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[tania]

letting him know you think he's a rad guy and that you value his friendship is a pretty okay way to apologize to a person who doesn't like apologies

[Emaline]

I am going to let it go if this movie thing doesn't work out. And maybe make him cookies and not say why I made them.

[morca007]

Every-few-monthly check in post.

Hi.

[RedLion]

Went to Madison today for the swearing-in ceremony for the new legislature there. Party-ish atmosphere, as the Dems control both chambers of the WI legislature for the first time since '94. It was a pretty stark contrast from the beginning of the last session, when they immediately started fighting.

It felt good to be back there. I miss working there, and all the energy, fun it brings with it...not to mention the feeling of having a mission, of working towards something. I met my old boss, Rep. Jorgensen. Then I was invited into the Speaker of the Assembly's office, both because the Speaker is from Janesville so he and my dad go way back, and because his press staffer worked alongside me in Jorgensen's office. I tried to ask around a little bit to see if anyone up there would be looking for help again this summer, but at the most I got tentative responses. Oh well. At the very least I've re-established some old connections and made some new ones with a number of Representatives and two of the Senators. Shook a lot of peoples' hands and got a couple reps' phone numbers. Nothing big, but it was a fun and pretty productive day. I got to feel all hoity-toity and stuff.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I'm off to Boston next week, you guys have no idea how excited I am for this! I haven't been overseas in about 10 years and I haven't ever done it by myself. Not only do I get to see new and interesting things but I get to do it with new and interesting people! Also I get to actually feel cold! I haven't felt real actual cold in so long I've almost forgotten what it feels like and CHRIST I'M SO EXCITED!!!

In other news I got a $100 visa gift card in the mail from this frequent shopper/rewards points program I am in. My step-mum uses the card for me because she shops at those stores and there are none in my area. I used it to buy Volumes 1-4 of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and a copy of Watchmen (all paperbacks and so each one was only about $14US). So I could qualify for the free shipping thing Shane, being the rad and awesome fellow that he is, allowed me to have them shipped to his place so that hopefully he can bring them to Boston next week. Woo! Woo! I say.

[RedLion]

Also I get to actually feel cold! I haven't felt real actual cold in so long I've almost forgotten what it feels like and CHRIST I'M SO EXCITED!!!

It's not as fun as you think.

[Tom]

-8 in Beijing got real annoying quick.

[Jace]

Well, I'm completely out of money again. Which sucks because rent was due 5 days ago. I guess it's gonna have to wait until the 9th to get paid. I really do hate paying rent late every single month.

[pen]

Jimmy, I'll laugh so hard if we get a heat wave while you're here and it's 60 degrees every day. 

Guess who went to the dentist yestreday for the first time in over 5 years!  I have to say, I really do love going to the dentist.  I love gettnig my teeth cleaned.  I just hate when he tells me bad things. I have two cavities.  Not bad for missing 5 yrs of cleanings... or so I thought.  Apparently, one of them can be filled easily, but I'll likely need a root canal for the other.  I just don't have the money for that, nor do I have dental insurance to cover it.  I'm just a little panicked about it.  My sister suggested looking into the cost of a veneer (sp?) to see if I can just get a fake tooth put in instead.  Either way, that's money I don't really have.  He suggested I stop drinking soda until I can do it so it doesn't get worse.  I drink at least 1 can a day!!  This is going to suck.

[jhocking]

I had an annoying morning yesterday. It started with losing my unopened 30-day CTA card (those things are like 90 bucks) and then being stranded for 40 minutes on a broken train. grumble

[Emaline]

My morning has been suck today. I couldn't find my pants, and was 10 minutes late because of that. And then, walking to the bus station, I fell not once, not twice, not even fucking three times, I fell four fucking times. Seriously. My hands are all bloodied, and my butt hurts. <----see that sad face? I am making it so hard.

And now it is snowing! Wtf.

[valley_parade]

I used it to buy Volumes 1-4 of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and a copy of Watchmen (all paperbacks and so each one was only about $14US). So I could qualify for the free shipping thing Shane, being the rad and awesome fellow that he is, allowed me to have them shipped to his place so that hopefully he can bring them to Boston next week. Woo! Woo! I say.

I also say Woo!, as you've let me read them. (They have not arrived yet, but hopefully will soon)

[allison]

I am in the most boring class of ALL TIME. I am not kidding you. There is nothing interesting at all. Also, my professor over-enunciates every single word she says. It is like listening to those Learn-English-All-By-Yourself! tapes. Oh, and she insists on being called Dr. Viktoria.

Edit: So instead of paying attention I am hanging out on Facebook, and one of the judges from the now-cancelled Canadian Idol is hitting on me via Facebook chat.

[Josefbugman]

I hate it when people put unnecesary "k's" into words, its "victoria", you don't sound anymore mysterious just because you have a letter that is futher along in the alphabet.

Could be worse, you could have one of the teacher's that I once had, he didn't actually tell you what to do but he expected you to still find out and do it, it was like a stupid form of the Riddler.

[benji]

I had a prof like that once. I remember someone sitting next to me asking "am I doing this problem right?" He looked at it, said "no," and then walked away.

[Josefbugman]

Try that but with drama, one of my teachers was taking Hamlet to the edinburgh fringe, do you know his criticism he gave?

"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are wrong" and then didn't say anything else about it. Absolute idiot.

[Barmymoo]

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are wrong, or dead? It could have been a fairly lame attempt at a literary joke.

[morca007]

This is the first time this year that I have wanted to kill my housemates.
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I want to sleep!

[KvP]

Pro: I got the job!

Con: Ron Asheton is dead.

[Cicero]

Well, I did forty miles on the workout bike yesterday and am feelin' pretty good.   Haven't went on it yet today, but I'm thinkin' 20 today will be good.   Have to get more blood work and another UA done tomorrow to monitor my Minimal Change Disease, so we'll see how that goes.

[abadname]

I was given some pills to help me sleep yesterday and I ended up sleeping until 4 today.  So I probably won't be taking those again.  Also I wandered into the Comic discussion forums today, never again.

[KvP]

Try limiting your dosage. You wouldn't have the pills if you didn't need them.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

if you can't sleep, try reading The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson.

it's like a natural sleep-aid.

[Metope]

Hey blog thread, I had the best useless day in a long time today.

I love my friends.

[Lines]

I forgot to post about the funniest customer I've ever had yesterday, because the basement thing overshadowed it.

Yesterday we had an older man come in to buy photo corners. We only had 4 packs of the kind he needed and he needed more, so we told him we could order him some. So my manager asks for his number and he goes, "Oh so that's what you're doing! Trying to get my number! Well that's a damn good way to try to pick me up! Damn good!" So we start laughing and once my manager caught her breath, she told him we'd give him a call when his stuff came in. He said, "Okay. When you get the answering machine, just don't sound TOO sexy," and then he makes fake orgasm noises. While this is going on my manager and I are doubled over because we were just not expecting this at all. We're still laughing when he leaves.

Today was boring and uneventful and I'm sure you don't want me to tell you how I reorganized the canvas section. I did almost get smooshed by some, but that's about it.

[KvP]

I'm having one of those days where my character flaws are being greatly magnified in my mind and I can't really think of a way to reconcile them. I feel like I'm on a precipice right now.

I have reached out to friends, but my phone is silent.

[Josefbugman]

Listen to happy music, think of the first time you were in love and get a brew on.

Now is also a good time to do all those menial tasks that don't need your brain but need a lot of time, you can mull over the ideas you have (and I guarentee they are not so insurmountable) whilst getting something dull out of the way.

[Eris]

Man, I am in that same kind of negative mindset at the moment, and unfortunately it is too hot to do anything other than sit as still as possible, so I doubt I'll be doing anything other than sitting and stewing, in more ways than one. Maybe I'll just clean the house.

enh

[michaelicious]

I'm having one of those days where my character flaws are being greatly magnified in my mind and I can't really think of a way to reconcile them. I feel like I'm on a precipice right now.

I have reached out to friends, but my phone is silent.

You can decode pages 269, 270, and 271 of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredible Close for me to take your mind off of it! It is a man who can't speak typing out the sum of his life using a telephone keypad (2=ABC, 3=DEF, and so on). I've been trying all day but only managed to get a couple sentences. I'm beginning to think only the first couple sentences are actually decipherable at all.

[tania]

don't try to distract yourself with work, don't try to get anything really important or productive done. i kept trying to do this last semester anytime i felt like that (more often than i was comfortable with) and really ended up doing nothing but wasting my time trying to study when i couldn't concentrate, or end up feeling even shittier about myself when i tried to do something as a distraction and ultimately fucked that up somehow too (like cooking a meal) cos i couldn't focus, or when i tried to act like i was okay i'd keep being unable to maintain the facade and yell at friends and make them feel shitty too. and it all fucked up my sleep schedule something awful cos all i did was push myself harder and harder and spend a ridiculous amount of time working really hard and ultimately getting nothing done cos my mind wasn't actually there to begin with.

what i should have done, i now realize, is absolutely nothing until i got over it. sit around and watch movies and read and eat frozen pizza and that's it. it sucks cos it does feel like you are stewing a bit and getting absolutely nothing done but in the end, it usually only takes a night's sleep or two of relaxation to get somewhat over things like that and a couple of days off is never important in the long run. the alternative is to have dozens of shitty unproductive depressed days and to keep having them cos you never took that one day off to not care about anything in the first place. it is amazing how much better you can sometimes feel in the morning just by sleeping on something. in the end, i find i feel a lot better giving myself that time off than if i had ignored the depression and tried to push through it by being productive.

[tania]

this just in: my phone bill is about $300 more than it should be. what the fuck.

[Ozymandias]

I suspect Tommy.

[Christophe]

Dear Blog Thread,

Tomorrow is my 21st Birthday.

Woo!

[David_Dovey]

Dear Blog Thread,

If for some reason in the future I lose all of my teeth I believe I could quite easily subsist entirely on Jelly Belly jelly beans. A hom nom nom

Con: Ron Asheton is dead

Motherfuckerrrr

[abadname]

Try limiting your dosage. You wouldn't have the pills if you didn't need them.

Heh it's one small pill.  I'm going to try it again tonight, but if i end up sleeping all day then it's not worth it and i'll figure out another way to sleep.

[KvP]

Thanks for the advice all, I went out for a walk with my hand on my phone for a good 15 minutes before my friend called me back. She came through for me and we sat and ate some pretty good teriyaki and talked for a good 2 hours. We put some things on the table so to speak and I think we are much closer now than we were before, and we were pretty close before. I feel a bit better, and I might be lined up to see a new therapist, which I think I really need. I love my friends.

I'm sorry you feel bad, han! I wish I could do something for you. Ironically it's pretty much the same out here, a lot of my depression comes from it being too cold to do anything. You get stir-crazy, just cooped up at home. I would suggest getting out to a coffee shop or an equivalent place, someplace air conditioned, getting a cold drink, maybe write something. Go people watching. Write stories about strangers.

[Allybee]

especially when they are for someone who is really really great

[Lunchbox]

Try limiting your dosage. You wouldn't have the pills if you didn't need them.

Heh it's one small pill.  I'm going to try it again tonight, but if i end up sleeping all day then it's not worth it and i'll figure out another way to sleep.

You can cut pills in half, you know.

Hey Blog Thread. It's really hot and stuffy today and work is frustrating but everything is wonderful really because I get to see The Boy tomorrow. It is ridiculous because when I think about him my heart goes all fluttery and my stomach goes wiggly and when I see him I forget what I'm doing and I'm spending even more time than usual staring into the distance with a wonky smile on my face. What is this, Blog Thread, what is happening to me?

[Inlander]

It's an obscure medical phenomenon known as meatlife/avatar synergy. Tell me, do you sometimes find yourself dreaming of living under the sea?

[Hat]

I am at my old house for my old housemates birthday party where we will eat sushi and drink wine except I don't really dig on sushi so she has made me spaghetti instead, why on earth did I move out from this house.

This nostalgia is mostly because I had some housemate issues over Christmas. There was some violence and minor, fixable property damage and all of a sudden I "ruined Christmas" even though I was kind of having a meltdown at the time and was on the receiving end of said violence, but I guess it is not ok to have problems at Christmas, and besides, I come from a family where it isn't really a good Christmas without some violence and property damage anyway.

Long story short I have to move out in the next week or two.

Good times!

[morca007]

Listen to happy music, think of the first time you were in love and get a brew on.

That is a recipe for gettin your melancholy on.

[Josefbugman]

Listen to happy music, think of the first time you were in love and get a brew on.

That is a recipe for gettin your melancholy on.

I wouldn't have said so. It always make me feel happy, plus if you get a bit depressed you have a warm drink and can think about that instead.

[J-cob9000]

Dear Blog Thread,
I just won an Xbox 360 Premium bundle on eBay for 186 dollars.
Yay.

[Jace]

Re: Dentistry.

My wisdom teeth are basically hollow shells full of filling. I had all 4 drilled. I probably should have had them pulled, but I couldn't get more than a day off of work each week to get it done. (As in, I was outright refused the days off.) The first set, I was all awake and shit and my mouth hurt as it came back from numbness, I went the first bit with no novacaine, but I later decided it'd be a good idea to have some, it was a joint decision, since I sorta pressed backwards as if trying to go through the chair. I was awake and it sucked afterwards, I had a terrible, terrible headache. For the next set, I went home and went to sleep. Then I woke up feeling much better.

[Christophe]

I am 21 now.

Hooray!

[Josefbugman]

Happy Birthday!

Hope you got nice presents/lots of alcohol.

[allison]

Happy Birthday! Are you going to party today, or postpone it until the upcoming weekend?

Also, Jens, I was thoroughly amused by your dentist story. Thanks

[Christophe]

I think I am doing stuff tonight, but I need to round up all my friends still in town. One of my friends has expressed his wish that I get so drunk I puke tonight. My ladyfriend does not want me that drunk again.

[Barmymoo]

When I'm miserable I very often clean the bathroom. It doesn't always help, but at least after I've come back from my misery I have a clean bathroom.

Today is Wednesday, the first one of term so far, and for the first time since our film course began the teacher hasn't turned up. Nevertheless we're getting stuff done; Lawrence is editing the footage we've already got (major panic earlier when it seemed like somone had taped over it, but it was the wrong tape) and I've set up a time to film in the Beauty salons (February! I am a little scared that February can be soon enough that it's the next available date for filming; I am 18 in February. It is a month closer to exams. It is soon).

Anyway hockey practice is tonight which is good because I cannot spend another evening at home. I had the most pointless argument with my stepdad last night, about Christmas cake of all things, which ended up in me swearing at him and him telling me to go back to my dad's house. We apologised to each other later but obviously that kind of fight doesn't just go away. Things mount up and I'm just looking forwards to moving out. Hopefully the odd moving out phenomenon that occured when I moved out from my dad's will mean that we get on a lot better once I don't live there.

Oh and I was talking to my teacher (the one who is awesome and pretty important to me and stuff) and she finally admitted that she doesn't think I'll get murdered in Chicago, and was interested to find out who you all are and things. I'm aware that this whole thing with her is mostly stemming from my fairly desperate need for a mother figure who I engage with and can talk to, but that doesn't alter the fact that she's awesome. So it's good to know she doesn't think I'm totally crazy for meeting the internet.

[allison]

A performance group came into my class today to promote a play they're doing, called Methusalem or the Eternal Bourgeois. To me it seems like communist propaganda. The director is still prattling on about dystopian drama. I think he masturbates to pictures of Che Guevara.

Goddamn commies.