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[JD]

Only once I think.

[pen]

What I meant by that was, are you going to Jamaica for the honeymoon to make up for not having your wedding there?

No, I wanted the beach wedding... the sand, flower in the hair, only a few people there to share it with... the rest of the week there would have been cool, but we'll do Jamaica another time.  We're gonna hit up Ireland instead.

[richlitt]

Dear blog thread,

I just finished my undergraduate. Nothing left to do but graduate.

Weird.

Regards,
A College Graduate

[Tom]

Oh hey, congrats. What did you get your Bachelor in?

[richlitt]

Cheers.

Linguistics. It's weird, though, because I'm in Scotland, I don't get a BA. I've got an MA, now. Never had a BA. Huh.

Woo.

[Lines]

What I meant by that was, are you going to Jamaica for the honeymoon to make up for not having your wedding there?

No, I wanted the beach wedding... the sand, flower in the hair, only a few people there to share it with... the rest of the week there would have been cool, but we'll do Jamaica another time.  We're gonna hit up Ireland instead.

Aw, that would have been lovely! But a few of my friends have honeymooned in Ireland and they loved it.

[valley_parade]

What I meant by that was, are you going to Jamaica for the honeymoon to make up for not having your wedding there?

No, I wanted the beach wedding... the sand, flower in the hair, only a few people there to share it with... the rest of the week there would have been cool, but we'll do Jamaica another time.  We're gonna hit up Ireland instead.

Dear bestest friends ever,

Bring me back a hurley? I'll pick it up in July. 

[redglasscurls]

Couch to 5K. Or, in my case, office worker to 5K. My thighs hate me today.

[valley_parade]

So...I don't get it.

I ordered a Manchester United jersey this week, and got an email saying the numbering that they wear for the Champions League was out of stock and wouldn't be in for a week or two.

Wanting my shirt for the final on the 28th, I called to ask if they could just use the standard league numbering and EPL badges on the sleeves.


Apparently these are two different items, and a league jersey is not available in my size. It's just the same jersey with different numbers and badges heat applied in house before shipping. Whaaaaaaaaaaat?

[JD]

Going to celebrate my(now late)grandfather's birthday by going to is favorite restaurant. I hope there isn't too much sentimentality because I am terrible in those situations.

[Tom]

oh, ha ha ha wow am I in a shitty mood this morning

[Gemmwah]

So because for the last couple of weeks I have been doing so much uni work that my head is about to fold in upon itself, so my girlfriend and I booked a holiday to Gran Canaria to stay in the Puerto Rico resort for 7 days after my exams are over to try and prevent implosion, but now my work is saying that I've left it too late to book holiday time for my exams and trip to Gran Canaria and at this point I hate my job so much that I am genuinely tempted to just stone cold quit.

Honestly, I've not had holiday that I've wanted to take since August last year, I took a few days in January to look after my Grandad while he had pneumonia but that was more of an emergency than a genuine holiday. My housemate (we work together) has been given 4 weeks off so she can fuck off to California, and one of my other colleagues was given a week off last minute so she could do her dissertation. So I feel like I'm being entirely shafted and I really want to punch my managers in the face.

[McTaggart]

I just hobbled together enough of an assignment to not get an F-INC for a whole unit, though it's definitely going to get a fail grade. I'm feeling really disappointed in myself. I know the theory well, I understand exactly what I needed to do, I just didn't leave myself enough time to implement it all.

I've been shit at studying, I'm still unemployed, I haven't achieved half the shit I planned on and my discipline and willpower are at an all time low. There's all these deadlines and things I have to plan around which are getting in the way of me actually doing something about it. Incidentally, my parents are taking me on a trip to Turkey and giving me a bunch of spending money and I don't deserve none of it so I feel awful about the whole thing. I'm feeling really low but at least it's a whole different kind of low to what I'm used to so I guess that's better than it could be.

[valley_parade]

I don't know if it's Jussi or just the video I saw of the Finnish hockey goalie falling off the plane and crashing face-first into the World Championship trophy, but I feel like I've created my own stereotype that all Finnish people are batshit crazy.

I don't want to seem prejudiced or anything. It's just that every time I hear mention of Finland, it's inevitably something insane.

[Jimor]

I've been shit at studying, I'm still unemployed, I haven't achieved half the shit I planned on and my discipline and willpower are at an all time low. There's all these deadlines and things I have to plan around which are getting in the way of me actually doing something about it. Incidentally, my parents are taking me on a trip to Turkey and giving me a bunch of spending money and I don't deserve none of it so I feel awful about the whole thing. I'm feeling really low but at least it's a whole different kind of low to what I'm used to so I guess that's better than it could be.

Kinda sounds like you're just out of gas. One way to think of the Turkey trip that minimizes the guilt is to use it to recharge your batteries and get away from everything else long enough to think things over and come back with fresh perspective and concrete achievable goals. I think we all reach some point in our lives when it feels like we're floundering, but it's very likely just a signal that your priorities are changing a bit and you just need to find new motivations to match.

Dear Blog Thread, somewhat related, I'm trying to get a handle on all the projects and goals I want to achieve, and it's quite daunting looking at all the things I want to do, realizing that I almost always kinda just let things slide outside my attention. I really need to start prioritizing and taking steps towards getting some of this stuff done. What's sad is that a lot of it is really cool, but once the bloom is off, I have a hard time getting motivated to continue and finish. It's like some long-term ADD I have. I can concentrate on a particular task for hours when I'm excited about it, but later I have a hard time even getting up the will to take a look at it again.

Fortunately, I have a fairly free summer to try to get my shit together, so I'm working on a plan that I'm hoping plays well with my strengths and weaknesses.

[Lines]

I made a new friend this weekend.

[Liz]

Oooh, he must work out.

[Dazed]

Where are the nipples

[Blue Kitty]

It looks like he's about to hurt you

[Lines]

He's helping me up onto his platform. He didn't want me to trip.

Where are the nipples

Those movies never happened. I don't know what you're talking about.

[Blue Kitty]

Be warned, he knows about 7 ways to incapacitate you from that position. Only 3 of them will leave you crippled for life.

[Zingoleb]

So I'm in Vermont! It's funny, you go to sleep on a bus and wake up feeling like Quasimodo in that same shitty Rochester bus station you always regret going to. Life! But then I fell asleep on the next bus and woke up in mountains. And fog. Foggy mountains. Needed banjoes - always needs more banjoes (except when it doesn't) - but I'm not going to complain (except when I do).

It's about two AM. Almost. Someone gave me sleeping pills - they don't work. I don't sleep well at other people's homes, so I'm pulling an all-nighter. The girl from the internet that I came to meet is fast asleep right next to me and I'm on her laptop now, looking up horrible things, like Oglaf and the QC forums. Gasp - shock - etc. I'm really happy, and I'm not sure what to say. I don't want to go home; there's nothing there for me, and it's depressing to think about being back in Jamestown.

But I'm happy for the time being, until I get shipped back home again. I feel like telling people I love them (someone on the forums? I choose, uh, Linds! Linds is pretty tops. Hi Linds!), so maybe I'm less depressed than usual. Huzzah, etc., let joy be unconfined. That or I'm just super tired.

I ran up to someone today and pointed at the girl and screamed, "SHE CALLED ME MELODRAMATIC!" before bursting into tears. That was fun.

[Zingoleb]

also I saw a poster today that had a bearded man on it with american flag glasses upon his face, and underneath it said SUBMIT TO EST

[Jace]

Dogg if you are in Jamestown again we could actually meet. And if we don't like you I'll get the dagorhir group down there to beat you up with foam weapons.

Also:

- always needs more banjoes (except when it doesn't) -

This will never happen.

[Lines]

D'aww, thanks!

[Inlander]

Dear Blog Thread,

This week I feel exactly like the Go-Betweens song "Head Full of Steam", except instead of being unable to tear myself away from a girl I'm unable to tear myself away from a handkerchief, and instead of a head full of steam I've got a head full of snot, and instead of feeling great I feel like shit.

Also I've got just over a month to find a new job.

[Inlander]

Dear 2011,

Fuck you.

[Zingoleb]

Dogg if you are in Jamestown again we could actually meet. And if we don't like you I'll get the dagorhir group down there to beat you up with foam weapons.

Also:

- always needs more banjoes (except when it doesn't) -

This will never happen.

I dunno, I could (eventually, at some point) get tired of banjoes. Also I will be in Jamestown at the end of this week, also also I'm trying to get rid of my stuff (i.e. musical instruments and vinyl records). Just putting that out there.

[Patrick]

Update: I HAS A JOB.

My dogg. o/

Lost said job already. Been too busy to post about it til now. :\

Tuesday I had a show in Berkeley, which went very well! We were the second (and final) opening act for the most popular band in the city

Dude tell me those Berkeley people have proper earholes and you played with the Bye Bye Blackbirds.

(psst hey did you get your phone fixed yet?)

The band was called Mad Noise and they were very different-sounding from the Bye Bye Blackbirds but that's neither here nor there since the Bye Bye Blackbirds are from Oakland and not Berkeley. They've played some of the same venues, though, and Mad Noise were an excellent act to witness all the same.

(no, and it is really annoying! I would love to be taking advantage of that unlimited texting plan)

Dear blag,

My bandmate and I have been working on our upcoming album so much, we've gotten a shitload done and we're super proud of our work so far! We're gonna debut some of the stuff to Livermore by way of the open mic I used to run. It's finally reached the stage where we are soon gonna be able to focus primarily on getting shows. Which is basically a gigantic dream that I hardly dare even entertain. I fucking love the feeling of it though. We've played some of the demos around for people to give us feedback on them, and we've gotten some very useful reviews, and most of them came with positive assessments! And most importantly, we're really happy with the music we've written. Even if this doesn't get anywhere, it's so fulfilling to create something you feel proud of.

The idea of playing our stuff for the place my friends and I made for ourselves is kinda sentimental, to a degree, and I am really excited to do this.

[valley_parade]

The funny thing about last night was that my friend and I were sitting in the bar, complaining that we're too shy to talk to the multitude of girls that were there.

And then literally like 2 seconds later we found ourselves in conversation with two of them. I am kinda bummed as to how this worked out. One was wicked smaht and kinda looked like a young Heather Graham and yrrrrragh but she spent the whole night talking to my friend. Her roommate was just..I dunno. Boring and too worried about trying to buy weed.

We ended up going back to their place, and it was clear to everyone aside from my friend that we were just there to have a drank and order a pizza. He's too busy chatting up Heather Graham, and I'm stuck on the couch with Boring Girl Whose Name Ends in Two Es and watching some shitty something Real World whatever on MTV and my brain wants to melt.

Then it's 2:30, I'm all "dogg cmon we gotta work in the morning", it's pouring out, we run back to his car, I jump a puddle, slip, roll into another puddle, long story short I AM VERY TIRED, SLIGHTLY HUNGOVER, BORING GIRL WHOSE NAME ENDS IN TWO ES WAS BORING...but I got her number anyway...AND MY KNEE IS KILLING ME.

And there's a very wet pair of jeans in my room.

Edit: Oh and Patrick called me to tell me he went to a guitar shop.

[Lunchbox]

This morning I learned that Jimmy The Squid and I catch the same train to work! And also that we work in the same building! And also Rizzo works there too! And also Est works nearby and will be moving into my house with Eris soon! INTERNET WORLD

[Zingoleb]

Now I'm imagining you riding to work with an actual squid on the train. It's a kraken. It takes up an entire car. How did you not notice it?

[Inlander]

Dude have you ever caught public transport in a large city? It's head down, avoid eye-contact, pretend nobody else exists and you won't get hurt.

[nobo]

Macho Man Randy Savage had a heart attack while driving and died in the subsequent car crash.

[Spluff]

holy shit this hangover has lasted for 2 days and is still going strong

[The Seldom Killer]

I've been away from home for the past three weekends in a row. Now I finally get some time to chill out at home and sleep in and the bloody rapture is coming. FML.

[Barmymoo]

OK I don't get this, I spend more time at church than almost any of you, trainee priests exempted, and I have not heard about the rapture. Someone tell me quick before I get left behind.


Guys I am Unemployed (as opposed to just unemployed) for the first time and it really sucks, how do people who actually have bills to pay and stuff cope with this? I am underqualified for a cleaning job, for goodness sake! I am looking at the application form right now and it says "What equipment can you use?" and I cannot think of any equipment that anyone would need to use except a cloth and maybe a Hoover. ARGH I AM GOING TO BE POOR FOREVER.

Also it is really frustrating because I'm working full-time without pay at the hospital and I'm the most focused person in the department, they're always stopping for endless cups of tea or to chat to anyone who comes in and barely getting any work done, and yet they are actually being paid for it and I'm not. I've been moved to a different department because I was getting too much work done in the one I was in and they didn't like it.

[pwhodges]

OK I don't get this, I spend more time at church than almost any of you, trainee priests exempted, and I have not heard about the rapture.

Well, it's nothing to do with real  religion, for a start...

[The Seldom Killer]

I think knowing about the raptures comes mostly from lurking on lots of really sarky webforums and reading the kind of blogs that like to take the mickey out of asshats.

Short version is that some semi-notable godbotherer with a penchant for crunching biblical numbers has decided that the numbers now tell him that today at 23.00GMT a massive earthquake will tee off in Australia and perpetuate around the world destroying us all.

Perhaps it's a tad presumptious for me to suggest this, but this will be the second time he will have got it wrong. Pitiful really, afterall, who wants to be a heel-chaser to the Jehovah's Witnesses. Worth noting that some of the people who work for the man have made mention that they fully intend to turn up for work on Monday morning.

Mind you, some good is coming from this. Christians, Atheists and Apolcalyptists alike have been organising interdenominational parties to celebrate the event. No word from the Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus or other faiths as to whether they're coming and if they're bringing food but rumour has it that the Zen Masters have asked if it means Bring Your Own Buddha?

[look out! Ninjas!]

guys i just died in the rapture

[The Seldom Killer]

That's lovely dear, would you like a nice cup of tea now?

[BeoPuppy]

Guys I am Unemployed (as opposed to just unemployed) for the first time and it really sucks, how do people who actually have bills to pay and stuff cope with this?

Well, I have a girlfriend with a steady income so maybe you should look into that option. How to deal with the mental issues like the feeling of being tossed aside by society and feeling useless there, alas, I can offer no suggestions since I've not found the fucking cure for that yet.

So, basically:

Dear 2011,

Fuck you.

[squawk]

it turns out that managing your emotional instability is really difficult when your only previous method of management was "directing it all at one person"

bluhhhh this is why i shouldn't have friends and i still don't know why i do

posting in the blog thread because (hopefully) i won't be this upset in the morning

[StaedlerMars]

Dear this week,

Fuck. You.

[richlitt]

Yeah your week has sucked dude.

But think - California. !

[StaedlerMars]

Buy your god darned tickets already.

[richlitt]

Jesus christ. Fine. I'll do it today.

[squawk]

Today I feel better because my friend is the greatest friend ever oh my god he's so nice and smart

[squawk]

I just stared at that sentence and wondered/lamented how hard it would be theoretically if like people learning english for the first time had to read my rambling run-on thoughts.

(i am spliff high)

[Tom]

Guys, I probably have a problem that's really impacting my university work and greater social ability in general. I've been looking over the university's Counselling and Psychological services but I can't really bring myself to go in or even in schedule an appointment probably for the same reasons that stop me from doing anything productive. It's just that maybe I'm embarrassed or just fell guilty about it and I know it's there for these kinds of problems but maybe I'm just being a lazy shitheel covering up for my own failings and inabilities by inventing imaginary excuses and making this post for stupid attention whoring reasons. I mean why use up these services if there are people with genuine problems who need help. I haven't tried killing myself or anything, sure I think about very rarely hardly ever can't call it frequently but that's mostly normal just the waiting for a bus boredom talking.