Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now (Read 244723 times)

Elizzybeth · « **Reply #450 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 11:01 »

It is my birthday! I turned 20 on the top of some hills behind my condo complex, from which you can see the whole city. Now: Nutella crepes! Tonight: mineral springs hot tubs! It's shaping up to be a pretty good birthday.

Patrick · « **Reply #451 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 12:09 »

Quote from: Jace on 06 Sep 2010, 06:08

When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.

Would you like examples from personal experience that prove this not to be true?

iPhone and iPod aside, their computers allow for just as much home repair as any other.

Patrick · « **Reply #452 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 13:23 »

Okay okay fine Jens have it your way

The Jesuscore band I'm in has apparently decided to name itself "Last Remnant" in spite of the video game title that bears a distinct similarity, being called "The Last Remnant" and all. I've decided that I'm basically going to take absolutely no part in any aspect of the band's image or songwriting (the bassist/singer is a control freak asshole anyway). I'm just going to be the lead guitarist/producer/sound engineer. And I'll work under a pseudonym, because fucked if I'm gonna let this haunt me later in life.

Also my work has been calling me in on my days off and I could not be happier about this. Because it means two things. 1. I get money, 2. I get to skip practice with that shitty fucking band and when the asshole bassist/singer calls and says "hay wtf" I can just say "Suck it, I have eaten on every third day since June, fuck you I'm going to work"

october1983 · « **Reply #453 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 14:34 »

Why not um maybe just quit?

Metope · « **Reply #454 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 14:43 »

Quote from: Jeans on 08 Sep 2010, 12:48

my girlfriend

Lunchbox · « **Reply #455 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 15:59 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 08 Sep 2010, 11:46

Quote from: Lunchbox on 07 Sep 2010, 20:10
I think they're pretty and I don't care?
I don't want to sound rude but from previous conversations and allusions you have made on this forum and in Meebo, I don't think you are a person with big money to throw around (though obviously you work very hard and you have a great job). You live in a really expensive city and I seem to recall that you still have debt from your move.

Thus, when somebody says to you that you can buy a product virtually identical to another product which costs considerably more for no readily apparent reason, I feel like it's reasonably justified of them to point out that someone who isn't stupid rich might want to give it some thought. The design is aesthetically okay but I see nice looking Windows laptops all the time now. I'm typing on one right now and it literally cost a third of the price of a bog standard Macbook Pro.

You are right! I am still very poor despite the fact that I have a well-paying job. I'm paying way more rent than I can handle and I'm still thousands of dollars in over my head. However I do need a new computer and I know that if I settle for a Windows computer I will be unhappy with it for the next five years or however long, because I just really like the way OS/X and Apple hardware looks and works. I have been to the bank this week and figured out a payment plan for my debt that will enable me to have it all paid off easily in less than 3 years, rather than just constantly paying off the interest like I've been doing for the past 2. While I'm paying this off I'm also planning to save up for an overseas holiday. Also hopefully my boyfriend is moving in with me at the end of the year which will save me literally thousands in rent and transport costs. I'm also going to stop buying so many clothes which is a big money drain (I've banned myself from Etsy).

SAVINGS

negative creep · « **Reply #456 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 16:05 »

Quote from: Jeans on 08 Sep 2010, 12:48

my girlfriend

o/

Ozymandias · « **Reply #457 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 16:15 »

Here is a thing that is bugging me:

How the balls do I build my own OSX machine. I mean, let's say I want to save several hundred dollars, still have OSX, but don't care about having an aggressively branded case for it. The internal hardware of an Apple machine is 100% the same as any Windows machine so why can't I easily buy OSX from them and install it myself and save me some money?

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #458 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 16:20 »

http://www.hackintosh.com/

jhocking · « **Reply #459 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 16:44 »

I like how the very first instructions is a broken link.

Christophe · « **Reply #460 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 18:32 »

Quote from: Jeans on 08 Sep 2010, 12:48

girlfriend

This is DC punk-rock girl right?

If so, YOU WIN!

Patrick · « **Reply #461 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 19:03 »

Starting work in a bit. Waiting on my buddy to arrive. He's got the same shift tonight (got called in literally 5 minutes before I did) and so he's gonna lift me. That dude's been so nice to do so.

It got really cold here all of a sudden. Yesterday it was damn 95 degrees at 4pm, then by 6 it's overcast and humid and maybe 50. When did Livermore weather get this weird? I'm not a fan of this shit, gotta break out my Carhartt. I have been using that as a pillow. Becoming unemployed two months after moving out of your dad's house really, really sucks.

Allybee · « **Reply #462 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 22:04 »

life update. I haven't slept for more than 30 minutes at a time for the past 3 days because I have a terrible cough and I have liquid codeine which will apparently make my throat close so I don't really know what to do. my roommate is awesome (she's actually from DC) and I am living in an awesome house with 17 other people who are all beautiful and friendly. I'm taking architecture I, anthropology of cities, environmental studies and a class about france during wwII... the first 3 are all related to my future career in sustainable architecture so that is cool I guess. and yet I'm not really happy? all my friends are pressuring me to go to therapy so I'm going to give it a try but I really, really hate therapists... I realized that a ton of my friends are on anti-depressants and the thought freaks me out because I think medication is really over-prescribed. still, I'm feeling immobilizing-ly self conscious about the dumbest shit to the point where I am not really functional. everyone thinks I'm a wreck. I recently caused some damage to a good friend's car and I've lost my ID twice this week (people I know have found it both times, luckily). decently sure that I am just an unattractive person in a lot of ways so I'm trying to cope with that. not doing too well.

so not much has changed I guess.

Allybee · « **Reply #463 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 22:10 »

on the bright side tomorrow is thursday which means for the next 3 nights I will be inebriated and therefore alright

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #464 on:** 08 Sep 2010, 22:59 »

Stuff that is happening to me lately:
1) Got my driver's license! Wheee! I don't drive often but this will make life that little bit easier as I can drive my girlfriend home when she is drunk and we won't have to get taxi's everywhere.
2) Have been trying out for a job I'm still not sure about. It's for a Duty Manager position at a discount bookstore in the city. The pay is good, the experience would be awesome and they don't care about piercings or visibile tattoos but the hours are kind of retarded and there is not a lot of room for the whole work/life balance. I'm really not going to be able to decide until I get a reply.
3) My laptop is broken! It has some sort of virus so I need to ask est to help me fix it. Might have to delete everything and then reinstall the OS because the virus is preventing me form using task manager or pretty much anything.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #465 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 01:06 »

allyallyally this is unsolicited advice BUT man if you are not down with the prescription stuff getting fucked up is uh also you medicating, just self-medicating. i know from experience that it actually makes everything suck more when you're not totally fucked up!

says the girl whose co-workers and friends legitimately thought she was an alcoholic so kind of forced her to go to a counselor and now is on prescription anti anxiety/depression meds and is a quadbillion times better as in panic attacks/depression comas don't come around as often and when they do aren't as severe (and now doesn't drink very much at all)

Patrick · « **Reply #466 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 01:13 »

Failed to come down from my high before going into work. Stupid damn California trees. Anyway, the team leader tonight is this new girl, she's been at this store for 4 weeks after two months of training at the San Ramon store. She also just recently moved to the Bay Area from Colorado and doesn't know anybody.

So tonight being my first night working alone in my own section, she comes in and gives me a hand, all trying to be buddy buddy with the new kid on his first night after training. I'm sorry dude, but it is awkward enough to be me in a tampon aisle (sorry dudettes I don't hate on that whole menstruation thing I just kinda got conditioned by growing up with my mom and sister making my adolescence very awkward with their attempts to have the Dad Talk with me), let alone me working in a tampon aisle, let alone me working completely buck stoned working next to my female superior and trying with every ounce of restraint in my body to not ask her, "What the hell do you people need this many fucking types for?" out of stoned pranksterism.

Why do I do this to myself why do I always find the most awkward thing ever and stick myself right at dead center of the stage

snalin · « **Reply #467 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 02:50 »

Quote from: Patrick on 09 Sep 2010, 01:13

the Dad Talk with me

Is this really a thing outside the world of sitcoms?

Slick · « **Reply #468 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 04:16 »

Patrick they are boxes of things that people want to buy. You can be fairly adult about it. I'm relatively certain you won't give a shit about it in a week or two.

nobo · « **Reply #469 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 04:37 »

Quote from: Patrick on 09 Sep 2010, 01:13

For a second I thought you still worked at Home Depot so your story made no fucking sense.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #470 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 04:42 »

I am eating a steak, this is the first time in about 6 weeks that I have been able to afford red meat

jhocking · « **Reply #471 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 04:54 »

Quote from: Allybee on 08 Sep 2010, 22:04

and yet I'm not really happy? all my friends are pressuring me to go to therapy... I'm feeling immobilizing-ly self conscious

Quote from: Allybee on 08 Sep 2010, 22:10

on the bright side tomorrow is thursday which means for the next 3 nights I will be inebriated and therefore alright

Be careful. Down this road alcoholism lies.

Ladybug · « **Reply #472 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 06:17 »

I'm pretty sure that if the alternative to having a job was eating every third day, I would not smoke weed at times I might risk getting called into work? Maybe.

I'm so satisfied with my decision to take an extra year of school where I can kinda relax, but take a couple of classes just for fun and retake a couple of previous classes to improve my grades. It feels pretty great, and I'm glad I didn't let people convince me otherwise. I have no idea what it'll do to my chances of getting a decent summer job, but who knows. At least I'm not stressing out and feeling like I'm not where I'm supposed to be.

McTaggart · « **Reply #473 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 07:18 »

Ally you're describing a state that sounds pretty similar to one I was in a couple of years ago. I was doing what I thought I loved and I was still pretty unhappy. I couldn't bring myself to do anything that anyone might judge me on; everything from going shopping or getting a haircut to logging in to msn or facebook to doing the work I needed to pass the units that I was finding really interesting. I was drinking to loosen myself up to socialise, and I was drinking to loosen myself up enough to attempt the work I was doing.

Eventually it got to a point where I had two nights in a row of friends who deserved much better having to hold my hair and too many deadlines run far too long overdue with nothing to turn in and something clicked and I made an appointment at my uni's counselling service. A friend had mentioned it some time before but I dismissed it because "I don't like therapists" and "I can sort it out on my own". I was really apprehensive about it before hand but it really helped me to get things figured out and get on the way to getting myself in a better place. There's no shame at all in seeing a counsellor or a therapist. It's the other way around in fact; taking steps to help yourself shows a lot of strength.

I apologise if this is not my place to comment or if I misinterpreted your post, but I ended up getting terminated from my course because of how I was handling myself. I let it get too far and I lost the best opportunity I had to achieve what was my dream at the time and I'd hate for that to happen to anyone else.

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In other news my jaw has started giving me grief since getting my wisdom teeth out and I've had this strain in all the muscles around it since this morning. It was insistent to the point where I couldn't think about anything other than how much my jaw was killing me so I did something I've pretty much never done before and took one of these Panadene Forte that I got for after the surgery.

I think in my life I've taken one Panadol and it just bubbled up in my stomach and I threw it up right after. Maybe starting on the strong stuff was a bad idea because my jaw still hurts and now I have a headache that hurts about same amount too. I can concentrate though so that's ok.

Patrick · « **Reply #474 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 11:42 »

Quote from: Slick on 09 Sep 2010, 04:16

Patrick they are boxes of things that people want to buy. You can be fairly adult about it.

You have clearly forgotten everything about the person you're talking to, James.

Quote from: snalin on 09 Sep 2010, 02:50

Is this really a thing outside the world of sitcoms?

Every social interaction my mother and sister have with each other is a dead remake of something that has already happened in Gilmore Girls. 'Cept my mom had my sister at the age of 31 instead of 16. I don't think my family knows what it means to be a normal family, we were all raised on television and that is why I quit watching television.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #475 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 23:12 »

Boobs are weird, how do you girls deal with these things on your chest all the fucking time

Zingoleb · « **Reply #476 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 23:14 »

I also read Neil Gaiman for the first time tonight and it was a life-changing experience.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #477 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 23:18 »

Those two posts are also unrelated. Neil Gaiman did not attach breasts to my person.

Eris · « **Reply #478 on:** 09 Sep 2010, 23:25 »

To be fair, I get distracted by my boobs fairly often. Especially in summer, when I wear singlets. They jiggle when I walk! How am I not supposed to notice that?!

scarred · « **Reply #479 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 00:30 »

right?

Inlander · « **Reply #480 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 00:59 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 09 Sep 2010, 23:12

Boobs are weird, how do you girls deal with these things on your chest all the fucking time

Interesting, earlier today I was thinking "Man, penises are so damn annoying sometimes."

Guys our bodies are grossly impractical. Isn't it about time we ascended to become a purely energy-based life form already?

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #481 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 01:14 »

they're pretty annoying sometimes. recently the boy said "these things are heavy". uh duh honey i think i could tell that myself also because even my nice expensive bras only last like a year max before they blow out somehow. i mean i realize i'm in the sizes you can't buy at a normal store (thank you katie for linking figleaves) but that is like almost 15 pounds of rack

tania · « **Reply #482 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 01:29 »

i promise this will be the last time i brag about this but... moving to vancouver was without a doubt the best decision i ever made in my entire life and there really aren't enough words to describe how talented and incredible the people i have met here are or how beautiful this city is or how truly happy i am, for maybe the first time ever really. life is amazing, my friends are amazing, i actually feel good about myself and everything is just going really stupidly well.

starting right now i will probably have something close to a 60-70 hour work week and things are probably going to get immensely stupidly busy from now until forever so i doubt i will be on here very much from now on but i just wanted to share that. sorry, i know it is probably getting pretty obnoxious, i just honestly can't get over what an incredible and beneficial change this has been for my life. it's like a dream come true. i think maybe everything is going to be okay from now on. carry on regular activities etc

Zingoleb · « **Reply #483 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 01:30 »

Whoo! I'm really hoping that I'll be echoing similar sentiments when I manage to move out to Ithaca. Hopefully next year.

Quote from: Inlander on 10 Sep 2010, 00:59

Quote from: Zingoleb on 09 Sep 2010, 23:12
Boobs are weird, how do you girls deal with these things on your chest all the fucking time

Interesting, earlier today I was thinking "Man, penises are so damn annoying sometimes."

I was thinking the same thing, too. Huh. Probably for an entirely different reason, though.

Inlander · « **Reply #484 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 02:18 »

If it wasn't because you went to take a piss and the piss went spraying all over the underside of the toilet seat instead of going into the bowl like it's supposed to then yes, it was a different reason.

KvP · « **Reply #485 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 03:19 »

Quote from: tania on 10 Sep 2010, 01:29

starting right now i will probably have something close to a 60-70 hour work week and things are probably going to get immensely stupidly busy from now until forever so i doubt i will be on here very much from now on but i just wanted to share that. sorry, i know it is probably getting pretty obnoxious, i just honestly can't get over what an incredible and beneficial change this has been for my life. it's like a dream come true. i think maybe everything is going to be okay from now on. carry on regular activities etc

Bye!

Inlander · « **Reply #486 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 04:30 »

Yo Blogg,

This week I realised that my annual tax bill (yes, tax bill, not return, it's a boring story) will probably be about half of what I was anticipating it being, because my monthly tax-deductible charity donations have been a whole lot bigger than I thought they had been.

This is good timing because tonight I locked myself out of my house and had to pay a locksmith A$185 to come and rescue me. The reason I locked myself out was so spectacularly stupid that it demands to be retold: I was emptying out the cat litter, and I went outside to put it in the bin, and I noticed how loud the T.V. in the sitting-room was from outside the house. Endeavouring as always to be a conscientious neighbour, I shut the door to see if that made a difference to the apparent loudness of the T.V. from outside the house. (It didn't).

The house I grew up in didn't have deadlocks and sometimes I forget how they work, with dismaying results.

Rizzo · « **Reply #487 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 05:04 »

I'm DJing at the Auckland fetish fair on Sunday. For 6 hours. WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTOOOOOOOO

allison · « **Reply #488 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 05:07 »

Congrats Tania, it's really great to hear that you're happy!

jhocking · « **Reply #489 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 05:29 »

I dunno, I kind of liked her better before.

snalin · « **Reply #490 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 06:32 »

I love MIT. If I don't get something during my lectures at the university in Bergen, I can just check out the same lecture at MIT, online, for free. Learning^2

Ptommydski · « **Reply #491 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 07:04 »

Quote from: jhocking on 10 Sep 2010, 05:29

I dunno, I kind of liked her better before.

This whole being happy thing is alright but it's not helping her to find JRL Phelps, which is her sole purpose in life now.

Ptommydski · « **Reply #492 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 07:22 »

That's cool. I suggest walking around repeatedly shouting MAN WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL OF THESE RARE BOOTLEGS OF THE CURE, I SURE WISH A RECLUSIVE SINGER SONGWRITER WOULD TAKE THEM OFF MY HANDS.

Ladybug · « **Reply #493 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 10:23 »

Quote from: snalin on 10 Sep 2010, 06:32

I love MIT. If I don't get something during my lectures at the university in Bergen, I can just check out the same lecture at MIT, online, for free. Learning^2

Yes, this is awesome. It has helped me through several classes, especially linear algebra (the MIT professor who holds that course is awesome) and algorithms (held by one of the dudes who wrote the textbook), and I loved Yale's intro to psychology as well (I've taken/am taking a couple of psych classes for easy credit). I sucked at algorithms, but I'm retaking it this year and understanding more. I'll definitely rewatch the MIT course as well. Not that our lecturer is bad, he's been awarded the Teaching Award at school and has written a Python book for Apress and is writing another one, but he doesn't go into details in classes like Leiserson does.

Oh, and MIT's physics 1 is awesome! I've always disliked physics, but that course made it amusing and easier to understand which made it way more motivating to actually study, not just think about how I hate physics, and I finally passed the first-year physics course in third grade with a grade above passing, even.

Patrick · « **Reply #494 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 10:33 »

Went to open mic last night, played hella Beatles covers with my buddy Lukas. The guy who runs the thing, an Elvis impersonator named Bob, asked us afterward if we'd ever considered going pro. We're gonna call him up on Tuesday and see what he's got in mind. I do know he just got back from playing for a few thousand people in Hong Kong, and the dude makes bank doing his Elvis thing.

tl;dr I want to go to Hong Kong and play Beatles covers

McTaggart · « **Reply #495 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 10:44 »

My wisdom tooth sites are infected. Apparently that pain in my jaw was because of that. By some miracle I managed to get a doctors appointment tomorrow (on a Saturday even) and I only called on Thursday. Normally you're lucky if you can get one within five days.

jmrz · « **Reply #496 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 15:16 »

I'm surprised yours got infected. When I had mine out they loaded me up with huge amounts of antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and painkillers. The sole purpose of all of that was to fight off any infections.

I hope the doctor you're seeing is able to help and can prescribe something to clear it up. When I had mine out, I had to suffer through the pain, because I'm chemically intolerant to painkillers, so it was a whole different kind of pain to what you're dealing with.

JD · « **Reply #497 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 18:57 »

Happy birthday to meeeee

JD · « **Reply #498 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 19:01 »

My mother bought me a unicorn.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #499 on:** 10 Sep 2010, 19:03 »

Goddammit!

I bought you a unicorn, too. Good thing I kept the receipt...

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