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[Liz]

I saw Mount Eerie at the Red Raven, even though I just went for the opener. There were maybe twenty people in the room and we all just kind of sat on the floor and hung out while he played. It was strange but it is probably one of my favorite shows so far.

[Zingoleb]

Downside is, he's stoned all the time.

I forgot to expand on this - while he was stoned, he made me watch Friends. I've never watched Friends before. Can someone explain the appeal to me? That was terrible.

[Papersatan]

I took my GRE. I did alright, not as great as I would have liked, but well enough I think.  Today I settled on 5 graduate programs that I am going to apply to.  They are in order of my excitement about them: University of Rhode Island, University of Michigan, University of Illinois, Carnegie Mellon, and Simmons College in Boston.  Michigan and Illinois are probably tied for second.  Now comes the hard part, writing personal statements and asking for letters of recommendation. 

[Jace]

I learned tonight that my housemate has gone into my room when I'm not around and looked through my things. He saw some things which I would have preferred to keep personal and I'm quite upset that he thinks he can just go into my room whenever.
Time to buy a lock for my door because that is cheaper than moving out.

[Barmymoo]

ARRGH I CANNOT DO THIS PLAY, MY JOBS, AND MY WORK. PICK TWO. PICK TWO (BUT I CAN'T!).

Anyone know where I can find a 1940s cigarette lighter for no moneys at all?!

[Jimmy the Squid]

I think my grandfather left one to one of my many uncles. It's pretty rad and of no help to you at all.

[Inlander]

I went to see the Town tonight. It was pretty good. I mean, everyone knows that Friday night's for watching crime movies, so it did the trick.

But about half way through the film I realised that basically all I require of a film at the moment is that it have Rebecca Hall in it.

Oh also on Sunday I'm planning to do a 25-kilometre long bike ride with a couple of friends along one of the main bike trails in inner Melbourne. We've been planning this for months, trying to get our schedules to match up. I've researched the route and I've booked us into a nice restaurant for lunch afterwards and it's all finally going to happen so of course what happens but an absolutely massive cold front that's dumping great torrential downpours of rain on the city. Oh, and the bike ride in question is called the Merri Creek trail because it follows the course of said creek, and as such is highly susceptible to being flooded out. Hmm.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I'm slightly older! I have been 24 for 43 minutes and it's going pretty well so far.

Also I got calls asking me to come in for two job interviews next week. One is for a fulltime job with Australian Geographic and the other is for a job at the Sydney Aquarium. I'm slightly more excited for the aquarium one. Guess I'll see how the pay compares?

[valley_parade]

Jimmy what the hell. Happy birthday!

(I don't get facebook access at work, so this is me saying happy birthday to you)

[nobo]

University of Michigan

I'm working in Ann Arbor right now and went there for grad school. Great place.

[Barmymoo]

I have been to Ann Arbor! I think. Edith, have I been to Ann Arbor?

[peterh]

ARRGH I CANNOT DO THIS PLAY, MY JOBS, AND MY WORK. PICK TWO. PICK TWO (BUT I CAN'T!).

Anyone know where I can find a 1940s cigarette lighter for no moneys at all?!

I think I might have one right here. Are you in the Midlands?

[Barmymoo]

Sadly I am not in the Midlands any more, and unlikely to be before tomorrow afternoon. I think the best plan is to buy one of those round silver ones they sell in Sainsburys (which are certain to be self-extinguishing too, a very important aspect in this case).

[Lines]

Jimmy what the hell. Happy birthday!

(I don't get facebook access at work, so this is me saying happy birthday to you)

We are in the past! It wouldn't be listed yet! Happy birthday from the past, Jimmy!

Oh god I teach tomorrow oh god oh god oh god.

[valley_parade]

Imagine time traveling back and wishing people early birthdays.

Sounds like something T Rex would come up with.

[Metope]

May, yes! You have been to Ann Arbor! And so have Jens, Oli and Edith and I. It was where Jens first discovered his love for Chipotle, remember?


Also I think it's where you and Edith stayed the night before you went back home to England, but I'm not sure since I wasn't with you, and besides, it could have been Nepal instead of Ann Arbor at that point.

[Barmymoo]

You are right! I wasn't really conscious for Chipotle, I don't think - was Tom there? Is that the one I'm thinking of? And I was eating my burrito for three days? Awesome. I was thinking it was where Eed and I stayed in the creepy motel, I forgot about that first time.

Nepal. Naturally. Everything is from Nepal.

ARGH so much to do tomorrow. SO MUCH TO DO.

[Zingoleb]

I have 717 dollars in my mouth right now (I counted!)

[Blue Kitty]

fuck those guys, I am jealous of you being at a gorillaz concert, actually sounds like one of the best times (you didn't even describe it and yeah...)

FUCK YOU GUYS THE GORILLAZ ARE AWESOME AND I WOULD SEE A FAKE BAND PERFORM THEIR SHIZZLE.

Shit, I didn't.  They pretty much played all of Plastic Beach, with the exception of Sweepstakes. They also played 19/2000, Clint Eastwood, Kids with Guns, Tomorrow Comes Today, and for the finale they did Feel Good INC.  Also, N*E*R*D opened for them.

One thing that was kind of weird, there were some little kids right in front of us and the little girl was up on the chairs dancing like she was 16


EDIT: I asked my girlfriend about General Admission at the concert.  There isn't a pit at the Fox Theater, it's all seats.

[muffy]

Dear blog thread, I'm late on this, but I love you. I LOVE YOU.
Yeah.

Also, Zingoleb, how? Are we talking coins or notes? Either way I'm impressed, but moderately concerned for your oral hygiene. Do you know how many people manhandle monetary currency?

[Zingoleb]

Well, I had it in my hands, and counted it, and felt the need to tell someone, but my hands were full...

[bainidhe_dub]

I have just accomplished something my boss could not! Three weeks ago, our company did an event at a museum, and a $1200 piece of equipment went missing. The museum guy couldn't find it, none of the crew knew anything, she's in the process of writing it off on insurance. This guy on Facebook just posted that he's working at that museum tonight, and I asked, and guess what they just found?

[Jace]

Is it the $1200 of equipment?
Or, possibly a dead body.
I sure hope it is the latter

[bainidhe_dub]

Equipment. And a lunar rover.

[Jimor]

And a lunar rover.

That's where I left it.

[Barmymoo]

What so it was stolen and someone posted on facebook? I fear I misunderstand.

I was going to get up at 7 this morning and do some work. Instead I got up at 9.30 and have to leave at 9.45 (so why am I on the internet?)

[LittleKey]

(so why am I on the internet?)

If I had a dime for every time I asked that to myself, I would have a pretty good amount of money.

I went to the school's home football game tonight; we lost, as per usual. It was the homecoming game though, and the halftime show was interesting; the homecoming queen nominees were brought in by a real horse and carriage, and there were fireworks too. Goodbye budget for the entire school year; no wonder we barely have any bus routes anymore.

[bainidhe_dub]

It was lost, and somebody on facebook was working there last night. I said, hey if you happen to find a power supply... and he said, yeah it's right here we found it in the pit. I didn't even know the air & space museum had a pit, but whatever.

[Johnny C]

oh my god i spent half an hour tweeting last night and here's what it was

i was suposed to be at #wpncup tonight but i fucked up so i got drunk at a punk show instead
is #wpncup a tag? if its not thats embarassing
and also its embaqrassing theat i fucked up and im not there
and also it's embarassing that im this drunk on account of i drove home
and also its embarassing that i went to sobeys and bought chili cheese flavoured ruffles because sign said "you like chili, you like cheese"
thats a whole bunch of embarassing things
including the fact that i keep spelling embarrassing wrong
so ok we're doing this i guess
here's everything i can remember from my life so far that is embarassing
when i was like six we had a hole in the wall in the uh shoe place where you take your shoes off, i think it's a foyer but i could be wrong
it's called a landing
wehad a hole in thewall where the cast could go through to go downstairs, via a big ramp that we had carpet on
we called this the "cat hole"
i was about three years old and decided i wanted to see what it was like, so i put my head in
i got stuck because i had a big dumb head
evventualy my parents had to call someone to get me out, i think
i was stuck there for about an hour
that's one down
i think there are pictures of me bathing with other dudes, from sleepovers when we were kids. just sitting in a bath, as bros
in the sixth grade i was in pokemon club. i was the only dude in pokemon club who wanted to play the card cames
in the eighth grade i was elected president of the src. we tried to plan a school dance for the eighth graders' grad
there was a fight with the vice pincipla and we approved a dj and stuff without her for like super cheap. she found out and got really mad
she called me into her office and reamed me out. then i told her "well if you'd been there this wouldn't have happened."
it turns out adult professionals have meetings and stuff and jobs and lives and cant clean up after idiotu children all day
also in the eighth grade i asked a girl out while we were cleaning uop the classroom pre-dance
she said "i dont think so" and i told her, inexplicably, "well if you change your mind the door is always open"
someone overheard that and "the door is always open" became a class inside joke
noew that i think about it a cute girl asked me to dance qt the barn dance in grade six and i told her to "go stick [her] head in a toilet"
which she went and tried to do, on account of being distraught
all my friends were subsequently really mad at me
im pretty sure ive made girls cry by accident on... six occasions, precisely
in the eighth grade i was in a church play and i had a crush on one of the girls in it
so i came up with an elaborate scheme to ask her out, which involved phoning everyone involved and congratulation g them on a job well done
and then i phoned her and she said "i'll get back to you"
re: the asking out, not the job well done, which compliment she accepted
in the seventh grade i tried to ask a girl to dance at the school dance but she was in the middle of a circle of peole doing a conga line
these conga kids were all sixth graders and fifth graders who got invited cause they were in a split class
on my way to asking this girl out, i tripped over the conga line and ruined the whole dance
ater my friends made fun of me for having a crush on a girl with big breasts (that was teh dancing girls' defining characteristic)
she said she would dance with me and then in the next slow dance she was dancing with another dude
n retrospect that door is still open, although i dont want jessica to walk through (iirc shes a big-time Conservative now)
lets see there's gotta be more
oh yeah on the last day of the seventh grade i got wedgied in my swim trunks so hard that the dude wedgieing me lifted me up
he held me there for a coule of minutes and i just shrugged sheepishly
i wrote review of a hentai-based bullet hell shooter for my personal blog once
i also posted that gay kissing was cool "if they [didn't] do it in front of me"
i cant remember embarassing stuff from high school butg i fy u give me a minute i will get back to you
i can remember some embarassing post high school stuff though
i pissed on a streetcar once
well i say "on" but what i mean is "in" and also "while riding"
and ten when we got off the streetcar i gave the driver a shit-eating grin and he just laughted
he had no idea i had soaked his streetcar in musky piss
one time i tried to get a friends giflright drunk and kiss her. this was the lowest thing ever. she refused and im pretty glad
especially because later i would kiss my ex full on the lips at new years
because i thought aybe that would be the thing that would get us back togehter. in my defense i was really drunk
so drunk that i passed out to a toiled and when @sjbrot tried to help me i told him "no i can stand give me my dignity"
then i told him "that's a word spelled d-i-g-n-i-t-y." if i spelled dignity that proved i was totally dignified
i think i might have told him and @rhiannontimes on the way home "we shoudl all have intercourse, but not together and not right now"
my logic was "wer'e good people, we deserve sex intercourse"
i was REALLY drunk
i was wearing a three-piece suit at the time also
im trying to move chronologically but it's really hard
the next one happened after the last one i think
i went to a friends grad party for high school when i was 19, iit was out of town
her folks graciously let me crash in their guest bedroom downstairs. i slept like a baby
baby with a boner, adn this is where problems come in
because in my sleep i started strokin' and i was like 3/4 of the way to a totally trashy sleep climax
and then i heard a noise and woke up just enough to see my friends' mom's head pop into the room, mid-stroke
and then the head darted back out really quickly, like she'd seen something that was just the most terrifying thing
turns out she was trying to let me know braeakfast was ready. i found this out by getting furtively dressed and going upstairs
all eye contact was agonizing
these are all the embarrassing things i can think of right now
just think: if the door was closed i woudlnt have tweeted this much because i would understand the sensations of human contact
instead, i bought sid meier's pirates! twice

the second last tweet is a callback, not the end of the story that immediately precedes it

[scarred]

We would have sleepovers, where tournaments of playing the game the way it was meant to be played were held. It was wonderful. Now all my cards are in a shoebox somewhere.

[squawk]

Johnny i love you

[Zingoleb]

Johnny i love you

[Zingoleb]

adgkadklfgjal;dsgjaklds lk FUCK FUCK FUCK centipede in my BATHROOM just DIVE-BOMBED me while I was sitting on the TOILET and now I'm freaked out

[Barmymoo]

Here is the trailer for the play I am currently working on! It is a bit... arty, more so than the actual production, but I quite like it. Some nice shots of a few of the props I acquired! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ8rp_e7bdo

[Allybee]

falling apart. considering taking a semester off of school to go far away and maybe work at an architecture firm. I could still feasibly graduate on time although I might not be able to go abroad next year (which wouldn't be a disaster). I just can't be in school while I feel like I'm a total failure with no direction. it just feels like I'm wasting my time and my parents' money.

the only problem is that I really, really like my friends, and I feel like I would really miss them. also I have a crush on a senior but that if that doesn't go anywhere this semester, it's not going to go anywhere at all...

[Allybee]

my architecture professor makes me feel like an incompetent idiot and I can't tell whether I've just convinced myself that I want to do architecture or I actually want to. I feel like I'm spending all this time and energy on absolutely nothing at all. I'm around all of these talented, driven people who are just making things happen and I just sort of exist and mess things up. I'm at this extraordinarily expensive college doing nothing at all except waiting for the weekend, at which point I can get wasted.

[jhocking]

adgkadklfgjal;dsgjaklds lk FUCK FUCK FUCK centipede in my BATHROOM just DIVE-BOMBED me while I was sitting on the TOILET and now I'm freaked out

hey look on the bright side

when it made you shit a brick, you were already on the shitter

nyuk nyuk nyuk

[Lines]

Ally, maybe the best way to try and see if you want to do architecture is try to get an internship at a firm. Don't know if you will get a paid one or not, but it will be better than just finding a random job at a firm because you will most likely work with the architects and see how they do things. (Better than working at a desk or whatever at the firm.) Just start looking for any and all internships you can find, both near and far, if you can afford to move away for a semester. Architecture is an extremely demanding field, so the classes aren't going to be easy. Some teachers just make people feel stupid and unmotivated, so if classes aren't working out for you, you should definitely go the internship to see if it's what you want to do. It doesn't hurt to explore your options. If it turns out not to be your thing, try design or sculpture even. Sometimes people with BFAs end up with fancy jobs that deal with architecture and design.

Blog thread, I'm not sure I can teach little kids. I don't know what to do with them*. The kids I'm teaching are nice and well behaved and all, but I honestly do not know what to do with them. Maybe I was just nervous in class Saturday, but man, I think I was right when I thought I would be better with older kids. I volunteered for 2nd grade because I wanted to see if I would be able to teach them and I just don't know! Next quarter I'm going to try to get assigned to middle or high school kids and see if that works better. If not, I think an MFA would be a better idea than a Masters in Art Ed...

*I do not have any siblings and I only ever babysat once and it was a disaster, so I avoided it after that. Most experience I have with kids is playing with babies and toddlers. Childrens! How do they work???

[Drill King]

my photo professor makes me feel like an incompetent idiot and I can't tell whether I've just convinced myself that I want to do photo or I actually want to. I feel like I'm spending all this time and energy on absolutely nothing at all. I'm around all of these talented, driven people who are just making things happen and I just sort of exist and mess things up. I'm at this extraordinarily expensive college doing nothing at all except waiting for the weekend, at which point I can get wasted.

[Lines]

Art school - it sucks and makes you feel stupid. And then one day it doesn't anymore. The end!

[Alex C]

Blog thread, I'm not sure I can teach little kids. I don't know what to do with them*

That post sounded just like the way my cousin used to talk about teaching kids and she is a million times more confident about it now. Like you she didn't have any younger siblings and I think what really rattled her was the way that a lot of kids will just clam up and not give any feedback despite actually hanging on your every word. Teaching older kids is more like having a conversation whereas with younger kids it's really more like playing to an audience. A 2nd grader just isn't going to have an on-topic opinion on math very often so you really gotta be comfortable with some silence. It's totally weird talking about basic math and having tiny people quietly stare at you* but to them a lot of that shit is actually novel and you just have to roll with it.


*I did this once while volunteering at the library and it was weird as hell and dead silent but then for the rest of the summer there was like a dozen kids who would come by regularly who remembered my name from that visit. I swear to god that I thought none of them were really paying any attention, but they did.

[JD]

Art school - it sucks and makes you feel stupid. And then one day it doesn't anymore. The end!

If you can't handle being demeaned and criticized for your art you probably shouldn't do it for a living.

[sean]

guys i just spent two hours on a platform in the middle of a train bridge waiting for a train to pass by. this involved walking on a train bridge over a river. easily the scariest shit i have ever done.

[abadname]

I'm planning on proposing to my girlfriend Saturday, and tomorrow (today) I have to tell my dad, go see her dad, and call her mom and tell all of them then before saturday, maybe thursday I have to tell my mom.  I should have spread this out more but each time I've gotten super nervous because I know my mom will freak out.  I know this is a great idea I just get nervous because I don't know what I would do on the off chance somebody wouldn't support it.

[Barmymoo]

I have never proposed to anyone but I'd imagine that if anyone didn't support it, they'd have a reason which you could talk through and negotiate. People don't tend to withhold their daughters in hopes of a richer husband or demand a bigger dowry these days. Good luck!

Guys I do not want to go back into the theatre just yet. I have like 21 more cases to read for my supervision this afternoon, and I haven't even really begun the other two and I just realised I have an essay due at 5pm on Wednesday, meaning I have literally five hours to write it and no time at all to read for it. ARGH.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Really? My girlfriend's mum is always telling her that she should be going out with someone who is a banker or a real estate agent because they make more money. Someone who "drives a nice car like a BMW or a Mercedes".

[Graphite]

If Phil were to ask my mother for permission to marry me I am pretty sure she would say no, whereas my dad would bypass that relatively polite step and go straight to laughing in his face for about ten minutes.
Solution: permission will not be asked for, if and when the time comes.

p.s., blog thread, today I am revising for an exam on science fiction, which means basically listening to old lectures about posthumanism and dystopia. Which is a pretty fun way to spend a Monday.

[Barmymoo]

I guess I was more making Graphite's point really - it is no longer up to the parents whether or not the daughter marries, but it's good to get them on side.

[Eris]

I like the idea of getting married and not telling anyone at all and not acting any different. I would like to see how long it took for people to notice the ring on my finger. Sure, my mum would probably be upset and all, but it would still be an interesting experiment.

Also would be cheaper than having a wedding and having to invite all my extended family who I don't overly like anyway.

[Lunchbox]

I like that idea too, but my mother and grandmother would absolutely, definitely kill me if they found out. Maybe I would have a wedding with just parents and grandparents. They always approve of my choice in dudes and my Dad says that as long as I'm happy, he's happy. I'm lucky to have such excellent parents, even if they did muck up my teenage years with that dang divorce.