good luck wishes
Anyone else quit smoking and immediately gain weight?
Fuck yes! I got my learner's permit today! After years of putting it off! I'm so excited. I was convinced I was gonna fail and do horrible and was freaking out all morning, but I totally did it!
I feel an extra dash of irony whenever I hear people complain about women drivers since my fiancee is the best parker I know.
That reminds me, I really really hope the Chicago Water Authority has its act together and isn't going to cut off my water in the middle of next week. They posted a notice on our door that the landlord needs to pay the water bill, but our landlord is pretty on the ball and I suspect this may be a case of the payment-collecting people not communicating effectively with the water-cutting-off people.
I don't mean to be mean or anything, but Jacob, don't you have problems trying to fit keys in your pockets because your pants are too tight?No, actually, I never said that. I did say that I didn't want to put my keys in my back pockets though. Completely different thing.
I think it says "Thy art is murder"? Which google also thinks is a band.Yes, that's the right band name.
Regardless, what is the point of all this?
Today, I had a conversation with this exquisite example of a human being.
That said, why did you even post this?
I mean, you're the guy who brags about stealing the janitor's keys so you can hang out at your high school whenever you want...
A blog (a blend of the term "web log") is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
However, if they are using a contrast of some sort that will probably make you feel icky. Barium in particular sucks but that's mainly trying to gag it down. If they're doing an IV then depending on what they use it can be unpleasant.
I learned today that oil based paint does not come off of your skin without turpentine. Cool. But at least the drama room floor is black again.
Buffalo does not have sights. Buffalo was the saddest fucking town I've ever been to.
i did not die in surgery. this has pros and cons i guess
Today was my day off blog thread.
Aaargh, speaking of housing problems, my housemate, the one who insisted we get this big house with the basement studio even though it was well out of our budget, has decided that he might be moving out, three months into our one year lease. So annoying.
I'm in Edinburgh!
Got a job working for Target, oh holy fuck YES I HAVE A FUCKING JOB ioejrgjA(YNRE&*O VJG
Liz/Patrick, do you get a discount at Target for working there? Jon is thinking of taking on a second job due to our litigation fees in my custody case, and we're hoping to get something that he can not care about, but also get a perk from. We're frequent Target shoppers, so it'd be cool to try there first.
Got a job working for Target, oh holy fuck YES I HAVE A FUCKING JOB ioejrgjA(YNRE&*O VJG
I am the lady people ignore!
[...] I am the lady people ignore!I have seen pictures of you on here and I've read some of your posts and I find this statement hard to believe.
I am the lady people ignore!
Hardly. You just tend to hang around nerdy guys, so they are all silently pining but never work up the nerve to make a move.
Hahah I was like, man Nick, way to be a dick.
I hope you don't mind if I stay with you for like 2 days in December! Basically I am going to anyway! Yaaaaay!
Oh yeah speaking of people staying places, guys I have a sofa bed in the front room of my house now so basically none of you have any excuse any more not come to Melbourne.
No excuse.
Holy shit a new walmart just opened up and it is so huge.Two levels filled with so much stuff! It also has a cart escalator which is awesome.
I love capitalism.
lovey dovey
One of them brought another of their friends along, and this girl spent the entire night doing everything possible to try and sleep with me. I tried to counter this by being as nude as I could possibly muster, which I'll say is pretty fucking nude.
It's not the newspaper that ruined your social life, it's the fact that you knowingly posed like an idiot in front of a newspaper photographer. No sympathy from me, dogg.
Holy shit a new walmart just opened up and it is so huge.Two levels filled with so much stuff! It also has a cart escalator which is awesome.
I love capitalism.
Two floors.
Cart escalator.
Fucking hell.
I imagine he's delving a little deeper than the idea of "I'm objectively right". Like it seems pretty easy on the surface but if you try to read the first couple of pages of Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes (http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Relativism-Ideas-Small-Books/dp/0312427190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282409348&sr=8-1#reader_0312427190) you quickly gather just how gosh dang complicated it can be.
they euthanize kittens within two days.
so he took it to the pound only to find out they euthanize kittens within two days. TWO DAYS!
So easy to get rid of? Maybe with some types of dogs, but certainly not cats. Most humane societies in America are over run with stray cats and kittens. Its extremely rare to find a humane society that doesn't put cats down. I thought somewhere around a week was normal. Its not really insane at all, considering the humane society she is speaking of probably already has more cats and kittens than it can afford to feed, house, and provide medical care for. Unfortunate? Yes. Insane? No.
his name is wembley (http://www.google.com/search?q=wembley+fraggle&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)!
that is like fourth grade maths! Surely not? if that is the case though I'm sorry, my mind has run on a single track pretty much all summer :[
I imagine he's delving a little deeper than the idea of "I'm objectively right". Like it seems pretty easy on the surface but if you try to read the first couple of pages of Moral Relativism by Steven Lukes (http://www.amazon.com/Moral-Relativism-Ideas-Small-Books/dp/0312427190/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282409348&sr=8-1#reader_0312427190) you quickly gather just how gosh dang complicated it can be.
it seemed like he meant "absolute values" in the mathematical sense, as in the distance away from zero, which is generally considered to be a pretty simple subject (the absolute value of negative 4 is 4, for example). but I dunno.
It's pretty simple, and I understand everything. The problem is figuring out how I can write the equations down, since there's no examples and no teachers. Which isn't much of a problem with easier problems, but for the harder ones you need to know how to write this stuff to figure out the solution. I can see that |x - 1| + |x + 1| = 2 gives that x equals (-1, 1), but I don't know how to get that down on paper.
Also what Spluff said. I think they said that we were going to use absolute values to learn about limits, but I'm not sure. Does that make any sense?
It's pretty simple, and I understand everything. The problem is figuring out how I can write the equations down, since there's no examples and no teachers. Which isn't much of a problem with easier problems, but for the harder ones you need to know how to write this stuff to figure out the solution. I can see that |x - 1| + |x + 1| = 2 gives that x equals (-1, 1), but I don't know how to get that down on paper.
Also what Spluff said. I think they said that we were going to use absolute values to learn about limits, but I'm not sure. Does that make any sense?
To get that down on paper you have to remember how to find the absolute value in the first place, which is √(x²) = |x|. Then you can just substitute it in, rearrange it, and then solve.
So you'd take
|x+1| + |x-1| = 2
√(x+1)² + √(x-1)² = 2
(x² + 2x + 1) + (x² - 2x + 1) = 4
x² = 1
x = ±1
√(x+1)² + √(x-1)² = 2
(x² + 2x + 1) + (x² - 2x + 1) = 4
My cousin just shot my uncle.
I'm not sure what my reaction is supposed to be but I'm very very very sad that a nice old man is dead because my cousin, who is generally a lovely person isn't taking her fucking meds.
I RESCUED A KITTEN!!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/BrittanyMarie/wembles3.jpg)
Hey guys. Thanks for your thoughts and stuff (that sounds lame but I'm not really prepared for how to deal with this).
(http://twincat)
Jens, someone cloned you but switched chromosomes. Do not bone her, you'll just be boning yourself.
you're talking about cats, dude. cats can be hard to get rid of! Kittens aren't. That's why I'm amazed at the time given.
Cop showed, $85. Now I'm listening to Body Count.
Okay so there is this insanely pretty girl that lives in my dorm (I moved out). We got to talking and I asked her what kind of music she likes, and she smiled and looked down into the table and said "well, I, um, I like punk rock." "Oh really? I do too! What kind?"
"I'm really fond of early '80s Washington DC hardcore, I know it's kind of specific so you might not have heard of it"
I liked them?
Also does Zing have concussion?
They are pretty normal bedsheets, but if a lebanese boy tried to seduce a girl by welcoming her into his bedroom with like his Glee poster hanging over his bed covered in bold purple circles then I don't know if he would be successful.
At the point where a chick sees your bedsheets, it's probably already a done deal.
Good ol' cognitive dissonance dictates that a lot of people can very easily ignore minor details rather than admit they're about to bang someone with terrible taste.
Cankles?
I guess "college" isn't actually an entirely appropriate word - this place is like a middle stage between high school and uni, but it's a lot more like high school than uni in that the teachers follow you very closely, attendance is taken for every single class, and the rules here are actually incredibly strict about drinking.
Maybe it's just us, Han.
Yeah so Uni sucked. I'm glad other people enjoy it.
Jamie, I definitely think you could leave Uni if that's how you feel. You've got a job that pays well and might lead you to other things, why bother putting yourself through torment when you can already prove to yourself and employers that you can do your job well?
I don't NEED to go... right?
What the heck people are still in high school? I'm used to being the baby here :[
In other news, lately I've been making the worst thing ever. I put toffee bits in a cup, and then put in some ovaltine, and add milk... and then I eat it with a spoon. WHY AM I DOING THIS
Last year of High School here I come.
You guys are the worst with your college horror stories.
So I have Jury Duty scheduled for next week. It will probably be the day after I start working at my new job. I have already served once and while that ended up being an okay experience I'd rather not do it again. Would being the only full-time employee where I work be enough to excuse me from duty? Otherwise I'm gonna try arriving to court about 5 minutes before I'm supposed to report, so hopefully I end up on the outermost number of jurors whom they'd probably outright excuse for the day.
That's perfectly acceptable and also done on regular occasion for those who see it as a hassle. I mean, they have to come up with a slightly better excuse than that, but in general it doesn't have to be much. I took it as an excuse to take a day off work and possibly do a bit of civil duty.
I found out last night that it is hard to make out with adult swim as background noise.
I got it from Paul Robertson's LJ (http://probertson.livejournal.com/33796.html). I saw someone on here with the Scott playing his guitar one, and then got an article from kotaku about them on my rss feeds.checking them out now and they look fantastic. The guitar one is sweet :mrgreen: Think I might pick up the running one though.
Also Harry, the DoppleHannah is in Ottowa! She is too far away to do my shitty job!
I hope I get some sort of happy ending.
My girl and my kid (ha!) will come home today.
happy endingBuffalo
I just saw an Hannah/Eris doppleganger just then, and since I've been in Ottawa I have also seen not one but two JohnnyC dopplegangers. One guy didn't look like him so much but he was wearing flannel and carrying a guitar and had the same haircut, but the other guy who is a Mexican dude who works at the hostel we are staying at, is an absolute spitting image, really quite freaky.
Is his head shaped like a football? Doesn't look like it from the photo, but you never know.
fuck fuck fuck the insurance company says i did $3700 in damage to the car and it's totaled.
I found out last night that it is hard to make out with adult swim as background noise.
Making out with the wrong girls.
Is his head shaped like a football? Doesn't look like it from the photo, but you never know.
i did buy a grinder james! also some coffee to grind in my new grinder! i went to salt spring coffee which apparently makes the best (according to various opinions) organic and fairly traded coffee in vancouver and the very friendly dude (everyone here is so nice and it's so weird) at the shop recommended me this blend (http://shop.saltspringcoffee.com/Peru-Natural-Process). i haven't tried it yet but it smells amazing. this was definitely The Best Decision.
basically what i am saying is you should definitely visit me
Hey blogthread,
So I just moved to Halifax. My parents just left. It has just dawned on me that I have no friends here (yet?). I do have my sister, but she's much older than me so we can't really get drunk together. This is just my freakout on the internet. I hoped you've enjoyed.
kat
New computer decision time!
Do I want:
- Windows laptop (cheap, ugly as hell, I'm just going to put OSX beautifying/functionality packs on it anyway)
- 13 inch Macbook Pro (small, mobile, can plug into existing widescreen monitor)
- 21 inch iMac (big lovely screen + good ergonomics)
MACMACMACMACMACMACMACMAC
Fuck yesss Fringe FestivalAre you out in Philly, perchance? I have friends who are composing / performing at the PA Fringe festival.
Hey blogthread,
So I just moved to Halifax. My parents just left. It has just dawned on me that I have no friends here (yet?). I do have my sister, but she's much older than me so we can't really get drunk together. This is just my freakout on the internet. I hoped you've enjoyed.
kat
I LIVE HERE
SERIOUS I WILL HANG OUT WITH YOU
FOR SERIOUS
When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.
When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.
When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.
When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.
What? This is not true.
Ohai new page, backing me up.
My computer's like 11 years old, I just keep switching shit out and upgrading it.
it's... more fun to build your own from parts.
When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it.
When parts break in Macs you Applecare it.
RE: Macs
Mostly I hate macs because of the people I have known who own Macs. Its a laptop, call it a laptop, you don't need to call it your macbook, its just a laptop.
HOW DOES IT KNOW. How does it fucking know.
Its a laptop, call it a laptop, you don't need to call it your macbook, its just a laptop.=
Its a facial tissue, call it a tissue, you don't need to call it your Kleenex, its just a tissue.?
Oh also hey, Jimmy and Harry.
I took this photo during my lunch break today.I feel stupendously jealous of your lunch time environment. I'd like a lunch like that!
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I could have been eating a shit sandwich and it still would have been an amazing lunchtime.
[EDIT] Also I saw baby emus on the way in, and there were stupid amounts of kangaroos/wallabys where I was,
Oh also hey, Jimmy and Harry.
*cough*
oh also I believe (I may be wrong) that weekend relativly new poster Graphite (aka Hannah) will be taking the stage at Monash Uni Student Theatre in a show called marat/sade I'm sure she'd love you to come along
RE: Macs
Mostly I hate macs because of the people I have known who own Macs. Its a laptop, call it a laptop, you don't need to call it your macbook, its just a laptop.
First off, what in the FUCK is the point of a "recommended photo" what am i supposed to do with that
Yeah that is what I am thinking. I have an iPhone for portability, and I'm so used to having my computer in one space because of the wireless problem and lack of battery.
I'm really keen on the new iMacs with their fancy mice and minimal keyboard. And it'll look super cool in my room.
...show called marat/sade...
My wife's used a fake FaceBook account for a while, 'cos she doesn't really use it 'for real', just as a login to see things that require one. She created one in her real name yesterday, and is rather taken aback by the number of friend requests she's got straight away.
One of these is from my ex-wife - now we're wondering what's the protocol in this case...
Its a laptop, call it a laptop, you don't need to call it your macbook, its just a laptop.=Its a facial tissue, call it a tissue, you don't need to call it your Kleenex, its just a tissue.?
- Hard drive makes a whirring chugging sound constantly
- DVD drive doesn't work on occasion
When parts break in PCs you can take out the broken part and replace it. When parts break in Macs you buy a new Mac.
my girlfriend
I think they're pretty and I don't care?I don't want to sound rude but from previous conversations and allusions you have made on this forum and in Meebo, I don't think you are a person with big money to throw around (though obviously you work very hard and you have a great job). You live in a really expensive city and I seem to recall that you still have debt from your move.
Thus, when somebody says to you that you can buy a product virtually identical to another product which costs considerably more for no readily apparent reason, I feel like it's reasonably justified of them to point out that someone who isn't stupid rich might want to give it some thought. The design is aesthetically okay but I see nice looking Windows laptops all the time now. I'm typing on one right now and it literally cost a third of the price of a bog standard Macbook Pro.
my girlfriend
girlfriend
the Dad Talk with me
and yet I'm not really happy? all my friends are pressuring me to go to therapy... I'm feeling immobilizing-ly self conscious
on the bright side tomorrow is thursday which means for the next 3 nights I will be inebriated and therefore alright
Patrick they are boxes of things that people want to buy. You can be fairly adult about it.
Is this really a thing outside the world of sitcoms?
Boobs are weird, how do you girls deal with these things on your chest all the fucking time
Boobs are weird, how do you girls deal with these things on your chest all the fucking time
Interesting, earlier today I was thinking "Man, penises are so damn annoying sometimes."
starting right now i will probably have something close to a 60-70 hour work week and things are probably going to get immensely stupidly busy from now until forever so i doubt i will be on here very much from now on but i just wanted to share that. sorry, i know it is probably getting pretty obnoxious, i just honestly can't get over what an incredible and beneficial change this has been for my life. it's like a dream come true. i think maybe everything is going to be okay from now on. carry on regular activities etcBye!
I dunno, I kind of liked her better before.
I love MIT. If I don't get something during my lectures at the university in Bergen, I can just check out the same lecture at MIT, online, for free. Learning^2Yes, this is awesome. It has helped me through several classes, especially linear algebra (the MIT professor who holds that course is awesome) and algorithms (held by one of the dudes who wrote the textbook), and I loved Yale's intro to psychology as well (I've taken/am taking a couple of psych classes for easy credit). I sucked at algorithms, but I'm retaking it this year and understanding more. I'll definitely rewatch the MIT course as well. Not that our lecturer is bad, he's been awarded the Teaching Award at school and has written a Python book for Apress and is writing another one, but he doesn't go into details in classes like Leiserson does.
My mother bought me a unicorn.
I'm surprised yours got infected. When I had mine out they loaded me up with huge amounts of antibiotics, anti-inflammatories and painkillers. The sole purpose of all of that was to fight off any infections.
I hope the doctor you're seeing is able to help and can prescribe something to clear it up. When I had mine out, I had to suffer through the pain, because I'm chemically intolerant to painkillers, so it was a whole different kind of pain to what you're dealing with.
birthday picture blog thingy you did for me and Tania
i know intrinsically that salespeople are evil. almost as evil as estate agents.
$563 in repairs later and sixteen miles out of town the car broke down again.
Update: The shop said the car was fixed, so we took it and headed out. Sixteen miles out of town it died again,
What ELSE can go wrong.
What ELSE can go wrong.
as well as spicy foods and things with lots of spices.
I've never been to a doctor about it, rather self-diagnosing over the years and not doing a very good job of keeping an eye on what I eat. As a result, what I do eat makes me ill pretty much every single day. I'm so used to it, I just ignore the fact that I've been sick as soon as the pain goes away.
So! Today I've started a food diary to make note of things that make me sick (I tried this last year but only managed two weeks) and hopefully I'm going to go to a doctor who can give me a fancy new breath test to determine what intolerances I actually do have. Since I know that tomatoes and tea, two of my favourite things in the whole world, do actually trigger my symptoms, I'm going to do my best to cut down.
I was having a shitty night the night before last, and a stranger saw me walk out of a 7/11 with a 4Loko in my hand, said I looked like I was having a terrible night, offered to smoke me out, smoked me out, talked me out of the idea of killing myself, and drove me home.
The kindness of a complete stranger saved my life. I seriously had a huge stash of codeine cough medication that I was going to mix with that 4Loko in my stomach. I threw it all out in a dumpster 5 miles from my apartment. It'll suck if I get sick now because I'll have none of my cough drops, but whatever. I just can't believe that shit happened.
Yeah man, definitely this - especially if you feel like you're not in control of yourself. Does the place you live have one of those free helplines you can call? They might be able to help you out and direct you to resources where you can get counselling for cheap.I was having a shitty night the night before last, and a stranger saw me walk out of a 7/11 with a 4Loko in my hand, said I looked like I was having a terrible night, offered to smoke me out, smoked me out, talked me out of the idea of killing myself, and drove me home.
The kindness of a complete stranger saved my life. I seriously had a huge stash of codeine cough medication that I was going to mix with that 4Loko in my stomach. I threw it all out in a dumpster 5 miles from my apartment. It'll suck if I get sick now because I'll have none of my cough drops, but whatever. I just can't believe that shit happened.
You should probably do something drastic about your situation. Strangers isn't going to be around every night stuff is shitty. I'm not sure why, but you seem like a nice, talented guy, and it's not a good thing when one in every three of your posts lately are about offing yourself. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but something is a pretty good start.
As long as something isn't stronger dope than what you are taking, since having something you can OD on close at hand when depressed is a really fucking bad idea.
Quote from: other peoplestuffYeah man, definitely this - especially if you feel like you're not in control of yourself. Does the place you live have one of those free helplines you can call? They might be able to help you out and direct you to resources where you can get counselling for cheap.
a girl at my university committed suicide by lighting herself on fire sunday night, they found her yesterday barely alive and she died in the afternoon.
So my grandfather died Sunday. It's not like it wasn't expected, the doctors gave him two months to live well over a year ago. Almost a month ago they said he wouldn't last two more days. Despite the fact that I am enormously glad he's not suffering anymore, I am sure going to miss him. He was the coolest guy ever. He rode a jet ski every weekend the weather would allow well into his eightees. In fact, he retired from his third career at age 82 or 83 when the doctors told him he wasn't allowed to stand ten hours a day anymore.
He taught me to waterski when I was all of five years old.
He once built rubber band guns for every kid in the entire neighborhood.
He was silly in a way that every time I would watch the Cosby Show as a kid, Dr. Huxtable's antics would make me think of him.
He drank and smoked like he was Don Draper from Mad Men, but didn't have the slightest bit of jerk anywhere in him. The one time he ever got mad at me, it was because I sank a boat. I totally deserved it.
He had a huge collection of Playboy's, that me and my cousin used to swipe.
You couldn't go anywhere in town without running into someone who knew him. Nowhere.
Anyway, I get to pack up my family and fly this weekend so I can bury my grandfather, and it is about the last thing in the world I want to do.
I agree with Dovey. Also, are you going to seek professional help? It's a cliche question, but may be a good idea.
Seriously though, I want to know why someone would choose to commit suicide with fire (though I'm probably better off not knowing). That's a really horrible, painful way to die.
a girl at my university committed suicide by lighting herself on fire sunday nightThe mother of one of my brother's friends did that when I was a kid. I think her daughter was like 12 at the time? Pretty fucked up way to go.
my good friend told me that she was beautiful and brilliant and we agreed that it is baffling that people have a hard time seeing themselves the way that other people see them.
Seriously though, I want to know why someone would choose to commit suicide with fire (though I'm probably better off not knowing). That's a really horrible, painful way to die.
Seriously though, I want to know why someone would choose to commit suicide with fire (though I'm probably better off not knowing). That's a really horrible, painful way to die.I assumed it was a way to force people to pay attention to your death and to talk about you. Compared to dieing alone in your bedroom, setting yourself on fire in public forces people to acknowledge you and your death. Two years ago a guy at my university set himself on fire in the cemetery on Halloween. That is a suicide that cannot be quietly dealt with. I think some of the feelings that can lead to suicidal ideation are those of being overwhelmed, helpless and ignored. A public self-immoliation can seem like a solution to some of those things. That is why it works for political protests as well. It is hard for anyone in the community to ignore someone who is willing to endure that death.
This barely made the news:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2006/11/07/malachi-ritschers-apparent-suicide/
Note "indicate that he was deeply troubled by the war in Iraq and pinpoint it as a motive for suicide"
And that's probably why it barely made the news.
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME
This barely made the news:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2006/11/07/malachi-ritschers-apparent-suicide/
Note "indicate that he was deeply troubled by the war in Iraq and pinpoint it as a motive for suicide"
And that's probably why it barely made the news.
I mentioned this to Ally also. This chap was on Electrical Audio before he died.
>copy/pasted post ragging on Obama's healthcare plan, saying there is nothing wrong with healthcare, the problem is poor people
>My four paragraph rebuttal to the statement
>Friend who posted it's reply:Quoteomg i dont even wanna read this jace.
lol
The coffeeshop owner's husband said to me, "Well, he has a right to his opinion. His opinion's worth as much as yours - or as worthless." He wasn't being insulting, but I've been thinking on that a lot over the last few hours. Like, I literally cannot grasp how the opinion that I should be dead for being who I am is equal to the opinion of I should be proud of who I am, but at the same time I cannot claim that how I feel is somehow more or less important than how another does.Oh, if you ever have to have this conversation again, many people have had great success with, "His opinion backs up lots of pain and suffering for lots of people, and mine does the opposite, so in a basic 'who makes life horrid and painful for people in a direct way' assessment, my opinion is qualitatively less awful." But I've never lived in your town, so I am unsure.
Zingoleb, why don't you kill literally everyone you know? I can't help but think you'd be doing the world a massive service.
Just planting seeds here.
Zingoleb, why don't you kill literally everyone you know? I can't help but think you'd be doing the world a massive service.
Just planting seeds here.
Patrick, condolences, that really sucks. One thing you might see is if he left any notes or scratch recordings of those songs and see if you can record something of them anyway. Even if they don't match his vision, I'm sure his family would appreciate having something like that.
i have been neglecting the forum lately and i'm sorry
Adulthood can go take a long walk off a short pier.
Your mother may also ask you whether you're pregnant.
Adulthood can go take a long walk off a short pier.
Children: we can bake them to order.Your mother may also ask you whether you're pregnant.I think that this is the first thing that mother's assume when their sexually active daughters get a stomach bug and have been throwing up all morning. My mother did the same thing when I was sick the other week and I just looked at her and went "How is that even a question? Anti-nausea tablets please so I can go back to bed!". My sister then took it upon herself to inform me that if I was pregnant, she'd like a niece, please.
Adulthood can go take a long walk off a short pier.
I bought an iPod! with 160 GB!
Holy fuck what am I gonna do with all that extra space.
Is watching porn a thing you do on the bus?
Dungeon Crawl!Hey, I just started playing that again a couple of days ago! My Draconian Paladin is pretty great, he basically steamrolled the first five levels without any trouble. He's facing some trouble at level ten right now, but he's a fun character. I almost always play Demonspawn (I <3 demon mutations) though.
keeps strangers from trying to sit next to or talk to you
Is watching porn a thing you do on the bus?
Thus far most of the videos on my iPod are Rammstein clips so uh...yes?
I think we might have found someone to help put out our first single. Gotta talk to the band but it's a rad dude, so it'll be fine. Now to organize getting in the studio, and making this single!
Blog thread, I went to a ridiculously fun punk show last night. It got me wondering exactly how many calories one burns whilst moshing.
It'll ideally be a split with the band that is helping us put it out. But yeah, it's gonna be a 7"
I do hope they find someone though; they might have some difficulty since as far as I know, all the decent stage managers will be busy as my assistants that week. Mwahaha.It's always... healthy for directors to be reminded that SMs are a finite resource. Maybe they can train up some new kids.
also, how awesome is the word 'frigorific'?
Oh man I got called in on both my days off.
Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
"cuckoo bananas"
"cuckoo bananas"
i say this every single day.
It tickles me especially that all that Butt Cleaner requires an aisle of it's own
Japan stuff
Hey, hey, if you're gay (/lez/Bi/Trans) and you made it out of primary / high school, make a ding dang video for the kids (http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject).
(Don't do it if you're straight though, for serious, because that's irritating for everyone)
What if everyone at school thought you were a lesbian and openly bullied you for it when really you weren't? Even when you went through a series of lousy boyfriends to try and prove it?Honestly, and I say this as a cynic, you're pretty enough that you could probably get away with it.
Fuck youuuuuuuuWhat if everyone at school thought you were a lesbian and openly bullied you for it when really you weren't? Even when you went through a series of lousy boyfriends to try and prove it?Honestly, and I say this as a cynic, you're pretty enough that you could probably get away with it.
Hey, hey, if you're gay (/lez/Bi/Trans) and you made it out of primary / high school, make a ding dang video for the kids (http://www.youtube.com/user/itgetsbetterproject).
(Don't do it if you're straight though, for serious, because that's irritating for everyone)
What if everyone at school thought you were a lesbian and openly bullied you for it when really you weren't?
I'm a bad person, I guess.
Where did you get the ice cream?
It's still the first few weeks of Spring and it's 81F (27C). I love this country.
May, you should do what I do and fuck up your timetabling from day one so you can only do two subjects at once.
What fuck I do?
Huh, I get absolute control over what subjects I enrol in (with obvious exceptions like prerequisites) and the tutes I go to (I assumethey are like supervisions).May, you should do what I do and fuck up your timetabling from day one so you can only do two subjects at once.
I find it really odd that you guys organise your own timetabling. I have nothing to do with it - I guess in a way I could have, because I could have looked at last year's lecture timetable and made a guess at whether they'd be at the same time this year, but even then it wouldn't have moved the 9ams because the subjects in those slots are compulsory for my entire year.
I do get some wiggle room with the supervisions, because we set those when we arrive and pick the slots which are most convenient. Useful for me, since I'm stupid busy and cannot have a supervision after 4pm or it'll clash with something. ARGH.
update: ONE HOUR LATER
I am starting to hate my roommate. I actually needed to sleep before 2 because I have class at 8 but this random guy is in here watching youtube videos of crappy music, and he got here like an hour ago. WHO GOES TO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AT 1:30 AM ON A TUESDAY NIGHT. WHO INVITES PEOPLE TO THEIR ROOM AT 1:30 AM UNLESS THEY HAVE PLANS OF BANGING THEM. GOD DAMN IT. I'm so mad and it's so hot. These people need to leave. They don't even hold interesting conversations. They are instead just inane and vapid and they say "hella" in the most nauseating way possible. Holy shit. Soooo angryyyyy fuuuuuuuuck
i need to wake up in four hours
I am starting to hate my roommate. I actually needed to sleep before 2 because I have class at 8 but this random guy is in here watching youtube videos of crappy music, and he got here like an hour ago. WHO GOES TO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AT 1:30 AM ON A TUESDAY NIGHT. WHO INVITES PEOPLE TO THEIR ROOM AT 1:30 AM UNLESS THEY HAVE PLANS OF BANGING THEM. GOD DAMN IT. I'm so mad and it's so hot. These people need to leave. They don't even hold interesting conversations. They are instead just inane and vapid and they say "hella" in the most nauseating way possible. Holy shit. Soooo angryyyyy fuuuuuuuuck
I am starting to hate my roommate. I actually needed to sleep before 2 because I have class at 8 but this random guy is in here watching youtube videos of crappy music, and he got here like an hour ago. WHO GOES TO PEOPLE'S ROOMS AT 1:30 AM ON A TUESDAY NIGHT. WHO INVITES PEOPLE TO THEIR ROOM AT 1:30 AM UNLESS THEY HAVE PLANS OF BANGING THEM. GOD DAMN IT. I'm so mad and it's so hot. These people need to leave. They don't even hold interesting conversations. They are instead just inane and vapid and they say "hella" in the most nauseating way possible. Holy shit. Soooo angryyyyy fuuuuuuuuck
Details dude.
That sucks dude, I'm sorry. On the other hand, though, you get to be there for her in her last moments, rather than just waking up one day and finding her dead, which I think is worse.
but if I had to put down my cat? fuck I dunno if I could do it. I mean...I WOULD, if I had to...but it would be incredibly hard.
but if I had to put down my cat? fuck I dunno if I could do it. I mean...I WOULD, if I had to...but it would be incredibly hard.
If the alternative is seeing them die slowly and painfully while supposedly in your care, it gets to be easier (particularly when you have experience of delaying the decision on a previous occasion).
read this (http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austin/entries/2010/09/13/austin_most_sexually_active_ci.html) article and got bummed the fucc out
Also, Jimmy, everything about what people have said about the job is right. Except for the fact that they NDA everything. You have to sign one (at least I did) before the interview.
read this (http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/austin/entries/2010/09/13/austin_most_sexually_active_ci.html) article and got bummed the fucc out
Looking at that list, #33 ain't bad, for the East Coast anyway.
Trying to figure out what to do now. My father accuses me of being in a hurry to move, whereas I'm more like, y'know, planning what to fucking do? He's not accustomed to such actions.
So far I seem to have three options:
1) Move in with my mother. I won't have to pay rent, and she'll support me in other ways, and once I get a job I can start saving money. Downside: My mother, on any given day, may or may not be fucking psychotic.
2) Move down to Jamestown. There's an apartment for rent right by my closest friend and she says the place they're working at is hiring. Downside: It's going to be a bitch to move there, and I'll be paying my own way without any fall-back this time.
3) Wander the earth, righting wrongs and fighting evil-doers. Downside: I'm a lazy cunt.
Yeah well does it have more than CORN and TEA PARTIES?
I don't actually give a fuck about the town. It's someplace where I can be away from my family, have at least a few good friends in close proximity, and have a job. Apparently, rent will be $210 a month. The job is called "The Connection". Sounds like a gay bar to me.
Having said that, I hear rumours that Ian McKellan will be coming to a play here next week. Ian McKellan. As in, Ian McKellan. That's pretty cool.
careful dude, depending on how your state worded the law (vehicle vs motor vehicle in most cases), you could get a dui or dwi.
Having said that, I hear rumours that Ian McKellan will be coming to a play here next week. Ian McKellan. As in, Ian McKellan. That's pretty cool.When Ian McKellan did Waiting for Godot here in Adelaide he stepped outside for a bit during a dress rehearsal and people thought he was homeless and gave him money.
god, I hate that shit.
In Washington you can get a DUI on anything. bike, skateboard, scooter, pogostick, whatever. They don't give a damn.
dear blog thread: I think I've finally reached the level of maturity required to look back and think "man, why did I listen to all that Animal Collective?"
also I might be going drunk bicycling later, I have not yet processed how much of a bad idea this could be
I've just got back from an ice hockey scrimmage, which was intense for any practice but for first practice after six months off ice? Man. The boys play fast and hard and we just went on playing for two hours straight, more than I've ever played before.
Last year's captain's boyfriend, who was one of our coaches, is in the US Airforce stationed over here as a mechanic and he just got back from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. We were all sort of low-key anxious for him the whole time so it's great to have him back safely, in one entire piece and still skating as well as ever.
Hi!
I am Facebook friends with my boyfriend's mother (much to his chagrin).
Apparently my potentially new landlady is named "Severnne Castor".
I just tried to search for the old post where I complained about my girlfriend talking to my mom about me, and tommy declared that to be a reason to break-up.
This'd be a joke from when I used to mess with your paranoia that I was somehow going to steal your girlfriend.
In the space of a week, I've lost my apartment, my job, and my girlfriend.
Good fuckin' times.
Hannah! You can always give people you don't wanna see (like your mom and whoever) on a list and just make the sad bits the only ones they can't see, basically. I have two lists "Cussin" and "No cussin" and normally i have everything to all friends but if there's something where i am being especially political and don't want my conservative family members or the fuckin' 8 year old cousin commenting on/seeing, i set it to "only cussin'"I do this also! I don't think anyone notices it much.
(oh hey speaking of cox and johnson)
ps blog thread today my kitten got his first cat-boner. guess who's getting neutered this month!
It's low allergenic. It's only for a few weeks, then I can start introducing things to see if they trigger my symptoms. Still, looking at my diet plan makes me want to cry a little. It involves a lot of soy and nuts and grainy stuff. I hate soy and nuts and grainy stuff.
I can also drink! One standard drink. Vodka or gin only. With soda water or lemonade.
Blog Thread, I just went to the dietician.
She can't figure out what's wrong with me to make me so sick, so I'm going to be on a total strict 'This is exactly what you must eat for this meal' diet for the next two weeks. No dairy. No gluten. No preservatives. No refined sugars. No fruit.
NO BEER. NO PASTA. NO CHOCOLATE. NO DEEP-FRYING. NO CHEESE. NO ICECREAM. NO RED WINE.
Not sure how I am going to live.
On the other hand, if it makes me better I'm all for it.
job things
also, lunchy, what CAN you eat?
The chocolate here is pretty good, though. I don't usually like chocolate that much, but god damn.
Kinda like that.
She also just asked "what's a 'tonnes'", pronouncing it 'toe-nez'
face
palm
Fresh meat cooked with garlic, rice, rice crackers (plain), potato chips (plain), roast potato, iceberg lettuce, green beans, rye bread, soy yoghurt, soy cream cheese, soy custard, cashew nuts, tinned pears. That's it.
Also I am going to have to learn to roast meat. I have never done that by myself before. I guess it can't be hard.
This past weekend hosted possibly my favorite twelve hours of existence ever and it was just great, I already mentioned that. Being around cerebral and hilarious smart kids (and just great friends) is always something I crave. Unfortunately my roommate and her friends and I don't really connect on such a level. They are super friendly and all and I can get along with them when they're around, but I just can't fucking talk to them. They are kind of just dumbasses. Having to listen to them do English homework for the past two days was nearly brutal and forced me outside for like five cigarettes.You talk to me and I say "Hey you should go check out the campus radio station" but no, you don't listen to little ol me.
I hate to complain about this because it makes me feel like a superior asshole but right now I'm just in that weird position where I don't have any new real friends yet, though I know I'll find some eventually (provided i stop being so antisocial, and i'm not!). And I much prefer being the dumbest person in a group of people so I can just sit around and listen and learn and go "huh!" to myself.
and i started writing this because my roommate was like "i didn't know australia had a lot of droughts."
me: "uh. A really large part of it is just a giant desert."
"but there's all that water around it!"
and then they didn't know during which years world war two occurred
and then they didn't know during which years world war two occurred
Oh and eggs! I can have eggs.KINGLAND RULES. Their berry yoghurt is SO GOOD. Also, roasting is easy - chuck meat in over on 180C and leave it there for a while. Bam, roast.
I have got a brand of soy cream cheese (Kingland) that my dietician recommended that I will check out, but I'm gonna scope out the big health food store near my house and see what I can find. I love cream cheese so hopefully I can find something that's not awful.
Also I am going to have to learn to roast meat. I have never done that by myself before. I guess it can't be hard.
Score the meat, rub a mix of olive oil (can you have that), crushed garlic, and a bit of whatever flavouring you can eat (I like ground cumin and lemon rind), then cook it at 110 C for ten-eleven hours. Baste occasionally with whatever drips into the pan.Also I am going to have to learn to roast meat. I have never done that by myself before. I guess it can't be hard.Sear both sides in frying pan, then stick into oven at 300 degrees for .5 to 3 hours until meat thermometer says its done.
The only flavouring I can have is garlic! And maybe salt and pepper. And the only oil I can use is canola which is a shame because I just bought a nice bottle of extra virgin olive.
I sort of did a lite trial of my diet today (I still had a cup of tea, and I had sushi for lunch) and MAN am I bored already.
Yes Jimmy. Yes it will.
She said I can break the diet for a meal or two if I'm symptom free. Indian and friends is too good to pass up.
Score the meat, rub a mix of olive oil (can you have that), crushed garlic, and a bit of whatever flavouring you can eat (I like ground cumin and lemon rind), then cook it at 110 C for ten-eleven hours. Baste occasionally with whatever drips into the pan.Also I am going to have to learn to roast meat. I have never done that by myself before. I guess it can't be hard.Sear both sides in frying pan, then stick into oven at 300 degrees for .5 to 3 hours until meat thermometer says its done.
It's low allergenic. It's only for a few weeks, then I can start introducing things to see if they trigger my symptoms. Still, looking at my diet plan makes me want to cry a little. It involves a lot of soy and nuts and grainy stuff. I hate soy and nuts and grainy stuff.
Yes Jimmy. Yes it will.
She said I can break the diet for a meal or two if I'm symptom free. Indian and friends is too good to pass up.
I dunno, "breaking the diet" generally means small stuff like an occasional ice cream cone after dinner. A dinner of Indian food is basically a tactical nuclear strike on your stomach. I too have to avoid foods that aggravate my stomach, and while I can be less vigilant about most things, Indian food is a pretty ironclad "Sorry, I have to pass."
(I love Indian food so much but it hurts me so much.)
a) Guys, cooking directions depend very much on what exactly you're cooking.
Which brings up...
b) 10 hours? What the hell are you cooking?
Like, 5 hours makes sense for a roast ham or turkey or something, but roasting some pork chops just takes like 30 minutes.
and then they didn't know during which years world war two occurred
Doesn't the start date depend on who you ask? It started in 1939 for Europe, 1933(?) in Asia, 1941 for the U.S.
Dan what HOW?
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
This wasn't drunk cycling again was it? I thought we talked about that!
i applied for a really competitive master's program in vancouver where it's basically impossible to get in unless you have a research project you are incredibly passionate about and you really really desperately want to be there, and now i am pretty much only surrounded by incredible people who are all about 1000x times more interesting and brilliant and talented than i am. these people seriously impress the living shit out of me every single class with how sharp and knowledgeable they are and it's really amazing.
EDIT: sorry may i did that thing where i deleted and rewrote my post again so now it's out of order and doesn't make much sense.
this is a pretty late reply to anna's thing, but my university experience also left me really jaded and disappointed on account i met so many people who basically had no interest in being there whatsoever and enrolled in university only so they could get a degree which would them help them to get a job later in life. i guess everyone has the right to pursue education for whatever reason they feel is appropriate for them, but nonetheless it really upset me how few people i could seem to find who were actually as interested in the subjects they were studying as i was, especially when i knew so many intelligent people from high school who would have loved to go to university but just couldn't afford to for whatever reason. to me meeting so many utterly disinterested and unremarkable people at school just seemed to epitomize the whole sorry state post-secondary education seems to be in now in that it's no longer really about the desire to learn, it's about getting the degree and putting up with four years of crap you don't really care about in order to get it. since almost every job seems to require a degree of some kind now this probably won't change anytime soon.
Problem: I need to feed the dog but I have no spoons to get it out with.
Solution: Use a can opener on both sides, use sheet metal scissors to cut down the side of the can.
I might do it this way from now on, it would save space in the dishwasher.
Stoned people are worthless to both themselves and society. We might as well just abort any baby that will become a drug attic.
Problem: I need to feed the dog but I have no spoons to get it out with.
Solution: Use a can opener on both sides, use sheet metal scissors to cut down the side of the can.
I might do it this way from now on, it would save space in the dishwasher.
Have...have you considered using a can opener on both sides, taking one side off and then using the other side to shove the food out?
I keep finding myself wishing I was still/back in school
Andy, that's really sad :( Have you asked them why they didn't tell you? Perhaps they wanted to protect you (this is a noble but usually futile thing to do, I feel).
See my point of contention was more that people were disinterested and hostile to the notion of intellectual conversation. I've never been particularly academic either. I don't really care what your grades are like, that's up to you. I do however get bugged if I can't find any people who can either sustain a conversation not about popular culture or participate in social events beyond the obvious. For me it's not really an academic issue, it's more a social one. For some reason I expected to meet interesting and thoughtful people at University but it was even worse than being in High School.
QuoteStoned people are worthless to both themselves and society. We might as well just abort any baby that will become a drug attic.
Hehe, drug attic.
10 hours at a low heat. At that heat, the heat spreads through the meat much more evenly because the outside takes longer to cook, and barely any of the juice comes out of the meat. There is no need for gravy or anything like that, because it's retained all the juice and is lovely and moist and delicious. Plus there's something about the proteins and all that that I don't really understand, but it makes the meat more tender.a) Guys, cooking directions depend very much on what exactly you're cooking.Yep. The roasted chicken takes .5 hours, the beef roast takes about 3, and then the roasted pork loin takes about 2-3. 10 hrs = goulash in the crock pot.
Which brings up...
b) 10 hours? What the hell are you cooking?
Like, 5 hours makes sense for a roast ham or turkey or something, but roasting some pork chops just takes like 30 minutes.
internet forum full of dorks
Why is the GRE so bloody expensive. Stupid standardized tests. At least I got a convenient location, though, and I have about 2.5 months to study for it.
I was never bad at math, but man, it's math. I'm going to have to try to sign up for a class. Hopefully there's one on the weekends... Best of luck on your test! Let me know how scary it is.
some stuff
look maybe i am spoiled but all i am asking is for the phrase "BEAR UPDATE" to have absolutely no place in my life right now(http://rlv.zcache.com/daddy_bear_cop_poster-p228075045236103516tdar_210.jpg)
1. check facebook to make sure no friends died
some stuff
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you guys this chick is old school
Hey Blog Thread,
After squandering* my first two years of university on the student paper, newfound socialising and confusion about the concept of learning before eventually having to leave due to financial f#ckery from the Student Loan Company, I ended up in the Real World, which is still as bad as everyone says it is.
Some years later, after realising that working in an office and DJing do not fulfil one's creative egotistical tendencies, I've got onto a reasonably prestigious writing course which is pretty much everything I ever wanted to get from a learning environment first time around. It's expensive and my other jobs (which are funding this) don't leave me a lot of time for other things (such as sleeping) but - it feels awesome to finally be doing something I want to be doing. It's like...achievement.
* see earlier debate
LINDS YOU WILL DIE TOO
Remember that sea creatures thread? This is like Tommy and the Sea Creatures: The Sequel
If it makes you feel better I have to get a TB test tomorrow. I get to have a shot that gives me an itchy red bump and then go back and they'll tell me if I'm sick or not.
I just got an email offering me £60 to do it
If it makes you feel better I have to get a TB test tomorrow. I get to have a shot that gives me an itchy red bump and then go back and they'll tell me if I'm sick or not.
When I was at school, all schoolchildren were required to have the BCG test (I remember them lining up for it). Except in the unlikely event that, like me, they had already had TB.
That's because it was seriously painful. It burned and everything it was horrible, my arm was dead for about two days. And the woman giving me the jab told me to grow up and not be such a baby because I had lots of ear piercings. Bitch.
1. check facebook to make sure no friends died
The future, boys and girls.
tb test horror stories
1. check facebook to make sure no friends died
The future, boys and girls.
hey man, everyone was posting that they were alright and all that -- it is the fastest way to get information like that out to as many people as possible in one go. now there's already a facebook page where people are organizing things like people providing basic needs and temporary housing for pets. i've got two homeless kitties here right now even! champ and ellie.
It is the future!
It is the future!
With Jetpacks?
Somebody stole my debit card details and spent all my money. :(
The Australian dollar is once again almost at parity with the US dollar. I just went to Modcloth for the start of a spending spree but then realised that I have no idea what my measurements are. Usually when I buy clothes off the internet I just buy them and hope they fit, but the last two things I have bought were far too small so I need to fix this.
How do I get my measurements without having someone help me?
seats at a gorillaz concert?
....why?
Downside is, he's stoned all the time.
University of Michigan
ARRGH I CANNOT DO THIS PLAY, MY JOBS, AND MY WORK. PICK TWO. PICK TWO (BUT I CAN'T!).
Anyone know where I can find a 1940s cigarette lighter for no moneys at all?!
Jimmy what the hell. Happy birthday!
(I don't get facebook access at work, so this is me saying happy birthday to you)
fuck those guys, I am jealous of you being at a gorillaz concert, actually sounds like one of the best times (you didn't even describe it and yeah...)
FUCK YOU GUYS THE GORILLAZ ARE AWESOME AND I WOULD SEE A FAKE BAND PERFORM THEIR SHIZZLE.
And a lunar rover.
(so why am I on the internet?)
i was suposed to be at #wpncup tonight but i fucked up so i got drunk at a punk show instead
is #wpncup a tag? if its not thats embarassing
and also its embaqrassing theat i fucked up and im not there
and also it's embarassing that im this drunk on account of i drove home
and also its embarassing that i went to sobeys and bought chili cheese flavoured ruffles because sign said "you like chili, you like cheese"
thats a whole bunch of embarassing things
including the fact that i keep spelling embarrassing wrong
so ok we're doing this i guess
here's everything i can remember from my life so far that is embarassing
when i was like six we had a hole in the wall in the uh shoe place where you take your shoes off, i think it's a foyer but i could be wrong
it's called a landing
wehad a hole in thewall where the cast could go through to go downstairs, via a big ramp that we had carpet on
we called this the "cat hole"
i was about three years old and decided i wanted to see what it was like, so i put my head in
i got stuck because i had a big dumb head
evventualy my parents had to call someone to get me out, i think
i was stuck there for about an hour
that's one down
i think there are pictures of me bathing with other dudes, from sleepovers when we were kids. just sitting in a bath, as bros
in the sixth grade i was in pokemon club. i was the only dude in pokemon club who wanted to play the card cames
in the eighth grade i was elected president of the src. we tried to plan a school dance for the eighth graders' grad
there was a fight with the vice pincipla and we approved a dj and stuff without her for like super cheap. she found out and got really mad
she called me into her office and reamed me out. then i told her "well if you'd been there this wouldn't have happened."
it turns out adult professionals have meetings and stuff and jobs and lives and cant clean up after idiotu children all day
also in the eighth grade i asked a girl out while we were cleaning uop the classroom pre-dance
she said "i dont think so" and i told her, inexplicably, "well if you change your mind the door is always open"
someone overheard that and "the door is always open" became a class inside joke
noew that i think about it a cute girl asked me to dance qt the barn dance in grade six and i told her to "go stick [her] head in a toilet"
which she went and tried to do, on account of being distraught
all my friends were subsequently really mad at me
im pretty sure ive made girls cry by accident on... six occasions, precisely
in the eighth grade i was in a church play and i had a crush on one of the girls in it
so i came up with an elaborate scheme to ask her out, which involved phoning everyone involved and congratulation g them on a job well done
and then i phoned her and she said "i'll get back to you"
re: the asking out, not the job well done, which compliment she accepted
in the seventh grade i tried to ask a girl to dance at the school dance but she was in the middle of a circle of peole doing a conga line
these conga kids were all sixth graders and fifth graders who got invited cause they were in a split class
on my way to asking this girl out, i tripped over the conga line and ruined the whole dance
ater my friends made fun of me for having a crush on a girl with big breasts (that was teh dancing girls' defining characteristic)
she said she would dance with me and then in the next slow dance she was dancing with another dude
n retrospect that door is still open, although i dont want jessica to walk through (iirc shes a big-time Conservative now)
lets see there's gotta be more
oh yeah on the last day of the seventh grade i got wedgied in my swim trunks so hard that the dude wedgieing me lifted me up
he held me there for a coule of minutes and i just shrugged sheepishly
i wrote review of a hentai-based bullet hell shooter for my personal blog once
i also posted that gay kissing was cool "if they [didn't] do it in front of me"
i cant remember embarassing stuff from high school butg i fy u give me a minute i will get back to you
i can remember some embarassing post high school stuff though
i pissed on a streetcar once
well i say "on" but what i mean is "in" and also "while riding"
and ten when we got off the streetcar i gave the driver a shit-eating grin and he just laughted
he had no idea i had soaked his streetcar in musky piss
one time i tried to get a friends giflright drunk and kiss her. this was the lowest thing ever. she refused and im pretty glad
especially because later i would kiss my ex full on the lips at new years
because i thought aybe that would be the thing that would get us back togehter. in my defense i was really drunk
so drunk that i passed out to a toiled and when @sjbrot tried to help me i told him "no i can stand give me my dignity"
then i told him "that's a word spelled d-i-g-n-i-t-y." if i spelled dignity that proved i was totally dignified
i think i might have told him and @rhiannontimes on the way home "we shoudl all have intercourse, but not together and not right now"
my logic was "wer'e good people, we deserve sex intercourse"
i was REALLY drunk
i was wearing a three-piece suit at the time also
im trying to move chronologically but it's really hard
the next one happened after the last one i think
i went to a friends grad party for high school when i was 19, iit was out of town
her folks graciously let me crash in their guest bedroom downstairs. i slept like a baby
baby with a boner, adn this is where problems come in
because in my sleep i started strokin' and i was like 3/4 of the way to a totally trashy sleep climax
and then i heard a noise and woke up just enough to see my friends' mom's head pop into the room, mid-stroke
and then the head darted back out really quickly, like she'd seen something that was just the most terrifying thing
turns out she was trying to let me know braeakfast was ready. i found this out by getting furtively dressed and going upstairs
all eye contact was agonizing
these are all the embarrassing things i can think of right now
just think: if the door was closed i woudlnt have tweeted this much because i would understand the sensations of human contact
instead, i bought sid meier's pirates! twice
Johnny i love you
adgkadklfgjal;dsgjaklds lk FUCK FUCK FUCK centipede in my BATHROOM just DIVE-BOMBED me while I was sitting on the TOILET and now I'm freaked out
my photo professor makes me feel like an incompetent idiot and I can't tell whether I've just convinced myself that I want to do photo or I actually want to. I feel like I'm spending all this time and energy on absolutely nothing at all. I'm around all of these talented, driven people who are just making things happen and I just sort of exist and mess things up. I'm at this extraordinarily expensive college doing nothing at all except waiting for the weekend, at which point I can get wasted.
Blog thread, I'm not sure I can teach little kids. I don't know what to do with them*
Art school - it sucks and makes you feel stupid. And then one day it doesn't anymore. The end!
Someone who "drives a nice car like a BMW or a Mercedes".
I don't know, I am pretty sure if I had asked Kat's parents for her hand they would have approved, but I do not understand that tradition still carrying on.
guys i just spent two hours on a platform in the middle of a train bridge waiting for a train to pass by. this involved walking on a train bridge over a river. easily the scariest shit i have ever done.
Art school - it sucks and makes you feel stupid. And then one day it doesn't anymore. The end!
If you can't handle being demeaned and criticized for your art you probably shouldn't do it for a living.
I guess what I don't understand, is do you expect her to do the same? That is, do you expect that she would ask your family if it is ok?I would love to hear if anyone has done this.
guys i just spent two hours on a platform in the middle of a train bridge waiting for a train to pass by. this involved walking on a train bridge over a river. easily the scariest shit i have ever done.A lot of people die that way!
I immediately pictured the baking going on in the ceramics kiln. Which is probably both impractical and unhygienic, but would nonetheless be awesome.
i just got a $20 bill denied at a gas station because it made their fancy little pen change colors which, apparently, means it's counterfeit.
(Psyduck was my favorite Pokemon as a kid. Why? Because I suffered from frequent headaches and believed I was psychic. I'll say that again: I identified deeply with a psychic cartoon platypus.)
PSYYYYYYDUUUUCK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGeI_ZyFgdw) :psyduck:
And when are you coming to the best coast?
And when are you coming to the best coast?
Never if you don't stop calling it that immediately
Good luck Hannah! I hope you win! (What's the shop, my memory isn't good enough to remember what's two doors down from your work)
Here's the link. One post down, another soonish I guess and then surgery on Wednesday. w00t.
http://brainsurgeryblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/3-days-out.html
yay, washington! which school?
Elizzybeth- come to Massachussets! We have relatively sane laws regarding gay people and marijuana.
Too much art? :psyduck:
Yes, I wanted to use psyduck, but if there is too much art, then maybe I need to move. Especially if it's craft art.
psst Linds if you want to come hang out and check out all the art, that's totally cool. I actually have plans maybe brewing for an end-of-the-year WMasscon brewing.
"Say, does the name Pavlov ring a bell?":psyduck:
Too much art? :psyduck:
Yes, I wanted to use psyduck, but if there is too much art, then maybe I need to move. Especially if it's craft art.
On Main Street in my town alone, there are 10 separate art galleries. Combine that with the numerous ones on side streets, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the two artist mills, the next town over having two separate museums (Williams College Museum of Art and Clark Art Institute), and the surrounding communities...
it's an overload of art. Especially for an area, which at the end of next month will have zero record stores. :cry:\
psst Linds if you want to come hang out and check out all the art, that's totally cool. I actually have plans maybe brewing for an end-of-the-year WMasscon brewing.
"Say, does the name Pavlov ring a bell?":psyduck:
sorry shane, I dont have any of these on hand at the moment and didnt want you to have to wait forever for me get get one to you. heres a refund, ill send you one eventually for free. rock on, dev
As a student at Williams College, I can vouch for the fact that there is seriously a metric fuckton of art within a 10 square mile radius of North Adams/Williamstown. And a lot of drinking. And truth be told, that is about it.
Looks like I'm spending Christmas in Norway.
I've been thinking that I will enjoy whatever it is I decide to do as I get more involved with it - so far, it's certainly been that way
and now I'm afraid of going into my kitchen to make myself food
wrote to the main builders in the UK looking for a job (couldn't be offered one because of apprenticeship rules)
as far as skin picking goes I'd suggest finding something else to fidget with
I stopped biting my nails by buying a Rubik's cube to keep my hands occupied
Just saw Paranormal Activity 2 in celebration of one year of knowing my girlfriend! I met her when a mutual friend of ours took us to see the first Paranormal Activity exactly one year ago. I am truly the biggest baby though, I was shivering and gripping my lady's hand like a vise throughout the entire thing, and now I'm afraid of going into my kitchen to make myself food or my basement to retrieve my homework that's due tomorrow.
and now I'm afraid of going into my kitchen to make myself food
but spending the night alone (with a dog, though)
wrote to the main builders in the UK looking for a job (couldn't be offered one because of apprenticeship rules)
I'm intrigued by this, can you explain more?
Such labour-intensive techniques require an unusual quality of craftsman. Typically, a Harrison man will join the firm at sixteen on a four-year apprenticeship - the firm is one of the few left in the country operating a traditional apprenticeship scheme. Harrisons' workshop has a family atmosphere and the presence of brothers, and sons, of previous organbuilders reinforces this. The overwhelming majority of the organ builders are recruited from the Durham area; most stay with H&H throughout their working lives. The ingenuity and tenacity of its workforce have been an inseparable part of the firm's success.
Just pray that it doesn't end up like that bug in the Sims where you could get rid of the flies but still hear them buzzing FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFEI cannot sleep now. Thank you, I wasn't planning on doing anything tomorrow anyway.
but spending the night alone (with a dog, though)
oh man, I promise you if you see Paranormal Activity 2 the fact that you have a dog with you will just make the entire experience worse
stick a bowl in the kitchen that is a mixture of dish detergent, water, and apple cider vinegar. The vinegar attracts them and then they get stuck and die.
I'm generally interested in female authors, particularly female authors who were born in 1920.
Weird. I just came to reply and started my reply with "What's that in response to?" but you must have edited in the second between me reading your post and hitting reply because it's down there in the little summary box.
"In assumpsit, the declaration stated that the plaintiff had brought an action against the defendant in the Exchequer, to recover certain moneys, that the defendant had pleaded various pleas, on which issues in fact had been joined, which were about to be tried, and that, in consideration that the plaintiff would forbear proceeding in that action until a certain day, the plaintiff promised on that day to pay the amount, but that he made default, &c."
Thanks man.
Jesus christ my grandfather has gotten really weak. It takes 3 people to help him up the stairs now.
It made an old man on a bus smile.
I'll get your walker for you.It made an old man on a bus smile.
GEEZUS
I am only 31
everybody stop saying I'm old
rumours
Are u really this dumb? As to put your information in a phone @ tmobil along with phone #s and all. I was surprised u had cloths on. Your not the sharpest tack in the box HUH??
the next day got an email from the hacker congratulating us on finding and fixing it so fast.
sent an angry text about it accidentally to said roommate
i started running in august and now i run about 10-11 k every day.
It's okay Dovey, because you're awesome
Yay new job!
Me too!I also have a new job
o/
There is nothing worse than group assignments at university. I think the staff at mine have realised this though, if we do anything in a group its working on a problem question in class with the people you happen to be sitting next to.
Holy crap Linds are you actually me circa 1999?
It's like working at McDonald's, except I'm actually overqualified to do this job.
going to Norway for Christmas yay!WOOOO
PAT,
Just wait until you deal with a professional set of musicians. Seriously. The first time a guy asked me "What do you need me to do with my tone?" I almost creamed myself. Of course, it also ramps up the stress level considerably, as you suddenly realize that the entirety of the mix is your responsibility now. Anything that sounds poorly is your fault entirely.
EDIT:
Check (https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B31StUnXRrYANjdjMGIzZTYtMTgwMi00ZmMyLTk2OGMtZTBhYTE3ZmVkN2Rm&hl=en&authkey=CJW0htgN)
This Shit (https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B31StUnXRrYAMDU2ZGFkZGItNjgyOC00MjBmLWEyNTEtZjU3YTQ0MzMxMWQy&hl=en&authkey=CPDgwdcG)
MY SENIOR MUSIC RECITAL IS IN TWO DAYS
I am going to a surprise party for one of our friends from work who just got back from 6 months in Afghanistan! Woo!
And you're doing the responsible thing and are having it checked out?
So I gave up ice hockey.
hands
Apparently, in Final Fantasy 2, there's a foppish-looking bard named Edward who mopes around. This amuses me to no end.
it is a hot dog wrapped in bacon, deep fried, and served on a bun with grilled onions, chili sauce, and cream cheese
bacon
deep fried
cream cheese
THE OTHER STUFF
fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
College sucks. I want to cook things and drive places and eat lots and lots of food
American friends! If any of you are into comics can you do me a favour and try and find me a copy of X-Force Volume 4: Necrosha? Amazon have been fucking me around for about 8 months and I can't find anywhere else that has it or any reason it might be out of stock. If anyone is able to find it I will give you money if you buy it and send it to me.
it is a hot dog wrapped in bacon, deep fried, and served on a bun with grilled onions, chili sauce, and cream cheese
it is THE MOST DELICIOUS THING.
American friends! If any of you are into comics can you do me a favour and try and find me a copy of X-Force Volume 4: Necrosha? Amazon have been fucking me around for about 8 months and I can't find anywhere else that has it or any reason it might be out of stock. If anyone is able to find it I will give you money if you buy it and send it to me.
Dogg there's a place that sells comics downtown, I can call them after they open and I'll check for you.
X-Force Volume 4: Necrosha
Okay so, I used to like Mersault before, but after yesterday night I absolutely love them. What an amazing gig! The singer's voice was just so powerful it completely blew my mind, he started singing in the middle of the crowd without a mic, and you could hear him perfectly clear over all the usual 'between opening band and main band' noise. They ended the gig doing an encore in the middle of the crowd as well with just a ukulele, right next to where I was standing. Everyone was singing along and it was just the most amazing vibe ever.
Now I just need to find a second-hand bookshop in the CBD (probably impossible) and everything in my life will be perfect.
I would stab her, too. I mean, that's the spirit of derby! There must be stabbings for breakings!
they would love this guy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGkkyKZVzug)
I hate to say this Jodie dear but it probably will be months? The collarbone is a notoriously poor healer
one technique we used to use was to ask, with absolutely no pressure whatsoever, if we could draft up an agreement where the client agreed that they wouldn't kill themselves that night and that they would agree to come in again the next day to talk some more instead - no trying to control their lives, no telling them what's best for them, no threats, just listening and support followed by a simple contract that we could both agree on.
that was the first time I've been legitimately and extremely sick without my mom there to take care of me. It was horrible.
what should I get for his 2yo baby boy?
I also don't think our house has a Christmas tree. We had one last year but then we moved and got rid of a lot of stuff. I don't want to buy a new one because they are expensive but I need somewhere to put my presents!
What do you guys do for Christmas decoratings?
I think I am legitimately going to and cut down my own Christmas tree this year
I also believe in honest customer service and actually helping people find the shit they need,This is why, even at Mcdonalds, when I hate the way the place runs, and hate the manager and the people I am working with, I still do my best to give people excellent service and save them money whenever I see the opportunity to.
In related news to Mcdonalds, we have free coffee all day now. This is fucking stupid because we are supposed to upsell the free coffee I guess? I don't really understand how that is a good business move so I don't do it.
Guys am I the only one who REALLY REALLY HATES being recognized for the stupid "accomplishments" some big employers make up?
I don't want to be recognized for having a customer apply for a Target credit card, it is not something I believe in. It's literally a waste of time, money, and plastic, as far as the customer is concerned. Interest on that shit is way high.
so whenever wikipedia has the banner at the top of pages that are like Appeal From Jimmy Wales, i just take the background image URL and post them on my friend's facebook wall
hrm maybe it's just the beard (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs305.snc4/40582_419079833726_515358726_4828701_2362945_n.jpg)so whenever wikipedia has the banner at the top of pages that are like Appeal From Jimmy Wales, i just take the background image URL and post them on my friend's facebook wall
He looks a lot like my uncle.
Guys am I the only one who REALLY REALLY HATES being recognized for the stupid "accomplishments" some big employers make up?
I am really jealous of this. I work at a retail chain, and nothing I do is ever recognized. (snip) ...but if I want to continue going to school I need to make money and if I want to make enough money I have to get hours. If I perform well, I get more hours.
That is what pisses me off. I work hard! Yes, I want some positive reinforcement. The only thing that sucks more than being good at a job you hate is being totally ignored by the management at the job you hate. I am not disposable.
I found out today that someone I know reads QC and I think they might read the forums, it is kind of silly and funny because now I feel like people in real life can judge me on my internet life.
(http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0wsuvziHd1qzxzwwo1_500.jpg)
It doesn't bother me that Rory was on the forums and then moved to my town, thereby maybe (shock! horror!) seeing me in the street,
cause all you need to do is use them responsibly and you'll be fine.
I have students who read QC. I hope they don't read the forums, but really
... it bothers me that someone I've met in real life and know vaguely might read my online posts...
Yeah we ran into each other in the elevator of my dorm and I was all "okayyyyy I know you from somewhere what the hell" and we both went "QC FORUMS" and then we probably became Facebook friends? Then we hung out and now we are friends and shit.
Hooray!
Yeah we ran into each other in the elevator of my dorm and I was all "okayyyyy I know you from somewhere what the hell" and we both went "QC FORUMS" and then we probably became Facebook friends? Then we hung out and now we are friends and shit.
Hooray!
No this is the acceptable way to allow real life and forum life to cross over! It is where someone like in your lectures or whatever joins the forums and then goes "oh look you're that girl from lectures" that it is weird!
Julia saw me in a Burger King once but didn't say anything because I think we were both with Boyfriends.
GUYS i recorded in the bathroom a couple nights ago! it sounded amazing. i'm glad i have a neat ol recording sanctuary, even though there is no lock on the door. i will just put a note on the door. natural reverb. i'm just playing my favorite song of mine, badly, but my god, 2:05, listen to that second if nothing else
http://www.box.net/shared/eqrr6lotj0
Yeah holy crap Anna, holy crap.
My girlfriend's cousin's baby was born in really bad health, she's already had to have heart surgery, and her whole left side is underdeveloped. She's basically been in intensive care and earlier today she had a stroke. They've decided to pull the plug and let her go. I don't really know how to approach this situation.Parents shouldn't have to bury their baby.
Anna can you make a CD of everything you ever do ever and can I buy it and give you some money to keep hearing you?
My right ear has been blocked for a couple weeks now. I need to get it unplugged. I have tried this solvent stuff that you put in and then wash out, but the wax seems to be impervious. Has anyone tried ear candling, or will I have to go to the doctor and get them to flush it out with their big syringe?
earcandles
I am cross faded enough to just randomly post this
Hey! It's 75+ here today!
Hey! It's 75+ here today!
Lunchy don't coddle them, they've got to learn to use a proper system of measurement some time.
Apparently it's been 40ºC in Perth the past couple of weeks hahahaha
I can only go to band practice once a fortnight :(
I don't drive and no one I know does, I love snow.
I don't drive and no one I know does, I love snow.I walked everywhere for years, now I have a car. I would rather drive in the snow than walk in it. If it is just an inch or two I guess it doesn't matter, but once it starts to pile up walking is a pain. People don't shovel, and even though we have sidewalk plows they don't do a great job, and only come out for big storms. This means for 5 months of the year the sidewalk is uneven and slippery. If it warms up at all then your feet get wet trudging through the slush, if it freezes after a warm up it is slick ice. Most people give up and walk in the street. This is dangerous though because the roads are narrower in the winter and if the driving conditions are bad you have a real risk of being hit. Also drivers who have never been walkers will honk at you and give you the finger because they don't understand that the sidewalks are unusable. They will also do this is areas of the suburbs where there are no sidewalks, like they expect you to wade through knee deep snow to get where you are going.
My right ear has been blocked for a couple weeks now. I need to get it unplugged. I have tried this solvent stuff that you put in and then wash out, but the wax seems to be impervious. Has anyone tried ear candling, or will I have to go to the doctor and get them to flush it out with their big syringe?
Just go to the doctor and get the big syringe treatment. I get this sorta stuff fairly regularly and it's not worth the trouble of trying all the weakshit options.
Fuck yes Jimmy!I can only go to band practice once a fortnight :(
It's lucky you're the singer then and not something important :mrgreen:
Yesterday my bunny tried to jump into a fire place. I'm starting to wonder if she actually likes me.
Blog thread,
It is cold.
(http://bilder.tykjpelk.net/skitch/weather-20101124-204317.jpg)
I will not schedule my Christmas shopping on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
No, but... mumble grumble I wanna live in Aussieland.
None of those things are not terrifying.:mrgreen:
I can't see myself ever feeling like it was really Christmas if it was super sunny and summery. If I'd grown up with it, then probably yeah, but not now.
I kind of need it to be snow on Christmas Eve, but haven't gotten that wish fulfilled lots of times the past few years. We did get proper snow last year, and this year is looking good so far :D
Still not as cold as Northern European winters!
But yeah, considering how my skin reacts to the sun I'm probably better off not living in Australia, I'd get a third degree burn just by walking out the door, even with 60 spf sun cream all over!
I got a moon burn once.
hacking and computer security conference.
Why were you shopping for sandwich ingredients at five in the morning? What kind of shop is open at five in the morning? Oh, America.
Heh, I can dig that. I've worked in IT enough times to appreciate both sides of the argument. I think hacking kinda applies to any boffin activity, hence coffee hacking, body hacking etc.hacking and computer security conference.
It makes me a bit of a propellerhead but I hate the use of the term "hacking" for breaking computer security. That's not how most programmers use the term.
Just got back from eating at my grandparents house, an event that always leaves me with mixed feelings. My grandmother always tries to feed me, but well, she is 80+ and isn't a good cook any more. Even if she was they're not exactly loaded. End result is I stick around for a few hours and enjoy myself but end up leaving feeling like the back of my stomach is trying to gnaw through the front of my stomach. There's exactly enough food to make me wish I had eaten more. Taking them out to eat isn't really an option either, since I don't think my grandfather would let me pick up the check even if I held them at gunpoint.This is a problem that comes up a lot when students host dinner parties, and one thing that seems to help is having everyone invited come with a dish they've prepared.
The gears are hell, the brakes are stuck half-on, and it's impossible to get up a hill (although that may also be my unfit legs talking).
This is a problem that comes up a lot when students host dinner parties, and one thing that seems to help is having everyone invited come with a dish they've prepared.
Well no, since I mentioned it actually has gears and brakes. I can't imagine how I'd fare on a fixie. I'd probably last about one minute before I either crashed due to the lack of hand brakes, or got off because I couldn't pedal it up the slightest incline.
Well no, since I mentioned it actually has gears and brakes.
Lunchy, is your entire life red and orange?
don't want to go back to school tomorrow. next three weeks are going to be hell, but then time for new classes, thank god. I just wanna eat and sing and fuck around forever.
ETA: hmm it has been performed five times in the last three years, bother. However! The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie has only ever been performed once in recorded memory so perhaps I will get on that instead.
It was my birthday yesterday, so we went to a microbrewery and I drank all the stout. So much stout. For dessert I had a stout float, which is ice cream and whipped cream with coffee stout poured over the top. With a cherry! It was fucking fantastic. I'm sure it sounds pretty horrific to some people but it was really tasty, basically just tasted like cappuccino ice cream. That gets you tipsy. And I watched a bunch of hockey.
This is the place (http://www.thegrizzlypaw.com/), FYI. Also, pretty much every component of every meal they make involves beer somehow. I had a bison burger that was marinated in beer with beer-caramelised onions and beer gravy on my (regrettably not beer-battered) fries.
Australia has snow and bunnies also.
Hot Doug's is definitely on the agenda, and I've heard talk of Kuma's but yeah, haven't been to either yet.
Today, blog thread, was "Play a prank on Jens and make him wear a skirt" at school.
Last night I was typing up a shitty moping post for this thread about how much being in love unreciprocated sucks,
Shane there were some girls dressed as guys but it was kind of hard to tell.
Shane there were some girls dressed as guys but it was kind of hard to tell.
I would imagine it is because girls are shaped like girls and will always look like girls.
Shane there were some girls dressed as guys but it was kind of hard to tell.
I would imagine it is because girls are shaped like girls and will always look like girls.
My girlfriend's sociopathic ex is returning home from the army in three weeks. The last time he found out about one of her boyfriends, he removed the lugnuts from the new boyfriend's car. He texted her 50 times last night, mostly threatening to ruin our lives. I'm probably gonna talk to the city DA about getting a restraining order, but I honestly don't think it's gonna do anything.
What the FUCK am i gonna do?
before you ask me why i do these things to myself - do you know how hard it is to live one block away from ikea and have absolutely no spare funds available to ever be able to shop there?! it SUCKS.
Get a bear with a gun and crossbow that protects you and your gf behind a moat of boiling pitch.
my buddies just bagged a pretty big buck down the street from our house the other day
I'm looking forward to the obscene amount of jerky coming our way
storage and accessories
tania,
when it's time to party we will party hard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WccfbPQNMbg)
I am single. Fuck, I liked her. Time to go soak my pillow.
Haven't you been married less than a year?
What is it with mothers and grandbabies. Patience, people.
Planning a wedding
In what way does this Italian guy resemble me? I don't recall hiring any Italian guys.
My life doesn't rock, strictly speaking, but it's okay sometimes.
Malinka = little raspberry in Polish
The Shedd Aquarium, Planetarium, and Field Museum are all free tomorrow.
:psyduck:
My mom asked for a grandchild for Christmas. How do I go about telling her I need more than 3 weeks notice for requests like this?
I can get you a baby in 3 weeks
Awww, miss you guys too! <3 So.... when are you fixing this?
Guess who has two and a half housemates who work in a chippy?
Me!
Guess who gets free fish and chips two or three times a week?
Me again!
Conclusion: fuck yeah, free fish and chips.
What if I want a baby buffalo from Poland?
Haven't you been married less than a year?
What is it with mothers and grandbabies. Patience, people.
it occurs to me that I'm going to be twenty
I have never even had a serious boyfriend.
a spray to deter her from going into certain rooms.
a Music Production major at my school has agreed to do my band's mixes for free and he booked us a gig next Saturday. Thank God my bass player knows him or it'd be 5 liberal arts majors staring at a mixing board wondering what do we do now?
WAIT did she really just translate 'lol' into 'lots of laughs' WHAT THE HELL
leprosy? ohlordohlordohlordohlord
/
:psyduck:
This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgX2_mqXQxY) is currently prominently displayed on the front page of my uni's website.
This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgX2_mqXQxY) is currently prominently displayed on the front page of my uni's website. Inspiring, isn't it? I guess I should be glad it isn't this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t27Qa7469cs) instead. But maybe not, cause I'm not sure which is worse. I can't believe that no one at any time during the making and distribution of those said "Nope. We're not gonna do this."
For a second, I thought that one girl at the beginning was Jodie.
my boyfriend's cat was under the covers.
b) cheese for the vegetarians that is actually vegetarian cheese.
b) cheese for the vegetarians that is actually vegetarian cheese.
cheese is not meat
The problem occurs once the rennet is added. Traditionally, rennet has been sourced from the stomach juices of animals - usually calves. More recently, a microbial alternative (suitable for vegetarians) has been more commonly used in cheese making, but this is by no means across the board.
b) cheese for the vegetarians that is actually vegetarian cheese.
cheese is not meat
:psyduck:
I think this sloth thing is really going to take off guys.
I think this sloth thing is really going to take off guys.
I know , right? I'm pretty proud of the amount of people from different social circles on my friends list are picking up on it.
You know, I haven't realized this until now, but all but one of my friends have been huge dicks about helping me handle my breakup. I listen to all of their shit whenever shit's bad for them, but as soon as it's my turn everybody's just like "God damn it man just sack up and get over it" and you know what that shit just doesn't fucking help. I sat patiently and listened to them pour their hearts out but I never have anybody to do that with.Maybe it is the way you are doing it? Maybe you sound more needy or whiny when you do it? Maybe you are more self-involved? Maybe you do it too much?
And for being 'friends' she isn't exactly there for me either. Even though she promised she'd always be there if I needed anything. I've been needing things, and I haven't been shy in asking for help and support, and I haven't gotten a lick of it.Patrick that is a thing people say. When relationships fall apart people are reluctant to just abandon all emotional connection because that would seem to invalidate all the time spent together. Right after a breakup, leaning on an ex is not healthy.
Sloths are the raddest animals.http://thestar.blogs.com/photodesk/2010/08/the-daily-beast-august-29-2010.html (http://thestar.blogs.com/photodesk/2010/08/the-daily-beast-august-29-2010.html)
You should just apply for the other one, and if you don't get it, let the other people know you can't do it anymore. Like, it might seem rude but as far as initial career experience, this shit is vital. There's enough people in the job market that the other people would be able to find someone.
Reading about illnesses on the internet will convince you that you are going to die immediately.
Reading about illnesses on the internet will convince you that you are going to die immediately.
a lot of good words
I think this sloth thing is really going to take off guys.
I can't really break a contract, though. They probably require about a month's notice if I'm going to quit, and according to the law, it is never really specified if that only counts after the actual employment date (when I start working) or just when the contract is signed. Obviously, they'll probably not want me to start if I'm only going to be there for a month, but it's a pretty huge consulting firm and breaking the contract will probably remove the company from my list of possible employers once I'm done with school. That would be bad.
Since it's just a summer job and getting relevant summer jobs is really difficult, I'm leaning towards taking the offered job. Because I'll really be screwed if I end up with no job, and there's far from any guarantee that I'll get the other one, even though I really, really want it and it would be awesome. The one I'm already offered isn't a bad job at all and it's relevant and will probably be interesting, just probably not something I'm really passionate about. If it was a steady job post-graduation, on the other hand, then I would probably go for the awesome one. But I'm not completely sure yet, I'll discuss it with my parents and I don't even know yet when they want the signed contract. But… It will suck to have to turn down the interview invitation, if that is what I end up doing. It's not like it precludes me from working in that field once I'm done, at all, I'll just be turning down the chance to maybe have a nice point on my resume that will sort of "validate" that interest. But turning down that chance means saying yes to a guaranteed point on my resume within a huge consulting firm and probably learning lots and lots. Not about what I really love, but still something I'm interested in :/ Ugh. Decisions.
I can't really break a contract, though. They probably require about a month's notice if I'm going to quit, and according to the law, it is never really specified if that only counts after the actual employment date (when I start working) or just when the contract is signed. Obviously, they'll probably not want me to start if I'm only going to be there for a month, but it's a pretty huge consulting firm and breaking the contract will probably remove the company from my list of possible employers once I'm done with school. That would be bad.
Since it's just a summer job and getting relevant summer jobs is really difficult, I'm leaning towards taking the offered job. Because I'll really be screwed if I end up with no job, and there's far from any guarantee that I'll get the other one, even though I really, really want it and it would be awesome. The one I'm already offered isn't a bad job at all and it's relevant and will probably be interesting, just probably not something I'm really passionate about. If it was a steady job post-graduation, on the other hand, then I would probably go for the awesome one. But I'm not completely sure yet, I'll discuss it with my parents and I don't even know yet when they want the signed contract. But… It will suck to have to turn down the interview invitation, if that is what I end up doing. It's not like it precludes me from working in that field once I'm done, at all, I'll just be turning down the chance to maybe have a nice point on my resume that will sort of "validate" that interest. But turning down that chance means saying yes to a guaranteed point on my resume within a huge consulting firm and probably learning lots and lots. Not about what I really love, but still something I'm interested in :/ Ugh. Decisions.
If you can, you should put off signing the contract as long as you can. At your interview, at the end when they ask if there's anything else you'd like to say or any questions you have, just be straight with them. Say you've already been offered another position but you think theirs is a better fit for you and so you hope they'll make their decision quickly. There's nothing wrong with presenting yourself as a hot commodity. Then, if you don't hear back in time you can still sign the other contract with the knowledge that you did your best to get the job you would have preferred and it didn't work out.
when i woke up to roll over, my boyfriend's cat was under the covers. clearly, to my mind, that means that i must have smothered her in my sleep. she is fine and cuddling me right now but i can't go back to sleep! oh panic disorder, please go awayOh god, I have a recurring anxiety dream where I accidentally let the cats out of the house and can't find them, and varying other depressing things involving kitty neglect.
Today on the bus a talkative stranger guessed my age at 38.
When I told him I was actually 25, he squinted and said I had a 'Mature look about me.'
He also decided that my 21 year old roommate was my daughter.
Flattery!
Day two of my new job was pretty shit! I am no longer panicky though. The hours for this job are stupid and definitely just inside the limit of the law (i work 50 hours one week, 30 hours the next week but get paid for 40 hours for both weeks). We don't get overtime and apparently a former employee is taking the company to court over non-payment of wages. Basically, this is not a company I want to work for.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a modern, first world country
Scotland
Completely fucking crippled by a thin layer of snow and a temperature that dropped beneath 0 degrees.
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It seems ridiculous that all these problems are so much less serious than they are in other, generally colder countries, but we can't deal with them because it wouldn't be worth spending money on the solutions when it's so rarely an issue. Well, it seems to me that it's getting more commonly an issue so why not spend some money? Just a little bit of money on machines that de-ice train tracks, and more grit for the roads? No?
We weren't completely crippled
I didn't get to watch soccer this weekend because the lovely people of Blackpool CAN'T UNTHAW GRASS.
grit doesn't help below -8?
I mean, it's like -25 here at the moment and grit seems to work pretty well.
I didn't get to watch soccer this weekend because the lovely people of Blackpool CAN'T UNTHAW GRASS.
Most other games went ahead though.
Blackpool most likely weren't overly keen on a fixture with Manchester United when they have so many injuries. Might as well take advantage of the snow break.
grit doesn't help below -8?
Completely fucking crippled by a thin layer of snow and a temperature that dropped beneath 0 degrees.
</middleclassproblems>
You really need to lay off the Daily Mail there.
We weren't completely crippled, we were briefly inconvenienced and then life continued largely as normal. As for thin layer of snow/0 degrees, I'm not sure how you do things up in Bonnie Scotland but when I was walking off my driveway here in Sheffield on Wednesday, the snow was over my knees. I think at that point you have to stop calling it thin. The temperature didn't just drop below 0, it dropped below -8, that magic number at which grit and salt don't do anything.
Also, I wasn't making any comment on the Daily Mail?
Grit is not used as a method of snow removal, they use snow ploughs for that. Grit is used to prevent ice on the roads, which is what has been causing most of the problems in Scotland. One of the major motorways (anyone know the number offhand?) has been completely closed for a few days now because they cannot get rid of the ice. If it had been properly gritted to start with, that wouldn't be an issue.
I have been without internet and the library are cocks who block things like Questionable Content and any pages with the word "transsexual" on it. Bastards. Anyways.Threaten to sue them for bigotry because they are preventing you from accessing your intergender support website.
I may even have to sell my stuff off and buy a bus ticket to California and sleep on Patrick's couch for a few weeks. (Just kidding dude)
Yeah hey wait a minute I have dibs on said couch.
How's your shoulder doing?
Dear students,
By now you have probably noticed that you have been given an LE grade for the courses which I convene or co-convene. What LE stands for is "Late Entry". The reason you have been given this grade is because I am participating in the NTEU results ban. Whether or not you are interested in the issues which underlie these bans is your business, but you should at least be given an explanation of why I am involved and why I'm not submitting your results to the UNSW administration.
I am a relatively easy-going character, and not usually the guy you see jumping up and down at protests and on picket lines. Despite this, I am participating in the ban in protest against the University's refusal to negotiate a fair and equitable Collective Agreement on par with the overwhelming majority of Australian and other G8 universities.
Even though I am participating in the ban I have been attending work and performing all my other duties as required. In response, the University has withdrawn my entire salary along with the salaries of my colleagues participating in the action. As you can imagine, this is an extremely stressful and distressing time for me and my family, particularly in the lead-up to Christmas.
UNSW management, under the direction of the Vice Chancellor, is determined to wage a campaign of intimidation against its employees to impose its political will. Many if not all of my colleagues who are on fixed-term contracts (some of which have hefty mortgages and young children), dare not participate in
the results ban for fear that their contracts will not be renewed. This suits the Vice Chancellor down to the ground. In his view of the ideal collective bargaining landscape, many more academics would be on fixed-term contracts without any tenure or security.
Such a stranglehold over intellectual and industrial freedom and opinion in an institution which is firmly rooted in these principles, is dangerous. It's time we put a stop to the use of university staff as political pawns and reclaimed universities for higher education and achievement.
I am truly sorry that this industrial action has inconvenienced you. I am not sorry for the major inconvenience it has created for the UNSW administration as there is no other way in which we can be effectively heard. We need to send a very clear message that the academics, who are the life blood of this university, will not continue to be strong-armed and bullied into whatever the administration dictates.
I have checked the student records and the vast majority of you are in stage 1 (i.e. 1st year) so your results for ANAT1551 and ANAT1521 are not critical at this point. For the Exercise Physiology students you will need your marks before enrolling in ANAT3131 next year. Keep in mind that semester 1 does not start until February 28 and you have until at least week 2 to enrol. Priti Pandey would have estimated the number of ANAT3131 students for next year to be around the same as it was for this year. Hence there should be plenty of positions for all students who have passed ANAT1551 this year. For the Medical Science students, you do not require your grade for ANAT1521 to enrol in any of your Stage 2 Semester 1 courses.
What I do find very concerning is the administration's recent suggestion that they will simply make up your marks
(see: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/unsw-to-pass-students-as-strike-disrupts-marking-20101201-18grf.html)
This is what you should find particularly disturbing and should make it explicitly clear to the management that under no circumstances do you want this to occur. You should be given the marks which you have worked hard to achieve and not simply a pass or a fail based on only part of your total assessment.
Help us to protect the present and future students and staff at UNSW by taking a minute to click the link below and sign the petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41216.html
I would also really appreciate it if you could forward the above link onto anyone you know who sympathises with the gravity of this situation. Letters and emails to the VC as well as newspaper editors and local members are also effective methods for achieving the type of publicity which this issue absolutely deserves.
Cheers
Craig
There's nothing to do in the area and I have no money to do anything with.
Can you imagine going through life as The Boy (http://www.scarygoround.com/sgr/ar.php?date=20080319)?
The pool of eligible men to date would shrink to those who are willing to take on a kid.
I'd get maternity leave for 6 weeks, same as for pregnancy, but after that, I'd have to set up childcare. It would probably be a better life than they'd have in a 3rd-world orphanage, but how much better?
Doesn't one of our posters around here refer to her boyfriend exactly like that?
Since you want children, isn't your pool pretty much limited to people who want children anyway? I mean for more than just a casual fling?
Doesn't one of our posters around here refer to her boyfriend exactly like that?
I want to say Yelley but she hasn't posted here in forever. Lunchy, maybe?
Doesn't one of our posters around here refer to her boyfriend exactly like that?
I want to say Yelley but she hasn't posted here in forever. Lunchy, maybe?
jmrz still does it on the regular, I think
hanging out, laser cutting the rough draft of my final architecture model. I think I might have accidentally made the world's most difficult lego set for myself to complete....
also, how do you deal with people giving you advice that you really don't want?
I'm seriously considering international adoption.
...
I might not be good enough. If I fail at parenting, that's about as bad a failure as there can be.
I didn't have a name until I was 5 months old, my mom almost forgot to register me. My name was almost officially 'Baby Sears'
so i guess i'm 24 now
I call bullshit, I'm doing so fucking GREAT at 23!
I was 22 when I wrote this post.
I'll be 23 soon but something something herp derp leaves that are green turn to brown
Man I have some orange ganache filling made up for piping into chocolates right now but man, it is difficult to not just spread this shit on cookies and eat it.
I mean we are talking butter, milk chocolate, orange liqueur, and orange juice concentrate here. It is pretty good stuff to eat spoonfuls of.
Yeah guys 23 is pretty much the best.
holy crap most of you are older than me.
I'm seriously considering international adoption.I didn't see this for ages because I got way behind on the blog thread, as you do. It sounds like you have got all the right intentions for bein' a good parent. So I thought I would scare you by giving you some (http://www.fugitivus.net/2010/04/20/adoption-sometimes-gets-all-fucked-up-101/) links (http://www.fugitivus.net/2010/04/28/another-thing-about-adoption/) on ways that international and local adoption can go super badly or be kind of fucked up in its processes, so you are prepared for worst case scenarios, because if you can read these and be like, "Yikes, sounds hard, but I think I can give it my all anyway", then you are probably ready for some adopting. They're written pretty angrily, so apologies for the tone, though it's understandable.
holy crap most of you are younger than me.
Man I suck right now. Be glad you're older now! Because past you sucks. I mean goddamn.
oh my god after that string of posts i feel so little
oh god i am so little do things get better when you are not little please somebody tell me this shit gets better because oh my god i am about done with things not being better everywhere i turn i see nothing fuck.
i should probably stop drinking and smokin pot and drugs or whatever. though thats all that keeps me sane.
fuck
I've been 23 since July and it's been pretty decent.
Seriously though guys 30+ is where it's at.
You don't believe me but when you get here you'll see.
Man y'all are making me feel young. Sean, you are not alone in being 19!
Man y'all are making me feel young. Sean, you are not alone in being 19!
I've been 19 for a month and already I feel like shit.
I am older than you by a month? Crazy talk! Then again, I still have to keep double checking that I am actually 23 and not 22. Whatever age I am, it is pretty nice, I guess. My New Year's Resolution of "Be Happy" has been going alright. I wasn't happy constantly, but I like the think the majority of the time I have been happy throughout the year.That does seem weird! Still, that's life I guess. I still get weird and confused when I meet people whose year of birth I can remember. I really ought to get over that, it's only going to get worse.
20 is sort of surreal, I don't know. It's weird not being a teenager anymore, but still being unable to go to bars. And by weird, I mean incredibly sad.
20 is sort of surreal, I don't know. It's weird not being a teenager anymore, but still being unable to go to bars. And by weird, I mean incredibly sad.In America maybe. Come up to Canada some day.
in not self loathing news:
guys i found a bike today! my friend andy called me at like noon and was like "SEAN THERES A BIKE OUTSIDE" and i was like lol whatever im still in bed. then about an hour ago andy and another friend jordan dragged me to d hall and we walked by it and holy shit there was just this beautiful black fixie with white wheels just sitting there. so, uh, i now have a really nice fixie. its really light too!
You can't possibly have come to know me well enough in a week to give me two "utter"s.
I think that warrant a double utter.
Seriously though Sean "finders keepers" is really not an adequate moral framework upon which to base a grown-up life.
Guys I just got back from Tracy.
but really i would like to know who in their right mind ditches a bike in the middle of a parking lot.
Oh man. Effective guilt bomb? On the internet? I have never seen one before.A. Since when do you have a driver's license?
Guys I just got back from Tracy. It is maybe 25 miles away from Livermore, but when we left town at 4:45am it was just the start of "idiots trying to merge" hour. And guess who was designated driver since everybody else was sleepy and whiny about it! Alas, I was the one stuck with morning freeway traffic on I580. Stop and go for half the damn distance we went. Literally just walked in the door maybe ten minutes before starting this post.
Hanging out in Tracy was fun though. My friend from work wanted to go hang out in Tracy to meet with a friend of his. It was pretty fun. We smoked in the bowl of a skatepark at 2am. Ate at Denny's at like 3:30. Some dude vomited in the parking lot, which made me have second thoughts about the meal we'd just subjected ourselves to, but I feel fine, and food poisoning would've hit by now. So I suppose I'm alright.
And now, bed. I don't plan on being conscious for the next several hours.
Seriously though guys 30+ is where it's at.
You don't believe me but when you get here you'll see.
Guys I just got back from Tracy.
Did you see any cricket? When I was in Tracy, we drove by a cricket match!
Dear: friends and family
merry christmas and happy holidays
watch polar express
Best wishes from Asher
I need a ipod touch
Also it's hard to speak Norwegian again, I keep searching for words and I only find English ones.
My (younger) sister has an artificial knee and an elbow as well (she's had rheumatoid arthritis since she was 28 or so). My (older) brother has a titanium ball in one shoulder, following a bad fall in snow. Neither has given any complications other than what led up to their being necessary; so you should be optimistic. Fingers crossed, anyway!
I haven't started delivering big assignments in English yet, and I think our uni is quite big on actually allowing the students to use Norwegian all the way. It's not ideal - our calculus book is in English, and the teachers use Norwegian, so every theorem has two names and it's quite hard to remember which is which. The squeeze theorem (best name) is one of the few which is directly translated; the mean value theorem has been translated to something that translated back would be "the secant sentence", and so forth, so if I get an assignment in Norwegian to apply a theorem, I need a damned dictionary to know what they are talking about half of the time. Our java programming is also an unholy mixup between English syntax and Norwegian variable names. I know that all the books on higher levels are in English, and I'm going to arrive totally unprepared, because I'll have to translate everything I know into a new language.
stoned driving storyA. Since when do you have a driver's license?
2. You need to get down to where I am sometime soon. Or I need to visit you. Or whatevz.
harry if yr prose is anything like how you post i will totally buy yr book
harry if yr prose is anything like how you post i will totally buy yr book
Fewer jokes, more dead animals.
The Hewlett Packard Corporation's sole reason for existence is to spite me. Can your shitty software be anyAt work our IT problem logging system is provided by HP and I swear it is the worst thing I have ever used in my entire life. Basically it's a repurposed shopping cart where you have to find the problem you're experiencing from the catagories aka store and "purchase" it. Completely fucking fails every single time so I always pick some arbitrary issue and put my problem in the comments field. I believe this what everyone does.slowerstupider?
finallllsss. architecture crit was actually awesome except everyone had pulled an all nighter and my hand was shaking and I wore a short skirt so I may have flashed a jury of renowned architects when I bent over to put my building model into the site model, oooops. but really, their criticism was so great, they suggested all these things I hadn't thought of and called me out on some of my bullshit ("are there really no walls in this building?") while acknowledging all the hard work I'd done. when the lady from my favorite firm omg (the rural studio (http://www.cadc.auburn.edu/rural-studio/)) called my building "complex" I almost fainted. hooray my 50+ hours of work were justified!!! maybe I can be an architect after all????
so now, laboring away on 2 twenty page papers due friday. and then break break break break I am so broken right now. eeeeeehhhhhhh
Also guys I am 24 tomorrow! Yay! birthday means presents and cake and then Saturday means a birthday bbq during which it will RAIN AND RAIN. But presents!Happy birthday from the future Jodie! I find it oh so bizarre that you're older than me!
Also, why is there a star next to my username?
(and bombarded with pictures of them in Nazi-themed BDSM costumes)
Downside: I will be working for the fucking Tories.
I must admit that I honestly have no idea what you guys are talking about. However,(and bombarded with pictures of them in Nazi-themed BDSM costumes)
this intrigues me.
Shredded my hand whilst fettling my bike last night and now the wound is a bit tingly and throbbing. Am I going to die of tetanus this Christmas or will a bit of Savalon sort it out. Place your bets now.
Are you being serious?
But then again, you had more reason to be worried.
What on earth is the deal with the room-mate?
I can't envisage a situation whereby that would have a reasonable explanation.
so my Gawker account info leaked, along with a shitload of other peoples'; you may have heard about it. I've been bouncing around the internet to my various hangouts and changing all my passwords, but it's really annoying. I have to use the same password for everything otherwise I'll never remember them all, but some places require symbols or numbers which makes it especially annoying.
What on earth is the deal with the room-mate?
I can't envisage a situation whereby that would have a reasonable explanation.
To be fair, I'm very good friends with my roommate and I don't think her boyfriend particularly likes me. But I'm really nice to him anyways cause I figure it doesn't really matter...
I THOUGHT MY FINAL WAS WEDNESDAY BUT IT'S IN 14 HOURS OH NOO
Do you live together? If not, is it possible she just went home and crashed after a long night in the airport and hasn't gotten up yet?
holy shit that's basically a page and a half of essay right there
holy shit that's basically a page and a half of essay right there
Hey you should checkout Tim Lilburn (pals with yr guy Don McKay). He deals pretty heavily in his poetry and writing with the issues of representation and naming and language, but balances this with a heaping side of Negative Christian thought (with references also to Greek erotics and things) where the impulse is to shy away from naming and codifying the world as much as possible, but as a poet, and as in The Cloud of Unknowing, he can't resist falling into the whirl of language and he plays it expertly.
He's also written about mimesis as well as anyone I know.
UPDATE; She's home. Honestly, it is such a long story I will just tell you that I am relieved.
As ever, don't knock it unless you've tried it.
awesome page break
it's a very dick move to question the validity of someone's grief
Scarred and Neko, I'm so sorry for your losses. It sucks to lose someone you care about.
its life was spent in a cage. i mean it sucks when pets you keep die but really its a ferret and no i wouldn't say the same about a cat or a dog, because you can actually interact with a cat or a dog beyond looking in a cage and thinking "oh what a nice pet they are so cute i think i am going to feed it today!"
I'm considering changing courses, nothing drastic, just the other comp. science course. They are similar next semester, except from one class, which is linear algebra for the other course, and something called "practical web-design" for the one I'm taking, which sounds like it's pretty much analysis of web pages. Practical my ass.
I'm pretty sure I'll need linear algebra at a later point and I'm completely sure that the web-design thing is useless (that's also what I've heard from anyone who's ever taken it), but the problem is that I'll be stuck on the other course after this, and in the later years there's some mandatory courses which involves kinda fringy maths stuff that's not really interesting. I'll have to hear if I can jump a bit back and forth and still be allowed to get a bachelor in three years.
its life was spent in a cage. i mean it sucks when pets you keep die but really its a ferret and no i wouldn't say the same about a cat or a dog, because you can actually interact with a cat or a dog beyond looking in a cage and thinking "oh what a nice pet they are so cute i think i am going to feed it today!"
this isn't really true, ferrets are actually really intelligent and affectionate and the relationship that owners tend to have with them really is a lot closer to that of a cat or dog than it is to a rodent. my sister had a ferret when i was much younger and i don't remember much because of my age but she was incredibly attached to her and subsequently really devastated for months when she had to be put to sleep. i can see how it would be easy to assume they're just dumb animals if you have never had one, but any kind of intelligent and affectionate pet always becomes your friend eventually and losing friends always sucks balls no matter who they are.
I'm pretty sure I'll need linear algebra at a later point
Will I derive some enjoyment and satisfaction from doing this work?
I guess the decisive factors would be "how much will my salary grow" and "time".
Also, I imagine that as a travel agent you'd get sweet-ass deals on trips and would get to learn about a bunch of other countries. I know a lot of travel agents in a lot of different places and they seem to have experiences like that. Maybe they're just lucky?
I think I did well on my GRE! I called my mom to ask what she thought (she does graduate admissions for a health science program) and she said I did better than some of the incoming grads they've accepted. So yay!
I intend to always use a travel agent for holidays from now on, because if you have an agent they sort out your cancelled flights for you but if you do it yourself you have to sit on hold for ten million years.
Congrats! That is great. Do you know where you'll be going for grad school and for what?
did you high-five?
I am incredibly underwhelmed at how this track (http://patrickjames.bandcamp.com/track/in-my-life) came out. I guess that's what I get for covering the Beatles.
Patrick that track is pretty sweet so stop with the compliment fishing because you can be pretty secure in your talent, dude.
trying to shop for a 2 year old girl--there are seriously no age appropriate gender neutral toys out there
I know a lot of people are split over Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats
It's really frustrating, because every website I go to tells me something d ifferent, and people I know who know something about the subject all tell me something different.
You can definitely have dual citizenship with the US. I'm not sure whether it's a 'born in the US' thing (although I'm thinking of the people that have the dual citizenship and they were all born in the US). So I'm guessing it's possible to get a passport of another country on top of your US passport. Plenty of parents travel to places like Canada and the US to give birth just so that their children will have a US or Canadian passport.
Dear blog thread,Oh hey I have dual citizenship. America recognizes them fine.
:psyduck:
Edit: To explain the sighduck, I'm trying to look into dual citizenship regarding America/Canada. It's really frustrating, because every website I go to tells me something d ifferent, and people I know who know something about the subject all tell me something different. So far, I've been told that marrying a Canadian citizen will not grant me Canadian citizenship, that marrying a Canadian will give me Canadian citizenship but revoke my American citizenship, that America does not recognize dual citizenships, that America DOES recognize dual citizenships, and so much other stuff that argh huggabluggaglug bang I just shot myself with a bullet of pure frustration
That fits with my vague recollection that if applying for a US passport when you already have another, you are required to give the other one up. But not vice versa.That makes no sense.
See you don't have to steal the wife though, just the kids. Because honestly who makes their wife shovel the driveway anyways?
She took me for desert
Tania and I hung out yesterday. She took me for desert at this cupcake place. The idea that I might want just one cupcake didn't enter her mind; we walk into the store and she says "So do you want two or three cupcakes? Because it's four for $11.50 and six for $15.00." What a gal.
<3
I have no idea where I'm going or what I'm doing after the winter is over, but I guess that's all part of the fun, and I have months to think about it. Strongly considering working in fruit picking in British Columbia once the summer hits, it's supposed to be good pay if you work hard, and it's a beautiful part of the planet.
(http://www.lakupo.com/qu/ghacks/userpics/philippe-hugs.jpg)
Guys please don't compare getting dumped to two family members with cancer. I almost didn't post because of that, shit is trifling in comparison.
Pat that is great to hear about your mom, that she's positive about it and they have a plan for her. If you need a break from all the serious while you're in DC, there's a bunch of us around so let us know and we'll take you out for some stupid tourist stuff.
I really hate to add to the way this threads going but I've gotta get this out.
A friend of mine committed suicide on new year's day. I knew he was having a tough time over the last few months but we never really talked about it because people just don't. On new year's eve he seemed happy and eager to start fresh with the new year and sort things out. I really wish I'd made more time and had a chance to help him.
Please if you ever feel you can't help yourself then ask someone to help you.
I feel kind of guilty that things are working out really well for me at the moment when so many of you are experiencing tough times, but I suppose it is a sort of cruel equilibrium that we can't do anything about. I am sending good vibes your way, everyone who needs them.
Is there anything super awesome and essential I should do when I'm in Vancouver? Gonna be there in about a week.
Is there anything super awesome and essential I should do when I'm in Vancouver? Gonna be there in about a week.
There comes a time in everyone's life where they have to step up to the plate and tell their parents to stop being so pitiful/childish/ridiculous.
Nooo! The garbage man dropped off a garbage can here. That is the opposite of what I needed to happen, since they had for some reason allotted me two cans. I have three garbage cans now and I am but a single man.
Is the waste management company trolling me? This is madness.
Waste management here is pretty well on top of their shit.
I've spent the last two days at Lukas's ranch with him, his family, and a shitload of music gear. Seriously, 5 different electric guitars (including an ES-335 and a Rickenbacker) and two basses.
We recorded two songs that I'll share with you later. I was gonna upload them, but he's hanging with other folks at the moment and my shit's in his car. Ooooops
I've spent the last two days at Lukas's ranch with him, his family, and a shitload of music gear.
Wait... who?
I just applied for about twenty jobs today. God I hate applying for jobs. There's just so much potential for rejection, or being ignored, which is kind of worse. But I have an interview for tomorrow morning, right around the corner. And tomorrow is my birthday! It's a good combination, I think.
we didn't mind letting their voices get onto the recording.
"Norwegian" Rubgrod
I just applied for about twenty jobs today. God I hate applying for jobs. There's just so much potential for rejection, or being ignored, which is kind of worse. But I have an interview for tomorrow morning, right around the corner. And tomorrow is my birthday! It's a good combination, I think.
Good luckk <3 And happy birthday ladyface! Call me so I know when to come buy you blue drinks and so I can see if you have time to go to Mustard Seed with me beforehand...
You got exactly three words correct there, although I have no idea what you are trying to say. I <3 you, May!
Sadly it's not. Papegoye is though, and it means parrot! It does also have that line through the 'o', but I can't do that anymore since I have an English computer now.
Zing man you don't want to be a guitar teacher, I was reading an article today about how parents were suing their kids' guitar teachers because they touched the kid on the finger when showing them how to pluck a string. Parents are ridiculous it seems.I demand a link for this.
(That is a really shitty attitude for them to take and surely flagrantly illegal.)
So like in twenty four hours I'll be in France and stuff.
So I think I found my dream job. The community center downtown just lost their guitar teacher, so I went down and submitted an application and talked to the woman who is in charge.
Yesterday, she called me up and asked me directly if I was transgendered. I said yes (what else would I say? I can't lie about it), and she told me that she can't hire me, then, because I'll be working with CHILDREN.
Guess who has two thumbs and is incredibly pissy? This person. This person right here.
New York State has laws against discrimination for sexual orientation but not gender identity, so unfortunately as of right now it's not covered.
In Windows XP:
Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map
I keep a shortcut to it around. As it's a bit tedious to use character by character, I tend to write a document, then copy each character I need in turn and go through pasting it in.
Norsk Data had an awesome Word Processing system in the 1980s that could produce every European accent (including stuff for, say, Icelandic or Serbian) using a special "supershift" key. So SS / o would produce ø, SS - D would give Ð, SS , e give ę, and so on - sooo easy - why has the world not copied it? (not that it would work with the even larger set of symbols that we are now expected to handle).
Man, you guys, I just watched three episodes of Twin Peaks in a row, drinking whisky and listening to Kenickie, together with punk rock girl again.
I don't think I've ever been quite this happy.
Dear Blog Thread-
I am looking to buy something from my fiance's sister's husband. It cost $750 new in 2003
Dear Blog Thread-
I am looking to buy something from my fiance's sister's husband. It cost $750 new in 2003, and by looking around on-line I've found they go for $325-350 now. I'm not sure how to state this to him though. I don't want him to feel like I'm ripping him off, but I also don't want to pay more for the item than it would cost me to buy it from someone else. Its difficult because he said he looked around and couldn't find any info on what its worth. It took me about 5 minutes and google to find a dozen active sales on various sites. So, how do I bring up what they're going for without sounding like I'm trying to low-ball him? At $350, thats less than 50% of what he paid, I wouldn't be thrilled about that.
And then jmrz will be moving into my old bedroom with her boy!
BEDROOMCEST
So far, this has been my worst january ever. Not only have I been without a pair of glasses for over a week (my new ones should be ready today, hopefully), my Mac is now kaputt.
iron your underwear
Nah it's all like, K-mart stuff my mum bought me or Internet t-shirts that are stained and don't fit. I'll just bag 'em and Salvos 'em. And get rid of the pile of 'One day when I can be bothered I will sew these things into something more awesome' stuff, because my new room is REALLY TINY and I will be sharing it with A BOY.
Nothing terrible at all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots).
In what sense are you transgendered, if you will pardon the intrusion?
I am trying to understand how it would effect employment.
And from what I can remember, pre-op and on hormones, to be more specific.
I demand a link for this.
But, instead, I don't identify female. Nor male. Or anything, for that matter. I don't have a gender identity but furthermore I don't want one.* But you can't live your life that way. People have to put you down as male or female because if you're neither of those you're a freak who cannot be trusted. You're now an 'other' and I think history speaks enough for people who fit that category.
*And because I know people are going to ask "why are you going on hormones if you don't identify female" - I've done my research. I've weighed the pros and cons and decided that given what they do, I'd rather take that route. Just because I'm not female doesn't mean I can't be feminine.
/endrant
I've also discovered that no one takes any notice of traffic lights, and that zebra crossings here are not actually zebra crossings because there is no obligation to stop, which makes me wonder why they bother painting the lines at all.
never! i mean i figured out what she meant, but i thought maybe she was being funny. i had no idea whole countries used that phrase!
never! i mean i figured out what she meant, but i thought maybe she was being funny. i had no idea whole countries used that phrase!
I learned the other day that what I always thought to be "playing catch" is called "having a catch" by everyone else.
Huh?!
BLOGBLOGJealousssss
I bought a new bike to replace the one that got stolen. This one folds in the middle :-D
[img]http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/images/uk/products/original/141/94/emmelle-shuttle-folding-bike-14194333.jpeg[img]
I've also discovered that no one takes any notice of traffic lights, and that zebra crossings here are not actually zebra crossings because there is no obligation to stop, which makes me wonder why they bother painting the lines at all.
whaaaat. is that a uk thing as well? i've always said playing catch. you're not alone!
It's not something I've heard over here on the east coast either.
Also I think pop is a silly word for soda.
i don't know, i'm just guessing because i've never heard anyone in america say "having a catch" - although admittedly i haven't been to every part of america. definitely not a southern thing though!
Not up north either.
It's not something I've heard over here on the east coast either.
I was just watching that. It shows how quickly it came up. It was brutal.
They have evacuated downtown now, because they are expecting it to happen again soon. Stupid work won't send us home even though none of us are really doing anythign useful because we are all so horrified and distracted. This stuff neevr happens here! Not ever! Half the staff aren't even here anyway.
What is going on with this weather?! I think we had better stop using electricity or something if that would reverse this apocalyptic slide into extreme weather all the time.
This is actually due to La Niña event that's passing over Queensland atm. Instead of droughts experienced by due to El Niño, this meteorological event results in monsoonal conditions. This is not really a direct or indirect result of Global Warming.
my classes are cancelled (yet again) today because of about 3 inches of snow. this is stupid and sucky because i really wanted to go to the gym and i only have class once a week. you're such a wimp, vancouver.
It is 19 degrees and snowing where I am. PRETTY SURE THAT DISPROVES GLOBAL WARMING! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQlHaGhYoF0)
blizzard with lightning! my friend took a picture last night DURING A LIGHTNING FLASH:
spooky purple world
blizzard with lightning! my friend took a picture last night DURING A LIGHTNING FLASH:
spooky purple world
Awesome picture! Allows me to share the cool science news that scientists have discovered that thunderstorms produce streams of anti-matter (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12158718)!
Hey patrick what is your favorite color?
Hey patrick what is your favorite color?
or if you're just ribbing me
Nobody knows my favourite colour either! It is not really a thing that people talk about, I thought?
So, we got 6 inches of snow last night. That kind of shit never happens in Seattle.
Yuuuuussssssssss. Just changed my facebook name to Hæter Aid.
masters stuff
I nearly had a valve burst open in my heart from the annoyed stress when watching my dad use The Google once
(also does anybody else's parents type LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL when they think something you say is particularly amusing? My mom does)
The touchpad mouse on her laptop decided to quit working, and I was stuck with keyboard-only navigation. If left to her own devices, she would simply go in to the place she bought it and get super belligerent and demand a warranty replacement.
Me? I hit the Windows key, and using tab, the arrow keys, and the 'return' key, I updated the touchpad mouse drivers, restarted, and bam, 90 seconds later the computer has mouse capabilities again.
statement of purpose
For what it's worth, Manchester is a really awesome city to live in, so if you were to choose there, you wouldn't be disappointed with respect to that, at least.
helpful thingsThanks, I've done some googling and found useful sites etc and I'm pretty sure I could write a good one - just not really in a week. Especially not if I want to consult a professor. So I guess my dilema is writing a sub-standard one and hoping my academic records will get me in or leave it and risk the places filling up.
Oh suck it up. We got close to 3 feet here in Massachusetts.
If you are applying for a taught programme, you should submit a brief ‘statement of purpose’, explaining your motivation for graduate study at Oxford. You may wish to consider a number of issues such as:(From here (http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/postgraduate_courses/apply/application_guide.html#asupporting_materials))
What relevant academic, research, or practical experience do you have?
Why are you applying to this particular programme of study?
What areas of study in the subject interest you?
The statement of purpose should be one page long.
I'm pretty sure I could write a good one - just not really in a week.
(also does anybody else's parents type LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL when they think something you say is particularly amusing? My mom does)
I know these things take time, but more than a week for a single page? Really?
So no, I will not suck it up. You can go fuck yourself.
I know these things take time, but more than a week for a single page? Really?
I ordered some tea on The Internet because there are no tea or coffee shops where I currently reside. The tea I receive smells like it was left behind when a house burned down but it tastes delicious and I an drinking a mug of it right now.
Maybe apologize for the racist accusation?I'm not going to apologise when someone was actually being a huge racist though. If she can't handle being called on her misinformed beliefs that's not my fault.
the funniest thing that has ever come of such bodily functions.
Hotel job
Hotel JobbeningSounds like the pros vastly outweigh the cons! Go for it. Disappointing your landlord/current employer is only a bad thing if you need a reference or wish to be friends with them in the future.
I forgot to mention this around Christmastime, but while visiting my sister I discovered that restaurants in Boston's Little Italy are the best restaurants in the entire world.
I forgot to mention this around Christmastime, but while visiting my sister I discovered that restaurants in Boston's Little Italy are the best restaurants in the entire world.
Jesus christ Joe, you're older than the city of Boston itself and didn't know that Italian restaurants in the North End were really good?
grad school
But, whatever. I ended up talking to her, explaining the job business, and she pretty much ran me down and, in not so many words, told me I shouldn't be around children ever because I'm trans.
good luck jc!!! where are you applying. are you going to go to chicago
ubc ... REALLY huge, really beautiful campus
donut shops are the best. i miss my donut shop.
donut shops are the best. i miss my donut shop.
i had to read this a couple of times before i realized anna wrote it and not me.
once this adoption is finalized you and me are gonna get along great.
my parents are like one hundred years old and don't know how to turn on a computer. sucks to be you! all of you
Also, I'm studying java, so I'm guessing that learning php, which like java is object oriented, should be overcomeable. Am I right?
I know that in my hometown there was a law that the sidewalks in front of your house had to be shoveled by 9:00 am following a snowfall of 3" or more (or something like that, the time and depth may change slightly if you actually look it up). if you're reported it's a fine-able offense.
But no one really bothered with it cause no one wanted to be a jerk and report someone. This lead to a number of horrible times in middle school when we had a delayed opening and I'd have to walk to school--since my parents both had to go to work at their normal times and couldn't drive me--and I'd walk through huge sidewalks of snow to get to school.
my mom just texted me to tell me that The Mountain, a local radio station, is playing Portugal. The Man
couple of things here:
A - my mom knows how to text
B - she does so fairly regularly, and with proper spelling and grammar
3 - she not only knows who Portugal. The Man is, but she likes them alot and was excited to hear them on the radio
:psyduck:
Should I know Portugal. The Man?
a nice Quebec beer
Besides, dude, how can one reasonably expect people of our age group to know what they wanna do for the rest of their lives?
where am I headed etc
Besides, dude, how can one reasonably expect people of our age group to know what they wanna do for the rest of their lives?
in some ultimately pointless humanities field.
Well said, and also I think I'm doing the world a favour by doing art instead of medicine (by this I don't mean that my art is all that, but rather that I'd feel very sorry for those poor people who were my patients).
I shook Rahm Emanuel's hand in the subway this evening. It was pretty funny; I was just walking toward the subway stairs and after a bunch of people passed I was startled to realize I was face to face with Rahm Emanuel. Then I just reflexively stuck out my hand to shake as I walked by. Since he was right at the top of the stairs he kinda seemed to be campaigning or something, but for all I know he was waiting for someone.
I don't genuinely believe that.
humanities funding has just been gutted on the basis of "relevance" and "importance"
Yeah sorry, I kind of had a feeling I was overreacting as I wrote that - as someone who is trying to find funding for a Ph.D. in a country where humanities funding has just been gutted on the basis of "relevance" and "importance", I find it a frustrating topic and I guess I worry that even glib comments along those lines can reflect and even exacerbate the general tenor of dismissal.
Don't go for Med unless you absolutely want to do it. Speaking as an Australian, there aren't enough places and resources to go around. It's a such a waste when all these students use their parent bought English/Eco/Legal Studies/History marks to take places in public med schools only to drop-out and take up law or get their masters in some ultimately pointless humanities field.Idunno dude, speaking as an Australian working at a university right now, we need all the international students we can get. Our uni just decided on some pretty insanely massive cutbacks because, now that our immigration laws have changed, we can expect far fewer international students round these parts. As much as it is troublesome to know that not every kid who gets into med ultimately wants or deserves to be there, that's often just as true of local students who get in and end up transferring out due to a lack of real love or aptitude for the subject. Ideally people would only study courses that they are really into and committed to, but failing that... well, basically, you should come to Australia and help keep our education system running because apparently international students are what keep our unis chugging along financially to a great extent. (Also in an ideal world there would be greater resources available to international students so their drop-out rates weren't as high, but hey, in a really ideal world we would be running a Whitlam-era tertiary education system where everyone could get into uni for free.)
humanities funding has just been gutted on the basis of "relevance" and "importance"
By people most of whose degrees are in...
way to kick a guy when he's down, joe
I applied for a job at Google two nights ago
humanities funding has just been gutted on the basis of "relevance" and "importance"
By people most of whose degrees are in...
you know, that's a very good point. I hadn't thought of it like that.
So there, blog thread.
I just got off the phone with my dad. Seems like the surgery to fix his blown-out ACL went fine, and he's at home resting comfortably (if not a bit bored, he's not allowed to go back to work for about 4-5 weeks). Hurray, modern technology (and dudes cuttin' into other dudes' knees).
My dad is a bigger wuss than I am. About everything. And boy am I ever a wuss.Your mom sounds pretty awesome.
On the other hand, my mom goes to death and hardcore metal shows and met her 26 year old boyfriend there. I am 25, by the way. My boyfriend is 29.
This disturbs me on several levels. This kid isn't even a mature 26.
Also she stole all the clothing I no longer fit and so she wears Tripp bondage pants and band tees.
fuck em
Hall of Fame.
tl;dr my friend has issues and i need life advice from all of you older folk with more life experience on how to handle this properly.
my friend has issues
during the years leading up to that point I hated people commenting on it, because it was my business. Um this is probably not making a lot of sense because it's a close issue and I just woke up oops.
I have a 4.5 hr 100% law exam tomorrow. This is the second one of these I've had this week. Bluuuuh, at least they're over after tomorrow.High five! We both have incredibly stressful, potentially life changing things happening tomorrow!
it started with "i know you always think i'm joking when i'm asking you out or flirting with you, but i'm not. I long to..."
I have a 4.5 hr 100% law exam tomorrow. This is the second one of these I've had this week. Bluuuuh, at least they're over after tomorrow.
in that context, this response does make a lot of sense because commenting on an anorexic individual's weight loss in a manner that can be easily read by them as judgmental, accusatory or humiliating in any way can be easily seen as a way of trying to control that aspect of their their life, thus taking control away from them.
I think I just committed myself to going to Critical Mass on Friday!
I think I just committed myself to going to Critical Mass on Friday!
Ever done one before?
literally nobody on this fucking forum knows more about snowfall than me (http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Record+snowfall+Regina/4122441/story.html)pffft.
actually jussi & probably jens and kris understand the snowfall i'm talking about, since they're from where winter was born
Upstate New York has a contest (http://goldensnowball.blogspot.com/). This season so far we have had 75 inches, that is 190 cm. This is normal.
Houghton has a humid continental climate but the (typically) long and snowy (due to lake-effect snow, with an average of 208 inches (528 cm))[25] winters occasion much humor. It is sometimes said that Houghton has "two seasons: winter's here and winter's coming."
Johnny I can't believe you forgot about me.
Hate you.
because of snowfall? just cause fargo is a snowy movie don't mean you folk are the be-all end-all of frozen precipitation experts, nahmean?
How the hell do these dudes like Lance Armstrong and Andy Schleck ride like that for 5 hours a day for two weeks straight?
How the hell do these dudes like Lance Armstrong and Andy Schleck ride like that for 5 hours a day for two weeks straight?
drugsssssssss
How the hell do these dudes like Lance Armstrong and Andy Schleck ride like that for 5 hours a day for two weeks straight?
drugsssssssss
How the hell do these dudes like Lance Armstrong and Andy Schleck ride like that for 5 hours a day for two weeks straight?
OH MY GOD they are playing Toto - Africa. @simonv3 you'd frickin' love it, QC style.
I just had about two weeks of spring in january dude, i'm not sure i understand the concept of "ice"
o/
The saddle is like a penis, I get it now.
You're allowed to fucking punch him in the face! If you specifically asked him not to put them up and he did it anyway, he's a grade A asshole regardless of what kind of pictures they are.
That's not so bad. You've just got to make sure that you keep the curtains in the sunward side closed throughout the day. The humidity will be the worst part and some aircons just make that worse.
I am in This show (http://www.collegeart.org/news/2011/01/25/2011-regional-mfa-exhibition-at-hunter-college/)!
Whoa apparently my great uncle's pancreatic cancer has spread to his bones. That's a bit of a downer.
Whoa apparently my great uncle's pancreatic cancer has spread to his bones. That's a bit of a downer.
I'm really sorry for you, and hope that you have the opportunity to say goodbye properly.
I've just had to google Olly Murs, it doesn't bode well for you.
So, um, my best friend had an abortion today. Well, he's the guy so it isn't him getting it, but fucks knows what the proper term is.
So, um, my best friend had an abortion today. Well, he's the guy so it isn't him getting it, but fucks knows what the proper term is.
Really? How about "my best friend's girlfriend/partner/fuckbuddy had an abortion today". You couldn't come up with that?
Is that French? That's how I read it too, but in French class we always had to do dd/mm/yy.
we watched it so many times, end-to-end and in snippets, that there is no way I will ever be able to watch it again.
I wear underwear all the time too. Do some people not do this? Have I spent twenty years not realising that going commando was a common thing to do?
You think I haven't looked? :(
I have been using my phone but I only have a teeny tiny data package which I'm sure I've already used up.
Oh well. I just ordered a Pocket WiFi Broadband thing. I will have forums but no torrents. So sad, so sad.
I am sure I will cheer up once I have internet sorted again. And when my new room isn't so messy. And now that it isn't 100 degrees every single day.
I dance around in my underwear while I cook. And I always have the front door open. One day someone is going to come to visit while I'm cooking and I won't be able to get from the kitchen to anywhere with pants without them seeing me.
ever since i've lived alone, i've been naked or worn nothing but underwear just about near constantly. sometimes i even do the patrick bateman thing where i catch myself in the mirror while working or lying in bed and then i flex in my mirror and give myself pep talks and stuff. while naked. life's pretty awesome in here
It just seems really odd that you would add all this patriotic stuff to your car and then change the branding to make your car more foreign.Aaaaahhhh, gotcha. I just chalked the whole thing up to retarded and left it at that.
http://img837.imageshack.us/i/rtiholdenvzssuteyellowl.jpg
I just nabbed an internship at KEXP, the local indie radio station! That has offices in Chicago and New York, and has stages at Bumbershoot and SXSW. It's unpaid, but I may be able to get into shows for free if I do write-ups, plus I do album reviews, band bios, and maybe even interviews sometimes! I am kind of excited.
When I got there they were having a live in-studio with The Church, which was pretty random.
ugh i hate my brain, i have this just vague feeling of dread and my heart is racing and i just want to be asleep, and i want to be able to go to sleep without having to take pills every night. i didn't take anything tonight so i am lying here wide awake feeling panicky about nothing.
Except for Jodie, obviously. She's rad.
She's Australian Noah, chosen to repopulate Australia with derby chicks.
http://img837.imageshack.us/i/rtiholdenvzssuteyellowl.jpg
is this link some sort of terrifying virus/trojan/popup shit fucker for anyone else or am i just an idiot?
it was scary, i had to task manager it away because it wouldn't let me close it, and it tried to run some weird .exe and bunch of other garbage
Have you tried other remedies like Melatonin? I haven't tried anything like that myself but would like to. I may talk to my doctor about Ambien or Lunesta though. I suck at falling asleep too.
http://img837.imageshack.us/i/rtiholdenvzssuteyellowl.jpg
is this link some sort of terrifying virus/trojan/popup shit fucker for anyone else or am i just an idiot?
Tipped over the Dingo digger
I love living in disasterville (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/us/09roofs.html?_r=2&hp)
Have you tried other remedies like Melatonin? I haven't tried anything like that myself but would like to. I may talk to my doctor about Ambien or Lunesta though. I suck at falling asleep too.
i've heard it recommended but haven't tried it myself either. perhaps i'll try that next! and off to google i go...
I love living in disasterville (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/us/09roofs.html?_r=2&hp)
Living in Chicago makes it an amusing and bitter experince to hear people back East complain about snowstorms. You see, the way the weather moves means any snowstorms you get, we got two days ago.
Hey fuckers, you didn't give a shit then, I don't give a shit now.
I love living in disasterville (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/us/09roofs.html?_r=2&hp)
Living in Chicago makes it an amusing and bitter experince to hear people back East complain about snowstorms. You see, the way the weather moves means any snowstorms you get, we got two days ago.
Hey fuckers, you didn't give a shit then, I don't give a shit now.
dude that storm was like a week ago, everyone got it at the same time
I just live in a 150 year old house where the roof might actually cave
so
shut up
See, that is how i felt about his comment. But then there was the fact that when a journalist asked him about it and he just stared at them in silence for what, 45 seconds? Staring and nodding slightly before finally saying he has said all he wanted to on the situation. That is not how the leader of the opposition should be acting. He could have at least cut the person off after he made his statement. What if he does get into power, is he going to freeze like that every time someone asks him a hard question?
Tipped over the Dingo digger
How did you actually do this?
Other than that it just seems to be a matter of saying "I was here".
I just live in a 150 year old house where the roof might actually cave
So what would be your ideal social situation?
Five year olds understand the water cycle at all?? I can't imagine it.
Why can't you?
i have the flu and i want to die
Can you talk to a professor/advisor for an extension or anything?
Or have them tell the school district to stop being stupid?
You build robots? What kind?
...really I just wish I had time to geek out more than I already do.
I love working at a place with people who have no idea how to schedule.
I have worked on pretty much every monthly anniversary for my entire current relationship except for one.
I now have to work on Valentines day. This is the first Monday I'm working in around 4 months, out of fucking nowhere.
I'm scheduled to come into work Friday at 5pm. My other job doesn't end until 5:15, and then there is around a 30-45 minute commute because of traffic.
Heavily considering telling them tomorrow that I can't work Monday or Friday at all this week, and requesting they change it to Tues-Thursday like I have continually asked my schedule to be changed to.
I have worked on pretty much every monthly anniversary for my entire current relationship except for one.
Yeah, I need to go find some light sensors/LEDs and then I am going to be programming the shit out of my arduino.
Urrgh, I am not a fan of cats. Zac brought in a mouse in the early hours of the morning. Thankfully the thing had a heart attack and was not a bird, so apart from a number of feces the cleanup was minimal. Death by domestic cat is one of the worst ways for an animal in the suburbs to go.
I find it quaint that you consider your monthly anniversary to be a big deal.
Did you explicitly ask for V's Day off ahead of time or were you just assuming they'd give it to you? Same for the other days? The reason you're probably working that Monday is because someone else asked for it off. Your bosses aren't psychic.
I went to Motorhead today. Clutch was an opening.
64-bit Windows:
Windows\System (16-bit dlls)
Windows\System32 (64-bit dlls - eh?)
Windows\SysWoW64* (32-bit dlls - wtf?)
a world where it's totally plausible that only a couple of characters have mobile phones.
Had to go to the dentist today, which cost me £16.50 for him to tell me that it would cost £198 to fix. Why the hell does it make more sense for me to lose my job so I can get this for free, than it does to have a job and not be able to go to the dentist?
It's a fun job and we pay people to watch baseball
This is a perfect part-time job for a diligent, responsible employee who happens to be a big baseball fan.
saw The Go! Team on valentine's
i feel sort of awkward for how emotional i am being about this right now.
On January 21 this year the academic and professional staff who are members of the NTEU (i.e. my colleagues and I) voted to remove the S2 2010 bans. This was not because we had come to an agreement with the UNSW administration. It was because UNSW management had started releasing falsified results in an effort to undermine the ban. The NTEU members decided to release the correct results to avoid further damage to the university's reputation by management.
At the same meeting on January 21 progress regarding negotiations between UNSW management and NTEU delegates was discussed. As you are most likely aware, these negotiations have centred around the signing and enforcement of a new enterprise agreement. Enterprise agreements are standard across Australian universities and are essentially a 3-4 year contract between staff members and university management over employment and work conditions.
Unlike all other Australian universities, UNSW does not have a current agreement and has not had one for two years. For the last two years the NTEU has been trying to negotiate with the Vice Chancellor Fred Hilmer and the Head of Human Resources David Ward to get an agreement which is consistent with all other universities. On several occasions during these negotiations it has been made abundantly clear to the NTEU that the Vice Chancellor is not interested in signing any agreement even though it is clearly the desire of the academic staff.
Now after two years of industrial action (including several strikes and two results bans) the negotiations have progressed to the point where we have a drafted agreement which has been tabled for negotiation. Unfortunately this agreement falls well short of the basic conditions of all other universities and it does not provide any ongoing job security for UNSW academic staff. Job security is not only essential for current staff wishing to simply plan their lives, but it is also extremely important for UNSW to be competitive with other universities when attracting new high-standard teaching and research staff.
The members of the NTEU as well as many other non-members of the UNSW academic staff would like to know exactly why is it that the Vice Chancellor is so unwilling to budge on this issue. What is so different at UNSW that the staff do not deserve the same conditions of employment as the staff at all other Australian universities? The answer is absolutely nothing. UNSW is a wealthy institution (a fact which is totally reflected in the current salary of the Vice Chancellor: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/fairfax-ceo-goes-back-to-university/2005/10/16/1129401145633.html) and therefore the staff deserve the right to secure ongoing employment like all other GO8 Universities. The Vice Chancellor argues that it is the uncertainty of overseas enrolments which necessitates the need for short-term employment. This issue has, however, always existed and it does not seem to concern the administrations of all other Australian Universities.
The upshot is we (the academics and professional staff who are members of the NTEU and care about quality education and UNSW's reputation) have made a vow to continue to fight this issue until either the Vice Chancellor shows some respect and compassion for his staff or he is removed by the members of the UNSW Council (the body of ministerial and elected representatives who govern UNSW and appoint the Vice Chancellor see: http://www.secretariat.unsw.edu.au/council/register.htm). We have resolved to have more bans in the future as well as other strategic protests designed to exert maximum pressure on UNSW management. One such protest is to occur on Monday next week (February 21) at 1pm outside the chancellery (i.e. the area to the right of the main entrance to the Clancy Auditorium; also see the attached pdf). The UNSW council are meeting in the Chancellery at 2pm and the aim is to show the arriving council members that we totally disapprove of Fred Hilmer's unwillingness to negotiate on job security. Lunch will be provided in the form of a BBQ, so please come along if you too would like to see this issue resolved and the university's reputation restored.
Cheers and I really hope to see you on Monday
My laptop done broke :(
"tania rocket"
Thou art a dreaming thing; A fever of thyself- think of the Earth; What bliss even in hope is there for thee? What haven? Every creature hath its home; Every sole man hath days of joy and pain, whether his labours be sublime or low- The Pain alone; the joy alone; distinct: Only the dreamer venoms all his days, Bearing more woe than all his sins deserve
I think that is because facebook started to realize that people aren't really named "Shauna YoBabbyDaddyAintGotShtOnMe BetchzNhaterz"Hey that name has been passed down in the family for generations.
Can someone let patrick know that i probably won't be able to hang out with him this weekend because i'm going to the city tomorrow but i'm also super drunk right now so um YEAHYou like this.
condolences, jd
gotta admit, I love it when doctors tell people they're gonna die but they're like "nah, i'm not feeling that" and end up surviving anyway
there was a kid that went to my highschool who had cancer and they said "you won't make to thanksgiving" but he did, then they said "you won't make it to christmas" and yet again, he did. All the while he was getting worse and worse, but surviving. Then they said, "okay we don't really have a time frame for you but are definitely going to die really soon and there's nothing you can do about it."
So he gave up, started partying his ass off (in a wheelchair), and smoking a shitload of weed.
six months later he was cancer free
If my boyfriend is any indicator, a man cold is like a regular cold, only you have a constant low-pitched whine coming out of you because you're SOOOO SIIIICK AND TIIIRED AND WAAAAHHHH
Also, Pittsburgh was number 29, so 28 world cities are better to live in, and none of them are in the US. What the fuck US? 29th is the best you can do?
I've always taken a Man Cold to be any ailment that is not a cold but a man is toughing out and saying "it's just a cold"
In a study about the world's most livable cities, Pittsburgh was the highest ranking US city. I'm fairly surprised about this, but I've never lived in another large city to know what an "unlivable" city is like.
But the US does have some of the worst healthcare in the world and almost the highest newborn infant death rate too.
But the US does have some of the worst healthcare in the world and almost the highest newborn infant death rate too.
Defunding planned parenthood is a great idea though.
I honestly don't know what the fuck is going on with the government and I just want to go and slap some of these people. Especially the ones who don't have vaginas and don't have to worry about breast and cervical cancer.
Also, Pittsburgh was number 29, so 28 world cities are better to live in, and none of them are in the US. What the fuck US? 29th is the best you can do?
A heavy weight is put on all gun related crime as violent crime as well as things like obesity levels (inherently tied to culture and environment) non-vehicular access to facilities (I think somewhere like Pheonix has a accident and emergency hospital that it is illegal to access without a car), air pollution levels and so on. The US does a lot of things very well, alas when it doesn't do something well, in the view of the developed international community, it tends to do them very badly. It's this counterbalance that knocks US cities down the scale. Other more "livable" cities might not do somethings as well, but it will do other things less badly. Events like New Orleans revealed the massive social inequities that exist in the US but by and large "the American Dream" isn't that interested in redressing them. Although by no means exemplified by the American members of this board, there exists a national social tendancy towards greed and selfishness.
In my mind she greets everyone with "How's it going bro, orright eh?"
For the record, I really don't think I say "aboot", but I must point out that the vowel sound in "sorry" is O. Not "ah", or "aw". I'm sorry, not sahrry.
For the record, I really don't think I say "aboot", but I must point out that the vowel sound in "sorry" is O. Not "ah", or "aw". I'm sorry, not sahrry.
one of my housemates plays saxaphone. don't get me wrong, he's really, really good. probably the best saxaphonist I know. unfortunately I also find saxaphone SO ANNOYING PLEASE GO TO A PRACTICE ROOM IN THE MUSIC STUDIOS AHHHH
friend-zoned [...] drunken kissing
Why is it so hard to ask for recommendation letters? Why why why. I mean, this is not like asking someone out. This is going to really hurt if one of my professors says no. :c
Also I want to smack myself for not asking for these letters a month ago.
I'm kind of trying to write a Golden Girls Broadway musical because I think it is the most important idea ever.
Why is it so hard to ask for recommendation letters? Why why why. I mean, this is not like asking someone out. This is going to really hurt if one of my professors says no. :c
Also I want to smack myself for not asking for these letters a month ago.
I think I just fixed 4 months worth of disk I/O errors buy unplugging my SATA cable and plugging it back in again.
Way I did it is to approach your profs about what programs they suggest as far as grad schools go. Smooth transition.
Unrelated, I reeeeeally want a baby right now. I mean not now really. It is a bad time, I have no money, grad school blah blah. When I was going to go for a PhD the idea of having time or money for a child was so far away that I had pushed it into the "maybe someday, no need to think about it category" but now I have so much more hope of having a career in the next few years that I have to start thinking about it for real now. Also it helps that I have spent some time with my 2 year old niece recently. She loves me, and is adorable and the best. She has been making my ovaries nudge me and say "eeehh, we could do that!" But lets get into and then out of a graduate program before we give in to them, eh?
I've never heard it as an insult before, but I really want to now.
I had a dream that Patrick and I got in a knife fight on a bus because he called a black dude "Donut Hole".
Is that actually a thing? Is that a racist term?
I've never heard it as an insult before, but I really want to now.
Even if it gets you in a knife fight?
hey yo girl im tryna lick yr donut hole, whats up chocolate icing?
did you just look up prices(?) cause it isn't that expensive...Then why'd you move in with 17 people!
Personally I try not to surprise people with my nudity. In fact usually I preface people seeing me unclothed with a short powerpoint presentation and a pamphlet so that they can be prepared.
I live in a mansion :) (sort of...)Ah, I was gonna say, even in criminally expensive urban centers like San Francisco, 10 people to a house is pretty affordable.
IN THIS FAN FICTION, a girl is at a justin bieber concert and she's in line to meet him where she gets his autograph and a picture and a hug. she goes home that night and discovers that he slipped his number in her purse. she calls him and they go on a date. that night, her daddy issues appear, and then she is supposed to go on a family vacation, but justin bieber swoops in and saves the day and takes her to the bahamas where he is performing.
there, they have awkward sixteen year old sex, and a PREGNANCY SCARE!!!!!!!! in which abortion is defined as "killing a precious, innocent baby".
and then the girl loses her best friend, because her best friend now views her as a "skank" and is like "don't talk to me anymore" because she had sex one time with justin bieber (HAHA, "ONE TIME").
and then they have sex for a SECOND TIME in which justin bieber uses the condoms that his agent "Scooter" had purchased for him.
then! justin bieber's FRIENDS come to hang out with the two of them! who say "i love you" to each other many times. and they mean it. oh by golly do they mean those words.
included in justin bieber's friends is his ex-girlfriend, caitlin, who, upon meeting the girl (whose name is allison but i didn't want to seem that invested in this to where i got to the point where i was referring to the stupid fucking characters by name), whispers something like "Justin bieber is MINE you whore" except "whore" is written as "wh*re"
and the girl is like, "why is she being so fake?"
and then justin bieber and his justin bieber friends go and play basketball.
and. i haven't read anymore than that.
i think i'm done.
I preface people seeing me unclothed with a short powerpoint presentation and a pamphlet so that they can be prepared.
Shut up, donut hole.
Have you been eating cheese while gaming recently?
Shut up, donut hole.
FUCK DAMMIT WHERE IS MY KNIFE?
These women are also known as "raging Lesbians", Chris.
i don't think you're really a lesbian anymore when you're busy to the point that both your social life and sex drive have dried up and withered away into dust months and months ago
"raging Lesbians"
I don't know, you guys. As a career move, saying no could easily wind up being a huge mistake. But saying yes would certainly mean the end of any kind of artistic aspirations I've ever had.
As well as that, unless you're stupid enough to sign a contract that hands over control to anything you do in your spare time, you will always be able to do your own thing on the side.
For those encouraging me to do it, I want you to be as informed as I am. This is some of the music I'd be playing. (http://www.myspace.com/aaronssamples) I can't even listen to it long enough to learn it.
I have just submitted my formal application to be allowed to continue working past my contractual retirement date.
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I remember there being a point whereby I was trying to find Tania so I could introduce her to the wife of my absolute all time hero and mentor, I looked around the church and she was on the floor play-fighting with Andy. I seem to recall my sentence went something like "Oh you should finally meet my girlfriend Tania who is.....*looks around, sees Andy and Tania on the floor slapping each other*....not here right now".
2.6 liter 4cyl engine. Wouldn't shock me all that much.
Just had an e-mail sent round to say that the company that services our lift has changed and is now Schindler Lifts.
Elapsed time to Godwining: 3 seconds.
Disappointing.
For those encouraging me to do it, I want you to be as informed as I am. This is some of the music I'd be playing. (http://www.myspace.com/aaronssamples) I can't even listen to it long enough to learn it.
I have just submitted my formal application to be allowed to continue working past my contractual retirement date.
They have formally agreed this; I will not be thrown on the scrap heap in six months. Actually, I feel pretty great that they didn't even feel a need to discuss it before saying yes - it would have been so easy for them to justify retiring me and getting someone cheaper. Competence trumps money!
We had those at my old work, I think it took us about the same amount of time
Never fuck with a bunch of hipster kids and a professional Elvis impersonator.
Let me tell you guys a story about an alcoholic named Steve.
I really want to see a kids show based on a group of hipster kids led by an old, fat Elvis impersonator now.
Let me tell you guys a story about an alcoholic named Steve.
I'm gonna get my foot in. I'm gonna do it. Even if it takes all day.
I haven't slept for 42 hours and now I'm gonna watch a David Lynch film.
Also dudes I have spent pretty much all day reading about beer brewing and how it's really easy to do at home, and it reminded me of an idea I had not so long ago about starting a forum brewing club, so, any of y'all interested? Excitement! Cheap and delicious beer! The ultimate punx hobby for everyone that isn't a straightedger, and even if you are, you can always join the club and brew some water! Grow your own hops! Fuck the police!
...And they will know us by the trail of hugs
...And they will know us by the trail of hugs
Amazing. Magnificent.
The Notorious H.U.G.
Future of the Hugs
Oh man, Hugclusky.
Hugs and not U
Someone Still Hugs You Boris Yeltsin
Hugs and not U
:(
Hugs and not U
:(
Don't be sad, there's always Hugs for the Painfully Alone.
I see someone on twitter suggested "Manic Hug Preachers". If someone who has twitter could suggest instead "Manic Street Huggers" that would make me happy.
Natalie Portman's Shaved Hug
I see someone on twitter suggested "Manic Hug Preachers". If someone who has twitter could suggest instead "Manic Street Huggers" that would make me happy.
Man we are totally clogging up the blog thread.
Harry, can you maybe turn this into a separate thread? I'll send you a Motorhug album.
Man we are totally clogging up the blog thread.
Harry, can you maybe turn this into a separate thread? I'll send you a Motorhug album.
I think I'm out. Gonna go back to watching The Killing. this is all just too damn happy!
That just sounds so lovely. Maybe I should change my username to that.
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For the Australians:
Underground Huggers
Radio Hugman
You Am Hugs
So far, a good afternoon at work. Very good.
I just realized that today is both Mardis Gras and International Women's Day. I just find that kinda funny.
I just realized that today is both Mardis Gras and International Women's Day. I just find that kinda funny.
Wait what? Pancake day was last tuesday! That's what everyone told me! Apparently they were wrong?
I just realized that today is both Mardis Gras and International Women's Day. I just find that kinda funny.
Show me yr tits.
I#ve spent the day and evening by myself being grumpy and depressed.
Sounds like you've got the day-after-hugs come-down.
i will fight the patriarchy by eating one hundred of them
I'm in love with Donald Glover (donglover)You mean Donald Hugger
I've been feeling really, really sad/angry and I can't figure out why. This is no fun.
I haven't slept for 42 hours and now I'm gonna watch a David Lynch film.
Also dudes I have spent pretty much all day reading about beer brewing and how it's really easy to do at home, and it reminded me of an idea I had not so long ago about starting a forum brewing club, so, any of y'all interested? Excitement! Cheap and delicious beer! The ultimate punx hobby for everyone that isn't a straightedger, and even if you are, you can always join the club and brew some water! Grow your own hops! Fuck the police!
I feel you, dogg. I'm glad your life is less shit than it was.
Why did she open your post? That is quite odd. Unless you have really similar names or something and she didn't notice.
I have a feeling that in the UK, it is treason to open other people's post without permission - all mail belongs to the Crown from the moment it's posted until the moment it arrives at its destination (i.e. the recipient's hands).
Dad and trupunx things aren't necessarily exclusive to one another.This is SigWorthy (TM).
i kind of hope it turns up somehow before the end of the semester because i was really looking forward to spending my tax return on like... clothes instead of this.
i'm more offended by pajamas in public
I really dislike being given free stuff I won't ever use. When am I ever going to wear a 'Fruit and Veg: Eat It' cap? When is anyone going to wear it?
ironically?
Jens, that is the strangest thing. I can't even think of one plausible explanation. It's a dressing gown. That's what roughly 80% of the western world wears in the morning. It's not offensive to any race, creed or culture.
I must confess that there's something about a dressing gown worn in public that feels a bit off to me. In fairness, I can't justify it at all
It's no more unhygienic than the guy who wears the shirt he slept in to the public breakfast.Oh I'm totally that guy.
the total time ever you have used the forums. so, you have spent 216 hours of your life reading or posting things here.
Yeah, that's the thing about clicking tabs all the time and not really actually being here, I can spend whole days on my computer doing other stuff and still clicking a new forum tab, so it looks like I've been in here an entire day. Like today! Go lazy Sundays!
Guys we do this every couple of months
Sam, it sounds like the exact problem my Tele's been having. I think it's just a shitty solder job.
oh yeah? whenever i lift the body of the bass, if the pickups are facing the ceiling or moving to do so it'll get muchofuxxed. hmmm. it's the input jack soldering? sorry i'm blind when it comes to guitar wiring et al
@Linds: Can't whatever bibliography collating software you're using do all that for you?
This just in: I got a letter from my uni that I've been accepted into the grad program! And I'm being awarded some type of financial aid! Woohoo!
An Irish man walks into a pub. The bartender asks him, "what'll you have?"
The man says, "Give me three pints of Guinness please."
So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to alternately sip one, then the other, then the third until they're gone. He then orders three more.
The bartender says, "Sir, I know you like them cold. You don't have to order three at a time. I can keep an eye on it and when you get low I'll bring you a fresh cold one."
The man says, "You don't understand. I have two brothers, one in Australia and one in the States. We made a vow to each other that every Saturday night we'd still drink together. So right now, my brothers have three Guinness Stouts too, and we're drinking together.
The bartender thought that was a wonderful tradition.
Every week the man came in and ordered three beers.
Then one week he came in and ordered only two.
He drank them and then ordered two more.
The bartender said to him, "I know what your tradition is, and I'd just like to say that I'm sorry that one of your brothers died."
The man said, "Oh, me brothers are fine----I just quit drinking."
Though Hannah tells me I'm now obligated to grow a neckbeard
We called Microsoft and they were the most unhelpful so long story short I am now using Ubuntu. It's really weird? But I like it well enough. It's pretty and it works and that's really all I need it to do. The whole, only being able to use open source software thing is a little weird but that's cool.
Though Hannah tells me I'm now obligated to grow a neckbeard, that's less cool.
The whole, only being able to use open source software thing is a little weird but that's cool.
that xp era gui?
The whole, only being able to use open source software thing is a little weird but that's cool.
Also not true, but ok.
I have to pack up everything in my room and move it to the cellar so that the room is totally empty for the visitors who are coming to stay for two nights. Then I will have to unpack it all again on Monday until some time in May when I will pack it all up again, and then unpack again until a later weekend in May when I will have to move out AGAIN and then hopefully that will be that until I leave in July.
I HATE PACKING SO MUCH THIS IS REALLY STUPID THEY ARE ONLY HERE FOR TWO NIGHTS I AM SURE THEY DO NOT NEED THE BOOKSHELVE, THE WARDROBE, ALL THE DRAWERS AND THE ENTIRE SHELF IN THE BATHROOM.
I don't think it's a thing in N. America? I haven't seen any mention of it, anyways. And in Australia it's not til June 24th
Thoughts and prayers, man.
dovey i'ma try as best i can to make it to banff but if push comes to shove i may have to hatch some sort of plan involving either a life-sized cardboard cutout attached to a recording of my voice or a faked death so like... you know, just a heads up
also at one point i was in a shopping plaza smoking a cigarette with my friend beth and then some kids drove by us and shouted at her "GET A REAL MAN."
BLOG THREAD: I am less sad now!
This is actually just a good excuse for me to get off my ass and come to Van sometime soonish.
that would basically rule
Seriously an hour drive? I take a hour and a half to get to uni four days a week. Go the fuck to Canada.I'm pretty sure you ARE smart enough to do them. Stress with uni is definitely going to be a factor. I think you need to consider whether the stress you are feeling is relating to the difficulties of the course or the fact that you're having to balance all these factors at the same time. I would say the later. Consider that they're going to have fairly high expectations of you in terms of workload etc as they want to prepare you for the professional world.
Ok so if any of this post becomes incomprehensible gibberish, keep in mind I am posting from my phone.
So lately I've been freaking out a lot about basically everything. I still am but its become this quiet seething worry. I don't think I'm going to pass any of my units because I'm pretty sure I'm not smart enough to do this. I'm starting to worry about money because I realise I forgot to pay our power bill so I have to dig into my savings which is not really significant anyway and is really just for the rent I need to pay.next week. While I start my new job on Friday, it is monthly pay so I don't think ill see any money from that until the end of April.
I emailed someone about extra tutoring for the stats but I don't think i can afford to do it nor do I really have the time. I am starting to think I should try and find myself a therapist because I'm having really horrible depression and anxiety over all this and oh man I just don't know what to do but I don't think I have the time for it either (not to mention constantly feeling like I'm not worth helping anyway?). I'm still thinking about withdrawing from uni because I'm really not sure I can handle this. It seemed so important to me before but now I just feel shit all the time and I really don't know what to do. I'm not really asking for advice, though feel free to weigh in. I just kind of wanted to express this because running over it in my head is not helping at all.
"yknow, I was looking at you today and thinking that you look really eleven."what a great compliment!
rock in vancouver in august
kind of just want to drink a lot but i know that is a bad idea. also kind of wish i had longer in vancouver. i don't know if i'll be ready to leave by wednesday.
rock in vancouver in august
hey hey you guys hey keep me in the loop on this
kind of just want to drink a lot but i know that is a bad idea. also kind of wish i had longer in vancouver. i don't know if i'll be ready to leave by wednesday.
That is one of the worst parts about traveling home for a funeral, your time in the place is just taken up by all of these unpleasant things and then you have to go right back over to your other life separate from what has happened.