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[Carl-E]

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[pwhodges]

When are you here?

[Barmymoo]

Blinders? I have no idea what that is.

[pwhodges]

Barriers at the sides, like blinkers for a horse. Used by shooters, or on some sorts of sunglasses.  May also be useful for someone with some kind of visual impairment, I guess.

Re your remark somewhere (I forget where) about Cambridge having its Xmas lights already, Oxford put theirs up a week ago, but hasn't turned them on yet.

[The Seldom Killer]

Evenings of the Sunday 27th and Monday 28th.

[Lupercal]

I think that we're getting to the stage of post-hipsters?

[pwhodges]

Monday evening is best (my wife is usually away Monday), though I have to fit round dog training.  Or lunchtime - but I guess you have lunch in.  PM me when you get here.

[Barmymoo]

Ah, I thought that might be what blinders were. No, she is just a pretentious hipster I think. She was also wearing a big baggy knitted jumper and had a haircut my aunt had in the 80s.

[pwhodges]

A nice man came today and swapped my Internet for a new one twice as good - I've been upgraded from straight ADSL to FTTC, and my down speed has gone from 19Mbps to 39Mbps, with up going from 1.1Mbps to 2Mbps (10Mbps up is an option, but costs 50% more).  Unfortunately that's had to use the Ethernet cable from my firewall router in the loft to my study, so until I run another there is no network cable to my main desktop computer (which is also in bits because I had to move my desk out for the installation); I could alternatively move the router to my study, but then the wireless signal might not get to the right places.

I've also been sick for the last couple of days.  Boo.

[Barmymoo]

This term had been going pretty well, I was on top of the work and healthy and keeping my room clean etc, and I started to get a bit more easy-going about saying yes to things.

With the result that I have a supervision at noon tomorrow, I haven't finished the work for it and there's no time to do so, and I have three essays due next week (plus three more supervisions, none of which I've started) and no time to do those things either.

ARGH ARGH ARGH ARGH THE OTHER SHOE IS ABOUT TO DROP.

[Carl-E]

Sounds more like the other shoe just hit you on the head on its way down...

Sorry, May.  Hope it turns out better than you're expecting. 



Oh, and try to get a few hours sleep somewhere in all that.  Things will go better if you do than if you pull all nighters. 

[The Seldom Killer]

Relax, you won't be the first student to overcommit and I doubt you'll be the last. You've at least recognised this so take some time to get in touch with the relevant people, let them know what is happening and discuss what they expect from you. I reckon it'll make a refreshing change from hearing about it once the deadline has passed.

[The Seldom Killer]

And in bloggage mode. I've taken up playing polo and had a fairly spectactular crash a few weeks back which left me spread across the court like well buttered toast. Got up, walked it off and was fine. This week I simply over-extend reaching for a tackle and have managed to do something bad to the muscle bits around my ribs. Still in pain two days later. Annoyed that the little stuff is more painful than the big stuff, it really shouldn't be this way.

[Barmymoo]

Unfortunately letting anyone down isn't an option - I have to do all the things I've agreed to do (with one possible exception, but that thing isn't really at an inconvenient time or anything so I'll just do it). They just will be done badly, to the detriment of my health and the tidiness of my room!

[Zingoleb]

I just got called a narrow-minded classist because I don't believe mugging college students is good for anyone involved. 

[Carl-E]

I'm dying to know how that  conversation got started...   

Seldomkiller, I've had similar situations.  Thing is, it was probably the polo court accident that actually caused the later injury - you were already injured, but it wasn't until you extended that part of the injured muscle set that you actually felt  it. 

I helped a friend move his gun safe once (not only a safe in name, the real deal, thick steel and heavier than shit).  I overextended my legs, I could feel they were a bit wobbly afterward.  Two days later, stepping off  a ladder, I felt a calf muscle twang like a rubber band.  No stress on it or anything, but I also recognized it as one of the strained, quaking ones from the gun safe day.  Took almost two weeks  to heal up, too...

Be careful, and take it easy for a bit, before you hurt someting else! 

[The Seldom Killer]

Possibly, although there are three weeks between incidents. I have been moving house recently so that might have something to do with it as well. Fortunately as I put my body through a constant low level of abuse I tend to heal up fairly quickly. In reality I should probably lay off because I'm getting to that age when I'm no longer youthfully indestructable. But that doesn't seem like a lot of fun so there's a genuine risk that I'm going to carry on until I end up hosptialised.

Zingoleb, I'm having a hard time picturing the sort of person who violently steals money from college students and cognitive style to call someone a narrow-minded classist. Do you live in some kind of parrallel universe where life directed by Guy Richie and Gus Van Sant?

[Zingoleb]

It's with a friend whom I have continual disagreements with, and he manages to turn them into altercations. (Though this time it was me that turned it into an altercation, because I was pissed off because that's fucked up.)

He keeps missing time at work for various reasons, and he works raising money for autism awareness, so if he doesn't make xx amount, he loses his job. Well, he misses work because he's stressed, or doesn't like the cold, or needs to help someone. I can understand that last one, but he is *really* not suited for this job in any way, and casually mentioned mugging someone last night so as to make enough money to keep his job. I thought it was a joke, but it turns out he was serious. "Why would mugging a monied, privileged person be a bad thing?" ...because you're fucking over someone else to fix your own problems. Besides, how can you even tell someone's 'priveleged'? "By the way they dress. Or if they go to Evergreen*, 99% of Evergreen students are loaded."

He told me that I need to study class analysis when I pointed out that everyone I know that's going to/gone to Evergreen has dug themselves pretty far in debt to go there. Then called me narrow-minded because I don't think knocking over anyone is a good way to fix a problem.

Oh god, I can usually defend his viewpoint, even when it's pissing me off, but this is just too fucking bizarre. 

[Barmymoo]

Perhaps you could tell that guy that I would happily give money to charity if someone asked me to (and particularly if they explained that they needed a certain amount in order to keep their job, collecting more in the future) but when I was mugged it fucked me up for months. I was afraid to go out after dark, and I am still nervous if I'm alone in the dark - and since it gets dark here at 4pm at the moment that's a lot of fear. You could also point out to him that being loaded doesn't mean you aren't scared of being attacked.

[Carl-E]

That won't work - said person is clearly thinking short-term only. 


And pretty effed up thinking, at that.

[LTK]

Man, if socializing comes with reeking of tobacco smoke when you get home every time, I'm not sure I want to make it a regular thing.

[The Seldom Killer]

I'm very close to thinking it would be good for quite a few people if one person inparticular got mugged.

[Akima]

Bacterial Sinusitis,
Liver infection,
Glandular fever.

Ow! I hope you feel better soon. Seriously.

[smack that isaiah]

Richard Stallman is coming to give a talk at my school on Monday!  I do have to skip fencing practice to attend, but whatever.  I am excited!

[bainidhe_dub]

Um I argh. (I got snarked at last time I addressed a non-stranger in the stranger-anger thread, so here goes here.)

My coworker is SO DUMB. Like, SO DUMB. I don't think she listens to herself talk, because the only other explanation is that she truly believes the shit that comes out of her mouth, and I just cannot fathom that a person in her position could be SO DUMB.

On Wednesday, she was going to try to go on the roof of a building (and climb the wall-mounted ladder to get up to it). Later in the afternoon she sent a photo of herself on the roof to everyone, but when she got back to the office she told me & the head engineer that it was actually at a different building with stairs instead of a ladder up, and if anyone else asked, she would tell them so. Today we had our weekly meeting with our 2 bosses, and Top Boss asked about it. She said EVERY DAMN THING EXCEPT, "I chickened out and couldn't climb the ladder." She turned benign comments into insults on her weight. She talked herself into a bench press competition (claimed she could do 150lb on the machine, did 80lb). She freaked out on the engineer when he told Top Boss what really happened. She tried to insist it was "just" an omission, not a LIE. She said that because her job description says "may require" the ability to go on the roof, she didn't actually have to be able to.

Ughhh I am going to throttle her one of these days. Thank god everyone else, including Top Boss, seems to feel the same way.

[Jimmy the Squid]

What the hell kind of job do you have where any of that is at all relevant to anything?

[bainidhe_dub]

Property management. She's supposed to be able to do an inspection of the buildings.

[Carl-E]

Wait, couldn't people tell which roof she was on?  I guess all flat roofs look the same...

Sounds like (with Top Boss being invilved) she won't be there too long.  Unless other aspects of her job performance are so fucking stellar that they're willing to overlook this aspect of her job. 


Or she's fucking someone high up. 

[schimmy]

Or she's fucking someone high up. 

Can't you read? She's scared of heights!

[bainidhe_dub]

Wait, couldn't people tell which roof she was on?  I guess all flat roofs look the same...

Sounds like (with Top Boss being involved) she won't be there too long.  Unless other aspects of her job performance are so fucking stellar that they're willing to overlook this aspect of her job. 

Or she's fucking someone high up. 

Well the head engineer knew right away something was off, because building 4 has a lot more equipment on it than building 5. All you can see behind her is the rock ballast, the little wall that hides the RTUs but there's only a couple of vents, and the tops of trees.

The company doesn't seem like the type to fire someone without a LOT of issues, but goddamn she is not exactly stellar. Poor writing skills, misrepresents things a lot, misunderstands directions, asks questions 2 seconds after they were answered, tries to push a lot of her work on me, fucking diarrhea of the mouth constantly. I'm just gratified that the boss seems to realize most of it, so I don't sit there feeling like the only sane person in the room during these conversations.

[Zingoleb]

My music library is on my hard drive, which is only formatted to work on a Mac, and I only have a laptop running Windows (thank god for it, all the same - it's the only source of income I have). So I've been downloading albums here and there as I want to hear different songs, and sometimes the tags I get confuse the hell out of me.

For example, Marilyn Manson is not Soul/R&B, and I'd like to have a long discussion with whoever would call him such.

[The Seldom Killer]

Off to the Leeds Thoughtbubble Festival tomorrow. May be forced to rugby tackle Gary Spencer Millidge to the ground and stand on his neck until he finishes Strangehaven or at least gives me the gist of it. Might not have helped that I re-read it rather recently.

[nobo]

Bench press competition (claimed she could do 150lb on the machine, did 80lb).

I'd actually be pretty impressed to see a girl bench 80 lbs. Usually don't see girls doing more than just the bar at the gym.

[The Seldom Killer]

Fairly certain my girlfriend benches around a hundred or so.

[Lines]

I've seen it happen, though usually I don't see many girls benchpressing at the gym at all. Most of the ladies I've seen prefer free weights. I use free weights and resistance bands, but it's so I can combine leg and arm workouts.

Also, your blogginess, Thanksgiving is going to be my first holiday ever bringing an s.o. to a family gathering. I hope nothing batshit crazy happens. Also I'll be going to his family's gathering, but I know his family. It's my family he doesn't really know and I am actually worried about. WE SHALL SEE. (But also I'm excited! It's not a bad thing, just...different.)

[nobo]

The most I have ever seen my wife bench press is the bar, and my sister claims 75 lbs bench press and she is very athletic. I'm not knocking on girls in the weight room, I just don't see very at my gym that use the barbells or the dumb bells.

As for Thanksgiving, this will be the first one that my wife spends with my family. Her family is very organized and the turkey is in the oven by 11 a.m. at the latest, and dinner is at 5. My family usually rolls out of bed at 11 a.m. and starts preparing dinner once everyone has bathed and gotten into the spirit. Thanksgiving dinner at my house can be anywhere between 8 pm and 11:30 pm.

[Zingoleb]

I just realized that this is the first year I'm spending Thanksgiving without any of my family. Holy shit.

It's not upsetting at all, mind you, just kind of astounding. Then the following day is my 21st birthday - also my first birthday without any of my family. 

[Jimor]

::sniff:: Our little zingo is all growed up.

[Carl-E]

I just realized that this is the first year I'm spending Thanksgiving without any of my family. Holy shit.

Happened to me my sophomore year.  After my first year I realized that the 14 hour (each way) drive home wasn't worth the day of eating and day of sleeping before another day of driving back. 

Thanksgiving every subsequent year was spent with friends who also  couldn't make it home, and eventually, with my wife to be (who cooks a mean turkey  )

[Tova]

Thanksgiving every subsequent year was spent with friends who also  couldn't make it home, and eventually, with my wife to be (who cooks a mean turkey  )

Serves it right for being so mean.

... I'll get my coat.

[BeoPuppy]

I'll join you in coat hunting ...

I had the exact same thought.

[valley_parade]

I just realized that this is the first year I'm spending Thanksgiving without any of my family. Holy shit.

It's not upsetting at all, mind you, just kind of astounding. Then the following day is my 21st birthday - also my first birthday without any of my family. 

It's looking like I'll be moving in with some friends next month, so this'll be my first xmas not at home, either.

Though, my family is still in town. Hmmn. 

[Lines]

Do they not go home? My friends and I all went home for Christmas. The apartment was really cold when we got back, though. (I forget who got home first.)

[Zingoleb]

I got hit on with the most amazing pick-up line.

"You are so tall. I would climb you like a lemur."

[Carl-E]

That's a pickup line?

What's the world coming to?   

[Zingoleb]

it's a pick up line to me! It was two days ago and it's still amusing the hell out of me.

[Lines]

Bahaha, that's awesome.

[snalin]

Looking at some youtube videos, Lemurs doesn't really climb in a very interesting way. The running is pretty awesome, though.

Now, how to work that into a pick up line...


Oh and I just spent nearly 15k NOK (2,5kUSD/1,9kEuro) on a new computer. Would have cost probably 2k less before nature went to town Thailand. It's more than I really should spend, but the computer has some pretty sweet specs, and I needed a new one anyways as this one is falling to bits around me, and God dammit I'm just not trying to get HP customer service to help me with anything urgent any time again ever. It's still probably around 5 times as much as I've ever spent at once before, and I've pretty much got enough left for Christmas shopping and not any more, but still.

[LTK]

The worst feeling in the world is having a dream in which everything is awesome, but not impossibly so, followed by waking up and finding out things are not so awesome. Goddamn it.

[Zingoleb]

I keep having dreams where I'm back in high school. They're horrible, mostly because I'm aware of where my life is headed, so I actually have a chance to get a leg up and start fixing my future before it goes down the shitter and do what I needed to do - and instead I wake up feeling like I've missed a huge opportunity.

Then I remind myself that I'm twenty and I haven't missed out on that much time.

People keep telling me happy Thanksgiving. I just tell them that Freddie Mercury's been dead for 20 years today - still thankful? No, didn't think so.