Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIa: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 214557 times)

Patrick · « **Reply #550 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 15:45 »

Further condolences for Robbie and the dude's family. That really, REALLY fucking sucks.

Guys,

I am in California and it is not infernal, what the fuck, why is it not infernal, I was promised at least 104 fahrenheit, god damn it

Also I am playing my dad's 1937 Kay acoustic and it's fucking glorious

Also also I am recording a demo sometime this week

Love,
Me

P.S. leavin' for Alaska on 17th

Will · « **Reply #551 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 16:48 »

Fuck.

Also, my friend called me today and opened the conversation with "I'm homeless now dude, and I don't know what the fuck to do."

sean · « **Reply #552 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 16:57 »

oh shit robbie i just read yr post.

i am so sorry dude.

LittleKey · « **Reply #553 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 17:34 »

I'm really really sorry too. fuck =(.

MrBlu · « **Reply #554 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 19:16 »

Quote from: Patrick on 11 Jul 2009, 15:45

I am in California and it is not infernal, what the fuck, why is it not infernal, I was promised at least 104 fahrenheit, god damn it

It was this morning over here. NOT fun.

Scrambled Egg Machine · « **Reply #555 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 20:31 »

That is really awful, man. Damn.

negative creep · « **Reply #556 on:** 11 Jul 2009, 23:56 »

I saved a little toad's life tonight. We named him Twinky.

Gemmwah · « **Reply #557 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 03:54 »

Fuck! Robbie I'm so sorry.

McTaggart · « **Reply #558 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 09:01 »

This is a terrible time in this thread to post about how good my weekend was.

I spent the weekend in Margaret River with friends from uni. It was pretty rad. I've returned with a really interesting smelling gin with a botanical I've never heard of before (Meen, apparently), plenty of tasty coffee and tea, sweets and memories of good times. I would have come back with a whole lot of wine too, but I was driving so I didn't get to taste too much and I really don't get much of a chance to drink it. On driving back alone I remembered just how great this part of the world is. So many little beautiful scenes, people in general aren't bad off here, the place has a good reputation and people seem to really strive for quality. I am pretty blessed to live so close.

Also I burnt myself playing with fire. I mean that absolutely literally.

Hat · « **Reply #559 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 11:38 »

Searching the living room this morning for my keys for work, it is immediately apparent that people have been doing some twisted drugs in my living room for a few days from the weirdly casual arrangement of the objects in it. The positioning of two shifting spanners and a rubber otter in a menageatois the way one couch is turned around to be facing a wall, the words "FUCK YOU" spelled out in discarded pieces of celery.

Good weekend!

Zingoleb · « **Reply #560 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 18:27 »

I feel for you Robbie.

I got into a fist fight with my roommate because he likes to mouth off about me. I'm mostly angry with myself that I let my emotions get the better of me.

Also, after playing music for three years I've finally decided to start working on my voice, which is still lacking training. Hopefully I will learn to sing in tune so I won't feel totally stiff when asked to go up on stage.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #561 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 19:31 »

So I hung out with my totes BFF this weekend. We started off by working out (this was kind of a mistake, I tend to not look at the weights and ache really bad the next day and oh god I can't hold a glass of water without grimacing) and dicking around with Wii Fit for a little bit. Then we went mini-golfing (20 over par, the both of us) and had some damn good ice cream. Came back and locked ourselves in her parents' basement with some beer and movies and television shows in which people make asses of themselves. This morning (after we found out that Snorks is still on TV) she started having a mild panic attack, so we grabbed some BK and went out to a creek for a little bit to relax. There was a kid there swimming in the creek with his granddad and he was catching all manner of terrified insects and fish. He told us his name and that he saw Transformers 2 the day after yesterday and that if we tried to fight him he would bite us. We ran scared and snuck some beer into Ice Age 3, and kept the 3D glasses they gave us even though you're supposed to return them. After that I came home to more good news; my mom is doing better than the doctors expected, they've already taken her off the Fentanyl and put her on Oxycodone instead. Everything is just dandy except for my arms. I can't believe I'm even complaining about them.

nobo · « **Reply #562 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 19:45 »

pfft, your arms have nothing on what my legs went through today. 1 hour leg workout at the gym, 1.5 hours of basketball, 1 hour of soccer spread out through the day. Pretty typical sunday, which means my legs will be so sore that it will hurt to sit for the next 3-4 days.

Dimmukane · « **Reply #563 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 20:10 »

Yeah, I know. I feel like a total pansy.

nobo · « **Reply #564 on:** 12 Jul 2009, 20:17 »

You're not a pansy. I only said those hurtful things because I was jealous of your awesome day.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #565 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 02:17 »

MY BOY GETS BACK THIS WEEK

est · « **Reply #566 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 02:36 »

wooooooooooooo

KvP · « **Reply #567 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 02:47 »

hoorayyyyy

Jace · « **Reply #568 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 02:52 »

So, as many of you know, I work part time at a game store that sells miniatures, card games, board games, etc. Well, we were there playing some Dark Heresy (warhammer 40k roleplay) and we have one friend who is a loud person. He gets excited about the game and he just has a loud voice. Now, there were 8 people in the store. The GM, my roommate, loud friend, late friend, big friend, myself at one table, and 2 tables away, was J-bag and his wife. J-bag is also an employee at the store, as is my roommate. At one point when we were being a bit loud, he mentioned that we needed to keep it down because we weren't the only ones in there. Now, with basically us being the ONLY people in there, we all thought he was joking and continued our game as we were. A little while later, J-bag came over to loud friend, got right next to him and not quite yelling, but very close, told him that he had already warned him once and that if he didn't quiet down he wouldn't be welcome in the store anymore. Now, this took the other 5 of us completely by surprise. My roommate actually said "What the fuck Joe?" And tried to offer solutions like us closing the store so he could go home if the noise was bothering him. This really took us all by surprise because we were the only ones in the whole store. it is a pretty big store too.

So now, tomorrow I am going to talk to the owner, because all of us really feel that this was way out of line, honestly, you don't go to a place to play games expecting quiet. And we did offer solutions other than him kicking our friend out. Furthermore, what he didn't say was that the reason he asked us to be quiet was because his wife had a really bad headache. This we didn't learn until she was on her way out and told us. Now, I don't know about you, but if this is a person with a headache who is really super nice about things and who has a really upbeat happy personality despite many physical illnesses, and you present it as such, rather than just saying "shut up because I told you to" it'll be a lot better response overall.

This is really a long drawn out post, but it was bothering me that he would single out that one person in our group (and we are very much regulars) in such a malicious manner.

tl;dr One of the guys that works at the store is a douche, partook in some douchery, upset more than one person, going to talk to the store owner tomorrow.

Hat · « **Reply #569 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 04:18 »

problem: I want a bowl of cereal but we have three almost empty packets of cereal there is not nearly enough in any one packet to make a decent sized bowl what do I do what do I do

solution: mega-hybrid bowl of cereal aw yeah

Will · « **Reply #570 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 10:46 »

I had a bad news/good news lunch today:

I went for some fast-food hamburger action, and when I went to pay with my debit card, they told me the card was declined. I have money in my account, so that's not an issue; apparently, my card isn't working right, so I have to call my bank and find out why. That was the bad news.

The good news is that the girl taking my order told me "Your card is being declined, don't worry about it" and gave me my lunch for free. So I got free lunch today.

Scrambled Egg Machine · « **Reply #571 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 13:30 »

What happened to TANSTAAFL? I had delicious boudain for lunch. Om nom, Cajun food.

Joseph · « **Reply #572 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 13:37 »

At dinner the conversation in my apartment revolved around how it is stupid to give a child a treat after they've played a sport if they've lost. How this reinforces bad behavior, and will eventually lead to these children being losers when they grow up.

I do not want these people to have children.

I left just as the conversation turned to how great Teisto is.

But life is still pretty great, apart from apartment mates. Started a new book today, went for a lovely walk, and class was fun.

wafflecone · « **Reply #573 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 14:36 »

So the world doesn't want to hire me but I would really like to get money get paid. Eeeeek. Back to Montreal in a month and a bit! Things will eventually be looking up hopefully.

MrBlu · « **Reply #574 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 16:10 »

Quote from: Joseph on 13 Jul 2009, 13:37

I left just as the conversation turned to how great Teisto is.

What's wrong with DJ Tiesto?

Joseph · « **Reply #575 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 16:15 »

A lot, in my opinion. But maybe I am just biased because every Saturday during my year in university residence, I would be woken up in the morning by the person across the hall from me blasting Tiesto.

Though I'm pretty sure it's just bad.

Hat · « **Reply #576 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 16:17 »

The only good thing I have to say about Tiesto is that when he came to play the club I worked at, people were on so many drugs that I didn't actually need to do very much work at all all night.

(also I guess he has a pretty cool name to say in a funny voice)

Then again I dig on BANGING TECH HOUSE and minimal shit so I cannot really criticize anyone for liking tedious, repetitive dance music, but I guess mostly I just get bored holding my hands above my head for more than a few minutes at a time.

Also you need really good drugs to get into trance and I just don't have connections that good tbh.

Quote from: Sam on 13 Jul 2009, 09:52

is being sad+stoned a viable career

Are you any good at it because I've been thinking about hiring someone to do that for me to free up some spare time.

Aimless · « **Reply #577 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 16:22 »

Dear blog thread,

My head is full of happy sounds, currently from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8K54UYjIR4

The world needs more of her spirit.

I have been slacking off for a week now, instead of writing the damn' paper, which is no good at all. I mean you can't publish if you don't write, and you certainly can't get paid for a paper you haven't written. Tomorrow, I get out of this slump, realise that summer is just as good this week as it was a couple of weeks ago, and get back to enjoying my awesome life.

Dear blog thread, I like summer very very much. I don't want it to ever end, ever! Summer is like a bowl of cold vanilla yoghurt for my soul, only warmer.

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #578 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 17:12 »

Tiesto is one of the reasons why even though roughly 70% of the music I listen to nowadays is electronic music if someone asks me if I "like electronic music" i tend to say no. If I slip and say yes I'll have to awkwardly try to deflect the conversation away from Tiesto/Trance/Guidocore.

MrBlu · « **Reply #579 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 17:19 »

Quote from: Hat on 13 Jul 2009, 16:17

Also you need really good drugs to get into trance and I just don't have connections that good tbh.

Whoops, forgot why I like Trance.

Spluff · « **Reply #580 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 18:51 »

So I decided to skip specialist math and stay at home listening to oldschool jungle. Life choices aww yeah

Christophe · « **Reply #581 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 18:58 »

Yelleycon '09 took place yesterday and ended at noon today. 'Twas great. Played Patrick's guitar and he played mine, which may constitute some sort of awful sexual innuendo.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #582 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 19:09 »

I am almost done painting my bedroom to its new color, which according to Behr paint is called Mexican Chile. It's very close to a brick red, just a little brighter and more orange tinted, with white as the trim color. I have learned some things about painting in the time I've worked on my room, and I'm really satisfied with the results/surprised the paint looks so even, and I'm also really glad I took the time to properly mask before I attempted the baseboard. Now once the final coat has dried I have to clean up, move everything back in the room and reinstall things like the wall thing for my T.V. which is all going to be harder than it was moving it all out.

Also tomorrow I start my new job, or rather, my old job, yet again. While I was in Paris the owner of the pizza and sub place I quit angrily during a lunch rush some time back in the middle of May called me up and asked me to come back to work. It has become apparent now that I'm back in the states that she did this over the head of the two main managers, which I guess she totally has the power to do but I'm worried about what could potentially be a tense workplace situation. I took the job because once again of course I'm really desperate for money, but I'm starting to wonder if this whole situation is unhealthy. I mean, I've worked on and off at this place for over two years, and while last time was the only time I've ever actually said "I quit", maybe its time for me to try moving on? Hell I don't know, I was under a lot of stress at the time.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #583 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 19:19 »

So my dog got loose and was barking outside.

He was by the other dog that was chained up. When I reached down to grab him, the chained dog jumped up, excited to see me, and smashed her paw into my nose, forcing it upwards and making it bleed.

I now have a killer headache due to my dog punching me in the face.

As bad as that is, I'm still laughing at the sheer stupidity of it all.

Scrambled Egg Machine · « **Reply #584 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 19:43 »

I have a week left before I go on a mission trip to a small town in central Texas. It's been a record heat-type summer. Forecasts are saying 100 degrees for our work area. Whee.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #585 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 20:48 »

I'm a nerd.
Therefore, I will be seeing Harry Potter at midnight with a bunch of friends.
Fun.
I'm excited even though the movies suck in general.

sean · « **Reply #586 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 20:54 »

guys i might have to see that night at the museum move tomorrow.

im scared.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #587 on:** 13 Jul 2009, 20:59 »

That movie is pretty bad. Although, it could be an Adam Sandler movie.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #588 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 01:40 »

I swear to fucking god I will flip the fuck out on the next person to tells me that I need to sleep more at night like it's some casual choice I make.

This is not fucking easy for me. My parents, my grandparents, teachers, counselors, no one seems to fucking grasp that I just don't sleep at night, and that if I could, I would. My father is pressuring me to now and it drives me nuts because he doesn't understand how I will lie awake for hours and hours on end just staring at the ceiling and doing nothing and I am so bored just lying there that I am literally crying out of boredom. He doesn't understand how trying to force me into a diurnal sleep cycle depresses me and just wears me down to nothing and makes me angry and bitter and makes me hurt myself and others.

Christ, I don't want to be the guy who yells "You don't understand me! No one understands me!" because I know there are people who do, but goddammit if everyone around me doesn't. I'm so stressed out and depressed by things so easily that I'm shaking pretty much constantly and I never tell anyone about it because fuck if they care, they have their own problems so I just have to shut up and deal with my own problems, my own insecurities, my own quirks and fuck ups and my own voices and hallucinations and my own goddamn everything. I can't help myself because I'm not strong enough to help myself, and the only thing I can do is play music and try to help others, because I'm only strong enough for them.

And now I'm in such a stressed out position that I can't even reach out to anyone else because I'm drowning myself and it's just gnawing at me over and over again. Fuck, so I can't afford food, or health insurance, or a house. I'm going to make it - somehow - but in the meantime I'm just going slowly crazy over everything that I just want to stand on my roof and scream until I can't scream anymore

Edit:

tl;dr: FML because I don't deal with stress well

Patrick · « **Reply #589 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 02:27 »

Quote from: Christophe on 13 Jul 2009, 18:58

Yelleycon '09 took place yesterday and ended at noon today. 'Twas great. Played Patrick's guitar and he played mine, which may constitute some sort of awful sexual innuendo.

I loved your Lead II. The one thing I didn't like about it was the nut, it liked to give a weird buzzing sound. That's okay though, my Jag likes to choke out if you bend the high E string anywhere (I think that's something to do with that bridge saddle, but I'm gonna replace with a Mustang bridge eventually anyway). Whatev. It was fun as hell over there.

Dear blog,

I'm starting to get really sad. I miss my friends back in Albania. I miss them REAL bad. I miss Nita especially, my Kosovar little sister. And her sister too, and my (now ex-)girlfriend Donika. I'm starting to get depressed over this. I'm really upset, at very least, but the too-familiar symptoms of depression are starting to set in, and I'm wondering if I shouldn't make an appointment to see somebody as soon as I get to Sitka. I don't want to jump the gun and just start assuming I've got depression again, but man, I remember what it was like, and this feels a lot like it. I really wasn't ready to leave Albania. My life had only just started to become interesting to me, and now I am back where I started in Luxembourg, not having a whole lot of interest in a lot of things that I normally love.

Interesting thing in my family life kindof developed today. See, my stepbrother's girlfriend has 3 kids, Logan, Remy, and Nathan. Charming little rascals, the lot of them. The one thing that kindof weirds me out: now I am Uncle Patrick. Whoa holy shitdicking shits, that is just so WEIRD to me. And it's even weirder hearing my dad and stepmom refer to each other as "Grandpa" and "Yaya" when referring to each other in talking to the kids. I was just talking to Yelley today, we were talking about how long it's actually been since we first joined the forums, and all the shit that's happened since then. And then not even 5 hours after this conversation, three little boys are calling me their uncle.

Too many changes. Too fucking many changes.

Love,
Me!

Hat · « **Reply #590 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 02:35 »

I'm drunk as shit and this weed my housemate has had for the last few days keeps giving me really bad vertigo for some really weird reason and the only thing worse than really bad vertigo is really bad vertigo when you are drunk on a lot of different drinks.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #591 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 03:46 »

Between Patrick's post and the movie The Proposal this is now the second day in a row I actually hear about the town of Sitka, Alaska. Weird ...

Anyway, sorry to hear about your depression, Patrick. Good luck!

Also: The Proposal: nice movie and it has a very, very cute samoyet puppy in it which is always good.

nobo · « **Reply #592 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 04:12 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 14 Jul 2009, 01:40

Try some Advil PM

allison · « **Reply #593 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 10:47 »

This is the second time that tentative plans for me to go away have been cancelled and really I'm just going to go crazy if nothing works out soon.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #594 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 14:27 »

Quote from: nobo on 14 Jul 2009, 04:12

Quote from: Zingoleb on 14 Jul 2009, 01:40

Try some Advil PM

Tempted.

nobo · « **Reply #595 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 14:34 »

it worked for me. start off with half a pill otherwise you're going to end up super groggy. also, you need to do something to justify taking a pain killer, so go run until your legs give out first.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #596 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 14:37 »

That doesn't matter, I'm like, constantly, constantly exhausted to the point of collapse all the time, anyways. I just can't sleep.

supersheep · « **Reply #597 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 16:18 »

So over the past couple of weeks I guess I have been feeling pretty down in the dumps. After pretty much a whole lifetime of doing the minimum necessary in schoolwork, it finally came back to bite me in the arse, when I got my final results from college and just missed out on the II.1 (a B, I guess, for non-overcompensating colleges) I needed to get into a masters course. Seeing as I (currently) wanna go down the academia route, this was obviously not great, and I've spent a fair amount of time moping and just generally doing absolutely nothing. I wrote a lot of begging letters to colleges in the hope that something would pay off.

I just got back from a friend's house to find an email sitting in my inbox offering me a place in a masters degree course in history in my old college. While it's not my first choice, it's still something I'll have no problem going on with. I am so indescribably relieved right now, I even cried a tiny bit.

Patrick · « **Reply #598 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 16:29 »

Quote from: BeoPuppy on 14 Jul 2009, 03:46

Between Patrick's post and the movie The Proposal this is now the second day in a row I actually hear about the town of Sitka, Alaska. Weird ...

Anyway, sorry to hear about your depression, Patrick. Good luck!

Also: The Proposal: nice movie and it has a very, very cute samoyet puppy in it which is always good.

Thanks. I'm working on it. A struggle, just like always, but at least I learned a few things the last time things were like this.

FYI, that film was actually filmed somewhere in either Connecticut or Massachusetts. The city council of Sitka is pissed about it, but they're entirely to blame. They got greedy and asked for more money than the film people had offered, and then they got all butthurt when not only did they not get any money, but they also didn't get more than 15 seconds of actual Sitka footage in the damn film.

I bet Sitka looks better in the film than it actually is in real life.

McTaggart · « **Reply #599 on:** 14 Jul 2009, 21:55 »

I just sat the worst exam I've ever sat in my life. The kind where you sit down and then half an hour after the time starts you open the paper. The sort where you start each question but just lose the drive to bother finishing any of them. I spent maybe a third of the time sitting there playing with this blister I've got on my finger or just looking at my pen. I wrote a little note to my lecturer telling him that I am sorry for failing his unit.

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