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[nufan]

So, um, my best friend had an abortion today. Well, he's the guy so it isn't him getting it, but fucks knows what the proper term is. He seems ok about the whole thing, he was texting me while waiting about how they were playing "Papa Don't Preach" on their radio and we debated whether this was

a) dark fucking humour from the clinic
b) sheer utter retardation
c) subliminal messaging
d) an honest mistake

I'm kinda torn on the whole issue as he's a fucking moron who didn't use protection and now there's this happening (meaning I pretty much wanna kick his nuts in), but on the flip side he's my best friend and seems to be handling it OK (as is the woman) and I think I should just be there if he needs someone to talk to. I'm going drinking with him like all day tomorrow so I'll see how that goes.

[nekowafer]

Just try not to judge him outwardly. You're certainly allowed to be upset by what happened, but if he's your friend your best bet is to try not to get yourself emotionally involved in the crapiness of the whole thing. Let him vent if he needs to but offer no advice or opinion on it. It sounds like he understands his mistake at least (I hope) so telling him you don't approve probably won't help anything.

[David_Dovey]

So, um, my best friend had an abortion today. Well, he's the guy so it isn't him getting it, but fucks knows what the proper term is.

Really? How about "my best friend's girlfriend/partner/fuckbuddy had an abortion today". You couldn't come up with that?

[nufan]

I have no real connection with the girl, my post wasn't about her it was about my friend. I guess I could have, but it would possibly have taken the focus of the sentence away from the person I was referring to. Also, drunk.

[Patrick]

The gig on Wednesday fucking sucked. Didn't get paid. Our drummer decided to completely throw our rehearsal to the wind, and so even despite doing a quick run-through before go-time, he was still playing obnoxious jazz grooves in the middle of a fucking Weezer song. Did I mention not getting paid? Yeah. Fuckers stiffed us for $200 and told us they were doing so before we even finished setting up our shit. We decided to play anyway because we'd already set up all our shit and there were a few people around, so why not?

Still, that night was complete and total piss. The only good thing was seeing some friends I haven't seen in a hot minute. They came down to see us. But the show sucked since we were so bummed about not getting the cash we had been counting on. Wasn't even worth our friends' time.

And my voice is completely fucked today. We had a 3-hour rehearsal the morning of the show, then the show was three hours in and of itself. And then last night was open mic, which meant MORE singing. I'm taking the week off, giving my poor voice a rest. It hurts and is very hoarse and pathetic.

[valley_parade]

So, um, my best friend had an abortion today. Well, he's the guy so it isn't him getting it, but fucks knows what the proper term is.

Really? How about "my best friend's girlfriend/partner/fuckbuddy had an abortion today". You couldn't come up with that?

Unbabydaddy.

[squawk]

i had a fourth of a very potent edible last night so i just ended up sleeping through both classes today. but it's great because spurs beat the lakers with .2 seconds on the clock last night! what a great ending to a kind of shitty game.

[The Seldom Killer]

Sitting around applying for jobs and I can't help but think that writing about my relevant experiences is just spouting utter shite. It just gets depressing having to constantly reduce your abilities to a handful of brief, reductive, confirmatory statements of next to no credibility.

[Barmymoo]

So a parcel arrived for me today and in it was a box of chocolates and here is a list of the flavours:

Milk Lemon
Rhubarb
Raspberry
Apple & Blackberry
Geranium
Blackcurrant
Banoffee Caramel
Apple & Cinnamon
Milk Truffle
Milk Strawberry
Milk Orange
Mandarin Orange


Disappointingly there isn't actually a rhubarb chocolate in the box

[McTaggart]

Got plans to do the 'go down south for a long weekend' thing next week despite the facts that I am broke and we are doing it in the middle of the week.

Should be good.

[JD]

oh goddamnit my fat ass broke one of my new pants.

[pen]

Just found out this morning that the date that Jon and I are now planning for our wedding is also my parents' wedding anniversary.  They have been divorced for 29 years.  Is this bad mojo or something we can totally ignore?  My parents are objecting to it hardcore, and I'm just thinking, come on.  Your marriage fell apart because you're both totally nuts, not because there's something wrong with the date. 

[Barmymoo]

If the date is going to be 13/6/13 or some such similarly unlucky number then there might be an argument for moving it but heck, people get married every day of the year and of course some of them divorce. Go for it if you want to get married then!

[Scarychips]

For a second there, I read that date the french way (ie. mm/dd/yy). 

[bainidhe_dub]

Is that French? That's how I read it too, but in French class we always had to do dd/mm/yy.

[Rizzo]

I always thought MM/DD was the US way and DD/MM was the everyone else way?

[squawk]

Maybe Jon and Rachel are just getting married in Smarch

[bainidhe_dub]

Dear LiveJournal Replacement Thread:

I am having a Dilemma. I just started a new job at a pizza store, I initially interviewed on Jan. 7 but started on Jan. 31 because I was already committed to do a temp job, but now the landlord company where I temp'ed at is kinda offering me a job. I met with the landlord co's HR lady and she said she would watch for an opening where they could hire me. HR Lady called & emailed me on like Wednesday (Feb 2?) to say a position had opened up and they had decided to take a temp for that spot and hire from the temp position, so call her next (this coming) week to tell her how I like the new pizza job and if I am interested in the position. Well, I am definitely interested in working with the HR Lady's landlord company, as the time I worked for them in January is the 4th time they have actively ASKED the temp company for me, and they are generally stable and awesome, even though they are an hour's commute away. The new job is approximately 1 mile from my house and I can totally see why the guy needs an assistant (the current girl is a total moron) and I think I could be very helpful there even if the personal fulfillment aspect is only in that I am doing a thing that badly needs to be done, and also I have kinda made friends with some of the other people there, and the store manager said he hopes I stay, and I'd kinda feel bad leaving at this point even only a week in. But if I could get the other job it would probably be a significant pay increase and a foot in at a very stable company with room for advancement. And now my husband is pressuring me every day to call the HR Lady and say that if they'll let me interview & get the job then I'll take it, but that I don't want to temp and maybe not get it. But I'd feel bad at this point backing out of the pizza job I interviewed for and accepted and started (though it went really fast - he called 15 minutes after I emailed my resume to set up an interview, and set up a second interview for the next business day AT the first one, and offered me the job the evening after the second). AND on top of all that apparently my old boss still thinks I'm coming back when business picks up, even though she cut me to 2 days a week and then gave me a recommendation for the new job, and was there when I said, 'hey I got the new job!", but this new boss is starting to show signs of being just as crazy as the old bosses (but in a different way! oh boy!) so overall it's probably better to take the landlord job in both the short and long term. So I guess there are two decisions I have: 1 - do I give up the job(s) where I feel needed (except when I don't) to work in a well-oiled machine where I may feel more like a cog than a necessary component, VS. 2 - do I take the well-paying job with benefits and advancement over one where I will probably never get further than I start (since I'm already the Owner's Assistant) and benefits are limited since they're small companies. I know it sounds like an easy decision, but I'm really having trouble here. Please help, oh internet.

tl;dr: I have the choice between a high-paying, potentially boring job and two low paying, artificially fulfilling jobs, but I can't choose between them.

edit: drunken spelling

[JD]

I would go for the high-paying jorb.

[nekowafer]

I'd go for the high-paying job. Take it, save up money, get comfortable with some savings, then you can quit and get a job you actually like that pays less.

[Boro_Bandito]

I'd go for the high paying job, but I would also do what your husband is pushing for, no sense going for a higher paying job that's only gonna be temp and not work out in the long long run when you know you've got what you have now. In any case I think from the way you were working it out you know the decision you're leaning towards, and you acknowledge that while the pizza place job is cool and may have cool people in the long run it isn't what you need. And hey if nothing else take the people working there as friends.

Similar situation is my sister who has a NYU Master's in Social Work who up until four months ago had moved back to Austin and was working as an assistant manager at a burrito place, or my manager Val who was working at Gamestop with a master's in sociology, who just left for an actual position in his field even though they'd bumped him up to salary and given him his own store, which would be a great career move for someone with just a high school diploma, but not him.

I would also break your post up just a smidge, I mean I read it, but like, paragraphs...

[bainidhe_dub]

Yeah yeah, paragraphs. So overrated. It's all one mixed up thought. To clarify, I'm not just "new chick at pizza place," I,m the owner's new, theoretically competent, assistant which apparently puts me on level with the store managers even though I don't know shit except that I want to set the old assistant and her filing cabinet on fire.

[Scarychips]

Is that French? That's how I read it too, but in French class we always had to do dd/mm/yy.

I'm just saying it's the French way because everyone I know who uses it (ie. dd/mm/yyyy) is a francophone while everyone I know who uses the other way (ie. mm/dd/yyyy) is anglo. I guess I'm just used to everything being divided because of the Quebec culture. Huh.

[Patrick]

Dear blag,

Man I hate to be That Dick but while the rest of the world (and therefore all of you) are having shit weather, it was a glorious 70 degrees Fahrenheit today. It was gorgeous. And it was another day off. Went downtown, made enough money playing Celtic stuff with my buddies to get a coffee. One of them had an octave mandolin, the other had a 4-string banjo, and I was lent a classical guitar. We had ourselves a pretty rad time playing a bunch of traditional tunes. One of my pals I played with is an old North Irish guy by the name of Gabe, he makes his living by playing gigs around the Livermore area. He knew those songs very well and was more than willing to help whenever the other guy and I had problems.

I'd intended to record something for my bestie/bassist to listen to and write a bass part for, but it was well past a decent hour to do so by time I got home today. There's always tomorrow. I've got plenty of ideas that have been bouncing around for some time, and I intend to use them all in some way. My aim is to spend my day tomorrow recording a bunch of those ideas in draft versions onto a single track, and then flesh them out over time using other tracks. If I get a new idea that doesn't fit well in the stuff I already will have, it just gets tacked onto the end of the scratchpad track.

I have got to figure a way to organize this shit better though. I desperately would like a better computer so I can record and transfer files more seamlessly. This current setup just isn't to my satisfaction. God, there's so much that I'd like to do that I can't do yet and it's that 'yet' that really annoys the shit outta me.

[jhocking]

My fiancee is watching Groundhog Day for the first time right now. I am a little jealous of that.

[Inlander]

It's good the first time but after that each re-watch is just the same thing over and over again.

[Ozymandias]

Oh man. I got to do that last year.

Awesome.

[Lunchbox]

We studied Groundhog Day in English class in Year 11. In addition to analysing the shit out of it, we watched it so many times, end-to-end and in snippets, that there is no way I will ever be able to watch it again.

[Slick]

Today is (was?) my dad's birthday! How do you say that, though, he has been six-feet deep for a good eight months now, so is it still his birthday? As he was not born each February 6th, though, I guess it is much his birthday as any of those other ones were before his first one...
I did not get him anything (obviously) but I made him (me) supper! Spaghetti was his absolute favorite thing both to make and to eat. He once ate spaghetti straight for a month while on strike in his twenties. I had no meatballs or meatball materials, tragically, so instead, while on the phone with my brother, he gave me the best idea: make dad's fried chicken (his second favorite thing to make, probably) and chop it up and toss it in. It was a glorious meal, and fitting to the day I feel.
I am pretty glad today that the culinary center was closed down and I couldn't go in to work on my cake, I had honestly forgotten it was his birthday today and wouldn't have found out till I came home exhausted at 8 o'clock which frankly would have sucked a big massive dick to be tired, having to go to bed early, and then wake up early and get right back to work. Might have broken down serious-like.

He never wanted a big deal over his birthday. He hated to put people out over things and I think he had difficulties being happy with himself and with people. I am a lot like him in a lot of ways, and I kind of feel like I know how he felt and what made him act the way he did.
I am quite thankful for the kind person around here who reminded me that I am not, in fact, my father.

I've got a lot of work to get done tomorrow. I was hoping to pipe some royal icing tonight at home but frankly after a beer and a full meal, I don't really care to do that now. I'll just do up a good work schedule for tomorrow (I am basically blitzcakeing this assignment from 8AM till 10PM, with probably a break for lunch and a break for supper [leftover chicken and spaghetti?!?]).


also: listening to white dwarf and stardeath and the flaming lips do dark side of the moon. I never really liked dark side of the moon but dad really did (as well as most pink floyd). The cover album has really eased me into this excellent album that I am glad to be listening to.

[jhocking]

we watched it so many times, end-to-end and in snippets, that there is no way I will ever be able to watch it again.

Back in college, one cable channel kept showing it every day, so my roommate and I watched it over and over for like two weeks straight. I still like it.

In retrospect, I wonder if they were showing it over and over as some sort of meta-commentary on the movie?

[tania]

call me insensitive and callous but man oh man i do love a good facebook friend pruning

you, your videos are stupid. you, you're really weird and you have really bad opinions about things. you, who are you. DELETED

[Barmymoo]

I just had one of those, but I wasn't quite callous enough, there are several people I wanted to get rid of but didn't because they only just added me and they'd be upset, or just that they'd be upset and there would be DRAMA. I just block them on my feed instead.

An old flame just re-emerged and we chatted for a while about what we're up to these days and what went wrong way back when. It made me think about that period in my life, which I haven't really thought about for ages. It's only been about five years but so much has changed since then it's like remembering a dream. How odd teenagers are (I can say that now, I'm a Real Adult these days). I don't think I'll ever have another period of drama like that one, because ironically it went a long way towards helping me grow up a bit!

Weird. I wonder which bits of my life I'll remember in fifty years? I imagine this year will be one of them, just for its sheer weirdness. Then again, with the way my memory is going, it might just be the years I kept a diary.

[Lunchbox]

I've been really grumpy lately, what can I do to be less grumpy?

[tania]

go to dailypuppy.com immediately, be delighted, realize that was six hours of your life you're never going to get back, thank me later

[pwhodges]

Went today to see my first wife in hospital (a couple of hundred yards from where I work), where she has just had a replacement hip fitted.  It seems odd, as we are the same age, but recently she's been coming over as so old...

Also, I felt a bit guilty at feeling relieved that I was not the one who's had to look after her while she's been unable to do things; I suppose I don't need to really, but that's me.

[Lunchbox]

Tania one of my problems is that I can only access the internet at work.

[jhocking]

start stealing your neighbors internet

[Lunchbox]

You think I haven't looked?
I have been using my phone but I only have a teeny tiny data package which I'm sure I've already used up.
Oh well. I just ordered a Pocket WiFi Broadband thing. I will have forums but no torrents. So sad, so sad.
I am sure I will cheer up once I have internet sorted again. And when my new room isn't so messy. And now that it isn't 100 degrees every single day.

[Dimmukane]

I've been living in my 1st apartment for a week, as of this post.  I not too long ago finished putting together a couch.  I'm going to go sit on it in about five minutes.  Tomorrow, maybe I'll wash my clothes, or find a way to use the rest of the buffalo sauce I have for dinner.  Then I might hook up the router, and play video games until two in the morning.  Either way...living on my own is pretty rad.

[nekowafer]

I just spoke to a lawyer about my case concerning birth control - I might get money! Woo!

Also, living on your own is so totally awesome. You can dance around naked all day if you feel like it. (not that I have)

(yet)

[The Seldom Killer]

You can do that when you're living with someone as well. Not that I do because even clothed my dancing has been known to cause screams of anguish.

[jodizzle]

I dance around in my underwear while I cook.  And I always have the front door open.  One day someone is going to come to visit while I'm cooking and I won't be able to get from the kitchen to anywhere with pants without them seeing me.

Although I guess it shouldn't really matter because I wear underwear as pants for derby all the time.  I had a dream the other night that one of the other girls who wears underwear pants and I had shirts that said "I spent my pants money on skates".  I am making Aaron make us these shirts.

[Lunchbox]

At my new house everyone just wears underwear all the time. Even when people come over. It's awesome.

[Barmymoo]

I wear underwear all the time too. Do some people not do this? Have I spent twenty years not realising that going commando was a common thing to do?

[Ozymandias]

I wear underwear all the time too. Do some people not do this? Have I spent twenty years not realising that going commando was a common thing to do?

May I think the implication might have been that they do not wear additional clothes over their underwear because Australians are filthy, degenerate criminal scum whom God has rightly chosen to wipe clean from the Earth.

[Ozymandias]

Except for Jodie, obviously. She's rad.

She's Australian Noah, chosen to repopulate Australia with derby chicks.

[jmrz]

You think I haven't looked?
I have been using my phone but I only have a teeny tiny data package which I'm sure I've already used up.
Oh well. I just ordered a Pocket WiFi Broadband thing. I will have forums but no torrents. So sad, so sad.
I am sure I will cheer up once I have internet sorted again. And when my new room isn't so messy. And now that it isn't 100 degrees every single day.

If you want anything downloaded, I have unlimited downloads and could get it for you and then put it on my hard drive and bring it to you?

Also, hello blog thread. I moved out of home, two hours away to Sydney and have been sitting in my house alternating between putting furniture together, melting and unpacking. I'm kind of lonely! My boyfriend is coming to visit next week, because he hasn't even been here yet to see our new place. He doesn't move in for another three weeks or so because he still needs to finish work.

I am struggling trying to think up things to cook for myself, cooking for myself is kind of boring. I am also struggling at trying to go to bed at a decent hour and I end up sleeping in to 10 or 11am every day. Not that it really matters now, because I work from home! Working from home is great!

[tania]

ever since i've lived alone, i've been naked or worn nothing but underwear just about near constantly. sometimes i even do the patrick bateman thing where i catch myself in the mirror while working or lying in bed and then i flex in my mirror and give myself pep talks and stuff. while naked. life's pretty awesome in here

[Joseph]

So what you're saying is, whenever you talk to any of us on meebo, or facebook, or whatever, you're busy. Being naked.

[valley_parade]

Dudes outside my office have been jackhammering at some gas leak all day. All day. It's ranged from normal jackhammer noises to what someone described as "groundfarts".

I mean dudes come on it's almost 8PM, go home and eat dinner and stop jackhammering.

That's what I'm doing in 7 minutes. Actually maybe I'll throw on that Sunn 0))) album where the dude from Earth had a jackhammer. BADADADADADADADADADADADADADA