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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1100 on: 08 Mar 2009, 08:23 »

Hi blog thread,

I had a shitty week at work that really stressed me out a lot, my kid has become afraid of the dark and wakes up a lot during the night, and I was really really hoping for a relaxing fun weekend.  So far, it is not working out as I had planned.

Rachel, will we be hanging out next weekend? I was thinking about going out for drinks with Rita at some point.
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« Reply #1101 on: 08 Mar 2009, 11:50 »

Nooo! My clocks are already set, but there are like 1000 reasons I love daylight savings time. Actually, there are two.

1. Like Inlander said, there is nothing as awesome as having it be light really late during the summertime.
2. I get an extra hour of sleep tonight and I get to feel like I'm staying up late for the next few days! Yeah, I know that the hour comes from somewhere, and it is a bit of a pain waking up and going to sleep earlier when DST starts, but it will still feel really luxurious to be waking up and going to sleep "later" right now.

Wait, did that make sense? I get so confused about all of this...

wow, fourteen-year old ally, what the fuck were you thinking

daylight saving time SUCKS I want my hour back
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1102 on: 08 Mar 2009, 12:01 »

Ally, thank you for one of the strangest posts I've ever seen.
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« Reply #1103 on: 08 Mar 2009, 12:20 »

man ally you can't deny late summer nights when it doesn't get dark till 9.

anyway last night was fucking rad. meeting new people (aka cute girls) in a basement and the driving home squeezing as many people as we can into my friends car. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw yeah.

also last night felt like a summer night. i mean, the trees were bare and there were no crickets and it was dark early but it won't be the latter anymore and plus it was like 70 degrees and its even warmer today!
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1104 on: 08 Mar 2009, 13:53 »

We'd have late summer nights even if we didn't have day light saving time. It's around to have it be lighter earlier in the morning during winter, not so it hangs around later in the summer.

I hate daylight savings. My body does not like reprogramming itself to get up an hour earlier. I'm really tired. :c
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« Reply #1105 on: 08 Mar 2009, 14:59 »

Rachel, will we be hanging out next weekend? I was thinking about going out for drinks with Rita at some point.

I have faye next weekend.  I didn't know you'd be in the area.

Also, regarding daylight savings, fuck it.  It made me miss a show that faye and I were gonna see because I forgot to set the clock. 
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1106 on: 08 Mar 2009, 15:01 »

I think that Arizona is the only state that does not do daylight-saving time.  The state does not, but all of the federal lands (including the reservations and national parks) do.  This means that we never know what time it is.  We usually go by "California" time or "New Mexico" time.  However, having areas of daylight-saving time and non-daylight-saving time, you can get a neat time-dilation effect if you travel fast enough on certain roads in the state. 

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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1107 on: 08 Mar 2009, 15:40 »

Hawaii doesn't do daylight savings time.  There's no need, since basically nobody shares its time zone.

So I've been partying Friday and Saturday nights like crazy for the past 3 weekends.  My life is fucking cool nowadays even though there's very little to be said about it in terms of new stuff.
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« Reply #1108 on: 08 Mar 2009, 16:14 »

Good for Hawa'ii. 
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« Reply #1109 on: 08 Mar 2009, 18:37 »

Last night I got an email from one of the former grad students from school that I worked with and also house sat for saying that her daughter was missing.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090308/NEWS01/303080018/

I want to send her (the mother) an email or card, but I honestly haven't the slightest clue what to say.
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« Reply #1110 on: 08 Mar 2009, 18:46 »

I hear ya. I have trouble coming up with what to say on sympathy cards for deaths that were expected. But for something like that...
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1111 on: 08 Mar 2009, 19:45 »

actual blog:

my brother's school (to which I applied) never received my SAT scores, apparently. my parents are flipping out and telling me how stupid and irresponsible I am and how I'm going to have to go to a "lesser" school because I messed up.

and so I just realized that maybe I sent my scores wrong to every school? I think I was supposed to send them directly from the college board, but I thought that my school sent them since they were part of my transcript. so I don't even know what this means except that I feel like vomiting everywhere.
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« Reply #1112 on: 08 Mar 2009, 19:56 »

wait what this means is that barring a miracle I am not going to university next year.

I am so motherfucking stupid.

I got a 2340, too.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1113 on: 08 Mar 2009, 19:59 »

so I guess I just definitively proved that test scores have no correlation to actual intelligence?
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1114 on: 08 Mar 2009, 20:08 »

oh my fucking god, ally.  i have no idea what words could make you feel better but i hope you do soon, anyway.  but yeah, definitely don't give up!
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« Reply #1115 on: 08 Mar 2009, 20:13 »

okay done panicking. sorry.

tomorrow I will call every school and see if I can rush my scores. I think the reason that I neglected this is because the school that I applied to early received a score report since I listed it as my first choice after I took the SATs. I assumed that I didn't need to do anything extra for the other schools, too.

okay I can fix this, I hope. I probably need a year off. I want to be very far away from here and learn how to be responsible for myself. it often hits me how I was raised in a very vibrant and intellectually-stimulating environment that has done practically nothing for me in the way of common sense.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1116 on: 08 Mar 2009, 20:31 »

The same thing happened to me, actually, getting into my school. I faxed the scores directly to them, sent them twice via mail, and as the deadline approached they never had a copy on file (this was in part due to the bureacracy of the school, but also because my full name was shared by at least 2 other students). So we just kept making calls and eventually somebody called me and said "we couldn't find your scores but we're going to let you in anyway." So, uh, persistence!
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1117 on: 08 Mar 2009, 20:44 »

see you have to have the college board do it officially, which costs money. the college board has the most disgusting monopoly on american standardized testing.

it's a really flawed/lousy system. I just hope that my applications get processed because fuck I worked really fucking hard. I'm going to go to bed and try not to stay up all night worrying.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1118 on: 08 Mar 2009, 20:47 »

Get people on the phone and they have to deal with a real human being in real time conversation.

This is actually pretty ridiculous. People can passively ignore e-mails, but something about the voice and the imminence means results. Also you can be charming.
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« Reply #1119 on: 08 Mar 2009, 23:23 »

Dearest Bloggles,

So I guess I have throat plague.  My glands are swollen to the size of golf balls and I am constantly taking pain killers just so I can swallow/eat without crying.  It is really awful and bad and is making my ears and neck hurt terribly as well!  Doctor tomorrow to make sure I don't have tonsillitis or something.  I am hoping for some kind of gross throat infection because tonsillitis is balls.

In other news, the new boy is incredibly wonderful and we are still really stupidly smitten with each other and it is AWESOME because he is actually a decent person, unlike Loxley.

Love Jodie.
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« Reply #1120 on: 08 Mar 2009, 23:57 »

man ally you can't deny late summer nights when it doesn't get dark till 9.
You should come to Jamaica.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1121 on: 09 Mar 2009, 00:00 »

In other other news, my new boy is moving to Canada. I knew this was a possibility but now that it is a reality I am surprised at how very sad I am. I am happy for him too, for sure, but I really really like him and I am going to miss him awfully!
To make up for my sadness I am going to try and organise to do a pub exchange in London when my lease expires this time next tyear.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1122 on: 09 Mar 2009, 00:18 »

Blah, guess who started dripping blood out of his nose just as he was about to leave for work, and now will be late :/

Also, wednesday, i need to have my endreport finished, so the repro dept can get a bunch printed, i suppose i should start to stress a bit :)
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1123 on: 09 Mar 2009, 00:30 »

It seems that mum and I are the only people in this house that notice that things smell/need cleaning/need tidying around here, and only one of us actually lives here (protip: it's not mum). I am cleaning out the fridge right now rather than making muffins because no one else will. I don't want to become the cleaning fairy around here, but jesus people, the milk had been off for so long it was a water-y type liquid with the remains of the milk in a brainy-looking substance at the top of the bottle. And it had been in the fridge like that for weeks after it was first mentioned that it should be thrown out!

I just want to make berry-cinnamon muffins, but need to clear the rest of the sink of dishes so I have somewhere to clean up my mess, which means I have to clean up their mess first. It's not fair living in a boys' household.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1124 on: 09 Mar 2009, 00:58 »

Dear blog thread,

I've been spamming you quite a bit, but I actually have something to blog about now. Yesterday (it's 2:48 AM now, so "yesterday"), I was quite pissed off at my parents who despise me, and think I'm the screw-up of the entire family, and decided to be complete assholes to me today, because my mother is one of those Super-Christians who think that going to church whenever the doors are open will make them a better person, and by putting my socks on 1 minute later than her, I was preventing that from happening.

Anyways. What I was saying, before rambolifications occurred, was that I was pissed off, but when I actually got to the church service (induction of new Pastor) and decided to stay outside where I could avoid other pretentious Super-Christians, my female University friend who I haven't seen at church for 2 weeks popped up. Which was a nice surprise (The B' is fine). She was hungry, so she drove us down to Island Grill (Sorry, best link I could find, thread). We stayed in her car and chatted, which made me feel much better. Especially remembering that her situation is probably worse (came to Jamaica from Barbados for UWI, got her place broken into and ransacked, alienated by one of the more important Super-Christians at our church, and alienated at school because said SC's son, who's doing the same course at UWI decided to be a jerk to her, etc.).

Also, a girl who I'm fond of (not like that) came back for Spring Break, and I spent time with her too... AND a girl I like for liking's sake, and another girl who I haven't seen in a while (those girls are fine).

So, I came home fed and feeling much better.

Thank you, life.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1125 on: 09 Mar 2009, 01:32 »

I just want to make berry-cinnamon muffins, but need to clear the rest of the sink of dishes so I have somewhere to clean up my mess, which means I have to clean up their mess first. It's not fair living in a boys' household.

Me too! Despite being a boy it is still very frustrating being the only one in my house who gives 1/8 of a shit about whether or not the dishes have been done for two weeks or not. This is especially sucky seeing as I work horrible, horrible hours and then when I get home I end up doing other people's housework instead of getting to relax for once in my life. I'm currently housesitting for my parents and I swear to God if I come home at the end of the week and there is a sink full of dishes I am going to shit in all of my housemates' beds, no joke.

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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1126 on: 09 Mar 2009, 01:49 »

It seems that mum and I are the only people in this house that notice that things smell/need cleaning/need tidying around here, and only one of us actually lives here (protip: it's not mum). I am cleaning out the fridge right now rather than making muffins because no one else will. I don't want to become the cleaning fairy around here, but jesus people, the milk had been off for so long it was a water-y type liquid with the remains of the milk in a brainy-looking substance at the top of the bottle. And it had been in the fridge like that for weeks after it was first mentioned that it should be thrown out!

I just want to make berry-cinnamon muffins, but need to clear the rest of the sink of dishes so I have somewhere to clean up my mess, which means I have to clean up their mess first. It's not fair living in a boys' household.

Live with other women. I basically choose the households I will be living in based entirely around whether or not I will be too busy to actually lead a clean and sanitary existence over the course of the lease.

Also I have moved into a household full of all dude stoners aw yeah its gonna be a busy year.

(there is a trail of ants leading from the back door to the front door that seems pretty much permanent but they seem to stay away from major food preparation and storage areas so I am ok with it.

The bathroom has pornography and old copies of street press in it.

You all know the kind of house I am talking about. I am looking forward to getting my mess on.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1127 on: 09 Mar 2009, 02:58 »

I need a new housemate to replace Lunchy! As cool as it is with just me and HOUSEMATE X, just two dudes playing video games, working out and generally being rad (and surprisingly tidy) I just can't afford to pay the rent without splitting it three ways.

Don't suppose anyone wants to move into Lunchy's old room?
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« Reply #1128 on: 09 Mar 2009, 03:26 »

PS Hannah the trick is to not bother cleaning up your own mess and having a smug sense of self satisfaction as the house slides into anarchy, that it was you keeping it together in the first place.
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« Reply #1129 on: 09 Mar 2009, 03:34 »

But what if I want to make more muffins? The ones I made in an angry fit of anger are delicious, so surely I will want to make more?


I am thinking I will just clean up my mess and leave my brother's mess where it is. Maybe pile all his sheet music on his bed with a note saying "CLEAN UP YOUR MESS YOU STUPID FUCK" when he is in Sydney so I don't really deal with it. Once we get wireless in the house again I will basically be living in my room while occasionally going to the kitchen to make food. I did that in Canberra last year, so it can't be that hard to do it again.
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« Reply #1130 on: 09 Mar 2009, 05:24 »

Oh good lord what possessed me to read The Joyce Letters at work
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« Reply #1131 on: 09 Mar 2009, 05:27 »

Dear Bøg-Thread:

So, apparently our class got second in the German class competition. Long story short, a class with five pupils won 6k NOK (850 dollarz). This is pretty sweet. We are supposed to spend it on a "class party", but we're thinking that we could bring along our common friends to a cabin in the mountains and get drunk or something. Pretty sweet deal.
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« Reply #1132 on: 09 Mar 2009, 05:29 »

Alllllllllly, daylight savings is great. When else are you going to be able to sit on someone's verandah drinking beers as the sun sets at eight at night. I am going to miss it in two weeks time when we regress back in to winter time. But
I guess we get winter weather to make up for it. I would miss you, summer, if it weren't for my mistress, winter, who is prettier than you when it is overcast.
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« Reply #1133 on: 09 Mar 2009, 05:38 »

High-fives for overcast weather! Woooo

Although that being said it felt about as hot today as it ever did during summer. I sweated so much my sunglasses fogged up.
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« Reply #1134 on: 09 Mar 2009, 05:53 »

I'm back on the internet again. Apparently the problem was our routery modem thing, so now we're using one from 1996 that we found living in the cupboard under the stairs. I'm surfing the net.
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« Reply #1135 on: 09 Mar 2009, 06:10 »

Hey guys, remember the girl that used to work at the cafe from way back?

We're hanging out this week. Talking about feelings. We've been texting a lot and realizing that we're both kinda fucked up and really need to vent. So we're gonna hang out and talk.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1136 on: 09 Mar 2009, 07:34 »

Dear Blog Thread,

The only thing really keeping me going through shitty weather and the monotony of the time still to go until summer is the idea that at the end of it all I have a 'make money quick' job in the bag.  With the 1000 dollars I will earn in two weeks, I will go with my four closest friends on an Epic Roadtrip to the Giant Kaleidoscope in the Catskills.  Now fielding tips for Epic Roadtrips, as this will be the first one that I ever partake in.
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« Reply #1137 on: 09 Mar 2009, 08:38 »

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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1138 on: 09 Mar 2009, 08:45 »

But what if I want to make more muffins? The ones I made in an angry fit of anger are delicious, so surely I will want to make more?

Hanna, just don't bake while you're feeling passionate. I'm sure the last thing you want is for your brother to eat your baked goods, get so hot and bothered he needs to take a shower (which he sets on fire) then get swept away on the back of a Mexican revolutionary's horse.

(I really hope someone gets the reference)

Anyways, my future roommate and I are ducking out of lab early today so we can check out some more apartments. It just occured to me that I won't have any official income until the middle of May, and while that's before we move in I'm not sure that any of the rental companies will be ok with this. I don't exactly have a lot of family who would co-sign for me.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1139 on: 09 Mar 2009, 08:53 »

living with women and not cleaning up so that everyone else notices how messy the house is without you doesn't always work, sadly. i have lived with some pretty filthy ladies, and even when the house started to slide into the catastrophe zone because i stopped cleaning, all that happened was that my dishes and pans and tupperware and stuff started getting so moldy that i ended up having to throw them in the garbage. it was kind of a lose-lose situation no matter what. so uh, just try to live with people who are not horrible filthy monsters and respect you enough to try to keep your stuff clean, i guess.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1140 on: 09 Mar 2009, 09:51 »

Dear Christopher,

Notification has been sent to you/your home university separately to
confirm that we are happy to admit you to the Study Abroad Programme at
the University of Glasgow for the 2009-2010 session.

We will be sending you an admission letter very soon, outlining the next
steps you need to take. Additionally, we will also be sending you
feedback from the departments you wish to apply to.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require anything additional.

Thanks
Rhona Gordon

Hell yeah, man! That's awesome. One of my best friends since I was like 14 is gonna be living in Edinburgh around that time. If I save up enough money to visit her we should hang out and buy Teenage Fanclub 7"s.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1141 on: 09 Mar 2009, 10:35 »

Yeah, and we will also do rad things.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1142 on: 09 Mar 2009, 11:50 »

I came home early from school today and made a lot of phone calls. everyone was polite and understanding and it appears that all of my applications will be processed. whew.

now back to worrying about important things, like boys and parties and making it to europe this summer.

ps: jens, watchmen wasn't very good. I really did not like it.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1143 on: 09 Mar 2009, 11:59 »

FUCK this little town

You have to get your perspectives straightened out. Other than that, shit sounds sucky for you. Getting bad grades because the teacher thinks the paper should have been written somehow differently sucks balls.


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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1144 on: 09 Mar 2009, 12:02 »

I know, I'm just saying. honestly I've found that even with my closest friends, I often have to take initiative. it takes a lot of effort to establish the comfortable type of friendship where you assume that you will see whatever movie when it comes out. if you eat lunch with them at school but don't often see them outside of school, maybe they are used to that and don't think to invite you along? it seems unlikely that they are consciously neglecting to invite you places.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1145 on: 09 Mar 2009, 12:32 »

Some people are willing to do things, and some just do  them.  I think in my whole life I only have one long-term friend who takes the initiative something like half the time.  All the rest, it's a matter of my getting on their case and organising something (or not, unless my wife nags me to).  And it's great, they are real friends; it's just that they (and me, truth be told) have enough interests of their own to keep them fully occupied until they are prodded out of it.

It's the way the world is.  Do not  get into the way of thinking that they are not proper friends just because of this, or you'll end up lonelier than you think you are now. 

At your age, I didn't even have  friends to complain about!
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1146 on: 09 Mar 2009, 12:50 »

I get that from my friends too sometimes, that it's always me who has to arrange to meet up and do something. I have mentioned it a couple of times to them that this bothered me and then they made an effort to show more initiative. Maybe you could try that, Jeans? Right now it's mostly my friends who ask me to go out and do things, though. 

I went to a Nigerian party on Saturday! Nigerian parties really are the best. I wanted to get out of the house so I asked my friend to include me into any of her activities, and she took me to the party for the first birthday of her baby goddaughter. Apparently, it's completely acceptable at Nigerian parties to just bring people along without announcing it beforehand. I normally am not such a big fan of huge groups of people who I do not know, and I was the only white person there and I didn't know anybody apart from my friend, so I could have felt really left out. BUT everybody was really really loved me and they all hugged and kissed me. Almost everybody had brought there partner and kids, they had a bouncy castle with children hopping on it the whole time. I felt tempted to join in, but my friend told me that would not be acceptable behaviour for somewhat who is considered to be a grown-up. I also managed to meet the only bachelor at the party. I was introduced to this guy named Kingsley, and he asked me pretty quickly if I was married to which I said no. i felt obligated to ask him if he was married, and he wasn't. Then we just sat there for a while and pondered on this. - When I left, everybody told me they hoped to see me again soon.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1147 on: 09 Mar 2009, 13:21 »

I do not want to start another techie flame war. But today I disabled all the visual options on my new-ish HP laptop. It's like seeing the ugly, ugly truth behind the processor-sucking Matrix for the first time. I keep stopping whatever I'm doing just to giggle at the interface, I might as well be running Windows 98.
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Re: Blog Thread II: Beyond Blogosphere.
« Reply #1148 on: 09 Mar 2009, 13:50 »

Jens, I had friends like that and then they wondered why they never saw me. Some people just don't think. But then again, I don't really hang out with those people anymore. Just go see the movie with someone else or by yourself. I thought it was worth the experience.
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« Reply #1149 on: 09 Mar 2009, 13:54 »

Ow. My back hurts, I think I have pulled something by spending too much time twisting in odd directions at work and trying to lift crates of lager that are too heavy for me.

So I have a friend who really likes this guy, and the guy told her he liked her too but he had to get stuff sorted with his ex-girlfriend before anything could happen between them. Today I found out that the guy has "sorted out" stuff with his ex in that they are back together, but he hasn't yet told my friend (he thought she knew. Yeah, right. The two of them have been flirt-texting for about two weeks, she did not have a clue) and I am angry and confused and upset. The first problem is that the girl he is back with is horrible, she treated him badly the first time and there's no reason to think she won't do the same again. He freely admits this himself so I just don't get it. The second problem is that my friend is going to be absolutely gutted. In fact she probably already is, because I told him he had to ring her tonight and explain. The fact that he feels really guilty for unintentionally leading her on only slightly helps this situation.

It's times like this that I remember why I'm single.

I'm getting my hair done on Thursday! Going to cut it to shoulder length, perhaps get a fringe and book in for getting some blonde streaks put in. I am going to get a hair style! I am going to be a real girl!
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