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[Zingoleb]

given half the chance I am naked

straight up no clothes

can't wait for summer

[dr. nervioso]

Remind me to never go to your place in the summer

[Mister D Nomms]

I just wear the same pants for a week

[Jace]

I just wear the same pants for a week

I wear the same pants for like a month at a time without washing. I finally bought another pair (the holes started getting too large) and so now I have 3 pairs of pants I can rotate between, and I pretty much just grab whichever of the three I find first.

[Carl-E]

There's dressing medieval, and then there's smelling medieval...

[Mister D Nomms]

I bought some nice pants at Goodwill and had another pair, but then I went to sit on something and the crotch ripped open.

[Lupercal]

One of my friends has dreadlocks and specifically grew them out so that she could walk around the house topless but covered by her own thick hair.

[Barmymoo]

I wear the same jeans for weeks on end, leaving them to air overnight, because I only own three pairs of jeans - one lives at my mum's house so that if I end up staying longer than planned (which happens regularly) I have something to wear, one pair is five inches too long and I don't have a sewing machine or a big enough needle to turn them up (and won't pay £8 to get a 99p-from-ebay pair of jeans altered), and the other pair has holes in the crotch from cycling so much.

Need to get more jeans, I guess. And probably some not-jeans.

At the moment I am splitting my time between reading about Charlotte Mason-style home education, admiring my pretty new Bible which was an Easter present (it's a study Bible specifically for women, so it has biographical portraits of all the women in the Bible, which is pretty interesting since mostly the focus is on men), revising for my exams by writing masses of essay plans, and eating. Lots of eating.

[Welu]

Around the house I wear comfy pants for weeks, pretty much not washing them unless I spill something on them, and depending on the temperature, bra or baggy t-shirt with Boyfriend-Fleece. Plus I'm off college this week so other than driving lesson on Wednesday, I shouldn't need any respectable clothes.

[Akima]

since mostly the focus is on men

Really? I am shocked, shocked to find that patriarchy is going on in here. 

[Barmymoo]

Haha well yeah, that was kind of my point, I hadn't realised there were so many women in the Bible. Some of them were pretty awesome too. Some of them were saps.

[Jace]

There's dressing medieval, and then there's smelling medieval...

Truth be told, in the summer, or if I do something that causes me to sweat I will wash them sooner. But in the fall-spring, it isn't so bad outside, and if I am gonna run around and get sweaty I wear gym shorts, sweatpants or kung fu pants.

[Patrick]

Dear blorg,

I am still homeless but I am going to be able to stay with friends. This will do wonders to aid in my job searching, since now I can afford to get my ID. I think it is fucking idiotic that California makes you pay for an ID, since I barely make $24 that I don't have to immediately spend on food and such, but I have no choice but to follow the law in this case (where normally I don't give a shit about the law, they make it impossible to live off the grid).

Saturday, Troubador! played a show in Sunol with 2 bands that we're friends with and one band that we didn't know. The show was a great success and the night went on smashingly, but the band that nobody knew were super antisocial. The band member they had at the merch table was reading a book during everybody's sets, and all the others were in the back playing pool where none of them could even hear the other bands! Wtf? I can understand they were tired from driving up from a show in Los Angeles that day, but that doesn't mean you should just straight up snub every other band. They're not getting booked with us again.

[Welu]

Had my second driving lesson and my instructor is brilliant. He's very nice and calm and says I'm picking up everything really quickly. I got into third gear today and didn't fluster for two minutes before changing into it.

[Carl-E]

Trust me, once you're used to it, manual transmissions are a lot more fun than automatic! 

Glad you found someone you can work with. 


And "Yay!" for smooth shifting!

[Jace]

Gonna be doing SCA now too. Can't wait to save up some money and build some armor. Gonna make a badass 14c German kit.

In other news, I'm starting to get pretty muscular. Gonna have to keep hitting up the gym, got lazy the past couple weeks.

[Welu]

Met up with two old friends who I have barely seen since they headed off for greener pastures university. One is in England doing drama studies so even on her breaks she's very busy but she organized a meet up. We used to be a Three Musketeers type so close group and we still message but one I haven't seen properly in a year and the other studying in England in two years. Was so good to catch up and reminisce and see we still get along so well even though we've all changed in a lot of ways and see what ways we've stayed the same.
Friends are awesome.

[Patrick]

I told somebody I was celibate today. I lied, I just thought she was super fucking creepy.

[Akima]

I told somebody I was celibate today. I lied, I just thought she was super fucking creepy.

It wasn't a lie; merely an exaggeration (unless you were actually having sex at the time). 

[Patrick]

Well it's been almost a year but that doesn't mean I'm never having sex ever again

Being broke as fuck does mean I'm never having sex ever again though

[Lupercal]

"Baby you KNOW I can't afford to hold you after"

Anyway, bloggers, I got some more work experience in London (academic publishers) and didn't even need an interview. Two emails and one phone call, the guy was impressed that I kept asking him about it, boom, a fortnight of CV-strengthener.

I'm also supposed to be revising but I have absolutely no drive to work at the moment...

[Zingoleb]

man, when yr too poor to even have a place to go, fuckin' is straight up out of the question sometimes

source: MY GODDAMN LIFE

(ask patrick, he knows what happened in those fucking woods)

[Lupercal]

Damn. I've totally resorted to lovin'-in-the-woods when home just isn't there or appropriate. Dem feelings

Anyway, just read a blog of someone who was in India for a little while. I don't know how people can make blogs so awful when stuff like tumblr is full of amazing shit, but still. Choice quote:

"They stocked their food in big piles either on the ground or in sacks, and served it by hand – I am certain that no one in India has been on a food hygiene course!"

What a shame, I hope the Indian germy-wermys didn't totally fucking kill you.

[Carl-E]

those fucking woods

I guess I could have resisted...

[LTK]

Just got back from a friend's birthday party where I explained to a guy what internet memes, urban myths, message boards, and web browsers are. Also how natural selection works. And this to someone who had at least a working knowledge of what the internet is and does. That was kind of weird. I guess I take knowing what goes on in the internet for granted really often.

It's hard to explain the concept of 'internet meme' to someone who has literally no clue about what it is. I say that it's "something that's popular and spreads through the internet very quickly". "So Game of Thrones is an internet meme?" Yeah, it fits the description, but it's not it!

Eventually I went with "A small piece of digital medium (image or saying) that, on account of its popularity, becomes used in variations on the context that have otherwise no relation to the original material." Man! Communicating with people is hard!

[schimmy]

I can totally relate to not being able to explain what memes are to someone. I'm pretty sure the only way to do it is to show someone some examples.

[Welu]

I've been explaining memes a lot more since someone has started a meme page based around my county. They're taking memes and using them correctly, most of the time at least, and just apply them locally. Some people hate it and some people love it. I'm in the love it category. Find it kind of surreal actually because memes have gone from this internet thing which bugger all people knew or at least never talked about in Tangible Life to almost a household thing in my area really quickly.

[Patrick]

Troubador got our single picked up by an internet radio syndicate in Wales last weekend, and they said probably the nicest thing I've ever heard anybody say. "Sounds like it was bathed in sunlight."  I'm tickled pink right now, I can't sit stilllllll

[celticgeek]

Congratulations, Patrick and Troubador!  It is about time that somebody recognised your music. 

[Skewbrow]

Seconded. Here's to hoping things will go your way for a while. I listened to Brainwash a couple of times. I'm totally unfamiliar with the genre, but it would  be nice to hear more.

[Patrick]

Thanks so much, you guys! I will let y'all know when the album is ready! We'll be posting it online for free download, and physical copies (in the form of CDs and vinyl LPs) will be up for sale as well once all that goes down. I couldn't be more stoked about this year, there's so much I'm looking forward to!

I'm totally unfamiliar with the genre

If it makes you feel any better, we don't even know what the genre would be!

[celticgeek]

Patrick, you should set up your bandcamp account so that we can pay you if we want.  I'm willing to pay for your album.

[Carl-E]

The internet equivalent of the open guitar case. 

[Carl-E]

1.50 Euros per day. 


Good luck with that...

[Mister D Nomms]

Sounds like somebody's going to be eating a whole mess of white rice.

[Akima]

And beans, lots of beans.

[Skewbrow]

I'm ready for Summer! I'm done with the annual task of taking the wheels with studded tires off my car, and putting another set of wheels on. In F1 they do this in about five seconds. I needed two hours.

[Carl-E]

In F1 they have a 5 man team doing it, wth pneumatic power tools.  You had... a jack and a lug wrench, if you're lucky. 

 

[Patrick]

Patrick, you should set up your bandcamp account so that we can pay you if we want.  I'm willing to pay for your album.

We'll do this for the album, sure! But if it doesn't cost us anything to publish it, we don't see any reason to charge for it, so it'll be 'name your own' with no minimum. In the meanwhile, we don't have bank accounts to link to the bandcamp, so it's all free for now! We can also see about getting a PO box so we can do mail-in ordering for physical copies.

[lepetitfromage]

There's always the neat trick of getting free refills at the cafetaria by using a friend's place or just grabbing a clean one and smearing some ketchup over it, thank god.

Or coupons! I get a whole bunch of free shit by using coupons.



(edited to add the quote because apparently when I'm sleep deprived and posting I can't figure out how many pages there are in a thread.....and this made no sense on its own.)

[Carl-E]

 

[Barmymoo]

Ugh. My awful neighbour has clearly moved back in, there is yelling and shouting. Since it's still the vacation I'll not make a fuss but if this shit is still going on next week I will be reporting her all over the shop, it is EXAM TERM shut up shut up shutupshutupshutup.

[schimmy]

Exam... term? You have a whole term dedicated to exams?

[smack that isaiah]

Holy shit, I just got a job offer.  I have 3 days to make a decision.  Oh my god, real world.  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[Lines]

We (well, just the boy) put an offer in on a house we really liked and it was rejected within a matter of hours. Like, the owners lowered their price $500, which does not even freaking count as a counter offer. So sadly we couldn't go with our first choice (which was awesome, had lots of character and potential, but needs a LOT of updating), but we're moving on to our second choice, so hopefully we hear something back later tonight or tomorrow. (This house lacks the character of the other one, but it needs no updates at all, which is pretty nice.)

[Papersatan]

Wait, Linds, you are buying a house?

Way to be a grown-up!

[Patrick]

So I have this tendency to be super shy around girls, and really chatty and outgoing with dudes. For some reason, this makes me appear nonthreatening to women, and as a result, I have a lot of female friends. Lately I've been noticing them exhibiting some unusual behaviors.

This Saturday, a girl I kinda dig came into town from Oakland, where she lives. We had basically two hours of one-on-one at the bar, which is incredibly rare, as my attention span is usually 10min or less (and due to my shyness, with girls I'm usually out of there in less than 3). Then my friend, let's call her Tara, came up and started basically having a conversation entirely to herself, but directed at everybody, primarily me. I was basically stuck there, because I had nothing to contribute, and the girl I was with had nothing to say either.

This girl wasn't even the only one who seemed hell-bent on fucking up my conversation with the lady. Then another girl I know appeared, and she wouldn't stop addressing every single thing she said exclusively to me. And when I tried to bring The Girl I Dig into the conversation, she would cut me off halfway through my goddamn sentence and finish it incorrectly, where I'd have to say "Well actually I was gonna say ______." And then I'm the one who felt like a dick, because I had nothing to say to the two convo-wreckers, and so it felt like it was my fault the conversation disintegrated into two girls talking about how much weight they've lost.

Meanwhile, The Girl I Dig and I are both 140lbs or less, super fit, blah blah. It was a good time and it turned into an "I'm a fat person but look at me I'm slightly less fat than before, congratulate me" and IOwhefuiosejrthdIOWHJEIFrgiosjeriogsioe

tl;dr next time I'm just gonna ask her if we can go for a walk. Alone. No dumb drunk girls to ruin the conversation we're having, no too-loud music, nothing but us and the sidewalk and a good personal connection. God damn itttt

[Barmymoo]

Exam... term? You have a whole term dedicated to exams?

Well our terms are only 8 weeks long anyway, so that isn't really that weird. I'm not sure when my exams start but it won't be in the first three weeks of term, I don't think. But obviously everyone is getting a bit tense and revising. The library gets very full and people get very edgy! It's not a lot of fun actually. But the only way to retain any sanity is to get enough sleep and that means people being quiet.

[Lines]

Wait, Linds, you are buying a house?

Way to be a grown-up!

The boy is buying a house that will soon enough be our house, so I guess yes? But it's exciting! And the people who own house #2 accepted M's offer today, woot!

[Barmymoo]

I got an email saying that my flights back from the US this September had been changed somehow, and to call the airline to fix it. Well, the airline is in the USA. It costs me £1 a minute to call US numbers from my phone.

Except! They provided a toll-free number. Not any use from my mobile, because it still charges me about 40p a minute, but I suddenly discovered that I can call freephone numbers using Skype without having to buy any Skype credits. Awesome! I was on the line for 12 minutes, several of them on hold listening to some rather nice classical music.