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Scandanavian War Machine:
have fun being super cold, followed by super hot+wet!

Runa:
Dear Blog Thread,
I've been under a lot of pressure lately. Me and my boyfriend have decided to move in together, I'm still at home with my parents at the current time. Early November I contacted a resturant in South Carolina about transferring there. I even drove down for three days to meet the General Manager of the store, and some other managers. I met some of the employees, me and the GM talked about scheduling, and what areas I was trained in. That day he said he would call Jan 15th to tell me when I start, and if he hadn't gotten in touch with me to call him. So I called him while on my break this morning. He tells me he had hired someone else, and that if I were to work there I would only be able to work two shifts a week. I told him I'd do it, but that I was moving out of my parents house and in with my boyfriend and had bills that had to be paid. I was pissed off because I was told I had the job, and earlier this month he hired someone in my place, I see it as if he needed someone right then he should have called me and told me, I would have changed my moving date to suit my job, or at least had the decency to call and inform me the position was filled because now I'm stuck jobless as of the 27th, I'm moving the 31st. I have 15 days to find a job. I've only applied to three places, twice at taco bell but two different stores for a shift supervisor position, and the other a temp agency. David is very calm about it, saying he's going to post his WoW account on Craigslist because he has things that are no longer available in the game. He was laid off after thanksgiving, so the both of us are jobless and I'm moving to a area that is suffering due to the economy. I haven't really had a chance to save much money considering I have been helping him with bills since he was laid off. He is having a hard time trying to find a job because he is on probation, but David has contacted his probation officer and he said he would have a job for David by Feb 3rd. I'm really hoping that comes through because I cannot really postpone the moving day because I'll be stuck here without a job as well since my managers just hired a replacement for me. At this point I am truely freaking out, and don't know what to do.

Christophe:
Blog Thread,

I desperately need to work on my punk voice.

Lately, I've been working on recording full-band covers of songs I enjoy by myself (kinda like this dude who does full Smiths covers and such), since it gives me greater enjoyment than what Guitar Hero and its ilk could offer, as well as a chance to practice my nascent drumming. Some may remember that Silkworm cover I did that was ok.

Well, this time I was taking on Smallpox Champion by Fugazi, but when I start cutting the vocals, something occurs to me in playback: A, my voice easily gives out so it looks like I'm gonna have to separately record verses, and B, I sound more like 10-year-old Henry Rollins than Guy Picciotto, which saddens me greatly.

KvP:
Cog bread,

I have lost 4 pounds in the last 3 days. I have lost some of my shapeliness and the musskles in the back of my thighs are more pronounced now, and it has been just 2 weeks. However, given that it's apparently not health to lose more than 6 pounds in a month, I am a bit worried. I am currently on the "Cool Running" 5k plan and heading into the third category. But I'm sort of cheating, because after running the 20 minutes I wasn't feeling runned out, so I did the whole exercise again, and I've been doing this for a week. I don't know if that's good for me, but I'm burning lots of calories and the rather severe depression I've been feeling lately has really curbed my appetite, such that I'm consuming anywhere from just 1000 to 1500 calories a day. Again, probably not healthy.

So, uh... fitness?

Also, I guess I should outline exactly why I've been so bummed lately. Basically my best friend told me that she was going away and that soon I would not see her. She's been a mentor to me, the best friend that I've ever had and the reason why 2008 was the best year of my life. Everything that is good in my life at this point, I owe to her. And she's leaving me. She told me "In every hero's story, the teacher has to die." which was pretty hokey, and I told her so, and I told her I do not want her to die. Yesterday I just sat in bed and cried. Today has been less bad, but I'm depending on the support of my other friends, who I wouldn't know, incidentally, without my best friend.

And part of it was that she was a lot different this time. She was very cold, and blunt, and more than once she made me feel ashamed of myself, by belittling her role in my recent personal progress and scoffing when I told her that what I wanted to focus on in my Poli Sci major was gay rights. She accused me of only caring about it because she and my other friends are gay. I am genuinely enraged by this, like I have to earn my fucking stripes. Like I should not care because I've never fucked a man. It angries up my blood. She's never done this to me before, she's always been supportive and encouraging.

When I first told my mother about my best friend, she told me that eventually she would tire of me and my flaws, and cast me away. I didn't believe her. Maybe I should have. It fucks me up. It really fucks me up.

Alex C:
Man, from that last line I'm inclined to say it's your mother who fucked you up, not your friend.

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