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[McTaggart]

I can't even imagine super-expensive indian food.

[Caleb]

To be fair I haven't actually gone there.  But it's a nice restaurant and I assume that must be pretty pricey.

[Lines]

Usually dinner might run $10-$20 depending on what you get at the restaurants around here and most of them look quite nice. Usually the best deal is if they have a buffet.

Mmm, curry....

[LeeC]

I hate it when my girlfriend snaps at me because I dont understand what she means

context: she is going to her doctor's appointment, that she doesnt want to go to and calls me.

Her: "Hey there's a hostage situation on the main road to the hospital I have to go to."
Me: "Awe that sucks"
Her: "I should have left earlier"
Me: "yeah, you coming back or still going and going to be late?"
Her: "I said I should have left earlier!"

Im like that tells me nothing!

Me: "hey sorry but it was confusing it could have meant you are coming back or are just going to be late."
Her "I dont understand how it could be confusing!"

I just friggen explain how it was confusing! Im sorry i dont live in your mind and understand what you mean ALL of the time!

[beat mouse]

Always assume that they are saying nothing when they talk. You would know what she meant if you just cared more you animal.

[BeoPuppy]

Today, my son was born.



Galen Corban Eghan. 51 cm. 3880 gram.

I'm someone's dad now.

That was a hugely important sentence to type.

[Metope]

Oh wow, that's amazing! Congratulations, he's really cute!

[nobo]

CONGRATS! That is a cute little guy

[BeoPuppy]

Awww thanks guys, I appreciate it!

[Liz]

Congratulations dude! Babies are awesome and he is adorable.

[pwhodges]

Congratulations!

Now you can start looking forward to recovering your freedom in 25 years time.

[Ladybug]

Congrats, BeoPuppy! Aw, he's so cute.

I went to an interview today for a volunteer thingy and they asked me which website I would want to be. I hate getting questions like that, which could have so many potentially awesome answers, in situations where I don't really have time to think. Especially situations in which I am nervous, and thus tend to blank easily. Anyways! No idea how it went. I won't know until September 15th. It would be a pretty substantial amount of work, so not getting it means more free time and time for another potential, paying job, but getting it means relevant experience and social stuff. Both things are kinda okay, so I'm not fretting it. Much. However, one question: Is it normal to immediately come up with better (still not great, but, you know, not sucky) answers to every single question once you're out the door? This has happened to me on both the interviews I've been to (yes, I've only been to one job interview and one volunteer interview at the age of 23), and it annoys me so much. Even the most basic questions! I suck so badly at this.

All those who said it would be weird living with my younger brother? Can suck it, basically (no one here, I think :p). It has been pretty good so far. No arguments, no awkwardness, not even discussions about who does what. We just take turns doing the dishes, cook together when it makes sense (and share what needs to be done pretty naturally), agree that we want the kitchen to be tidy, but not extremely so, share food when it makes sense, but more or less keep track of who owes what. When we had a water leakage under the sink today, we (after figuring out and fixing the cause, obvs) just figured that was a good reason to wash the floor, so we ended up cleaning the kitchen pretty thoroughly. With no discussions or arguments about who did what! That is fantastic and would never have happened with my other brother. People were all "You'll end up doing all the housework, he'll be a slob, you'll regret it after two days, it'll be awkward, he'll never do the dishes, he'll mooch off you" etc. Nope. So far, so good!

[David_Dovey]

I just saw an Hannah/Eris doppleganger just then, and since I've been in Ottawa I have also seen not one but two JohnnyC dopplegangers. One guy didn't look like him so much but he was wearing flannel and carrying a guitar and had the same haircut, but the other guy who is a Mexican dude who works at the hostel we are staying at, is an absolute spitting image, really quite freaky.

Hi Blog Thread, I am in Ottawa! I have a long, harrowing, crazy story to tell you but I am too lazy right now and it's probably better if I hold off a couple of days anyway, because then I can provide some resolution to it as well. I hope I get some sort of happy ending.

[Inlander]

Oh man, I've seen about four doppelgangers for non-forum people over the last week or two.

Guys, I think humanity's running out of faces.

[Lines]

Or we're taking over the world with our genes. Which may or may not be a bad thing.

I saw Patrick's doppelganger on a street corner busking and I was super confused for a while until I realized it definitely wasn't Patrick.

[Lunchbox]

Yeah there's a Patrick doppelganger in one of my favourite local bands, and he plays a white guitar too.

[David_Dovey]

The Hannahdanger even had a nose piercing and red-framed glasses

[Eris]

I just missed you so much, Dovey, so I went to Ottowa to visit you.

Blog Thread! I just told my boss I couldn't work today when I totally can! I am just sick of being called in to work on my days off (especially when my eye has only just seemingly stopped twitching on occcasion), or called in early, or asked to stay late. The last two times I have been called in early/stayed back were a) so that the manager could go clothes shopping and b) so the boss could go sleep for two hours. I am going to sit around and maybe clean the bathroom and draw something and eat the rest of my muffins before going late night shopping with ben and you can't stop me, bitches.

[LeeC]

Eris, I like your avatar, where did you get it, its cute.

[Inlander]

Hannah you should get your doppelganger to do your job for you.

[Eris]

I got it from Paul Robertson's LJ. I saw someone on here with the Scott playing his guitar one, and then got an article from kotaku about them on my rss feeds.

Also Harry, the DoppleHannah is in Ottowa! She is too far away to do my shitty job!

[Inlander]

Then get on the phone and tell her to get her shit together! Whose doppelganger is she, anyway?

[LeeC]

I got it from Paul Robertson's LJ. I saw someone on here with the Scott playing his guitar one, and then got an article from kotaku about them on my rss feeds.

Also Harry, the DoppleHannah is in Ottowa! She is too far away to do my shitty job!

checking them out now and they look fantastic. The guitar one is sweet  Think I might pick up the running one though.

[David_Dovey]

[Lines]

FAT DINO!!!

So blog thread, not only did I get my old office job, but I got the job for the computer labs I interviewed for about a month ago! Yay! I am excited. Also, I found out that my manager was not very happy what the gm did to me last Saturday. I am sad that there was more drama than necessary when I left, but whatevs, I HAVE A NEW JOB! I start training next week I think.

Also:

[LeeC]

by the way the hostage situation made cnn news.

[Jace]

I hope I get some sort of happy ending.

Come to Buffalo, we can arrange this.

[BeoPuppy]

Thanks guys, you're sweet.

My girl and my kid (ha!) will come home today. Awesome, what? At least, I'm excited.

[Spluff]

Today may have been the second calender day of spring, but in terms of weather, spring started today. And to enjoy this lovely day (made even more lovely in contrast to the drought-breaking rains of the last few months) I was working outside all day planting trees and killing weeds (and rabbit burrows) near very scenic Batesford, next to the recently refilled Moorabool Creek/River.

The woman we were working for (who happens to own basically the greatest house of all time) even let us use her tennis court during lunch. If it were a bit warmer we could have gone in her pool, as well.

[Inlander]

My girl and my kid (ha!) will come home today.

Congratulations on the baby! I think after giving birth your significant other probably deserves to be called a woman, though.

[Zingoleb]

happy ending

Buffalo

lol

[tania]

hello blog thread!
here are some things i accomplished today:
- successfully jailbroke and unlocked my previously owned iphone after a long and painful struggle and can now use it anywhere with ease
- successfully synced up my university email account to my gmail account, eliminating the need to check two emails
- finally ran 5k, the first 1k of which was almost entirely straight uphill. i almost threw up afterwords but then i didn't!

to a greater man or woman these are probably not very big feats but i really suck at physical activity that requires any kind of serious effort (even though i am pretty healthy as a whole my philosophy for the last couple of years or so regarding physical exercise has dwindled down from "no pain, no gain" to the much wimpier "no pain, no pain") and also at technology, the latter of which nearly always ends up with something or someone dead or on fire or both so i am feeling pretty pleased right now! not even 1pm yet and today i am already a winner.

also vancouver is still awesome, life rules etc etc

[SonofZ3]

Dear Blog Thread,
     Holy shit farm work is hard. I've been living on a small farm with with my fiance and her family since May, and every couple days I gain a little more respect for her dad. Today I was picking what was left of the early season corn, husking it, and taking the bushels down to where the  feed grinder is, then cutting the corn stalks with a sickle and bring them up to the pasture and toss them over the fence for the cows. Now, there was only like half an acre of corn there to deal with but damn I got tired. I don't know how he did all this stuff and worked a physically demanding job for so long. On the upside, farm work is putting me in better shape than I've been in since I graduated academy, and I get lots of great organic food. Even better is that we're on a farm thats only like 20 minutes from downtown pittsburgh.

[Johnny C]

I just saw an Hannah/Eris doppleganger just then, and since I've been in Ottawa I have also seen not one but two JohnnyC dopplegangers. One guy didn't look like him so much but he was wearing flannel and carrying a guitar and had the same haircut, but the other guy who is a Mexican dude who works at the hostel we are staying at, is an absolute spitting image, really quite freaky.

depressed husky beardos all look the same, more at 11

[Johnny C]

good news! i'm the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper now. this underpaid job comes with several items of busywork that i am immediately expected to be on top of despite a lack of preparation or really any time at all in which to do it. life is a complicated network of ownage that is directed into a laser point and fired right into my brain

[Johnny C]

time to get drunk (it's 6 pm)

[Papersatan]

Dear Blog Thread,
Today I went to the Canadian National Exhibition with Allison.  We saw superdogs.  We watched cows get milked.  We watched goats play king of the hill.  We played carnie games. We ate bever tail.   It was the best.  Would do again. 
-Love Kat

[Dazed]

Hey bloggeroo.

I broke up with the ladyfriend tonight. It sucked. I wasn't happy with the relationship and we would have had to go long distance, but it still feels like shit to have to do.

Oh wells.

[Zingoleb]

Beats the alternative of being in a long distance relationship.

I'm in one again despite better judgment.

An Asian woman came up to me today asking repeatedly where we kept our strippers. In hindsight, she may have meant slippers.

[tania]

long distance relationships are tough but they're by no means unsurvivable. the trick is really just to sit down and make the decision of what you want more, to be in a relationship with a person you like who isn't there or to break up with them and date someone else. they typically don't work because i guess 90% or so of people find themselves eventually wanting the latter choice but if you're finding yourself pretty consistently remaining in the former choice there isn't really any reason why you shouldn't stick with it. i agree that there's always other potential candidates but on the other hand, a really genuinely happy and healthy relationship between two people who are really compatible is pretty rare and there's no need to sabotage something you might not see again for a long time just cos long distance seems like it might be kind of hard.

[Blue Kitty]

Dear Blog Thread:

Today I learned I have the same professor for A&P 2 that I had for A&P 1, and he uses me as a bad example of a student when taking about the class participation grade.  Or maybe it's because I was in the class that he said that.

[BeoPuppy]

Last night was the first night that my lady, my kid and me were alone in our house.


Ugh.


That will be all.

[jhocking]

uh oh spaghettios

[Jimmy the Squid]

Come on, it's way too early for that. Your kid won't hate you for at least another 14 years.

[glyphic]

Little do we know, but his lady's uterus is lined with crude drawings of Beopuppy being killed in gruesome ways. The baby waits... for now.

[bainidhe_dub]

Is his head shaped like a football? Doesn't look like it from the photo, but you never know.

I don't know what I want to do when I "grow up" but I am pretty sure it is not this. I feel like my brains are oozing out my ears. Insurance sucks.

[JimmyJazz]

Blog thread my laptop broke so doing school work's gonna suck for a while and I'm not going to be on the interwebs until it's fixed.

Plus my ex girlfriend is being all bitchy so it's the perfect week!

[Lines]

I filled out my first round of paperwork for my new job. It's getting official. Also I keep looking at the mail slot in anticipation of my new glasses. Want. Want now.

[tania]

blog thread should i buy a coffee grinder y/n

pros:
- i can probably get one for like $20 or $30 max
- i really like grinding my own coffee and can almost always tell the difference and i feel like if i continue to buy pre ground coffee it's just going to keep bugging me

cons:
- i am pretty dang poor now (like every good student who has just moved 4200km should be) and getting poorer with every second and buying any more things that i don't absolutely need is probably immensely dumb

SOLVE MY PROBLEM

[Zingoleb]

I'm down with that, actually.

Is his head shaped like a football? Doesn't look like it from the photo, but you never know.

It's 'cause he was just born! The whole being-pushed-out-of-a-vagina-like-toothpaste-from-a-tube thing squishes things up a bit, you know. Give it a few days.