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[nobo]

My buddy and I put together a powerpoint of our trip from north carolina to poland and back. It filled with pictures and stories and all that good stuff. Its a 7 Mb pdf. If you are interested in checking it out pm me or post your email addy and I will send it over.

[ruyi]

I think it goes by a number of names, because I have been getting a number of similar notifications that redirect to differently-named apps. What bugs me though is that upon just logging in to the app (and not answering any questions or adding the app), it sent out a notification to a bunch of random friends of mine telling them that I had answered a questions about their personal life.

[sean]

If it means anything I have at least one of those from an app called Hold Four. And its from a forumite!

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!

[Allybee]

wow, I'm stupid. I'm pretty sure the app doesn't record anything at all and just asks you for money cause you want to know who says you smell bad or something. whatever, over it. I am so terrible at reacting to the invasion of privacy that is the internet.

[20 jazz funk greats]

facebook keeps notifying me that i have new "matches" on something called "speed date" (an app i'm pretty sure i never added) I AM NOT LONELY I DON'T NEED FACEBOOK TO FIND DATES FOR ME WHAT IS THIS MADNESS.

this has been a pretty good weekend for me though. i spent this evening watching pulp fiction with my dad and uncle who are both all sorts of awesome.  earlier i had dinner with my ex boyfriend who is not quite as awesome but also not being an asshole anymore so that is okay i guess but i probably shouldn't be talking to him anymore because that would make it easier for both of us to move on with our lives and see other people. except i don't think i'm ready to date anyone yet, but i have gotten myself a friend with benefits. i dunno if i am the sort of person who can handle that sort of arrangement. i mean, i'm pretty independent so i'm not going to cling to him and act like a girlfriend but he seems like the sort of guy i could potentially fall in love with. that could be problematic?

enough about relationships or lack thereof. that is really not a major concern. i am more worried about the fact that my dad is quitting his job (his last day is december 23rd) and i asked him if he has some other/better job opportunity waiting for him and he said no. and then i asked him "well, what are you going to do then?" and he said I DON'T KNOW. what the hell.  this is not a good time for you to be quitting asaklfkdg we have already lost a lot of money this year.  also, the fact that HE HAS NO BRILLIANT PLAN ABOUT WHAT TO DO NEXT. even though my dad is normally a sensible, plan-making person.

also there are the usual worries about school. thinking about finals is making my test anxiety kick in HARD.  then i start drinking to relax and that is probably not the smartest solution but it is working well enough for me and i haven't become an alcoholic yet.

okay wrapping this up because my laptop battery is dying and i've forgotten my charger in waterloo.

later blog thread.

love always,
anna

[Lunchbox]

What I have learned lately is that Dads are people too. He's probably scared and kind of questioning what he should be doing right now! I wish him good luck, anyway.

The past couple of weeks have been pretty great, Blog Thread. I have a lovely new boy and I still get wibbly in the tummy and go all shy and giggly when I'm around him. I am pretty hopeless, really. We spent all weekend together which was very nice, just sort of hanging out and wandering around the beach and watchin' nerdy DVDs and playing Guitar Hero (Supposedly actual guitarists are just as bad as regular non-musical people the first time they play Guitar Hero? This is lies. After he did okay on his first song we made him play Through The Fire and Flames and the cheeky bugger got 90%).
This week is the last week of work before we have two weeks off for the holidays and the three of us at the shop cannot wait. Today it was pretty dead so we just stood around and read the paper and cleaned a couple of things and drank lots of coffee and invented tasty things to eat. Customers have started giving us Christmas cards and candycanes and chocolates and home-made cookies so we eat those too. Our Christmas party is on the weekend and it will involve karaoke, hot tubs, korean bbq, and lots of alcohol. I am excited for it, even if I know my boss is going to be dumb and make lewd comments about the fact that I will be wearing a dress. (He is my boss and he is great, he is just a horribly dirty man.)
After that I suppose I will be meandering on back to Newcastle to spend Christmas with my family, and then after that back up the coast so I can spend lots of time with the new boy and make him hideously sick of me. Hooray!

[Gemmwah]

So one of my cats disappeared on Sunday, and we were all really worried about him, hoping that he was somewhere warm and safe and somebody had just taken him in because they thought it'd be nice to keep someone else's friendly little cat. Sadly, that was not the case. My neighbour came and told me they'd found him, so I trekked with her through mud to where he is, took his collar, and came home. He'd been hit by a car, and it looks like somebody had tried to patch him up with a bit of cloth or something. I don't want to leave him there because it's cold outside and I know the cold won't hurt him now but I guess I still want him to come home safe. I just wish I'd given him more cuddles, and that he hadn't wandered off.



He was only just over a year old, and he was the nicest cat I've ever had.

[KvP]

I'm sorry Gemm

[Dazed]

Sorry about your cat 

So speaking of, dear blog thread,

Yesterday I drove my friend out to Western Mass to pick up a kitten. It cried pretty much the entire car ride back, but once we got back into the city, and especially into her apartment, the little guy calmed down a lot, and he seemed really content and playful. Also, managed to confess my crush on said friend without destroying our friendship, but looks like nothing further will come of it. That was expected though; anyway, kitten is terribly, terribly adorable.

[jodizzle]

Dearest Blog Thread,

FUCK YEEEAHH MOUNTAIN GOOOATS!

John was sick though!  He sang a half set of acoustic old songs and got Peter to sing a few of the rockier ones. Then just got the crowd to yell the lyrics for this year and No Children.

it was so so so so so good. And he promised that next time he comes he is giving us two solid hours of 'stompin and hollerin'.  also assless pants apparently.

Arrgghhh so goooood <3 John Darnielle

(Also I didn't see Loxley because my friend Philip purposely distracted me every time he saw him.  I did spend most of the set on constant panicky edge though!)

[Jace]

Guys, at my new job they have music in the lobby. And a song came on, I sorta recognized it... It was MANAMANA.
A FREAKING MUPPETS COVERSONG!

This hotel is now my favorite place to be.

[valley_parade]

Yesterday I drove my friend out to Western Mass

I'm sorry.

[IronOxide]

Before I have to do things today, it is the Adam Has Been Busy Countdown!

1. Finished up classes
2. Spent an evening pushing cute clarinet girl about on a rolling chair through our music building
3. Caroled at a hospital with the brothers of Phi Mu Alpha, was good, happy people
4. Became an official brother of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
5. Now going to theory finals and juries

Have a nice day!

[KickThatBathProf]

Welcome, brother.

OAS AAS LLS

[StaedlerMars]

It's the middle of winter, and in New York City it's 20 degrees C.

That's a shit deal.

[pwhodges]

Why don't you just express your frustration?

In Bokmĺl, just for the hell of it.

My last English exam was when I was a bit younger than you - it was called "Use of English", and was a special exam for scientists, who were assumed to be more or less illiterate; but at the time it was required for going to uni (for a science course).

[Barmymoo]

Hmm. I've been really busy with this college newspaper deal and I'm pleased to be doing it, it's great fun, but it's having a bad effect on my college work. I'm going to stagger through to the end of the week, which is also the end of term, and then in the two weeks I have off I'm going to catch up majorly and hopefully get a bit ahead so that this doesn't happen again next month. Much as I love the teacher who is in charge of the paper, she needs some anchoring or she shoots off into ever-increasing heights of ridiculously optimistic optimism, and there's just no way that I can devote an entire week each month to editing a really huge, really badly-written newspaper.

Ah well. Tonight I will get my coursework caught up a bit and do the homework that was due in today but thankfully not collected, and I might even get some more done on top of that. Providing, of course, that I can resist the temptation to eat cheese and gabble.

[Edith]

Surely eating cheese is not counterproductive?

I need to start sleeping.

[RedLion]

I thought I had vanquished my cold, but no such luck. It's come back again..

I'm beginning to think it's from being around my sister! I first got it when I was in London with her, then when I went back to college, it gradually got better. Now that we're both home for break, it's worse again.

Cuuursseees!!

[jhocking]

The weather is a fucking dick. It got up to 50 yesterday to trick me, because it dropped overnight to 10 degrees and so I wasn't bundled up enough today. Walking to and from work today was literally the coldest I've ever felt. I mean, while I've been out in colder temperatures, I'm also bundled up a lot better normally.

[nobo]

I know what you mean! Take my situation, how is a person supposed to deal with a week straight of temperatures in the 70s IN DECEMBER. this is insane.

/being a jerk

[0bsessions]

ITT: Joe exhibits his lack of survivability in New England, despite the fact he once resided in CT.

Seriously. It hit sixty today up here, tomorrow: snow showers.

[Jimmy the Squid]

So I got my results back for the year! I passed my Neuroscience class which is good, but I only got a PASS grade which is not terribly encouraging. I did, however, get a distinction for my Health Psychology class which is really quite good. This has brought my GPA to 5.250 which is slightly higher than the minimum I need to get into Honours (5.00). Doesn't mean I'll get in, but it does mean I have a better chance than I did last time. I can't really get accepted into the Master's Degree without having the Honours under my belt so I really hope I get in. Wish me luck?

[Alex C]

The weather here has been pretty consistent. It's just plain fuckin' cold. Every day or two, it snows, just to mix things up a bit.

[ViolentDove]

Good luck Jimmy, I'm sure you'll do well.

Hey Blog Thread. This is my last week of working in this job. Today everyone took me out for fancy lunch and showered me with presents! It was pretty awesome.

[Reed]

Dear diary,
I just realized that I had left my oven on for the last 27.5 hours.

I am an idiot.

[KickThatBathProf]

It is currently -20 degrees F.  Work was not fun.

[Inlander]

Dear diary,
I just realized that I had left my oven on for the last 27.5 hours.

I once left my oven on for 12 hours. However I was cooking something in it at the time.

[Fenriswolf]

Ah, deg F is so confusing! -20F = -30C, but -40F = -40C. WTH?

And yeah, that is COLD. Eugh.

[Gilead]

Holy fucking fuck I just got a letter of offer from the sydney film school, I've gotten in! I'm so fucking happy, this calls for a lot of booze.

[Eris]

I made banoffee muffins today! I took the basic muffin recipe from another forum I am on, added sliced banana, separated the batter into the thing then swirled caramel into them. They are not too banana-y and the caramel is so goddamn delicious. I have already eaten three of them instead of real food. Oops?

Other than that I think I am getting sickly; i have a scratchy feeling when I swallow, i think back where my nose and throat meet. I have been drinking an awful load of water to try and see if that will make me not get sick (it has worked on previous occasions), but the drinking doesn't actually help the scratchiness. Now I just have to pee a lot. Stupid hydration...


oh, and the next-door neighbours are cooking spinach, and now I really want a spinach, bacon and corn pie. It just hit me that I miss when Dad was ok and we would make them and I would help and then eat it for about 3 days straight because we would make two huge ones. Maybe I could make a small one some time.

[Liz]

Holy fucking fuck I just got a letter of offer from the sydney film school, I've gotten in! I'm so fucking happy, this calls for a lot of booze.

Whoooo congratulations! I expect to see great things from you, sir. Do not let me down.

[jhocking]

I have a phone interview in an hour. I hope it goes well!

[mooface]

good luck, joe!


i have been job searching but i have had no luck so far   everyone is looking for a "senior research analyst around 30 years old with 5+ years EXPERIENCE"

i don't have experience, i just have plenty of youthful enthusiasm and naive optimism.  doesn't that count for anything?!

[pwhodges]

I used to hate it when programmer job adverts demanded two years experience of software that hadn't actually been released yet.  It made it hard to respect those people as potential employers.

[jhocking]

In all fairness, they would be referring to experience in the field of software development, not on that specific project. I mean, they may have worded the job ad poorly, but that's what they surely meant.

[pwhodges]

No - they would say it explicitly.  Basically, personnell said they wanted two years experience; the managers said what tools the project was to use; and the recruitment consultants didn't know any different.  On the other hand it happened again and again and again, so perhaps it was sometimes a ploy to poach staff from the software developers...

[Slick]

Dear diary,
I just realized that I had left my oven on for the last 27.5 hours.

I once left my oven on for 12 hours. However I was cooking something in it at the time.

My oven's been on for the past day and a half, I have no plans on turning it off before I leave town in just under a week. It is on at about 330K.

[Reed]

Well I'm glad that mine was only on at 200. I think the worst thing is that my electricity bills have been really high the past couple months, and I'm pretty sure this will not help

[Slick]

Your oven can go down to 200? That's kind of impressive.

[Christophe]

Man I left the stove-top on for an entire day without realizing it. A gas stove-top. A day. I could've died.

Thankfully it was on low.

[Reed]

Your oven can go down to 200? That's kind of impressive.

It's just barely above the "low" setting

[jhocking]

Man I left the stove-top on for an entire day without realizing it.

I've destroyed multiple saucepans that way. I put on some water to boil, forget about it, come home to a puddle of molten steel on the stove.

multiple

[tania]

i did that once with a thermos that, in my sleep-deprived state, looked exactly like a kettle. i put it on the stove then somehow fell asleep while watching tv about 30 seconds later. when i woke up the air was filled with little flying bits of black plastic and the entire stove was on fire.

enough time has passed that i can now tell this as a funny story, but at the time it was terrifying and absolutely traumatic. i didn't go anywhere near the stove for months after.

[Christophe]

So I have an Intermediate Microeconomics exam in half an hour. I've studied some stuff, but I wish I could've studied more.

Oh well.

Wish me luck, Blag Thrad.

[RedLion]

Re: stove disasters

- When I was 14, I threw a pizza in the oven when I had a friend over, and we went downstairs to play video games and forgot about the pizza posthaste. About 2 hours later the smoke alarm upstairs we off. We came up and the entire upper floor was full of smoke. When I finally got around to taking the pizza out, it was just this bubbling pile of black ooze. Delicious!

[Ozymandias]

That is the most horrible thing I have ever read now.

[RedLion]

what the hell sam.

[Alex C]

I have also ruined a frozen pizza. The first time I ever bought one of those pricier frozen pizzas (DiGiorno or Freschetta, I forget which) I neglected to notice there was a card board disc under it. That isn't as unreasonable as it first sounds: the circumference of the pizza actually far exceeded that of the cardboard, plus they were stuck together. That's why it was particularly bittersweet when the pizza came out looking delicious but smelled of the burnt cardboard it was bonded to. Everything seemed perfect, but it wasn't.

[Dazed]

I set my friend's microwave on fire once when I was a kid, making popcorn. Apparently his microwave was a fucking ton stronger than mine, and I didn't realize, and thus there was much burnination.


Also, first semester at new college done. Whoooooooooo.