exphil books)

Haha, I figured, for a second I wanted to reply with "Hey, those Ex-Phil books have already been written". But go ahead, I have some more books that you could probably use too.

[Ladybug]

God, ex.phil. I'm so extremely glad I got through that debacle with minimal effort. I'm hoping my future employer won't not hire me because of a D in exphil, but honestly, I doubt I'd want to work somewhere where ex.phil matters anyways. My crappy grades in other subjects might be a problem, though..

Blog thread,

I am psyched about IRON WEEK! And I signed up for a study technique/exam tips class thingy tomorrow, which I hope will maybe be able to motivate me a little bit to study and give me some good pointers. My work habits are absolute shite after basically going through elementary, middle and high school with minimal effort, and still getting top grades. Two years at a university haven't made them any better, and I really need to get my act together.

Also, it makes me sad that the football season is over. Sundays are back to being boring as hell I'm sitting here watching some of the games we've won this year, just to get that good feeling again, but it's not like that won't get old soon.

[Lines]

I've seen a few episodes and it's pretty damn good. I just need to find someone who has the dvds so I can borrow them.

[Metope]

God, ex.phil. I'm so extremely glad I got through that debacle with minimal effort. I'm hoping my future employer won't not hire me because of a D in exphil, but honestly, I doubt I'd want to work somewhere where ex.phil matters anyways. My crappy grades in other subjects might be a problem, though..

D? Hooray, I got an E!

This may have been because I ended up with mono two days before the semester started, so I spent the first month and a half of being a student in bed, not even being able to lift my head (my mom had to lift my head to get an extra pillow underneath, that's how weak I was). When I finally got back to uni I was still weak, and had a lot of catching up to do. Long story short, ex-phil was severely down prioritized compared to the other (and more important) classes, and I ended up reading the whole curriculum in only two days. I'm really just glad I passed it at all.

[Ladybug]

Whoa, that's a crappy start :/ You attend UiO or something, right? I think ex.phil might be a bigger deal and require more work there than for us (10 or 15sp? 7,5sp here), ehm, sivilingeniør-students at NTNU :p I got a D by doing the three essays we had to write, attending half a lecture and skimming the book the day before the exam, and then reading a ~40 page summary of the curriculum. I was pretty damn surprised that I got a D, to be honest.

[Metope]

I'm a UiO student, and yeah, ex.phil is 10sp here. You had three essays and an exam? Seriously? That is way more work than we had to do. We could choose between two ex.phil courses; one where you had to write one essay (8-10 pages) and take a short multiple-answer test, and one where you had to attend a regular exam. I had to choose the last one because I was ill, and the first one required 80% attendance at the seminars.

The first one also had one class each week, and the second one had two classes. I attended almost every class when I got better, but I was exhausted from having mono until Christmas-ish, so I ended up sleeping through most of them.

[Ladybug]

Yeah, we had three essays of about 3-6 pages (only two had to be approved, I thiink, but for some reason we did all three, so maybe we had to deliver all three, I can't remember) and then another essay on the exam. There were seminars etc. throughout the semester, but nothing mandatory, luckily. Hell, we were always told that we have it really easy when it comes to ex.phil compared to other places, I thought you had like..tons more stuff to do. Ex.phil is sort of a joke altogether, though.. I don't know a single student, other than a couple of history and psychology students (probably philosophy too, though I don't know any), who took it seriously.

[Barmymoo]

I had to walk to work yesterday. I had to walk to work today in the rain. A man restored my faith in humanity by stopping and giving me a lift part of the way (I know, I know, silly of me, but guys, last night I booked tickets to fly across the world to meet people off the internet, I do silly things) but it was still a long, painful trudge through a lot of rain. Then, lucky me! I walked home again.

And wouldn't you just know, when I got changed and went to shut up the chickens I slipped over and got completely covered in mud.

[KvP]

So today I'm eating dinner with my best friend. I go to the bank to withdraw some food money, and I asked for $20. When I reached into the slot for the cash, there was $60 there. Seeing as how it's Sunday I couldn't notify anybody to missing cash (I'm assuming somebody left the money there and it wasn't a machine malfunction) so I guess God just wants us to eat fancy stuff tonight.

Also, I saw Rachel Getting Married today. Anne Hathaway is really good in it.

Everything's coming up Milhouse, blog thread.

[jodizzle]

I can't get music onto my mp3 player wah

[JD]

I walked past a dead deer on the way to and from school. It's weird because I live in Columbia, Maryland and deer aren't that common. Even weirder, it looked like it had given birth. Blood around the rump and the sidewalk. (First blog thread post, why did it have to be about this?)

[20 jazz funk greats]

dear blog thread,

when i broke up with my boyfriend of nearly three years, i told him that we'd always be friends. (mostly to keep him from getting all suicidal) i never said we'd be close friends though! i'd prefer to avoid him for the time being, and he is too fucking dense to understand the concept of needing space... space for me and my new boyfriend. kidding, kidding. honestly i am not sure why i was so opposed to the idea of one night stands before, they are an easier thing to deal with. you meet someone, you have sexy time, and they don't expect you to be their personal therapist.

also anyone who lives near me, aka james: can i pleeeeeease stay at your house? i am so fed up with my current place and its current stream of unwanted vistors. IT IS NEVER QUIET HERE. NOT EVEN ON A GODDAMN SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN NOTHING EXCITING IS HAPPENING.  I'M GONNA GO CRAZY.  tonight, when i came "home" there were two girls i've never spoken to before in our kitchen making cupcakes and they gave me this look like "uh, what are you doing here?" uh i live here, you cunts.  also, my dad who was with me helping me carry some stuff said hi to them, and they fucking ignored him. geeez, the girls i actually live with may annoy me sometimes (i mostly hate their friends though) but at least they've never been rude to my parents.

love,
anna

[Slick]

Yeah, fuck living with randoms. I only did that once with semi-unknown people and that actually turned out really well (two of them became good friends of mine, one was really weird but that is a story in and of itself). I just loathe the idea of signing up for four months to a year of people I may potentially hate.
My sofa's kind of uncomfortable and in the room with the drum kit, and I can't make any innuendo about you in my bed because really it is a tiny bed. Also my legs ache so I'm not sure if you'd want to stay here because I'm grumpy as fuck right now. But you know, sounds like you've got it bad.

[Slick]

Man I still don't read achewood.

[Spluff]

what

[KvP]

Man I still don't read achewood.

This is strong boarding.

[20 jazz funk greats]

Also my legs ache so I'm not sure if you'd want to stay here because I'm grumpy as fuck right now.

i'd try to stay out of your way then.  i might semi-jokingly tell you to make me dinner, but i think that's the only thing i would do that might piss you off. also, if you're just weirded out by the idea of living with a random internet lady, i can tell you, it wouldn't be a matter of me actually moving in with you, more of an attempt to preserve what is left of my sanity by crashing there when i need peace and quiet. soooo, what do you say?

[De_El]

I can't convince myself to care about anything.

[Slick]

Every so often I just stop and watch all of Jodie's avatar. It amuses me still.

[jodizzle]

James, even I still do that.  I am never going to be able to bring myself to change it.  It's hypnotic!

[Alex C]

Yeah, that avatar is worth it for the Djddy comment alone.

[Hat]

also anyone who lives near me, aka james: can i pleeeeeease stay at your house? i am so fed up with my current place and its current stream of unwanted vistors. IT IS NEVER QUIET HERE. NOT EVEN ON A GODDAMN SUNDAY NIGHT WHEN NOTHING EXCITING IS HAPPENING.  I'M GONNA GO CRAZY.  tonight, when i came "home" there were two girls i've never spoken to before in our kitchen making cupcakes and they gave me this look like "uh, what are you doing here?" uh i live here, you cunts.  also, my dad who was with me helping me carry some stuff said hi to them, and they fucking ignored him.

This sounds like all the best houses I have ever lived in. Sometimes I would come home and there would just be a game of twister going on and I knew maybe one person playing.

[20 jazz funk greats]

that sounds more awesome though. these people don't do anything like that. they are either cooking or having way too much alcohol and being retarded.  exciting!

[CarrionMan]

Obviously you're grumpy they didn't give you cupcakes.

[20 jazz funk greats]

i'm grumpy because i'm very sleep deprived actually. i'm pretty indifferent towards cupcakes.