Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIa: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 216682 times)

Inlander · « **Reply #3100 on:** 04 Nov 2009, 22:21 »

Or anything else you would traditionally make with meat.

De_El · « **Reply #3101 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 00:08 »

Sandwich?

Inlander · « **Reply #3102 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 00:34 »

I like cold meat sandwiches. I also like peanut butter sandwiches. But I would not eat a peanut butter sandwich when I felt like having a cold meat sandwich, or vice-versa.

I know that we're talking about dieticians' definitions of "meat substitute" and generally the last thing on a dietician's mind when he or she is recommending a particular food is the flavour of that food, but still. It'll be a cold day in hell before I consider peanut butter to be functionally equivalent to meat.

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #3103 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 01:41 »

Well, won't you look silly when the first peanut butter cows amble down your street.

Jimor · « **Reply #3104 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 01:45 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 04 Nov 2009, 21:43

sadly it doesn't tell me whether or not i can have what i most crave... death

But it looks like they have a suitable death-substitute: "1/2 cup tofu or other bland soy products"

Spluff · « **Reply #3105 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 02:51 »

Quote from: Inlander on 05 Nov 2009, 00:34

I like cold meat sandwiches. I also like peanut butter sandwiches. But I would not eat a peanut butter sandwich when I felt like having a cold meat sandwich, or vice-versa.

I know that we're talking about dieticians' definitions of "meat substitute" and generally the last thing on a dietician's mind when he or she is recommending a particular food is the flavour of that food, but still. It'll be a cold day in hell before I consider peanut butter to be functionally equivalent to meat.

But seemingly you have no problems with an egg as a substitute for meat?

StaedlerMars · « **Reply #3106 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 04:55 »

Bonfire Night tonight!

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3107 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 05:44 »

I met a pretty nice girl today, who is the daughter of my dad's girlfriend's friend, and we had lunch together. I invited her to my play's launch party and she invited me to her college's graduate formal hall (she is a grad student). It's nice to make new friends!

I was about to say that I hadn't heard from Anna (the girl I met on Tuesday who I'm seeing on Saturday) but I just got an email from her

Gemmwah · « **Reply #3108 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 05:47 »

I wish I had friends.

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #3109 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 05:50 »

I wish I had friends I could actually meet up with.

Today I had a job interview to work in the stock warehouse of a small branch of Argos (UK mail order/collect at store catalogue shop thing). It went OK I suppose. The large pile of application forms sitting on the manager's desk is not a good sign.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #3110 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 05:54 »

You have Internet friends and that's better

Emaline · « **Reply #3111 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 10:50 »

Quote from: scarred on 04 Nov 2009, 19:41

Audacity is open-source, easy-to-use software perfect for podcasting.

That's actually exactly what I was looking for! My old roommate used to podcast and thats what he used, so I kinda know how to work it. Thanks!

Quote from: Zombiedude on 04 Nov 2009, 19:28

¹/₃ of the problems solved already.

Is it just that you don't know which specific sort of mic to use?

Yeah. I asked my friend who was studying radio, and does his own podcast, and he recommended an $80 on sale mic. And maybe when we really get into this/if we keep it up, we will get a good mic. But for now, I think we'd be fine with something dramatically cheaper.

Also, last night, while clearing off the table, I set my cigarette rolling stuff down next to my super fancy yarns, to clear space on the table for an all organic homemade chicken and pesto pizza, and organic macaroni and cheese. All bought from either Trader Joes, Whole Foods, or our farmer's market. What the hell. Have I become some terrible hipster hippie person???

((((

On a side note, eating fresh and organic has helped me lose 10 pounds!

valley_parade · « **Reply #3112 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 11:16 »

I'm now a Starbucks barista!

Yay, half-way kinda decent paying job.

Emaline · « **Reply #3113 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 14:39 »

I just watched Bolt and cried my eyes out. I don't know if I am ready to get another dog. Originally we were looking at puppies, but there are so many older dogs at the shelter that we ended up really liking that we were super open to the idea of an older dog, but now I don't know if I could handle losing another dog so soon.

Beren · « **Reply #3114 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 16:40 »

Quote

On a side note, eating fresh and organic has helped me lose 10 pounds!

Hey me too! Hi-Five for not ingesting masses of corn-syrup.

Inlander · « **Reply #3115 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 17:03 »

Quote from: Emaline on 05 Nov 2009, 14:39

Originally we were looking at puppies, but there are so many older dogs at the shelter that we ended up really liking that we were super open to the idea of an older dog, but now I don't know if I could handle losing another dog so soon.

A possible comprimise is to get a young dog. When I got my cat it was shortly after my old cat had died and, like you, I wasn't ready to go through that again in another couple of years. At the cat shelter there was a flood of people wanting to get kittens, and nobody at all was looking at the slightly older cats. I went to have a look and found my cat, who's gorgeous - and who was fully grown when I got her, but at eight months old still very young and with her whole life ahead of her. Puppies and kittens are always going to find owners, but you can find beautiful animals who've outgrown the "cute baby" phase but which will still give you years of love and affection. You've saved an animal that was likely to be ignored but you haven't condemned yourself to more heartbreak too soon.

Lines · « **Reply #3116 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 17:15 »

Hey blog thread, this will be long. Apologies.

So we've been having a lot of computer problems at work, like our program that we use for everything keeps freezing and we have to shut down all the stations and the server and restart them in order to fix it. (Which, for retail is NOT GOOD.) But anyways, so we've been having these problems and also someone at one of the other stores quit Monday. So the server freezes, again, this morning so my manager had to call the owner. He basically gives her a laundry list of shit that's been going wrong and how she needs to fix it. (Computer problems totally not our fault, but what are you gonna do.) So nobody is in a good mood when I get to work, including me, because I was told I'm going to a funeral Saturday.

Anywho. My manager gives me and my coworker the laundry list o' shit (none of which really was directed at me personally) and then gives us some REALLY crappy news. Since the district manager is going to be doing interviews for the girl that quit at another store, the owner told her that if she finds any good potential employees that she should feel free to replace people who need to be replaced. Which basically means that my coworker and I could possibly be fired within the next few weeks. Hearing this with the news I got this morning, the stress that's been building up for weeks at work because of the effing computers, and also stress from grad school hunting, I broke down as I was told this and had to spend about a half an hour in the basement trying to stop crying. When I finally do, I go back up but spend the rest of the day feeling like utter shit with a massive headache.

So basically once I pulled myself together I decided that it's time to find another job. I've been there over a year and have seen 5 other people come and go and I just can't take the owner's temper tantrums any more. I've never had a job that's made me cry out of frustration and I've done it twice in the past week and a few times in the past month. Hopefully since people are hiring for the holidays, I'll be able to find a seasonal job or maybe even a temp job. Luckily I haven't been fired yet, so I don't have to worry about being unemployed while I hunt around.

(Also, if you don't know, I work in an art supply store. This shit is stupid.)

Johnny C · « **Reply #3117 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 17:19 »

Quote from: Jeans on 05 Nov 2009, 02:41

I have a macbook now. I take back everything I have ever said about macs. I just installed Firefox. How did I do it? I dragged and dropped the Firefox icon into the "Applications" folder. I just wanted to scroll up to the top of the page. Endless scrolling nightmare? No! Three-finger upwards swipe on the giant touchpad. I want to see all the programs I am currently using! Minimize all of them and look at the taskbar? No! Four-finger downwards swipe. Now I want to clear the screen! Four finger upwards swipe. (Though technically both of those last ones could have been performed with a shift+windows key.) Helvetica is the standard grotesque font.

I am pretty much loving it so far, though I am slightly concerned how it'll tackle my music library.

My problem right now is that my Macbook is three years old and I need a new battery, a new hard drive and presumably some more RAM because this thing is incredibly slow. Unfortunately, I'm also married to everything about it and if I have to get another laptop I want to get another Mac. i wish i was rich

post-postwriting edit: and so does linds i guess! find a better job, linds!

Emaline · « **Reply #3118 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 18:04 »

Guys, i hate being on birth control. Basically, ever since starting birth control, my anxiety has been higher than ever. I can't sleep sometimes because it is so bad. Right now, my boyfriend's family is over and I am basically afraid to go out there and entertain because i am freaking out so bad. I'm afraid to hold glasses because last time I felt this nervous and shakey I dropped some. so yeah. this sucks.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3119 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 18:06 »

Try another type! I have tried probably about 15 different types in the 8 years I have been taking it, I swear.

Hey Blog thread!
I really need to see a dietician but I can't afford one.
What do I do?

jhocking · « **Reply #3120 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 19:06 »

Self-diagnose, because those quacks are totally useless.*

*I'm sure they are more effective than my experience, I'm just bitter.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3121 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 19:19 »

Yeah, you're probably right. My mum's been seeing them for years and she still gets sick.

Sigh.

edit:
I wasn't at the pagebreak before!

Yayniall · « **Reply #3122 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 19:49 »

Wikipedia is probably as good as meat life dieticians.
Maybe try and get some free advice from a health food shoppe?

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #3123 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 20:40 »

Yeah Emaline, I'd recommend trying a different kind if you can. I had one type of pill make me go super mega emotional, like there was a small clip of a funeral for some old dude I didn't know on the news once and I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. That was not normal for me, I felt like I was having a breakdown.

Anyway, emotional changes are not uncommon with the Pill, so it might be a good idea to talk to your dr/rn/whatev. I told mine "OK THIS IS MAKING ME MORE CRAZY AND I WANT SOMETHING ELSE", I found the being kinda forceful about it helped out too, cuz the rn didn't want me to change even though that wasn't the only downside I was seeing. Almost immediately after switching to a different type I felt way better.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #3124 on:** 05 Nov 2009, 21:29 »

Quote from: Emaline on 05 Nov 2009, 10:50

Have I become some terrible hipster hippie person??? ((((

Wholefoods is for Real American Heartland Heroes now

Inlander · « **Reply #3125 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 00:36 »

This afternoon I spent four hours at the zoo with a good friend of mine! I'd worried that it would be horribly depressing as zoos sometimes can be, but it turns out Melbourne Zoo is pretty damn cool. The ape enclosures in particular are lovely and spacious with plenty of things to do. THINGS I LEARNED AT THE ZOO:

1) Otters: awesome and cute, but stinky like the devil. Their enclosure smelled like piddle and old fish.

2) Gibbons: flippin' AWESOME.

3) Ocelots: sadly missing from the zoo, but I know they're cool so nothing's changed there.

4) Big cats: like to sleep at lunch time.

5) Red Pandas: just as cute as they were when I was twelve years old.

6) Amphibians: rely on heat from outside sources, "such as the sun or heat lamps". Possibly native to arid areas and solariums? Need to double-check on this.

I move that ocelots replace capybaras as the page-break animal of choice.

allison · « **Reply #3126 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 06:46 »

Between now and Sunday night, I will work 29 hours. Ridiculous, no?
I want to go to the CD release party I've been invited to, but I don't want to have to endure the resulting (and inevitable) bangover. I guess I am not metal enough. Instead I will probably stay home and clean my room and catch up on homework.

Am I an old person?

Joseph · « **Reply #3127 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 07:22 »

Quote from: allison on 06 Nov 2009, 06:46

bangover

This is when you wake up beside someone you only vaguely knew before with a headache?

allison · « **Reply #3128 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 07:35 »

It is when you headbang so hard and drank so much you have probably permanently damaged your brain.

Jace · « **Reply #3129 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 07:47 »

Quote from: Joseph on 06 Nov 2009, 07:22

Quote from: allison on 06 Nov 2009, 06:46
bangover

This is when you wake up beside someone you only vaguely knew before with a headache?

This is the new thing that I want to give every single one of my sexual partners.

allison · « **Reply #3130 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 07:54 »

You'd probably need sexual partners for that to happen, kiddo.

Jace · « **Reply #3131 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 08:05 »

They're still a partner whether they want to be or not.

glyphic · « **Reply #3132 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 08:42 »

He's right, you know.

Reed · « **Reply #3133 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 09:19 »

Terrible exam was terrible.

Blurghhgadfhgkhgh

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3134 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 10:04 »

Fuck this, guys. I spent days working on an essay which I handed in yesterday and I just got an email from my supervisor telling me that two of the three pages are utterly irrelevant because I used my lectures notes instead of focusing completely on what we'd done in the supervision. I can't believe I'm being penalised for doing extra work! And now I have to rewrite the whole sodding thing by Monday when I have a mountain of other work to do.

I love all my other subjects but my tort supervisor, who just happens to be my Director of Studies and the vice-principal of my college, makes me feel ignorant, rude and confused every time we interact and I hate it. She never tells us what she wants us to do, she is acerbic and unpleasant if you get things wrong and I just don't want to take her subject any more.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #3135 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 10:07 »

I am with you there Jens. I'm so burnt out on school I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to finish the semester, much less go back in the spring. i'm going to talk with my parents tonight about what my options are since we've already gotten into several arguments about it, see if I can't find something to do for a while, maybe work, try something else. I'm so done with these classes I am taking. My Film 2 which is the only class at the university which actually uses film.

Basically we have 4 days of the entire semester we're allowed to shoot, because our program is udnerfunded such that there are only two of these $20k 16mm cameras, and each one is for a different class. We also have to front the cost of film, with processing included can come up to 1200 dollars for a 12 minute project allowing for multiple takes of anything. The stress from it I think is literally killing me.

That plus its not my only production course this semester and the other one I'm in a group with a controlling bastard and a choreographer who's only able to work two evenings a week and I'm so tired of being on campus until 10pm every night and I just want some goddamn sleep and now I'm spiraling and not using my punctuation... Yeah and so this weekend I don't have any sleep, pretty sure I'm in a major that I don't like thus the whole idea of dropping out. Shit and if I do switch my major it means at least 2 more years of school, and god I don't want to be here anymore. God I don't want to be in Baltimore anymore. I hate the city so much, I hate being crowded by too many people and hour long commutes and.... well basically fuck. I just want to move away somewhere, anywhere.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #3136 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 11:45 »

My first semester of school, I wanted to drop out so bad. I hated everything. I hated where I was, what I was doing and most of my teachers. My parents were all "If you want to drop out, you're on your own," so I decided to at least persevere another semester. Even though my classes that semester were much harder with teachers that were supposedly tougher on their students, I was far happier. So, maybe it's just this semester?

I am sick today. I don't know what it is. I've just got a fever (I think, I don't own a thermometer) and a cough. So I slept about 14 hours. Well, I stayed in bed about 14 hours. Unfortunately, that means I missed doing any research today, and going to the class that is really difficult to get from the notes (he makes so many math errors in his derivations). I also would like to help one of my friends move tomorrow, but I can't imagine that happening unless I manage to magically fight this thing off. At some point, I'm going to have to drop my car off at the body shop and pick up a rental car. I had trouble walking from my bed to the computer. Oh, damnit. Food.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3137 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 11:47 »

Sadly we have the same classes with the same teachers for the whole year. Luckily we're on week five now so only another three to go until Christmas!

Theriandros · « **Reply #3138 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 13:32 »

So today I thought I'd post on this thread for once.

Then I realized I had nothing much to post today because I had a boring day off that mostly consisted of cooking to justify my continued existence at my parents' house, writing papers to justify my continued existence at college, and feeling like my existence is slightly ouroboric because in a weird turn of events, an older girl I had a mild crush on back in high school is now a teacher there.

Misereatur · « **Reply #3139 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 15:57 »

So this is what I get for trying to do the right thing:

I was trying to get home after seeing a concert tonight, and I got on a sort of minibus service taxi because the buses were all out for the night. Thing is with these service taxis is that the driver has to wait for it to be completely full before getting out of the station. A bit after I got in the taxi, a guy and what appeared to be is girlfriend got in and sat right behind me when the guy is standing near me, facing the girl. After a few seconds I notice that the guy is moving his arm at her, I turn around to face them and the guy was beating her. Right in front of me.

I got up, grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the taxi with help from the driver who had just noticed what was going on. I thought that was the end of it when the guy came back with a few of his drunk friends who got in the taxi and started cussing and trying to hit me. I was holding myself back because all I wanted to do was to drag them out of the taxi and start the fight they were talking about, but instead I sat there and took in a bit of slaps and drunken fists.

The driver got all his friends from the station and they threw the drunk idiots out of the taxi and kept them out. To make a long story short, the taxi was one passenger short, and for the next hour I was waiting in the taxi while the drunk fucks threatened to kill me in various ways.

And the girl? She got out of the taxi and got back to the guy who had just beat her up. What the fuck?

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #3140 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 16:09 »

the world is a strange and terrifying place. I, for one, commend your chivalry, good sir!

Barmymoo · « **Reply #3141 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 18:28 »

Yeah I have always wondered why a girl at my college stayed with her verbally and occasionally physically abusive boyfriend and I came to the conclusion that it was due to three factors: 1) she loved him, which is hard to shake. 2) he would still be in her life even if they were not together and it would probably be worse and 3) after prolonged psychological abuse your self-confidence is knocked and you become afraid of change. Knowing what will happen next is better than not knowing, even if it is a negative thing.

Tonight's hockey game was pretty good! We lost 7-1 which if you're keeping up with this deal (and if not, why not?) you'll realise is a massive improvement. I was a bit bummed though because I was on the third line of forwards and got the least ice-time. We rotated lines 1, 2, 1, 3 but every period we started at the beginning again so we only played maybe ten minutes of the whole game, if that. I mentioned to the captain that it would be nice to play a little more but I felt like I was being a bit whiney and I wish I hadn't said anything.

And on the way back I inadvertently came out to the most gossipy girl on the team, so if she picked up on it (it was quite subtle) then there will be a wild-fire rumour and everyone will know. I've been avoiding telling anyone other than one girl who I'm friends with because frankly I don't want the rest of the team to feel weird about walking round the changing rooms naked pre- and post-showers. Ah well, we'll see what happens. I tend to assume people are more homophobic than they actually are.

Tomorrow I have a date

She is pretty awesome and I'm looking forwards to it!

Alex C · « **Reply #3142 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 20:28 »

It's hard to fathom from the outside looking in, but guilt sometimes plays a big part in it too. In a lot of these cases you're talking about a co-dependent relationship in which the person being abused feels somewhat responsible for their abusers' well-being. Reporting the abuse gets the abuser into legal trouble, and that just simply doesn't jibe with the battered woman's priorities: they typically want to fix things so they can be happy again, not see their partner go off to jail. In the case of alcoholics or drug addicts, the abuser may not even really be able to keep their shit together without the abused party's care, in which case leaving feels like abandonment. It's particularly ugly in cases where the woman doesn't have much foundation for her self-confidence beyond "I'm loyal and love my family."

bainidhe_dub · « **Reply #3143 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 23:32 »

Hi guys.. After a month in the hospital, my mother in law was nearly cancer free, but then other complications set in, and we lost her on Wednesday evening. I am trying really hard not to get upset and thus get my boy upset, but it's hard. I wish I believed in heaven or something, but instead she's just gone from us and won't be here to share anything with us. Her grandchildren won't remember/know her. And it's killing me that I didn't go visit her during the couple of days that she was off sedation and lucid.

BrittanyMarie · « **Reply #3144 on:** 06 Nov 2009, 23:47 »

*hug*

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #3145 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 00:06 »

My thoughts are with you and your family, rosie.

MrBlu · « **Reply #3146 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 00:09 »

Quote from: bainidhe_dub on 06 Nov 2009, 23:32

I am trying really hard not to get upset and thus get my boy upset, but it's hard.

You lost your mother. There's nothing wrong with being upset. We'd be worried if you weren't.
You have my condolences.

JD · « **Reply #3147 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 00:48 »

*hug*²

FIXDIX · « **Reply #3148 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 04:28 »

Blog thread,

So last week I went to a Halloween party and had awesome make outs with a lady friend of mine who I've known for a few years but have never really seen in that light. She came over tonight to watch movies, she picked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and just talked for a few hours afterwhich we decided we would keep things casual for now and see where it takes us. I am pretty fucking happy for myself right now. She's coming over again on tuesday too!

I also had an awesome day of great great food and now my stomach is all churny but goddamn was that a good feed.

Thank you Universe for being ever so kind to me.

allison · « **Reply #3149 on:** 07 Nov 2009, 05:26 »

I'm sorry for your loss Rosie.

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