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[Barmymoo]

My inner rebellious teenager left a couple of years ago. My inner middle aged housewife keeps knocking on the door, though. I've spent the last three days cooking meals to freeze in individual portions for my brother to reheat when he gets in from school after I leave, and having dinner on the table for him when he gets home while I'm here. I'm enjoying it. I even did a bit of weeding yesterday.

[lepetitfromage]

You might not have rent, but taxes and mortgages still need to be paid.

Well, yeah obviously. But it would be nice to pay for something that you get to keep.



Good luck Linds!!


Carl-E, I hope all goes well for your daughter. And I think you were right to walk out of the class! Sometimes students need responses like that to realize what asses they're being.

[Zingoleb]

My friend is offering to pay for my trip to the Emerald City Comicon.

My flat tone deceives not the sheer excitement coursing through me.

I will be meeting Ryan North.

I will be meeting Tara Strong.

I will be meeting Jeph Jacques.

[pwhodges]

Say hullo to Jeph from me, please; I'm sure I'll never have the opportunity!

(Enjoy your excitement - and the trip, of course.)

[Zingoleb]

I'm mostly piffled that I'll not have any money until after the con. Ugh.

[Thomas Edison]

I've just got off the phone from talking to my sister, who was telling me that in her latest Ouija board chat with our dead great uncle he had mentioned a Belgian business partner and made a comment about his death by gunshot in Belgium.

Personally I do not believe in any of this spiritual stuff, but a quick look into my great uncle on the internet and I find out that not only was he a big time arms dealer during the Spanish Civil War and World War 1 but he partnered with an Edgard Grimard, a Belgian who operated out of Liege.

I don't know if my sister has already searched up on him and is just pulling my leg, but this little Google expedition has caught my interest. Does anyone know how to find out about the deaths of relatives? I'm curious to discover if my great uncle really did die from a shooting.

[Omega Entity]

Ouija board shit creeps me the fuck out. If there is something out there (as in, spirits and the like) it's not something I'd feel comfortable screwing with, especially if those stories of unleashing demons and shit are true. 

The probably aren't, but better safe than sorry.

[Mister D Nomms]

I made a ouija board end table for a school project once. The triangle doohickey was a cupholder.

[benji]

Not getting into the veracity of Ouija boards (I've never used one), you can probably contact the local records office where ever he died and get any documentation they might have. A lot of Belgians can read English, so you might well get a response. I wouldn't mention the Ouija board. Just say you're compiling notes on your family history and you want to check on a family story about your uncle being shot.

[Jimor]

Back when I worked in a toy store, a young couple bought a Ouija board. A couple hours later, they came back wanting a refund, "It doesn't work." Several snarky retorts crossed my mind, but I managed to process their return without uttering any of them.

Here's the REAL secret to Oiuja boards: they exist to freak the fuck out of the other person you're playing with.

[ecstaticjoy]

Ouija board shit creeps me the fuck out. If there is something out there (as in, spirits and the like) it's not something I'd feel comfortable screwing with, especially if those stories of unleashing demons and shit are true. 

The probably aren't, but better safe than sorry.

Omg I get the same feeling, too! It's not like I really think the stuff from the movies is going to happen to me, I just feel like I shouldn't be doing it.
I grew up with a psychic mom (she says she talked to me on the Ouija board before I was born and that I told her my name was Joy and that's why she named me that) so I wasn't really mystified by it. It seemed like a telephone to me and I swear I have a memory of talking to her and being frustrated because my dad moved too slow.

But it just feels unnatural to play with. We're in our bodies, we must be here for some reason. If we were meant to be thinking about the spiritual world we wouldn't be in the physical.

And yes it scared me a little, lol.

[ackblom12]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

[Zingoleb]

Everyone should watch that link, that is seriously some fantastic stuff there.

I love Tim Minchin.

[Welu]

I love that video. Saw Tim Minchin at Greenwich Comedy Festival last year and was so much fun. Ooh, I'm gonna see if the line-up for this year is up yet. 

Edit: Not yet.

[Lines]

Here's the REAL secret to Oiuja boards: they exist to freak the fuck out of the other person you're playing with.

Yup. Back in high school, I was playing this with my friend and her younger sister and I started to drag the pointer thing around to mess with the sister. Not only did she think it was real, but she was convinced later on that she was still talking to her when she played with other friends.

[Welu]

My drama teacher told me a story of when she was about eighteen, her and a few other friends got a Ouija board and it was the only time they used one. The glass apparently shook really violently and she and her friends felt like they had to fight with it to push it down. They asked who they were speaking to and it spelled "devil" and then the glass flew off the table and hit the wall.
As someone who doesn't believe in this type of paranormal stuff at all, I am curious to try with people who do just to see what happens. I used to believe in ghosts so I have an interest and like to listen to people's experiences.

In other news: Filmed again tonight. Went so well. The girls had to leave early but this just made me go into Director-Mode and properly take the lead. Got everything done in about two and a half hours. Other than some small shots with just one actor, all is good. It's awesome to feel excited again.

[Zingoleb]

my roommates are all drunk

they were laughing and making out

now they're playing ignition

(so what I'm drunk, it's the freakin' weekend baby I'm about to have me some fun)

and crying

it's not even the weekend

[Lupercal]

I somehow stepped on my own fucking toe and it feels like i should get my whole foot amputated

FUCK THIS HURTS

[Lupercal]

I also noticed today that a distant relative I have on Facebook constantly watches the worst sounding movies. Today it was "Love, Wedding, Marriage". Is this his poor film choice, or representative of the Canadian film industry? Guess I'll never know.

[Carl-E]

Might be more a factor of who he's watching them with...

[Mister D Nomms]

How do I play ignition? Do I have to be drunk and will it make me cry?

[BeoPuppy]

I've a picture of drunk people lighting things on fire so there's at least the possibility of crying in there, somewhere.

My son needed a new summer coat so he also needed new emblems. We're going with Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Metallica and Led Zeppelin.

He's 19 months old.

[Lupercal]

Might be more a factor of who he's watching them with...

Oh, no doubt. But they all sound like that, a man needs to have some manly films on if Facebook is constantly publishing his Netflix activity. Tomorrow I'm looking for "I Don't Know How She Does It", "Women In: Things That Go Wrong With My Usually Average Life", and "Bridesmaids 2: The CashCow"

Stick on Fargo once in a while or something.

I hope my kids are as rock orientated as yours, BP

[Mister D Nomms]

I just hope my kids don't try to kill me or their mother.

[Lines]

House hunting is depressing. You're all, "Man, I love this house! But it's too small for if/when we start having kids, so we can't live here," and "Man, I love this area! But this house makes no sense," or "Man, I really want this house! But there is an income cap so I can't live here." (Income caps don't make sense to me. I mean, they kind of do, but not really.)

Really liking old houses in urban neighborhoods is no fun. They're all either in terrible condition (we do not have the time or money to renovate a house or I totally would) or they are just too small (like, 1 bedroom short of being perfect). I would move back to my old neighborhood, like a lot of our friends are doing, but man, that school district has gone from bad to worse, so no.

[pwhodges]

Ah, the joys of adulthood!

In other news, the university computer service lifted the block on my mail server this morning, except for the bit that receives mail about patients and adverse drug reactions. When by mid-afternoon I had received no response to my attempts to get something done about this, I raised such merry hell* that the director of the university computing service himself rang me.  Everything was resolved before I went home 

*  I asked them to compare the possible loss of reputation from the university's mail server being blacklisted by Hotmail (which happened twice last autumn, and which they have no wish to repeat) with the possible effect of newspaper headlines about a patient dying because a crucial message had been blocked by their deliberate actions...

[Barmymoo]

What is an income cap and why does it operate?

[Jace]

I bet it is a system to keep people with high income out of neighborhoods driving up prices so that the people that could have lived in those neighborhoods can't afford housing.

[Zingoleb]

How do I play ignition? Do I have to be drunk and will it make me cry?

you go type 'ignition r. kelly' into youtube

[Lines]

I bet it is a system to keep people with high income out of neighborhoods driving up prices so that the people that could have lived in those neighborhoods can't afford housing.

This, basically. There are a lot of neighborhoods in this city that have become popular for whatever reason and so previously low income neighborhoods have become middle to upper middle class neighborhoods because of people moving in and taking over the neighborhood. Which is both a good thing (yay cleaning up historic neighborhoods!) and also a bad thing (hey poor people gtfo). It was just one house and there are several more we're interested in nearby areas, so it's ok.

We looked at 4 last weekend and are looking at 5 more this weekend and have another we might be interested in and two we're really interested in, but can't seem to get a hold of the realtors. So. We've got options. After this weekend if we don't find one we love, we're going to find a realtor to work with so they can do the looking so we don't get so frustrated.

[Mister D Nomms]

Oh, Ignition is a song? I'm alright with not listening to an R Kelly song.

[Welu]

Two of the supervisors in work said they'll support me if I asked to be trained for part-time supervising because right now there's two full-time and four part-time supervisors.
One part-time is in university in another country and the system has been changed a bunch of ways since she's left.
One part-time is trying to get a permanent teaching gig and right now she's substituting so she is basically employed elsewhere for now.
The other two-part time are in university two hours away so they can only work holidays and weekends.
There's another one who is trained for supervising but she hates doing it and works full-time as a sales-assistant any way so she'll just do the odd thing to help out during her normal shift if she has to do so.

So basically if one gets sick or can't make their shift, we're kind of screwed.

So yeah, think it's the right time to try to do it. The problem is other than two full-timers, I'm the only person trained for doing the dairy/fresh stock stuff on the weekend which is 9am to 2pm. The second supervisor shift starts at 2:30pm and it's the Sunday night shift they need sorted. Debating asking the morning supervisor to stay on an hour and I'll start at 3:30pm and do the morning shift as well in exchange for swapping a weekday shift. Even without one of the weekday ones, I'd still be doing more hours if I do the supervisor gig.

[Carl-E]

The problem is other than two full-timers, I'm the only person trained for doing the dairy/fresh stock stuff on the weekend which is 9am to 2pm.

Sounds like your first act as a supervisor is to hire and train someone to do this...


That's part of what supers do, right?  See a deficiency and address it?  And tell everyone to make do until then? 

[Barmymoo]

Unfortunately in my experience of management hierarchies, if it would be a sensible solution to a scheduling difficulty then you will under no circumstances be allowed to implement it.

[Welu]

I wouldn't be the one training probably. I'm currently technically under retraining because the system has changed again. Even though I know how to do it. I don't understand my shop most of the time.

Blog: I drove for the first time ever today. Stalled the car.

[Carl-E]

My (older) daughter has a girlfriend, who makes her ridiculously happy. 

She still suffers from PTSD and violent headaches*, but she's holding down a call center job now and is in love, which is a huge improvement over the last couple of years. 

* -- for those who never knew/don't remember, she was attacked by an armed burglar in her dorm room during her first semester in college.  He beat her severely in the head with the gun when she pointed out that he'd never get away with shooting her.  He was never caught, and is the source of a lot of fear and some minor brain damage two and a half years later.  She dropped out of school, and hasn't been able to handle much of anything for a while, but she's slowly getting better. 

Oh, and she used to be into boys, but tended to hook up with nasty losers from day one.  Her girl friend treats her really well, and that makes her mom and me much happier!

[lepetitfromage]

  That is wonderful, Carl-E. Love truly lessens our pain.

I'm so sorry to hear about your daughter's attack, there is no reason that anyone should have to endure that. But a job and a girlfriend show incredible steps in recovery. Sometimes the emotional aspects of things like that are the hardest to deal with and it sounds as though your daughter is going about it the right way. Slowly coming around is a lot better than repressing and pretending to be ok. (She's also very lucky to have loving and supportive parents!)

[Zingoleb]

I don't know how and why I can feel homesick and nostalgic for a time and place where I hated myself and everyone around me

but I do

(all of a sudden I miss everyone)

and I'm wishing for a time that's only a memory (and wasn't even real then; we pacify ourselves with gentle lies and whitewash the rest in fantasy)

but I don't know why

I feel like someone's died and I'm never going to see them again, and it's so sad I cry at the name, even though I despised them and everything they ever did

...and for the first time, I can't go home.

[Carl-E]

Remember, if you never escape your past, you can't grow. 

And if you don't long for your childhood (no matter how fucked up), you're not an adult (yet). 

Which is why I said "no" to the assholes from school who invited me to the 30th reunion.  I hated most of them, for good reason, but enjoy my whitewashed memories of those years, and would rather not have them disturbed by reality. 


Welcome to your (new) world. 

[Lines]

I think I'm going to try to get a summer teaching internship with the zoo. Or at least volunteer. Not that it has a whole lot to do with art, but I really want to do something different this summer and have a little fun.

[Zingoleb]

That sounds really awesome! I hope you get it.

[lepetitfromage]

Good luck! That sounds like so much fun 

[Lines]

Thanks guys! I volunteered with the botanical garden part of the zoo ages ago and had a blast, so I hope I get it, too. It'd be unpaid, but I just want the experience.

[Mister D Nomms]

I've been talking about butt holes way too much lately.

[Carl-E]

Easter, and I'm watching our parish die.  One bad priest can really kill a church. 

My wife saw all the littles, ready for the egg hunt, and said,
"You know what I want for easter?  I want my girls little enough to do an egg hunt, and have back the days of no cancer or brain damage". 



So do I.  We hugged, and she told me not to start bawling.  It's been a rough day. 

[Skewbrow]

We did an egg hunt yesterday. My wife wants it that way. The kid and I feel sort of meh about it, but go along with it every Easter. It never fails to bring out a smile.

My kid won the national junior high math competition in his freshman year. One year after he  placed third in county level discus throw competition. Then he came down with CFS. That was seven years ago. Actually the prof is not completely sure what it is, but that is the best description they can come up with. We tried a bit of homeschooling while trying to get a diagnosis. He did ace the junior high final exams. But he has never been able to start high school. A guy two years his senior who lost to him in that competition is now a promising beginning graduate student. Just thinking about all the opportunities slipping away... makes me feel numb. And doesn't really help.

Keep the boat afloat, Carl-E.

[Redball]

Bawling isn't all bad. Wish I'd had more opportunities.

[Welu]

Just finished packing most of my clothes. Not gonna be proper in the house till the end of the week.

[Carl-E]

<_<

>_>


Can I come over?   

To help pack, of course...

[dr. nervioso]

I really don't think I could walk around the house in anything less than a t shirt and a pair of sports shorts. I mean, I am far from attractive, so I am sure no one would rape me or anything(especially not in my own house), but I just feel so exposed. Heck, transitioning from pants to shorts is kinda weird for me too.