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[nekowafer]

I say something between sore-y and sahry. Maybe closer to saw-ry? And it doesn't really sound like "aboot" to me but they definitely don't pronounce the U nearly as much.

My mom just texted me. "I come c u one day next week?"

I just had to share.

[Ozymandias]

As I recall, it's not really "aboot" it's more "aboat".

At least that's how Andy says it.

[Liz]

My roommate sort of says it "aboot". It's not quite there completely, but it's closer to that than "aboat". She is from southeast Ontario so maybe it is a Thing there.

[Allybee]

one of my housemates plays saxaphone. don't get me wrong, he's really, really good. probably the best saxaphonist I know. unfortunately I also find saxaphone SO ANNOYING PLEASE GO TO A PRACTICE ROOM IN THE MUSIC STUDIOS AHHHH

[Tom]

For the record, I really don't think I say "aboot", but I must point out that the vowel sound in "sorry" is O. Not "ah", or "aw". I'm sorry, not sahrry.

I pronounce "sorry" like "lorry", that is how it's done.

[pwhodges]

But how do you pronounce lorry?

[The Seldom Killer]

Truck?

[Tom]

lor-ry

[JD]

The funeral was nice

[Tom]

In my limited experience, the worst thing about sending off a grandparent is realising how little you actually knew them and how utterly fascinating the things you didn't know were.

[nufan]

At my grandad's funeral, I discovered that he was an MBE. I also discovered that not a single person in our family (which is pretty extensive on his side, 5 children and 15-odd grandchildren) knew about it.

[Katherine]

I found out after my grandmother died that she had been a talented accordion player.  Accordionist?  Accordioness?

[Lines]

For the record, I really don't think I say "aboot", but I must point out that the vowel sound in "sorry" is O. Not "ah", or "aw". I'm sorry, not sahrry.

I've never heard sahrry, I've only heard soar-ry. Like what Tom said about sorry/lorry.

Accents everywhere.

[squawk]

one of my housemates plays saxaphone. don't get me wrong, he's really, really good. probably the best saxaphonist I know. unfortunately I also find saxaphone SO ANNOYING PLEASE GO TO A PRACTICE ROOM IN THE MUSIC STUDIOS AHHHH

hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee. [jamesfrancotrollface.gif]

and that is why i rarely ever played saxophone in a house... i understand your frustration. it has quite a lawnmower-y timbre sometimes

[Allybee]

*saxophone what is wrong with me

clearly my mind was being addled by the noise

[McTaggart]

Oh cool I'm not the only one who thinks that the saxophone is not a very pleasant sounding instrument.

[David_Dovey]

I've lived in Canada for >4 months now and I still get a kick out of the peculiarities of the Canadian accent.

Also I just realised the other day that I totally, automatically greet everybody with "g'day" so I'm sure they're getting a kick out of me too.

[Dazed]

Saxophones come in all sorts of different timbres though, and the tone varies a ton depending on who's playing it. I love the sound of some sax players and just cannot fucking stand others, even if they're at roughly the same level of technical proficiency. Quality of sound blah blah blah, YMMV with regards to what is a pleasant sax sound and what isn't.

[sean]

guys im currently writing a piece for piano and sax.

im hoping my ears dont bleed when it gets played.

[Cartilage Head]

I'm kind of trying to write a Golden Girls Broadway musical because I think it is the most important idea ever.

[Jimor]

I have a friend who would agree so hard with you on that it's not even funny.

[schimmy]

Yesterday was one of those days where you remember how great life can be!
I got my first ever tattoo in the early afternoon, then went to the pub with a girl on my course for a couple of pints. Naturally, we got extremely drunk to celebrate, and the strangest thing happened - she friend-zoned me in the classiest way, and I came out of it feeling really good about myself. Also, we did a little bit of drunken kissing, which is always fun to do.

[David_Dovey]

friend-zoned [...] drunken kissing

a spoonful of sugar etc.

[Jace]

Just a spoonful of sugar makes the flunitrazepam go doooown

[Lines]

Why is it so hard to ask for recommendation letters? Why why why. I mean, this is not like asking someone out. This is going to really hurt if one of my professors says no. :c

Also I want to smack myself for not asking for these letters a month ago.

[öde]

I think I just fixed 4 months worth of disk I/O errors buy unplugging my SATA cable and plugging it back in again. On one hand, this is great news, on the other, AAAAARGH! I must have re-installed ubuntu 5 times and fscked it 50 times to get it to work, and now I've put a fresh install of crunchbang on here and found out I didn't need to.

[nufan]

Why is it so hard to ask for recommendation letters? Why why why. I mean, this is not like asking someone out. This is going to really hurt if one of my professors says no. :c

Also I want to smack myself for not asking for these letters a month ago.

Holy shit this. They're the only thing stopping me from sending off for my masters course (the application for which I started in, like, December) and I have no idea why I only asked my prof's a fortnight ago.

I SUCK

[KvP]

Way I did it is to approach your profs about what programs they suggest as far as grad schools go. Smooth transition.

[Katherine]

I'm kind of trying to write a Golden Girls Broadway musical because I think it is the most important idea ever.

Oh man could you please? I would totally go see this and I know a bunch of people who would go too!

[Papersatan]

Why is it so hard to ask for recommendation letters? Why why why. I mean, this is not like asking someone out. This is going to really hurt if one of my professors says no. :c

Also I want to smack myself for not asking for these letters a month ago.

I was terrified to ask too.  Especially since I had been out of school for a semester already.  "What if the reply with 'I don't know who you are!'?"  Really Kat, the big girl with the flipping pink hair, from last semester... they are going to forget?  Also I did a disappointing job on a HUGE paper for one of them in my last semester, but she was bes qualified to talk about my passion for my chosen subject.   I was so worried she would reply with "In light of your final paper, no can do."  She didn't though.   

I think professors are used to people timidly asking at the last minute. 

Unrelated, I reeeeeally want a baby right now.  I mean not now really.  It is a bad time, I have no money, grad school blah blah. When I was going to go for a PhD the idea of having time or money for a child was so far away that I had pushed it into the "maybe someday, no need to think about it category"  but now I have so much more hope of having a career in the next few years that I have to start thinking about it for real now.  Also it helps that I have spent some time with my 2 year old niece recently.  She loves me, and is adorable and the best.  She has been making my ovaries nudge me and say "eeehh, we could do that!"   But lets get into and then out of a graduate program before we give in to them, eh?

[pwhodges]

I think I just fixed 4 months worth of disk I/O errors buy unplugging my SATA cable and plugging it back in again.

If it's that dicky, get a new cable before it goes bad again; I've had a couple of SATA cables with inadequate plugs that needed replacement.  You probably know someone with a drawer-full, so it shouldn't cost much.

[Lines]

Way I did it is to approach your profs about what programs they suggest as far as grad schools go. Smooth transition.

I didn't do this because I'm going to the same university, just a different department in the same school. Also I've been gone for 2 years and didn't keep in touch with too many people.

I sent an email to one of the profs on my thesis committee and since I didn't see the other today like I thought I would, I'm sending him an email, too. And I have to decide on a 3rd person, which I may ask one I studied with in the fall who is now retired, since he is one of the few who has seen me working since I started school again. I just hate asking because I do not know how to ask.

Like seriously, it would be the worst kind of rejection if they said no and I'm already stressed out enough. This is just the icing on the cake. I hate asking people for things.

[David_Dovey]

Unrelated, I reeeeeally want a baby right now.  I mean not now really.  It is a bad time, I have no money, grad school blah blah. When I was going to go for a PhD the idea of having time or money for a child was so far away that I had pushed it into the "maybe someday, no need to think about it category"  but now I have so much more hope of having a career in the next few years that I have to start thinking about it for real now.  Also it helps that I have spent some time with my 2 year old niece recently.  She loves me, and is adorable and the best.  She has been making my ovaries nudge me and say "eeehh, we could do that!"   But lets get into and then out of a graduate program before we give in to them, eh?

I sincerely and desperately hope you haven't mentioned this to Steve yet, and he finds out by reading it on the forum. Pleeeeeaasssseee

[Papersatan]

Oh, he knows.  But the forum will be how I tell him when it actually happens. 

[David_Dovey]

Outstanding!

[Lines]

Hehe, nice.

Update: Huge sigh of relief for me - the first prof I emailed about letters replied with a yes. Huge boost I really needed right now. This weekend I'm going to crank out everything I need to finish my app and hopefully I'll get yeses from the other two as well and I can submit everything. I am hoping to not have any breakdowns before then. After that, I don't care, but before would really suck.

[Patrick]

More people I know have their birthday on February 25th than on any other day of the year. My sister. Her boyfriend. My friend Daniel and his brother. My old boss up in Alaska. My godmother. So many fuckin' people.

It's supposed to snow here in Livermore today. I'm glad it hasn't though, I really don't ever wanna be around snow again and that is one of the many reasons I moved back here in the first place. Until last year, it hadn't snowed for thirty damn years, and now we're getting dustings of it one day out of the year. WTF.

Before work today I went and had a beer with the girl I've been talking to. We had a pretty rad time, a few awkward bits where we just kinda looked at each other and grinned sheepishly. We're about to go hang out together again now that I'm off. Weird how quickly that started happening, I'm really hoping things stay chill for a while. Wanna be sure I'm not fucking up a perfectly good friendship by being all Interested.

[Jimor]

Damn. A drunk driver just took out a parked car just down the street. I heard the thumps and went out to see what happened. I was the first to his car. His airbag had gone off, and his face was bloody, but he seemed otherwise uninjured. His first words to me were "I'm sorry, I'm not used to this ukulele."

He was easily going 80 or 90mph judging by the damage to the cars and how far he had knocked the parked car. His right front hit the left rear and pushed the left rear wheel to under the driver's seat. The parked car bounced off of a fire hydrant as well, but only bent it a little. He had come from the sports bar down the street and said he had "3 or 4 beers". 

[schimmy]

I assume you did the sensible thing, and snapped his neck, then pretended he must have died in the crash?

[Jimor]

Too many witnesses from around the neighborhood out by that time (this happened 12:45 am my time). Though I'm sure the folks whose car got hit would have quietly looked the other way. Before he hit the car, he had also hit a pile of tree cuttings on the street waiting for pickup and scattered branches and logs everywhere. One piece also went through the front bedroom window of this same family (no injuries from that at least, just a mess of glass in the room).

Oh, and since I'm already writing a post in this thread, in case some of you missed it in the "Sounds of QC" thread, we're going to see if we can launch a forum radio play using board talent. Details up in this thread in the Creativity sub forum.  

[squawk]

aw shit you guys, living in a room where the heater doesn't work and has never worked, especially when it's thirty degrees out and pretending to snow, man this is so great! i am pretty sure it is like, 40 degrees in here! I should get a thermometer actually, I am quite curious to find out exactly how fucking cold it is in here :[ my bed is so cold it just feels wet

[Eris]

So, my mum called me tonight. Normally I would groan and wihinge about how annoying it is, but she said she'd had a really bad week so I sucked it up.


My Aunt had a stroke a few days ago. She was supposed to have surgery to clip a brain aneurysm on thursday, so it was a week too late. There wasn't any paralysis, which is a massive relief, but she is having trouble with language. She's not hearing words, not being able to find the right words, saying something when she thinks she's saying something else. She is also having trouble with short term memory; getting to the end of sentences and having forgotten what was at the start of them. That is really awful because words were her thing. She has been an editor of a newspaper, did speech writing when she was younger, it was always such a big part of who she was that she was good with words. Now she can barely read.

It could be a lot worse. She could have had paralysis, or been in a coma (like her mother was when she had a stroke), or could be dead. It is just so devastating because of how close it was to her surgery date. It also makes this whole family history of aneurysms thing much more real. Mum was freaking out a little, imagining that she was next. Her aneurysms (she has two very small ones) were caught very early, so she has been told not to worry about them, so I reassured her of that. Now I am starting to worry about myself; I am not really a high risk of strokes (apart from the strong family history), but maybe i will get checked soon just in case.

This feels much more real than when my other aunt had a stroke, maybe because I am closer to Anna. Also the thought of losing my words makes me so terrified. I don't know how I could deal with that. I was telling ben about the conversation and started getting stressed about it so we watched a dvd to distract me, just like I talked to mum about my life to distract her. It's funny how something as simple as that can help. It's also funny how things like that remind me how similar I am to mum in certain respects.  All in all, I am going to have a lot to think about tomorrow when I am bored at work.

[Joseph]

Woke up to birthday biscuits and brand new pajamas from Victoria, came home to cupcakes and sparklers from my roommates. A good afternoon spent reading and talking about technology, authorship, Heidegger, poetry, and music. Going to go for hamburgers soon, and then to see this rad looking Greek movie, and then to spend the night biking and drinking and looking at art!

[Papersatan]

Why do Grad schools take so long to make decisions? (I understand why) I just want to know.  What if I don't get in anywhere? 
I feel like my life is in that awkward stage in Civ between archers and long-bowmen.  It is just clicking "next turn" and taking care of stupid BS while I wait for the excitement to start. 

[David_Dovey]

Kat that is the best simile. I hope some day I can meet a girl who is able to make Civ-based similes

[jhocking]

Why did you not sig that simile?

[valley_parade]

I had a dream that Patrick and I got in a knife fight on a bus because he called a black dude "Donut Hole".

Is that actually a thing? Is that a racist term?

[Dimmukane]

As far as I know, that term is only synonymous with Munchkins, which is more of an insult to DnD players who try to use the metagame to their advantage too much.  So no, not as far as I'm aware.  Unless that guy thought he earned his +2 life-drinking sword fair and square.

[Lines]

I've never heard it as an insult before, but I really want to now.

[The Seldom Killer]

I always understood it to mean that the person thus insulted would have a social void around them in the shape of a doughnut (i.e. the inverse of a doughnut where the void is in the middle). Another term for Billy No-Mates and to the best of my knowledge not a racist term.

I seem to remember one conversation in Canada where "eating Timbits" was correlated with fellating the social inept. I was drunk at the time so won't try to quote in full but it was pretty funny at the time.