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[jhocking]

This weekend I'm paddling in one of the canoe teams for this just-for-fun race down the Chicago River. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm not 100% convinced I will be able to keep paddling the entire 7 mile course.

[JD]

You won't.

[Inlander]

What fuck I do?

I say go to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass thing. You'll get another opportunity to earn money. Who knows when you might get another chance to see an awesome line-up of bands?

[Christophe]

Welp it looks like I'm doing the gig. Baby needs a new Traynor TS-50.

[squawk]

So my RA is very, very attractive. However, my building is not as cool as the neighboring building, where I've been spending more time lately because the people there are much more fun. I also live on the third floor, and for some reason California has been punched in the face multiple times with a weirdass fucking heat wave--it should not be a hundred degrees here. These buildings don't have air conditioning because this place was not meant to get that hot. Anyway, due to these conditions, said RA has a tendency to not wear clothes very much, so my sporadic encounters with him are very... yeah.

I was brushin my teeth in the bathroom at 1:30 AM and someone is whistling in the shower and I am like "oh shoot it is him." AND LO he steps out in nothing but a towel and is like "Hello! Good night!" and I am like "I have a toothbrush in my mouth"

And then two seconds after he leaves the bathroom I wash my face and get a nosebleed and like what the fuck

That was some lucky timing though

[BeoPuppy]

I seem to recall something about nosebleeds as a signal in cartoons ... no, can't remember ...

Anyway.

Work is shit. Kid is good. However being at work without said baby is boring as hell. I'd rather be home, you know ...

[Jimmy the Squid]

I get really bad nosebleeds during summer and also spring. It's not even properly spring yet and it's already getting too hot for me to handle. Summer is going to be fucked up.

I got a phone call today from a woman at Apple asking me to come in for an interview next week. I would really like this job. I'll keep everyone posted!

[look out! Ninjas!]

May, you should do what I do and fuck up your timetabling from day one so you can only do two subjects at once.

I find it really odd that you guys organise your own timetabling. I have nothing to do with it - I guess in a way I could have, because I could have looked at last year's lecture timetable and made a guess at whether they'd be at the same time this year, but even then it wouldn't have moved the 9ams because the subjects in those slots are compulsory for my entire year.

I do get some wiggle room with the supervisions, because we set those when we arrive and pick the slots which are most convenient. Useful for me, since I'm stupid busy and cannot have a supervision after 4pm or it'll clash with something. ARGH.

Huh, I get absolute control over what subjects I enrol in (with obvious exceptions like prerequisites) and the tutes I go to (I assumethey are like supervisions).

[squawk]

update: ONE HOUR LATER

I am starting to hate my roommate. I actually needed to sleep before 2 because I have class at 8 but this random guy is in here watching youtube videos of crappy music, and he got here like an hour ago. WHO GOES TO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AT 1:30 AM ON A TUESDAY NIGHT. WHO INVITES PEOPLE TO THEIR ROOM AT 1:30 AM UNLESS THEY HAVE PLANS OF BANGING THEM. GOD DAMN IT. I'm so mad and it's so hot. These people need to leave. They don't even hold interesting conversations. They are instead just inane and vapid and they say "hella" in the most nauseating way possible. Holy shit. Soooo angryyyyy fuuuuuuuuck

i need to wake up in four hours

[Neskah]

Socially inept anxious person trying to self improve. So despite the fact I want to run and hide when ever ppl look at me and conflict gives me the shakes, I've hooked up with the local derby girls this past few months, because skating makes me so happy that for two hours a week i can forget how much the world freaks me out. Even wore shorts in pubic and was so pumped i didn't notice/care if ppl made fun of me.

Going out tonight to drink beer and mingle with other Derby/Freshmeaters/strangers probably pushed me well past my comfort zone. Still i told myself, this is good for you. Hiding from people is not healthy. Accepting a ride home with people i just met who happen to live in my area freaked me out and it's a long ride, but now... it's more socially acceptable to take a ride rather then catch an hour long train and bus in the rain, even if you do prefer the time to read your book.

.... could this be why Marigold is my new favourite character. Damn crippling social anxieties.

[Zingoleb]

Was supposed to go into work today at 5 AM but woke up at 6:30 instead. Fffffff

[Barmymoo]

Sounds like derby will be great for you, Neskah (derby is great anyway!).

Guys I just got my timetable for the first two days of term - introductory meetings with my supervisors, two of which clash with lectures. Obviously I have to miss the lectures but dang that is not a good start to my new regime of going to all my lectures. Oh well.

Apparently one of my supervisors ONLY SUPERVISES ON MONDAYS. Well she sounds like she's going to be flexible when I need to miss a supervision for theatre...

[Lines]

update: ONE HOUR LATER

I am starting to hate my roommate. I actually needed to sleep before 2 because I have class at 8 but this random guy is in here watching youtube videos of crappy music, and he got here like an hour ago. WHO GOES TO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AT 1:30 AM ON A TUESDAY NIGHT. WHO INVITES PEOPLE TO THEIR ROOM AT 1:30 AM UNLESS THEY HAVE PLANS OF BANGING THEM. GOD DAMN IT. I'm so mad and it's so hot. These people need to leave. They don't even hold interesting conversations. They are instead just inane and vapid and they say "hella" in the most nauseating way possible. Holy shit. Soooo angryyyyy fuuuuuuuuck

i need to wake up in four hours

That's when you pull out your angry sleepy face and tell them you have an 8am class and they need to shut up and get the fuck out of your room. It may take practice for the perfect angry sleepy face, but it is necessary for survival.

I want to kill my neighbors upstairs for stomping around at 5am. Yesterday morning it sounded like they were moving around their entire bedroom at 8am. But last week when one of my roomies and I went upstairs to tell the guy (it's a couple up there) to stop dropping his free weights because it sounded like he was dropping a bowling ball, he just turned up his music and wouldn't answer the door.

[Lines]

It most likely will be a group interview, that's what mine was. Best of luck, Jimmy!

[Inlander]

I am starting to hate my roommate. I actually needed to sleep before 2 because I have class at 8 but this random guy is in here watching youtube videos of crappy music, and he got here like an hour ago. WHO GOES TO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AT 1:30 AM ON A TUESDAY NIGHT. WHO INVITES PEOPLE TO THEIR ROOM AT 1:30 AM UNLESS THEY HAVE PLANS OF BANGING THEM. GOD DAMN IT. I'm so mad and it's so hot. These people need to leave. They don't even hold interesting conversations. They are instead just inane and vapid and they say "hella" in the most nauseating way possible. Holy shit. Soooo angryyyyy fuuuuuuuuck

Ah, but after a few more months of this you'll be able to go to sleep no matter how annoyingly noisy the room is. This is a valuable life skill! Really you should thank your roommate in anticipation. I'd suggest a nice bottle of wine.

[Inlander]

Also dear blog thread,

Dear Asus computers,

The build quality of your laptops is poor at best.

[Zingoleb]

I got fired, and I know the woman who got me fired.

There will be blood.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Details dude.

[Allybee]

I am starting to hate my roommate. I actually needed to sleep before 2 because I have class at 8 but this random guy is in here watching youtube videos of crappy music, and he got here like an hour ago. WHO GOES TO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AT 1:30 AM ON A TUESDAY NIGHT. WHO INVITES PEOPLE TO THEIR ROOM AT 1:30 AM UNLESS THEY HAVE PLANS OF BANGING THEM. GOD DAMN IT. I'm so mad and it's so hot. These people need to leave. They don't even hold interesting conversations. They are instead just inane and vapid and they say "hella" in the most nauseating way possible. Holy shit. Soooo angryyyyy fuuuuuuuuck

soooooooooo baaaaaay area

anyways it is time for ~roommate boundaries~
even if you really like your roommate it is okay to say "we agree to be quiet after 1am on weeknights" and if your roommate says "no" talk to your RA.
I tell people to shut up when I want to sleep all the time. it just takes being kind of bitchy. which I am, because I love to sleeeep.
alternatively play "two states" at them as loud as you can

edit: ahahaha I didn't read the thing about your RA being super hot. that would stress me out so much.

[valley_parade]

This band thing I'm in is practicing with an actual drummer tonight.

lulz to follow, probably. I'm still getting used to the longer scale on a bass.

[Zingoleb]

Details dude.

My foot's been fucked up for awhile, and I've been limping around, and this woman who runs the store I go to around the corner asks me to get her "special kitty". So I say sure, limp across the store and get it, bring it back, and she says I got the wrong kind, and walks off to get it herself. I'm muttering and swearing under my breath, and go back to what I was doing (which was organizing flowers) and meanwhile, she reports me. My boss calls me in, fires me on the spot.

I just called my father to tell him, and it turns out my friend Edmund had a heart attack on stage while playing out and died. Fuck. Dude was a great guy, I haven't seen him in a few years.

[Lines]

Man, that sucks.

I just talked to my mom and apparently one of my neighbors (at my mom's house) dropped dead, literally, in her driveway a few nights ago. From what my mom found out and told me, she'd gone out to a casino with some friends and came home around 3am. Either when she was getting out or got out of her car, she died. My nextdoor neighbor found her at 7am. We don't know if it was a heart attack or an aneurism or what, but either way that's pretty horrible. She was a nice lady.

[Boro_Bandito]

Just made an appointment for 7pm tonight to most likely have one of my cats put down. She's had a mouth infection lately that seems to be getting worse even after we got her treated for it, some expensive shot for like a 100 bucks. Since then she's completely stopped eating, barely drinks, can't meow (and for a siamese that's saying something) and is down to literally about 3 pounds, the term skin and bones applies here. Its only recently hit me since I'm the one to make the appointment and I'll be going in with her, I mean I know she's old, about 13, but this still sucks, really really bad. I mean I'm essentially deciding that this is the day my cat dies, and I'm not sure if I'm cool with it.

[Zingoleb]

That sucks dude, I'm sorry. On the other hand, though, you get to be there for her in her last moments, rather than just waking up one day and finding her dead, which I think is worse.


As for the woman who got me fired - I went to the place she works to talk to her, the guy said she complained and she'll be back later. When I came back, they were both there, and he said he complained, and I asked him why he wouldn't talk to me, since I know him. Between the both of them they pretty much just ran me down, and the woman basically implied that I'm not much good at doing anything and referenced my little 'fuck you' back at the coffeeshop (fags, liberals, trannies can go die, to refresh your memory), and also claimed I was lying when I repeated what the man had said to incense me.

I've made up my mind, I'm going up to Rochester by November. I can't take this bullshit little town any longer. 30 days notice on the first.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

That sucks dude, I'm sorry. On the other hand, though, you get to be there for her in her last moments, rather than just waking up one day and finding her dead, which I think is worse.

I disagree!

I mean, maybe it's just a rural thing but cats are essentially wild animals that are smart enough to realize that they can get whatever they want out of us if they purr and act cute, so when they inevitably get eaten by cougars/eagles/owls/bears/sedans/whatever it's kind of like "well, that's what happens to cats. It is sad and I feel sad about it, but that's life."

but if I had to put down my cat? fuck I dunno if I could do it. I mean...I WOULD, if I had to...but it would be incredibly hard.

[scarred]

Yeah, one of my cats was hit by a car and I found his body, and I was sad but I think I would've been a lot more broken up about it if I had had to bring him into the doctor's office and watch the life drift away from him.

[Zingoleb]

There's a bit of a difference though! I've had cats disappear and I just assume they're dead and gone and that sucks, but oh, well, that's the way it goes. At the same time, I've woken up and found a dead kitten next to me, which is an incredibly disconcerting way to start the day (it was sick when we found it, and it died the next day). And further yet, I've had to have my dog put down...more than once (different dogs, obviously) and it's just more relief to me that they're not hurting and that you helped them go peacefully and that you were able to be there for them.

But that's just me.

[Barmymoo]

My mother is reading reviews of a Tesco store on Google Maps. Internet.

Guys, I'm going back to uni tomorrow! I'm so excited about this I'm going to cook more (I've got a fridge! I can store leftovers! I can eat breakfast before I get dressed! I can make tea without going to the kitchen!) and sit in a window seat and look out over a pretty courtyard and file my papers in a snazzy new storage thingy with lots of drawers and I'm going to work for at least four hours a day at my big new antique desk and I'm going to put all my clothes into the MASSES OF STORAGE SPACE and I'm going to have friends round for tea and cake and maybe I'll bake some bread and it's goign to be awesome.

Yeah.

[pwhodges]

but if I had to put down my cat? fuck I dunno if I could do it. I mean...I WOULD, if I had to...but it would be incredibly hard.

If the alternative is seeing them die slowly and painfully while supposedly in your care,  it gets to be easier (particularly when you have experience of delaying the decision on a previous occasion).

[jmrz]

Also, Jimmy, everything about what people have said about the job is right. Except for the fact that they NDA everything. You have to sign one (at least I did) before the interview.

[tania]

hmmm yes yes i have been running around downtown for quite a few hours now and i am starting to get quite hungry, maybe i should get some lunch. but where to go? so many places to choose from...



...well alright then.

[tania]

i did not use their washrooms but my sandwich and coffee were actually really, really good (i love when signs like that don't lie) so i presume i will probably eat there again in the near future. i'll get back to you on that.

[jhocking]

Is that, like, the name of the restaurant?

[tania]

sure is!

[jhocking]

I suddenly wish I had a picture of the pedicure place on Clark street. Did I tell you guys about that before? It's called "nails.com" but doesn't have a website. wtf

[jhocking]

Yeah that place! Somebody seriously misunderstood the point of dot-com companies.

[Boro_Bandito]

but if I had to put down my cat? fuck I dunno if I could do it. I mean...I WOULD, if I had to...but it would be incredibly hard.

If the alternative is seeing them die slowly and painfully while supposedly in your care,  it gets to be easier (particularly when you have experience of delaying the decision on a previous occasion).

Turns out its still really, really hard to do. Sat there with her, it actually kind of helped that the vet was a little awkward about it, and so she ended up just explaining everything sort of matter-of-fact. I will agree that its definitely the right thing to do and so I still powered through it, since one of our previous cats we let die at home, and it wasn't a pleasant experience (he was comatose pretty much from the moment he fell down and couldn't get back up and it turned out it was just a birth-defect catching up to him, so there wasn't a whole lot of undue suffering I think, but his death was not as peaceful thats for sure).

There wasn't really a moment that I could tell when she was still here and when she was gone, so I think that helped a little with just the pure effectiveness of the anesthetic, got my crying out of the way, dug her a grave myself in the front garden. Little torn up about it, my Dad took me and by brother out for some late night Tex-Mex and then made some very strong margueritas that the three of us (him, me, my younger brother, only ones who were home) are self-medicating off of a bit right now.

[Lines]

I'm really sorry, Phil.

Shit, now I'm getting all teary eyed because I miss my old cat. :c

[onewheelwizzard]

read this article and got bummed the fucc out

Looking at that list, #33 ain't bad, for the East Coast anyway.

[Slick]

Also, Jimmy, everything about what people have said about the job is right. Except for the fact that they NDA everything. You have to sign one (at least I did) before the interview.

Yeah, like, whatever Apple, you are so crazy paranoid.

Amusingly enough, my AppleID from work is still operational so I can still read 'apple internal only' bug reports and information. Can't remember how many NDA forms I signed, though. Some with apple, some with the call center?

[benji]

read this article and got bummed the fucc out

Looking at that list, #33 ain't bad, for the East Coast anyway.

You beat us. We're 72.

[Elizzybeth]

Blog thread, my (autistic) brother evidently ran away from his group home on Saturday (as the result of an argument with his psychiatrist about a proposed behavioral plan) and, upset and despondent, ran to the freeway planning to commit suicide.  He did not jump in front of a car, thankfully, but managed to give himself a hematoma on the forehead by hitting his head against a brick wall a bunch of times, then made a three-inch slit down his wrist with a piece of glass.

My parents didn't call to tell me until last night--that is, five days later.

He is okay but still in the mental hospital.  Part of me is reeling and shocked, part of me is sick of all this suicide shit (why can't anyone in my family be happy to be alive), and part of me is angry at my parents for forgetting to call (yet another part of me is glad to have recently been put on anti-depressants because I'm pretty sure I can deal with this, but I don't know if I could otherwise...).

[Dimmukane]

Our city is #28, but we more than make up for it in the rate of heroin use and cases of AIDS contracted.

[allison]

I hope things look up soon Elizzybeth.

[Papersatan]

#75 But just above our closest neighbor! Thing is though, most of the sex I am having was not counted.  We don't use condoms and I haven't caught an STD or had a baby.  Maybe my city is just filled with people on birth control in committed relationships? It seems unlikely since we are consistently in the top 10 for gonorrhea infections.   

[Liz]

I am surprised Fargo is included. We are at number 56! It is a college town, though, which is apparently A Thing.

I must contribute. Must find a sexy boy for sexy times.

[scarred]

#78? Really? Somehow I doubt this...

[Boro_Bandito]

Lubbock sitting at #11, Baltimore and #28, and god damn just gave me another big reason to move to Austin.

[tania]

i'd be really curious to learn more about that study and how those numbers were projected, some of those assessments seem pretty inherently flawed

[Alex C]

I wonder where Minneapolis-St. Paul would rank if people quit splitting them up. I get that Twin Cities residents are all "ABLOO BLA BLOO, WE'RE NOT THE SAME!" but honestly, that doesn't help me figure out how much we're gettin' laid.