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[Barmymoo]

I just googled on your suggestion, and there was indeed a shortage... last year. No idea whether maybe it's happened again. Anyway I don't mind if they switch me to a different brand, it makes no difference if the ingredients are the same. I suspect the reason I'm on the one I'm on is simply that it's cheaper for the NHS. Switching pharmacies is no good, because they've part-filled my prescription already so I can't just go somewhere else with it (boy do I wish they'd just told me to do that last week...)

[valley_parade]

May, if I end up coming to see you in Boston, please, please call me "dawg".

[Barmymoo]

Sho thing, bro

[Lines]

You need to say both "dawg" and "sho thing, bro" while we're at gencon. Please?

[CardinalFang]

Seconded.

[Redball]

Dawg? Bro?
Hey! I've got a great idea! I'll show up, see, and greet you with a great, glad loud voice:
"Son! (or Daughter!) We hoped we'd find you here! Your mom's on her way. She wants to show you the underwear she bought you. She's sure you'll like it!"

[Lines]

I just want to see if she pronounces them correctly. If not I can give her slang lessons! High school did manage to teach me something.

Also if the underwear comment happens, don't be surprised if I make an equally awkward/hilarious retort.

[valley_parade]

Linds, do not forget to teach May how to say "swag".

[Redball]

I don't think I can get there. But it would be precious, all of it.

[Zingoleb]

"swag"

whenever I hear swag I think of this:

[Redball]

Admission: I saw it as a Coolness Thing, for which my parental/grandparental response is to Mortify the Kid. But if it's hoping to hear how a young British woman pronounces dawg and bro', she's got a bit of time to Surprise Us All. Will someone record the event?

[Lines]

Linds, do not forget to teach May how to say "swag".

Unless I am saying "swag bag", that word never comes out my mouth. So I'm not really sure how to say it in the proper manner...

[lepetitfromage]

Swag makes me think of curtains.

[Jace]

I just want to see if she pronounces them correctly. If not I can give her slang lessons! High school did manage to teach me something.

Also if the underwear comment happens, don't be surprised if I make an equally awkward/hilarious retort.

Its dogg not dawg, doggbros.

[Omega Entity]

Linds, do not forget to teach May how to say "swag".

Unless I am saying "swag bag", that word never comes out my mouth. So I'm not really sure how to say it in the proper manner...

If you're saying 'swag' and it rhymes with 'bag', then you're saying it right

[Patrick]

Guys I decided to cold turkey quit cigarettes around 4pm yesterday, and now 29 hours later I am fidgety and miserable. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Patrick]

Okay you know what fuck this I'm going to go get a pack, being healthy just isn't worth it

[Mister D Nomms]

schwagginging

[Redball]

Okay you know what fuck this I'm going to go get a pack, being healthy just isn't worth it

It really is worth it. Don't stop trying to stop.

[schimmy]

I was about to post the single thing that ruined me last time I tried to quit, then thought better of it.

Instead, I'll post a tip that helped me quit for about a year in the past - every time I felt an urge to smoke, I'd make myself a cup of tea as a surrogate. A good cup of tea has the same effect on me that a cigarette does, in that it's extremely relaxing. Obviously, your mileage may vary if you're not a tea drinker, but you'd probably be able to find something that does the same to you.

[BeoPuppy]

I used nicotine patches and they are the best fucking high I ever had.

[schimmy]

I know several people who quit smoking, only to get addicted to patches.

edit:
I'm currently trying to figure out how much council tax I'm going to be eligible for next year. After an hour trying to figure out how all the different rules apply to me, I've given up and sent an email to my local council asking for them to just explain it to me. Then it occurred to me that some UK forumites might have some relevant experience.

Basically, I'm currently planning on working a full time job whilst living with two students. I know that a full student house is exempt from council tax; I know that as a non-student I have to pay council tax.
The clearest information I've been able to find is that if there's only one person living in a house eligible for council tax, then the house gets a 25% discount. I can't figure out if what they mean by this is that it's a 25% discount on top of the exemptions we'd get for having students, or if my living in the property would nullify the student exemptions, resulting in us only getting a 25% overall.

I'm kind of scared that it'll be the latter, but it doesn't make any sense for it to be anything but the former. What would it be about the fact that there's a non-student in the house that means that the students can suddenly afford to pay council tax?

If it is the case that we'd only get a 25% overall discount, then my hopes of living with 2 of my best friends next year are completely scuppered - I can hardly expect them to pay council tax just because I have to, yet I can't afford to live in a house and pay the council tax entirely by myself - if I lived with other people who had to pay council tax, we might not get a discount, but at least I wouldn't be paying the majority of it myself.

Arrrgh stupid taxes, I'm barely going to be able to afford to pay my bills as it is.

edit 2:
It dawned on me that my girlfriend is a student living with a non-student. She says the student exemptions stand, and the remaining adult gets a 25% discount of their share of the tax. Awesome!

[pwhodges]

In spite of last month's exceptional rain, drought restrictions on the domestic use of hoses for watering are still in place where I live; however, the use of drip-feed irrigation systems is permitted.  I have just spent the evening putting my drip-feed irrigation system in place, and extending it to cover stuff that it didn't reach last year.  One last length of hose, and it'll get to the vegetable patch.

[Redball]

Amazing that more people haven't learned about drip irrigation. Since retirement to a rural area, I'm on a well which can come up with 1k gallons/hour. I have a home built out from an A-frame with a pool adjacent, and my wife ended up with so much shrubbery that drip irrigation was a must. I have enough installed in a single zone that the well pump runs flat out, and still pumps up 6-7 feet to drip into some hanging baskets.

The township a few years ago considered building a water and sewer system which would have protected our little lakes from pollution but also would have required homeowners to abandon their wells. In principle, I agreed with it, but it would have cost me, between occasional fillings of a 16k gallon pool and the every other day irrigation.

Got in the pool for the first time today. 82F, thanks to 200 sq ft of solar panels. Probably higher tomorrow.

[Jace]

This is what I did tonight in about 3 hours (total time of like 5 hours but like 3 hours of actual work):



Looks splinted on the outside, but it is just a solid plate on the inside. Just easier to cut and sand and bend properly that way. The part that covers the hand doesn't have any metal because that part is generally hidden behind a hard basket hilt.

[Patrick]

Year-long dry spell: over. What am I doinggggggg

[The Seldom Killer]

Just been diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolaemia. Looks like food is going to be a bit more boring from now on.

[pwhodges]

Well, that depends; a Mediterranean style diet, with oily fish and red wine, is not necessarily any more boring than a Northern European style diet with fatty meat and beer.  And your already healthy lifestyle makes a good starting point.

[DrPhibes]

I'm going to teach about Napoleon Bonaparte in the following shirt: http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/beat-serious.png

[Omega Entity]

I love Kate Beaton. My favorite strip is still http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=120 .

[Lines]

Year-long dry spell: over. What am I doinggggggg

Bad, Patrick, bad!

[lepetitfromage]

Holy crap you guys. It's already Tuesday.

Went to Lake Taghkanic on Sunday and it ended up being an absolutely gorgeous day. The ridiculous humidity finally broke and we had a great day of relaxation. Yesterday was a cleaning/laundry day until about 4pm. Then went to buy a dress for my cousin's wedding (this Saturday) and take advantage of the free air conditioning in the mall (the previously noted humidity returned yesterday).

Tonight I'm heading out to a friend's house because I'm leaving at 7am with a few friends to head to Pittsburgh (YAY PEPPERS SHOW). The show is tomorrow night but we'll be staying over because it's a 7 hour drive from here to there. Coming home Thursday evening, then leaving again on Friday morning to head to New Jersey for previously mentioned cousin's wedding. They're having it down by the shore, so we gave an arm and a leg for the hotel room. After taxes and fees and all that other crap, it came to $225 for two nights. In a Holiday Inn. Which is actually a half hour away from the wedding venue. If we stayed 15 minutes closer, it would have cost $350 for the same two nights. I'm getting $40 cashback and a $75 rebate for booking 2 nights in a row though, so I guess it could be worse.

The prospect of traveling over 1,000 miles in a week is not exactly fun....but I'll enjoy the destinations!

[Mister D Nomms]

I refuse to stay at any hotel that charges more than 100 a night. I'd sooner find a 24 hour Walmart and sleep in the bathroom stall, which I've done.

[Patrick]

Year-long dry spell: over. What am I doinggggggg

Bad, Patrick, bad!

You don't even know, now I'm gonna get all attached and stupid and I don't want that to happen because I actually like this girl. Goddamned mutual drunkenness.

[Barmymoo]

So you like her, and she seems to like you, and you might get attached? Where's the problem?

[nobo]

The problem is that Patrick can't do anything correctly. My projection is 3 weeks before he starts getting needy with her, realizes it, starts blowing her off, makes out with another girl, and then cries about being dumped. Cries in the lap of another girl. Then the process will repeat itself.

[Jace]

I bought an air conditioner unit for my window today.
My room is 1000% more comfortable now.

[Patrick]

The problem is that Patrick can't do anything correctly. My projection is 3 weeks before he starts getting needy with her, realizes it, starts blowing her off, makes out with another girl, and then cries about being dumped. Cries in the lap of another girl. Then the process will repeat itself.

You are very nearly 100% correct, and this is a cycle I just don't want to deal with. I've gotten into this situation nearly every single time I've been interested in a girl. I can't be trusted in any kind of relationship, but I'm not exactly mentally well-suited for hookups either. 

The sex was amazing though. Easily among the best I ever had.

[Barmymoo]

Patrick, have you considered some kind of behavioural therapy to get you out of the loop? Seems healthier than just avoiding something that could make you happy. Obviously you can't do anything about the crazy of the people you get involved with, but you are the common factor in all your failed relationships thus far. I'm saying this as a person who has recognised a similar pattern (different issues, but still me being the common factor) and decided to put things on hold until I have time to get therapy properly, so obviously only you can decide if that's the right thing for you right now.

Blog thread, I think my exam this afternoon went really well! I was pretty pleased. I just hope that tomorrow morning's exam will go equally well; I have prepared some topics thoroughly and others not at all, which is a massive gamble to take but the one I chose so I'll have to stick with it now. I'll skim my lecture notes for some of the others tomorrow before I go in, so that the case names are in my short-term memory, and be cunning about my choice of questions. I was feeling confident and almost enthusiastic about this one a couple of weeks ago, because if the right questions come up then I've got a good chance of shining - I have unusual views on things, and it helps me to stick out. In fact encouragingly my supervisor said something like that in a revision supervision - to the entire group she said "you're lucky to have May in your group, because she has a different way of looking at things". I think she sort of meant that they should also develop some views, but no one seems keen on discussing things with me. So it'll be nice to have the opportunity to get my ideas down on paper and share them with the lecturers, albeit anonymously.

[Patrick]

Relationships don't make me happy, only I can do that. I don't think choosing to stay away is really necessarily unhealthy, and it's certainly more affordable than any kind of trained professional. I am simply annoyed at myself for consciously making a decision that I knew would make me ask myself "why did you do this" later.

[Carl-E]

... and that's why it's called behavioural therapy. 

[Lupercal]

Dear Blug

I got a work placement at HarperCollins, in the Publicity department. They are publisher of the year. One of the biggest publishers in the world. Actually, they are one of the "big six" of publishing. I am very, very excited. And all it took was harassment since January 31st. Many emails and a strategic phone call later, I'm there for two weeks in September.

It's not paid, it's not techinically an internship, but I'm super happy to have been able to get some experience at a big publishers that deals with fiction (my other placements deal with academic/legal copy).

Now, I just need to do something with myself throughout August (I can't cancel Dinner With Me again, but it's an otherwise empty schedule)

ALSO!

I'm reviewing a book for another press, and based on my review this guy is either going to be published, or not. The bio he sent suggests he's a lawyer, been published before, and is pretty successful. His prose isn't good, he uses a lot of weak metaphors and while I'm sort of half interested in the story, the mistakes and the way in which it is executed isn't working. It feels weird to have so much "power".

[Lines]

Oh hey, the boy is officially a homeowner now. He signed all the stuff yesterday and moved in today. And I'll be moving in sometime mid-June. So...yay! We have a house! I'll post pictures when we get settled.

[Barmymoo]

My friend's boyfriend died on Tuesday and I only found out last night. I have no idea what to say, or whether I should - what the fuck do you do when you're 19 and your boyfriend is killed?

[Nikolai]

Heal and move on, however long it takes. Sucks, but what else are you supposed to do? Never loving again is a pretty shitty option, especially with ones whole life ahead.

[Barmymoo]

I'm sure she will, but I can't imagine how she must be feeling. It couldn't have been worse timing either; I think he died at the start of this week, which means she won't have sat any of the exams and probably won't take next week's either. After that she would have had three months to spend with him. I'm just glad her family live close by so that she can go home.

[Patrick]

Oh May, that's such a terrible tragedy! My bandmate Matt went through something similar earlier this year when one of his dearest friends died of a drug overdose. Being young and having one of the people closest to your heart, who is also your age, just instantly vanish from your life like that... it took Matt a while to be back to his normal self. And I was the only person he had who he could really talk to about it.

I never did figure out exactly what to say. I just gave him a hug, told him how sorry I was, and asked him what his favorite memories of his friend were. That last one seemed to help the most, it got him thinking about how lucky he'd been to have him as a friend in the first place. I got to hear some great stories, and Matt's eyes lit up for the first time that week when he started telling them. I'll never forget how that felt.

[Redball]

I never did figure out exactly what to say. I just gave him a hug, told him how sorry I was, and asked him what his favorite memories of his friend were. That last one seemed to help the most, it got him thinking about how lucky he'd been to have him as a friend in the first place. I got to hear some great stories, and Matt's eyes lit up for the first time that week when he started telling them. I'll never forget how that felt.

Perfect!

[Barmymoo]

I have found out that he was killed in a motorcycle accident, but beyond that I don't know anything. I don't think I need to really. She has been deemed to deserve honours for our exams, but will have to take the exempting subjects in the summer (some papers are required to qualify as a lawyer in the future).

[Patrick]

Guys, I have some pretty awesome news! Troubador is opening for a show at the Gilman! I've never even been, but I've been dreaming of playing this joint for so much of my life that I hardly dared imagine it could happen, and yet there it is, our name's on the bill.

And now here's a video of Matt and I playing our friends' band Speak Friend's song "Oct 31" (original song here):
As done by 2/3 of Troubador