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[BrittanyMarie]

my friend died in a horrible way and i am sad

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-intercontinental-hotel-rescue-michigan-avenue-20121213,0,2708213.story

he was an awesome kickass dude and he did a really stupid thing. he was a good person and i'm glad he was in my life as much as he was.

[Zingoleb]

it's nice to see you back but i'm sorry it has to be on such an awful note. that really fucking sucks.

[BrittanyMarie]

Plus, because it's such a bizarre incident, it's being widely reported by major news stations. MSNBC, ABC News, CNN etc. My boyfriend had a video of his standup from 2009 when he still lived here and so now sort of famous reporters are asking my boyfriend if they can use the footage-footage that OF COURSE already has trolls. Had trolls. The comments got locked down pretty quickly. It's the only video of his stand up that's around really, aside from a company (rooftopcomedy.com) that records and produces comedy clips from a bunch of various clubs... quess what you find if you search "rooftop comedy" now?

[Jace]

Got out of going to Jess's work party, although a little upset that I don't get to ask a dude if he related to Gimli or not.

[Patrick]

We played the single worst show in history for an awful crowd tonight.

Shit first got stupid about an hour before the show. Matt and I were on the freeway headed to SF when we got a call from the opening band's frontman, saying that the closing act wanted to switch to playing first instead. Since it was such short notice, we put it to a group vote. 5 vs. 1 said we told them no, so we told them no. They promptly bailed on the gig altogether. We have a gig with them next week, and I plan to find the frontman and kick him directly in the head.

So the other band plays their set to open for us, then we go on. We play a few songs, and some chick asks us to play Weezer's "The Sweater Song" and we've never played it before but we obliged. This caused the entire group of wasted dickheads in the bar to shout random stupid requests at us, and that really bummed us out, so we obliged on a few "fuck you, really?" numbers such as "Stairway to Heaven" and a few other stupid ones that we didn't even give a fuck to play properly.

Some drunk idiot comes up after the show and recognizes my hat and says "HEY BUDDY GREAT JOB" and I was like "Thanks man, but I disagree" and he was like "Whaaaat whyyy you guys played all my favorite songs" and I was like "That's what I mean, we hardly played 2 of our own, that whole thing was horseshit" and then stormed out and got Matt's car.

I couldn't get out of that fucking bar fast enough, man, this week fucking blows and I just pray to god my date tomorrow night doesn't suck.

[VonKleist]

Our entire last gig got canceled because the other band that was supposed to play called it off on 4 days notice..
Would have been a decent location, no pay-to-play, lots of people would´a showed up.. but the guy that organised it called it quits without even considering anything we´d have to say (we could have easily played 2h set or anything.. I´d have played an acoustic set or whatever, man, asked another band to jump in on short notice)...

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I´m sort of on not speaking terms with one of my friends. He runs a construction business with another guy. They mostly do renovation stuff, woodwork, bathrooms, anything really. He has been working on renovating his own flat saturdays because his old place that he shared with his brother (whom he used to work with but they got in a fight too) sucked and he didn't want to stay there for various reasons (it was in the same building as the most frequented bar in town, the landlord was an asshole etc.etc.). So far so shitty for him, because he had to move in with his parents for now.
I have worked for him in the past and he´s always been a bit harsh and I totally get that, cause, he´s the boss, I´m the employee, shit has to get done etc.
Anyway, this job, as it´s gonna be his place once it´s finished, is a bit odd because he does it a bit on the side. We only work there saturdays and imho I´m more helping him out as a friend than being really involved with his business. Still, he pays us of course because it´s work.
Anyway the week before last I did a shitty thing and didn't show up for work because I got hella drunk on friday and fell asleep on the train home. I mailed my other friend who works there too that I won't be abled to make it, sorry, and so on. He told me the next evening that it wasn't a big deal and they kinda laughed it off, so I thought everything was fine. Later the next week I text him about pay and work the next weekend and he explodes at me for not showing up, saying he lost money because of me and scolding me for asking for an advance which I totally didn't and the series of previous setbacks on that building site wasn't my fault either. Now he has a history of being somewhat choleric, yelling at us for minor stuff and getting really worked up about basically nothing.
Now I´m kind of struggling with what to do. I totally owe him an apology for not showing up but on the other hand I´ve had it with his attitude.
And also I really really need the money

[bainidhe_dub]

Dammit I finally went to the dentist for the first time in ages (five insurance plan changes in three years, then just never got my shit together to make an appointment after I started my job) and now I need 4 appointments for fillings in all areas. Ughhh.

[nekowafer]

Tell them you're scared of getting fillings and they might give you some valium.

[Pilchard123]

Little brother in A&E with abdominal pain. My parents were supposed to be home with him an hour ago. While I keep telling myself there's nothing helpful that I can do by staying up worrying, that's exactly what I am doing.

[nekowafer]

Little brother in A&E with abdominal pain. My parents were supposed to be home with him an hour ago. While I keep telling myself there's nothing helpful that I can do by staying up worrying, that's exactly what I am doing.

Can you call or text and get an update? I would be worrying too!

[Patrick]

I just had the best first date ever.

[K1dmor]

I just had the best first date ever.

 How was it? 

[Barmymoo]

Pilchard, my brother went to hospital with abdominal pains (it turned out to be his appendix) and ended up staying in overnight just to keep an eye on him. Hospitals aren't very efficient places. Could you ring the hospital desk and ask for an update? As a relative you'd be entitled to know, I think.

[Pilchard123]

Pilchard, my brother went to hospital with abdominal pains (it turned out to be his appendix) and ended up staying in overnight just to keep an eye on him. Hospitals aren't very efficient places. Could you ring the hospital desk and ask for an update? As a relative you'd be entitled to know, I think.

In the light of day, it doesn't seem so bad. A friend who works at the hospital said they often keep young children in for longer than adults to keep an eye on them. Dad's been home since I posted that and he doesn't seem too concerned, so they can't have said it was anything too serious.

[Barmymoo]

I'm glad

In bloggy news, my stomach hurts It is not unusual, but it had stopped being the norm after I started taking the magic pills. I didn't remember to renew the prescription (how stupid to only prescribe a single month's supply at a time!) and now I don't have enough to take three a day, as I'm meant to. I cut it down to one a day and it's not doing any good at all.

[snalin]

I have eaten two oranges, half a bag of chips, half a pizza and two buns since Wednesday morning. Most of that came back up again. Sickness isn't fun. But now I'm feeling better, and kebab for breakfast seems to be the best idea ever.

[Patrick]

I just had the best first date ever.

 How was it? 

We had dinner at a killer pho place, then saw some crazy old deacon's Christmas light extravaganza for kicks (neither of us care about Christmas lights themselves but we certainly enjoyed the spectacle). A couple beers at the bar, then she took me home and we kissed goodnight. I'm tickled pink over this :3

[Jace]

First song to come on after changing the radio station at work this morning? "Santeria" by Sublime. Going to be a goddamn shame when the supervisor comes in and changes it to country for the other 6 hours of my shift.

[VonKleist]

SInging Daddy's got a new fourty-fiiiiiive under your breath?

[Welu]

Neighbour was playing music yesterday at a significantly lower volume. It was still loud enough to hear through two walls, but only if you were sitting in silence. Still annoying but we decided against saying anything in case this was somehow an attempt at being considerate.

In other news, my break has started (mostly, got one more class next week to do a group presentation) and got all my assignments in on time. Even the group document but with not a lot contributed by one member. My boyfriend and I were regularly contacting him over the past four weeks, to update him on what was due and ask if he'd be in. The group person just said they'd be in the next day, then didn't come. It turned out he had a death in the family so I'm feeling guilty, like we were hounding him. Also feels like the lack of stuff from him in the document is throwing him under the bus. From what he said it seems he had to go back and forth from his home town a couple hours away.
On the other hand if he told us at least, "There's a family problem." we could have accommodated him. I don't think the tutors even know since they were asking us why he wasn't in.

Dunno. Hopefully the presentation will go okay.

Also I lost my ring that my friend gave me for my birthday.

[VonKleist]

I don't want to get too much into the politics of this but since this week a bomb was found at the central station of former german capital Bonn I´ve been thinking about it a lot. Thinking about Madrid and London mainly.
The device had probably been set to explode via a time-clock but luckily failed to do so. It was made from bottles of propane and a steel tube of ammonium nitrate, as I understand it. I´m not to clear on the specifics but according to the police it would have made for a reasonably sized boom. What a cowardly thing to do, anyway. Ties to the islamistic scene are being investigated and the police are looking for two people that have been cought on the station's security videos.
What boggles my mind is why public transport? On that particular corner of the station at that time of day you would have blown up maybe 5 homeless junkies and some commuters. Why not target the Ministry for the Interior or something? Noo.. poor people it is. Talk about arguing with crazy people.

[Carl-E]

But that's the point of terrorism - it can be anytime, any place, anyone.  A heavily used public transport station means no one's safe. 

[Barmymoo]

My dissertation is depressing me. I'm currently gathering statistics on how many prison nursery places there are in the USA, and how many babies have incarcerated mothers. The answer? About 100 places. A metric shitton of babies*. Whatever my conclusions are about whether or not prison nurseries are the way to go, that's a lot of little children who lose their mothers. Add fathers into the picture, or rather remove them from the picture - and that normally is the case: 40% of incarcerated mothers of minor children were single parents when they were arrested, and a large number are arrested alongside their partner or husband - and we're talking tens of thousands of effectively orphaned children.





* This is not the precise term I will use in my paper.

[Carl-E]

Welcome to America! 


So long as you don't do anything wrong, aren't poor or a minority or make any sudden moves, You'll be OK...

[Barmymoo]

Britain isn't a lot better, to be honest. We just have fewer people in prison so the numbers aren't as high. There are still a lot of children losing their parents here.

[BeoPuppy]

And by enforcing strickter anti abortion (anti woman) laws ... there only be more kids! For which they can't and won't provide!

Merry fucking Christmas!

[jwhouk]

And meanwhile, they're trying to make sure that there won't be any place to PUT those kids if they're running afoul of the law, because states are rapidly closing juvie detention facilities because they a.) are unpopulated and b.) cost too much to run.

[Welu]

Just edited my CV to include my new part-time supervisor duties.

[Thrillho]

I just washed every dish in the flat. For the first time probably ever, every single utensil, plate or other thing is available to use.

That lasted ten minutes because then I had to make my fucking dinner.

[Barmymoo]

I'm impressed - I have never managed to reach that point (except when I moved out at the end of a year). I am really hoping to get there before Christmas though; the main problem is all the storage boxes that had frozen portions of meals in them, and I used them but didn't wash the box... I have to now, because I need to do next term's meals after Christmas!

[Papersatan]

Sometimes Stephen will get us there, but I promptly ruin it by making something messy.  I frequently want to cook/bake big messy things, but there are several things which stop me.  The frustration of finding the space and cookware to do it is one of the major ones though.  This means that there is a direct relationship between how many dishes are clean at anytime and how likely I am to make a lot of dirty dishes. 

Stephen, Sorry that dish washing must seem like a sisyphus-ian task when you live with me. 

[Barmymoo]

My magic solution, which sadly is only possible with more than one sink, or with several washing up bowls, is to have a bowl of hot soapy water to put things straight into once I've finished with them. At the moment I eat all my meals in my room, which is quite far from the kitchen, so that doesn't work, but I have a sink in my room and a "draining board" (which is just a plastic tray with a lip round the edge to stop the water going everywhere) which means I can wash up in my room. Can't WAIT for a proper kitchen where I can eat.

[Papersatan]

arrgghh

This guy in my group project, the one who has been holding everything up, he finished his part of the paper, but cant write the introduction/format it or write the one other little part he was supposed to because he doesn't know how of some shit. 

I agreed to just do it because this thing just needs to be turned in at this point.

[Pilchard123]

I find (when I actually wash up by hand; yay for dishwashers) that having a hot, soapy bowl to wash in and then a cold bowl that you dunk the washed items in to remove suds works quite well. You do have to change the water in each bowl quite often, but you'd have to anyway. It also needs quite a bit of space, but since I usually do it like that when I'm camping, space is rarely an issue.

[Papersatan]

I just submitted the paper which has been the cause of most of my bitching on the forum over the last few weeks.  It is 5 pages short, 5 days late and of terrible quality, but it is done.

[BeoPuppy]

High five and something alcoholic for you.

[Zingoleb]

There has to be a drink called a High Five. Just has to be.

[BeoPuppy]

http://www.thefeedstation.com/drinks/high-5-zero-electrolyte-drink.html

[Papersatan]

That is not a thing I want to drink.

Also, I have a midterm to study for tonight so I will probably not be drinking.

[Radical AC]

I get my BA in Political Science on Friday.  I am giddy.  I plan on going to law school, but I will take a semester off to play music and enjoy my youth.  Three finals left, but I may end up with a 4.0 this semester.

[Akima]

The device had probably been set to explode via a time-clock but luckily failed to do so. It was made from bottles of propane and a steel tube of ammonium nitrate, as I understand it. I´m not to clear on the specifics but according to the police it would have made for a reasonably sized boom. What a cowardly thing to do, anyway.

Brave, civilised people like us do it with an armed drone from a control-console safe on the other side of the planet. Terrorists target public transport terminals for the same reason Curtis LeMay and Arthur Harris targeted enemy cities; it's where the people are. Perhaps I should have posted this in the Pessimism And Depression thread...

[celticgeek]

I get my BA in Political Science on Friday.  I am giddy.  I plan on going to law school, but I will take a semester off to play music and enjoy my youth.  Three finals left, but I may end up with a 4.0 this semester.

Congratulations!

[Papersatan]

Yussss <fist pump>

My grade just came back for that "secret shop" the archives project I was bitching about earlier:

27/30 (90%)

so happy with that grade, I was ready for a 75.

[Redball]

The way you talked, I was ready for a 64.

[Carl-E]

Good students often under-report their expected grades. 


I suspect it keeps them motivated, or something. 





Something other than suicidal, I hope!

[Zingoleb]

Well, suicidal is a form of being motivated, if you're looking at it from the right POV...

[Papersatan]

I think what happened is he graded it on a curve.  Everyone I talked to was confused by the project, so even though I felt like I didn't meet the expectations, if no one else did either...

[Patrick]

Well, suicidal is a form of being motivated, if you're looking at it from the right POV...

Aw shit dogg, too soon

Guys my drummer Paul bought the whole band customized Zippos with our band pic on them, I don't even

I will treasure this forever <3333333

[Barmymoo]

Congratulations Kat! And Radical AC, and everyone else achieving great things

I find it funny that 75 would have been a disappointing grade. I have never got 75% on any of my essays and certainly not on any exams. I'm hoping I might get 70% on one exam this year, and aiming for 65% overall.

[Papersatan]

It's that difference in American grading.  I need to maintain an average of 85% to get my degree and any class in which I receive less than a 75% in Does not count for credit.  (though does get added into my average)