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[scarred]

man I am sorry Dovey, that is a shit way to start the new year.

[Christophe]

Dovey I am glad that The New Year is helping you. That is a shituation for sure and I hope you pull through it, and you know that I've got you in terms of

[pwhodges]

That makes it apparent that at least one of you is not at art school!

[Gemmwah]

So my Grandad, who has terminal cancer in his throat, has been taken into hospital because he's picked up a chest and throat infection from my grandma, who is also very unwell but not quite hospital worthy. My uncle got into a car crash on friday night and totalled his car outside of Hastings, and he has to try and get back to Wales, but he's at the hospital now with my Grandad. My aunt has a broken leg, and is trying to look after everyone, so I've volunteered myself to stay with her and help her look after everyone, including her sick ten year old. My sister and her boyfriend are here, but useless.

[David_Dovey]

Ffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck cancer 

[Drill King]

Can I jump on that boat? My step dad's condition is getting worse.

[Patrick]

Gemm, I'm so sorry to hear about everybody's health being what it is. That is a clusterfuck of misfortune and I really hope that misfortune turns around.

Guys please don't compare getting dumped to two family members with cancer. I almost didn't post because of that, shit is trifling in comparison.

Dude, problems are problems. And understanding, supportive friends are understanding, supportive friends. I appreciate the thought though.

Pat that is great to hear about your mom, that she's positive about it and they have a plan for her. If you need a break from all the serious while you're in DC, there's a bunch of us around so let us know and we'll take you out for some stupid tourist stuff.

Indeed, I'll definitely take you guys up on that. Besides, I love hanging out, and most of y'all I still haven't met.

I'm really good at getting drunk and playing hipster singalong music, like the Shins or Modest Mouse or whatever. I discovered that the other day at my buddy's birthday party, and again the night before last. Also I don't remember this at all, but apparently my friend let me play lead guitar for a couple songs at his New Year's Eve gig, and I did a pretty accurate stylistic impersonation of Dickey Betts.

Also my friend got arrested yesterday morning at 3am. When I first told the story to my bud Lukas, at first he was pissed because I left our drunk friend out in the street, stumbling along his way. When it came to the part of the story where said drunken friend tried to suffocate me by bear-hugging the air out of my chest and crushing my diaphragm, and the part where I had to headbutt him in the face several times just to knock him down and get loose, he was considerably more understanding.

If you weigh under 150lbs, never drink with rugby players who go to Chico.

[McTaggart]

I really hate to add to the way this threads going but I've gotta get this out.

A friend of mine committed suicide on new year's day. I knew he was having a tough time over the last few months but we never really talked about it because people just don't. On new year's eve he seemed happy and eager to start fresh with the new year and sort things out. I really wish I'd made more time and had a chance to help him.

Please if you ever feel you can't help yourself then ask someone to help you.

[allison]

I am really, really sorry for your loss. Not much else can be said but if you would like you talk, you can always PM me.

[JD]

Man 2011 is a real shitty year so far.

[Patrick]

I really hate to add to the way this threads going but I've gotta get this out.

A friend of mine committed suicide on new year's day. I knew he was having a tough time over the last few months but we never really talked about it because people just don't. On new year's eve he seemed happy and eager to start fresh with the new year and sort things out. I really wish I'd made more time and had a chance to help him.

Please if you ever feel you can't help yourself then ask someone to help you.

Don't blame yourself, man. It is absolutely not your fault. I'm sorry to hear of this happening, man. I hope his family and friends are okay right now.

[The Seldom Killer]

Came down with a headcold the day before New Years Eve which meant that I wasn't up to a New Year's hike around the Peak District so resorted to a short meander around Endcliffe and Bingham Parks in Sheffield. Just at the end I popped into a bookshop and uncovered Groo #1, which makes me quite happy.

[Tom]

One of my neighbour's kids committed suicide two weeks ago. A combination of generational stigma/ignorance as to mental illness, excruciating back pain from risky surgery coupled with poor pain management and marriage dissolution led towards the decision. He tied a noose to aluminium ladder and hung himself off it over the architectural dig site next door.

[Patrick]

Man. Such a hard start to the year indeed. I'm sorry man.

I managed to upload the recording I made with my buddy Lukas on the 30th. Here is my post in the *ahem* thread with the link. Comes with a disclaimer regarding the players and a note on why the damn file is so huge.

[snalin]

Man people are having a shitty start to this year. Sorry for your losses and hope your problems gets better!


My mother is writing a book for the second semester of Norwegian language history, and I'm reading through it to see if it's readable, if all the stuff is explained well, if the language float good, that sort of stuff. Turns out this stuff is fairly interesting. Not that I'm going to change my bachelor or anything (also having my mother as lecturer would probably be horrible), but still. Also interesting to look at how these books are made. My primary advice is "more fact boxes" because they make everything neater and allows different kinds of reading, and allows you to quickly pick up on the meaning of words you'd forgotten after being a week in Paris and fucking wenches had fun.

[Gemmwah]

Guys, why is everything bad, for reals? Best wishes to everyone, I hope the mood doesn't stay like this for much longer. A poor start to the new year.

[valley_parade]

I'm still sick!

I don't think going out on New Years Eve and taking Dayquil with teh boozingtons helped.

Start being fucking awesome, 2011.

[Barmymoo]

I feel kind of guilty that things are working out really well for me at the moment when so many of you are experiencing tough times, but I suppose it is a sort of cruel equilibrium that we can't do anything about. I am sending good vibes your way, everyone who needs them.

I'm definitely moving to Paris on Saturday! It's all got very real and exciting today, and I've been looking at masses of websites about what I need to sort out (surprisingly little, good old EU) and what I can do when I'm there (more than I had ever expected, time for a list of must-sees I think). Also emailing people who should probably know that I'm about to up and off for six months at less than a month's notice.

I have a job interview on Thursday, which feels kind of silly, but it's the part-time cover-providing hospital job I applied for back in November, and since it is just for holiday cover and supplying extra manpower when necessary I can start whenever (or never, I guess, since I don't actually sign any contracts with specific dates or anything), so they won't mind waiting til I get back from Paris in July.

My mum is really keen on me getting the job and having steady work to return to every holiday, but I feel kind of like I'll be tying myself down to this rural town for the remainder of my degree and that is a terrifying prospect since it's so dull here. I've never had any difficulty finding jobs for the holidays since I'm happy to do almost anything and I'm lucky to be at a uni where our holidays are longer than usual (meaning I'm available more and sooner), but that maybe won't last forever so perhaps I will be glad of the job? I don't know. Anyway no harm in taking the interview I guess.

Soon I will definitely post the photos of the tiny ice rink that Jens was talking about - it is the cutest thing.

[sean]

hey shane ive been sick since december 29th or something and it is so stinky. though id probably be better if i didn't smoke the hookah my sister gave me two nights ago. it was like fucking 55 outside though so i couldn't help myself.

[valley_parade]

Dude what is wrong with us.

We need to dang get unsick.

[Zingoleb]

I feel kind of guilty that things are working out really well for me at the moment when so many of you are experiencing tough times, but I suppose it is a sort of cruel equilibrium that we can't do anything about. I am sending good vibes your way, everyone who needs them.

I was thinking this as I read through here. Now I don't even want to post about how awesome things are actually going for me because I feel like crap that everyone here is having such a rough time. (Except you, May.)

[Patrick]

Guys I booked my flight to see my mama. I'll be in DC starting 4pm on the 8th and ending at 5pm on the 15th. I connect through O'Hare Int'l in Chicago, but one flight lands an hour before the other takes off going each way, so I won't be able to hang with any of you lovely Chicago forumites Still, probably the best damn news of 2011 so far.

[onewheelwizzard]

Man, it sucks that so many people are having such shitty starts to the new year.  Personally, I went to a fucking fantastic party in Richmond, VA for New Year's Eve, and I haven't had anything to complain about since, although it's obviously pretty early.

My girlfriend's grandfather seems to be on the way out, though ... it's congestive heart failure, not cancer, so there's potentially a treatment avenue available (Columbia is apparently doing a study on experimental valve replacement surgery that he might get into), but things look pretty bleak apparently.  She's having a much easier time dealing with impending death than much of her family, though, and apparently it's the rest of her family that presents the real stress factor.

[Rizzo]

I'm sorry to hear about everyone's cancer/personal issues. Sounds like most of us are having a shitty start to the year. I for one am having a pretty decent start so I feel doubly bad for yal. Hopefully everything gets resolved sooner rather than later.

I'm currently reworking my CV to start applying for Australian jobs, exciting shit! I'm gonna start applying as soon as it's ready with a view to hopefully having at least an interview with someone by the time I arrive in February. The position I'm in currently is more or less an assistant manager position at the library so I'm hoping to move into something similar or maybe even higher up in Aus. I don't know if I'm experienced enough or even possibly old enough but the worst any employer can do is not hire me right?

I'm really looking forward to not living with a kitty. As much as I love my girlfriends cat (and I do love her heaps), I'm horribly allergic and spend most days with a viciously blocked nose/boogers streaming out. As we speak I've gone through an entire roll of toilet paper blowing my nose and I've only been up for 2 hours.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

i woke up new years day to my roomates, still in full party mode, towing each other on a snowboard around the yard with a dirt bike.

then they brought the party inside and shit got real 


suffice it to say that furniture got broke, spines got scorpioned, and asses got road rashed. pictures soon maybe

[StaedlerMars]

Yeah, my new years eve+day was pretty rad, we threw a party that was fairly heavy glitter themed, had a shit load more people in our flat than initially planned, went to go see the Hogmanay fireworks from the North Bridge, I hung out with a Cute Girl, ended up walking this Cute Girl home (by which point it was 5 am), then came back to my flat where the party was pretty much still in full swing, the remnants being mainly people I've been friends with for a long time and just chilling, and then I hooked up with this other cute girl and we both just kind of passed out on my bed. I woke up naturally at like 9 am when my flatmates were still going strong playing backgammon and smoking, there were passed out people all around, and I just chilled with them for a couple of hours, then napped again for a bit, and then friends came over and we watched all of the LOTR. I've only really now recovered from the hangover, managed to get some work done today, and play a shit ton of guitar.

It comes close to being one of the best way I've started a new year.

[sean]

i just found out that the most i have to pay for books this semester is 200 bucks, it might only be 100 though.

i feel like doing a happy dance.

[David_Dovey]

I stayed awake past midnight on NYE but I didn't notice it until about 12:40

iTunes says this is the first song I heard in the new year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIDdJ17K0-k

[Drill King]

I have actually had the best start of a new year ever! The cancer thing is kind of something I have accepted at this point, so no woes here yet. He's fightin tough still.

Actually I wanted to make note that this is the first new years I have ever had irl friends to celebrate proper with so this was the first year of no New Years Eve Curse.

[Eris]

My mum and brother are visiting. I took them to my piercing studio place and we then had the annoying conversation at to why people would do that to themselves (the guy working there had spikes along his head and little horn implants under his skin, and there were some photos of suspensions in the store) and how these people will regret it when they are older. Seeing that I have piercings and am going to get a tattoo this irritated me quite a lot. I was also essentially told that my hair looks bad (unhealthy and in need of a new dye job) and other little subtle digs at me and the people who live around here. It was a nice enough day, and my mum bought me two vintage dresses that look nice on me, but now I am home alone and feeling bad about myself for no real reason. And they are here for another 3 days.

Also I have stopped eating again since they got here. I have had, um, brownies to eat all day. It is amazing how quickly I revert back to bad habits formed by the times I was incredibly unhappy.

[The Seldom Killer]

Have you considered giving them "brownies".

[Lines]

Well if it makes you feel better, my mom says similar things, Han, about the body mod stuff. Though at least she likes my taste in plugs, etc. so she doesn't say any of it to me, but I know if I ever went home with face metal, she'd probably kill me. Not like I can/should get face metal anyways (allergies/teaching), but she said some not very nice things about my friends who have nose studs. (No, she doesn't even like the tiny ones.)

Today I got my first parking ticket ever. I got to campus super early, so I thought I lucked out with the meter I parked at, but no, apparently they changed the laws regarding that certain strip so that there's no parking from 6-9am. Which is stupid. No other strip around campus is like that and there is absolutely no reason to have it like that, as it's a two lane street with a third lane for meters. Grr. I need that money for school shit.

[Zingoleb]

Finding a job is fucking hard.

[Barmymoo]

It is But eventually one will find you and you will be together forever/until a new and improved one comes along.


I have been searching for Anglican churches in Paris, and have discovered a depressing thing: I am now too old to be part of any of the youth groups, making me officially An Adult (tm) in the eyes of God. Bother.

[The Seldom Killer]

Are you able to try another denomination?

[Barmymoo]

Oh no, I don't want to change churches, I am just depressed at how old I have got without looking.

[De_El]

Is there anything super awesome and essential I should do when I'm in Vancouver? Gonna be there in about a week.

[A Wet Helmet]

I went to the dentist today and came home with a root canal, a temporary crown, and an appointment for an extraction.  WTF?  When did my teeth start rotting in my head?

[David_Dovey]

Is there anything super awesome and essential I should do when I'm in Vancouver? Gonna be there in about a week.

Walk up and down Granville St.
Sample the many different varieties of food carts.
Go get cupcakes with Tania.
Try not to get murdered by a hobo.

[Lunchbox]

Ugh, you guys, worst lunch break ever. I had breakfast at 10:30 so I'm still not really hungry but I needed to go get some food, but my three best lunch places are still shut from holidays so I had to walk like 5 blocks to get a good baguette.  Also I jarred my ankle trying to step up a kerb that wasn't actually there. 2011 is the worst.

[Joseph]

Is there anything super awesome and essential I should do when I'm in Vancouver? Gonna be there in about a week.

Walk through Stanley park.
Have cupcakes with Tania.
Hang around on Commercial Drive.
Walk the beach.
Eat lots of sushi.
There are some cool book and record and other sorts of stores if you're interested?

[Edith]

Sorry everyone is having such a shitty 2011 (except for those of you who aren't). I'm having a pretty typical one so faar - some good, some bad, and I'm way behind on stuff.

I had a psychotherapy appointment yesterday and when I left I was completely drained and now I have homework! But it should be good for me. And I'm supposed to be able to learn to acknowledge my emotions and not let them control me, so that would be nice.

I'm getting a dog almost definitely and I'm really excited and a little bit scared! My first dog ever.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Background so that the full effect of my blogpost makes sense.
My dad is very, very conservative. He hates anything that is out of the ordinary nor does he approve of imagination very much. When I was 16 and dyed my hair emerald green he would make me walk several paces behind him so that nobody on the street would think I was his son. He hates all my piercings (ears and eyebrow) to the point where my 19th birthday present was him not giving me a hard time about them. When my brother said he would pay for me to get my lip pierced as a gift my dad almost tried to fight him. He thinks that anyone who has tattoos is on drugs, a criminal, incapable of making any kind of valuable contribution to society and has no place in the world. Needless to say I have never told him about my tattoos. This has been easy to hide for the last six years because they've all been on my upper body and simple to hide. My sleeves have been less so, obviously. I got through Christmas by wearing long sleeves (difficult to justify in Australian summer but it worked out alright). I have been planning to tell him but given that over the last few years our relationship has improved greatly (to the point where I no longer feel like a constant disappointment) it's been hard to figure out how to do this because I imagine that finding out one of his sons (the responsible, doesn't drink or do drugs one) is rather extensively tattooed will not go down well.

Actual blog post!
My dad came into my work the other day. He normally lets me know if he's planning on doing something like that because he loves being organised but he wanted to surprise me with a late christmas present (a curry cookbook because I'd been complaining about how my curries are coming out really bland and boring no matter what I try). I was in the back room having my lunch so I was sort of cornered and not able to roll down my sleeves quick enough. So he saw my tattoos, handed me the book and just walked off without another word. I'm legitimately worried about how this is going to turn out because for all his faults and for all the differences of opinion that we have, I really like him as a person at this point and I want to continue to be friends but now I'm not sure that is going to be possible.

[The Seldom Killer]

There comes a time in everyone's life where they have to step up to the plate and tell their parents to stop being so pitiful/childish/ridiculous.

I'm lucky because my dad's just a bit of a dafty and my mum is incapable of retiring for more than a couple of months. All fairly easy stuff to haul them up on without interfering with our friendship.

Alas yours sounds more as if you need a pretty head on confrontation. I doubt it will be painless or easy but if it works out then it probably will be worth it, even though it will most likely mean exposing some of his character flaws to him.

[Lines]

You're a good guy. He just needs to realize that your interests don't define you or make you a stereotype. Hopefully he can look past the tattoos, but it may take a while. Best of luck, Jimmy.

[pwhodges]

There comes a time in everyone's life where they have to step up to the plate and tell their parents to stop being so pitiful/childish/ridiculous.

I am pleased to be able to say, from both perspectives, that this is not universally true.

[The Seldom Killer]

Both you and your offspring are spineless. Fair enough, although everyone should be prepared to do it should the occaision arise.

[Alex C]

Nooo! The garbage man dropped off a garbage can here. That is the opposite of what I needed to happen, since they had for some reason allotted me two cans. I have three garbage cans now and I am but a single man.

Is the waste management company trolling me? This is madness.

[valley_parade]

Maybe they think you produce a lot of garbage?

[Gemmwah]

sooooo, turns out that my grandad has  pneumonia, but on the upside, he should be out of hospital on friday or saturday. this means i'm back to real life tomorrow, and get to stop playing nurse maid. i wish i could stay until he gets out, but my aunt wants to start getting things back to normal as much as possible. apparrantly, i cope well in times of stress.