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[David_Dovey]

That sucks Jimmy. I think maybe you should try to talk to him about it? My parents and grandparents are more or less the same (Less extreme than yr dad, I suppose). Hopefully he'll eventually be able to reconcile his stereotypes with the type of person he knows you to be, regardless of mods. It might actually be good for him. Although I know sometimes people really are that irrational and unreasonable. It might help to try to explain yr motivations for wanting the tattoos, that you spent a lot of time thinking about it (I know you've been considering these sleeves for a very long time) and that society in general's  attitudes towards body modification has changed an awful lot. Good luck.

[ummmkay]

fuck i don't wanna grow up

[Tom]

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.

Waste management company's are maddening. A family of 7 with a bin for 4 has to pay $300 dollars more for an additional bin because they are one member shy of 8. Meanwhile in other suburbs nuclear families have bins with twice the capacity.

[Alex C]

The craziest part is the fact that all three cans are of the smallest size they offer. This isn't any sort of policy they have. They're just dumb.

[Patrick]

I've spent the last two days at Lukas's ranch with him, his family, and a shitload of music gear. Seriously, 5 different electric guitars (including an ES-335 and a Rickenbacker) and two basses.

We recorded two songs that I'll share with you later. I was gonna upload them, but he's hanging with other folks at the moment and my shit's in his car. Ooooops

[bainidhe_dub]

I just applied for about twenty jobs today. God I hate applying for jobs. There's just so much potential for rejection, or being ignored, which is kind of worse. But I have an interview for tomorrow morning, right around the corner. And tomorrow is my birthday! It's a good combination, I think.

[JimmyJazz]

So I sat down and actually PLAYED piano for the first time ever. Before I've just tried to figure out chords and play stuff I already know on guitar, but this was the first time I approached writing music on one. Wrote a pretty sugary ballad that I'm hoping to add some grit and noise to once I introduce it to my band at our next practice. Also my friends bought me 10 packs of strings for my birthday and we got drunk off Irish coffee so all in all it was a bomb-ass day.

[SonofZ3]

Waste management here is pretty well on top of their shit. The problem I have is with my neighbors  (My fiance's sister and her husband). There are three houses on the farm. Ours, my fiance's sister's, and her parents. WE pay for garbage. Her parents pay for garbage. Her sister and the husband are too lazy/cheap to pay for garbage so they spread theirs around between the garbage from the other two houses. Seriously? Pay for your garbage people.

[bainidhe_dub]

Our neighborhood pays for the trash service, but they don't give us trash cans and most people don't have one. They just put their bags out on the curb, and then squirrels and crows tear them to shit and we end up with trash blown all over the place. So twice a week we come home to plastic bags and paper towels and styrofoam plates all in our front yards.

[Jace]

Waste management here is pretty well on top of their shit.

Very punny.

[Tom]

What's a 10 letter word for irrigation regulator. I have the letters _L_I_E_A_E.

[StaedlerMars]

I've spent the last two days at Lukas's ranch with him, his family, and a shitload of music gear. Seriously, 5 different electric guitars (including an ES-335 and a Rickenbacker) and two basses.

We recorded two songs that I'll share with you later. I was gonna upload them, but he's hanging with other folks at the moment and my shit's in his car. Ooooops

Wait... who?

[Barmymoo]

There are big problems in Birmingham at the moment because there weren't any collections over Christmas and now they're on strike, and there are no bins so there is just rubbish everywhere and everyone is getting really pissed off.

Guys, today ought to be a good, exciting day where I finish packing for Paris and get all excited, but instead I am worried/angry because I just got an email from my college saying that I would have to pay for this term's tuition myself because the loans company won't pay. I specifically made sure at least three times that the loans company would pay before I left - they definitely told me that they paid if the reason you had to leave was medical. Now they are telling me that isn't the case? I call bullshit (but this is going to be a long day of telephone calls).

[Jimmy the Squid]

So my shitty new job has just become slightly shittier. I've moved to a new store which is a little bit further away (which is not that terrible) and basically they have no idea about any kind of safety regulations. Everything is stacked way too high, to the point where massive stacks of beer nearly fell on me several times. Also if a fire ever starts at the front of the store everyone inside will be burned to death. I'm either going to die in a fire or get crushed to death if I don't get a new job soon. I'ev been applying to lots but it takes sooooo long for them to get back to you.

[Patrick]

God dude, that really, really blows. I will definitely consider myself luckier than I have been, from here on out. At least my job is safe. I really hope you find something good, and soon.

I've spent the last two days at Lukas's ranch with him, his family, and a shitload of music gear.

Wait... who?

Sorry. My best friend since we were 14 and 15. I don't remember if I've ever said that or not. I am so used to everybody I talk to knowing who I'm talking about when I just use his first name.

We recorded drums for our cover of "Please Please Me" before open mic tonight (I guess last night, I'm still up at 4:30a), and then promptly kicked the living shit out of our set at open mic. The recording session was great, the bar customers didn't care that we were playing loud drums and we didn't mind letting their voices get onto the recording. Open mic attendance was the best we've ever had, audience-wise, and a damn fine turnout of musicians too.

I've had a very good three days. Even if none of the music was anything of my own, I love making it. More than anything. And I have been.

[redglasscurls]

I just applied for about twenty jobs today. God I hate applying for jobs. There's just so much potential for rejection, or being ignored, which is kind of worse. But I have an interview for tomorrow morning, right around the corner. And tomorrow is my birthday! It's a good combination, I think.

Good luckk <3 And happy birthday ladyface! Call me so I know when to come buy you blue drinks and so I can see if you have time to go to Mustard Seed with me beforehand...

[SonofZ3]

I applied for 112 jobs last winter when I was out of work. I work seasonal, so I have 4 months a year with no paycheck. Anyway, out of those 112 jobs, I got 2 interviews. One offered me a position for 2 dollars less an hour than they advertised and for half the number of hours per week. It was way depressing. Admittedly, I applied for a lot of jobs that weren't directly related to my field of study, but I would think that most entry level jobs (11-13 bucks an hour) are basic enough that a person with a BA in just about any field would be fine. Unfortunately, thats not the way it works. Good luck job seekers!

This winter I am doing the things I enjoy and not stressing. I'll go back to work in March, so fuck it. I'm sure when I am working full time I'll look back and wish I were seasonal again.

[Christophe]

Today is my birthday! I am 23. I am getting old.

Anyway me and my friends are going up to San Francisco today to hang out, buy some records, eat some clam chowder, et cetera.

[valley_parade]

we didn't mind letting their voices get onto the recording.

One of my favorite things about one of the Wilco bootlegs a friend gave me (um, Lowell MA, maybe?) is all the crowd chatter you can hear.

[Slick]

blog thread,
I am sad that my bread rotation is over now! I don't get to do breads again until the end of the program. I am going to see if I can get a job in one of the bakeries here, because, fuck this I want to work with more dough.
Today was epi biga baguette, pecan fougasse (my loaves) and german pretzels (team project), yesterday I made sourdough barley-rye boules and "Norwegian" Rubgrod (like, rye with orange, anise and fennel, I think it is an americanization), day before was New York Raisin Pumpernickel (less coarse rye, more instant coffee and cocoa, I think that is pretty much 'supermarket pumpernickel') and challah (loaves would have been the picture of perfection if I'd been thorough with the egg wash), and Tuesday was Rosemary Boules and Maple-Pecan loaves (possibly the best bread all week). Wouldn't probably make the American rye breads again, and the challah but everything else I've made this week I've been extremely pleased with.
Going to be so on top of shit next time through and start fermenting shit on Tuesday for Friday, it's going to be great. I just hope the people in bread between now and then don't kill our sourdough (I can make another if they do, though)!

[Metope]

"Norwegian" Rubgrod

Rugbrod*

The word 'rubgrod' makes no sense, get your Norwegian sorted, man.

[Barmymoo]

Yeah man! Je ikke giftig bloebar, utgang papagaya.

I am the best at Norwegian.

[Metope]

You got exactly three words correct there, although I have no idea what you are trying to say. I <3 you, May!

[bainidhe_dub]

I just applied for about twenty jobs today. God I hate applying for jobs. There's just so much potential for rejection, or being ignored, which is kind of worse. But I have an interview for tomorrow morning, right around the corner. And tomorrow is my birthday! It's a good combination, I think.

Good luckk <3 And happy birthday ladyface! Call me so I know when to come buy you blue drinks and so I can see if you have time to go to Mustard Seed with me beforehand...

My interview went really well! I was not so sure beforehand if it was something I would actually want but it sounds quite interesting. It's the admin assistant to the owner of a bunch of the Domino's pizza shops around here (currently 6 stores, but he sold 9 off last year). He said he has two people coming for second interviews this weekend but he wants to meet me again on Monday, and he said of the 100+ applicants he's had (to a Craigslist ad) he thinks I might be a really good fit for the position. I feel employable! 

And Manda, I texted you back, we can totally go to Mustard Seed tonight!

I am 25 today, I feel all old now, like I should know what I'm doing with myself by now. But, well, I felt like that last year too.

[valley_parade]

You got exactly three words correct there, although I have no idea what you are trying to say. I <3 you, May!

Please tell me "papagaya" is one of them. I don't care what it means, awesome word.

[Metope]

Sadly it's not. Papegoye is though, and it means parrot! It does also have that line through the 'o', but I can't do that anymore since I have an English computer now.

[Barmymoo]

I believe what I was trying to say was "I not poisonous blueberry, exit parrot".

[valley_parade]

May, I hate to break it to you, being English and all, but that doesn't make sense in English, either.

[pwhodges]

Sadly it's not. Papegoye is though, and it means parrot! It does also have that line through the 'o', but I can't do that anymore since I have an English computer now.

Pål's English computer can say papegøye.

[Metope]

Yes but Paul is also more computer savvy than Kris. I know it's possible, I just don't know how!

[pwhodges]

In Windows XP:

Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map

I keep a shortcut to it around.  As it's a bit tedious to use character by character, I tend to write a document, then copy each character I need in turn and go through pasting it in.

Norsk Data had an awesome Word Processing system in the 1980s that could produce every European accent (including stuff for, say, Icelandic or Serbian) using a special "supershift" key.  So SS / o would produce ø, SS - D would give Ð, SS , e give ę, and so on - sooo easy - why has the world not copied it? (not that it would work with the even larger set of symbols that we are now expected to handle).

[Slick]

Yeah, definitely meant Rugbrod there, 'twas typo.

[Barmymoo]

It makes perfect sense, you just don't understand grammar.

I actually spent most of my time in Norway speaking appallingly bad English (sample sentence: oh noes, disaster is happen) and then found it very hard to get back into speaking properly when I got back.

[Zingoleb]

So I think I found my dream job. The community center downtown just lost their guitar teacher, so I went down and submitted an application and talked to the woman who is in charge.

Yesterday, she called me up and asked me directly if I was transgendered. I said yes (what else would I say? I can't lie about it), and she told me that she can't hire me, then, because I'll be working with CHILDREN.



Guess who has two thumbs and is incredibly pissy? This person. This person right here.

[Dazed]

Is that even legal in NY State? I know in most states you can fire a transgender person based specifically on their gender identification, but I thought NY state actually had reasonable laws protecting employment rights of LGBT persons.

[Zingoleb]

I'm hearing mixed things on that, actually. So I'm not sure.

She also told me to change my name to something girly so there's no incongruity in my appearance and name. Note that her name is Shane.

[Dazed]

Wow. On the plus side, maybe you don't want to work with these people in the first place?

[Scandanavian War Machine]

ugh.....so, my mom just called me and told me that an old family friend, who is the father of my oldest friends, has passed away.

he's had diabetes and all kinds of other problems for pretty much as long as I can remember but he always seemed to overcome no matter how bad it was. I'm not sure what happened, but i'm kind of in shock. He was one of my parents' best friends, they went to college together, and I've known him and his family for literally my entire life. Pretty sure they weren't far away when I was born.

He was the guy who, much like Calvin's dad in C&H, would make up absurd lies about the world if he didn't know the answer. Hell, sometimes he'd do it for fun. When we were kids he told us all rocks were petrified slugs. We ran around for weeks after that picking up rocks, shouting "look at how big this one was! Wow!"

And that's just the stuff he said to me and my sister; I can't even imagine some of the ridiculous stories he came up with for his own kids.

 

fuck

[scarred]

Condolences, dude.

[Barmymoo]

Zing man you don't want to be a guitar teacher, I was reading an article today about how parents were suing their kids' guitar teachers because they touched the kid on the finger when showing them how to pluck a string. Parents are ridiculous it seems.

(That is a really shitty attitude for them to take and surely flagrantly illegal.)

So like in twenty four hours I'll be in France and stuff.

[Patrick]

In 24 hours I'll be in the air between Chicago and DC. Yay!

Hey guys do you like Beatles covers 'cause I enjoy making them.

Lukas on bass, rhythm guitar, and lead vocals. I'm on lead guitar, drums, and harmony vocals. We should redo the vocals when we have time to record again, but this is a damn good start, I think.

[ackblom12]

New York State has laws against discrimination for sexual orientation but not gender identity, so unfortunately as of right now it's not covered.

[Patrick]

Call the ACLU yo. They don't always fight for things I necessarily agree with, but they'd ALSO most likely fight for this, so why not?

[JD]

Zing man you don't want to be a guitar teacher, I was reading an article today about how parents were suing their kids' guitar teachers because they touched the kid on the finger when showing them how to pluck a string. Parents are ridiculous it seems.

(That is a really shitty attitude for them to take and surely flagrantly illegal.)

So like in twenty four hours I'll be in France and stuff.

I demand a link for this.

[negative creep]

So, today (well, technically yesterday, because it is 8:17 AM now) my girlfriend (weird, I know) said "I love you" for the first time. It feels so weird, yet so good. But for some reason I'm listening to sad songs from the past.

Just thought I'd let y'all know.

[The Seldom Killer]

So I think I found my dream job. The community center downtown just lost their guitar teacher, so I went down and submitted an application and talked to the woman who is in charge.

Yesterday, she called me up and asked me directly if I was transgendered. I said yes (what else would I say? I can't lie about it), and she told me that she can't hire me, then, because I'll be working with CHILDREN.



Guess who has two thumbs and is incredibly pissy? This person. This person right here.

Send them a polite but brief email asking for confirmation as to why they aren't hiring you and when they respond, go to town.

I was refused an interview for a hotel portering job because I had long hair. I slapped the well known British chain with an industrial tribunal for sexual discrmination and got £200 for it. The money was nice, but it was even better to let them know that they couldn't get away with that kind of nonsense. It reckon your insult and injury is far bigger so I'm really hoping that you can take them down.

[The Seldom Killer]

New York State has laws against discrimination for sexual orientation but not gender identity, so unfortunately as of right now it's not covered.

I would have thought the laws on gender would be sufficient. I can't imagine that there are any laws requiring people not to identify away from their born gender or to govern how they present themselves.

[Dazed]

Yeah unfortunate reality is that in something like 38 (? I think) states in the U.S. there's no legal protection of employment for transgender people. So basically if you're transgender and they don't like it, they can fire you/not hire you for that reason and that reason alone and you're pretty much SOL.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Update to my last blog thread!
I got a text message from my dad. He asked how the curry cookbook he gave me was. He signed it (he always signs his text messages) "love, dad." so I guess that is a good sign?

Also I'm thinking of going back to uni. Maybe try and get qualified so I can do couples therapy. At least I'm not shit at psychology and I am pretty interested in it. I'm starting to wonder if there are just too many risks with opening my own shop.

[snalin]

Isn't Zing MTF?