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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Jo'ou Ranbu on December 31, 2009, 12:02:53 PM
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Told you I'd name the next topic after a Julie Andrews movie (technically, it's supposed to be about Anne Hathaway, but Andrews completely steals the scene anyway). At least, it's morning - though it's still 2009. So, you can wait to post until next year!
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Fuck you.
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In Soviet Good Morning 2010, Julie Andrews fucks you.
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Not interested, Zenny, but thanks~
And definitely not interested, Snow, thanks~
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Unless you killed Zenny overnight, wore his carcass and assumed his identity, I don't mean you.
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So what are all of you doing for New Year's Eve?
I work yet again since New Year's Eve isn't a holiday for us. Whoo-hoo.
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I blew my break time on Christmas, so I'm currently at work too. At least I'm done with work in like an hour and a half.
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Going to a party at a friend's. Will likely wake up there, too, since no one will be in a condition to get anyone else home afterward. >_>
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I work today from whenever to whenever (going in for 0800, probably), then have the next 3 days off. Not doing anything exceptionally special, but hey, off time is good (I'll still be going in to work so I can finish my research, though >_>)
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Building's shut down for the rest of the week so I can't work, so I haven't been sober in a couple of weeks. New Years Eve will follow the logical progression.
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Building's shut down for the rest of the week so I can't work, so I haven't been sober in a couple of weeks. New Years Eve will follow the logical progression.
Weren't you trying to cut back?
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I'll be taking pictures at a few parties around town for work. Meanwhile, my girlfriend is getting dragged to a barn dance by her co-workers, so we seem to be in a competition for who can have the lamest holiday.
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Clearly this should involve pictures of the barn dance to teach someone a lesson.
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Nothing for new years eve for us. Jenna and I might game, I dunno.
New Years Day is the sprog's birthday, though. I got him a USB controller and will set up ZSNES and maybe VBA on his comp with some good stuff. Then we'll go out to Maggiano's for dinner, per his request. The kid is an italian food nut.
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Not doing anything special this new years day. Sitting around and not dealing with my parents getting drunk on new years is a nice treat in of itself though :)
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~~~***HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SCOTLAND!***~~~
Make it a good one peeps =-)
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So what are all of you doing for New Year's Eve?
I work yet again since New Year's Eve isn't a holiday for us. Whoo-hoo.
Introducing people to my wildass alterego, Chuggernaut T. Stampede.
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~~~***HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM SCOTLAND!***~~~
Make it a good one peeps =-)
Happy New Year from o'er here, too.
Man, that was crazy. It's...
I was hugged by some dude who was sure I was someone he knew. GUESS SOMEONE HAD A DRINK TOO MANY.
Was also kissed by a girl under the same delusions.
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Building's shut down for the rest of the week so I can't work, so I haven't been sober in a couple of weeks. New Years Eve will follow the logical progression.
Weren't you trying to cut back?
That's probably just nonsense I was blithering about when I was hung over.
Whatever, the two weeks after college graduation are a perfect excuse for excess. Yes, yes.
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Spent New Years Eve watching the Oklahoma City Thunder play basketball. They won by one, it was a super exciting game. ^.^ Then spent the rest of the night nerding out on sports stats on the Internet, cuz why not.
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For New Years Eve, I went to bed at 8:30 after spending six hours playing games. I am at work right now doing my job. My New Year's resolution for this year is to average at least one post a day here.
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Writeups can always help you reach that posting goal!
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New Year's Day has come to an unspectacular and ordinary conclusion.
I spent it... doing... ordinary... things. I'm not one for spectacular parties and occasions...
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So far, this year has been 100% classy. When I was awoken by my phone (at nine, because my mother has no concept of how New Year's works or something) I was still suited up.
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I went to a party that a friend was high school was hosted. Got pleasantly drunk, basically only talked with 2 groups of 4 people, and made arraignments with someone I hadn't seen in 4 years to go to a shooting range tomorrow.
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New Year's Day was uneventful until this evening, when I drove to my customary gaming place - which I had confirmed last week would be open - for the last chance in a month I would have to play in a D&D campaign - in which we ended last session with my character about to try an extremely risky and important ritual. Over the course of this week, multiple other players called me to confirm that, yes, the store would be open and we'd be playing, because, hey, I'm the one who was asking the clerk last week and the one who has everybody's phone numbers (the GM was among the people asking, BTW).
So anyway, I drive to the shop and - lights off. No cars in parking lot. No sign of anyone about. Call up the clerk, the same clerk I explicitly asked last week, same clerk who fucking KNOWS I'm the organizer here (not that he informed the GM, either, mind), and oh, he's shocked, SHOCKED that I thought the shop would be open. Yeah.
Not like I blew off a fucking party invitation or anything because this would be my last chance to see these guys in a month, right? (Or longer, or maybe ever, since one is going in the army.)
So fuck you with a rusty spoon, "F"LGS, and I'll happily buy from fucking Amazon for 2/3 the price from now on.
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Gaming shops are inevitably a crapshoot. They're mainly useful for organization and a place to game. Reliability, not so much.
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I almost killed myself on the bench today!
Was benching 185 a couple of times and was going for my 12 rep when I couldn't get it up! It slowly sunk onto my chest while I could do nothing to get it off. Oh, I didn't have a spotter either! It's a shame since it was only my third set, so I should have had no problem finishing it, weird.
Either way I never lift weights with those saftey clamps on each side so I muscled one side up and the weights fell loudly onto the cushioned floor.
Oh, and I'm also the fitness center guy. It would have been embarassing had someone seen me, but luckily (Or unluckily) no one was around to help/see me fail.
Good start to the year!
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I went bowling and I was jabbering and I dropped a bowling ball on my foot. That was really funny/hurt really bad. Next couple of days were pretty painful for walking at times. Haa.
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I couldn't get it up! It slowly sunk onto my chest while I could do nothing to get it off. Oh, I didn't have a spotter either! It's a shame since it was only my third set, so I should have had no problem finishing it, weird.
Taking things out of context and deleting a few words makes things so funny.
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I went bowling and I was jabbering and I dropped a bowling ball on my foot. That was really funny/hurt really bad. Next couple of days were pretty painful for walking at times. Haa.
Obviously you're not a golfer.
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Blah blah New Year's Eve party at a friends, played video games and drank soda and ate pork. Cool night.
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January Third and Japanese schools are back in session (after a whole -week- of off-time!). Despite working on Christmas and a lousy mandatory $120 work party that evening, the vacation was full of sex, fun and relaxation. (Are you happy, Andrew? I didn't use a final comma in what could be a list. There's absolutely no ambiguity there.) There was even some RPGmon on the slow days, so I'm happy.
As a side note, RPGmon has to be the culmination of all our work on this site. It really pulls together all the topics and interp questions into a coherent whole. It's also a social activity in addition to being an RPG-crossover game, so it really hits all the high points of the DL at once.
Playing RPGmon again for the first time since before DLCon4 really inspired me to care about stat topics again. Someone needs to fix up the LoL stat topic. Preferably someone who still owns the game. Also, we could totally start databasing this stuff in the profiles.
New Year's Resolution? Hmm... I'm just so perfect already, I can't think of anything to change. >.>;;
Perhaps I'll just resolve to stop hitting on DL members so often? ^_^;;
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I think you already failed that one...
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RPGMON IS AWESOME AND SHOULD DO IT MORE OFTEN!!!
When people stop picking Lights with revival.
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I read a book on dating.
So far all I read is "It's all about exuding the 'I want to bang you but I don't want to do it immediately' aura."
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New Year's Resolution? Hmm... I'm just so perfect already, I can't think of anything to change. >.>;;
Perhaps I'll just resolve to stop hitting on DL members so often? ^_^;;
You'd lose your defining trait then.
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New Year's Resolution? Hmm... I'm just so perfect already, I can't think of anything to change. >.>;;
For starters, you could start growing some chest hair.
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You and your weird Brazillian fetishes. Chest hair looks gross on someone light-skinned like me. Dark chest hair would be too much contrast to the skin tone. You are holding me to your crazy bronzed-skin Brazillian standards. Clearly you should re-evaluate. I am already perfect~ :-*
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So, you're telling me you're getting a tan, -then- growing chest hair. Okay.
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Andrew and I are now planning a trip to England this fall. And by "Andrew and I are planning" I mean I am planning and Andrew will tag along.
Anyway, the fun part at this stage is deciding: when, after August, is the best time to go; how long to stay, given about one to one and a half weeks of paid leave; where to stay so that we can see/do the stuff in London; and how much to anticipate spending once there.
Anyone who's done international travel and/or lives in the U.K. want to offer some pointers?
(Sadly, yes, this is the first time either of us has been out of the country except for quick jaunts to Mexico before they changed the passport law. In fact, part of the planning process is finally applying for a passport. I am sure I could point out a few more American stereotypes we satisfy, but I'll leave that in more capable hands.)
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Why on earth do places of employment giving me two four-day weekends in a row is going to foster anything but absolute apathy when I return to work for a full week? Then we start discussing the potential for mandatory overtime...
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Andrew and I are now planning a trip to England this fall. And by "Andrew and I are planning" I mean I am planning and Andrew will tag along.
Anyway, the fun part at this stage is deciding: when, after August, is the best time to go; how long to stay, given about one to one and a half weeks of paid leave; where to stay so that we can see/do the stuff in London; and how much to anticipate spending once there.
Anyone who's done international travel and/or lives in the U.K. want to offer some pointers?
For seeing things in London, you'll probably want to stay in Victoria for at least part of the visit. It's pretty central, and the Underground station is on pretty much any line you might need, so makes it pretty easy to get around if you need to.
If nothing else, there are Premier Inns pretty much everywhere, so you can probably look them up easily enough and move to a new one every few nights to see everything you want.
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Anyone who's done international travel and/or lives in the U.K. want to offer some pointers?
Contrary to what Youtube may have told you, people don't randomly get into an elaborate dance routine very often.
They're called "chips", not "fries".
Harry Potter doesn't really exist and he won't be on your tour of Buckingham Palace, no matter how much that guy looks like him.
Seriously, though, I have a friend who went to school there for a year. I'll see if I can get some pointers from her.
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Anyway, the fun part at this stage is deciding: when, after August, is the best time to go; how long to stay, given about one to one and a half weeks of paid leave; where to stay so that we can see/do the stuff in London; and how much to anticipate spending once there.
Anyone who's done international travel and/or lives in the U.K. want to offer some pointers?
Yay, I'll be useful~
I honestly wouldn't recommend being there much after early October. It was nice for a week and then England revealed its true colors (do I have to spell that with a 'u'?) and became rainy and dark and cold. The hostels and hotels are certainly far cheaper, then, but it also makes visiting some historical (re: tourist) sites a royal pain in the ass due to shortened hours, and some outright closed sites.
Did I mention it will be raining the entire time?
Sooooo I'd recommend going mid-to-late September. Prices on touristy nonsense will be lower than they are in August but higher than they are later in the year.
A few other things:
Since you're only going to be there for a short time, plan as much as you can ahead of time. Most major cities have a tourism website and you can look up the major attractions and see what you'd visit. Winging it is way more fun but you need way more time to do it and get enough in to justify the trip.
Stay in a Hostel. Hotels are stupidly expensive, and staying in a Hostel allows you to meet a lot of other people and meeting people is like 70% of the goddamn point of travelling, if you ask me. If the whole "sleeping with 6 to 14 other people in a dormitory" thing sounds too sketchy, you can spend a little more to have to room with less people while still having access to hostel common rooms (and occasionally bars) and spend way less than you would at a hotel.
You'll only be going for a week and a half(?) so this might not be an issue, but if you're looking for a cheap meal, go to a Sainsbury's, Morrison's, Tesco's, or whatever other groceries there are to get food for one or two meals. You're almost always assured to spend less money than you would have otherwise. All I can remember is that cheese is stupidly expensive and alcohol is stupidly not.
You might look into getting a railcard. I'm 90% sure it won't be worth it (or possible) but my memory's fuzzy. They're nice and get you a discount on the railways. Buuuuut I'm pretty sure they're only for students and UK citizens so I dunno.
Manchester may not be your guys' thing, but it may be. Incredible music scene and good pubs, but horrible architecture, mediocre museums (though the People's History Museum was being renovated at the time, if that matters?), and I really don't recall much except that there were several bars featuring live music and every night I was there was a fucking blast. But if concert/bar hopping isn't your thing...
Uh. Don't bother going to Cardiff unless you're dead set on seeing Wales. Norwich is a nice city to live in but I'd hate to visit it. Newcastle was OK but unremarkable. I hear Edinburgh's a lot of fun, as is Scotland in general, but I never made it. Stonehenge is nice but Salisbury is a shithole. London, of course, is the best city of the lot but you assumed that anyway, didn't you?
Now, that being said, there's absolutely no reason to restrict yourself to England if there's not enough you want to see to keep you there the whole time (especially if you're planning on flying damn near ANYWHERE. This early in advance, budget airline tickets out of England to elsewhere are bound to be cheap. If it's a language barrier thing, I'd highly recommend Dublin, and I hear Belfast is an interesting city as well. (And would strongly discourage going to Scotland. Northern dialects are barely English). I won't bother writing about stuff in other countries, but there's absolutely no reason to remove the option from the table.
If you've got any other questions, feel free to ask.
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I am only good for generic travel and customs advice, but yeah I will try and chime in before you guys go off if you want.
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Scotland is absolutely amazing, at least the parts I saw. Everything looked like something out of a picture book. I am tempted to get a second job and spend the entire summer wandering the country.
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You might look into getting a railcard. I'm 90% sure it won't be worth it (or possible) but my memory's fuzzy. They're nice and get you a discount on the railways. Buuuuut I'm pretty sure they're only for students and UK citizens so I dunno.
You can get 5-day travel cards that give you unlimited free travelling within London with public transit (bus, tube, railway), as I recall, and you needn't be a student nor British f'rit. I ordered it from a website, but hell if I still know what website that was-- might be worth looking into if you care to make abundant use of public transit.
Day cards are available at the trainstation for I think 10 pounds otherwise and they are certainly a valid alternative if you won't travel every day or just don't plan on traveling too much.
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You might look into getting a railcard. I'm 90% sure it won't be worth it (or possible) but my memory's fuzzy. They're nice and get you a discount on the railways. Buuuuut I'm pretty sure they're only for students and UK citizens so I dunno.
Day cards are available at the trainstation for I think 10 pounds otherwise and they are certainly a valid alternative if you won't travel every day or just don't plan on traveling too much.
£6 is for the Tube day card for anywhere that matters (near enough all of London falls into Zones 1-4, and that's the one that's £6.)
You... might be able to get an Oyster card, which is £10 and cuts 2/3 off all train prices. Not sure if that's UK citizens only, but that info should be easy enough to find.
Did I mention it will be raining the entire time?
Sooooo I'd recommend going mid-to-late September. Prices on touristy nonsense will be lower than they are in August but higher than they are later in the year.
Welcome to England. Weather: Rain. Seriously, we had two weeks of sunshine last year. In October. >_>
Also, I'm toadilly thinking you should visit in mid-to-late September, if only because I can then drag you guys to Torquay for my birthday or something. >.>
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I think Oysters are students/UK-ians only. Travel card fees (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresandtickets/seasontickets/4805.aspx), but only from 7 day and onward... I'm sure I had a 3-day card, though. I've got to ask my classmates. Oyster info here (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/oysteronline/2732.aspx), which says:
Oyster photocards enable students and under-18s to travel free or at reduced rates. Discounted travel is also available to customers who hold a New Deal photocard or a Bus & Tram Discount photocard.
I recall they weren't an option for us.
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/me checks that page, clicks two more links.
http://visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/english.htm <-- Oyster cards for people visiting from abroad. If you're planning on tourning London, this is without a doubt your best bet.
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... Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
I'm so going to rage at the girl that planned our trip. That'll teach me to believe in others.
SCREW THE WORLD.
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And once again, the DL inspires someone else to become the BBEG and destroy the world. Time to give VSM another pointy stick and kick him out the door to Adventure!!! again.
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And once again, the DL inspires someone else to become the BBEG and destroy the world. Time to give VSM another pointy stick and kick him out the door to Adventure!!! again.
The last time we tried that, he stumbled into a Taitoro and spent two weeks frantically struggling against a barbed wire. He really can't go adventuring inside a wardrobe.
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And yet the closet is where VSM spends so much of his time.
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Exactly where hilarity ensues.
EDIT: Right, stuff that happened today. Yearly raise going to kick in. Woohoo 6% extra I'm rich. Also, I dropped my DS today before going to work, in one of the biggest scares I had in the last few months. It's not even scratched, though, and it's working fine still.
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Back from Florida!
Fantastic trip. 'cept having to stay at the border for nearly 4 hours.
I could go on about it, but I think most people get the gist of Florida. Beach volleyball, Disney World, fireworks on New Year's, Universal Studios, shopping, shopping, more shopping. Got mostly clothes (lotsa hoodies and jeans), two pairs of shoes (Osiris and Converse), a new awesome bag (Element), a pair of Skullcandy headphones (they were $18!), and various souvenirs here and there.
It was awesome. ^^
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How -many- headphones do you own?
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How -many- headphones do you own?
Up to four pairs with this new addition. My awesome pair of Bose, two pairs of Sony, and now the Skullcandy.
I've also got a multitude of earbuds, none of which matter, since they all end up sucking given enough time.
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I now have to consider the hypothesis that you're actually an octo-eared alien person thingy guy who plays mp3 files organically 24-7 with the current information at hand.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. >_>
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I now have to consider the hypothesis that you're actually an octo-eared alien person thingy guy who plays mp3 files organically 24-7 with the current information at hand.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. >_>
I lol'd pretty hard.
That's about as accurate a guess as they come. ;p
What can I say, music is like, one third of my life.
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Yay, tips! Thanks guys. :) I might hit you up again as I move along the planning process.
Briefly:
Was planning on early September, so mid-September works just as well. Picked specifically because it's shoulder season, not high or winter.
7-10 days is all we can get paid time off for, and not getting paid isn't likely an option. I would loooooove to stay long enough to tour around the whole country and its immediate surroundings, but then we get into my super-secret life's plan and I'm not yet in a place to implement it. Yet. (Not to mention that it would take a few weeks to even fly by everything we'd want to see.)
Train travel is awesome. I have seen rail cards and will look into them more when I figure out what it is we're going to do. Seems a lot of it, so far, involves going to different sides of the island, which makes rail cards way cooler. >_>
I'm all for the hostel idea. Andrew is more iffy, but he knows nothing about hostels except their stereotypes. Also considering short lets and couch surfing. Couch surfing is ideal money-and-culture-wise, but also a little iffy on the safety/convenience side. So, more research shall be done! Short let means we can cook for ourselves a la supermarché, which is a definite bonus. I am sure as hell not paying the £100+/night the city hotels want.
Pubs and clubs are possible, but not really a thing for either of us. We are definitely into the heritage/history/legend style of touring, at least on this go. Gonna have to find a castle, gotta go to Canterbury, might as well visit Stratford-upon-Avon, etc. The "English major" things, you know?
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Damn. Off to a meeting now. Being back at work is no less boring than before.
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So sick.
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Castles are goddamn everywhere. Dublin is way more of an "English Major" thing if you ask me (plenty of writer's museums) but I focused more on late nineteenth through 20th century lit more than anything else so there.
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Castles are goddamn everywhere. Dublin is way more of an "English Major" thing if you ask me (plenty of writer's museums) but I focused more on late nineteenth through 20th century lit more than anything else so there.
You pretty much have to go to Stratford-upon-Avon or all the other English majors will make fun of you.
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What a sad life it must be to worry about the opinions of English majors...
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'tis the true price of English Major-dom, mostly, having to endure their habits and ridicule.
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Wait, why would I ridicule her if she doesn't go there?
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Wait, why would I ridicule her if she doesn't go there?
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Shakespeare's hometown, yo. I would be shunned by all English majors everywhere if I went to England and didn't drop by the place.
And yes, we are a very fragile and codependent group. At least in my neck of the woods, all pre-1800s-y.
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Does it count that I skipped out on that but did make a visit to the Globe Theatre after realizing it was across the street?
(Shakespeare sucks.)
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While I personally like him, the value of visiting that place is lost on me. Globe is good enough, imo, since it's a hell of a lot more Shakespeare related than some town.
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What a sad life it must be to worry about the opinions of English majors...
Seriously. English majors are about the biggest waste of oxygen on the planet.
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Especially ones that submit unfinished scripts. >:(
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Why would I care if you didn't go to his place? Really, the guy could use an ego downer so people don't orgasm whenever they mention his name.
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On the subject of Shakespear, he gets an amusing treatment in Irregular Webcomic.
http://irregularwebcomic.net/240.html
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Just got my grades back, and they're good! This is a big, big deal. Downside: won't be sleeping anytime soon.
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Just got my grades back, and they're good! This is a big, big deal. Downside: won't be sleeping anytime soon.
They ain't good enough?
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Jim comes from a familly of artists. I assume he is going to be having nightmares dealing with the Ghosts of Masterpieces Past.
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Man, he's slow. No place has even Christmas decor by now.
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It isn't slow. It is either Retro or Avante Garde depending on which style suits him best.
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So, slow. Gotcha.
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Days like this vaguely make me consider chapstick. Woo, lips. Way to, you know, not stay together cohesively as skin is supposed to do.
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It isn't slow. It is either Retro or Avante Garde depending on which style suits him best.
Retro's just a word that means old but otherwise unjustifiable. Or else it'd be classic.
And the only thing that happens when you call something Avant Garde is that it isn't anymore.
So it's slow. Except that I don't know what it is.
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I on the other hand did not get good grades this term. I apparently got the one teacher who likes to screw grad students over; the average in my class was 6 points below the requirement needed to pass grad school, and I hit said average. I am really pissed off because I worked really hard in that class for seemingly nothing; my teacher is a complete d-bag and it shows. Did fine in my other course (in that I did well enough to pass the PhD program). I'm going to have to work on doing better in my courses next semester, which is why I am reading a bloody schoolbook on the first week of school at 8 am.
*emo*
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Xorniatoro.
Woke up sorta early today, so I went out to do some document-related errands: more specifically, I lost my voting license a while ago, so I went to get another copy and to transfer my voting area to where I -live-. Also timely since I discovered one of the public organs I applied to started calling the people who passed the test already (this one being the test I passed in 6th place), and they already summoned two people from the field I tested in.
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Sleepy. But at least I wasted my time last night attempting to write (and/or surfing TV tropes, but goddammit, the progress is there).
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I on the other hand did not get good grades this term. I apparently got the one teacher who likes to screw grad students over
Yeah, I was spared that by the dubious beauty of being graded on a curve. I'm sure our writing teacher would have liked to give us grades for the class on par with the grades for our papers (average was 8/15) but he's got to give good grades to someone.
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I dun wanna take the car in for 125k mile maintenance. :(
Stupid costs of owning a vehicle.
ETA: It DOES need the attention, though. Definitely an oil change, tranny fluid change and tire rotation, and inspection of just about everything else. I found out how to turn off the annoying dash light, but that doesn't mean the car won't break if I neglect it. :p
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Had a dentist appointment earlier, fun times. Actually surprisingly was - had to have an extraction, and I'm not good with dentists, so was sedated. I remember the guy saying he was doing the second injection. I then remember waking up, with my music on. I'd also apparently gone on another IRC channel and talked there (or, at least, attempted to:
[12:35] <@Cielo> stillnsomewhatu nder effefcfxts of ssedaton.
[12:35] <@Cielo> mighg gog elspel.
In related news, my dad is being uber-caring for once, which is a pleasant (and most welcome) surprise. Even if I think he's being somewhat irrational about it. =P
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need... caffeine... preferrably applied directly to veins...
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/me applies turkey to Snow.
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It was simpler when you'd just staple me to a wall or something.
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That got boring. I'll return to that later.
And besides, I figured that's your bf's job now.
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No, that's nailing him to a wall, not stapling.
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I'll have to try -that- position.
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Nailing, stapling, one just requires two points while the other requires one. Can't be too hard to emulate.
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need... caffeine... preferrably applied directly to veins...
You can get that, you know.
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Nailing, stapling, one just requires two points while the other requires one. Can't be too hard to emulate.
Not -that- nailing.
need... caffeine... preferrably applied directly to veins...
You can get that, you know.
There needs to be caffeine for that to apply, however.
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What, you prefer tack gunning? Gotta imagine that'd be uncomfortable after a point - the recoil if nothing else.
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/me staples the Taitoro into a microwave oven.
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You cheating whore.
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It's not as good, given Tai isn't a hamster.
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Wait, you're dating a hamster?
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I'm applying Maniac Mansion physics to Michiganese guinea pigs. It's very sciency.
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Oh, god. That game.
"SAM DON'T DO THAT YOU'LL GET HIM TRAPPED IN TH-...e basement."
This was the recurring chant of my childhood.
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Did you have to endure point-click interface on a NES too?
EDIT:
OHGOD SWEET SWEET CAFFEINE
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My brother did, yes. I watched him and yelled unhelpful comments.
I was a horrible little brother, looking back on it. >_>
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You can't call yourself a horrible brother unless you have tossed an iron bird onto your older sibling's bracer-saddled mouth. I still have no idea how my sister didn't get a gap in her dental formation.
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I kicked my brother in the balls a few times. That count?
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Nope. Unless you also pushed him off the window, broke one of his teeth and didn't get even a stern talk from your parents.
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I got him grounded, took about half his stuff, blamed him for a broken window... but no, none of those three.
I was just... well, not spoiled. But a complete jackass who didn't learn. >_> Funny how that works.
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I suddenly feel the need to punish Tai and Snow for their misbehavior.
You're both getting a nailing against the wall!
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I can still break both of you over one knee.
At the same time.
Good luck with that one, Djinn.
(Hell, I probably could've done it at 13. Puberty hit the height/weight very fast for me.)
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I suddenly feel the need to punish Tai and Snow for their misbehavior.
You're both getting a nailing against the wall!
/me pushes Djinn off the window.
Funny enough, nowadays the sister I nearly crippled in various ways is probably one of my favorite family members. But she's a saint for letting me live this long. >_>
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She probably decided she'd get her revenge via guilt tripping you in old age.
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I knew I started smoking for a reason beyond wimpy suicidal impulses.
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Mmm. In fairness, I also didn't have my own bedroom for like a year and a half, and had to sleep on a small black futon/get my clothes out of the dresser downstairs since my brother refused to share a room (around the time I really started acting up, not sure if it was just teenager/little brother timing or if one caused the other) and my sister had just moved back in.
...to this day, in the house I sleep better downstairs on the small black futon.
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Man, I've had a room to myself since I was like five.
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Mmm. I only had one to myself - fully to myself, that is - during high school.
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That shit really matters. My family has four children. We siblings get along great. We have had our own rooms for as long as I can remember. Having your own room makes it MUCH easier to be friends with your siblings.
Especially considering the way we nearly killed eachother when we were forced to share rooms during summer vacations with Grandma.
You gotta have your own space.
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For a while, I actually shared a room with my bro. We got along fine. The trick is to just not get in their way, I find. Also, the closer siblings are in age, the more likely they are to squabble.
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We were seven years apart, and we squabbled constantly until he moved out. >_>
But yeah, I didn't get along with anyone until tail end of high school. Introverted snotty asshole, that was me~ though oddly enough I got along fine with enough people that I rarely got harassed.
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For a while, I actually shared a room with my bro. We got along fine. The trick is to just not get in their way, I find. Also, the closer siblings are in age, the more likely they are to squabble.
Not sure about the last part, but the first part's definitely true. Me and my sister shared a room 'til we were about... 8 and 10? And I'd still say I get on better with her than anyone else I've ever known.
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I commissioned a picture of Raven, Jenna's DnD character she plays in the solo game I run for her as a christmas present. The artist finally put it up online, so I figured I'd show it off~
http://cyzra.deviantart.com/art/Character-Design-No-34-149604960
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/me called his father yesterday night to come clean about being gay.
You know, that went just as well as I could possibly hope. Only person left to know in my family is my eldest sister, who will get the note this weekend, since she's coming to visit.
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Good luck =)
Seems like your mom and stuff is a really cool lady so yeah :)
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/me called his father yesterday night to come clean about being gay.
You know, that went just as well as I could possibly hope. Only person left to know in my family is my eldest sister, who will get the note this weekend, since she's coming to visit.
My first reaction was "WTF they didn't know?" but then I realized that given your lifelong hatred of other human beings it could easily not have come up before. Glad they're doing OK with it.
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My first reaction was "WTF they didn't know?" but then I realized that given your lifelong hatred of other human beings it could easily not have come up before. Glad they're doing OK with it.
Oh, it was a surprise to no one. My -mother- had known for years, really. Thing is that tends to really... well, get swept under the rug when you lose your virginity at age 22 and then avoid any sort of relationship pursuit (which includes eye-to-eye contact with people for more than ten seconds) ever since. My father didn't know, but he's hardly surprised (hay guyz what do you think of the kid who never ever brought a girlfriend home even though he's like 25 now). Neither was my middle sister when I told her. I expect a bit of surprise from the eldest one due to sheer obliviousness and the fact she once dated a guy who turned up being gay as a sailor once, but that's it.
So, yeah, lifelong hatred of people sorta explains this.
The difference, now, is that my sexuality is no longer a non-factor and all, but everybody has been pretty supportive.
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Well, awesome. On both counts.
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So today I am bike-hunting.
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So today I am bike-hunting.
Does this involve biking while sporting a bitchin' rifle? If not, this is a huge disappointment already.
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*mentally replaces 'bike' with 'hog'*
heee. Ciato, riding through the halls, shouting over the roar of her exhaust about the virtues of chemistry, citing the precise reactions taking place in her mighty engines as evidence, bursting into classrooms while threatening students with her sawed off shotgun...
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I am sorry to disappoint. :p I am just trying to lose weight. I have drank one pop in the last week. It is sad days.
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motorcycles are like horses. It sounds like it's just you sitting there, but holding your grip and maintaining balance require significant muscles and it's a real workout *nodnod*
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*mentally replaces 'bike' with 'hog'*
heee. Ciato, riding through the halls, shouting over the roar of her exhaust about the virtues of chemistry, citing the precise reactions taking place in her mighty engines as evidence, bursting into classrooms while threatening students with her sawed off shotgun...
While riding a bitchin' bike. This is crucial.
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Biking everywhere's a great way to start losing weight. It is, however, an incredible pain in the ass unless you commit yourself to do it every day and drive as little as possible.
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walking works too. I've been walking a lot recently and have lost a good deal of weight (cooking lunch for myself also contributed a lot, I imagine).
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Walking is what controls/reduces my weight, so yes, walking/biking are the shinies. Driving is the demons.
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...
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It's pretty bad when the pediatric specialist makes a stupid error like that.
I mean, it's a foreseeable error, but...
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I don't have a car, so I can't drive anyway!
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So tonight I shall conclude what I will fondly not remember as my graduation celebration with a pretty large house party. Apartment's clean so cleaning up afterwards won't be a task, and anything valuable I don't want broken/stolen has been stashed in a friend's apartment across the street.
Oh, and I have a keg of Fat Tire just waiting to be cracked open.
Party~
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... Fat Tire? Is that an actual name or a nickname I'm completely missing?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Tire
Belgian.
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Snow again. Endless heaps of snow. Getting really tired of it. For the first time in years, we have respectable snowfall (or snowfall period), but does it have to be this much?
They're running out of salt to throw on the roads, too. And preparations here are worthless to begin with, with snow-covered roads as far as the eye can see up until the main road... which doesn't even go through the village much.
Sigh! I've not been able to use my bike since december 14th. This sucks, I don't want to walk half an hour just to get to a supermarket! I'll be glad when spring sets in.
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Party over. Didn't get nearly as crazy as I feared, wasn't as nearly dead as expected. Very successful, cleaning tomorrow will suck but that's how that goes.
Also, seriously? You couldn't just google Fat Tire and find out what it was? Damn.
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oh hey
i'm exhausted again
imagine that one
roommate came in at 2:00 and decided he needed to unpack then and there
great start to the semester
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Birthday swag get.
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*sigh*
I hate epiphanies.
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You discovered that you really want to be a rollerskate dancer at a strip joint in Alabama?
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No >_>
I mean, it's an epiphany, which is usually good, but I came to a realization that's more depressing than anything a few minutes ago.
Granted, the rollerskater thing sounds appealing...
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How depressing?
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Thank God the heating in my bedroom's getting fixxed.
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Nearly killed myself this morning with exercise.
God I am out of shape.
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/me spiffy-looking shirt x2 for birthday at work get.
Man, my birthday swag >>>> my Christmas loot.
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*siiiiigh*
I had a very unfortunate occurrence happen to me last night. At about like, 11 PM, I had a seizure in my bed, and had to be brought to the hospital, where I stayed over night. The next morning, I had a huge headache and felt overwhelmingly tired. I ended up sleeping at the hospital 'til about 5 PM, at which point, I finally went home.
To any who aren't aware, I actually had epilepsy for a couple years of my life, and have had a number of seizures in the past... but the last seizure I had was over 3 years ago. I was sure my epilepsy was cured, but it's decided to come back on me. Gonna have to start taking meds again, and I'm gonna have to monitor my use of the computer. I probably won't be on too, too much less than I usually am, but I felt like sharing.
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Man, that sucks. Hope it was a one-time thing.
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BLEH. That's the sort of thing I have nightmares about.
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Started up my first production class, and OH MAN, I love the way it feels to stand behind a Camera. I got lucky to be an example guy and fiddle with the zoom and focus and that, but the thing just.... feels right. I'm more confident that this is something I could enjoy doing.
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Actual TV Cameras are fun. I used to help film the town council meetings in high school.
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Man, that sucks. Hope it was a one-time thing.
Yeah *hugs Piggy* take care.
/me signs up for Tai Chi classes
This should be interesting >.>
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Seizures are unfun and I hope you get better soon man. :[
/me thinks about Saturday
Got accepted into one of the universities I applied for! Now to wait for the results of the other one, so I can decide. I graduate this year, after all.
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Impossible ^.~
(congrats)
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Piggyman: Ouch. Take care of yeself, dude.
Trance: Cool! Which colleges?
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Piggy: That sucks, dude. Hope your epilepsy doesn't come back in full force.
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Thanks for the comfort everyone. I did get good news just a few hours ago, though. My doctor told me that, as long as I take my pills, I don't need to worry too much about how much time I spend in front of a screen (as long as it's not, y'know, exaggerated ;p), since I was proven to be seizure-free during my time taking the meds. So, epileptic or not, I'll be stickin' around. ^^;
And nicely done, Trance. Wish you the best at the school you do choose to go to. =)
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*Nods to Piggy* Hope it gets better.
At work. I need my damn calculator for math, otherwise eh. I don't really want to take either class seriously (IE wasting money on the books), but we'lls ee if I can get away with it. I got an A in first aid without the book or studying.
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Hope you have a backup plan there, super. You probably can get away without spending bucks on books, but you need to make up for it with extra library roaming.
And I'm hungry. *Looks at food ordering opshuns.*
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Dude I work at the library, at the circulation desk. I can just swipe the books fro the back.
I'm too cheap to order out for food.
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I'm too cheap to order out for food.
I just use the food aid card for that. =P
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Classes started. Underexcited. Shocking.
Dr. Decker Northern Early Modern Art [Northern Ren "for those not up on art history scholarship") is as expected. Favorite professor my entire college career in Art History despite his disposition to curse like a sailor.
Egyptian Colloquiual Arabic seems fine. Actually have to learn how to write in MSA, but we're not being graded on it. Will learn how to write in ECA also, but the focus is on speaking clearly. I'll just ignore those students who keep asking MSA questions since uh, this is a speaking course and not writing, kthx. Stop asking questions about feminine indicators when we haven't even learned the fapping alphabet.
Modern Philosophy II - seems okay. David is in there. TTGL ftw + he's a PHIL major and I may implore his intelligence when I'm baffled. I THINK he tried to say hi to me today, but I had an ear ache and later went to sleep at the library, so I shamefully didn't turn around. I don't think he said anything actually. I'll keep telling myself this.
Egyptian Art&Arch II - my professor is too busy to be in class 'cos she's filming in Egypt for some Discovery channel movie. But fortunately someone is filling in her place and she seems very perky, so the first 4 days of class shouldn't be so bad.
Capstone - haven't taken it yet. This Friday before I visit the Middle Eastern Institute for Egyptian food and movies. GSU obligated AH professors to change the AH graduating requirements where we need a Capstone class. Essentially we create a portfolio for getting into graduate school. Discovered that there's only 11 students in the class. Sonny Perdue passed a law stating colleges to increase minimum class sizes to 17 as taxpayers don't want to support smaller classes. I wonder how many taxpayers even know about the change . . . anyway, rumor is they might shut down the class. This would be significantly unfortunate because I need to graduate, plus it gets me to 120 credit hours. If they do cancel it, they still better guarantee my fucking graduation by putting me under another catalog or some shit. I don't think there's the course police like that anyway - perhaps they'll let it fly for this semester. The Arts and Humanities is the largest department in the school actually, and we have less power than those math and science smaller schools. Hah.
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Dr. Decker Northern Early Modern Art [Northern Ren "for those not up on art history scholarship") is as expected. Favorite professor my entire college career in Art History despite his disposition to curse like a sailor.
Jealous. That was one I always wanted to take but didn't get the opportunity (thanks mostly to my music classes, which were quite inflexible).
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Trance: Cool! Which colleges?
This place (http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/) is where I got accepted, I'm waiting for results on this place (http://www.admu.edu.ph/) which purportedly get released this Saturday.
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fffffffffffff daily withdraw limits.
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Computer plan cockblocked?
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Not really, it just means I have to wait until tomorrow to pay for it instead of getting it all worked out today. I withdrew $1000 today, the remaining $450 will be withdrawn tomorrow. I have until next Monday to pay for the purchase, so it's no big deal. It's just sorta inconvenient.
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Dr. Decker Northern Early Modern Art [Northern Ren "for those not up on art history scholarship") is as expected. Favorite professor my entire college career in Art History despite his disposition to curse like a sailor.[/quote
Jealous. That was one I always wanted to take but didn't get the opportunity (thanks mostly to my music classes, which were quite inflexible).
Ah, it does suck when you want to take a class, and it's offered certain semesters and certain times when you need something else. After taking my AH surveys I realized that Northern Ren has really been downplayed academically because of scholarship lathering and yearning for the nostalgia of Italian Renaissance, which is "the Renaissance." They ignore all of the artistic progress and modern achievements that have directly affected societies spanning multiple countries. We'll see how well that stands here. I don't know if you're up for it, but if I find an interesting peer reviewed article that's required (since we have no book), I may shoot it your way.
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urgh hungry
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Nearly killed myself this morning with exercise.
God I am out of shape.
Ah yes, that sounds familiar. It does suck when you let a routine slip.
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/me reads news about "post-Avatar depression", reads newspost.
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/me FACEPALMS.
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I don't know if you're up for it, but if I find an interesting peer reviewed article that's required (since we have no book), I may shoot it your way.
By all means. My brain could use a little more diversification than Law and More Law. Now, whether I have time to read them is another matter entirely...
Nearly killed myself this morning with exercise.
God I am out of shape.
Ah yes, that sounds familiar. It does suck when you let a routine slip.
So make sure you maintain your routine of not exercising. Got it.
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Woohoo, computer fully paid.
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I just realized that I have no consistencies in my language regimen besides perhaps two full years of French. My electives are similar too. I've dabbled into too many different things. College is for experiencing new things without consideration of having limited funds, right? Roight.
Eh. Focus is for post-grad anyway.
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I am haaaaaaaaaaaaaa~aaappy.
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If you go into college and learn a ton of stuff about a ton of stuff, you'll be a better, more intersting person for it on the other end of things, and really, what more could you want? I was all over the place in undergrad too, and I'm happier for it ('cept that one accounting class I took. Only thing I learned from that was why business majors drink so much).
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I was fairly focussed in that I took largely humanities electives in my University days, but yes core Psychology does not need more than introduction to Sociology, doesn't need any Feminism and certainly didn't need that one Modern History class I took, but it was totally worth it. Beat the fuck out of doing Counselling theory only for 3 years (did that as some electives as well though).
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So I'm having some annoying Internet problems. I can't get the wireless to work in the house. So basically the wireless works for everyone but me, but other wireless networks besides the house one do work for me. It says that I can't renew my IP address and it keeps saying it is "waiting for the network to be ready" before ceasing operations and going back to having limited connectivity. I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this.
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run cmd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
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I realized this morning that there is no way Spock should have existed. And it kind of bothered me, but it bothered me more that I knew that Vulcan blood was green because it has copper instead of iron in it and that's why he can't exist.
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119 days spent on these forums. Dear god. >_>
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I am at 3 days....hmm.
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Anyways, has anyone been paying attention to the whole NBC Conan/Leno thing? I for one don't think they have given Conan a fair shot hosting the Tonight show and it looks as if he is leaving now.
Oh well, I will follow Coco where ever he goes.
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run cmd
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
So I did this. The command prompt said that the media was disconnected and that nothing could be performed when the media was disconnected.
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Check your network card to make sure it is connected properly (Easiest spot is on the back you should have a green light show even for onboard), next go to System, Hardware, Device Manager, check to make sure you don't have any driver conflicts happening, if that is happening then you might have to check and see if you have MAC filtering applied on your router or something playing up.
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How do I know it is conflicting?
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Generally you'll see a yellow exclamation point or something, I believe. To be sure, you could find your device, go to Properties, and see if it says "This device is functioning properly." or some such.
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It seems to be functioning properly. It just seems to be a problem with finding an IP address on this one specific server. Things seem to work fine otherwise (I am using the card to connect elsewhere after all...)
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See if you can connect to the router at all with it (go to your browser and just try connecting to the IP Address of the router, probably 192.168.1.1) and see if you can do that (Probably cannot).
If that happens.
From another computer go into the router and check security settings, see if MAC filtering is applied and have a general browse through the menus and see if anything in particular springs out.
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I broke my glasses. The stupid right arm just plain fell off. Not a missing screw -- the piece that goes INSIDE the mechanism came unseated. WTF?
While I work on figuring out how to fix this and/or scheduling a slightly overdue appointment with the optometrist, I still have a lot of contact lenses from my last appointment (never wore them since I got them). So I'm wearing those again.
GOD it is a pain to poke your eyes deliberately twice a day. Took me a good 5 minutes to get them both in this morning and a good 10 to get them both out again tonight. This is still much improved over the 20-30 minutes it took when I first got them, but still. Glasses? BAM, they're on and I can see!
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/me mocks contacts.
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I broke my glasses. The stupid right arm just plain fell off. Not a missing screw -- the piece that goes INSIDE the mechanism came unseated. WTF?
While I work on figuring out how to fix this and/or scheduling a slightly overdue appointment with the optometrist, I still have a lot of contact lenses from my last appointment (never wore them since I got them). So I'm wearing those again.
GOD it is a pain to poke your eyes deliberately twice a day. Took me a good 5 minutes to get them both in this morning and a good 10 to get them both out again tonight. This is still much improved over the 20-30 minutes it took when I first got them, but still. Glasses? BAM, they're on and I can see!
I very much feel the same way. Jenna hate glasses and wants contacts again, but the hassel of dealing with contacts does not seem worth it to me at all.
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Putting in contacts was an enormous pain for the first couple of weeks, but once I got used to it, taking more than 30 seconds is a rarity. And I like having peripheral vision.
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Having peripheral vision again is an amazing thing I didn't even know I was missing. It's like the world just got 30% larger!
Still, poking eyeballs.
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I guess my own glasses are so large that I don't actually lose much of my peripheral, so that doesn't occur to me.
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I need glasses for detail - my eyesight doesn't get progressively worse the further out, it just goes from "I can see detail" to "I can see, but not detail". So my peripheral vision's never been too badly stressed.
This being said, the range for "I can see detail" is from 2" to 2.25" in front of my face. So the glasses are needed. Hope you can get yours fixed soon.
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I don't have the peripheral vision issue! But then, myopia/hypermetropia aren't my sight issues.
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Major Xorn Morning Warning.
So... my school's been on a big performance review kick lately. The prefecture and city have to make some major budget cuts, so I've been told they're looking at dropping some English teachers. Excellent. So I've been really stressed out about getting to work on time and finishing lots of (useless-because-my-Jr.-High-classes-are-so-packed-by-the-current-curriculum-there's-no-time-for-them) lesson plans and projects so that they won't be considering cutting -me-.
Day 3 of "Djinn proves he's the hardest worker around", I wake up late because my alarm doesn't go off and my hot water heater is apparently not working. There is literally no hot water. The electricity's working. The gas is working. The cold water is working. But no hot water.
And it's freezing in my city right now, so even a cold shower is out of the question. Just putting my hands in the freezing water was enough to cause actual ice crystal to start forming on my fingernails. Fuck. That.
I don't know who I can ask about getting it fixed, and I didn't even have time to figure it out since I was already running behind schedule. As a last-ditch effort, I stand under my heater with a wet washcloth (to reduce the number of ice crystals) and make a mockery of bathing everywhere. Hairgel and deodorant help to mitigate my inability to wash my hair (it'll freeze if it gets wet at this temperature). And I rush off to work unshaven because I just don't have time at this point.
I manage to make it to work on time, but I've left some of my supplies at home, so I have to make a quick stop at a convenience store near the school to buy all new supplies. (Well, at least I won't run out anytime soon... >.>;; )
...and halfway through typing this, they change the schedule on me, so I have to rush off to class unprepared. God damn, I hate snow/cold weather/the Japanese education system.
I'm hoping that my neighbor will be able to help me puzzle out how to get my hot water fixed or I'm just fucked.
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Fun fact: Keys really CAN fall down the elevator shaft.
Yeah.
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Just found a golden ring in the snow, and neighbours found the car keys to a black Golf in the snow.
I almost want to go treasure hunting in the snow now.
I want to return the ring but everyone around me is going "SELL IT FOR MONEYZ". Moral decay, derp.
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Lightside is stupid. You get more quest experience doing it neutral and getting a reward.
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Trust me, people here wouldn't even give reward money if you returned their wallet to them.
Said wallet included passport, bank account card and a few pictures.
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Then go full dark side. Steal bank account information, masturbate to pictures in wallet, and invalidate the passport by writing where it says "DO NOT WRITE IN THIS BOX".
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I'm doing the unthinkable today. I'm going to work natural. I'm very nervous. But if I get over this hump, I can get over any hump? I'm just so tired of straightening my hair because of the belief that it's more "presentable."
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Is your hair long enough to tie back?
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Yeah, but I'm not going to. I curled into a fairly tight, but loose afro. I just braided my hair last night, and undid it. They better not send me home.
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Man, are you going to a nun-infested college that burns your flesh for not being a good 17th century lady?
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Seriously. I honestly can't imagine that everyone at your workplace is so uptight that they'd send you home for how you did your hair. This... this is not the fifties.
Unless you work in a restaurant, which is completely different.
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Well, people told me it looked fine. It's much shorter when it's not somewhat straightened. Ah, whatev.
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Hot water fixed. Thankfully, the pipe didn't burst. The Japanese plumber guy clearly explained the problem to me in quick Japanese, and I nodded like I understood. Then he explained how to make sure it doesn't happen again, and this part I actually understood. I also understood when he said 'Well, it -should- prevent it from happening again'...
>.>;; Dammit Snow.
Life is slightly better, but I'm still freaking out about performance reviews... It seems tests do not stop even after college...
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Well, people told me it looked fine.
Glad to hear it. Life's too short for needless, hair-based drama.
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Well, unless you're this guy. http://rockbandaide.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/DukeA.jpg
Then your hair has evolved to the point where drama may perhaps be justified. Or would at least be the least weird part about your relationship with your hair.
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Just went around the entire block today, and then some. No one here who lost a golden ring. You'd think someone'd at least lie to get a free ring out of the deal, but oddly enough, no.
Then go full dark side. Steal bank account information, masturbate to pictures in wallet, and invalidate the passport by writing where it says "DO NOT WRITE IN THIS BOX".
And that's just wrong. "DO NOT WRITE IN THIS BOX" is a surefire way to compel me to write in the box.
I know I should resist but I can't help but want to scribble in those places.
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You can just pawn off the goddamn ring already or toss it off your window so someone else gets to make the decision for you. Or you could hold onto it forever and ever. Alternatively, craigslist it if you want trainwreck.
Mmmm, 6PM at work.
EDIT: Also, Wizard of Oz wallpaper on my work computer. This is alright.
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Just went around the entire block today, and then some. No one here who lost a golden ring. You'd think someone'd at least lie to get a free ring out of the deal, but oddly enough, no.
Think it'd be easier to hand it over to the police or something?
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ohgod ohgod ohgod new computer is here ohgod there's so much to do
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My job is nice and peaceful. My biggest worry on a night like this is if I want to go out to eat for dinner or if I'd rather stay and read some Robert Jordan.
Mmmmmmmmmm, I even have a fan here so I have pleasant backround noise. Shame I can't do this full time.
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/me strolls around the intarwebs during work.
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Keys: gone forever.
Apparently "we need the maintenance guys" means "we need the guys we pay to fix light fixtures to hold one of them flashlight thingies and see if they can see further down the elevator shaft and pick out your keys with a fishing line and some bubble gum."
All keys are replaced except the one to the car, but at least we've got a valet key I can use for that one.
Man. What a pain.
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Talked to one of my professors from last semester today. He suggested that I aim to apply for federal judicial clerkships, which was quite flattering, since they are quite competitive. I knew my grades so far were good enough to make that a possibility, but it still means a lot to hear it.
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Aw, congrats Miki. A compliment can go a long way.
And thank goodness you can bathe in warm water now Djinn. Cold baths and showers literally make me scream like a banshee. When our hot water never worked, we boiled gallons and gallons and made due.
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So you... killed someone and howled in their wake?
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You know, I was thinking about it, and... why the hell didn't you just skip on the shower? You're not going to stink that much skipping out on one day, and if there's no hot water AND you're running short on time, it strikes me as stupid to worry about it that much. Especially if you're trying to prove you're a good employee and always make it on time. It's a simple matter of priorities.
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Djinn went to complain about the busted water pipe on IRC for twenty minutes the day it happened while he was running late. I think it's safe to say he wasn't really in his most rational state.
EDIT: Right, I also have something resembling a life. Bought birthday present for the boyfriend. Now, to hopelessly pine to the illusion it'll be delivered before the birthday itself.
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*Undisappears from the DL*
Busy with other stuff online and off but I'm totally okay and still here.
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You had disappeared in the first place?
</badumpissssssssssh>
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You had disappeared in the first place?
</badumpissssssssssh>
*Mopes in the corner*
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Dear christ, carrying a suitcase through the city in the early morning is a pain in the ass.
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Just encountered a spillage of sugar with paw prints in it in the kitchen. CAT!
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Tequila till 5 when you work @ 9 is not the best of ideas now that I look back on it!
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Still drunk or just hung over?
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*Gnaws on saturdays* I'm hungry! Lunch break in a sec. I had to work for once on saturday, spent 2+ hours shredding paperwork.
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Oh, I think I'm very much drunk still and fighting back the nausea! I have already fallen alseep a couple times in my chair!
I'm pretty sure I am sweating out a pure booze scent too. They really need to feed me, or I very well may vomit all over one of the members.
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That is impressively drunk. Can't take a break for food?
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So I had a fun day yesterday. I get into work only to find I can't use any of my systems. Not a problem, this happens to a few agents from time to time every few months or so, and it tends to get fixed in a few hours.
But it's not just me, it's half the center. And it's not getting fixed very quickly. And the alert system (one of the few that's working) is indicating that it's due to a contract end date.
So I sit around, checking my systems periodically, getting caught up on recent policy updates, balancing my pen on my nose, that sort of thing. And the hours drag on...
Finally, someone comes along and asks people who can't log in to all gather around in one room. We're sitting around, and some people are starting to get nervous. In walks in an operations manager (see: my boss' boss). And we do a course on first call resolution, I don't take any calls all day long, and I come back to work today and everything's fixed. Thank goodness, sitting around all day surfing the net is fine for days off, but I couldn't live with that all the time at work.
So yeah, not a good day.
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<_<
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So. Love life finally going well (really well, honestly): Awesome.
Interviewing for a good-paying job on a tropical island: Awesome.
Both at once: Dick move, universe.
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One thing that girls love? Tropical Islands.
Just throwing that out there.
Meanwhile, you could be me. I'm sick. Or you could be Zenny. He's.... Zenny.
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Yeah, the problem is that it's a tropical island with a really high unemployment rate. Literally the first thing they told me about moving there was not to bring a significant other if they don't have a job lined up.
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So. Love life finally going well (really well, honestly): Awesome.
Interviewing for a good-paying job on a tropical island: Awesome.
Both at once: Dick move, universe.
Argh. Do I understand that one. Not once, not twice, but three times did the fact that I was moving to Japan fuck up a perfectly good relationship when I lived in America.
The reverse may also be true when I have to move back. >_<
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Yeah, I'm just bitter because I haven't had a girlfriend at all since 2006, and now I finally do and this falls on me immediately.
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*Stays firmly in place in freaking PA.*
Screw money.
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New computer. A laptop sadly, due to room concerns. Largely, I needed a computer I could place in my own room in order to utilize about the only supra-dialup connection available to me, a wireless card. As I remarked in chat, all told I went in with 670 and walked out with 10, but by god it's NOT DIALUP ANYMORE.
Actual improvements are modest in the download department (about 5-7 times faster, give or take), but I can have a download going with no noticeable loss in browsing power, which is a substantial improvement to say the least. NO MORE DIALUP. YAAAAAYYYY~~~
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Welcome to like five years ago.
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More like ten... on the plus side this is probably the best computer I've ever had!
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You were on dialup? Holy shit.
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I think Niu is still on dialup too. But his is more because nothing else works in his area for some reason.
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It's pretty well the same out here. Except... I think Niu lives somewheres in/near LA, while I live five miles from a town with a population of maybe 2 grand... rather confusing.
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/me gnaws on Tuesdays.
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So you can now get OB Cmdr. *Cracks whip!*
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Have fun getting CK to emulate anything even when he has the resources.
Man, not having the MP3 player at work makes everything different and less fun.
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Can't use it at work?
Snow: He said he'd get OB for the Wii if he ever got access to a non horrid connection. hence the whip cracking!
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Oh, I can. I just couldn't bring it today due to it being empty - tried to use it as a carrier for some file transference, which didn't really work, and I wouldn't be able to refill its song quotient in time for work.
Also, CK's promises were only made to break~
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Today I have to make a performance review speech that will determine whether or not I have a job next year.
...STRESSS. :o
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Yeah, remember how I was all like telling a story which implied that there were going to be mass layoffs and everyone at work was nervous and it turned out it was just a training class?
Our last day for the entire contract is April 18. The entire contract of over 500 people, the single best center that AT&T has, period. The reason: AT&T doesn't care about their customers, they care about saving a few hundred thousand dollars.
I'm not as nervous as some of the other people, because I qualify for the only other contract we have at the moment (Bell) by virtue of being bilingual, but still, it's not a guarantee.
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But see, the Wii needs wifi. If they still made those weird adaptors that basically let you turn any computer into a wifi hub, it'd be workable, but...
On the plus side, if I understand it correctly, I can shove a 360 controller into this thing and it'll read it as a PC controller... so emulation of various sorts may be on the horizon. Pity I don't have those FE6/EB files anymore. Dunno why...
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Today I have to make a performance review speech that will determine whether or not I have a job next year.
...STRESSS. :o
Here's hoping it goes well for you.
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Best wishes, Doma. Don't be afraid to shiv somebody if it comes to that.
CK: I don't think it works like that; you need a special controller (that only looks like a 360 controller; it'd have a USB plug) or an adapter. Or just a cheapo PC gamepad. I use the "Universal USB Adaptor" (sic), purchased at Wal-Mart, to plug PS2 controllers into my PC, and it works like a charm.
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There's cords you can get for 360 controllers that let you plug it into the 360's USB ports to recharge it. I have one of those.
Plugging it into the computer, it recognized it and downloaded drivers automatically. I can't seem to make it do anything for emulators though.
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If I'm remembering correctly from when I was looking at various strategies about getting Arkham Asylum to work with gamepads, that's just a charging cord. It doesn't let you actually use the controller.
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Hm. Well, I'll try stealing the PS3 controller tomorrow and try that then.
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You should be able to setup a wireless card in your computer to connect Adhoc if you wanted to setup a network some reason without a hub, but I don't know if the Wii can do Adhoc as well. Also Adhoc is shit and insecure and I highly recommend against it anyway.
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And this is why putting out hardware that goes online but doesn't have anywhere to plug in an Ethernet cable is fucking retarded and should carry the death penalty.
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Well, assuming you just mean secure against people tapping into it besides me, there's not anyone withing 500 feet TO tap into it, so that's something!!?
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I still wouldn't do it. And yes I think not having an ethernet port is pretty short sighted on Nintendo's part. Maybe in 10 years time, but not now.
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And this is why putting out hardware that goes online but doesn't have anywhere to plug in an Ethernet cable is fucking retarded and should carry the death penalty.
You'd think they could manage to just have both. You have ethernet? You get to run cabling out to your Xbox from your router. You have cable? You have to get a goddamn adaptor for your Wii. INDUSTRY, PLEASE PICK ONE.
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Well, surgery tomorrow. You guys probably won't hear from me for a while (although in a week or two you'll probably start hearing from me rather a lot, as I'll be at home with no responsibilities and no social life...it'll be nostalgic!)
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Good luck!
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Well, surgery tomorrow. You guys probably won't hear from me for a while (although in a week or two you'll probably start hearing from me rather a lot, as I'll be at home with no responsibilities and no social life...it'll be nostalgic!)
Best of luck, girl. Hope everything goes well!
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Best of luck, girl. Hope everything goes well!
Repeated for emphasis. ^_^
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Best of luck, girl. Hope everything goes well!
Repeated for emphasis. ^_^
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Daft Punk makes everything a party.
I'm sitting in the English department occasionally getting strange looks because I'm dancing while filing rejection slips. Daft Punk wins this round.
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Series of unfortunate events with me. As usual. What's more notable is that I finally allowed for my swelling frustrations to explode last night around 11ish because I'm tired of feeling like I'm stuck in the mud and I shouldn't be so giving. Room was steadily flooding with the leaving and exiting of my mother and brother concerned or thinking I was becoming a looney and they were surprised that I was busying myself with OCD cleaning while crying rather than wanting to sit down and talk. I felt like if I did, I would be shaking like a psychiatric patient overdosed on drugs. Thankfully crying helps balance hormonal levels, so today I'm all ": D." Problems not really solved, but I need to stop thinking about the future. I really do. I need to add more process in my life than project.
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Soup for dinner. Man, this is a throwback.
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Glasses are expensive and dumb. :(
If I really want the colors I think I want, I have to wait until March 15th or so to get them. Otherwise I get purple & green and get them in 2 weeks. Argh. >_<
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Glasses are expensive and dumb. :(
If I really want the colors I think I want, I have to wait until March 15th or so to get them. Otherwise I get purple & green and get them in 2 weeks. Argh. >_<
You need to order glasses from another planet or something? >_>
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I hear the Martian eyewear company does good business. Unique styles, very affordable prices, minimal chance of getting impregnated with an alien baby.
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However, the odds of your alien baby looking like Jack Nicholson are skyrocketing.
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That must be why LD is using the deluxe shipping method - Jack Nicholson babies are worth the wait.
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Not when they're Jack Nicholson/Kathy Bates-brand babies.
Granted, they're going to be really good actors.
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... <_<;;
They're on backorder, that's all! Popular color or something, I dunno.
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And here I thought you were a saint looking out for the movie industry.
You've shattered my image of you. :'(
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Jack Nicholson is attractive.
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/me setups new computer on its proper space.
/me now has intarnets on the new desk.
/me IS BLOWN AWAY BY THE PERVASIVE POWER OF FOUR DIGIT RESOLUTION ACROSS THE BOARD HOLY FUCK.
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*is probably sick*
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I couldn't collect my soul today. -10 points to all the hasty e-mails I had to send out. Studying and finally uploading the new organization website to the college server made me forget every single engagement I had today, or. . . you know, a paper that was due yesterday. There's a first time for everything, and turning in a paper the day after is certainly an experience.
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/me gnaws on Idun.
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I couldn't collect my soul today. -10 points to all the hasty e-mails I had to send out. Studying and finally uploading the new organization website to the college server made me forget every single engagement I had today, or. . . you know, a paper that was due yesterday. There's a first time for everything, and turning in a paper the day after is certainly an experience.
Man, if this is your first time doing that, you're not doing College right.
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Seriously.
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D: I felt so guilty though. So incredibly, utterly guilty. Maybe that's why I turned in the paper late - Snow's gnawing on too much damned shit.
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ugh. woke up at 8:32. made it to my 9:00 class on time. mile and a half of walk/running in between the two. oh, and God laid down about an inch of snow on me on the way in. nothing like sitting through 2 hours of lecture on legal research and proper citation format wet and hungry.
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Seriously, those deities need to stop dumping snow on us.
I think I somehow caught Andy's illness. I was perfectly healthy yesterday, but as soon as I talked to Andy -BAM-, caught a cold. Damn you Andy and your Net Flu!
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Seriously, those deities need to stop dumping snow on us.
I think I somehow caught Andy's illness. I was perfectly healthy yesterday, but as soon as I talked to Andy -BAM-, caught a cold. Damn you Andy and your Net Flu!
It's called a virus for a reason...
/me is shot.
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Seriously, those deities need to stop dumping snow on us.
I thought you would be down for Snow dumping on you. Oh well, guess we have to mark scat off as one of the few things you won't do.
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Ew. Do not want.
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Okay, Djinn is not in on the Cleveland Steamers then.
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I'm more concerned with how he feels about the Cincinatti Bow-Tie.
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...wow...when it rains, it pours.
3 members of my family diagnosed with cancer today, at 3 different sites (throat, lung, stomach).
...guess I need to stay up to date on those colonoscopies.
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... holy shit.
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Good luck, thoughts and prayers with your family.
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Good luck man. Not much else to say.
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...shit. That's pretty damn evil. Hope you're coping with things and:
Good luck, thoughts and prayers with your family.
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My God.
Good luck, to all of them.
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Honestly, as callous as it may sound, all three of them are heavy smokers and drinkers, so it was inevitable. And they were all caught in the early stages (somehow...seriously, catching Stage Ia Lung Cancer, particularly non-small-cell in a smoker, is...unheard of). He's got a 70% survival at 5 years, which is good.
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Ia with lung cancer? That is pretty insanely lucky, as far as getting cancer goes. Talk about a shitty day.
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Good luck, man.
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Ia with lung cancer? That is pretty insanely lucky, as far as getting cancer goes. Talk about a shitty day.
Moreso he's a heavy smoker with non-small cell...seriously, that's like a...0.001% chance, or something.
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How did it turn up? He went it for something else and it popped up on a test?
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Good luck, thoughts and prayers with your family.
Yeah ... *hugs*
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My God.
Good luck, to all of them.
This is appropriate. Also, the 0.0001% odds hitting are at least a bit of a respite. Godspeed there, OK.
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<robertson> God is clearly punishing OK's family for a recent homo sex you all being brought into the once sacred house. </robertson>
Seriously, though, man. Sorry to hear that. Your family needs to turn January 29th into a holiday of sorts where you, I dunno, drink pomegranate juice or something.
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My God.
Good luck, to all of them.
This is appropriate. Also, the 0.0001% odds hitting are at least a bit of a respite. Godspeed there, OK.
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... holy shit.
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Good luck, thoughts and prayers with your family.
Good luck man. Not much else to say.
My God.
Good luck, to all of them.
Etc.
At least it was nabbed early.
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Did it get caught on a routine checkup, or was there some other thing that required medical attention where they found it?
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Had what they thought was pneumonia that hadn't been clearing for two weeks. Went to finally get an X-ray, saw nodes, got a CT, got a biopsy, boom. Lucky as hell there. Really.
The throat cancer, from what I've heard from talking to my parents, may actually be worse than we thought - it's apparently tongue, throat, and they want to do an EGD, of course. This one was discovered when he went to the doctor reporting herpes lesions on his tongue >_>
The stomach cancer one had been fighting horrible reflux for a few years. Turns out, after their first endoscopy, it's a tumour.
And my father's PSA is also apparently "indeterminately" elevated, as my mother forced him to call and tell me about 10 minutes ago.
In my family, January 29th shall henceforth be known as "Cancer Day"! >_>
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I bought a bike today. I rode it pretty far and got really really wet.
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Finally got measurable snow here for the first time since like 2003. Seven inches so far, plus freezing rain/sleep. It's fun but damn do the roads suck.
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Good idea: clean installing to speed up computer.
Bad idea: forget to backup. orz
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Today Andrew and I bring the doggy to the local GR rescue.
I hate to do it. I feel awful. I'm really going to miss him. But... he's a 70 pound, young, active dog who is left alone for 9+ hours per day, has no yard of his own, and only goes on two walks per day.
The rescue is very choosy about who they let adopt their dogs. It annoyed me when I was looking for one, but now I wish I'd have listened to it: an apartment really is NOT a good place for a big dog. Theoretically we could keep him -- he's not THAT bad off, after all -- but I don't want to do "just enough" for him or any of my animals. So now he's going somewhere so he can find a home with a yard, and kids, and other dogs, and people who have their priorities straight.
Still going to miss him. :(
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Today Andrew and I bring the doggy to the local GR rescue.
I hate to do it. I feel awful. I'm really going to miss him. But... he's a 70 pound, young, active dog who is left alone for 9+ hours per day, has no yard of his own, and only goes on two walks per day.
The rescue is very choosy about who they let adopt their dogs. It annoyed me when I was looking for one, but now I wish I'd have listened to it: an apartment really is NOT a good place for a big dog. Theoretically we could keep him -- he's not THAT bad off, after all -- but I don't want to do "just enough" for him or any of my animals. So now he's going somewhere so he can find a home with a yard, and kids, and other dogs, and people who have their priorities straight.
Still going to miss him. :(
;_;
Very sad to hear that.
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WELCOME TO GOOD XORNING WITH BARDICHE.
The Event: Job interview at 10:00 AM sharp.
The Place: City one hour away by bus.
The Problem:
It starts with morning. It always does. I get up at 7:00 AM so I am sure to be able to catch the 8:44 AM bus. Nothing really goes wrong, but when I want to head out at 8:20 I notice it's raining so I bring my umbrella.
Things go downhill. Fast.
I arrive at the busstop at 8:39, panting, because I had to RUN TO CATCH THE DAMN BUS that was early by a few minutes. I am painfully reminded that warm up exercises exist for a reason, but alright, by the time I get to the bus station where I have to get into another bus, I am already feeling considerably better.
The time is 8:55. My bus, the final bus I have to take, arrives at 9:05. Or should. It does not. With no way to still make it on time, I ring my future workplace and manage to get the appointment rescheduled for 11:00 AM.
9:15. No bus.
9:25. No bus.
9:35. No bus.
9:45. No bus.
9:55. No bus.
10:05. No bus.
10:15. No bus.
10:25. No bus. At this point I panic and call them again, and in commendation of spending one and a half hours waiting on a bus, they decide to call it off for today and I get to come tomorrow at 11:00 AM instead. A bit relieved, I decide to pick up groceries and go home instead.
This is when the real trouble begins. Do note that I am feeling rather DAMN COLD at the time because it was freezing, raining, snowing and there's a strong wind blowing.
I pick up groceries in a supermarket plastic bag. This, in hindsight, was a Pretty Stupid Idea.
My bus home should arrive at 11:00. Of course, it does not. 11:30, it finally arrives and takes me home. I am very, very cold.
11:46. I arrive at the bus stop and need to walk home. By this point it is raining rather heavily, it's slippery on the road and I am wearing a suit. The plastic bag goes kaputt and I have to hoist it under my arms, because I brought too much I cannot balance it in one arm.
Then, because my grip on the umbrella weakens, the wind picks it up and throws it away so I have to get it. Then I slip and all groceries are sprawled out over the icy, wet floor. My umbrella is picked up and thrown away as I slip, so not only do I have to gather groceries, I have to fish my umbrella out of the foliage.
END RESULT:
One Bardiche, thoroughly soaked, shivering, with a suit in less-than-good conditions, with a broken plastic bag filled with wet and cold groceries and the realisation that public transit has been nothing too kind to me today.
I hate my life.
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And now I'm going to give you the joy of remembering that you have to go through the same damn thing tomorrow. :)
Edit: Oh yeah, also, shame to hear your day sucked. :(
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*hugs Bardiche*
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Ouch, Bard. I know what public transportation can be like when it's just not going your way.
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Yeah, I just know all the more why I definitely need to get a car.
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Hope things get better Bard. Good luck with the interview.
/me had the dentist yesterday
In addition to the usual fillings, I have to have one tooth out because there's a spot or something on my gums, some kind of abscess or whatnot. My final wisdom tooth is *also* coming in but they haven't said anything about taking that one out yet.
This is what happens when you don't go to the dentist for five months because of preparing for and enjoying holidays in other countries!
Seriously though I have to take better care of my teeth >.> I hardly eat sweets though so it's kind of weird.
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:'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
*hugs Bardiche*
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Yeesh. I know it's only an hour away by bus so it's fairly close, but you do live in a country with a functioning rail system don't you? Would it be easier to go by train than trying to rely on busses (which sound notoriously unreliable no matter where you are)?
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Yeesh. I know it's only an hour away by bus so it's fairly close, but you do live in a country with a functioning rail system don't you? Would it be easier to go by train than trying to rely on busses (which sound notoriously unreliable no matter where you are)?
Good: There's a functional rail system! It's more reliable (but still notoriously prone to beinglate) than the buses!
Bad: I live in such a backwater part of the country, I don't have access to the railway until I get to that city.
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Well best of luck to you then. At least the company you're interviewing with is being understanding about the whole thing.
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MOTHERFUCKING HELL!!!
I SWEAR TO GOD, I AM GOING TO START SHITTING OUTSIDE FROM NOW ON!
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Your fecal fetish is fucked up.
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The word you are looking for is Coprophilia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprophilia)
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A wiring blows out in the living room and somehow kills the electricity in my bedroom. What are the odds of -that-?
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Just gone 7am, and I leave for college in about 30 minutes. I woke up at 2pm yesterday and haven't slept since.
Am I safe in saying that this is probably the DL's influence? >.>
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Pound a beer, you need to get warmed up.
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Are you implying that we might be an unsavory influence?
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Nah, he's just preparing an electronic trail for when he inevitably snaps. You know what "my online video game friends made me do it!" sounds like to the DA? Sounds like they'll make an episode of Law and Order out of it, that's what. Solid gold.
Side note: what am I doing up at 4:30am on a schoolnight, you ask? Well, you probably didn't, but I've got a good excuse this time: finished my taxes.
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Side note: what am I doing up at 4:30am on a schoolnight, you ask?
I am perfectly justified in placing my blame on the DL. Now if only I had beer.
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Nah, he's just preparing an electronic trail for when he inevitably snaps. You know what "my online video game friends made me do it!" sounds like to the DA? Sounds like they'll make an episode of Law and Order out of it, that's what. Solid gold.
Side note: what am I doing up at 4:30am on a schoolnight, you ask? Well, you probably didn't, but I've got a good excuse this time: finished my taxes.
I just figured as a law student you were honor bound to sleep as little as possible.
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One of the benefits of full-time employment is supposed to be health, vision and dental benefits.
I am finding that hard to believe, now, even though it was promised to me. Neither the dentist nor the optometrist -- both of whom I checked networks on to make sure that my insurance WOULD cover them -- are able to find my benefits. I am hesitant to make a doctor's appointment now, and that infuriates me since I'm also paying a monthly fee for access to that one.
It's about time for me to be an ex-pat. >_<
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You only pay for Health insurance, or you pay for all three as a package? When I was at the theater, each one was treated seperately and I had to sign up and pay for each one individually. If you're not paying for Dental and Vision, it sounds like you may not have signed up for them.
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I only pay for health insurance. I am indeed signed up for both dental and vision; the only reason I pay for health insurance at all is in fact because I paid for the PPO versus the HMO.
The dental and vision are, consequently, not as good as the health insurance. But they still cover exam fees and a fair chunk of other necessary expenses. Or they would, anyway, if they were working.
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Hm. I did pretty much the same thing, except I opted out of the PPO health insurance and just got Dental and Vision, which cost 11 and 4 bucks per paycheck respectively. Probably around the same coverage as you're supposed to get too. I got a $400 pair of glasses for ~$80. (I coulda gotten them for free, but after how well my old pair of glasses held up, I couldn't say no to the poly-carb lenses.)
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My "free" vision plan does leave something to be desired. But it pays for the exam ($200!) and $100 toward frames ($50 after that) and $50 toward lenses (... which are still $200 after that if I want anti-glare).
The dental plan is awesome, though. I suspect the problem with that one is that my university used the same company. That expired in August, my company insurance kicked in in October, and chaos ensues.
I guess maybe I should be cursing my own HR department and the medical insurance records industries more than healthcare in general, but then I wouldn't be a normal lazy American blaming everything on the government. I'm not allowed to be holier-than-thou until I'm off the grid, I think.
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Probably. And yeah, sounds about the same as mine. Paid for the exam, $100 allowance for frames (which was easy enough to stick to), and an unknown amount for lenses. You could get the basic plastic or glass lenses for free, and they set the price for whatever other lenses you might want. Considering it only cost 80 for the highest end lenses, 8 bucks a month was totally worth it.
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Since we're on the topic, QUESTION.
Would you pass this up?
http://www.zennioptical.com/cart/home.php
I am pretty sure this is a scam, they're only capable of getting the prescription "kinda" right or some bullshit like that. However, 8 dollar glasses (even if they're hideous)? Even if they broke every couple of months that's still less over two-year period than getting even cheap glasses elsewhere. Too good to be true? I can't help but think so. And yet, having a spare pair would be convenient...
Has anyone HEARD of these guys before? The internet seems to like them but I am still skeptical.
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With a name like Zenni, skepticism is mandatory.
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I really wish my college offered Latin, I'd like to take it. I'm at the point where I can translate most simple lines without a lot of problem, but the actual grammar is painful. (I translate literally and of course that doesn't work with Latin.)
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Don't know anything about online glasses brokers, but the adage "If it's too good to be true, it probably is" tends to go double for anything on the internet. If you do decide to go with them, make sure to use a disposable form of purchase (a one-off Mastercard Gift Card, a dummy PayPal account, etc.).
I really wish my college offered Latin, I'd like to take it. I'm at the point where I can translate most simple lines without a lot of problem, but the actual grammar is painful. (I translate literally and of course that doesn't work with Latin.)
But O HILARIOUS all the same! Latin's not too difficult to self-study -- and people have been doing so for centuries. It's a bitch of a language whether you're in a class for it or not.
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Tonight is invigilation! So I am hanging out at the office until then. And then an exam tomorrow~
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I am perfectly justified in placing my blame on the DL. Now if only I had beer.
Just clarifying this one again. (Slept in yesterday, missed college, stayed up until 4am, am now at college with 4 hrs sleep.) I'm seriously considering getting, like, sleeping tablets or something at this point - I don't want to keep taking days off from my course because of something stupid like going to bed late.
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Diphenhydramine (Benadryl in the US...think the UK name is similar) is probably a decent bet. Start out low (like 25 mg, which should be one capsule/tablet). Try it on a weekend first (so Friday into Saturday) to see how you react to it - some people get knocked out by it, some don't (usually they do). Also, do it at the time you'd like to get to bed (so...2300 or so? whatever works for you) or a little before to try and get your cirdacian rhythm back to normal.
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So, JET interviewee numbers are up, and I'm not on it. Given that I never got a notification card telling me that my application was received, I'm assuming my application barely didn't get in on time. I'm a little miffed at the professor who took so long with his letter of recommendation and my eye has started twitching which I don't think it was doing a few minutes ago, but I'm mostly all right with this (and kind of expected it, anyway). Hooray backup plans?
So, hello there Interac and all you other private companies. Hello there, GREs. Hello there, Grad school MFA programs. I suppose I have an impetus to take you seriously now.
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Sorry to hear that, Zenny.
On the other hand, I'm also glad I'm not the only person who couldn't get into JET.
Good luck with the various Plan Bs! My plan B sucked, but it was not one of those things you mentioned, it was "be a lazy bum, get some sort of job and vaguely work until you figure out something else."
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Eh, if I can find somewhere that will pay me well enough AND hire me, I may well do that instead of more school. I'm still pretty burnt out on school, so it would be nice to take a few years off. The problem is, nowhere except pretty low-paying slightly-above-minimum wage jobs are hiring nowadays and I already have one of those. I suspect so long as I keep looking something will come up before I have to quit.
EDIT: Note to self: Look into how to get work as a bartender.
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/me eyes his desk at work. I have a Power Ranger head sitting under the computer monitor.
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So, JET interviewee numbers are up, and I'm not on it. Given that I never got a notification card telling me that my application was received, I'm assuming my application barely didn't get in on time. I'm a little miffed at the professor who took so long with his letter of recommendation and my eye has started twitching which I don't think it was doing a few minutes ago, but I'm mostly all right with this (and kind of expected it, anyway). Hooray backup plans?
So, hello there Interac and all you other private companies. Hello there, GREs. Hello there, Grad school MFA programs. I suppose I have an impetus to take you seriously now.
If you didn't get a notification in the mail about it, then your application didn't make it in time.
If you still want to work in Japan, there are other options besides Interac that will offer you visa sponsorship and similar working conditions to JET. I've been checking job listings recently, so if I stumble across any like this, I'll let you know about them.
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Have been having PC problems lately, think I have narrowed it down to a bit of faulty RAM (Hopefully since it is cheapest and easiest to replace), in the process of testing how many sticks it is and if I am on the ball.
Running a system back up in Windows 7 with only 2 gigs of ram is painful though. 200gig backup as well is kind of shit, but such is life, I know I have it if things go tits up at least.
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So, JET interviewee numbers are up, and I'm not on it. Given that I never got a notification card telling me that my application was received, I'm assuming my application barely didn't get in on time. I'm a little miffed at the professor who took so long with his letter of recommendation and my eye has started twitching which I don't think it was doing a few minutes ago, but I'm mostly all right with this (and kind of expected it, anyway). Hooray backup plans?
So, hello there Interac and all you other private companies. Hello there, GREs. Hello there, Grad school MFA programs. I suppose I have an impetus to take you seriously now.
If you didn't get a notification in the mail about it, then your application didn't make it in time.
If you still want to work in Japan, there are other options besides Interac that will offer you visa sponsorship and similar working conditions to JET. I've been checking job listings recently, so if I stumble across any like this, I'll let you know about them.
Well, my post is kind of bad about not getting things to me. It's happened more than once.
Question: Any chance my "late" application will be considered next January, or would re-submitting be necessary?
Thanks for the offer. More options is always nice.
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Not at all.
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/me calls boyfriend, finds out his holiday is free. Oh and he also bought a bunch of Pixar films on request for us to watch together.
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<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
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Research symposium tomorrow.
Shaking uncontrollably. I will spazz out. But as my advisor and very imposing, stern and unapproachable professor said, "We're all here to support you, Julia."
At least I know someone will call 911.
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/me calls boyfriend, finds out his holiday is free. Oh and he also bought a bunch of Pixar films on request for us to watch together.
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<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Man, that is an awkward set of films to be having sex to.
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We're definitely turning off the laptop before we jump into bed, don't worry. Boo ain't finding out the awkward truth about boys and boys.
EDIT: Well, not from -us-, anyway.
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Idun: Good luck! I'm sure you'll do fine!
Snow: ... <_<
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We're definitely turning off the laptop before we jump into bed, don't worry. Boo ain't finding out the awkward truth about boys and boys.
EDIT: Well, not from -us-, anyway.
Happy Valentine's Day, Boo. <3
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So, I've been playing the Saxophone again recently since I'm bored out of my tits. But all the sheet music I have is either A) too simple classical music, B) avant garde modern compositions (re: nonsense), C) Boring as sin. I've also been on a Beatles kick for the last few months so I pick up a set of sheet music.
Problem? Somehow, in transposing the melody to Saxophone, they managed to transpose it to some weird key that is NOT AT ALL what the song itself is in. All the intervals are correct, but the key is off.
This is extremely infuriating, not because I have to transpose the music (which in itself has been OK practice), but because each song is somehow in a different (but still incorrect) key. So I spent ~30 minutes transposing While My Guitar Gently Weeps the same way I transposed A Day in the Life (A=C, so three keys up and then an octave down I believe?) only to find out that what I had been working on is still in an entirely wrong key.
Sigh. Lesson learned, I guess (play while I transpose), but it really makes me wonder who the fuck did the transposition for this book and what sort of mental or aural disorder they have. Or if I myself am just missing something because my music theory knowledge sucks. Either way, INTERNET WHINING.
EDIT: I am retarded and transposed in the wrong direction. Also figured out the problem is that they didn't transpose it to an Eb instrument at all so if I just think in the concert key transposing is now very very easy.
EDIT 2: Actually I have no idea what's up. That works with some songs but not with others. I'm assuming that it has something to do with them gimping the key signatures to make it easier for beginning players? Either way, it's a poor way to publish a set of sheet music if you ask me.
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asddagdsgdsfgsgdffg.
Have been kinda ill lately. Just a cough, headache, cold, etc - generic sorta flu symptoms, really - but one of my friends has apparently recently had swine flu. Great. >.>
Anyways, I'm now on my way into college, potentially with swine flu, because I have an assignment due in. Unless I have a doctor's note, I can't get an extension on the deadline, and it's easier for me to get to college and do the damn assignment than it is for me to find out who the fuck my doctor even is and get there.
argh. Screw you, system. >.<
(Although, hey, I guess I can blame illness for my sleep pattern! Probably still the DL's influence, of course.)
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bought a bunch of Pixar films to watch
You are so gay.
RAM being fucked theory is holding up so hopefully I will just vanish randomly from chat for extended periods for my normal reasons instead of computer breaking.
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Steam is a bitch when it can't reach the internet.
Guys I'm totally okay playing Audiosurf in offline mode. And no, no you can't update right now.
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/me calls boyfriend, finds out his holiday is free. Oh and he also bought a bunch of Pixar films on request for us to watch together.
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<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
Man, that is an awkward set of films to be having sex to.
I disagree. Any set of movies with titles such as "Up" and "Toy Story" seem to be well suited for that kind of thing. >_>
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bought a bunch of Pixar films to watch
You are so gay.
And?
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bought a bunch of Pixar films to watch
You are so gay.
And?
I love how he left off the part about the boyfriend. Ha ha! <_<
Work is boring today. Both bosses are "out," but one of them is demanding "omgwtf do it right now!!!" type things via email, but then not telling me what they are and disappearing from contact for half-hours at a time. Thank $deity it's a three-day weekend.
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Cancelled, due to snow. GJ GA.
What am I going to do with my day now? Mmm. . . game.. watch a Netflix movie . . . . research papers. That sounds fine as long as it includes research >_>
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Hahah! Did I say today would be boring? Feh!
Three projects just got put on the pipeline in "why weren't they sent out on Tuesday?" status. With both my bosses missing, only one available by email, today has been O HILARITY with all the cross-checking, multiple-department running (see, I don't have AUTHORIZATION to do the crap I'm doing), and email-sending. I swear I've sent over 100 emails already.
This company is so crazy and disorganized. I'd laugh more if I wasn't being seriously underpaid and always under threat of being laid off.
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bought a bunch of Pixar films to watch
You are so gay.
And?
I love how he left off the part about the boyfriend. Ha ha! <_<
It's a scientifically proven fact (as noted by several pHD Malaysian Cabana Boys) that noting the presence of a boyfriend in a joke about me somehow makes me less gay.
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asddagdsgdsfgsgdffg.
Have been kinda ill lately. Just a cough, headache, cold, etc - generic sorta flu symptoms, really - but one of my friends has apparently recently had swine flu. Great. >.>
Swine Flu casualties, according to Wikipedia: 8000 to 15000 depending on WHO or ECDC you ask. That's for last year.
Seasonal Flu casualties, same source: 250,000 - 500,000. Annually. (A year, for those in the class who are a bit slow and still think Swine Flu is even a thing).
"Oh it's just typical of the flu but it could be SWINE FLU" you better damn well hope it is.
Jesus I wish everyone would stop treating Swine Flu like it was a real problem.
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Oh, I know it's nothing special, outside of the spread of it. The point is, it spreads quickly and people are trying to stop that, so my friend going into college with it and me having to go into college with it is retarded.
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http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/213996/activision-confirms-studio-layoffs-luxoflux-closed/
And the important line: "In another statement issued today, Activision says Underground Studios is also closing up shop."
-_-. Just -_-.
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While reading an article about social security in a commented Constitution textbook proofreading, the following thought sprouted in my head:
"Huh, so zombies are constitutionally barred from getting a job."
I really shouldn't have stayed up all night in front of the computer.
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How I started my morning:
<gmail> Hey pay attention to this
<F!Djinn> Wah centipedes
<F!Dhyer> Every animal in Japan trying to rape him MIGHT be Karma.
<mind> Djinn getting railed by a raccoon while he gets facefucked by a fox while a circle of animals around him wait their turn and yell, "YOU DESERVE THIS! YOU DESERVE THIS."
That's one way to start the morning I guess.
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I got second place in a WoW TCG tournament of 33 people, losing to a teammate. I am annoyed I got 2nd (AGAIN! I swear I get 2nd or scrub out more than anything else), but at least my team won the tournament.
Whee.
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I got second place in a WoW TCG tournament of 33 people, losing to a teammate. I am annoyed I got 2nd (AGAIN! I swear I get 2nd or scrub out more than anything else), but at least my team won the tournament.
Whee.
So apparently UDE lost the license. If you get a spectral tiger loot card, hang on to it for six months and it will be worth as much as a car.
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Fuck Valentine's Day ;_;
I drive out on Friday to my girlfriend in Philadelphia. 5 minutes after I get there, her mother calls her to tell her her grandmother died. So we drive to Pittsburgh for the funeral on Saturday.
During the funeral, her grandfather dies.
20 minutes after that, my mother calls me to tell me that my uncle with the tongue/throat cancer I mentioned earlier...died in a car crash. He apparently also had CNS involvement, had a seizure while DRIVING TO THE CANCER CENTER, and crashed into a truck.
Fuck this day...do I go to my uncle's funeral or my girlfriend's grandfather's?
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...man. I don't even know what to say. Good luck? Sorry for your loss? I just don't have anything that sounds or feels right.
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shit. Really sorry to hear that, OK - what Ultradude said overall.
my only other comment is... if the two funerals are mutually exclusive, my own feeling would be to go to your uncle's, but... that's something you'll probably want to talk over with your gf. :/
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My condolences to MC, OK, and everyone else whose life has taken a downward turn. We need more happy.
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... and somehow I missed MC's post. :/ Maaaang. Really sorry to hear that, too.
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My condolences to MC, OK, and everyone else whose life has taken a downward turn. We need more happy.
This. There really is nothing to say other than that, to be honest, and I just seriously hope things pick up for both of you in the near future.
As far as happy goes... Talking to old friends is good? I met up with a load of friends for Chinese New Year (because fuck Valentine's Day when you're single) and I hadn't spoken to most of them in about a year before this. It was amazing seeing people again, and we've all promised to stay in touch this time - praying now that it actually happens.
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My condolences to MC, OK, and everyone else whose life has taken a downward turn. We need more happy.
This. There really is nothing to say other than that, to be honest, and I just seriously hope things pick up for both of you in the near future.
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Yeah. I'm sorry for the both of you, and I hope things turn out better in the future. Good luck, and hang in there.
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How I started my morning:
<gmail> Hey pay attention to this
<F!Djinn> Wah centipedes
<F!Dhyer> Every animal in Japan trying to rape him MIGHT be Karma.
<mind> Djinn getting railed by a raccoon while he gets facefucked by a fox while a circle of animals around him wait their turn and yell, "YOU DESERVE THIS! YOU DESERVE THIS."
That's one way to start the morning I guess.
Your mind works in strange ways. I blame South Park.
But yeah, the poisonous centipedes here -will- send you to the hospital, so it's always an... experience everytime I have to deal with them. I'm hoping I can torch their nest if I ever find it. That's gotta be somewhere around 80 points. I may go up a level or something.
Everyone else's Valentine's Day weekend sucked.
Wow. That's... just wow. I'm really sorry to hear about OK's and his girlfriend's losses. Both of her grandparents in so short a time? That's rough. From my detached position as an observer though, I have to say that it's almost romantic.
For MC... Well, it sucks that you were settled in and now you've got to find a new job, but at least there were a lot of people who were interested in your skills!
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On a happier note! Chiaki made me Pikachu-shaped chocolates for Valentine's Day! Well, they only had the faintest passing resemblence to a Pikachu, but you could tell it was supposed to be some type of cute mammal-thing. Anyway, they were delicious and I appreciated the attempt to pander to my RPG-loving,-Smash-Bros-loving,-Otaku-ness. <3
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It was an okay day, for once in fourteen years. I headed to my folks' to take down their Christmas lights because apparently, since I had to put them up it also makes it my job to take them down. Anyway, nobody was home so I helped myself to some rotgut.
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Chiaki made me Pikachu-shaped chocolates for Valentine's Day! Well, they only had the faintest passing resemblence to a Pikachu, but you could tell it was supposed to be some type of cute mammal-thing.
So sweet.
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It was an okay day, for once in fourteen years. I headed to my folks' to take down their Christmas lights because apparently, since I had to put them up it also makes it my job to take them down. Anyway, nobody was home so I helped myself to some rotgut.
So sweet.
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Why does insurance even pretend to offer more than catastrophic coverage? I swear I'd have my finances worked out better if I just anticipated spending 2x the quoted cost of care instead of being blindsided by $500+ every time I go for "routine" things.
Went to the dentist today. Free exam, free cleaning. Got told to floss. The usual. I don't know how many of you know this, but I'm congenitally missing my upper lateral incisors. I've had a retainer for them made of the Invisalign material with some fake acrylic teeth, and it's LONG overdue to be replaced. My dental insurance, it appears, has a 2 year waiting period for anything that is not cleaning and exam, meaning I'll have to pay the $571 for the basic replacement out of pocket.
I love you too, MetLife.
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Metlife sucks like that. My family's been through the wringer with them before, and it really sucks.
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The cubicles at my office all have these little American flags at the corner. I took a close look at one this afternoon and it said Made in China. This made my day.
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We can't even be bothered to make our own tiny American flags... >.>;;
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The cubicles at my office all have these little American flags at the corner. I took a close look at one this afternoon and it said Made in China. This made my day.
I would find this more humorous if it was anything new.
*Siiigh*
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I like how snow making school closed went from awesome to completely screwing you over
Ko can I borrow your brain for Friday
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YEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA INTERVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My HR person screwed up again. I was entered as a "late enrollee" to the dental insurance, which is apparently what was causing the weirdness and waiting periods. It was HR who screwed up by not enrolling me in the first place back in October. So now, maybe, my stay plate thingy will be covered. Hope rising -- so probably not.
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YEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA INTERVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which job?
LD: Maybe you'lll get good news, yeah. I wouldn't hold lmy breath though.
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YEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA INTERVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats! (:
No class tomorrow 'til 11. I am hyped for my extra 1.5 hours of sleep!
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Have been having PC problems lately, think I have narrowed it down to a bit of faulty RAM (Hopefully since it is cheapest and easiest to replace), in the process of testing how many sticks it is and if I am on the ball.
Running a system back up in Windows 7 with only 2 gigs of ram is painful though. 200gig backup as well is kind of shit, but such is life, I know I have it if things go tits up at least.
So this is like the last fucking thing of substance I say. What happens the next fucking day? Our internet cuts out for the better part of a week. Fuck you internet.
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So my office is downsizing to one of the two suites we've been occupying for the past couple years. This does, naturally, mean that we're going to lose a bit of workspace, but hey, all in the name of keeping the company afloat, right? We're moving all our junk and phones and computers over tomorrow after they finish setting up the new cubicles, so today they gave us the floor plan so we knew how to mark our boxes to get them to the right places.
THEY'RE MOVING US INTO 4'x4' BOXES!
The four of us are moved into a cubicle "room" (that is, three full walls and one with a 5' opening), and each of our workspaces is 4'x6' or, as is the case for the senior designer and my manager, 4'x4'. A "workspace" includes the space between divider/support walls and the exterior walls. For my manager, her space also includes the fact that her chair will naturally sit halfway in the opening space where people would be walking in.
What. the. hell.
I knew I was going to miss having my own office, but DAMN. >_<
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Does this new inconvenience finally match up to your salary, then?
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Just about. I think they'd need to downgrade my computer a notch. Of course, they've been giving me more responsibilities, so there's a LOT of other crap I'll shortly have to put up with in order to balance that out.
Company meeting is in 2.5 weeks. It's the first one we'll have had since the last round of layoffs. Given the extreme advanced notice compared to the others (where we found out the day or week before), I'm guessing it's more of a "here's where we are" thing, but who knows?
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Bad news: I'm very, very unlikely to make it to DLcon 5 this year.
Good news: The reason is because I GOT FUCKING SUMMONSED TO ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT POSITIONS I APPLIED FOR LAST YEAR. HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT
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Congratulations. As for missing DLCon, real life trumps vijiagames and the internet always.
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Bad news: I'm very, very unlikely to make it to DLcon 5 this year.
Good news: The reason is because I GOT FUCKING SUMMONSED TO ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT POSITIONS I APPLIED FOR LAST YEAR. HOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHITHOLYSHIT
Congratulations! :D That's awesome. And we're going to have to work with you on that "very, very unlikely" business.
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I vote for an extraction team. Who's with me?
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I might have a job that pays real money by then, so I can help finance
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Believe me, the problem won't be financial. The issue is that there's no way I'll be able to make the leave days I'd need for the trip - unless I somehow made up for it with mad amounts of overtime (if that was even allowed), but that would get me killed real fast.
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So if, instead of asking for vacation time, you just happened to be abducted by foreign commandos, there'd be no problem!
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I'm pretty sure I'd get in trouble anyway. >_>
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There's only so many opportunities for someone to take a trip to the US where a bunch of your friends are willing to put up with you for a week. I mean, put you up with some decent lodgings for a week. Your bosses may be more understanding than you think. You can at least ask.
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Bosses are one thing. The government itself and the Constitutional laws that state you cannot really take a vacation-level leave in public service without at least a year into the job are another. I also wouldn't put my chips on public institution bosses being amazingly understanding and kind.
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Kidnapping it is, then!
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You seem rather enamored with the idea of travelling to South America for the sake of a nerdnapping. >_>
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I'd hire people. The A-Team probably.
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There's only so many opportunities for someone to take a trip to the US where a bunch of your friends are willing to put up with you for a week. I mean, put you up with some decent lodgings for a week. Your bosses may be more understanding than you think. You can at least ask.
Yeah. See, that kinda shit? It only happens once a year.
Every year.
And immediately after DLC5 or 6 or whatever we're on now happens, plans for DLC6/7 will pop up. And if they don't, that's because something so horrible happens at this DLC that for some reason none of us would want to see each other again. And would you really want to be at THAT DLC?
DLcon can take a backseat to this opportunity.
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Look, I need to do something to keep busy.
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The pipeline is going the wrong way. We're supposed to smuggle people into Brazil, not out!
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There's only so many opportunities for someone to take a trip to the US where a bunch of your friends are willing to put up with you for a week. I mean, put you up with some decent lodgings for a week. Your bosses may be more understanding than you think. You can at least ask.
Yeah. See, that kinda shit? It only happens once a year.
Every year.
And immediately after DLC5 or 6 or whatever we're on now happens, plans for DLC6/7 will pop up. And if they don't, that's because something so horrible happens at this DLC that for some reason none of us would want to see each other again. And would you really want to be at THAT DLC?
DLcon can take a backseat to this opportunity.
Zenny's hitting the nail on the head here. Get yourself secure into the new job and make plans to hit another DLC. Real life, especially of the family and/or job varieties, always comes first.
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I lost my promise ring Friday! I don't even remember wearing it. I was only at two places on campus, and I believe I lost it in the first. Security let me in, etc. couldn't find it. Just called the library (which I was in editing people's applications for SA) and they said they believed they had it.
I have been freaking out for the last 24 hours.
And I have it.
And everything is quite and coherent again.
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This is why it's not good to put too much value in material possessions.
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This is why it's not good to put too much value in material possessions.
By extension you could make the argument that it's not good to put value in anything, except perhaps your own life, because anything you put value in can be lost (though in the case of your life you may never be aware you lost it). Friends, relatives, significant others, sports teams, memory...everything you put value in has the potential to hurt you. It's a great argument if you think the point of life is to minimize your suffering. But life like that is boring and devoid of joy. I say cherish not only the people in your life but the stuff, too. The fact that it hurts to lose a prized possession is evidence the thing was worth possessing in the first place. Same principle applies when your team loses the big game, etc.
Stuff, by the way, isn't just randomly accumulated material possessions, it represents memories, people, values that contribute to your persona. So it's not as if the value people place in stuff is just arbitrarily assigned.
Side note: feel like I should mention George Carlin somewhere in here. So I just did.
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This is why it's not good to put too much value in material possessions.
By extension you could make the argument that it's not good to put value in anything, except perhaps your own life, because anything you put value in can be lost (though in the case of your life you may never be aware you lost it). Friends, relatives, significant others, sports teams, memory...everything you put value in has the potential to hurt you. It's a great argument if you think the point of life is to minimize your suffering. But life like that is boring and devoid of joy. I say cherish not only the people in your life but the stuff, too. The fact that it hurts to lose a prized possession is evidence the thing was worth possessing in the first place. Same principle applies when your team loses the big game, etc.
Stuff, by the way, isn't just randomly accumulated material possessions, it represents memories, people, values that contribute to your persona. So it's not as if the value people place in stuff is just arbitrarily assigned.
Side note: feel like I should mention George Carlin somewhere in here. So I just did.
Mmm. I can see your point but I personally disagree re: the stuff part, I can't see myself having an emotional attachment to... uh, pretty much any object ever (nor, say, a favorite team). But eh, this is me, and I know I've got disconnects, and what you says makes some sense for other people.
I suppose this is a roundabout way to say that I'm pissed at my sister a bit for autopresuming shopping will make things better for me. Yay for humanity!
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Took cat to vet today. Turns out he has kitty diabetes. This is going to kick us straight in the wallet(was roughly $400 for the diagnosis, will be another 4-500 for checkups over the next few weeks), but that's still within doable range. I don't want to think about having to break that to Kier if it wasn't.
The really "fun" part, though? We get to give a 20lbs tomcat shots. Twice a day. For the rest of his life. I have never been more thankful that he's a chicken in a cat-suit and not a fighter.
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Yikes. Hope that works out gate.
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You guys are horrible at this Nihilism thing.
You don't worry about losing things because it is an excuse to go out and get another one. The first one gave you so much pleasure that you look forward to getting the next one.
Loss is nothing more than another chance at gratification.
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Just got back from a friend's 18th birthday, and I felt like coming here to gloat.
My friends are awesome, I had an amazing time with some friends from college, as well as meeting a couple of new people. And now I may be going out with one of the two new people I met, because she's awesome and-- not gonna ramble here. Yeah. Let's just say: ♥.
And now I'm back home with one more day until I go back to college, and I am happy to go back to college knowing Lisa goes there. All is going JUST AS PLANNED. For now, at least. ♥
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*pats Yoshiken on the back* 'Atta boy! Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
There's only so many opportunities for someone to take a trip to the US where a bunch of your friends are willing to put up with you for a week. I mean, put you up with some decent lodgings for a week. Your bosses may be more understanding than you think. You can at least ask.
Yeah. See, that kinda shit? It only happens once a year.
Every year.
And immediately after DLC5 or 6 or whatever we're on now happens, plans for DLC6/7 will pop up. And if they don't, that's because something so horrible happens at this DLC that for some reason none of us would want to see each other again. And would you really want to be at THAT DLC?
DLcon can take a backseat to this opportunity.
I'm not saying he shouldn't prioritize his job over a trip to the US, I'm just saying that it doesn't hurt to ask. Also, we may have DLcons every year (so far), but the locations are always different and he may not be able to make it those either, so it's worth a try.
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Actually, I think that if we give Snow a hard time over missing DLCon, it's only because this will make the third year in a row where he says "I can make it!" then pulls out. that sort of thing earns razzing.
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Blah blah blah materialism. He made it. I appreciate every single gesture like that. So whatever. I'm happy I reclaimed it, but he needs to resize it because I'm sure it just fell off.
Edit* I was freaking out mainly because I couldn't retrace my 3 hours on campus which is ridunkulous.
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I'm not saying he shouldn't prioritize his job over a trip to the US, I'm just saying that it doesn't hurt to ask. Also, we may have DLcons every year (so far), but the locations are always different and he may not be able to make it those either, so it's worth a try.
At least in the US, it's not unheard of to request leave for vacations planned previous to accepting a new job. It's something well within polite, professional business conduct.
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Snow has pulled out again like a Catholic on his honeymoon. Sad times. Andy will just have to be consoled with many games of Arkham instead of milk baths then.
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Blah blah blah materialism. He made it. I appreciate every single gesture like that. So whatever. I'm happy I reclaimed it, but he needs to resize it because I'm sure it just fell off.
Edit* I was freaking out mainly because I couldn't retrace my 3 hours on campus which is ridunkulous.
Nothing wrong with that, then. It's just that, if you were panicking over the loss of the ring itself, then it's probably a good idea to care a little less about the ring. No object, regardless of the sentimental attachment to it, should be so important that it induces a bloody panic attack.
(Now, objects with practical value...)
Re: Miki's philosophy lesson:
Look I'll gladly whip up a more thoughtful response when I'm not on my way to work, but if the central argument behind a philosophy is "life is DEVOID of JOY if you DON'T DO THIS" then I'm not going to take it seriously. Sorry.
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if the central argument behind a philosophy is "life is DEVOID of JOY if you DON'T DO THIS" then I'm not going to take it seriously. Sorry.
The point is, don't forbear to do something that makes you happy just because you fear that it will expose you to later unhappiness. That's all.
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Fair enough. That's sound advice, especially in light of this:
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html
tl;dw: The human brain "creates" happiness in situations where you've made a choice and can no longer do anything to alter it. This happens regardless of whether you remember making the choice or not.
So yeah science kinda backs up your advice on this. I'm just inclined to say that while giving objects sentimental value is perfectly healthy and fine, life becomes much easier if you're able to embrace the loss and move on.
(Of course I wouldn't extend that to human-to-human/animal relationships. Material loss and death are two entirely different monsters.)
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I want to know why I stayed up 'til 5AM to get McDonald's breakfast and woke up at 3PM. Damn target commercials showing black people enjoy food to soulful music! *shakes fist*
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I want to know why I stayed up 'til 5AM to get McDonald's breakfast and woke up at 3PM. Damn target commercials showing black people enjoy food to soulful music! *shakes fist*
It's so in right now.
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Fuck you Snow Leopard. FUCK you. I just uninstalled you today, had to fucking clear my HD to go back to Leopard - but FUCK YOU.
:)
Service my battery? Yeah, fuck you. 100% battery life to 48% in 10 minutes?
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So, there's a die sitting on my kitchen counter and whenever I walk by it I think about what would happen if I swallow it.
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things I hate: legal writing, being conscious. things I'll be engaged in for a while longer, alas...
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Actually, I think that if we give Snow a hard time over missing DLCon, it's only because this will make the third year in a row where he says "I can make it!" then pulls out. that sort of thing earns razzing.
Hey, I had said this year from the get-go that I'd be tied to whatever the hell would happen to my work life. >_> The other years, I guess I can't excuse myself other than not having a money tree and those things being -expensive- for a foreigner. On the plus side, the new probable workplace is... well, I'd be very surprised if I didn't get -some- sort of flight discounts.
Speaking of which! I took my documentation to the place, it's all dandy. Now, I have to make the admission medical exams and all. I'm looking at having my blood and urine taken, my heart checked and my hearing tested in the span of next morning - all so I can have all the results handy for the return this Friday. This is so gonna be a busy week.
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So I took my car to my mechanic Saturday after having some really weird problems. He immediately suggested a cracked radiator, and while I was at work discovered that the cam shaft needed replaced.
He got back to me today with the cost of parts involved, about $500 (plus whatever his labor and so on would be.) However, given the nature of what needed done and the age of the car, he's not confident he won't find other significant problems once he gets in and starts changing things. As such, he doesn't really want to proceed until I've considered whether I can afford, or if the car is worth, addition costs that might arise.
However, given that I'd want a car in the 3-5k range, I'm not certain my options on simply replacing it are any better. (Cars in the 3-5k range are quite rare now due to cash for clunkers). So yeah, still deliberating.
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2:30pm is the slowest time of the day, especially on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
4:00am still wins for the most awkward time of the day.
I have to say that seeing both of these on any given day makes things extra irritating.
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I woke up at 5:15 AM. Dragonball: Evolution was on. It's even more funny when you're only half-awake.
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I never thought you could do all those exams so goddamned fast, bus trips included. All medical tests taken, two of them I already have the results handy. Only thing left is the blood/urine exam, which will be up on the internets tomorrow.
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So, I was an O+ for blood type all my life and I -never knew-. Also, in spite of eating a human head-sized chocolate bar a day and being a Coca-Cola addict, I'm pretty much within typical levels of glicose.
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Sucks for you. I'm AB, all take and no give.
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It's mostly "hey I probably should donate some blood one of these days" anyway.
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So, I was an O+ for blood type all my life and I -never knew-. Also, in spite of eating a human head-sized chocolate bar a day and being a Coca-Cola addict, I'm pretty much within typical levels of glicose.
Blood type personality analysis time!
Type O: "You want to be a leader, and when you see something you want, you keep striving until you achieve your goal. You are a trend-setter, loyal, passionate, and self-confident. Your weaknesses include vanity and jealously and a tendency to be too competitive."
(I'm B+. It is the ultimate irony in blood types, yo. "You're a rugged individualist, who's straight forward and like to do things your own way. Creative and flexible, you adapt easily to any situation. But your insistence on being independent can sometimes go too far and become a weakness.")
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/me eyes his profile.
Date Registered: February 22, 2009, 01:38:37 PM
Posts: 1260 (3.424 per day)
Total time logged in: 33 days, 5 hours and 2 minutes.
That's right, I have spent over 1/12 of the last year on the DL, including times when I should have been sleeping, and not including Anonymafia accounts, despite me spending a hell of a lot of time logged in as Light. Yaaaay.
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Come back to me when you've spent 1/3 of a year logged in.
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But is that in one year?
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I said it in chat last night, but might as well say it here!
It seems my sister got engaged. So yeah, I'm going to have a Brother-in-law at some point in the future <_<
...no, its not Mandy who got engaged, you sick freaks! And its not my older sister Tara either; its the "Elusive 3rd sister of Meeple" that none of you have met cause she lives in Philadelphia.
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But is that in one year?
Yup.
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But is that in one year?
Yup.
...I managed to nearly maintain a normal sleeping pattern throughout that year? (Nearly! So very nearly! One or two more weeks and I'd've managed~)
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I said it in chat last night, but might as well say it here!
It seems my sister got engaged. So yeah, I'm going to have a Brother-in-law at some point in the future <_<
First thought: Man, Jewish people have some weird traditions with this whole arranged marriage thing for someone that young to be engaged.
...no, its not Mandy who got engaged, you sick freaks!
Congrats, you managed to make my Second Thought all squicky. Ew. ;_;
Does the idea of having a brother-in-law bother you?
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Its not so much that it bothers much as much as its kind of surreal, I guess. I mean, my sister getting engaged means that in only a few years, I could conceivably be an uncle, which is going to be something new to get use to.
Though, its going to be especially weird when you consider that this makes Mandy an Aunt! I know, the idea of a young aunt isn't that bizarre (hell, I had a friend in Middle School was an uncle himself, due to having sisters much older than him...well, half sisters actually), but its still weird thinking of MANDY as being one.
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Not as weird as an aunt who's YOUNGER than their niece/nephew, which happens, I'm sure.
I have a friend whose biological parents divorced and remarried another divorced couple. Both original sets of parents had a kid, so she has a quadruple-adopted brother she's not biologically related to (to all the anime fans out there, yes, this is the same as Marmalade Boy, a show she avoids, for obvious reasons.)
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Not as weird as an aunt who's YOUNGER than their niece/nephew, which happens, I'm sure.
I have a friend whose biological parents divorced and remarried another divorced couple. Both original sets of parents had a kid, so she has a quadruple-adopted brother she's not biologically related to (to all the anime fans out there, yes, this is the same as Marmalade Boy, a show she avoids, for obvious reasons.)
My dad's dad remarried, had a kid after I was born.
Uncle who is younger than me!
Kinda wish he didn't live in Texas >_<
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I found out today my Grandma has lung cancer, and the cancer seems to have spread to her spine as well. She apparantly also had it two years ago as well, which she neglected to tell us, telling us she was in the hospital for something minor. They thought they got all of it, but she also didn't stop, you know, smoking after that until maybe last summer. Tried to keep this from us too. Probably cause she didn't want to stop drinking and smoking.
Hard to really say anything at this point. Outlook is not good, but she knew what she was doing and has made peace with it... though she pretty much left everyone else out of the loop. Her decision, really and I actually support it, though not the way it played out. Just kinda sucks we didn't know. The fact that she lived to 83 drinking and smoking as much as she does is a minor miracle in itself.
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That's rough, Kevin. Don't really know what else to say.
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Yeah, Soppy. My condolences about that, and at least you can console yourself with how long she lived. Sucks that she also hid it from you and your family, but I'm pretty sure that things wouldn't have gotten any better for her. At this point, the best is just to spend those last moments with her.
On other, unrelated news, I just finished the exams for the new job, and I start on the Monday after the next. Goddamn yes.
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Condolences to Sopko, congratulations to Snow, "Wow I don't care" to Meeple, etc. etc.
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It started raining on me on the walk back from Subway to work. Got to walk in the rain for about ten blocks. I feel good now. ^_^ <3
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I got fired. I feel less good now.
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Ow. I'm sorry, man.
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The best part, I feel, is I was when I realized I'm wearing a skull and crossbones shirt that says "Game Over."
Proof of God, says I. Proof of God.
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What was the problem, could they not handle the vast degrees of sexy?
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Just means that other, more... tropical job opportunities have opened up for Andy.
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More like they got tired of a lazy, unfocused employee who clearly hated his job for all of the 9 months that he was there.
Anyhow, I should only have one more notably bad thing left to happen to me before I'm in the clear for a while. Rule of threes.
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I'm voting cancer in the family. Seems to be hitting every other DLer's family these days.
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Already did that one a while back, so I'm figuring it'll at least be something new.
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I really think we're fine with the three we have now, thanks very much. Don't need to go soliciting ANOTHER set.
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My boss is watching transformers, my coworker is playing farmville on FB, and I'm reading the WoT and hanging out in chat. I love my job.
I still need a second job, but I love the first!
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My boss is watching transformers, my coworker is playing farmville on FB, and I'm reading the WoT and hanging out in chat. I love my job.
I still need a second job, but I love the first!
I hate you.
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You know something's wrong with your job when...
My boss is watching transformers, my coworker is playing farmville on FB, and I'm reading the WoT and hanging out in chat. I love my job.
I still need a second job, but I love the first!
Or was it "something's wrong with you?" Eh, either way.
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It is a student's duty to leak money from their university wherever they can. They jack enough from us for tuition that never actually gets past administrative pockets, so there's no reason to feel guilty unless you're straight up stealing from your department.
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I think it's warm enough in the morning to start my running regimen again. I just have to get rid of all the udon and I'll start replacing my food with more wholesome things. I understand I can make udon wholesome, but I'm looking for course meals and not soups.
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My boss is watching transformers, my coworker is playing farmville on FB, and I'm reading the WoT and hanging out in chat. I love my job.
I still need a second job, but I love the first!
I hate you.
/me gnaws on Sage while enjoying one-week unemployment.
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My boss is watching transformers, my coworker is playing farmville on FB, and I'm reading the WoT and hanging out in chat. I love my job.
I still need a second job, but I love the first!
I hate you.
/me gnaws on Sage while enjoying one-week unemployment.
Man, an unemployment where you're not fretting about when you're getting another job? YOU ARE DOING THE GLOBAL RECESSION WRONG.
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Speaking of. Unemployment filed for. Prolly will not get, so job searching ahoy.
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WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST MAY NOT BE FOR SENSITIVE READERS. TMI ENSUES.
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Things that suck: needing to throw up while you're already on the toilet so your only hope is to lean to the side and hope it all makes it into the shower.
The good news: well, it did.
The bad news: I used the phrase "leaking from both ends" earlier today metaphorically. It is no longer a metaphor.
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/me winces. Jesus Christ, Gate, what happened to you during the weekend.
On other, more lazy news, I have the whole week to do absolutely -nothing-.
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Yikes. Feel better, Gate.
Snow: Get a job, you hippie!
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I'm just taking the week off! My new job starts next week and I'm likely to not get vacations until next year!
Sad part is that I've never had work vacations so far. =(
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Ugh. Poor luck Gate, may recovery be swift.
Car get. I feel like less of a giant now that I'm finding levers to adjust the seat better, but still pretty different from what I had. On the plus side, it doesn't seem to have anything waiting to blow up.
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At least you didn't have to vomit just as you finished the lower half thus forcing you to vomit into the john before you could flush. Bonus points because we have a seperate bathroom and toilet. Choices of vomit all over the disgusting shit or vomit on onto the floor (Or into your shirt if you can strip fast enough) they are all winners.
So you know what is fun? Having vertigo. Then going to work anyway because your boss is away so you are kind of needed. So stumble around getting ready slowly and being late will probably miss the bus. Get like a quarter of the way to the bus stop just down a small hill. Trip in the gutter and bang up my ankle. Oh and it is raining and the gutters are overflowing (walking in the rain is fine, tripping in the rain not so much). So quarter fo the way to the bus stop to work, dizzy as all fuck, unable to even do my normal vertigo induced shuffle slide because I am reduced to an unbalanced hobble. Saturated in dirty water that is in the gutters because there is a ton of roadworks near my place.
Yeah I turned around and went back home for the second shower of the day and a chance to lie/sit down.
Edit - Of course still better off than Gate. Been where he is already in the last few months and have no desire to return. Buckets are good if you have them around.
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/me gets a mail notice from the guv'nment company he's going to work to with confirmation and details of documentation to bring.
Welp, the only reason I had to worry about this week is no more. Back to lazing.
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So, if you have a bunch of games you don't really play anymore lying around, I just found out that GameStop is giving 50% bonus credit on all trade-ins. I found this out when I traded in... nine? Games that I haven't played in four or more months (only three of which were what I would call "good") as I do about once a year, and got $123.15 in store credit. Which was nice.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Sunshine! Yes!!! No more cold! No more rain! No more SNOW! I've missed the sun so darn much! It's true what they say; sunshine is the source of happiness. :-)
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So, if you have a bunch of games you don't really play anymore lying around, I just found out that GameStop is giving 50% bonus credit on all trade-ins. I found this out when I traded in... nine? Games that I haven't played in four or more months (only three of which were what I would call "good") as I do about once a year, and got $123.15 in store credit. Which was nice.
No matter how pretty it is, still a horrible disgusting scam.
So yesterday about oooh 20 minutes after that last post about how my day was kind of shitty? My PC shutdown again, so meh used to that these days. 20 minutes later, plug it back in start it up. Smell plastic burning. Unplug it. Looks like I get to upgrade twice in nearly as many months. Not sure if it was the CPU or the Mobo, maayybe the PSU but I don't think so (which is annoying because I was really sure it was the RAM that was causing the shutdowns). Waiting until the weekend to find out when I can get Dad to look at it with voltmeter and whatnot to try and locate the point of failure. So for now, Laptop gaming it is. WoW runs fine so I get to keep my second job. I will probably be doing more console stuff in my downtime, so expect some ranting about ToV soon.
If it is the Mobo that is fried I really couldn't be fucked getting all my shit back into that case again, it is a nice case, but is old enough to not really have some of the cooler new cable management techniques in place, so I might fork out a couple of hundred and get a full tower. Not that I have anywhere near the hardrive to need it, I just want the space inside the damned thing for all the cabling and it should help with head distribution as well. There is a pretty good Thermal Take case with no PSU for $200 AUS that I am eyeing up. It has wanky fans and shit with LEDs and all the crap I don't care about, but it is a damn good price for a full tower with toolless bays and a decent cable management system. I am normally pretty hard for my Lian Li cases, they do much better minimalist cases at a better price than Thermal Take, but availability and cost are a bitch and hey I can deal with an ugly computer again I guess.
Is an Element V (http://www.thermaltake.com.au/Products/Chassis/VL20001W2Z/ElementV.aspx) for the half a person that is likely to give a fuck on these forums.
Edit - What I would give to have the money on hand to get a well designed Lian Li case like this (http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=336&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=61&g=f). Mmmmmm sexy sexy case, but $500 sexy is like the cost of a new CPU.
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/me got rickroll'd by his subconscious this night.
Goddammit internets.
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Wait, you're getting Sunshine and warmth? We're finally having our sunnier days, but the cold still ensues. Case in point, classes were cancelled around 3PM yesterday because of snow in North Georgia. Funny, it didn't really affect Atlanta because once it hit, it melted and never stuck. However, GSU was probably listening to the complaints of students being afraid of making it home (*coughbullshitcough*) who live North of Georgia. I did not see school cancelled for those who lived south of Atlanta, but we got the most snow. *rollseyes* Snow isn't bad in GA. It's knowing that GA drivers can't drive in any sort of conditions . . .
and I digress.
Yes I want warmth too.
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Not being cold does not a warm day make. It wasn't warm, but it wasn't cold either; somewhere inbetween, y'know?
:) Although I could still use a good cook so you can come stay here for the sunshine and waaarm~~
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So, if you have a bunch of games you don't really play anymore lying around, I just found out that GameStop is giving 50% bonus credit on all trade-ins. I found this out when I traded in... nine? Games that I haven't played in four or more months (only three of which were what I would call "good") as I do about once a year, and got $123.15 in store credit. Which was nice.
No matter how pretty it is, still a horrible disgusting scam.
Meh, only if you buy used games from them. And dude, they gave me $50 for Star Ocean 4. I'd say they got taken hard.
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Mm. Set up a phone interview with Interac. Anxiety dictated that this means sanitizing my Facebook.
I wonder how far back I'll have to delete every offensive comment, every link to an offensive comment, and every jackass picture tagged of me before I stop being irrational and realize that since everything's set to private I probably don't need to take so many precautions.
Paranoia is kind of meditatively pleasant, on another note.
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"What I've realized, recently, is that the skeleton of rules of the "game" of "life" is just too visible here in Japan, where multiple perfunctory sentences are required to start any conversation, where you can use a certain positive verb to soften the preconceived impact of a negative verb form, where you can prove mathematically that you are a good person by drinking alongside everyone else, by being the last to go home every day, by ritualistically screaming in the middle of the street after a company party. Oh no! You messed up today! The company lost money. BONUS ROUND: At least you get the opportunity to apologize to the boss. People who can apologize well are respected! Be sure to apologize every time you pick up the phone! Miss one, and you'll lose points! Your score in this game is represented by the balance of your bank account. When you reach the goal, you have earned the right to play a game with much simpler rules.
Man, life is like the world's most boring MMORPG. "
;_;
Kotaku nails its description of Japanese life.
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Less emo, more ten-inch poisonous wasps. Chop-chop.
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In the grim future there is only emo?
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Less emo, more ten-inch poisonous wasps. Chop-chop.
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Also, I'm pretty sure that you're the one with that problem. Djinn just has the ten foot poison centipedes. They can't fly, so definitely less threatening.
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They are also just as flammable as supers, so it's easy to hit weakness.
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The downside is that since the beta RL has always had environmental damage, so you risk burning everything when you light the buggers on fire, I'm guessing.
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Not being cold does not a warm day make. It wasn't warm, but it wasn't cold either; somewhere inbetween, y'know?
:) Although I could still use a good cook so you can come stay here for the sunshine and waaarm~~
Airfare, lodging and intro language classes included?
On another note, I saw
motherfucking
JOHN
BAINES
lecture at Emory university on Egyptian artists and architecture.
Fucking hell, I'm overloading in scholarly splendor this semester. Gay Robins, Melinda Hartwig (my professor), John Baines, Dr. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, being stuffed between to grad student thesis presentations (I guess my paper was good, or was meant for people to think less as a break. Iono), upcoming High lectures.
Oooo heaven is a place on Earth~
British people satisfy my needs. I need wit. It's innate for them. C'moooon Alan Rickman. Granted, KWS was not British. Neither is Dr. Hartwig.
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The good: I've finally gotten back in the swing of things where going to the gym is enjoyable once more.
The bad: While my friend never got drug tested going into Interac, I'd rather not botch this up because of a relatively harmless vice that everyone makes too big a deal of. So Mary Jane and I are gonna have to break up. This... won't be hard, but if other times where I've gone dry are any indication, I'm going to be a bit moody and over react to everything. I always knew I'd have to face this eventually (be it for Interac or some other "real" job), but... sigh.
Man, this isn't even the vice I should be quitting. Alcohol will bring the end of me way sooner than pot would.
Eh, at least it may be interesting to keep a journal of how my thought patterns change going from many times a day to none at all over the course of a few weeks. For science.
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I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.
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Party.
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Woooo springbreak or something.
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I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.
Man, I am totally with you on this. Literally.. I'm having trouble seeing correctly, and it's great. Got a cute bartender's phone number, too~
Whoo~!
I predict we both have hangover posts tomorrow.
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I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.
Man, I am totally with you on this. Literally.. I'm having trouble seeing correctly, and it's great. Got a cute bartender's phone number, too~
Whoo~!
I predict we both have hangover posts tomorrow.
Upon which you discover the bartender was actually Chiaki's cousin.
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No, Snow. You are the bartender.
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No, that doesn't make sense to me, either.
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first time today i've actually just been able to sit and relax, woo.
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I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.
Man, I am totally with you on this. Literally.. I'm having trouble seeing correctly, and it's great. Got a cute bartender's phone number, too~
Whoo~!
I predict we both have hangover posts tomorrow.
I'm fine, by the way. But I'm a nigh-superhuman drinker, so don't feel bad.
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No, Snow. You are the bartender.
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No, that doesn't make sense to me, either.
Like I'd give up on a committed relationship for Djinn of all people. >_>
EDIT: Well, no. Djinn would be leagues more probable than VSM. At least Djinn looks pretty hot.
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So, when trying to get Mass Effect to work, I downloaded the newest NVIDIA drivers to try and get my graphics card working. Turns out this was a stupid idea since the latest driver (196.75) has a little bug where it can't regulate fan speed, causing many graphics cards to just up and break. Fortunately, I haven't tried to run ME since updating my drivers, and got a proper working update, but I figured I should let people here know about the problem.
IF YOU HAVE AN NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARD AND UPDATED YOUR DRIVERS TO 196.75, UNINSTALL THE DRIVERS AND DOWNLOAD 196.21 OR RISK HAVING YOUR CARD BREAK.[/color]
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Pretty much every graphics driver nvidia has released in the past eight months is a buggy piece of crap. This is more extreme than the other problems, but sadly not entirely unexpected.
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Huuuuuuge difference between "buggy piece of crap" and "hey now your graphics card doesn't work."
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It all comes down to "don't update your drivers until Nvidia remembers what testers are for" in the end.
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And another reason I'm glad I went ATI
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Way less depressed than I expected to be. However it's relatively hard to get to sleep, and it's extremely hard to tell the difference between tired and bored.
So bored. Horny, too (moreso than normal). Kinda funny to see what I was using the MJ to suppress.
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Me hugging you will be as much MJ as you'll ever need. ; )
Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.
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Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.
That's what she said.
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Like I'd give up on a committed relationship for Djinn of all people. >_>
EDIT: Well, no. Djinn would be leagues more probable than VSM. At least Djinn looks pretty hot.
*raises eyebrow*
*decides to take the backhanded compliment like a gentleman*
Snow is teh tsundere.
Me hugging you will be as much MJ as you'll ever need. ; )
Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.
Either Idun is adorably innocent... or this is the hottest comment ever made on these forums.
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I'm pretty sure it's not Option A.
In other news, now my girlfriend's mother is dying of cancer. Doctor gives her six months.
What the fuck, DL curse?
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I'm pretty sure it's not Option A.
In other news, now my girlfriend's mother is dying of cancer. Doctor gives her six months.
What the fuck, DL curse?
Jesus, exactly which supernatural force's or possibly CIA agent's coffee did you piss in?
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I don't know, but I'm going to hit him in the nuts with a hammer.
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Shale, that's awful. I hope things turn out as well as they can.
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Like I'd give up on a committed relationship for Djinn of all people. >_>
EDIT: Well, no. Djinn would be leagues more probable than VSM. At least Djinn looks pretty hot.
*raises eyebrow*
*decides to take the backhanded compliment like a gentleman*
Snow is teh tsundere.
Me hugging you will be as much MJ as you'll ever need. ; )
Anyway, holy fucking hell I am addicted to fish tacos.
Either Idun is adorably innocent... or this is the hottest comment ever made on these forums.
The food. I.. I thought everyone would think that. Clearly I'm blindsided. But they are awesome. The fish they normally use is tilapia, one of the most whored out groups of fishies out there.
Shale. Ugh. ):
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Logistical computers question: I'm in the market to replace my laptop, and I have absolutely no idea what to aim for. I was happy with Dell, but all things considered, I'm seriously expecting a response that their plant exploded given how long this damn thing is being taken to be made. I'm looking for nothing fancy at all, and it basically doesn't have to have any specific qualities. I'm just looking for what essentially will be the most durable. Any opinions?
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Clearly I'm blindsided. But they are awesome. The fish they normally use is tilapia, one of the most whored out groups of fishies out there.
A more true statement about the vagina has never been made.
Let me preface this with just how important my PC is to me. I know it should be apparent, but it is like this. I grew up with a computer. I have always had a computer. Some people have pets, I have computers. When my PC isn't working it isn't just the lack of communication with my friends and family or my chosen form of entertainment. It is like my dog is dying here. From repeated pained injuries. And it costs about the same as well, which is a real bitch.
So in my continuing saga of fuck my computer. So my CPU was fucked based on the fact that my PC wouldn't even reach POST since Tuesday and that was well the error my Mobo was giving. So off I go on the weekend to fork out 300 loonies for a new CPU, may as well get an upgrade to an I7 from my I5 and pick up that Edit - Sound card (not video) I have been eyeing up while I am at it right? WRONG.
So turns out that it wasn't the CPU, it was the MoBo, probably the socket was fucked, so the CPU like should work and I am out 300 bucks. MoBo gets taken back to the shop to be replaced because that shit is like 3 months old. Get a new temp MoBo on loan from my Dad that he will use to make a HTPC with (micro ATX board, so lolworthy for gaming). I get that home, install ethernet drivers so I can connect to the net. My little brother is buying all new components for a PC and if I was going to replace my MoBo I was going to buy a case anyway (instead of the sound card), so fuck it, I am broke but I will scrape together the cash and get a new case. It should be the last thing I need to spend on my PC for a long time. I jump on to the net, read one page in Discussion.
Then my boot drive dies.
This would be my brand new hard drive from December. So in the last 4 months I have purchased 4 computer components. RAM, Mother Board, CPU and Hard Drive. Of these, the RAM is slower than I wanted, so I planned to replace it with something a bit faster, I have replaced the CPU unnecessarilly, the Motherboard has fucked itself as has the Hard drive.
Fuck this shit. Fucking fuck it why did I choose to be an early adopter.
At least my soundcard when I could be fucked installing it is an old piece of hardware (Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium), so it PROBABLY will work.
I am so fucking broke right now. Need a new HDD, will probably have to rip all my music again (new stuff isn't backed up, but I have been meaning to do that for a while anyway). I haven't lost anything mission critical, but I am really broke and burned out mentally on computer stuff. Have I mentioned that last week at work was one of the worst I have had? So yeah I get a week of work at an office full of computers being that guy that is good with the database who gets to voodoo shit into sense. At least it is fucking software though. I can deal with software. This hardware shit makes me want to hang myself.
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Dude, didn't you get a warranty on... any of that? For all this shit to be breaking so soon after you had just bought it (especially the HD) it sounds like you're fucking yourself by not getting some sort of warranty on 'em. Don't most computer part outlets offer a warranty of some kind?
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Getting it on the Motherboard, some stuff varies. HDD probably won't get it, the CPU I thought was fried so I wouldn't get it on that. So of the two things that have -actually- broken I have warranty on one of them (probably).
Hard drives are cheap enough that it probably isn't worth claiming anyway, by the time I would get it back (3-4 weeks likely?) I will be able to afford another one.
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Ah, I was misreading because it is 8 AM. It's not that everything broke, it's that some things broke and you are a bad capitalist. Gotcha.
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It is more that everything is in a steady state of self destruction. I suppose I am leading by example there, but that is not the intention.
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I recently started drinking tea. I'd been avoiding it because my first experience was with a poorly steeped, cheap herbal blend, and it tasted like grass in hot water. I've upgraded to organic green tea and organic yerba mate, but they're still the store-purchased, little bag kind. They taste just fine. I enjoy them, except for the weird aftertaste and mouthfeel I get after I drink a cup.
I'll get over to Samovar in the City sometime soon so I can pick up "real" tea. Any recommendations?
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Me 3 hours ago: Hey look it's warm outside. A little overcast, but there's no reason to not be comfortable and lazy and not wear proper pants/shoes.
As I try to leave campus to return home, Weather used Snowstorm!! A terrible blow!! Zennydon A takes 95 damage.
Fortunately it is New Mexico weather and in ~30 minutes the snow stopped long enough for me to get home.
Never thought I'd be running to get to my place of work. Didn't see my boss/coworkers, but still...
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I recently started drinking tea. I'd been avoiding it because my first experience was with a poorly steeped, cheap herbal blend, and it tasted like grass in hot water. I've upgraded to organic green tea and organic yerba mate, but they're still the store-purchased, little bag kind. They taste just fine. I enjoy them, except for the weird aftertaste and mouthfeel I get after I drink a cup.
I'll get over to Samovar in the City sometime soon so I can pick up "real" tea. Any recommendations?
Yerba Mate. My experience with this is from a guy at my church (he's since moved out of town) with family in Brazil who brought some really authentic stuff on a church trip, and I can describe it pretty much as 'fuck yeah' even if most of the other guys didn't like it.
Anyways, if you've been liking green I like gunpowder greens myself, in spite of very little experience. Smokey.
Maybe find a good mild black tea like Prince of Wales, Twinings makes it good in tea bags.
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New job impressions!
A) Oh good contract stuff went alright.
B) 500 bucks on food (both for groceries and eating out) aid? Fucking sold.
C) HOLY SHIT THE HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN COVERS EVERYTHING
D) They have private pension funding retirement plans? Heck yeah.
E) Wait a minute my boss is like ten states away from here for a company ceremonial duty and won't be back until Wednesday?
F) Sweet, they gave me an institutional pen drive!
G) ... what the heck have I gotten into. >_>
This is gonna be fun.
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This is all from the perspective of someone who doesn't really ever put milk or sugar in his tea, so keep that in mind.
If you like black tea, Twinings really is a great brand. I second the recommendation of their Prince of Wales tea (though I prefer it without milk) and their Earl Gray is excellent. Their gunpowder isn't too good, though. Oh, but their green tea with jasmine is very nice (you should definitely try green tea with jasmine if you've never had it).
For green teas, Chinese teas like gunpowder have a darker, smokier flavor than Japanese greens like sencha, which are a bit grassier (but in a good way). I prefer Japanese teas generally, but they're both nice.
If you see a Darjeeling, give that a shot. Darjeeling is a really light black tea that's really nice to drink straight.
Oolong tea has a very earthy taste to it, smells kinda like if you ripped the bark off an oak tree after a heavy rain. I like it. Your mileage may vary.
As a general note, black tea is best brewed at boiling, 220, and green tea is best at 180, which is a fair amount cooler. If you brew green tea too hot, the color will be more on the tan side, and it'll be more bitter than it otherwise would have been.
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Interac phone interview done, next one is in Phoenix on May 15th.
Just need to be less nervous, because when I get nervous I babble, and babbling makes me look stupider than I am.
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I just got my nails did.
And GL, Makkotah.
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My local Game Stop invited me to a release party for FFXIII!!!!!! Starting now... I'll pass. Not that I have anything against release parties, but this is the ghetto-est Game Stop ever and it's been open for all of a month, so no one knows it exists unless you live nearby, go to Subway, and be like "WTF, a new Game Stop!" Pretty sure I can roll in at 12:01 and grab my game with little to no line.
50% extra on trade-ins was nice though. Fuck you Sacred 2 and Folklore.
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Tea is awesome and if you can afford it a good white tea is good to have. It has a similar taste to a mild green tea but will go down with no bitter taste (if prepared right, do not burn White Tea) and is just generally the smoothest tea you will ever have.
Gunpowder greens are nice, but real men (Like Jim's sister) drink Lapsang Souchong.
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Lapsang Souchong tastes like cigarettes smell. Real tea tastes natural: dirt, grass, bark, dry leaves. That's the good stuff.
Speaking of the good stuff, I swear by adagio.com for tea. Overpriced to be sure, but all their tea is fantastic.
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Day 1 of Interview 1/5 = complete
Day 2...another 0800-2000. Crazy >_>
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Spoils from quitting former job: over 2k.
Last paycheck: 1.4k.
Man, the spoils are pretty okay. Now, to work on my tax files.
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It's becoming more and more clear as to how I was using MJ to help me. On days when every little thing gets to me, it's easy enough to not care about it after lighting up. It's easy enough to center myself, as it were, when I don't give a shit about what's happening around me. When I take every little minor thing as a personal insult, though, it's almost impossible to not let that loathing feed back on itself and build up to a temper tantrum.
At first I thought it was because I hadn't eaten. And then I thought it was because I hadn't had any alcohol since Tuesday. But, no. It is that I care too much about stupid shit that's easy enough to ignore after getting stoned. I haven't relapsed yet as I have so many times with alcohol, but god damn it would be nice to just lay back and get high instead of being fixated on some sloppy cunt-faced California douchebag who rode through my work on his faggot-assed bicycle after I mopped the floors goddamn 5 hours ago.
It hasn't been hard quitting, but reigning in my temper is much more of a pain in the ass than I expected.
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Anger is a tricky thing. I used to have anger issues I couldn't really deal with. Not sure exactly why I don't now, but let me give you three pieces of advice anyway:
1. get more angry about important shit. world peace, etc. that kind of anger crowds out the petty, he-cut-me-in-line stuff. Being angry about small stuff is justified, but as you are well aware it does you no good.
2. try replacing your anger with a healthy disdain for the flotsam of humanity. Under this scheme, not getting angry about stuff is a sign of your inherent superiority. Think of this as passive-aggressive Buddhism.
3. get older. works wonders.
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I'm pretty sure Zenny has 2 covered. VERY covered. Possibly outdone only by Grefter.
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So yeah, now I have something to be angry about.
I essentially got robbed last night. I was walking home from the bar, hadn't been feeling too great since I had thought yesterday was so shitty, so I was venting. Ended up doing something really stupid that caught the attention of campus security (pounding my fists on a car I guess? I was really drunk; it's hard to recall), and so they threw me in the hospital's drunk tank-slash-psychiatric ward "for my own protection." I'm hardly a threat to myself since self harm is STUPID and accomplishes nothing, but try telling that to a bunch of judgmental pigs who've clearly never been drunk and moody at the same time, eh? Long story truncated, apparently they thought I was irrational enough to need supervision, and I'm out 150 bucks for said supervision.
Exactly HOW the decision to give them my credit card to pay for this bullshit wasn't considered to be made under duress (going from throwing a drunken temper tantrum to having a god damn gun pointed at my face), especially since they KNEW I was DRUNK ENOUGH TO NOT MAKE SMART DECISIONS, I don't think I will ever understand. Exactly WHAT I was paying for, neither. All those assholes did was take my blood pressure, make me sleep it off, and be extraordinarily judgmental.
The only differences between this and being robbed at gunpoint are that I was being really stupid and that they told me it was "for my own good."
I don't expect any sympathy from you fucks but god do I need to rant.
EDIT: Jim's right, though, I need to focus less on myself and more on the bigger picture. I got out of this relatively unscathed. I do have the $150 that they jacked from me, so it's not like I'm going into debt for this. But if this happened to me, it's got to have happened to others who are less able to deal. People have bad days sometimes and then they drink and then they vent. It happens. And when confronted by law enforcement they don't ever choose the right words because they're fucking drunk. So how many people are getting legally robbed because they make stupid mistakes? How many people are being squeezed through this meat grinder and coming out far worse off than they were beforehand? How at all can I take action to stop this horseshit system of legitimized robbery, not to ease some personal vendetta but so some poor sap doesn't have the same thing happen to them?
The answer is I can't. So I'm going to whine about it on the internet.
EDIT 2: If it's not clear I understand why I was stopped by the police. It looked like I was trying to break into a car. Simple enough. I just don't understand how me not actually committing a crime is grounds for this kind of horse shit.
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That is a good start, but you can be far more angry at everything rather than just specific incidents. Anger management is essentialy the only reason I keep up my hard left socialist idealism some days, it is a fight I know that isn't going anywhere (which is the reason I contemplate abandoning it some days).
I reccomend taking up an ideology akin to Situationist International. You get to be leftist and obscure enough to be elitist about it.
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Eh. I'm not to sure that getting all idealistic is the right path. A lot of my anger stems from feeling so dang useless all the time, so being self consciously impotent doesn't strike me as the best of ideas.
On the bright side, merely 5 hours later I'm not at all pissed about the situation (well, the 150 bucks, but there's as much use getting angry about that as there is anything else). In fact it got me writing fiction again so that's kind of good. "Nothing bad happens to writers; if nothing else you can put it in the third person and call it fiction" and all. Should probably be revising some unfinished pieces instead since they're so close to being publishable but hey something's something right?
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I'm hardly a threat to myself since self harm is STUPID and accomplishes nothing, but try telling that to a bunch of judgmental pigs who've clearly never been drunk and moody at the same time, eh?
It's well established that suicide police rates are far higher than the general population and depression is common in the force, so in a sense it's not too surprising that police would think that a moody drunk is a danger to himself. People have the habit of projecting that kind of thing.
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I'm bored in my relationship.
*PHEW* There. I said it. Have I said it to him? Yeah. "You bore me." What a pompous bitch I am. Maybe it's because I've been going out since he's been wanting to spend even less time prior to telling him this (Wow, an hour and then Battlefield?) and meeting guys who can actually hold a conversation.
I'm a bitch. Putting my personal life out on blast on a forum, but I have to put it somewhere and he knows what my LJ is. Not in the mood for him bitching about me talking about the things that suck about our relationship. I want to be away from him every time he decides that he has nothing to do and wants to spend time with me. At least it helped me read an entire dissertation in some hours yesterday for my research paper. *sigh*
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Idun: Ouch. Hope you can work it out and fix things, because you did seem really happy before.
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Three important rules for breaking up
Don't put off breaking up when you know you want to
Prolonging the situation only makes it worse
Tell him honestly, simply, kindly, but firmly
Don't make a big production
Don't make up an elaborate story
This will help you avoid a big tear jerking scene
If you wanna date other people say so
Be prepared for the boy to feel hurt and rejected
Even if you've gone together for only a short time,
And haven't been too serious,
There's still a feeling of rejection
When someone says she prefers the company of others
To your exclusive company,
But if you're honest, and direct,
And avoid making a flowery emotional speech when you brake the news,
The boy will respect you for your frankness,
And honestly he'll appreciate the kind of straight forward manner
In which you told him your decision
Unless he's a real jerk or a cry baby you'll remain friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNc45FTenhg)
Edit - Don't take that as a stab at you Idun, I just like linking to good music. That is how relationships go. Especially relationships with nerds.
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It's also incredibly good advice. Also don't do that bullshit you're-broken-up-but-still-fucking nonsense. Unless the two of you are very anti-drama it leads to nowhere good, and even if you are the two of you will just resent each other after a while anyway.
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Right eye doesn't want to open. Awesome! Got punched 2 days ago and didn't think much of it, but that has to be why... I didn't think punches were the type of thing to take 2 days to fully kick in, but I don't make it a habit of taking one in the face soo... could be wrong.
It's okay though. FF13 doesn't require depth perception.
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I don't know if I want to break up. I realize that perhaps I'm PMsing because my . is coming. However, I think if I don't see any changes before I'm about to move out, that's the best time. He's staying here, and I have a short tolerance and am quite an angry woman, so it wouldn't be a good situation for him. I'd probably kill him. Er, stab.
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My dad finally found a job. It's not the one he wants, and not a permanent solution, but they've been running on fumes for a little bit and he kind of needed something. I mean, he's been without work for about 14 months now. In any case, this job is still okay for what my dad does and wants to do, so it's the temporary kind of solution that will hopefully lead into a permanent one.
Unfortunately, said job is not really within commuting distance of where they are currently living on that island, so they have to move out. Except see that part about 14 months with no income? Savings doesn't have much life left in it. So they are having to rent a one-room studio for my dad, my mom, the border collie and the cat to live in. The brother is also supposed to live there, if necessary, but...
Instead he's coming to live with me and Andrew for a while. I don't know how much I've talked about my brother before, so let me put it this way: he's 22, has neither a high school diploma nor a degree, and has not ever worked. Also, we have all of 750 square feet in our apartment, so this should be fun! The original idea was to upgrade to a 2 bedroom apartment -- which we've been wanting to do anyway -- but with Andrew not having a job and all...
I am not really looking forward to the next few months.
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/me pats Ashley.
Okay, so weekend is done and I bought a bunch of shirts for work. Clothing is expensive. =(
On the other hand, the shirts look -fabulous-.
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Instead he's coming to live with me and Andrew for a while. I don't know how much I've talked about my brother before, so let me put it this way: he's 22, has neither a high school diploma nor a degree, and has not ever worked.
This sounds like it is going to end in tears, violence, and screaming. And you've talked about your brother before, specifically his breakup. Does he have any redeeming traits to offer humanity, or are you just SOL while he's there?
Snow: How much?
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Totalled something like $400~ for six shirts. Half of them were on discount too.
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Wow, Door. That's... he's as old as I am. I can't imagine anyone my age not having ever worked. I want to believe you're joking, or exaggerating, but with the news of NEETs lately...
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He is smart, he is just lazy and/or unmotivated. To excuse his not doing anything, he has hidden behind the fact that my parents feel bad for him because of all the health/job/family crap that has been going on and that they like to live in suburban/semi-rural locations. They enable him by paying for internet and computer games because they feel bad for him and also don't have the health, time and energy to do what really needs to be done.
He really has not worked. He flunked out of high school because he didn't turn in the homework he did, and because he went to a friend's PE class rather than his own, etc. He has yet to get his GED. What he has been doing for the past 6-8 years: WoW (including selling his accounts to pay for computers and computer parts), Call of Duty and other online time-sucks.
He's also not allowed to bring his computer with him. Even if he did, the internet is slow and sucks and is definitely not WoW raiding material.
It is going to be painful, but hopefully tough love is what he needs to decide to do something about his life. I don't think he's ever stopped to think what life will be like in the next 6 years, or the 6 years after that, if he continues to do what he has been doing.
Also, Snow: fabulous shirts are totally worth the wallet pain. :D
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So I assume you volunteered to take him in, or feel otherwise obligated to do so? Hope it'll work out and not turn into adolescent rebellion drama.
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I did (technically they asked) and do.
It will be tough, but I anticipate problems and they're likely to be the same ones we had when I was growing up. The fun part is I can ship him back to my parents after a month if it gets to be too much. I am hoping, and my parents are hoping, that being forced to deal with this kind of thing will be the kick he needs.
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There'll probably be problems because of withdrawal and everything, yeah. Heavens know how annoying people can get when they spend a lot of their time only playing videogames.
Good luck with it, and I hope there's no need to ship. I've had to deal with a situation that's sortof the same, but not quite, so I can understand mixed feelings and feeling obligated to take care of someone while not completely looking forward to it.
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Heavens know how annoying people can get when they spend a lot of their time only playing videogames.
Oh snap watch out Andy, you are going to get in trouble.
That said, here is what I reccomend, stop buying food. That goes a long way to making someone pay their way.
And dammit Snow, now you made me want to go buy shirts from the manufacturer I quite like since hey always have good specials online for fairly nice shirts but I am so broke. Just a shame I can't find something similar for pants (these guys only do shirts)
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So, the funeral was today for my neighbor who died of a stroke a few weeks back. As sad as it still is, it was also uplifting to see 250+ people packed into a synagogue to pay their respects. I knew he was a good keyboardist, but I didn't know how well-liked and influential he was in the musical community. And even at a funeral, musicians know how to throw a party. I didn't expect it, but it was a good day.
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http://www.lunarsilverstarharmony.com/
Whattttt I really need to start paying attention to things. Wild ARMs company, too, so it'll probably be at least a decent remake. (THE GBA VERSION NEVER HAPPENED)
Someone'll probably point out to me that this is old news but still I only happened to come across it due to an ad on an NDS release list when I looked for Europe Pokemon release. D:
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Because when I think of a game that badly needs to be remade sometime it is Lunar.
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Sarcasm?
Either way apparently the Limited Edition doesn't ship to the boondocks here. Go to hell Amazon.
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Sarcasm because the game has been remade at least twice.
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The PlayStation remake was good (on accounts that it is the first version I played and it made me fall in love), the GBA remake was garbage. I don't mind a third remake! And it even gets bromides! Except the European retail stores charge 20 euros more for the same game. 40 dollars (30 euros) from America or 50 euros from Europe. How can a game be 66% more expensive when it doesn't need to be shipped from a foreign country!
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Is there any chance the remake adds anything worth a damn, or is it just prettier graphics?
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Is there any chance the remake adds anything worth a damn, or is it just prettier graphics?
Advertises with additional story scenes to flesh out the four heroes and stuff.
PSPs don't have regional locks on games, right? US games work fine on EU PSPs, right?
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They do indeed work just fine.
Oh so they might finally get the game right on the fourth try? Good for them. It always makes me happy when a 20 year old 3 time published script is still in draft.
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Well, whatever, I bought it so I should receive it before April~ Will probably post my thoughts while/after playing it~
I love this month, it'd been better if EU Pokemon was released but WCYD
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http://www.lunarsilverstarharmony.com/
Whattttt I really need to start paying attention to things. Wild ARMs company, too, so it'll probably be at least a decent remake. (THE GBA VERSION NEVER HAPPENED)
The fact that the Wild ARMs company is still making games of some sort is actually the only relevant part of this!
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I assume he means XSeed, since Game Arts most certainly did not make Wild Arms.
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Yeah my mistake, I saw the logo, but further reading provides that they "publish" it. I have no idea if they've had any hand in the creation.
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Oh, back to complete irrelevance then! Game Arts, go make another uh...Grandia?! Yeah, that sounds right.
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More like give EBC some love for once.
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The last thing we want them doing is making more Grandia. Those have been getting worse since the second one, Lunar has a 50/50 shot of improving!
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Having finished Silver Star Harmony, it only really adds prettier graphics and shorter dungeons. Also it's much easier since level ups refill HP/MP.
On the minus side it has an inferior Ghaleon VA. "NOT GHALEON DEAR QUARK.." was rushed and no outtakes.
Game Arts did some of the work on Brawl so not all is lost on quality!
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The last thing we want them doing is making more Grandia. Those have been getting worse since the second one, Lunar has a 50/50 shot of improving!
You have the right to your (wrong, obviously <.<) opinion on the direction of recent Grandia games, but there's no way G3 was more of a step down than Lunar: Dragon Song. So I would have to disagree with your conclusion!
Generally seconding Dhyer otherwise. Lunar 1's not bad but it hardly needs another remake.
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Ah, but see, you're missing parts of the picture.
Lunar goes Lunar 1 (Good Game) -> Lunar 2 (Better Game) -> Dragon Song (Terrible Game). So, starting from a solid game we have one good game and one bad game. 50/50.
Grandia goes Grandia 1 (Flawed experimental game) -> Grandia 2 (Good Game) -> Grandia XTREME (near-plotless dungeon crawler slog with about two steps forward, one back relative to Grandia II's gameplay) -> Grandia 3 (rips XTREME'S gameplay, makes it balanced, then marries it to an offensively bad plot). So we start from a mediocre game then have a 33% chance of good, 33% chance of tedious, and 33% chance of the worst plot ever written (with some gameplay). I can't say I really like those odds at all, so I'd definitely rather gamble on more Lunar.
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I question your statistics there.
I want to check with people here to confirm if a Japanese PS3 will play US games. I was told that the US and Japan are now considered the same region for Blue Ray releases. So if that's true, I will most certainly be buying a Japanese PS3 after I purchase my DLC5 plane tickets.
Disgaea 3, here I come! (...and VC, XE, and FF13, but let's make my priorities known.)
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Aside from the first half of Grandia II, that series has always had bad plot. G3 took it to new lows, but if you're playing Grandia and prioritizing plot over gameplay, I sure don't know why.
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Well, there's two possible answers there.
The first, of course, is that I played Grandia II first and thus expected the other games to be at that level. Grandia 1 I thought "eh, it was the first game, it can be worse than the second". Then the third game was even worse and I realized that no, they just don't know what they're doing and I shouldn't trust them.
The other answer would be that there's a gap between "bad plot" and "offensive plot", with Grandia III falling in the latter. Put another way, Grandia III's plot had so much waste and stupid and trying to pass of Emelious as redeemable that I was more aghast than Xenosaga III's "oh hey chaos is bigger than Jesus" (admittedly I am biased, but the point remains, there's a difference between normal bad and "oh dear god I hate humanity for making this" bad)
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I'm biased too since I wasn't taking G3 plot seriously by Disc 2, but I can't see arguing Emelious is redeemable (which doesn't seem toooo unreasonable to me, as terrible as his motivation was he was also showing clear signs of brainwashing) as a tiny fraction as bad as what XS3 did. Woohoo pissing on religion, woohoo bra-cannons, woohoo pissing on religion some more. Also Shion characterisation in general. SHE IS SUCH A WONDERFUL PERSON AND SO SMART TOO wait what. I am playing the much better game in that series now and it is still building up rage at points. But yeah, long story short is while I totally agree with the line between bad plot and offensive plot I totally disagree with the side you put G3 on and have a hard time seeing this be arguable.
The parallel I have always used is (teacher bias warning), if in English class, someone submitted G3's plot to me in a story, I would think it was (assuming I did not see it as humour) childish, vapid, and hand out a mediocre grade then put it out of my mind. This is a bad story. If someone submitted XS3's plot to me in a story, I would feel at least a spark of worry, and feel the need to talk to the student about watching out for offending people. Reading it aloud in class could make for an uncomfortable experience. This is an offensive story.
I still kinda understand where you're coming from with G3 (that's about how I feel about BoF5, though objectively I know it can never be XS3 level since it just did things that BUGGED me, not things that are objectively offensive), mind. Just... well, obviously, it didn't hit those chords for me, so there is a great gap in our values and such. And even so, do think you need to keep the above perspective. Yeah, I know you don't seem the type to be pissed off by religious stuff, but at least acknowledge that other people will be and that tends to make something objective garbage when it's just done for shock and "cool" value.
Tangent aside, generally see Shale. Even G2's plot wasn't particularly good, since it basically sucks after the Aira arc with one or two exceptions and that's nearly 2/3 of the game. G1's sucked ass, I gather GX's did too. Just... not a series you should be playing for that, ever. I can sorttaaa see how you played yourself into the corner you did, though requires some nostalgia goggles for G2, but seems an odd thing to continue holding against the series even so.
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I for one would like to see more Grandia, because absent III's plot it was a lot of fun. Game gave you a lot of options, and was tough enough in places to force you to use them wisely. There's only one good Grandia game for plot, and that's probably an abberation, but as gameplay goes, G1<G2<GX<G3. I like that trend. (Ok, you can argue the relative value of G2 and GX, but you get the idea.)
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(Disclaimer: For whatever reason, I find this sort of discussion fun, so if I seem like I'm taking it seriously, I don't really mean to.)
Well... put it this way. Xenosaga III is basically Dan Brown Novel meets trashy anime. So all the pop conspiracy-theory anti-Christian nonsense that swept a nation through manipulating people with BSed 'controversy' married to fanservice, fanservice, fanservice and overly emo characters supposedly meant to be sympathetic. All bad things that involve piss poor writing, to be sure, but in a been there, done that sort of way.
Grandia III has basically the same problem (shoving together basically every bit of bad character writing they could find and naming it Emelious, from the self-harm to the "I AM INCOMPLEEEEEEEEETE" to the siscon vibes), just due to a quirk in personality, Emo's bad writing fantasy mashup bugged me more.
To clarify a point, I'm actually just saying "Grandia III's plot is bad at XSIII's level", not that it's necessarily worse or more offensive. That's going to vary from person to person, and certainly XSIII's got an edge there since there's a good 2 billion or so people it's setting out to offend.
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Let me re-iterate that I am SO glad I have not and will not play Xenosaga III, if only because I like my Shion as a likable character. Or at the very least a not hateable character.
Of course the DL may just be exaggerating their hate of Xenosaga III plot but I'm not about to take my chances.
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The flaw of the Lunar vs Grandia metric is that Grandia doesn't endlessly rehash the same game, and at least produces new games more often than once a decade.
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Yeah, it's been what, 15 years since Lunar has actually released a new, worthwhile game? Just not a series I get excited over as a result, and I really did like Eternal Blue Complete (SSSC's not bad either). Most of the people who made the game have probably long since found other companies or even careers. Honestly it seems more worth my time to wish for something like a resurrection of the Shadow Hearts or Breath of Fire series.
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Day 1 of 2 from interview 2 complete...well mostly - still have to go to dinner.
I'll be happy when these are done <_<
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Yeah, you haven't been on IRC or steam in ages slacker. They going well?
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...I'll be brief because obviously I'm in the minority on liking Xenosaga III. Yes, XS3 has some stupid plot points. However, they don't interact with the rest of the game's plot TOO much, so I can't really be on board for too much XS3 Disc 2 hate. I mean, take Final Fantasy VII plot. It is now revealed at the end that Tifa was really Mary Magdalene's clone! .... this is impossibly dumb, but it ultimately doesn't make much difference and affects the rest of the story not at all. About 90% of XS3's plot stil works if we replace chaos as "generic mysterious guardian of good" and KOS-MOS as just a really advanced robot.
On the offensive deal, well, this is ultimately personal for everyone. Still, this is ultimately where inanity saves the day a bit. Saying "Jesus was an evil demon, and it was all a plot to send everyone to hell and gain ultimate power, and Judas totally saved the day" is fairly offensive to me. (This is the backstory to Final Fantasy Tactics, though they did change the names, so they can take refuge in that at least. Also, it's undoubtedly interesting as well as offensive, at least.) Saying "Jesus was secretly a space cowboy on a quest to find the best burrito ever with his Vensuian Chimp, Christmas, from whom the holiday is named after" is just roll-your-eyes-and-move-on, to me at least. I'll grant that XS3 took the space burrito plot sadly seriously, which is a mark against it, but ultimately I myself can't work up too much offense. I did read "The Da Vinci Code" after all, and moderately enjoyed it as fiction (though that book ALSO needs to be thrown against the wall in several places), even despite Dan Brown rambling about "faction" and talking about how its plot should totally be taken seriously.
As for Grandia III, that strikes me as a whole different level of fail. It just breaks so many *obvious* guidelines of how to write a decent plot - hell, even a generic yet decent tropetastic plot. The XS3 writer needs a talk, yes, but the G3 writer needs to be expelled as a hopeless case. Keeping the exact same movies and scenes, but rewriting the script to make a half an ounce of sense... I could have done far better in just two days. Seriously, WTF. And yeah, Emelious is at the center of a lot of this. Hoping for villains to reform is all well and good, and writing Alfina as having a character flaw of "always trusts her brother even when she blatantly shouldn't" would also have been fine. The actual writing ends up so idiotic that... ugh. I think I'll stop now, because there's just so many parts that even minor fixes would have made better.
Yeah, I suppose what I'm saying is XS3 Disc 2 plot > Grandia III post-Miranda/Alonso plot. At least the first has some redeeming factors.
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XS3 Disc 2 plot pretty much lacks redeeming features. Those were all on Disc 1. Mizrahi, Virgil... etc. Disc 2 just has the cascadingly increasing fail of Yuriev, PELLEGRI/MARGULIS WE HAVE LOST FAITH SUICIDE RUSH, Voyager teeeehheeeeeheeeing, Kevin he is so sympathetic what a wonderful person motivated by love, and Wilhelm's motivations that I no longer even remember clearly because they were so vague and I was seriously in shock at the game by this point, yet remember them being a capstone to the raw idiocy already seen before.
This is without getting into the parts I cited as actively offensive, mind. And yes, I found Kevin's portrayal in particular far worse than Emelious'. The game just brushes aside his massive manipulation and emotional abuse of Shion like it's something inoffensive or even admirable instead of incredibly creepy and worthy of condemnation.
Note also that even within G3 I found Raven and Alonso worse than Emelious, so whatever bugged you and CK about him wasn't as much a bother to me. He generally came off as generic to me beyond his silly motivation. Found him more funny than anything else as such, since at times he was just so over-the-top (evil laughter for like 20 seconds straight followed by stopping to breathe! It's not quite Austin Powers, but it's close).
but the G3 writer needs to be expelled as a hopeless case.
I know this is mainly intended as humour but assuming it is going along with the hypothetical situation I posted above your response here is painfully stupid. No, you do not expel a student for writing for writing a bad story.
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but the G3 writer needs to be expelled as a hopeless case.
I know this is mainly intended as humour but assuming it is going along with the hypothetical situation I posted above your response here is painfully stupid. No, you do not expel a student for writing for writing a bad story.
Considering how rare of a talent writing stories is, you'd probably have to expel about 95% of all students ever if you held those standards. Your typical middle (or even high!) schooler probably wouldn't be able to create a story above G3-level without a lot of effort. But I digress.
Anyhow, life is doing fine! And apparently I'm getting into the dynamics at the workplace. Just need to be careful of flying mugs everywhere.
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I think the issue where G3 writing falls below what any old schlub could come up with is...the good guys should be likeable, and the bad guys should be intimidating. Emilious was a cutter who must have been miserable about his malformed head. That's worse than no motivation at all. Also, Alonso lands Miranda. Alonso is not remotely likable enough for that to happen.
EDIT: and you're supposed to take him seriously. reading that as a parody sounds pretty brilliant, actually.
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I am going to have to jump in and note that the progression of the Lunar series is being misrepresented here. It definitely doesn't go alright game -> Good game.
Have you played the original versions? I know I tried and goddamn did they bite. I am going to be nice and just label them Mediocre though.
Mediocre game -> Mildly less mediocre game -> (Some Japan only game that sounds completely ignored lolgamegear ->) Average remake with generic gameplay but a smattering of humor -> Average remake with smattering of humor (That cost like $200) -> (Remake of Japan only game on Saturn ->) Bad remake of first game (noooot sure if it is worse than the original, didn't get far enough in either to know) -> HORRIBLE HORRIBLE GAME FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU (Lunar Dragon Song for those keeping track) -> This newest remake of a remake that is a total rehash of the first remkae of the first game.
I present to you a monument to mediocrity over 20 years of gaming. Hooray for innovation in a series! It averages a release about every three years (actually closer to 4/5, first few came out very quickly). In it there have been 4 original games and of those 3 of them were released a year apart from each other. So they have done something new once in 17 years.
I am sorry but this just doesn't excite me nearly to the level of a series that has had 4 games each which continue to innovate and overhaul a far more competent battle system than minor twists on generic TB RPG combat (6 with Japanese only releases, the other 2 sound uh not really interesting at all but continue to be something different from the others in the series). So the story sucks, but I am going to go right out there and say that I don't think terribly much of Lunar's plot either. It is like Disgaea that people fill the fronts of their pants for the characters and then go THIS PLOT IS AWESOME.
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Feel like shit. Had horrible hypnic jerks all last night, and came to the conclusion that I probably had to drop two of my classes.
Arrrrrrrrgh.
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Been avoiding jumping in here, as I haven't played XS3 yet, but I still find myself mystified at the sheer amount of hate G3 plot gets. Always seemed to me to be just incredibly generic, with only Alfina and Emo really standing out as actively bad. And even then, the badness never went beyond the level of "*eyeroll*-> move on" for me. I guess I can see it if you're really that offended by generic plots that take themselves more seriously then deserved(which is to say at all) but...I dunno. The game just never offended me like that.
/me shrugs.
I should probably get around to playing XS3 at some point just for the comparison.
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XS3 plot was fine. What was not fine was how all of the terms and allusions built from XS1 and expressed itself through the characters in XS3 who seemed to lose what established level of intelligence they had in XS1-2 (Sh-sh-sh-SHION). Plus Disc 2 it felt like a rush, similar to the second disc on Xenogears, except it wasn't text-based heavy. Either way, GIII has no continuity (?) with GI/GII therefore I can perhaps understand the anger gamers have directed at Xenosaga IFF they played all the installments. Otherwise, GIII plot is not anything special to hype in comparison.
I think everyone needs to sit down, remember that Hoshigami exists, and all is right with XS and GIII.
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Crying at work? Check. Crying at work in front of your boss? Check. Crying at work in front of your boss after receiving some slight criticism? Checkity check.
Goddamnit, sometimes I hate being a girl -- and a pansy one at that. Now is one of those times.
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You could try tossing a mug at someone's head every time you feel like crying. Seems to work for my boss!
(EDIT: My boss is pretty cool, really. The flying mugs somehow are part of it)
In all seriousness, anything particularly wrong went down?
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Dark Holy Elf : Yeah the bit about expulsion was humorous exaggeration. I dunno, my complaints about the Yuriev part of the plot was more "this feels rushed," since I thought the Federation politics plot was cool and the game decided that Yuriev was able to basically resume massive control behind the scenes despite being "dead" for literally years (imagine if George W. Bush disappeared in 2001 after 9/11 and then re-appeared today to try and take power). The Pellegri / Margulis / Jin deal was also fine for me, pretty much a "we've gone too far to come back now" deal. Kevin plot... okay you've got a point that the game has *huge* kid gloves on Kevin, despite the fact that if the "Kevin's death was all part of the plan" stupid plot twist is taken seriously then... ugh, yes, it does become bizarre emotional manipulation in pursuit of unclear goals, but I usually edit that out in my head because having it be an accident is about 100x times cooler. Still, SOME of the Kevin / Shion plot I thought was salvageable. Oh, well.
Grandia III I could go on about for entirely too long, like Alfina randomly fainting for no reason, apparently shared Raven hate, wonder at the dialogue that convinces Hect to learn to trust outsiders again (The team doesn't even really mouth many platitudes to her about second chances, let alone actually address the original betrayal! They just kind of stand in the area and her faith is restored by osmosis), the failure to explain where the hell Emmy got his minions from and why they care (okay, Violetta gets a little with the usual lovesick note, but Kornell and La-Ilim?), etc. etc. Emelious's biggest problem was already covered, that the way the party treats him is just wildly out of sync with how you treat somebody who's an extreme mass-murderer. Alfina even gets a pass, though they don't really characterize her right either to explain it, but meh. It's especially aggravating because they had the germ of a good idea which never goes anywhere - Emelious as dramatic foil to Yuri in that both didn't want to do the jobs they were born into, but rather strike out on their own path. If they'd gone with "Emelious the foiled teenage rebel" and somehow explained how not becoming a Guardian means having to kill them all, things might have had a shot of being good.
Basically XS3 Disc 2 strikes me as a skilled author writing a somewhat rushed, flawed, and offensive story. G3 post-Ulf is a complete hack writing a generic story - like, not the "pulp fantasy novel writer" level hack but rather "vanity press" level hack.
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You could try tossing a mug at someone's head every time you feel like crying. Seems to work for my boss!
(EDIT: My boss is pretty cool, really. The flying mugs somehow are part of it)
In all seriousness, anything particularly wrong went down?
Apparently I am just more stressed than I expected I was. I was planning on just stepping outside for some air, but my boss ambushed me before I could get out of my cubicle.
When working on getting us moved from our suite over to the new suite (same building, but across the hall), I was tasked with going through my predecessor's documents. Since a good chunk of it was printed out versions of things I know we have available electronically, I recycled a lot of it. We had been recycling a lot of old documents, so I didn't think anything of it. (NB: My predecessor made over twice as much as I do. It is neither here nor there, but worth pointing out just how unqualified I am to make decisions about her stuff.)
Apparently it was a big deal because she liked to take handwritten, otherwise un-reproduced notes on some of the print-outs. Even though we have yet to be unable to find anything through other means, I was told in no uncertain terms that I need to check with everyone before I do anything in the future just in case there's something I don't know that I need to know. This vagueness was accompanied by a very triggering phrase that went something along the lines of "You had three or four opportunities to do this" even though I didn't actually have those opportunities and was told to deal with it, and I lost it.
tl;dr : I absolutely do not take criticism well in the best of situations, and this one was frustrating and disappointing and so pointless that, when combined with everything else on my mind, it made me break down into hiccups and tears. I mentioned specifically hating being a girl because <TMI> it's that time of the month and </TMI> my psyche is even more fragile than usual right now.
C'est la vie.
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Let me be clear: your boss is being a dick for no good reason, because there is no good reason to reprimand someone for an honest mistake. People fuck up all the goddamn time in office work, and it's exactly the kind of stuff you're talking about, and experienced office workers know it and expect it and deal with it. There will be times in office work when you have to clean up someone else's mess, and there will be times when someone else has to clean up your mess. Mature people deal with those situations without pointing fingers.
Let me be clear about something else too: your boss fucked up, and took it out on you. Your boss knew how important those handwritten notes were to him (him? her?) and forgot to tell you. That's your boss' fault, and your boss is projecting that onto you because you're the easy target.
As for what you do with this situation, I don't know, but don't be suckered into thinking that you were the only (or even the principle) person to make a mistake, or thinking that making mistakes is something you should be made to feel bad about. It really isn't.
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If it was important it should have had a soft copy and been backed up, simple as that.
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If it was important it should have had a soft copy and been backed up, simple as that.
This.
I was told in no uncertain terms that I need to check with everyone before I do anything in the future just in case there's something I don't know that I need to know.
Also, this, I may sound incredibly stupid here, but shouldn't your boss volunteer all information you need to know so you can do your job satisfactorily? I mean what.
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Chiming in with Jim and Bard, here.
Back to things that aren't serious!
Basically XS3 Disc 2 strikes me as a skilled author writing a somewhat rushed, flawed, and offensive story. G3 post-Ulf is a complete hack writing a generic story
And the former is so much worse to me. (I agree entirely with this analysis by the way!)
Regarding specific G3 stuff, I agree with pretty much all your complaints except Kornell and La-Ilim because games very often give flunkies little to no real motivation for following their leader (Kornell is pretty much Gilgamesh or Zed, while La-Ilim was rather deliberately a plotless monster flunky). Examples too many to list here.
Pellegri/Margulis: WE'VE COME TOO FAR is a pretty bad villain motivation at the best of times, but XS3 makes it worse by having the duo, instead of doing the logical thing and giving Wilheinlein the finger for betraying them, instead somehow go out and do his bidding? What the fuck? It's made even worse by the fact that they parrot each other in near-identical scenes and yet the game feels the need to separate them with two dungeon sections and another boss fight in the middle. If their plot is going to be the same, might as well have sent them out in a double battle and spared us one of the crazy number of repetitive endgame boss fights - you've beaten both Issachar and Levi solo before this point so this would even have the benefit of making sense.
Yuriev: I will say that I liked his setup in XS2 (basically what you said), but by the end they made no good of it. There's no real politics going on at this point, just mumbo jumbo summon Abel's Ark, camp out there, and have some inane final confrontation involving some weird giant mech all without really explaining his motives beyond some babbling about U-DO (though U-DO in general could be the subject of a series-spanning plot rant).
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Thank you, guys. :)
I agree, for what it's worth. But seeing as I'm the lowest man on the totem pole, I can't very well go telling people this, at least not if I want to keep a job. I am thinking it very loudly and petulantly, though. <_< There is a distinct lack of "manager" in my title. In fact, there's a very prominent "Assistant." As in, assisting.
I will admit that I could have confirmed before I threw things out. I will also point out that my boss is extremely busy and always very flustered and frequently can't or won't answer my questions when I ask them anyway, and my boss's boss (the one who is most upset about this and the one to whom my boss would then direct my question or me) is gone every Thursday and Friday and in meetings or at appointments 75% of the rest of the week.
Anyway. This is How Things Are(TM) and I need to deal. So says my boss. So says my sense of self-preservation. Whether this was my fault/responsibility or not, it's what I have to deal with.
Believe me, though, I am actively working on setting up a situation that better appeals to me, i.e., finding a new source of income.
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Clearly, the answer is obvious.
So, Lady Door Ltd or Lady Door & Co?
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Thank you, guys. :)
I will admit that I could have confirmed before I threw things out. I will also point out that my boss is extremely busy and always very flustered and frequently can't or won't answer my questions when I ask them anyway, and my boss's boss (the one who is most upset about this and the one to whom my boss would then direct my question or me) is gone every Thursday and Friday and in meetings or at appointments 75% of the rest of the week.
You could ask your boss how to wipe your arse as well before doing it.
An important part of managing is to you know, manage, tell them what they need to know to do the job and then let them do the damned job not telling someone anything and then expecting them to come running to you asking if they should throw each random piece of paper out is a clear strong case of poor management plain and simple. That isn't even delegating any responsibility. That is paying someone to pick up pieces of paper for you which unless you are going for amazing gratuitous excess is a waste of everyone's time.
Edit - You know this, but bad management makes me so angry. That is not how you manipulate people properly dammit. Do it properly.
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Fun stuff!
Today was the greatest class ever. My 6th graders are graduating to Middle School soon, so today was the last English class with them. So I decided to do something special. I grabbed my laptop and pulled up a bunch of Youtube videos of events from American Middle School life to try to give the kids an idea of what it's like. I showed them things like Pep Rallies and School Dances and the infamous Graduation Hat Toss. I also included things from the Middle School I personally went to, which of course meant they spent most of those videos asking me if I did all those dances and such, too (I did).
This all culminated in my teaching them a Pep Rally chant and part of the Thriller dance. The kids were really getting into it and moving around. It was great. Exactly the kind of classes I always wanted to teach. I kept prodding them during the videos and explanations to look for things that they hadn't expected or that were very different from Japanese school life. The biggest response was "Everything's so high-tension/high-energy." I tried to explain that this was the main point of things like Pep Rallies and School Dances.
Still, it made me a little proud that our culture still has surprises for them despite how much of it has already permeated into theirs.
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For all that I doubt G3's plot would have been saved at all in the end, it was so obvious they just got to some point with it and said "fuck it" and just completely ignored it. I mean...they appeared to have what was likely supposed to be a major plot villain come out of nowhere into scenes, have no introduction, NO name, etc...Forget some of these people having no motivation, but Mysterious Mustache Man was obviously the symbol that they just didn't care.
Also, Middle school pep rallies? Man, those were horribly irrelevant in high school, and high school is the one where school spirit is actually supposed to matter.
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I always kind of liked Pep Rallies. They got you out of boring classes for a while to screw around with your friends while the band played and you got to ogle cheerleaders. And seriously, they were always far more entertaining than any other assemblies we had in public school.
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See, we weren't allowed to talk or stand up or move at pep rallies.
Horribly counter-productive, I know. They were afraid we'd start fighting each other.
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Our pep rallies were always at the end of the day, so they presented a golden opportunity to leave school an hour early.
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I thought pep rallies were related to school sports. Regardless, I find it funny they've apparently done a better job of reaching Japan than they have Canada.
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Pep rallies sucked here; I always hated going to them and they did delightful things like threatening to write you up if you didn't stand at the right times. One of the few times I actively cut class was to avoid those as I got older.
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Pep rallies were always an excuse to bring in the drug sniffing dog at my high school. I didn't really care much about them until I had to MC for the track team's segment my senior year due to being the only captain not too chickenshit to do it. I ended up just making fun of the other captains.
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I don't actually know what happens at pep rallies. I've never gone to one, though it looks like they're quite high energy at my school as well, because to me, they're an easy way to escape the noise and clutter of my 'fellow classmates.' It's so nice to actually have some peace and quiet, even if it's only once a year~
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Pep rallies are fun! Enjoy life~ We had tons of pep rallies the two years that our basketball team went to the state tournament. I always thought they were a lot of fun and had all kinds of silly events and competitions with teachers doing ridiculous things.
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Still bitter about pep rallies. We had a class competition each pep rally and kept track all year. The seniors typically won every year, but my freshman year our senior class was a bunch of dumbshits. With 2 pep rallies left we had one more star than they did so the final two "competitions" only had seniors in them. Congrats dumbshits, you had to cheat to beat freshman at silly games involving athleticism and teamwork. Hope that felt good. (It did get better, the next 3 years we won because those senior classes weren't douchebags and my class had way too much pep apparently.)
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So I am trying to get a credit card through a Canadian bank.
They say that since they don't want me to run off with their money, I need to deposit 1000 dollars in a savings account for a year that I can't remove the money from until that year. So I say okay, sure. Then a couple of days later they call me and say that I must get a letter of recommendation from my old bank in Oklahoma in addition to this. I call the bank in Oklahoma and they say they are mystified and have never heard of such a thing and have no idea what the contents of such a thing would be. I call the original bank guy back and he is all like whatever we write those every day, etc.
I am obliged to just give the bank the finger and tell them that if 1000 dollars collateral on a 1000 dollar limit credit card isn't enough they can go fuck themselves, but I would like to have something besides a debit card here.
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Pep rallies were boring wastes of time, but hey it was either that or class and at least seniors got out early.
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The closest equivalent we ever had to them were normally just a chance for me to sit somewhere in the middle of the room wih my friends (Out of reach and hearing distance of teachers) and be snarky and bitter for an hour. Honesty annoyed me less than Religious Education classes (which once a month were done in place of a regular class). Those pissed me off because I would quite frankly rather be doing Maths.
The one that totally ruined anything positive I would have to say about them was the one last pep rally equivalent we had where it was a thinly veiled excuse to remind as that Jesus was totally Rad and they took us out of like our last or second last Physics class before senior final exams to do it. (Remember this is a very young teenage Grefter who still has serious anger management issues who has just gone through 12 years of public school with enforced religious education who is a very strict Atheist who has also just started attending a couple of University units on Psychology and Sociology with open eyes just taking in all this glorious Communist stuff which merged with young idealist leftist mindset.) People thought I was going to punch someone at lunch, it took me the full hour to calm down (which is a good thing I did, like I said, end of senior year, I really needed to have it together to study properly during classes).
So yeah, fuck Pep Rallies and religious education in public schools.
Edit - It does remind me of the time we had a big one for HEY KIDS DON'T SMOKE! And they start talking about how it fucks up your lungs. Good time to have an uncontrollable really wet flu cough. Almost got in trouble for that one. Good times.
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Pep rallies are stupid wastes of time. I recall skipping out on 'em if I could and reading a book during them if I couldn't.
We have 'em at my University, sometimes, which used to infuriate me to no end since I had to attend whilst in the marching band. Now I'm around them at work sometimes which has turned them into an excuse to gank some food so that's an improvement.
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Pep rallies were fun as hell in HS. We had a FB team that won. Basketball team/volleyball team (yay me) that won. Majority of students knew each other despite likes and dislikes. And we all liked to dance. Partay. At college? I've seen something equivalent to that called "Pounce," but the only thing GSU is pouncing on are students who prefer to go to UGA/Tech games.
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Wake up at 7, ride my bike through a goddamn blizzard, get to work at 8, mop up the floors from ~700 people coming in from the snow, science fair awards start at 9, get breakfast, come back to the building and the fucking bathrooms have EXPLODED.
Building maintenance is either too lazy or too inept to fix the plumbing because we have this problem every once in a while, so it wasn't too surprising. The only problem is that all 700 of those people tried to use the bathrooms at the same time. Ugh. What a shitty day. I need to wash my shoes before I wear them in the house again.
And you know the REAL tragedy? I WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY!!!!1!1!!
But seriously it wasn't that bad, just... smelly. Anyway, get that cleaned up by 12:30 and then not much happens after that. Didn't get to study for my midterm as I had hoped but oh well.
I'm more bewildered by the fact that I'm in an extremely good mood right now. Every day except yesterday has been relatively slow/easy but I spent the majority of the last week really pissed off. Now? Not so much, in spite of kind of having a reason to be grumpy. Maybe it's because I have Sunday off. Who knows, whatever I'll take it.
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And in Richmond for interviews 3 and 4 over the next 3 days.
Man, I hope I learn soon where I'm going next year >_>
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I'm more bewildered by the fact that I'm in an extremely good mood right now. Every day except yesterday has been relatively slow/easy but I spent the majority of the last week really pissed off. Now? Not so much, in spite of kind of having a reason to be grumpy. Maybe it's because I have Sunday off. Who knows, whatever I'll take it.
Yeah man, you got a good mood, you roll with it.
And in Richmond for interviews 3 and 4 over the next 3 days.
Man, I hope I learn soon where I'm going next year >_>
Good luck with that. I'm dealing with a miniature version of the same thing for summer internships, and it ain't fun. (got an interview with a Bronx criminal court judge and a small-time ambulance-chaser, so we'll see, we'll see.)
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Bah. One of my friends on Facebook took one of those stupid 'Which XXX are you?' quizzes. I hate those things. And yet, in my boredom, I noticed 'Which Final Fantasy Main Character are you?' and decided to take it anyway.
...I got Zidane.
Bah.
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Well, since Final Fantasy characters tend to be intolerable, overexposed piles of shit, I'd say you got off easy with Zidane. Other than one scene of fail, he was pretty above average.
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so whenever you're cuttin' shit with your bigass staff-with-knives-on-it you take too damn long to twist it around? well, could be worse.
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I was really disappointed that his best weapon didn't turn out to be some kind of enchanted prison shiv of +5 strength, but not surprised.
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I usually get Vivi in those kind of questionnaires. >_>; What? It kills the time.
Proof that deep down the exterior I am just a DEEP, INSIGHTFUL and DARK person.
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More like an emotionless puppet mimicking human emotions to get through your day when you will inevitably die an early death because you lead a hollow meaningless self destructive existence. And you are made of mist.
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Also you enjoy group urination.
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Wow, just wow. I hadn't even thought of that one. Nice.
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More like an emotionless puppet mimicking human emotions to get through your day when you will inevitably die an early death because you lead a hollow meaningless self destructive existence. And you are made of mist.
;_;
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electric six
is in vancouver
today
and there are tickets on craigslist
for 25 dollars
omg omg *flails arms in the air like a pathetic fangirl*
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Bah. One of my friends on Facebook took one of those stupid 'Which XXX are you?' quizzes. I hate those things. And yet, in my boredom, I noticed 'Which Final Fantasy Main Character are you?' and decided to take it anyway.
...I got Zidane.
Bah.
You were surprised by this?
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electric six
is in vancouver
today
and there are tickets on craigslist
for 25 dollars
omg omg *flails arms in the air like a pathetic fangirl*
/me raises an eyebrow.
/me shakes fist.
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So, my immune system sucks but I think I've figured out the best way to hax and get over the cold. Induce a fever by wearing sweat pants and a jacket under a blanket all day. Works wonders.
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so...first you die, then no cold! got it.
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Sweating it out is an old wives tale thing that floats around here. Sometimes been desperate enough to try it, had success occasionally. Is more the massive dehydration than the fever.
Edit - And I cannot shake fist at something awesome happening to someone like that. As much as I would love to see them live I don't exactly live in the same situation that could happen, so high fives for the Ciato. Let me know how awesome it is.
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Sometimes those old wives' tales come about for a reason. It's certainly worked every time I've tried it, but that might also just be my immune system being good at getting rid of the illnesses even though it sucks at keeping them out.
In other news, I need to quit drinking but am easily swayed by outside influences. What's new? Not that much.
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I need to quit drinking
This way lies madness.
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Time to give myself a pedicure ( ;
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/me gets a call from the girls at the old workplace.
That was actually pretty sweet.
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/me gets a call from the girls at the old workplace.
That was actually pretty sweet.
Keep up friendships with people fro past jobs. The dynamic changes once you're no longer working together, and sometimes you can become better friends with people after you don't have any professional connection.
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Blah...I think I am going to cancel that last one. Just...not interested...
...granted, I've heard from nowhere yet, and if I don't hear by the end of this week, I might be working for Walgreens after all!
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And I get paid this week. Hot shit. Still haven't decided whether to spend my money on suits or a ridiculous phone laded with features I'll never use. Or just a wad of hundreds.
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Answer: Booze.
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You get the suit. Without the suit the phone makes you look like a douche and the money makes you look like a chump. So, suit, then the hundreds and then the phone next pay.
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It's not "the suit" it's "additional suits." Let's clarify. I own one, but it's only ONE.
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It's not "the suit" it's "additional suits." Let's clarify. I own one, but it's only ONE.
It depends on how you look.
Good looking guys in suits looks like arrogant douchebags who are just trying to look cool.
Fat guys in suits look like they're successful and rich.
Normal looking guys just don't belong in suits.
So basically, according to the laws of douchebaggery, only fat dudes are allowed to wear suits and not look like a douche/idiot/etc.
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Well yeah, you basically want to get another 2 or so good shirts, another set of pants and a good pair of shoes (or two) with a handful of ties to choose from. You can get by with on jacket for a while.
Might I suggest Allan Edmonds if you are looking for a good shoe in the US.
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Have shirts, have ties, have pants. I do work an office job, you know.
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If you are after a suit I am assuming you are wanting to expand on whatever you got, thus another, not a total of 2 or so shirts. It is great to have lots to choose from for varying weather or just to be lazy and not wash as often.
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/me buys a new backpack for general utility and not having to look like I'm in Siberia when I want to take the DS around.
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http://ingresstech.com/~bernard/instantCSI/
this is my new homepage
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<3 ;D
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On the bright side, that woke me up.
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I guess that was... your wake-up call. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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My college gown swallows me. I'm actually pretty excited and ironically afraid at the same time for graduation in a few weeks. This means a)findingafulltimejoblolwat b)gamingtimeyay c) Egypt! d)nomorepapers for a year or so interval~
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So, as of 3:31 this morning, I'm an uncle. ^_^ This is my sister's new baby girl.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/bvh18/BethBaby144.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/bvh18/BethBaby152.jpg
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^_____________^
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Congrats!
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So, as of 3:31 this morning, I'm an uncle. ^_^ This is my sister's new baby girl.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/bvh18/BethBaby144.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/bvh18/BethBaby152.jpg
Congrats, Yak! Also, the second photo is really cute.
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Belated congrats, Yakko. ^_^
In family news, I finally got to see my uncle and his family. I could sit here and explain family relationships, but they're so weird and fluid in my family, so I won't. My brother, who is currently living with me, and Andrew and I went over to his place (he lives ~30 minutes north of where I am) and had Easter dinner with everyone. My cousin is getting married in June (currently married, but... yeah, see above about family relationships!) and I haven't seen her since I was 12 so that was interesting. Her husband is a cool guy and my brother and Andrew spent most of the visit talking about WoW/video game culture. Part of the family already, he is. <_<
It was really good to see them. My family is very small so it's nice to keep in touch.
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Netbook fixed. Finally. And it "only" cost 127 bucks. . .
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Congrats, Yakko!
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One Faculty Position Offer Get!
Fuck. Yes.
Today is awesome. So awesome, I need to link something just as awesome.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Kristin Chenoweth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBJn4BHtqqY&feature=related
One day you will be MINE, Kristin!
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Congrats, OK!
Meanwhile, work continues to be really hectic. It's fun, though!
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Who offered you, OK?
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WVU, just like I wanted.
More Kristin, since she's so awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ZC_m7ybqs
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congrats, OK!
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OK I swear to god you have the worst music taste on the fucking planet.
I mean, Congratulations. THEN what I just said.
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Nah, just because OK has the musical tastes of a 12-year-old girl, it doesn't mean his tastes are -bad-, they are just disparate from his demographic.
I'm sure that Kristen is the pinnacle of music designed for 12-year-old girls, expertly crafted to appeal to their innate aural receptors in a pleasing manner. They just missed their mark and hit OK instead.
Congrats, OK ;D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtMN3mXmvqU
You people do not grasp the might of the great Kristin Chenoweth! You probably know her better as Glinda in Wicked. Her voice is amazing, and so versatile - musicals, old rock, pop, country...she does it all, and amazingly.
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Congratulations OK, you have a horrible taste in music. Try being amazed by someone truely amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kaZb4jSss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8reJvRWXKI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViftZTfRSt8
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Kristen Chenoweth is awesome, but you should be being awesomed by her in Pushing Daisies. The fact that you are not is a personal failing.
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And the fact that you are not dancing the magic dance right now is one of the reasons you will be one of the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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Oh, she is badass in Pushing Daisies, yes (like everything she does). There's so much she kicks ass in so many places, I couldn't put them all there. I figured Wicked would be best, since that's where I think most people know her best <_<
I do dance the magic dance, Gref...naked, and in my spare time. If you'd like me to tape and post that...
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So....you know EVE Online? That game where all the players form enormous corporations?
I'm interviewing with them (in Atlanta) hopefully within the week, to work on World of Darkness (all I know about this game is that it's based on a tabletop game, and that it has Vampires instead of Space Ships).
Certainly excited--this sounds interesting.
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World of Darkness is the parent series of Vampire: The Masquerade.
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Somehow I just can't picture mc working on a WoD game.
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I don't think any of the old Troika guys are involved with that game as far as I know, which is kind of a disappointment.
Anyway, one of the reports that crossed my desk today went something like this: A hospital here did a lumbar puncture on a dude for samples to send to the OCID. They took these samples because they think he has a form of viral encephalitis that causes extreme agitation. You know, like the disease from every zombie movie.
Long story short, I've started working on my prep list.
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So WYU is now going to have a 20 EPPM (Explosion Pills Per Minute) requirement, MC will be in position to recreate the Malkavians, and we're going to be relying on Rob to save us from the zombie apocalypse.
Yes, just as planned...
(Seriously though, congrats to Yakko and OK, and good luck to MC)
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Doma, you're going to be so busy running from zombies while I save people one by one (and to be frank, none of you are THAT high on my list) that you'll have to shorten it to "zombocalypse" to save time.
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Somehow I just can't picture mc working on a WoD game.
Somehow I feel mc is exactly what WoD needs. The emo grew old by Vampire The Masquerade 2nd Edition.
(yeah yeah i know that's not how it goes let me cling to my dreams of mc being awesome and putting rainbows in world of dorkiness everywhere)
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MC:
Come to Atlantttttta. We can go window-shopping in all of the cultish areas of Atlanta~
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Mom can't walk without crutches for four weeks after foot surgery. While money is gonna be tight for her, I'm really more worried about her getting bored I think.
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Atlanta has an occult center? Sweet. You can look for spells that make spontaneous rainbows break out when met laughs.
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Mom can't walk without crutches for four weeks after foot surgery. While money is gonna be tight for her, I'm really more worried about her getting bored I think.
Get her a gigolo. She doesn't need to stand up unless she wants to.
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I do dance the magic dance, Gref...naked, and in my spare time. If you'd like me to tape and post that...
Obviously this is exacty what I want.
Edit - Especially if you get/take the position, because then you are a Lecturer and that is fucking HOT.
Edit 2 - I forgot to chime in on the far more important thing. If you get offered/accept Met if you can slip in a World of Rainbows mode by whatever means necessary I will play this MMO.
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Atlanta has an occult center? Sweet. You can look for spells that make spontaneous rainbows break out when met laughs.
Hidden in the depths obscured by hobos, peddlers and broke college students hustling for rent.
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So today I had to bake cookies to bring to a class. Yummy yummy~
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Edit 2 - I forgot to chime in on the far more important thing. If you get offered/accept Met if you can slip in a World of Rainbows mode by whatever means necessary I will play this MMO.
The problem is I'm not an artist. I mean, maybe an obscure mode to have hair do the Disco Lilina Rainbowcycle (and even that I'm skeptical about because hair is not necessarily seperable from the rest of the head). But I can't, say, do a version of the world of darkness set in the Scarlet Devil Mansion >_>
EDIT: Also, I know nothing about Vampire: the Masquerade either. Like...if anyone knows stuff about my company or source material, I wouldn't mind hearing a summary.
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Edit 2 - I forgot to chime in on the far more important thing. If you get offered/accept Met if you can slip in a World of Rainbows mode by whatever means necessary I will play this MMO.
The problem is I'm not an artist. I mean, maybe an obscure mode to have hair do the Disco Lilina Rainbowcycle (and even that I'm skeptical about because hair is not necessarily seperable from the rest of the head). But I can't, say, do a version of the world of darkness set in the Scarlet Devil Mansion >_>
EDIT: Also, I know nothing about Vampire: the Masquerade either. Like...if anyone knows stuff about my company or source material, I wouldn't mind hearing a summary.
Pick up VtM: Bloodlines off Steam and play that. It's like ten dollars and it is fucking amazing. Plus, it is the only thing you SHOULD to know to make a good game. Everything else is emo douchebaggery.
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Snow and Alex are probably your best sources on World of Darkness stuff. Snow can give you dated stuff about the game itself, but should be still relevant on the target audience. Alex I am pretty sure is the most up to date person in the DL with regards to the actual VtM reboot.
Boodlines while great actually probably wouldn't be a great help for what she is after though. Part of the appeal there is how little like the rest of the stuff in the setting it is and the game literally takes place just before the old setting was finished up. Although it is well worth check out for a lot of other reasons, it is a game full of great ideas, bad execution and works wonderfully as a case study on highly restricted development cycle time frames with a third party engine still technically under development and also for post release support being handled by a player community.
I believe the new MMO is also going to take place in the New Worlds of Darkness setting rather than the old one, so it is more Medieval/Enlightenment era setting which tries to step back a bit from the more unhinged emololigoth stuff a bit from memory (this may be completely and totally wrong and misrepresenting the setting).
For the company itself, my understanding is that their background was largely from player base of another space MMO before EVE and they did that whole "We can totally do this better" thing that happened with Everquest and some of the bigger name hires that Blizzard took on for WoW. Outside of that, I don't really know much. A little suprised that they have a presence in Atlanta, I thought the head office and main servers and everything for EVE were in Europe (Iceland? or something like that?), but I know they have something of a presence in the US for yearly big meet ups about the game they have in Vegas and whatnot. But that again just might be my memory playing up and hey nothing wrong with successful companies running multiple teams and whatnot. Honestly don't know who funds them or what though, I THINK (again bad memory) from the top of my head that they are independent studio that White Wolf or whoever owns the license for the release of games is producing it. No real big names in the studio comes to mind or anything and to be frank I can't think of anything they have done other than EVE.
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You're correct about them being an Islandic company. I assume the studio in Iceland is handling continued updates of EVE. That said, they have studios in China, Atlanta, and the UK as well.
I'm doubting the medieval setting of World of Darkness...
http://www.ccpgames.com/en/products/world-of-darkness.aspx
I'm seeing skyscrapers (and another image on the site seems to have electric lights). Judging by the style of architecture, I'm thinking at least 1980 (and...it's hard to set an upper limit on time scale because you can just BS with "buildings didn't change much since the Vampire apocalypse of 2025", but I'm inclined to say no later than 2100 because the buildings aren't crumbling, still have power, and aren't visibly futuristic).
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Most of what I know of the reboot is from when it first kicked off ... 5 years ago I think it was? So yeah my info is massively out of date.
Also it will probably be 1980s because that is when White Wolf was last relevant (Pointless snark). It is the era that a lot of the game's aesthetic stems from in a modern setting (at least in the original one...), my understanding is that they toned back the emololigoth, but I would go into this full expecting Anne Rice style vampires more than Mormon Sparklepires. Edit - Actually I suppose if they are still hiring that even with how long it has been in development and how out of date I am with VtM stuff the game may have shifted gears in that direction in spite of any hope someone might have had for it.
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Also it will probably be 1980s because that is when White Wolf was last relevant.
World of Dorkiness: well into complete irrelevance at least five years before it was released. And they toned down the loligothica on the new WoD? That doesn't really sound right from what I heard of it. If anything, it sounded -more- emololigoth Kotori LARPing than it was before, which is frankly impressive. >_>
EDIT: Also, new WoD and Medieval WoD aren't the same. Guess you were thinking of Dark Ages there, Greffy Gref.
EDIT WACHOWSKY EDITION: Which is to say Dark Ages is still old WoD, although they probably have a new WoD Dark Ages anyway. Feel free to strike the Dark and replace with Dork whenever.
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but I would go into this full expecting Anne Rice style vampires more than Mormon Sparklepires.
I would go in expecting zero sparkling regardless. I don't think I've ever been on a videogame message board that didn't utterly loath sparkling.
Side note: the sparkling works within the Twilight fiction because it's "Pfft no, we're not killed by pathetic weak things like sunlight or pieces of wood, either. We just don't go out when it's sunny because...". However, in a vampire mythology called WORLD OF DARKNESS, I'm assuming vampires actually do have a weakness to sunlight.
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That'd be right in both cosmologies (WoDo and WoDn).
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So I may or may not have a job when I get back to Albuquerque. And if I don't, it's because I was lied to about how many classes I needed to be taking in order to keep my job. And if that's the case, I may end up going to jail for murder.
So. Yeah. Y'know this little vacation was great until I got that voicemail.
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Zenny going to jail for murder when he hasn't even killed anyone? Why does this sound strangely plausible?
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There's so many levels of meta nowadays I don't even know if you're really that dense or not. My whole world is crumbling around me!
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Pick up VtM: Bloodlines off Steam and play that. It's like ten dollars and it is fucking amazing. Plus, it is the only thing you SHOULD to know to make a good game. Everything else is emo douchebaggery.
This is 100% true. The new World of Darkness stuff (I assume the MMO is going to be mainly nWoD Vampire) is much more blank slate than the old and can encourage a lot of emo, but still works best when taken with a high dose of quirky snark.
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There is a bigger difference in vampire lore between Mormon Sparklpires and other mainstream accepted vampire types. Meyer explicitly states that she has tried to desexualise them in spite of being a "love" story and well, even WoD vampires are pretty much a straight up analogue for rape (So I honestly have no idea how the fuck you even go about desexualising them or how much she succeeds at that). A huge part of WoD (And Anne Rice stuff) is that regardless of how they feel about it in general, the vampires are predators and they will eat humans, some use them like cattle, some hypersexualise the whole thing (If things are still like they are expect there to be a high chance of running accross some very strong Bondage imagery, very lace and leather type stuff). From what I have heard about Meyer's stuff is they are... relatively defanged. Shit it sounds like Bella is more actively a sexual predator than Edward is.
Actually I would highly reccomend checking out Daybreakers for a pretty good representation of the ultimate goals of some of the WoD vampires (Very Ventrue style situation although obviously they don't want the situation to be that bad OR to be ultimately resolved like it is), also it is just a totally awesome movie. Also you should definitely check out Interview with a Vampire the movie. Those two should give you a good 4 hourish crash course on vaguely what to expect lorewise really. They are definitely far more directly from the lineage of Dracula which you are quite familiar with, but not the 5 steps removed like the Sparklies.
Edit - The setting isn't to far removed to make stuff from Bloodlines totally useless Alex? Good to know.
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Wait, Meyer says she's tried to desexualize them? I've never seen vampires more sexualized than they are in Twilight, and I've read Brahm Stoker's Dracula.
Least sexual would be like...Touhou. Followed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Granted, I'm not exposed to Rice and her Interview With a Vampire stuff.
EDIT: Oh right: landed in Georgia. Driving here is scarier than California.
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I imagine that vampire sexualization normally takes the form of suave seduction or scary rape. Edward is too much of a 13-year-old girl to ever approach anything resembling the traditional form of vampire sexualization. He's just *PRETTY!!!zOMG!*.
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I'm told Atlanta is the worst-planned major city in the US. When you couple this with the fact that Southerners can't drive, I have to think it's pretty much the worst driving outside Mexico City in the western hemisphere.
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Well I can't speak from experience, but Wiki links to this (http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB118670290131693667-lMyQjAxMDE3ODA2OTcwMDkyWj.html) article with the following statement.
The books avoid delving into provocative sex, drugs, and harsh swearing because, according to Meyer, "I don't think teens need to read about gratuitous sex."[12]
But I am going to go out on a limb and say that maybe, just maybe, she isn't a good enough writer to pull it off.
At heart Vampire myth is incredibly sexualised, more so than even Stoker captures (!!!!!! I know is the immediate response to that, Dracula is a very sexual book). The very essence of the entire myth is about pretty young women and swapping body fluids, the predator and the victim being entwined close enough so that they can be bitten. There is sucking and biting going on. Not to mention of course that it is all about this sex and blood, so you have a strong emphasis on Virgins as well. The suave seduction and/or violent breaking and enterring with taking an unwilling victim are just things layered on top of the very essence of a hyper sexual monster myth. So yeah the classical interpretation is obviously rape of you girls, but there is more paths that can be taken than that.
But yeah, do yourself a favour and go rent Interview with a Vampire, the movie is really honestly really good. If you have the time to sink into some trashy novels the first couple of books in the series (Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat from memory?) are not horrible, but there is a lot of eye rolling wank in there. The movie gets bonus points for an actual alright performance by Tom Cruise for a change, but he gets totally blown out of the water by Brad Pitt, and holy fuck that was a young Kirsten Dunst? Well anyway, Tom Cruise alright, Brad Pitt awesme, young Kirsten Dunst quite memorable and there is even a small role in here for Christian Slater on the tale end of his late 80's early 90's career where he was doing good movies. Edit - I forgot to note that good Christian Slater is a good thing and it is a real shame his career went sour.
You can avoid Queen of the Damned, it was wanky and nonsense and the best thing to come out of it was its soundtrack, which was just a bunch of singles off already released albums.
Oh man and going to IMDB to get the actress' names I saw news that Dixie Carter died. That is a shame, she was pretty good.
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To be fair, they're also played as a posit on the human position on the food chain sometimes.
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I imagine that vampire sexualization normally takes the form of suave seduction or scary rape. Edward is too much of a 13-year-old girl to ever approach anything resembling the traditional form of vampire sexualization. He's just *PRETTY!!!zOMG!*.
Edward is terrible, but vampires in the twiligt myth are sexualized. They're all described as inhumanly beautiful, and can send people into uncontrollable sexual lust just by breathing on them. Also, they have sex, and the subject of sex comes up a few times every book. (I don't know if the main character ever sees it first-hand, though). Oh yeah, and the villain who's around for the first three books only hangs around to seek revenge over the death of the guy she was fucking.
And...as for the "it doesn't have sweating" complaint...honestly it has more than enough detail already. I remember horrifying details I don't want to remember from Twilight's soft-porn scenes.
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I really hate moving. Finding an apartment, negotiating rent, actually physically moving objects...
This stupid process, more than anything else, makes me want to become a complete minimalist and live out of a backpack.
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Edward is terrible, but vampires in the twiligt myth are sexualized. They're all described as inhumanly beautiful, and can send people into uncontrollable sexual lust just by breathing on them. Also, they have sex, and the subject of sex comes up a few times every book. (I don't know if the main character ever sees it first-hand, though). Oh yeah, and the villain who's around for the first three books only hangs around to seek revenge over the death of the guy she was fucking.
And...as for the "it doesn't have sweating" complaint...honestly it has more than enough detail already. I remember horrifying details I don't want to remember from Twilight's soft-porn scenes.
That honestly sounds pretty tame for Vampire lore. Anne Rice stuff has such a high level of eroticism that 2 guys sitting down and eating dinner is practically straight up pornographic. Compare what you have from Twilight with scenes with Vampire Lilly from Dracula.
What you are describing in Twilight is pretty tame sounding. Reducing the sexuality of vampires so that they are just like horny teenagers is pretty piss weak for vampire lore >_>
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(I don't know if the main character ever sees it first-hand, though). Oh yeah, and the villain who's around for the first three books only hangs around to seek revenge over the death of the guy she was fucking.
She never sees it, because the one time she bangs the vampire dude, she's passed out and he's like "Oh, well then."
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What the fuck, he rapes her when she is passed out?
Well apparently it is a lot closer to vampire myth than I had been lead to believe.
Edit - Note how totally believable I would have found it for a character in these books to fall in love with someone that raped them. Because this shit is classy like Ayn Rand.
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Because this shit is classy like Ayn Rand.
brb choking on own bile
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I went to get McDonald's breakfast this morning because I was going to deposit three checks I haven't deposited in my bank. I needed energy at 9:30 on a day when I never wake up around that time. My mom tagged along because she was going to pay a bill. I got in an argument at McDonald's because I said I wanted the #3, but no drink. It didn't make sense right? I said, "I would like orange juice as long as it isn't an additional charge." They kept asking what type of drink. So I said no drink. Got up to the window and some lady was helping her out - I said I wanted orange juice but they always charge me $1.99 for it, even though it's a meal. And I don't want coffee or a soft drink in the morning. Needless to say, that was my pump fist to McD's because you should not ask for what drink, and someone gives you an answer, then there's a hidden fee on the receipt fuckers.
Apparently karma came back to me, because my mom started to choke on her muffin while I was driving. I immediately pulled over, got her out the car and was doing the heimleck (sp?). Apparently it worked! Before, I prefaced it with a long "oooh God," because I didn't know if it would be affective. Cops pull over in a matter of seconds asking if there was any help, but I had saved the day! Yaaaay. Still kinda shaken up and don't want to talk about it. I'm already worrying about her excessively.
So to make up for my "I SHOULDNT PAY 1.99 FOR ORANGE JUICE FOR A MEAL" at McD's, I signed up for int'l for my card at the bank, signed up for a new card, signed up for a credit card (student) - was going to wait longer for all of this, but apparently they don't do "secured" anymore.
Anyway, onto paper due tomorrow.
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Zenny hates being artificially nice to people, being a good little groveling peon in the capitalist system. Zenny had to do that all day. But it paid off, and now Zenny is tired. Zenny may or may not be yelling on the internet for the rest of the day.
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This was a conversation that happened as my work shift ended. This was with my immediate boss (I have another boss, who's my official boss - the one in this conversation is just the coordinator and is about a year older than I am):
<Boss> I was just wondering if I'd have to pick up my brother's polearm to smack you into leaving. (Context: the company has a pretty strict policy of avoiding staying past your shift times and break times - i.e. coming back from lunch before lunch break is over and staying past your designated shift. Labor lawsuits risks and whatnot)
<Snow> Wait a minute, what?
<Boss> Yeah. Once, I had to bring the polearm with me to the airport so I could get it back to bro. The lady asked if I had any more cutting objects with me and I answered "yeah, my daggers". (Context Deux: she -does- have a pair of daggers. She's a trained daggerslinger)
<Snow> You know, you could use the daggers too.
<Boss> The polearm'd be so much easier, though. It even has the right length for me to poke your head with the blunt end from where I'm sitting.
Working in a place with insane people? Kinda awesome.
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Hot. Are you sure she's not hitting on you?
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Nah. She usually reserves the mug-tossing to the guy who sits next to her. That and she's just a complete clown. It comes with being born in the Northeast.
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... what a terrible joke.
"Even if she has a long stick to poke him with, I doubt Snow'd be into his female boss".
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That was the underlying aesop from the beginning.
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Snow, giving the world aesops about lying under long sticks since 1985.
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I wish I had just turned 25.
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One more research paper. One more. YES.
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Freaknik.
In Atlanta.
That shit was banned.
Needless to say:
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When you sit in one spot in traffic for an hour. . . and have moved maybe 24 feet. . . . something is very, very, very wrong. Either way, I'll be using my wits since roads are being shut down for this bullshit so I don't get trapped in the GSU bus like I did before.
Ugh.
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SumerSummer internship acquired! Unpaid, which is a shame, but it'll be a good experience.
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Sumer internship acquired! Unpaid, which is a shame, but it'll be a good experience.
I assume you misspelled 'Summer', but if you're actually going to Sumer, that sounds cool~
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I was pining for the fertile crescent.
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Sounds hot~
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yeah wow, I really walked into that one.
I mean, bad Djinn! Such a filthy mind!
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Well, I suppose it's not quite official yet, but it definitely looks like I'm moving to Atlanta to become an EMOGoth politicaly incorrect stereotype (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvM7av1o1Q) working for Islandic overlords.
In other news, my sister's baby is really cute.
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Congrats!
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People who purposely get on Macs in the computer lab and boot up in Windows make me want to toss this huge 19" looking screen at their face. You fuckers are lucky that they even put Windows on these computers, because otherwise, you'd be on the shitty ass slow graphically depressed Dell computers! Fuckers!
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Well, I suppose it's not quite official yet, but it definitely looks like I'm moving to Atlanta to become an EMOGoth politicaly incorrect stereotype (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgvM7av1o1Q) working for Islandic overlords.
In other news, my sister's baby is really cute.
Congrats! Although now I have the image of twenty-feet loligoth mc tearing the state of Georgia apart with rainbows and sunshine.
This sorta makes the whole thing more awesome.
In other tangent news, I got complimented by my bosses due to a news report and a press release I did this last couple days. I feel fuzzy inside.
EDIT: Although now I'm confused. Does this also mean Idun will grow twenty feet when you girls team up to conquer Atlanta?
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Sweet. Congrats, mc
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Danced at a blues/jazz tavern last night. Never, ever drunk beer. Didn't even pay to get in (apparently all my other friends did). I let them know this after each one gave me a drink on their tab. Anyways, back to the beer - that's all they were drinking. So. I got a Yuengling. Bleeeeegh. Beer. I should have done some vodka shots or something.
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Going to Grindhouse Killer Burgers off of Edgewood in Atlanta Monday. NOM NOM. Eat that, notmiki!
Edit edit* When I was driving home from the tavern, I saw 6 wrecks in lessthanamile, one where I had to stop and debate on getting out because I saw 6 bikers lying on the ground who I presumed dead. Called 911 anyway, but there were so many people running around on the interstate, I figured I wouldn't help anyway. Also. Avoided Freaknik, what.
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Going to Grindhouse Killer Burgers off of Edgewood in Atlanta Monday. NOM NOM. Eat that, notmiki!
Don't mind if I do. Went to MOMA today with one of my professors and a couple friends, then ate burgers. Good day, except for the paper I have to edit, and the oral argument I make based on it tomorrow morning at 9:00am.
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Museums and burgers? I would have imploded. Go ahead and write my second paper while you're at it.
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Don't mind if I do. Went to MOMA today with one of my professors and a couple friends, then ate burgers. Good day, except for the paper I have to edit, and the oral argument I make based on it tomorrow morning at 9:00am.
Ewwwwwwww. Modern Art.
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I am so fucking angry.
I swear, I'm not going to get over this anger until I fucking fight a bitch. I've been wanting to fight someone for years, and I don't wanna fucking redirect this energy by paying someone to train me in some fucking self protection bullshit program.
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I am so fucking angry.
I swear, I'm not going to get over this anger until I fucking fight a bitch. I've been wanting to fight someone for years, and I don't wanna fucking redirect this energy by paying someone to train me in some fucking self protection bullshit program.
I know the feeling. The best solution is to drink more.
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I find having good taste in music and abusing people on the internet works better.
Alternately, now is the perfect time to discover Tom Waits (drinking my be applied).
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People are unfortunately quite difficult to fight these days.
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Good idea: Getting four grocery bags full of used books and movies for a bit less than $80.
Bad idea: Getting four bags of books and movies at any price when you ran out of shelf space two months ago.
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Build a fort out of them until you make space.
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Do what I did with my CD collection. Just start piling them on top of each other even though it makes a precarious tower that is dangerous to take anything out of.
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Use someone's rib cage as a CD holder.
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Don't mind if I do. Went to MOMA today with one of my professors and a couple friends, then ate burgers. Good day, except for the paper I have to edit, and the oral argument I make based on it tomorrow morning at 9:00am.
Ewwwwwwww. Modern Art.
Yeah, Marina Abromovic was a bit much.
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Been running on the Couch to 5K program for a little while now, and I'm hitting Week 5 this week.
For those who don't know: C25K is a running program that aims to get the inert running 3 miles in less than 30 minutes over 9 weeks of interval training. Week 5 is the first week with a non-interval run (that is, run 25 minutes straight).
I swear my muscles are tensing up in anxiety. I haven't been getting muscle aches since Week 2, but they're back now.
In unrelated news, going to the Monterey Bay Aquarium tomorrow with Andrew. This'll be the first time I've been there since my grandmother died in 1997 (no, the funeral wasn't there and she didn't die there, I just don't remember when I went except that it was with my grandmother). I am looking forward to it, but also expect it will be a little bittersweet as well.
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I ran. I ran and I ran and I ran in the rain with my laptop bag in flats and skinny pants and a rainbow bowl umbrella. I ran.
I did not want my car towed. Thank you lord for small favors. Running in the city is scary, but by the time I made it to the parking lot far far away because the buses stopped running, I did indeed see booting and cars being towed. I ran.
I still feel like I'm running.
I just straightened my hair last night and now I have a 'fro.
Can you believe guys'll still try to interrupt your immediacy and ask fo' yo' digits? Bitch please.
I am going to go do something to lower my adrenaline levels.
And might I add that 60% of the time I was driving home in pouring ass rain, it was only hitting my BACK WINDOW. I WAS A STORM CHASER (lolrunner) today, what the fuck. What a weird day.
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I have nothing to add to that story, other than your entries are fun to read.
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Baklava + souvlaki = Mmm. There's a nice Greek restaurant right by our apartment, and it is yummy~
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Mmmmm northeastern food lunch in the city anniversary holiday with my family. Then we went and had huge fancy ice cream cups. Pistachio's still completely badass~
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I have nothing to add to that story, other than your entries are fun to read.
Well, I would have rather seen the event from afar I suppose. I was pretty aggressive crossing the street (I had a walk sign every time, but still). There's some times where I just want to knock on people's windows because they fail to realize someone is indeed, crossing, AND they continue to go. Asshats exist, yes? One chick was so close, I should have snotted on her.
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Andrew and I adopted a puppy on Tuesday. We named him Talisman (Tal/Tally). The following is my dog story -- a long, wordy rant about dog adoption, addressing why we re-homed Fox and got this puppy a few months later; feel free to skip (it will be in tiny text) if you don't care. I just needed to write it out because I have had to justify myself to several people, and it's frustrating.
I have been struggling with the idea of having a cat or dog again since last summer. I am not as fond of cats as dogs, so I looked into getting a dog. We adopted Fox, the golden retriever I posted previously about, in July from a woman out by Stockton who had to find a new home for the young dog because she had two kids and an older, sick golden retriever. Fox needed way more attention than she thought he was getting there, so he came home with us.
It was fine. I woke up early to take him out in the mornings, I came straight home from work to take him out for a long walk in the evenings, and we adjusted our schedules. When we initially adopted him, I figured it would be fine for him to come to work with me. My company has a very dog-friendly office, and there are at least 2-3 other dogs in the office on any given day. However, Fox himself was not okay with coming to work. He did not understand that the other dogs did not want to play with him, that I was sitting at my computer to work, not to pet him, and that sometimes he needed to occupy himself. When he had to stay home, he had to be confined to the kitchen and bathroom so he wouldn't chew apart (more) electronics and books. He chewed holes in the walls.
Toward the end of last year, I was starting to feel a little desperate. The sweet, affectionate, relatively calm golden retriever we'd picked up was actually an extremely clingy, very neurotic dog with a very high prey drive. He lunged at other dogs and small children. The sight or sound of a bird would drive him crazy. He was quiet, and very well house-trained, but he needed to be in someone's lap at ALL TIMES, whether it was otherwise occupied or not, and hearing another dog barking would drive him crazy. With a very heavy heart, I realized that Fox was the kind of dog who absolutely needed a yard, and other kids, and another dog to grow up with. We brought him to the attention of the local breed rescue and, in January, we rehomed him. He now lives with a vet tech, her two (older) kids and their other two puppies, in a home with a yard.
That was very hard for me, to say the least. I've grown up with dogs, and despite his personality quirks Fox was a really amazing young retriever. His size was never a problem except when it came to correcting his dangerous behavior (like lunging at kids and other animals). Had we lived somewhere with a yard or had another dog, he would have been a fantastic fit. But... it didn't happen that way. I'd far rather he did well and grew up in a place where his personality would fit well than maintain my dignity and hold on to him just because I said I would.
So, the new puppy. How could I possibly justify getting another dog after that? Well, two things: 1) Fox's prey drive was huge; 2) Fox was only about 1-1.5 years old, but he'd already learned some difficult bad habits. Age was a surprisingly large factor. Talisman is very much a puppy, perhaps 3 months old, and gets a chance to start out learning what it's like to live in close quarters around a lot of other dogs and noises. We've registered him in puppy classes, and he will absolutely be attending obedience and probably rally or agility training as well. We'll see how his personality shapes up, but I'd like to train him to go volunteer at hospitals and old folks' homes as a therapy dog when he gets older.
I really think this is a matter of energy and dog personality, not a matter of the living situation. Fox simply was a country dog. He needed space and he needed it now. This puppy... well... it may turn out that he needs space, too, but he doesn't need it now and the substitutes we can provide should be good enough in the mean time. Starting his training early, getting him used to other dogs without being crazy about them, and the same with people and other animals, will probably make a huge difference there as well. I feel okay with this decision.
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I am indeed frustrated about feeling like I have to justify this to anyone in the first place, and yet there are questions. "You rehomed Fox. Why did you get another dog?" Because. It's not the same. I did not dump Fox at the pound and pick up the first cute puppy I saw. I did not neglect Fox. I very pointedly made sure he got a home with someone who knew what they were getting in to even better than I did -- he didn't go to just any rescue, he went to a Golden Retriever rescue, and he didn't go to just any home, he went to a home with a person who attends to dogs and cats as part of their job. With Fox, it wasn't a matter of not wanting to do the work or not giving him a chance. It was just a very deep, very true feeling that the kind of dog he was (both because of his natural behavior and because of his upbringing) did not fit with the lifestyle Andrew and I maintain or intend to pursue.
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You're absolutely right about getting a new dog, no shame in that. I couldn't bear to let go of a pet myself, but I think you did it for the right reasons.
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Thanks, Dune.
It was not easy. I agonized over it for about a month or so before I went forward. Then it took another 2+ weeks to get in contact with the rescue and bring him over for an evaluation, etc. He's the first cat or dog I've had to give up before he died.
Believe me when I say it was not a decision made lightly.
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You made the right call. I'm not at all surprised considering what I heard about that puppy when you first got it, it needed far more space and attention than what you were able to give. What type of dog is the new one?
I just needed to write it out because I have had to justify myself to several people, and it's frustrating.
This is where 'fuck off, assholes- I know what I'm doing' comes into play. You live in an apartment in a large city, not every dog available is going to fit that.
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You made the right call. I'm not at all surprised considering what I heard about that puppy when you first got it, it needed far more space and attention than what you were able to give. What type of dog is the new one?
I just needed to write it out because I have had to justify myself to several people, and it's frustrating.
This is where 'fuck off, assholes- I know what I'm doing' comes into play. You live in an apartment in a large city, not every dog available is going to fit that.
Well, when they're coworkers and/or boss, my ability to actually do so is fairly limited. <_< I wish, though!
He's a definite mutt. Based on his looks, he has some German Shepherd in him, but his littermates looked more like cattle dogs and some weird tiny lab things. Based on his current size and age, he's probably going to max out at 50-60 pounds, whatever his heritage, which is a good 20+ pounds less than Fox and about the same size as my mom's border collie.
He's surprisingly calm and attentive for a puppy. He of course has his moments of play hard, crash hard, but there's no aggression, no frenetic energy -- just the sense that he's going to be a dog who needs a job (like, say, agility or obedience or therapy work).
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If I was a co-worker and asked why you got a new dog, I think my question would stem less from having a level of judgmental nature to it. It'd be like, why do you need a dog? Because you want one is definitely a fine answer, but as far as availability and time is concerned, getting a puppy doesn't do much more than make it easier to train depending on the dedication you put toward it. I actually know a few people who have relatively large dogs in their apt, but they've been conditioned to smaller living spaces. I wish you the best of luck anyway.
I don't prefer cats or dogs over each other. But as far as maintenance is concerned, my cat is definitely fitting my inconsistent daily routine perfectly fine, especially with the natural diet I put him on that decreases the excessive appetite many other brands give cats. I do want a maltese sometime in the future, and I don't care if it's pure bred, half bred, etc. A 30lb bag of natural dog food would last a maltese at LEAST 2 months.
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The coyotes of Atlanta will eat the maltese~
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I have been struggling with the idea of having a cat or dog again since last summer. I am not as fond of cats as dogs, so I looked into getting a dog. We adopted Fox, the golden retriever I posted previously about, in July from a woman out by Stockton who had to find a new home for the young dog because she had two kids and an older, sick golden retriever. Fox needed way more attention than she thought he was getting there, so he came home with us.
It was fine. I woke up early to take him out in the mornings, I came straight home from work to take him out for a long walk in the evenings, and we adjusted our schedules. When we initially adopted him, I figured it would be fine for him to come to work with me. My company has a very dog-friendly office, and there are at least 2-3 other dogs in the office on any given day. However, Fox himself was not okay with coming to work. He did not understand that the other dogs did not want to play with him, that I was sitting at my computer to work, not to pet him, and that sometimes he needed to occupy himself. When he had to stay home, he had to be confined to the kitchen and bathroom so he wouldn't chew apart (more) electronics and books. He chewed holes in the walls.
Toward the end of last year, I was starting to feel a little desperate. The sweet, affectionate, relatively calm golden retriever we'd picked up was actually an extremely clingy, very neurotic dog with a very high prey drive. He lunged at other dogs and small children. The sight or sound of a bird would drive him crazy. He was quiet, and very well house-trained, but he needed to be in someone's lap at ALL TIMES, whether it was otherwise occupied or not, and hearing another dog barking would drive him crazy. With a very heavy heart, I realized that Fox was the kind of dog who absolutely needed a yard, and other kids, and another dog to grow up with. We brought him to the attention of the local breed rescue and, in January, we rehomed him. He now lives with a vet tech, her two (older) kids and their other two puppies, in a home with a yard.
That was very hard for me, to say the least. I've grown up with dogs, and despite his personality quirks Fox was a really amazing young retriever. His size was never a problem except when it came to correcting his dangerous behavior (like lunging at kids and other animals). Had we lived somewhere with a yard or had another dog, he would have been a fantastic fit. But... it didn't happen that way. I'd far rather he did well and grew up in a place where his personality would fit well than maintain my dignity and hold on to him just because I said I would.
So, the new puppy. How could I possibly justify getting another dog after that? Well, two things: 1) Fox's prey drive was huge; 2) Fox was only about 1-1.5 years old, but he'd already learned some difficult bad habits. Age was a surprisingly large factor. Talisman is very much a puppy, perhaps 3 months old, and gets a chance to start out learning what it's like to live in close quarters around a lot of other dogs and noises. We've registered him in puppy classes, and he will absolutely be attending obedience and probably rally or agility training as well. We'll see how his personality shapes up, but I'd like to train him to go volunteer at hospitals and old folks' homes as a therapy dog when he gets older.
I really think this is a matter of energy and dog personality, not a matter of the living situation. Fox simply was a country dog. He needed space and he needed it now. This puppy... well... it may turn out that he needs space, too, but he doesn't need it now and the substitutes we can provide should be good enough in the mean time. Starting his training early, getting him used to other dogs without being crazy about them, and the same with people and other animals, will probably make a huge difference there as well. I feel okay with this decision.
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I am indeed frustrated about feeling like I have to justify this to anyone in the first place, and yet there are questions. "You rehomed Fox. Why did you get another dog?" Because. It's not the same. I did not dump Fox at the pound and pick up the first cute puppy I saw. I did not neglect Fox. I very pointedly made sure he got a home with someone who knew what they were getting in to even better than I did -- he didn't go to just any rescue, he went to a Golden Retriever rescue, and he didn't go to just any home, he went to a home with a person who attends to dogs and cats as part of their job. With Fox, it wasn't a matter of not wanting to do the work or not giving him a chance. It was just a very deep, very true feeling that the kind of dog he was (both because of his natural behavior and because of his upbringing) did not fit with the lifestyle Andrew and I maintain or intend to pursue.
Just going to say this straight, so don't be offended.
Yes, you -do- have to justify this.
I worked in a dog shelter during college, and frankly, the basic situation sucks for most dogs when owners don't make the right fit. Someone adopts a puppy, it doesn't suit their living situation, the dog is now too big to ever really find the right home.
And this is generally the -best- case scenario for these dogs. Often times, the owners have fucked up the dogs' behaviors, habits, and expectations, too. Or worse, abused them.
So, no, I don't think you made the wrong choice.
However, you really shouldn't be complaining about having to explain it because you -are- the exception; and anyone who knows anything about dog adoption just isn't going to assume that.
Congrats on the new puppy, I hope this one works out better for you.
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A picture:
(http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo125/aideekay/Tally-ho024.jpg)
I am frustrated, generally, with people. I think I'll just leave it at that.
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Djinn is right (for once >_>), but you are too. I'll leave it at that. Suffice it to say,
doggiedoggiedoggiedoggie
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That dog looks a little bit emo.
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Djinn is right (for once >_>), but you are too. I'll leave it at that. Suffice it to say,
doggiedoggiedoggiedoggie
Now Zenny, remember what everyone told us about flirting on the forums...
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Look, all I'm sayin' is you, me, the bathroom, 5 minutes from now, let's go.
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Djinn is right (for once >_>), but you are too. I'll leave it at that. Suffice it to say,
doggiedoggiedoggiedoggie
Now Zenny, remember what everyone told us about flirting on the forums...
That you should flirt as much as possible thanks to the hilarious potential maximum backfiring?
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Which brings up another pick up line that Djinn should totally use to pick up emoshota in Japan. "I knew a guy who had the same problem you do until he met me, that cleared him right up. You just need a bit more of me in you."
The battle against the universe surrounding my computer continues. Got my mother board back yesterday, but who wants to build a computer Thursday night when you have work the next day? So Friday afternoon after a shit day of work I know that I am not up to fighting my PC, so I shuffle around our lounge room setup and move the X-Box to where the Wii is beside the TV, put the Wii on top of the X-Box and connect up the Onkyo CD player I bought months ago. If I am going to fight my PC I am going to need tunes. The RCA cable is a bit short so I slide the receiver and the player to the edges of their shelves and the cable just reaches, but it works. Agents are GO! So throw in a few CDs and random it up to chill for the night of building my computer.
Take the new case out of the box, pop out the backing plate. I don't have the backing plate for all my connectors. So no PC today when I really needed it in the middle of the day after shitty shit day at work and I badly needed to garotte something or play an FPS at least. Such is life. Backing plate is at my parents' which is the last place work was done on my PC putting in the temporary board. Dad can't find the right plate, but he is probaby 3/4 of the way through his Friday night bottle of wine and I am not in the frame of mind to communicate properly, I think he has the right plate and I just suck at letting him know how I am looking at it with how he is comparing it (he compared it to the board on the Asus site which I have just checked, I was talking as if I had the board installed and I think he was talking as if it was being installed on its side). So oh well. I strip my old case of parts I am moving other than the CPU and fan. Put in the mounts for the Mobo at least, put in the drives (Full tower, so don't really need the space they take up, but don't do any cabling and I will put in the PSU later). Pop out the express card bays that I will need.
Might buy a new hard drive as well I guess, going to get the PC up and running first obviously. Then boot it up in XP with my Windows 7 drive connected to see if I can salvage any data on it first.
So 11 at night and I can finally do something relaxing. No FPS going to happen, so more comics it is I guess.
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So, normally my computer runs at ~2% full CPU usage, and recently something's made it start running at 100% CPU usage. Restarting, forcibly cooling it down with a large fan, closing tons of processes... nothing's made it start working back at normal capacity. While this doesn't affect web browsing at all, it makes it all but impossible to play games on it. This is unacceptable.
Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this problem? I'm running a virus scan now, but I don't know if that will actually help anything.
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Djinn is right (for once >_>), but you are too. I'll leave it at that. Suffice it to say,
doggiedoggiedoggiedoggie
Now Zenny, remember what everyone told us about flirting on the forums...
It's just bad when it's Bard hitting on Niu because he thinks Niu's a girl. Past that, go crazy, it's our blackmail material anyway.
(Not that we couldn't use Bard material for blackmail anyway, but kicking a dead dog is pointless.)
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None of us got breakfast before we left home, so we stopped at Taco Bell on the way home. I get home, crack a soda and start eating. I take a few bites and go to take a sip of soda. At the same moment as I sip and swallow, I half sneeze, half cough. The entire mix goes straight up my nose. It burns like fucking HELL. Spicy nacho cheese sauce and taco and oooooow. It's like blowing my nose is dispensing liquid Taco Bell and pain.
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liquid Taco Bell and pain.
No need to be redundant there.
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Golden Week is coming up.
I can never think of that as a real thing, it just feels like something that was made up for anime.
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Falalalalal lalalalala llalala...
I AM DONE
WITH MAH PAPER.
I shall edit it tomorrow.
But.
My plate.
Is officially.
Clean of school.
Sure, I have an exam Thursday in Art and Arch of Ancient Egypt II, but that's absolutely nothing to worry about. Yay (:
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Congrats! Now all you need to worry about is grad school!
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Ahhh, frivolous spending, I missed you.
So one of the game stores, the GameCrazy, I frequent has been slated to close its doors. Since I'd rather they get my money than GameStop, I decided to go ahead and pick up a PS3. I didn't really care to spend the money at the moment, was think I'd put it off 'til christmas or so, but y'know. Good chance they won't be there then, so.
Also means I have full system capability now. I feel like a portal to the netherworld should be opening up in my TV or something. Or maybe a little victory tune plays and I get a pointless ribbon of achievement.
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Ahhh, frivolous spending, I missed you.
So one of the game stores, the GameCrazy, I frequent has been slated to close its doors. Since I'd rather they get my money than GameStop, I decided to go ahead and pick up a PS3. I didn't really care to spend the money at the moment, was think I'd put it off 'til christmas or so, but y'know. Good chance they won't be there then, so.
Also means I have full system capability now. I feel like a portal to the netherworld should be opening up in my TV or something. Or maybe a little victory tune plays and I get a pointless ribbon of achievement.
I feel that way, too. When I got my PS3, I was like 'crap, I can play everything now, no more excuses.'
Dammit, I don't have that kinda time!
Also, sad to hear that another game store is losing to GameStop... *sigh*.
Expected, but still sad.
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Well, it's not necessarily that they're losing to the Gamestop, or rather, I don't think that's their problem. Basically, GameCrazy's corporate heads don't give their store managers any autonomy, so basically the store was juuuuust off the beaten track (Basically, the two main streets through town cross about two hundred feet from them, but they're on the wrong side of the intersection where no one can see them), meaning they were easy to miss and nobody at the store could really advertise enough to correct it. For the most part, GameStop is better about getting new stuff in, but I liked the people here more so I tended to get them all the used and system purchases I made (which in the past year was quite a bit). So really it's more losing some cool people than anything else. Pity.
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Yeah, same thing happened here awhile back. And it was pretty much the same situation too. The GameCrazy guys were pretty good freinds of mine, so I shopped there instead of GameStop despite the latter having a better selection. Now that it's gone, I try to hang at the GameStop sometimes, but it always so much more busy that even the employees I get on well with don't really have much time to chat(and obviously chatting isn't a priority. They are on the clock and all, and I respect that). Just kinda hard to make the same connections there.
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One of my exes is getting married. Strange thing to find out. Not that I wish I was there, because I got bored of having sex with her, but it just sort of made me think about placed I'd be if I did things differently, you know?
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If only she had known to take her top off and shoot an experimental assault rifle like your future wife (who will be shooting at you for accusing her of being a cyborg clone of your third wife from the distant future on the day before the heat death of the universe).
Video card acquired and installed. Sound card still to go, turns out one of the cables that connects the video card to the console on the front is broken, but still, small victory. I will see if the PC can last the night and maybe declare the return of my PC.
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I feel moderately disrespected.
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One of my exes is getting married. Strange thing to find out. Not that I wish I was there, because I got bored of having sex with her, but it just sort of made me think about placed I'd be if I did things differently, you know?
Man, if I had a dollar for every time that happened to me...
If only she had known to take her top off and shoot an experimental assault rifle like your future wife (who will be shooting at you for accusing her of being a cyborg clone of your third wife from the distant future on the day before the heat death of the universe).
Man, if I had a dollar for every time that happened to me...
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If only she had known to take her top off and shoot an experimental assault rifle like your future wife (who will be shooting at you for accusing her of being a cyborg clone of your third wife from the distant future on the day before the heat death of the universe).
My future wife is Cyborg Saffron Reynolds?
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No, your future wife is just Summer Glau. Don't think she's been in Terminator, but she's probably a cyborg woman from 2019.
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Congrats! Now all you need to worry about is grad school!
I had a meeting with a professor for my research paper I did on David Alfaro Siqueiros, and she really brightened my future. Especially when she said "I'll gladly write you a letter of rec" w/o me bringing it up. (: I'm going to rework it this summer and use it as my sample. Study for GREs. Apply, apply, apply, cross my fingers, say a couple of prayers and hope for the coming future to gain momentum. I'm excited, even though I haven't moved out yet. I have one other professor annnnd I'm debating between two for my last letter of rec.
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No, your future wife is just Summer Glau. Don't think she's been in Terminator, but she's probably a cyborg woman from 2019.
One- Summer Glau doesn't do it for me. She's gonna look like she's 14 until she's like 50.
Two- Yes, she has.
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No, your future wife is just Summer Glau. Don't think she's been in Terminator, but she's probably a cyborg woman from 2019.
One- Summer Glau doesn't do it for me. She's gonna look like she's 14 until she's like 50.
Two- Yes, she has.
Dear god, she doesn't even bother with a disguise by now, does she.
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Don't worry. If ratings were any indication, nobody watched the one she was on. It is the perfect obfuscation.
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And thus Andrew begins his first shift of night audit. Will he stay awake? Only time will tell.
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Video card acquired and installed. Sound card still to go, turns out one of the cables that connects the video card to the console on the front is broken, but still, small victory. I will see if the PC can last the night and maybe declare the return of my PC.
Fuck I am an idiot to think I could play games, have fun or have anything work ever. I need to remember that I am not allowed to even think about enjoying myself.
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Good to see you know your place, minion.
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God, drunk people are hilariously entertaining
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No, your future wife is just Summer Glau. Don't think she's been in Terminator, but she's probably a cyborg woman from 2019.
Uh, gj at choosing 1 of the 4 actors that have been main terminators in their various incarnations? Also, I watched at least part of TSCC. That was one badass finale.
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I haven't watched even the first movie, I just wanted to gratuitously mention Summer Glau and the fact she's a cyborg.
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What the fuck? Go get that movie. Go get the sequel. Those are two movies that anyone with any vague liking of cinema should watch.
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I haven't watched even the first movie, I just wanted to gratuitously mention Summer Glau and the fact she's a cyborg.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
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I haven't watched even the first movie, I just wanted to gratuitously mention Summer Glau and the fact she's a cyborg.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
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Ehh, I've never seen a Terminator film either. Never seen the appeal, really.
Edit: Judging from Grefter's response, I'm assuming this is the problem. If it's something to do with Summer Glau, I'd assume Firefly hype is more than enough reason.
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What the fuck? Go get that movie. Go get the sequel. Those are two movies that anyone with any vague liking of cinema should watch.
I don't like cinema that much.
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FACT: Anyone who hasn't seen the first two Terminator movies is legally retarded.
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Then I'm glad to say that legally retarded people seem to be more intelligent than you.
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And thus Andrew begins his first shift of night audit. Will he stay awake? Only time will tell.
Night audit's a lot of fun, more than the regular shifts anyway. You get to deal with all the crazies!
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Sadly, Yoshi, Summer Glau is -not- in any of the Terminator movies. She is only in the TV series. So, no Firefly hype for the Arnold movies.
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Man. Now I have no reason to want to watch them again.
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Stop talking to those who haven't seen the first two Terminator films, Rob. It makes them think they're actual people.
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What the fuck? Go get that movie. Go get the sequel. Those are two movies that anyone with any vague liking of cinema should watch.
I don't like cinema that much.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Edit - And goddamn people, Terminator and Terminator 2 aren't just any action movie or Arnold movie, they are James Cameron movies. The guy makes a movie like on an average once every four years? He is almost as amazing as Scorsese is and far more accessible at the same time. His movies are often prototypical Hollywood blockbusters, but that is misleading. They aren't JUST prototypical blockbusters. They are THE blockbusters, they are the things that everything else is trying to be when they do that shit. Sometimes it isn't just about a huge budget to make a huge profit, they are huge budgets to make fucking amazing movies of a scope that just plain can't be done on a small budget. He doesn't piss away the money on cheap gimmicks, what he does he does for a reason, even Avatar which I have no inclination to see (because the gimmick is one that makes me physically illEdit 2 - To clarify I mean this as like actually makes me fell like throwing up, not hyperbole of it being bad) is something that is worthy of respect and is far from just money down the drain.
Watch this shit and remember that it is the benchmark that everything like it is measured against.
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Also they're both genuinely good movies. Well, T2 is. Terminator 1 is so-so.
For me to say this about action movies means you should watch them. I don't say that about action movies. I'm not sure Die Hard's a genuinely good movie, separated from it's camp value(which is impossible to do). Never mind that both Terminators do the camp value execution well.
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Die Hard is in fact a good movie without the camp value.
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Edit - And goddamn people, Terminator and Terminator 2 aren't just any action movie or Arnold movie, they are James Cameron movies. The guy makes a movie like on an average once every four years?
...
His movies are often prototypical Hollywood blockbusters, but that is misleading. They aren't JUST prototypical blockbusters. They are THE blockbusters, they are the things that everything else is trying to be when they do that shit. Sometimes it isn't just about a huge budget to make a huge profit, they are huge budgets to make fucking amazing movies of a scope that just plain can't be done on a small budget. He doesn't piss away the money on cheap gimmicks, what he does he does for a reason, even Avatar which I have no inclination to see (because the gimmick is one that makes me physically ill) is something that is worthy of respect and is far from just money down the drain.
Watch this shit and remember that it is the benchmark that everything like it is measured against.
This. Seriously. Terminator is a classic. T2 is basically the genesis of the summer blockbuster as we know it today, and it got that way for a reason. They are damned good.
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Die Hard is in fact a good movie without the camp value.
Yeah, but how can you tell?
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Because of the scene with the duct tape.
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And the lengths they went to for that famous shot of Gruber being dropped. And the fact that the entire movie is so tense (The claustrophobia that they help generate by making him get around in vents!). The attention to detail taken with regards to him losing his shoes. The misdirection with them shutting down the power to get access to the vault and the way it is presented to the audience as a grand reveal and actually manages to make you give a shit. The fact that the movie works fantastically if you ignore the plot regarding John McClane and his wife.
Just so much good in that movie.
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Stop making me regret not having seen Die Hard in long enough to forget the details about it.
(Terminator mom watched so many times that I cannot forget it, and I actively like T2 myself so I can't forget that either.)
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...god, hilarious. I think this comic about sums up the past two days:
http://xkcd.com/714/
In other news, presentation today, then I actually get to relax a bit. Yay.
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In Die Hard's defense, the damn movie did have Carl fucking Winslow in it!
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Terminator 2 has Big Mike.
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Got to tour the Jefferson Labs today. The good: Hanging out with Pyro the night before, borrowing a Wii, getting to see inside of the accelerator.
The bad: The place was really crowded; I was surprised by the volume of people. The heat didn't help matters either. Falling asleep at 11pm was kind of lame too. The really bad: Tunnel traffic on the way back. Ajlksdfsljdksdjfsd to that.
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In Die Hard's defense, the damn movie did have Carl fucking Winslow in it!
Yeah. Die Hard is a kickass prequel to Family Matters. The timeline of Carl's life goes like this.
Chuck Christmas Episode -> Die Hard -> Family Matters
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Computer is still broken, but I am making pancakes and I am listening to Angus and Julia Stone on my decent stereo equipment, so I guess everything is alright still. Just took a couple of days of bitterness and cynicism to pull myself up out of the funk and go back to just loving the music.
Which reminds me I totally need to dig out one of my Parliment albums to listen to on the sound system.
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Oh oh oh new phrase for going down on a girl: "Kissing the uncanny valley"
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Oh hey, talking about movies...
All I can really add is to throw in another 'fuck yeah T2' really.
In other news, classes are almost over for Spring and now I need to find a summer job and a mode of transportation, and get things squared away for classes next Fall at a reasonable time for once. Fun fun fun.
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Only works if the girl is a robot. You are in Japan though so I guess it's a safe bet.
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God...today was awesome on rounds. I love the Nephrology service.
Attending: "So, we dialyzed her, she looks good otherwise. How long do we need to treat the steno for?"
Me: "10 more days - send her on Bactrim DS at home, she'll be good"
Attending: "Fabulous. All her other labs look good?"
Intern: "BNP came back a bit off"
Attending: "That's it? What was it?"
Intern: "It's OVER 9000!"
Attending: "What?! 9000?!"
...awesome >_>
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On a report today:
"After several attempts, we successfully completed the lumbar puncture."
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Lectured about not seeming to connect with my job. Apparently I am supposed to find my passion in filing invoices and updating databases.
Yeaaaaaah.
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They don't expect you to be passionate about filling out invoices, they just want you to pretend that you're really excited about being a piece of the machine that makes the company work. You just have to pretend you're happy about being on "Team <insert company name>" and regularly tell your co-workers how awesome it is to be working with all of them and that the boss could wrestle a dinosaur into submission if he wanted to.
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It is true. I was being melodramatic for effect. I got an inspiring speech about how I should always endeavor to seek out ways to help the company grow, find something in my work I love and focus on that, etc.
What you say is pretty much exactly what my boss was rah-rahing about. It was very hard to keep myself from blurting out, "What if I don't want to be a happy cog?"
My sense of drama and entitlement has me wishing I could come into work on Monday and announce that she was right, the person on the job should be focused on the job and the betterment of the company, and that person totally cannot be me, but... I'm not quite financially secure enough for that yet.
Yeah, corporate work is so not my bag. I'm way too much the idealist to feel comfortable fitting myself into the infrastructure. I am just too darned motivated to Do Big Things to understand that sometimes you need to do the small things, too.
I'd've made a great fanatic.
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I'd've?
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Were you implying I am already, or asking about the triple contraction? To the latter: if you're going to use contractions, I feel you may as well go all out. "I would have."
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Just something that made me happy.
I saw a white girl dancing. No, I'm not racist. She was wu-tanging better than a lot of people I know. But dancing in my community is so HUGE, and we typically see white people (not asians or hispanics) as dance shy. And more people need to dance. It makes people happy, whether you can or can't. (: And. It made me happy to see her get down. Yeah. Maybe I'm a little racist, fuck, I don't know.
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Just something that made me happy.
I saw a white girl dancing. No, I'm not racist. She was wu-tanging better than a lot of people I know. But dancing in my community is so HUGE, and we typically see white people (not asians or hispanics) as dance shy. And more people need to dance. It makes people happy, whether you can or can't. (: And. It made me happy to see her get down. Yeah. Maybe I'm a little racist, fuck, I don't know.
Princeton:
Say, Kate, can I ask you a question?
Kate Monster:
Sure!
Princeton:
Well, you know Trekkie Monster upstairs?
Kate Monster:
Uh huh.
Princeton:
Well, he's Trekkie Monster, and you're Kate Monster.
Kate Monster:
Right.
Princeton:
You're both Monsters.
Kate Monster:
Yeah.
Princeton:
Are you two related?
Kate Monster:
What?! Princeton, I'm surprised at you! I find that racist!
Princeton:
Oh, well, I'm sorry! I was just asking!
Kate Monster:
Well, it's a touchy subject.
No, not all Monsters are related.
What are you trying say, huh?
That we all look the same to you?
Huh, huh, huh?
Princeton:
No, no, no, not at all. I'm sorry,
I guess that was a little racist.
Kate Monster:
I should say so. You should be much more
careful when you're talking about the
sensitive subject of race.
Princeton:
Well, look who's talking!
Kate Monster:
What do you mean?
Princeton:
What about that special Monster School you told me about?
Kate Monster:
What about it?
Princeton:
Could someone like me go there?
Kate Monster:
No, we don't want people like you-
Princeton:
You see?!
You're a little bit racist.
Kate Monster:
Well, you're a little bit too.
Princeton:
I guess we're both a little bit racist.
Kate Monster:
Admitting it is not an easy thing to do...
Princeton:
But I guess it's true.
Kate Monster:
Between me and you,
I think
Both:
Everyone's a little bit racist
Sometimes.
Doesn't mean we go
Around committing hate crimes.
Look around and you will find
No one's really color blind.
Maybe it's a fact
We all should face
Everyone makes judgments
Based on race.
Princeton:
Now not big judgments, like who to hire
or who to buy a newspaper from -
Kate Monster:
No!
Princeton:
No, just little judgments like thinking that Mexican
busboys should learn to speak goddamn English!
Kate Monster:
Right!
Both:
Everyone's a little bit racist
Today.
So, everyone's a little bit racist
Okay!
Ethinic jokes might be uncouth,
But you laugh because
They're based on truth.
Don't take them as
Personal attacks.
Everyone enjoys them -
So relax!
Princeton:
All right, stop me if you've heard this one.
Kate Monster:
Okay!
Princeton:
There's a plan going down and there's only
one paracute. And there's a rabbi, a priest...
Kate Monster:
And a black guy!
Gary Coleman:
Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Kate?
Kate Monster:
Uh...
Gary Coleman:
You were telling a black joke!
Princeton:
Well, sure, Gary, but lots of people tell black jokes.
Gary Coleman:
I don't.
Princeton:
Well, of course you don't - you're black!
But I bet you tell Polack jokes, right?
Gary Coleman:
Well, sure I do. Those stupid Polacks!
Princeton:
Now, don't you think that's a little racist?
Gary Coleman:
Well, damn, I guess you're right.
Kate Monster:
You're a little bit racist.
Gary Coleman:
Well, you're a little bit too.
Princeton:
We're all a little bit racist.
Gary Coleman:
I think that I would
Have to agree with you.
Princeton/Kate Monster:
We're glad you do.
Gary Coleman:
It's sad but true!
Everyone's a little bit racist -
All right!
Kate Monster:
All right!
Princeton:
All right!
Gary Coleman:
All right!
Bigotry has never been
Exclusively white
All:
If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
Even though we all know
That it's wrong,
Maybe it would help us
Get along.
Princeton:
Oh, Christ do I feel good.
Gary Coleman:
Now there was a fine upstanding black man!
Princeton:
Who?
Gary Coleman:
Jesus Christ.
Kate Monster:
But, Gary, Jesus was white.
Gary Coleman:
No, Jesus was black.
Kate Monster:
No, Jesus was white.
Gary Coleman:
No, I'm pretty sure that Jesus was black-
Princeton:
Guys, guys...Jesus was Jewish!
Brian:
Hey guys, what are you laughing about?
Gary Coleman:
Racism!
Brian:
Cool.
Christmas Eve:
BRIAN! Come back here!
You take out lecycuraburs!
Princeton:
What's that mean?
Brian:
Um, recyclables.
Hey, don't laugh at her!
How many languages do you speak?
Kate Monster:
Oh, come off it, Brian!
Everyone's a little bit racist.
Brian:
I'm not!
Princeton:
Oh no?
Brian:
Nope!
How many Oriental wives
Have you got?
Christmas Eve:
What? Brian!
Princeton:
Brian, buddy, where you been?
The term is Asian-American!
Christmas Eve:
I know you are no
Intending to be
But calling me Oriental -
Offensive to me!
Brian:
I'm sorry, honey, I love you.
Christmas Eve:
And I love you.
Brian:
But you're racist, too.
Christmas Eve:
Yes, I know.
The Jews have all
The money
And the whites have all
The power.
And I'm always in taxi-cab
With driver who no shower!
Princeton:
Me too!
Kate Monster:
Me too!
Gary Coleman:
I can't even get a taxi!
All:
Everyone's a little bit racist
It's true.
But everyone is just about
As racist as you!
If we all could just admit
That we are racist a little bit,
And everyone stopped being
So PC
Maybe we could live in -
Harmony!
Christmas Eve:
Evlyone's a ritter bit lacist!
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Beaten to the punch. God dammit.
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Whatever that is, it's really cute.
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Avenue Q. It's basically a broadway show depicting what would happen if you turned the low rent district in New York (or perhaps a more specific region, but anyway) into Sesame Street. So, basically, there's puppet-monsters and random celebrity guests everywhere.
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You forgot to mention AWESOME.
A few other songs:
What Do You Do with a B.A. In English?
The Internet is for Porn
I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today
My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada
Schadenfreude
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya6PutXw3_M&feature=related
The above song rendered in a DL-friendlier format.
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Ha, ha, ha. Wait. That's supposed to be Gary Coleman?
HAH!
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It is true. I was being melodramatic for effect. I got an inspiring speech about how I should always endeavor to seek out ways to help the company grow, find something in my work I love and focus on that, etc.
What you say is pretty much exactly what my boss was rah-rahing about. It was very hard to keep myself from blurting out, "What if I don't want to be a happy cog?"
My sense of drama and entitlement has me wishing I could come into work on Monday and announce that she was right, the person on the job should be focused on the job and the betterment of the company, and that person totally cannot be me, but... I'm not quite financially secure enough for that yet.
Yeah, corporate work is so not my bag. I'm way too much the idealist to feel comfortable fitting myself into the infrastructure. I am just too darned motivated to Do Big Things to understand that sometimes you need to do the small things, too.
I'd've made a great fanatic.
If I can do it then anyone can. It is just a job and it lets you do the things you enjoy. Get in, do it for as long as you have to and get out.
Edit - Of course it helps that I do enjoy updating databases.
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The sad thing is, apparently Gary Coleman himself didn't know about it until later and wishes he could sue now.
Honestly, I'd have just given him a cut. You kinda feel bad for the guy, y'know?
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Damnit, how the hell was I beaten to the musical reference ;_;
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Today's lesson: No matter how hungry and how desperate you are, Burger King at 4 in the morning sucks.
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Found the culprit that devoured Meeple and some other members (can't remember who was what), PLUS my newly planted Mexican Sunflowers!!! THE BIRDS!!! AARRRGHLES.
I wonder if I have any more seeds.
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So I seem to have gotten an illness from one of my coworkers. Joy.
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Sore throat, sinus headache, 3-hour criminal law exam, and Bang Install stuck in my head the whole time. God damn am I running on fumes.
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*Prods Snow for any potentially-embarrassing and/or interesting stories concerning his love life.*
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*Prods Snow for any potentially-embarrassing and/or interesting stories concerning his love life.*
There's really nothing to it. We talked it over, we broke up amicably and consensually.
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That's fine, you should make a crazy story about it anyway. I want to be entertained.
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You could get those from me (Although not in forum form)!
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That's fine, you should make a crazy story about it anyway. I want to be entertained.
Bard is on the intarwebs to the left.
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Keep me out of this.
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... so... Snow and Bard should start dating?
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Jesus Christ, even VSM can do better than Bard.
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I dunno, Bard seems pretty sane. That's pretty good by internet standards.
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When you have winners like this (http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Main_Page) to compare to the average of internets standards, this says about as much as failing less at taking a smack than Raja.
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I'd date a Bardiche anyway.
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No, really, keep me out of this.
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Just as Danned.
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Having a YouTube account is a weird experience now. YouTube has this weird habit of tracking watched videos and analyzing the content and then suggesting related videos based on keywords.
Only... it's not very good at it.
Suggested to you: "Cute Shirtless Guy gets drunk" because you watched: "Haruhi Parody AMV"
... >.>;;
I wonder if it's not tracking comments made on other websites and then just fucking with me? Either that or I've apparently made comments about 'shirtless Dhyer' on YouTube and then forgot.
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Sounds like a tough job, Djinn. Liar.
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So I'm losing my job. For like the 8th time or something like that.
Well, not yet, anyway, but there's a big obvious loop that I'm going to have to jump through to keep it, and I'm not sure I'm a good enough liar to pull it off. Not sure I'm going to bother this time. I have a lot of applications out in the field already, and I've got an indefinite amount of time for the University administration to figure things out and stop paying me money if I don't do it. There's a clothing shop hiring pretty close to Uni so I'm going to check there. Hopefully I have something else for the summer.
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When you have winners like this (http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Main_Page) to compare to the average of internets standards
Good god. Is that...a 1000+ page wiki with the sole goal of calling an Autistic kid stupid? What the hell?
I mean, as a forum admin I've had to deal with users who were likely autistic (who knows?), and yes it can be awkward and sometimes hard to get my point understood. But...a 1000+ page wiki? Really? How had that wiki not outlived its purpose after 50 pages?
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When you have winners like this (http://www.cogsdev.org/cwcki/Main_Page) to compare to the average of internets standards
Good god. Is that...a 1000+ page wiki with the sole goal of calling an Autistic kid stupid? What the hell?
I mean, as a forum admin I've had to deal with users who were likely autistic (who knows?), and yes it can be awkward and sometimes hard to get my point understood. But...a 1000+ page wiki? Really? How had that wiki not outlived its purpose after 50 pages?
4chan.
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Undeniably the worst night of my life. As bad as the death of my father. I need a long due e-break. See you guys.
Edit* I'll always lurk though.
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Ouch. Sorry to hear that, whatever may have happened. Good luck on the break and hope to see you back soon.
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I don't know what happened, but to be that bad....yikes. Good luck kicking its ass, whatever it is.
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Hey, if you ever want to talk about anything, I'm around. Otherwise, I'm sorry for whatever happened.
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You're always welcome here. I hope you feel better and if I don't see you again soon, enjoy your trip to eygpt.
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Whatever's wrong, you have my sympathy.
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Undeniably the worst night of my life. As bad as the death of my father. I need a long due e-break. See you guys.
Edit* I'll always lurk though.
Ouch. Sorry to hear that, whatever may have happened. Good luck on the break and hope to see you back soon.
I don't know what happened, but to be that bad....yikes. Good luck kicking its ass, whatever it is.
Hey, if you ever want to talk about anything, I'm around. Otherwise, I'm sorry for whatever happened.
You're always welcome here. I hope you feel better and if I don't see you again soon, enjoy your trip to eygpt.
Whatever's wrong, you have my sympathy.
Because I'm lazy but express all those sentiments anyway.
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Undeniably the worst night of my life. As bad as the death of my father. I need a long due e-break. See you guys.
Edit* I'll always lurk though.
Things and stuff, have fun and good luck. Play some good games and listen to good music for a change.
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Remember, it's often a lot better to discuss large problems than to bottle them up.
As someone that just discusses them with himself though, rather than bouncing them off others... I understand the "Get the hell away from people for a while" sentiment, as such. Keep yourself safe, Dunie.
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Mrf. Take care, Idun.
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Undeniably the worst night of my life. As bad as the death of my father. I need a long due e-break. See you guys.
Edit* I'll always lurk though.
;_;
I'll miss you! Hope everything turns out well! Take care, and good luck with whatever you need to do!
Please feel free to ask for anything if you need it.
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*hugsnsnugsgirlpowersisterlovenstuff* Yeah take care, my best wishes and luck to you. Hope things work out.
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G'luck with whatever went wrong, okay?
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Yeah, take care of yourself, alright?
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We'll miss ya, Idun. G'luck.
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HEY ROB OR GREFTER OR MAYBE JIM or anybody else awesome enough to own a suit.
I need to pack a suit into a duffel bag. Afraid to fold the sport coat because it may wrinkle. Afraid to roll it up because that might crush the shoulders. Contemplating just wearing it on the plane but I'd rather not risk getting it all sweaty if I can avoid it. Advice? Need it by tomorrow.
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Get a cheapo garment bag at walmart or something? If you must roll it up, I don't think it'll do any permanent damage, but you'll have to get it pressed before it'll look remotely formal and that'll cost as much as the bag anyway.
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You can stuff the shoulders with newspaper or something similar and then roll the rest.
If you roll it around something smooth and solid, like a cylindrical tin, it'll keep it from getting wrinkled. However, that might end up taking up too much space in your duffel.
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Any decent plane should have a closet in which to hang a garment bag for exactly the situation you're in. Been there, done that. It's almost like airlines try to cater to businesspeople!
In unrelated news: hang in there, Idun.
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Mm. Well, then I should just do that, then. I assume that counts as one checked bag/carry on then? I guess given this occasion I can spend the extra money to check that. .... so paranoid about putting my laptop in checked luggage, though.
Apparently, hanging the clothes up in the bathroom while I shower is a good way to get wrinkles out. If all else fails, I'll try that.
I guess I should take it as a good sign that with this upcoming interview, the thing I'm worried most about at this juncture is my suit getting wrinkled on the way up there? I feel pretty prepared otherwise, in any case.
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First year of law school: done.
Boy does that feel good.
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Fun fact, I don't actually own a suit. I just know way more about male fashion than someone who pretends to be straight should. Edit - Mostly due to weather reasons obviously and me not being that far up on the corporate ladder that I need to wear one. If I started to wear one at work it would likely cause talk also. Ahhhh office politics.
Garment bag would be the option I would go for. Get it there however you can if you can get it pressed/at least ironed before you go to the interview.
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Yeah, I know next to nothing about good suit care. this should probably change before I start my summer internship.
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Mm. Well, then I should just do that, then. I assume that counts as one checked bag/carry on then? I guess given this occasion I can spend the extra money to check that. .... so paranoid about putting my laptop in checked luggage, though.
It's definitely carry-on mechanically. I...don't think it does count towards the carry-on item count, though. In that every time I've done this I definitely had my carry-on suitcase as well, and I don't remember being charged extra or anything.
Also, as far as carry on items go, you're generally allowed "one carry-on bag and one personal item" where their definition of "personal item" includes small purses, large purses, laptop bags, and backpacks. So...either way you should be able to carry on both your laptop and your suit. (My guess is that the garment bag almost certainly doesn't count as a carry-on luggage. It might count as a "personal item", though...). Or you could just call your airline to clarify all this--different airlines often have different rules.
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Cracked my bumper on a curb. If this costs more than $1000 to repair, I'm fucked financially.
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haha </Nelsontori>
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Is... there a compelling reason TO bother fixing it?
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Okay, they it was going to be like $400. Which stilll sounds kind of high for a bumper, but whatever, it's probably worth the cost to not have to try to haggle with stubborn Japanese people in my non-native language.
Ninja Edit: It's impeding my front driver's side tire from operating properly.
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Damnit, it's Lupus ;_;
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I am stubbornly refusing to fix the passenger side back door on our car. (Did I ever tell that story?*) The shop wants $1700 to replace it. Knowing that buying a door shouldn't cost more than $500, and the bulk of their cost is labor and painting the door they acquire, I'm absolutely refusing to pay them that much. But I also haven't bought a door yet. So.
* Andrew and I went to pick up some friends for a WoWTCG tourney. They were running late, AS ALWAYS, and I was getting annoyed. So they finally show up and get in the car. One of them starts talking, so I start my reversing. Apparently he didn't close his door before deciding to get into a deep conversation -- we're not talking about him trying to close the door and me being too fast, either; I honestly mean he sat down and apparently forgot that we were in a car and needed to be going and his door needed to be closed -- so the door catches on a sign post. Overextended, bent the crap out of the top part, buuut... still functionally closes and remains locked. Problem is the window is popped out of alignment and the front passenger door catches on a bent piece of metal. Plus we can't really open that door for fear of the hinges being too compromised for it to shut again.
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I wore my new captain america shirt and get to work on the desk mostly by myself today. It's a good day.
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this just in: super likes simple pleasures and switching between the first and third person when referring to himself.
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Alternatively, he's two people.
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;_; Mistake fixed.
And yeah, baby shower today, so free food. Life is good.
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So does anyone know of any good free spyware or virus removal systems? My computer is in pretty bad shape.
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http://www.malwarebytes.org/
http://www.superantispyware.com/
These are my two preferred weapons to start with. They aren't cure-alls, but they're damned good at what they do. Do you know what sort of problem you're having?
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Not being able to open any downloaded files it looks like. I also can't use any programs on my computer as it says they are infected and closes them immediately.
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Can you hop on AIM express?
Thsi sounds like a format though.
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Yeah, you got bent over pretty good. What programs are saying this? Any titles, names, any ideas what virus you have? Any idea how you got this?
Super's right, backup what you can safely and nuke it from orbit.
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My mom is coming to visit me next month! I'm so happy~
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Went to LebowskiFest yesterday. Fun times. Fun times. Unlimited bowling, cosplay, trivia and cheap White Russians. Tons of Dudes, Walters and Donnies, some great Jesuses, and some ridiculously obscure costumes like the Ralph's checkout girl, the can of Sprite Donnie drinks in one scene. There was a great Jesus walking around
Trivia was great. ~300 people cut to 20, then cut to top 3. Made it to the second round, where you had a minute and a half to answer ten questions on paper. Half the people quit immediately cause they couldn't answer anything. Ended up like 5th or 6th.
I redeemed myself in bowling after my debacle at DLC4. 127, 95 and 103. Still totally managed to choke in a very me way though. My first frame of my first game I picked up a spare. I didn't pick up a spare for the ENTIRE REST OF THE NIGHT. Woo. At least I bowled decently other than that. Very, very few actual gutterballs. Just... missed every spare opportunity ever.
Picked up a sweet shirt too, will probably wear it to bowling at DLC5.
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I heard about that. It was in Orlando right?
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Yep. At the Aloma Bowl.
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Still alive. I really need to stick around.
EDIT: Bobbin Cranbud is a member now? Wow, I really missed a lot.
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Still alive.
Hooray pulse!
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This girl I used to bang is having a kid. It really made me think that I am an extremely lucky person for dodging yet another bullet.
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Not interested in having kids?
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Why would I want children? You can either have a kid or a goddamn yacht, one of those new-fangled Mustangs (to be the counterpart to my oldfangled, 1968, Mustang) and a home theater system. They cost you something like a million a head.
I guess there's the aspect where I'd be fighting dysgenics, but I figure it's only a century or so at this rate before we separate in to Morlocs and Eloi anyway.
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So I'm discovering that I'm actually a better academic writer when I write down what I say instead of writing it from scratch. This is exhilarating and disturbing.
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As in... you write better if you speak out loud and write THAT down, rather than just writing?
I think that just means you've received the gift of the Justice Force, the primordial semi-intelligent energy which grants lawyers their powers.
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So it seems. of course, it helps that things I can speak out loud tend not to be one quote after another (my current writing assignment? 7-9 page paper...with 7-9 pages of footnotes.)
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And boarding's starting in a few. Yay, back in three weeks!
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Current status at job: I'm effectively consolidated as soon as my experience period ends. Which is two weeks from now.
Life = good.
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consolidated?
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Effective employee, with relative stability.
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awesome.
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Can't sleep.
I was fired from Home Depot last week and I guess later on today I will be going back to pick up my final pay check. Should be fun! I get to call out everybody I didn't like.
Oh, I got canned because I kissed my gf at work and some customer didn't like it. My gf also works at HD, but miraculously she didn't get fired.
Funny, huh?
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Don't go call them out for being retards, complain to HR about the sexism shown there.
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So they'll probably fire the girlfriend to call it even?
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I get full benefits starting next week. Problem is that I am impossible to injure meaningfully and I never get sick; you know, like Wolverine. But it gets my mother off my back about how I "need" to get some health insurance.
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Well yeah, but all it takes is one stupid fluke and you're in the hock for 5 or 6 digits with medical bills.
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Maybe, but it's been eleven years since I've seen a doctor and I rather aim to keep it that way. This is mostly because I despise the health care system, though. It's all useless old people now and they all smell like death.
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That was a fantastic vacation. Went to the GF's old stomping grounds in Oklahoma, met a bunch of new people and had a great time with pretty much all of them, plus it had been years (since DLC3) since my last week off and I needed that. I'm out my entire tax refund and then some, but it was totally worth it. Also, Oklahoma has awesome ice cream and Ciato has been trying to keep it all for herself.
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Sounds awesome, Shale. :( Except for no DLC. Clearly you need to sell Meeple for money so you can afford to go.
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I'm pretty sure convincing someone to buy Meeple constitutes a war crime.
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Not going to the doctor in a decade is a damn fine way to end up being one of those people who ends up bleeding the system man.
Blah, I really need to set up a new internet systems. Given that web browsing is kind of painful now, does anyone have any suggestion for (non-DSL based) wireless systems?
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New computer. Yay, finally. Now to find all my bookmarks back... sigh. I wish Firefox let me copy them easily.
(If you can I'd love to hear how :V)
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What OS?
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If your old machine is still working, Bookmarks, Organise Bookmarks, either pick backup or Export HTML. If you just have the data from your old drive http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information This is a bubble wrapped method of getting it. There is more direct ways to do it, but I am feeling lazy and that should do the job.
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/me gets a new bed. Owowowowowow $600.
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Just sleep on the floor you slut
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If your old machine is still working, Bookmarks, Organise Bookmarks, either pick backup or Export HTML. If you just have the data from your old drive http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information This is a bubble wrapped method of getting it. There is more direct ways to do it, but I am feeling lazy and that should do the job.
Did the trick. Thanks.
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Just sleep on the floor you slut
[insert cock joke here]
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Looking for new bed, will try yours out with you for a night and $20.
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I'd rather not.
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Was a suggestion for how you could have done that better, not an offer.
Edit - Because I know you wouldn't want an offer and would prefer a demand.
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Was a suggestion for how you could have done that better, not an offer.
I'd rather not.
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:(
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Was a suggestion for how you could have done that better, not an offer.
I'd rather not.
What ever happened to the kinder, gentler Snow who didn't make Grefter cry?
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If Grefter's going all sadface, it's entirely his fault~
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Snow was never kind and gentle, so I'm not sure what Djinn's talking about. If anything, this is weird for grefter. Normally he eats people, not seduces them...
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I would like to thank you for your interest in and application to Interac.
I appreciate you having taken the time to meet with our recruiter recently. While your qualifications and experience are impressive, unfortunately we are unable to offer you a position.
We appreciate that you may like to request specific feedback about your application. However, in line with standard Japanese business procedures, it is Interac company policy not to disclose the detailed criteria on which we base our hiring decisions.
:(
If I show up in IRC later tonight black out drunk and rambling this has a lot to do with it.
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:'( Aw man, that sucks, dude.
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Mostly sucks that after this started looking like it was going to work out I stopped applying to other positions with other companies, since now I may have missed the boat for getting placed by August. This would be way less shitty if I had applications in in other places. Heck, this would even be way less shitty if I had some sort of entry level job that wasn't going to end for sure in August (and possibly sooner than that).
At the very least this made me realize how much I don't want to go back to school yet, since my first thought after reading the e-mail was "son of a bitch I'm going to have to go to grad school now." Nice to know I was kidding myself I guess? Damn it there's some sort of bright side to this and I'm going to find it if it destroys my liver.
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You can apply to positions directly online if you so choose, at least.
You don't have to go through Interac or JET to get a teaching position in Japan.
Try looking through GaijinPot.com
They generally have the best job listings. Unfortunately, the best time to apply for positions directly was just before April, when the Japanese schoolyear starts.
Still, as an English major graduate, you still have a lot of options for some of the private schools. If your Japanese was better, you'd have even more, but at least you've got one thing in your favor.
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So today I got to watch as a new teacher was broken in. Last month, we got this fresh-out-of-teaching-school lady at my Middle School and she teaches English. Well, unfortunately for her, her superior is none other than the same horrible old bastard who has been treating me like dirt since the second day I've been at his school.
Anyway, she's been mostly just observing classes so far, but today she came up to me, all excited, saying 'Okay, today I am the main teacher! Let's do this right!'. It was pretty cute, she was obviously looking forward to having the opportunity to change Horrible Bastard's boring-as-hell class routine.
Anyway, so we go upstairs to the first-years' classroom and everything seems to be going well, and then Horrible Bastard shows up to observe and her whole composure changes. And I'm thinking "Wow, I guess she didn't know he was going to show up either."
The class goes fairly normally for a while, which was good, if boring... and a little slower than usual. And then she starts explaining something and turns to write something on the board and a few of the kids talk to eachother in fairly hushed tones (including some kids in front, who I -know- were talking about the assignment). Anyway, she turns back around to finish what she's teaching and about two words into her lecture, Horrible Bastard bellows 'STOP', drowning her out. And he calls out the kids in front, saying that class can't go on if people are going to talk when she's teaching. And then he starts lecturing all the kids about respecting their teachers, which in this very Japanese situation is akin to slapping her across the face and telling her that she can't control her class, she might as well be selling them heroine and putting guns in their hands because they're all going to end up delinquents if she can't get her act together.
After that, the rhythm of the class was just gone. She managed to get through some of the lesson, but Horrible Bastard kept jumping in or sighing loudly with exasperation. She kept looking at the clock, hoping it would be over, and it was really painful to watch.
This is the same Bastard that refused every single one of my game and activity ideas for classes and then complained to the principal that I wasn't contributing enough to classes. He's also the one that normally barks out my name and the word 'Come' when it's time for class, except on days where the schedule has been changed... then he sneaks out without a word and yells at me if I'm late. He also basically undermined any authority I had with one of the classes by discussing his apparent problems with me ... with the students. What the hell, dude? That's just not cool.
As much as I empathized with the poor new teacher today, I have to admit that it was nice to know he doesn't just do this shit to me. He's just an ass to everyone.
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"DJ kitte, jyugyou hajimete toki desu."
And then they fuck.
EDIT: This may be why I don't have a job right now.
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Oddly enough, you wouldn't make mistakes like that if you watched more anime.
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I must never eat Taco Bell again. Ever.
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I can never watch Demolition Man again. Ever.
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I must never eat Taco Bell again. Ever.
Couldn't have been that bad.
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You know, I'm thinking it's pretty fortunate that I live in Albuquerque right about now. I've been browsing job openings for the last couple of hours and there's plenty I could apply for.
The only problem is that the public transit system is unreliable, doesn't go everywhere in the city, and all the places that are hiring are not really within biking distance, even after a bus commute.
It... may be time that I have to invest in a car. Which means quitting drinking to save money. Mphr.
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An online friend of mine fails one of his courses in college. His punishment? His shiny sexy laptop replaced with a relic running 98.
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Man, I am always the same 3 Tarot Arcana in my top 3. Sun, Priestess, Tower. Always in that order.
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/me does amateur Tarot reading.
Past: Sun (assumed upright). The Sun card means Radiance and success. It is quite possibly the best card ever to get in a reading. OblivionKnight comes from a rather happy background. He is generally a positive and uplifting force for people around him.
Present: Priestess (assumed upright). The Priestess card represents Mystery and Intuition. It usually represents a female figure in a person's life when it comes up in a reading. OblivionKnight's current situation is in doubt. There is a mysterious uncertainty about his life at the moment, particularly concerning the women in his life.
Future: Tower (assumed upright). The Tower card represents Destruction. OblivionKnight is fucked. Game over, man.
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I approve of the fact that now even the occult is making fun of OK's girlfriend.
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Alternate reading, OK's normal female figure is going to be ruined. Stay away from the cookies OK, you have been warned.
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Hooray! Free 10% raise.
Given the work I do, I think a 50% increase is the minimum it would take to match the industry average, but my job title -- and the company budget, and my own lame inability to negotiate -- prevents that sort of thing.
Not enough to get me to stick around after I find something better, but a nice perq for the in between time.
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Filling out job applications = Tedious.
Also,
"Wait, so you graduated? Why do you want to work at a restaurant of all places? Wait a minute, what's your degree in?"
"English."
"That explains it."
"Yep."
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Filling out job applications = Tedious.
Also,
"Wait, so you graduated? Why do you want to work at a restaurant of all places? Wait a minute, what's your degree in?"
"English."
"That explains it."
"Yep."
Welcome to the world as a baccalaureate in the humanities. I'd offer you cookies, but that's way too spendy for my budget. Have a virtual high-five instead.
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Hooray! Free 10% raise
It still counts as free if you gave them your soul?
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Filling out job applications = Tedious.
Also,
"Wait, so you graduated? Why do you want to work at a restaurant of all places? Wait a minute, what's your degree in?"
"English."
"That explains it."
"Yep."
Welcome to the world as a baccalaureate in the humanities. I'd offer you cookies, but that's way too spendy for my budget. Have a virtual high-five instead.
Yep.
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Met a cute otaku girl named Miyuki. We're going out this upcoming weekend. Her interests include Tales of cosplay, BL Manga, American movies, and cooking. This could be a fun adventure.
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And now you move onto a cosplayer!
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Don't be silly, I'm still dating Chiaki too.
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eeeeeeeeew girls
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eeeeeeeeeeeeew snow
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You look better than the thing in Djinn's picture at least.
EDIT: WAITAMINUTE YOU'RE A GIRL?
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Awww, -I- think she's cute!
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Don't be silly, I'm still dating Chiaki too.
Your loyalty is admirable.
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*shrugs* Just doing it the Japanese way!
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*shrugs* Just doing it the Japanese way!
You've already had several abortions?
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I think he means "just because you're gay doesn't mean you don't owe your parents a wife and grandchildren"
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I think he means "just because you're gay doesn't mean you don't owe your parents a wife and grandchildren"
I thought that was the Chinese way.
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The Chinese way is kinda like that, but it's "wife and grandsons."
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I thought that was implied when I said Chinese.
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*shrugs* Just doing it the Japanese way!
How my mind instantly translated this.
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Oh good, then hopefully we can get you drunk again and hitting on Niu next con. Most of us would like to see a variant on how that went the first time!
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Unfortunately I won't be going, so that means Djinn might be drinking alone.
Which is more entertaining anyway, I guess. I mean, if you're not an alcoholic.
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There will still be Super.
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*shrugs* I'm bringing my own date and I'm pretty sure that Andy and Ash will be able to drink with me at least -once- if I'm staying with them.
Drinking will happen at some point. Whether Niu will be 'lucky' enough to be around when it happens is another matter.
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And if you try antics around me I could entertain myself by seeing if it's possible to scare someone sober~
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There will still be Super.
Don't act like I won't be dragging your ass along in that case.
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And if you try antics around me I could entertain myself by seeing if it's possible to scare someone sober~
Don't be silly, it'd probably just have the opposite effect of getting me all hot and bothered~
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Then there's always the Pacific Ocean to toss you into~
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Don't worry, Djinn will already be wet enough to handle you Tai.
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There will still be Super.
Don't act like I won't be dragging your ass along in that case.
Like last time, nerd activities take heavy priority over drinking.
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Drinking and Strip Settlers of Catan?
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I would be so up (lol) for that
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There will still be Super.
Don't act like I won't be dragging your ass along in that case.
Like last time, nerd activities take heavy priority over drinking.
One is not exclusive from the other.
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I used to combine one of the nerdiest activities possible (leading raids in WoW as the main tank for your guild in which you are an officer) with being right on the verge of blackout drunk. It's not even HARD to combine.
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On any given night at least half our guild were absolutely blotto.
Edit - And even though I don't drink they were the best nights. Since even when they weren't drunk we would still wipe to stupid shit. It is funnier when they are drunk.
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So went to the doctor with super yesterday to hear the results of my blood test. Apparently I'm very low on two vitamins in my blood, the lack of which has to do with anemia. Super and I looked stuff up online using the information from the prescription I was given and discovered the vitamins are B9 (Folate) and B12. It sure explains a lot of things like why I've been so tired and near falling asleep in random places all the time like on the bus >.> I feel really run down but at the same time I'm relieved that the doctors and nurses caught this rather than at a later stage.
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You probably need to improve your food-related habits, girl.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHOUQM97QyA
Relevant
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...is that the Married to the Sea dude?
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Yes.
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Without going into what happened, I'm regaining my sanity. (: I'm regaining equilibrium. My mom is all right, my relationship is great and I plan on having a bright future some time. I'm only 22. I have time. Either way, mom being hospitalized + the most piss poor decision I've ever made when drunk which ruined my relationship all within the same couple of days made me have a mental breakdown similar to when my dad died in the bathroom when I was in 8th grade. No one needs to worry though (: I'm okay.
What ISN'T okay though, is the motherfucking humidity in Georgia. I come back from Luxor's 110 degree warm hot yummy weather to 80 degrees of sweat-clinging bullshit.
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Good to see you again Idun~
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Yay Idun is back! Good to hear things are gooder!
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Yay Idun!
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Glad to hear things are better with you, Idun.
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Yay, Idun has returned! Glad things are looking up.
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Yay, Idun has returned! Glad things are looking up.
Glad to hear things are better with you, Idun.
Yay Idun!
Yay Idun is back! Good to hear things are gooder!
Good to see you again Idun~
And all that. Sanity is good.
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the most piss poor decision I've ever made when drunk which ruined my relationship
I'm okay.
This begs the question of whether you've made any worse decisions when sober.
Because really, drunken decisions should hardly count against you. Especially when you're only 22.
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Would never make a decision like that when sober. Either way, big 23 this year!
And I feel wubbed. Thanks guys (:
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Glad to hear you're back and in one piece, Idun.
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/me acts irresponsibly, blows a wad from rainy day savings to buy PSP.
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/me acts irresponsibly, blows a wad
You had me at blows a wad. <3
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</3
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<3<3
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So, I've been roped into seeing a counsellor at my college recently. Have only seen her once so far, and haven't been assessed properly, so don't want to go saying anything for certain now, but there's a damn good chance of there being -something- wrong with me that's causing my motivation to be shot to hell and random bursts of paranoia. Her main thought at the moment is bipolar, although I seriously hope that's not the case.
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I used to combine one of the nerdiest activities possible (leading raids in WoW as the main tank for your guild in which you are an officer) with being right on the verge of blackout drunk. It's not even HARD to combine.
At the end of my WoW career I raided exclusively while drunk and I was the one leading the raids too. (I was just a mage though so the playing part was easy as hell.)
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Without going into what happened, I'm regaining my sanity. (: I'm regaining equilibrium. My mom is all right, my relationship is great and I plan on having a bright future some time. I'm only 22. I have time. Either way, mom being hospitalized + the most piss poor decision I've ever made when drunk which ruined my relationship all within the same couple of days made me have a mental breakdown similar to when my dad died in the bathroom when I was in 8th grade. No one needs to worry though (: I'm okay.
What ISN'T okay though, is the motherfucking humidity in Georgia. I come back from Luxor's 110 degree warm hot yummy weather to 80 degrees of sweat-clinging bullshit.
Yeah, people who complain about the heat in Vegas are full of shit (if they're from the lower half of the U.S.) 115 degree weather is far better than 80 degree weather combined with assloads of humidity.
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Without going into what happened, I'm regaining my sanity. (: I'm regaining equilibrium. My mom is all right, my relationship is great and I plan on having a bright future some time. I'm only 22. I have time. Either way, mom being hospitalized + the most piss poor decision I've ever made when drunk which ruined my relationship all within the same couple of days made me have a mental breakdown similar to when my dad died in the bathroom when I was in 8th grade. No one needs to worry though (: I'm okay.
What ISN'T okay though, is the motherfucking humidity in Georgia. I come back from Luxor's 110 degree warm hot yummy weather to 80 degrees of sweat-clinging bullshit.
Yeah, people who complain about the heat in Vegas are full of shit (if they're from the lower half of the U.S.) 115 degree weather is far better than 80 degree weather combined with assloads of humidity.
I spent some of my childhood in Texas. I grew up honestly thinking that people saying they wanted to "cool off in the shade" were full of shit -- it isn't any cooler in the shade when it's 110 with 95% humidity.
Now I live in California and am dying because it's OMG 80 degrees outside with 40% humidity right now.
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/me hugs Yoshi
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Gift shopping is so agonizing for me. Being on a budget is hard! I keep wanting to give the world to people for their special occasions, but I can barely afford the single place setting of china on their registry.
I think weddings are the worst.
My cousin's getting married this Saturday and I still haven't picked anything out. Their registry is so impersonal, except for the tea sets and tea blossoms, and I hate to spend money on something that will 1) wear out; 2) be pushed in a closet and never seen again; 3) get returned in favor of something else they decided they really want.
THANK GOD weddings are one of the few occasions where it's a-okay to give money. But then, how much money...?
It's a shame because my cousin's a cool girl. So's her fiance. I mean, when we had dinner at my uncle's house, we geeked out about video games the whole time! What's not to love?
I am so tempted to give them a cert to Think Geek or WoW even though their registries are for Macy's and Bed Bath & Beyond. SO TEMPTED.
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Got an e-mail from Reach to Teach. The jist of it, with
some a liberal dosing of extrapolation on my part:
"Due to the whole teetering-on-the-brink-of-economic-collapse and the recorded-10%-but-really-closer-to-16% unemployment rate we're pretty much full in Japan, Taiwan, and China. Well, unless you have TEFL certification. Then we got something in Taiwan.
Hey, you know where shit's going down? Korea. Nobody wants to go to South Korea right now. Got uncertified positions open there. You in?"
This pretty much confirms that I need to get on getting TEFL certification, and makes me feel a lot better about not getting the Interac job.
I'm tempted to apply for the S. Korea position, but shit does in fact seem to be going down in the Korean peninsula soon, so I'm a bit wary. I think it might be best to bide my time, get certified, and try for somewhere a little less powder-keg-esque. first anyway.
EDIT: After a brief discussion in chat these reasons for not going to Korea over anywhere else in East Asia are stupid. I do think I have better chances of going (anywhere) if I get TEFL certification first, though, so I should probably get that taken care of first anyway.
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Gift shopping is so agonizing for me. Being on a budget is hard! I keep wanting to give the world to people for their special occasions, but I can barely afford the single place setting of china on their registry.
I think weddings are the worst.
My cousin's getting married this Saturday and I still haven't picked anything out. Their registry is so impersonal, except for the tea sets and tea blossoms, and I hate to spend money on something that will 1) wear out; 2) be pushed in a closet and never seen again; 3) get returned in favor of something else they decided they really want.
THANK GOD weddings are one of the few occasions where it's a-okay to give money. But then, how much money...?
It's a shame because my cousin's a cool girl. So's her fiance. I mean, when we had dinner at my uncle's house, we geeked out about video games the whole time! What's not to love?
I am so tempted to give them a cert to Think Geek or WoW even though their registries are for Macy's and Bed Bath & Beyond. SO TEMPTED.
Get them a gun. It's the gift that says "I'm so sure you'll love it, I'm giving you something you could easily kill me with."
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Better yet, get them a Battlemech. Nothing says marital bliss like PPC fire or the roar of tank shells being fired at 300 rounds per minute.
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It also says they're going to be horrible parents, just FYI.
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It also says they're going to be horrible parents, just FYI.
True, but it means they'll be horrible parents in spectacularly amazing ways, though.
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I suppose. Being able to run 65% of all wealth in to the ground is pretty impressive.
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I suppose. Being able to run 65% of all wealth in to the ground is pretty impressive.
Can't be any worse than most people in power anyway.
I give money at weddings. I have trended towards inappropriately large amounts previously for close familly friends. I care nothing for this. Here is a couple of hundred dollars. I could use it but what the fuck is wrong with you people you just got married. Edit - I am bad at saying what I mean to say tonight. I mean give what you want to and can get away with LD. From my experience Money may be fleeting but it is incredibly useful to a young couple. Given modern dating cycles chances are they have been living together for a while and don't need nearly as much extra shit as they are going to get given as token standard wedding gifts. Money goes a long way to living.
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I'm developing sleep problems and my appetite is all over the place. Hurrah.
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I'm developing sleep problems and my appetite is all over the place. Hurrah.
Still doing night audit? If so and you're not maintaining that sleeping pattern on your days off, that would be why. Shit wreaks havoc on your circadian rhythm. And if you are, then it's likely adjusting. Or you're a pussy. Choose one.
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I'm developing sleep problems and my appetite is all over the place. Hurrah.
Or you're a pussy.
Chosen!
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Yeah. Started as, for a couple weeks...
Tues/Wed: 7am-3pm
Thurs/Fri: 11pm-7am
Saturday: 3pm-11pm
Sun/Mon: Off.
For the last three weeks has been...
Tuesday: 7am-3pm
Wed/Thurs/Fri: 11pm-7am
Saturday: 3pm-11pm
Sun/Mon: Off.
So yeah. My sleep is slightly irregular.
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Only ever been to one wedding. Didn't buy them anything. But as far as gift giving is concerned, I prefer to give gifts not on registries. That way, they can't return them - at least at stores I shop at. That's my largest peeve about gift giving, especially if they fucking listed it as something they wanted. It'll be stuck with them until they drop it off on someone else. Either way, I'm a trinket gift giver anyway. I haven't upped my game to wedding quality yet.
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I am 99% sure I am going to go with a money gift. I only feel a little weird about this. It's not because I'm giving money, but because I'm giving money to a banker. But, whatever. My cousin knows I just graduated college last year with a liberal arts degree. Also, I figure if I can't give a truly meaningful gift, I can at least give a gift that I feel can become meaningful for them.
I'd rather give $100 of anything you want! than $100 worth of towels.
(Re: mechs and guns. I can't wait until they have kids, because I just know they are going to be the awesome parents who would strongly consider something like a Battlemech Baby Cruiser. And then? THEN I will be the coolest cousin ever with the coolest gift ever, because how could I not capitalize on such a golden moment?)
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Distant Worlds II concert in Stockholm happened past Saturday. It was pretty mindblowing! Not only was the music great, but they did some fun things with syncing the video screen with it. The crowd was really into it too, just about being louder than the orchestra when the time for applause came. And you can't beat Nobuo Uematsu joining the choir for One-Winged Angel. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJHMEMtTU6M)
J-E-N-O-V-A (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4UUEB6MqmI) was a particular favorite of mine, you wouldn't think it'd work so well with a philharmonic orchestra. Of course, FFVII Main Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGY2-cB0isU&feature=channel) is nearly unbeatable and then there was Man with the Machine Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHEd4z9Jqmw&feature=channel) and Don't Be Afraid and Fisherman's Horizon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKcRHZuuMFA&feature=channel) and Liberi Fatali (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujg3RQqU6eA&feature=channel) and To Zanarkand (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHSO5UFm30s&feature=channel) and Dear Friends and Vamo Alla Flamenco (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJ5SDQe3Pw&feature=channel) and Terra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6jL7S71_E&feature=channel) and well you get the point. The only low point would be Melodies of Life, which in addition to being mediocre to begin with suffered from the vocalist starting off pretty rough. Did get better by Suteki Da Ne (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PPIu0seriY&feature=channel), though. I'm also pretty much contractually obligated to be a fan of Dancing Mad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9dzFZluQcQ&feature=channel) now too (despite one slip-up by the organ player). Damned Swedes.
We were sitting pretty close to where the guy on the upper level filmed his videos, somewhat closer by to the stage, so had a great view too. Absolutely nothing to complain about, A+++ would go again despite having to endure Stockholm.
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A+++ would go again despite having to endure Stockholm.
Who knows, if you spend enough time there, you might learn to appreciate the city's perspective.
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Don't Be Afraid
Where's the link. :|
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Urgh rotating shifts. I don't think a psychologist has ever considered them a good idea. They are horrible HR moves and stink of compromise "Its okay you get to have a regular life one third of the time!" Ignoring that it horribly destroys your sleeping patterns which is a huge part in fucking up your life style, your human interactions and ruining your immune system for various reasons (straight up unhealthy AND the increased stress from the situation!). It is bad enough on a week to week basis, it being that all over the place in one week is horribe human resourcing. If you are going to do rotating shifts you do it month by month and even then I question the value of it. Get staff that are prepared to work those times all the time and get a proper night manager.
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Yeah. Started as, for a couple weeks...
Tues/Wed: 7am-3pm
Thurs/Fri: 11pm-7am
Saturday: 3pm-11pm
Sun/Mon: Off.
For the last three weeks has been...
Tuesday: 7am-3pm
Wed/Thurs/Fri: 11pm-7am
Saturday: 3pm-11pm
Sun/Mon: Off.
So yeah. My sleep is slightly irregular.
Oh god. And I thought 11-7 Wednesday through Saturday and 3-11 Sunday was bad. Well, it is, but not as bad as that. Having to work all 3 shifts? Eff. That. I totally sympathize that your Saturdays are completely shitty, at least.
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The manager in charge of scheduling is terrible at scheduling. I have to assume part of it is struggling to pay for the staff (and the owner is a little bit crazy), but they have, I think, 4 or 5 employees to cover 7 days of those 3 shifts. I am not even sure if they're all full-time.
Andrew mentioned yesterday that the other manager kind of jokingly prodded at him for being tired yesterday, to which he made the predictable "Well, can you blame me?" comment. Cue the scheduling manager getting tetchy and defensive, and the one who prodded getting worried that he'll quit over the schedule. NO, REALLY?
It really, really sucks to need a job.
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Just landed in Vancouver. I'll be staying here a couple of days waiting for my new Visa to arrive before I fly to Georgia.
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Dcotors are good at two things: telling you shit you already know, and referring you to other doctors. I should apparently be getting a letter with another appointment time/date in a few days.
In other, slightly better news, I found a job in games design that was asking for no previous experience and only two A-Levels at C or above - I have 2 Cs and a D, so going for it. Put together a huuuuge portfolio on Powerpoint and my CVs all about games and organisation stuff. Needless to say:
Application for Games Designer - Online
Thank you for your application. We will be in contact shortly.
Only problem is that it's a good four hours from here - that means I'll be moving away from all family, friends, my girlfriend... I'm also gonna be relying on family to provide enough money for me to live there until I get my first set of wages. Kinda worried about it, but spoke to my dad about the job, and he said it's worth applying for and then worrying about all of that if I actually get the job, so... yeah. Codemasters, here we come?
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Actual dialogue at my job:
* Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee pokes Boss2. You're definitely going to kill me for this, man, but has anyone mentioned your hair looks suspiciously like He-Man's?
<Boss1> The observation's pretty pertinent!
<Boss2> um. >_>
* Boss2 pulls out a vuvuzela sound.
* Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee ...
* Hello-DojimathedralWaddleDee >___>
My work's unbalanced.
EDIT: Also, PSP's here! Yay!
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Sent in my resume for a job I really, really, really want. Crossing my fingers, toes, etc.
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Within this age range, usually getting better jobs gets easier once you've gotten enough experience on your first notable job. G'luck, girl.
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God, people, we live in the fucking desert. You know what that means? MEANS THERE'S NOT A LOT OF WATER. And, more importantly, thanks to Albuquerque's fairly rapid expansion, the underground water supply is dwindling pretty damn quickly. So, while I completely understand that cleaning things sometimes requires a lot of water, and that the gum outside of the building needs to be removed and can only really be removed with a power sprayer... do we really have to waste gallons of water spraying down the fucking outside walls? Yes, they're covered in dirt. Guess what, a fucking week later they'll be covered in dirt again regardless of whether or not we clean them. Just let them stay dirty. They're brown for a goddamn reason.
</#whineaboutwork>
EDIT: Good luck, Ashley. What gee-orb is it, out of curiosity?
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My problem is not really my qualification so much as it is my relative experience -- emphasis on relative.
NaNoWriMo's parent organization, Office of Letters and Light, is hiring a Community Liaison, the person who coordinates with the Municipal Liaisons, works the PR, that sort of thing. So while I'm pretty awesome for the job's requirements and then some (she says modestly), there are probably hundreds of people applying for it.
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NEW GUN.
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Obsessively refreshing email. It makes me nervous not to get a response -- not even an automatic response -- after dealing with the email issues we've been having at work. I'm mainly waiting for an interview request (*crosses fingers*), but a simple confirmation would be really nice too.
Also, Rob: What kind? Why? (Perhaps the second question is silly...)
EDITED: @*#($#&@ OH MY GOD THEY CALLED ME!!!
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Awesome, Ashley. Hope you get it!
Back in the US myself. Vacation was awesome, Scotland is amazingly pretty, etc. Need to sleep then post allt he pictures I took.
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Had a chat with one of the people in the office. Prelim phone call. She said she'd get back to me "one way or the other" in the "next few weeks" so... now the waiting begins! It seemed to go over okay, but I try not to analyze those conversations too much because, yeah, fruitless.
So my fingers are going to be pretty achey from being crossed for a few weeks.
Welcome back to the US, super! Glad your vacation went well. Need to post more pictures. Can't get enough of the greeeeeeeeen.
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Also, Rob: What kind? Why? (Perhaps the second question is silly...)
I purchased a new Beretta, because I did not have a handgun of my own. Used to be, when I wanted to go target-shooting with one, I could go across town and borrow my dad's Glock. Well, having moved a few months ago, I'm really not doing that anymore.
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Awesome, Ashley. Hope you get it!
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Sweee~eet! Just picked up Tales of VS for less than 10 bucks! ^___^
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Still negative, but I have an appt in two weeks.
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Sweee~eet! Just picked up Tales of VS for less than 10 bucks! ^___^
That's about the right price for it. Hardly a bad game, but not enough content for a game like it to be worth full retail.
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I beat the main game with Yuri and since then I've been just playing Tales of WallBreaker for hours on end.
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HOLY CRAP EARTHQUAKE.
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So my professor wanted to see me today to give me something. I'm thinking it's a book. She pulls out a Gap bag after showing up, and gives me 7 skirts. Haha.
She can't fit into them. They're petites, and I fit in them! WHAT, yay I'm petite for once.
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HOLY CRAP EARTHQUAKE.
Okay, who gave the Canadians TM26?
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Geodudes learn it naturally. Doma just hit level 33.
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The job got back to me (a good week sooner than I anticipated) with a form rejection. It hurts a little, of course, but I am neither surprised nor that bothered by it. After a few conversations and some thinking, it turns out I don't feel like any job is going to make the difference for me. I am moving more toward what will, but sitting in an office doing things for other people -- even if those people happen to be working on things I care about -- is just not it.
So, onward, etc.
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I played the lottery tonight, 4 Mega Millions.
):
I did not win.
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Wanting someone to talk to at 3am rarely ends well. >_>
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Back from a wedding that I was the best man at. Of the 250 people or so there I knew... 11 or so? Makes it kind of weird. I did get to meet a lot of the bride and grooms family, which is fun I guess, but they're from kind of a redneck town and I don't really fit in well. There is a reason the two of them are never moving back there...
Random highlights that people might find entertaining
1. Spending some time having drinks with one of the grooms cousins, she was real cute. She'd talked about graduating and moving up to Portland, which is pretty close to me. Good times. After like 15 minutes I find out via her uncle that she had just graduated high school... she was still 18, but that's kind of awkward to me. (I'm 24.) She's moving to Portland for college. Oh well!
2. Bride's dad and groom's brother got into a fight. Pretty much everyone sided with bride's dad. Sadly I was beyond wasted at this point and missed it. I was filled in a little, but haven't gotten full details. (Groom doesn't even like his own brother, so not a shock that everyone siding with bride's dad.)
3. Bride's dad spent over 2000 dollars on alcohol. The people making drinks made them insanely strong because they had more alcohol than mixers... made for some disgusting drinks, but they did the job. I started with 8ish shots of JD and 3 glasses of wine, then switched to champagne. Drank that out of the bottles... so who knows how much of that I drank.
4. Went for a swim at 2AM, probably a bit too drunk to be swimming, but whatever... it was fun! Woke up without any kind of hangover somehow, so I decided that swimming at the end of a drinking night is good. (Had to drive 5 hours today, so lacking a hangover was awesome.)
5. Met one of the bride's friends who was a stripper, got her number, found out she came with her boyfriend, awkward again... Ended up meeting him and we had a great time! Ahh alcohol.
All in all, being the best man is awesome. I think people are a lot more open to talking to you than when you're just some random guy at a wedding. (Helps that the other groomsmen were not attractive in the least!)
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Different account name. Fuck Google. Couldn't think of anything better than this one atm.
(Zaig)
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1. Spending some time having drinks with one of the grooms cousins, she was real cute. She'd talked about graduating and moving up to Portland, which is pretty close to me. Good times. After like 15 minutes I find out via her uncle that she had just graduated high school... she was still 18, but that's kind of awkward to me. (I'm 24.) She's moving to Portland for college. Oh well!
Does this mean I have permission to take a run at her? Just because it's awkward for you, doesn't mean it has to be for me.
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1. Spending some time having drinks with one of the grooms cousins, she was real cute. She'd talked about graduating and moving up to Portland, which is pretty close to me. Good times. After like 15 minutes I find out via her uncle that she had just graduated high school... she was still 18, but that's kind of awkward to me. (I'm 24.) She's moving to Portland for college. Oh well!
Does this mean I have permission to take a run at her? Just because it's awkward for you, doesn't mean it has to be for me.
Go for it, I can even introduce you. Gotta wait til September though!
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Weddings are awesome.
I am the best man for my best friends wedding coming up in March. Me and the two other best men really need to get together and figure out what we are going to do for the bachelor party.
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1. Spending some time having drinks with one of the grooms cousins, she was real cute. She'd talked about graduating and moving up to Portland, which is pretty close to me. Good times. After like 15 minutes I find out via her uncle that she had just graduated high school... she was still 18, but that's kind of awkward to me. (I'm 24.) She's moving to Portland for college. Oh well!
Does this mean I have permission to take a run at her? Just because it's awkward for you, doesn't mean it has to be for me.
Go for it, I can even introduce you. Gotta wait til September though!
Only if you introduce me by my alias, Dr. Edward McEneely. As a general rule, I don't want people to know things about me.
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I'm working 46 hours this week. This is confusing. I am, what shall I say, part-time? Last week I worked 35, the week before 32. I hear through the grapevine that if they give you full time hours for three weeks, you're guaranteed a full-time position?
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"Oh just half-time at work and it's a World Cup game day! How busy things could possibly be?"
Ha. Hahahaha. hahahaHa. ha.
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1. Spending some time having drinks with one of the grooms cousins, she was real cute. She'd talked about graduating and moving up to Portland, which is pretty close to me. Good times. After like 15 minutes I find out via her uncle that she had just graduated high school... she was still 18, but that's kind of awkward to me. (I'm 24.) She's moving to Portland for college. Oh well!
Does this mean I have permission to take a run at her? Just because it's awkward for you, doesn't mean it has to be for me.
Go for it, I can even introduce you. Gotta wait til September though!
Only if you introduce me by my alias, Dr. Edward McEneely. As a general rule, I don't want people to know things about me.
Naturally I would do it no other way.
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http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=175782&id=802164787&l=7e3155a00b
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=181256&id=802164787&l=ceeed2b37e
Scotland pics. St Andrews pictures should be going up this friday; everything else is up. The trip was really awesome, and the scenery has to be some of the best in the world.
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It's kind of ridiculous how much of an effect the weather has on my mood. Thank $deity I live in California.
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So I don't know how many of you US-icans have passports or whatever, but a head's up: Consular Services is raising prices as of July 13th. They're raising them sharply, too. Sample fees:
New Passport: from $100 to $135 (plus $25 "service fee" in both cases)
Renewal Passport: $75 to $110
Additional Passport Pages: Free to $82 (WHAT THE EFFFFFF)
Also, amusingly, you now have to pay $450 for renouncing your citizenship, a right which used to be provided gratis.
There are a number of other hikes, so if ANYONE is planning on doing stuff with the U.S. consulate (including visas), do it before July 13.
http://www.travel.state.gov/news/news_5078.html
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Searching for reliable, even remotely trustworthy info on South African airports = MOTHERFUCKER WHY
Man, this is one hell of a reality check.
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WC related?
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Yup. Holy hell, there's essentially -nothing- on the relevant airports in SA.
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I learned something today.
I'm not very sociable, unless I'm in very large groups of 10+, or in a group with people I already know. Doesn't make sense, because I'm insanely overt. Perhaps it's because I'm judgmental, or generally certain people's existences rub me the wrong way.
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This just in, Nerd is most comfortable around other nerd peers.
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I'm actually more comfortable away from nerds. Too many awkward moments.
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I learned something today.
I'm not very sociable, unless I'm in very large groups of 10+, or in a group with people I already know. Doesn't make sense, because I'm insanely overt. Perhaps it's because I'm judgmental, or generally certain people's existences rub me the wrong way.
Honestly, just from the way you phrased it, I get the impression that whatever event happened to cause you to think this is not really a reflection on who you are as person. More than likely, you met 'one of those people who you will hate irrationally'. This happens to everyone. There are just some people you're not going to be able to like from the moment you meet them.
I have a co-worker like this, and it actually bugs me from time to time that I hate him for no discernable reason. But goddamn, every time he opens his mouth, I have to fight the urge to punch him.
"Djinn, would you like some tea?"
*Mustn't punch co-workers, mustn't punch co-workers.* "No, thank you. douche."
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And my name is now officially in a published book. Sure it's just an RPG book and only in as a playtester, but it's still cool~
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I want to know this book so I can see it. Will it be at Dragon Con?
Speaking of which, totally met a nerdgirl who is very tall and nerdy. She wanted tickets through Ticketmaster at my job, and I was geeking out showing her my pictures of my t-elos outfit. Needless to sayyyyyy. . . . I NEED TO GET MY TICKETS FAST. Maybe. The price goes up. *sigh* I don't know anymore.
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I was geeking out showing her my pictures of my t-elos outfit.
Unbalanced~
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I learned something today.
I'm not very sociable, unless I'm in very large groups of 10+, or in a group with people I already know. Doesn't make sense, because I'm insanely overt. Perhaps it's because I'm judgmental, or generally certain people's existences rub me the wrong way.
Honestly, just from the way you phrased it, I get the impression that whatever event happened to cause you to think this is not really a reflection on who you are as person. More than likely, you met 'one of those people who you will hate irrationally'. This happens to everyone. There are just some people you're not going to be able to like from the moment you meet them.
I have a co-worker like this, and it actually bugs me from time to time that I hate him for no discernable reason. But goddamn, every time he opens his mouth, I have to fight the urge to punch him.
"Djinn, would you like some tea?"
*Mustn't punch co-workers, mustn't punch co-workers.* "No, thank you. douche."
They say that of all people you meey, you'll utterly dislike about a third of them, and only get along well with another third. The last third is neutral, and no matter what you do these numbers'll stay about the same.
Some people just rub ya the wrong way.
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I want to know this book so I can see it. Will it be at Dragon Con?
Speaking of which, totally met a nerdgirl who is very tall and nerdy. She wanted tickets through Ticketmaster at my job, and I was geeking out showing her my pictures of my t-elos outfit. Needless to sayyyyyy. . . . I NEED TO GET MY TICKETS FAST. Maybe. The price goes up. *sigh* I don't know anymore.
Oh right, you live right next to dragoncon. Hate you so much.
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They say that of all people you meey, you'll utterly dislike about a third of them, and only get along well with another third. The last third is neutral, and no matter what you do these numbers'll stay about the same.
Some people just rub ya the wrong way.
A third is a really large portion to hate. Personal experience tells me it's closer to 10% for irrational hatred?
(Rational hatred would of course skew the numbers far in favor of hatred. People are stupid.)
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Mhm, I don't think "hate" was the proper word... probably just "don't get along with".
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I really dislike apartment hunting. >:(
This is sort of self-imposed torture, I guess, because our lease at our current place is good until December. But Andrew and I decided we don't much like Oakland. So... our current place is fine, but why not move somewhere better?
The answer is apparently because the combination of things we want at the price we can afford to pay doesn't exist.
But still I look.
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I really dislike apartment hunting. >:(
This is sort of self-imposed torture, I guess, because our lease at our current place is good until December. But Andrew and I decided we don't much like Oakland. So... our current place is fine, but why not move somewhere better?
The answer is apparently because the combination of things we want at the price we can afford to pay doesn't exist.
But still I look.
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I really dislike apartment hunting. >:(
This is sort of self-imposed torture, I guess, because our lease at our current place is good until December. But Andrew and I decided we don't much like Oakland. So... our current place is fine, but why not move somewhere better?
The answer is apparently because the combination of things we want at the price we can afford to pay doesn't exist.
But still I look.
I really dislike apartment hunting. >:(
This is sort of self-imposed torture, I guess, because our lease at our current place is good until December. But Andrew and I decided we don't much like Oakland. So... our current place is fine, but why not move somewhere better?
The answer is apparently because the combination of things we want at the price we can afford to pay doesn't exist.
But still I look.
Are you trying to stay in San Fran itself?
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I really dislike apartment job hunting. >:(
This is sort of self-imposed torture, I guess, because our lease at our current place my job is good until December August. But Andrew and I decided we I don't much like Oakland janitorial work anymore. So... ourmy current place is fine (for another couple months), but why not move somewhere get one that's better?
The answer is apparently because the combination of things we want I'm willing to do at the price we can afford to pay I need to get paid doesn't exist.
But still I look.
Less obtusely: Everything ever nowadays is about being willing to compromise and put up with some bullshit. Alas, I think this is what they call being ... "adult".
I dislike it.
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I do hate being an adult.
And we're trying to stay in the general vicinity of Berkeley. SF is ridiculously far out of our price range for what we're willing to put up with, especially when you add in the commute costs since both of us work in Berkeley/Emeryville.
The hardest part about finding a place isn't that I can't find the amenities -- it's that I can't find the amenities and a place that's dog friendly. Stupid dog.
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So, on the one hand, I apparently don't have bipolar disorder, which is kinda comforting in a way, I guess. On the other hand, I still have depression and they're doing fuck-all about it.
What I was told pretty much came down to "You don't have bipolar disorder because you don't have a manic phase." So, y'know, instead of manic/depression in cycles, I just have average/depression in cycles.
Fucking helpful, health service. Thanks a fucking bunch.
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Which is still a type of Bipolar Disorder.
Bipolar comes in a few forms, the two most common being Bipolar I and Bipolar II.
Bipolar I is the one with the "Manic Phases", with or without depression.
Bipolar II is defined by depression with hypomanic phases (think manic sessions that don't interfere with your life, i.e., racing thoughts that don't make it impossible to think and do what you normally do during the day).
There's also Bipolar NOS (Not Otherwise Specified), where it seems like you have Bipolar Disorder, but you don't fit the above criteria.
Bipolar II is commonly, heavily misdiagnosed as Depression. One of the big issues with treating it like depression is that you run the risk of pushing someone into Bipolar I (i.e., instituting a manic cycling instead of hypomania) with antidepressants.
There could be other reasons they're doing nothing - it's Great Britain you live in, correct? The rest of the world outside of the United States (with the possible exception of Canadia) isn't big on doing drugs until later stages, though Britain is closer to the United States than other European countries are. Have they recommended or done ANYTHING?
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Oh, he specifically mentioned both types of Bipolar Disorder and said he was 99% sure I didn't have either, because I have neither manic nor hypomanic phases - it's literally just the cycles of depression. He basically said "Try improving your living conditions and then come back if nothing changes." (The main things he suggested were more exercise and an improved diet.)
Funnily enough, when I saw the doctors a while back, they said they couldn't check for bipolar disorder, but still offered me antidepressants.
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Because an overreliance on drugs for fixing medical health does not help the patient a great deal in the long run. A psychologist that sets up a dependency is doing it wrong and the more pills you fill someone up with the more trouble you have medicating them for other problems (as OK is aware).
The advice you got is good. If you are going through depressive cycles you aren't at such a point that you are almost incapable of doing anything to help yourself deal with it. If you were straight up chronically depressed all the time then it is time to start medicating. Exercise and eat healthier may sound like stock answers but they do in fact trend towards helping people. Why do you think studies show that people who exercise and eat healthy are happier with their lives? Pro tip: It isn't just because they are the kinds of people to eat healthy and exercise. Your body likes it when you look after it, you get rewarded with endorphins and whatnot. When you are feeling a bit better you can try to work on general quality of life things that are bringing you down.
As long as you are capable of functioning some of the time you have plenty of options beyond medicating. Medicating depression should be a last ditch temporary solution and not something that should be done after a couple of visits either.
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Mm, yeah, I know. I know I found it really fucking weird when the doc offered antidepressants without actually talking to me. I mean, hell, they have no clue what effect that would have, that is just plain fucking weird.
That said, one of the major problems I've had lately is a huge loss of motivation and energy, so saying "Do more exercise!" seems like one of those horrible trap responses - I have fuck-all energy right now, so there's no way I can keep up an exercise routine, so it's just "Oh, you didn't do what I said, that's why it's not working!"
Either that, or I'm just being too damn cynical about all this. >.<
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Taking antidepressants and getting the manic reaction is certainly a faster way to the bipolar diagnosis train, but it's likely you don't want it to go that way. Do try adjusting your eating and exercise if you know they're far off what they should be. If you eat reasonably well, though, and are active enough, consider pestering them. Or find things in your history that might be more manic than you think. Psychiatry is quirky in that, except for extreme cases, their diagnosis is based entirely on what you tell them. Sometimes you need to know more about what you're describing than you could ever reasonably be expected to pay attention to.
Eat better, exercise, get some sun, work on redirecting your thoughts regularly (deliberately interrupt a down train of thought, break it down, figure out why it's there, challenge it, reverse it, etc -- it's loopy the first few weeks, but it gets to feeling more natural, and being more effective, the longer you do it), and check back in with the docs if nothing is changing. Medicine should be a last resort, but it shouldn't take until you feel it's your only option other than suicide before you get it. If you suspect bipolar, keep a mood journal. Bipolars react to some really wacky foods, so it would be helpful to keep track of what you eat, too.
Pay attention to the weather. There could be a touch of Seasonal Affective Disorder in there, too, in which case my suggestion amounts to "move away from a place where it's dark and dreary 90% of the year."
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Slight derail from depression talk!
Coffee is a hard habit to kick once you get used to it. I only drink it when I'm on vacation since I've always dug the taste of coffee (Granddad used to give use coffee ice cream when we were really young) and don't want to get hooked. When I was over in Scotland, I had a cup of coffee every morning when I woke up and some of the biscuits/cookies with it. It was a pleasant way to start the day, and gave me something leisurely to do while we planned out the day. I really miss all of it, but I can do something about the cookies. I did find some Walker's shortbread cookies at food lion, but they were also 4.50 for nine cookies. Fuck that. I'll head to the Brit store near my house and see if they sell that. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Having a half of cup of coffee with some awesome shortbread cookies is why I'm rambling incoherently at 1:30am.
Also, summer has been really hot this year. I don't mind it, since I'm not working in a literal sweatbox any more.
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Yoshi: Ignore the good advice, take advice from an alcoholic. Just start drinking. It helps. Really.
I'm going to stumble to bed drunk now.
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I'm like the Iron Man of drinking or something. It's getting impractical to get drunk.
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You don't need the of drinking in that statement.
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Slight derail from depression talk!
Coffee is a hard habit to kick once you get used to it. I only drink it when I'm on vacation since I've always dug the taste of coffee (Granddad used to give use coffee ice cream when we were really young) and don't want to get hooked. When I was over in Scotland, I had a cup of coffee every morning when I woke up and some of the biscuits/cookies with it. It was a pleasant way to start the day, and gave me something leisurely to do while we planned out the day. I really miss all of it, but I can do something about the cookies. I did find some Walker's shortbread cookies at food lion, but they were also 4.50 for nine cookies. Fuck that. I'll head to the Brit store near my house and see if they sell that. Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Having a half of cup of coffee with some awesome shortbread cookies is why I'm rambling incoherently at 1:30am.
Also, summer has been really hot this year. I don't mind it, since I'm not working in a literal sweatbox any more.
Funny thing. I had a pot and a half day habit of coffee-just to get going for heavier work-for a while.
I could stop it without much more than just not feeling like doing anything. Which, was why I drank the coffee to start with. I mean it was unpleasant, but with my current half-pot habit I just kinda shrug. Hell, the way I drink coffee not having any is more likely to make me hungry than anything(lots of milk).
Does it make me a bad person to occasionally not mention the coffee stocks that the rest of my family has an over a pot a day habit(barring mom) have ran out, just so I can laugh when the two other coffee drinkers act like they have died and this is hell? (Okay that's only because they only buy any if it's ran out, in one case, or never in the other.)
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So I've been going to the workout center at the school for the past about three weeks. Making an overarching goal of losing 30 pounds by the end of the year by trying to eat healthier, drinking less sweet drinks, and exercising. In my several trips to the gym that I've made (I've decided to go every other day for a while until I decide I want to go every day) I have seen approximately one person who is overweight besides myself. It makes you wonder. I've made one extra little caveat in the trying to lose weight thing; I've decided that if I want to go out and eat, I would like to walk at least one way to get there. That way I will have to think about how much I really want to eat out. I've done this before and it works sometimes!
I'm hoping it will be successful. I lost about 30 pounds a while back in about six months. Only concern is that the pace will be slower due to being 25 pounds lighter than when I started the first time, but I am more capable of exercise and more able to make good decisions for food, since I have a kitchen now. My grandma has already been dishing out terrible diet advice; she thins you need to starve yourself or never touch anything that isn't super-healthy to diet. Great motivator, there.
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Today has had a number of weird things go wrong or off. This culminated in receiving one of our apartment complex's exceedingly vague but very threatening "pay us in 3 days or leave" letter saying we owed them money.
1) WTF? Why is it so hard to give us a "Hey, what's up?" letter before threatening legal action?
2) WTF? I paid you guys rent.
3) WTF? This amount makes no sense whatsoever and I can't figure out where you got the number.
But of course, I can receive extra details at the leasing office! And by extra, I mean just plain details. The letter is nothing but three pages informing me I owe them $X, and it must be paid, or according to these city laws they can kick me out, etc. Lovely. Just plain lovely.
... oh. But they stealthily dropped it off (note: literally stuck it in the door frame and did not knock, which I know because my brother was sitting 5 feet from the door the entire time I was gone) after office hours.
Grr.
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Are you or Andy going to have to take time off work to deal with that?
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No, thankfully. Andy works night shift tomorrow, so he'll be home and awake in the afternoon to go figure out what the heck is up.
What a waste of time. Ugh.
Worst thing is, I'm sure they've found something legitimate to charge us for. Some stupid thing buried in the lease that they suddenly decided to start holding us on. Problem is, I have no idea -what-. Not even the semi-legitimate reason makes sense: We haven't turned in our lease (note: same lease, just re-signed), it's true, but we DID turn in the intent to renew for 6 months. Even if they did swap us to month-to-month and charge us the fee for it, the amount doesn't match up.
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hey, I don't know about CA law, but there may well be things you can do to protect yourself legally, but you'll want to act fast because something may need to be done before the 3 days are up. look for a landlord/tenant rights website as soon as you can if you haven't already.
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It makes you wonder. I've made one extra little caveat in the trying to lose weight thing; I've decided that if I want to go out and eat, I would like to walk at least one way to get there. That way I will have to think about how much I really want to eat out. I've done this before and it works sometimes!
I like this idea.
Not to be an asswad or anything, but while I lived on campus, I noticed larger people went to the gym at night, probably because everyone else was out and drinking. Funny thing is, I was there with them too. (: Anxiety issue, perhaps? I have no problem running outside, etc. but when it comes to using equipment in front of people, I'm generally paranoid.
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It makes you wonder. I've made one extra little caveat in the trying to lose weight thing; I've decided that if I want to go out and eat, I would like to walk at least one way to get there. That way I will have to think about how much I really want to eat out. I've done this before and it works sometimes!
I like this idea.
Not to be an asswad or anything, but while I lived on campus, I noticed larger people went to the gym at night, probably because everyone else was out and drinking. Funny thing is, I was there with them too. (: Anxiety issue, perhaps? I have no problem running outside, etc. but when it comes to using equipment in front of people, I'm generally paranoid.
Fair enough, certainly. I'm only on campus in the daytime or else I'd probably be doing it too.
Uuuugh. I would especially love to blast this stomach fat off the face of the earth, but it's tough. ;_; It seems like it never wants to go away.
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Shopped, but I didn't til I dropped.
Someone needs to help me with that!
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Apartment complex is staffed by idiots. Charge is indeed the month-to-month fee -- with the pet rent we paid deducted from what it would otherwise be because they ALSO don't have it down that we have a dog. This is doubly hilarious because of the amount of stress and arguing that went into getting the dog in the first place.
NOT THAT FREAKING HARD and they certainly did it fine (without adjusting our lease) when we got Fox.
Gotta go straighten that out tomorrow, though, because the people who knew how to fix it weren't there today. Of course.
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In other news! The BART shooting from New Year's has had a verdict announced. It has made people very uneasy. City Hall closed, PG&E sent its city employees home, traffic was packed, Oakland itself is freaking EMPTY -- except for the gathering at the city center, the solid line of police in riot gear, and the news & police helicopters and planes. Fun times here today.
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I get home, check my snail mail, and apparently I owe a company called Tri Core Reference Laboratories 45 bucks?
I've never heard of this company before and I'm pretty sure somebody's fucking me around. Either it's the collection agency, the company, or some jackoff who is using my identity. Either way, I AM NOT PLEASED.
And I find this out on SATURDAY. When I can't do ANYTHING about it. Gr.
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On that note, went to do my Tax return on Friday afternoon. Get home from work "Does not recognise your date of birth" Ring support guys "Yeah they have your DOB wrong in the records even though it was right last year, you will have to ring these guys on Monday to get it fixed"
Thanks ATO for having good database sanitization and performing basic data validation.
Edit - Of course the place to ring is only open 8am - 6 pm during week days even the week or two after the financial year rolls over. You know when I leave for work? 8 am and you know when I get home? 5 pm. So I can ring them at work where I can't test that they have fixed it and probably won't have all my forms or try to ring that at peak hour when everyone is trying to get through just before they knock off! Nice call centre setup guys.
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Correcting some speech contest stuff for some of my students. I thought this one was cute, so I'm posting it here. Already corrected, but if you notice any strange English, be sure to tell me... I've been in Japan a long time and a lot of 'weird English' sounds commonplace sometimes.
What's Most Important to Me
<JapaneseVillage> junior high school
2nd grade <Toshi McTaroMan>
“Otagaisama.” ←( It’s the same for me. / So am I. ) This is
the phrase my family uses the most. What is family for you? Family is
more important than my life to me. I'm lucky that my family is the
kind I can share a lot of things with. My family often laughs during
daily conversation. When my family talks, my brother bursts out
laughing at a joke. And it’s funny when my grandmother says things
like “this” or “that.” My family always laughs a lot like this and we
cannot stop laughing. If my family doesn’t laugh, I will feel like
I’m in a deep dark swamp. My family’s laughter cheers me up. If I
lost my family, I don’t know what I would do! Because my family is
very important to me like that. I think family are the most
trustworthy people and it's easiest to relax with your family.
But, we are not always perfect. For example, I often have a
quarrel with my mother about my homework. “Kengo, have you finished
your homework yet?” “No, not yet.” “Stop watching TV. Do it now.”
“I know! You are noisy!” “Do it quickly!” “I’ll do it after watching
TV.” “No. You must do it now! Studying is a child's job.” “...OK.”
In the end, I always lose to my mother. Then I start to do my
homework. I know I was wrong. But, I didn’t want to do my homework.
After a while my mother complained about my homework. So I got
very angry. But my mother also advised me on how to finish my
homework quickly. So I got happy at the same time. It is difficult
to say how much happy I was. I could understand my mother’s love. I
realized she worried about me that much. So I calmed down. Then I
took her advice and finished my homework very quickly. I don’t think
we can have quarrels like this if we aren't close. I think we love
and worry about each other, so we can have quarrels sometimes. I
think that is very important.
When a homework deadline is coming the next day, I often panic
and I get very nervous. No one else helps me except my mother for
that! My mother comes and gives me a hug. Sometimes, I even cry.
Because my mother is great like God. But sometimes, my mother panics
too. I say, “Are you OK?” My mother says, “I’m OK. Sorry. I always
worry you.” I say, “Otagaisama.” ←(It’s the same for me. / So am
I.) I'm thankful for my family.
Family is important to me. I need my family. And I was happy
to learn again that they really needed me, too! I will take care of
my family all my life. I can’t exchange my family for something else,
but I wouldn't have it any other way!
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After a while my mother complained about my homework. So I got
very angry. But my mother also advised me on how to finish my
homework quickly. So I got happy at the same time. It is difficult
to say how much happy I was. I could understand my mother’s love. I
realized she worried about me that much. So I calmed down. Then I
took her advice and finished my homework very quickly. I don’t think
we can have quarrels like this if we aren't close. I think we love
and worry about each other, so we can have quarrels sometimes. I
think that is very important.
When a homework deadline is coming the next day, I often panic
and I get very nervous. No one else helps me except my mother for
that! My mother comes and gives me a hug. Sometimes, I even cry.
Because my mother is great like God. But sometimes, my mother panics
too. I say, “Are you OK?” My mother says, “I’m OK. Sorry. I always
worry you.” I say, “Otagaisama.” ←(It’s the same for me. / So am
I.) I'm thankful for my family.
Bolded stuff that really jumped out at me; aside from that, it feels kinda choppy but is otherwise good and, like you said, quite cute. (First one shouldn't have "much" in there, and the second one is just extremely awkward phrasing. Might work better if it went something along the lines of, "No one else helps me with that except for my mother!" Just some suggestions)
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My mother comes and gives me a hug. Sometimes, I even cry. Because my mother is great like God. But sometimes, my mother panics too. I say, “Are you OK?” My mother says, “I’m OK. Sorry. I always worry you.
That's the goddamn cutest thing I've ever read.
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ugh emotions
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That's very cute, Djinn! Well-written for a second-grader, too.
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Apartment nonsense is cleared up. Stupid system, corporate automation, employees who can't think their way out of a hula hoop, etc. The one employee who happens to have a brain noted everything's fine, and so we're back to $0 owed, which is how it should be after they cash the rent check.
Renewed my interest in moving out. However, the apartment market here sucks. A lot. And so that's its own brand of disappointment and irritation.
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Brother is flying out August 1. To add insult to the injury of having him live here for nearly 4 months not doing anything except eating food at an alarming rate and consuming internet bandwidth and electricity 24/7, my dad booked a flight that leaves at 7am. Note that August 1 is a Sunday. >_<
A couple days of freedom (!!!) -- and then Djinn plus one will be crashing with us. I am less concerned about the loss of space in this case because at least Djinn and company will be functioning human beings with interests and life experience and stories.
On the plus side, moving into a tiny apartment won't seem like such a problem after this!
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If you were a horrible person, you'd drop your brother off at the airport the night before. Just sayin, it'd build character.
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If you were a horrible person, you'd drop your brother off at the airport the night before. Just sayin, it'd build character.
Yeah. Look at all the character it built for Super!!!
Wait. None.
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Hey, I'm pretty sure super invented DOZENS of new swear words after that. That is the ESSENCE of character.
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Brother can't use the Bart? Or does it not start that early?
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My parents would kill me. And by "kill me" I mean be very disappointed, which for a recovering perfectionist is pretty much the same thing. (See: how I got into this mess in the first place.)
He can take the BART, but the *AirBART*, which is how he'd get from the BART to the airport, doesn't start until 8am. So no dice. I could make him take the city bus, but doing so for the first time in a sketchy part of Oakland seems cruel at best.
I'll consider it an early start to the BEST DAY EVER*.
*for values of EVER including the period between April 2010 and July 2010.
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I could make him take the city bus, but doing so for the first time in a sketchy part of Oakland seems cruel at best.
At best it's murderous, but you could settle for cruel.
Or...wait, was that not a good thing?
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That's very cute, Djinn! Well-written for a second-grader, too.
2nd year of Middle School, mind you. But yeah, Kengo is quite possibly my favorite student I've met in the two years that I've been here and I hope I have a kid as cool as him someday.
A couple days of freedom (!!!) -- and then Djinn plus one will be crashing with us. I am less concerned about the loss of space in this case because at least Djinn and company will be functioning human beings with interests and life experience and stories.
Aw man, you didn't tell us we needed -those-. >_<
I'm not sure I can still tell a story in English without typing emoticons. Man... how do people express emotion when they aren't chatting online again?
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You do that thing with your tongue.
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Just discovered that Jack has a rodent ulcer on his top left lip. It wasn't there before I left for Egypt, which leads me to believe that my family's excessive "letting him outside" when he's an inside cat, which - I'm already fighting a battle for flea infestation in the living room with flea baths and sprays and fucking washing him too much - leads me to believe that my cat is allergic to their bites. He's already making himself look like a hairless cat on his stomach and legs. So. I need prednisone. I know what I need, I've had cats before who exhibited similar traits (HELLO I DONT HAVE $200 just to RUN TESTS). I dropped the loser-for-a-fuck vet who told me my cat had jaundice and gave me 15 dollar steroids and later claimed it might be blood parasites for a total of 60 fucking dollars. Hey, fuck you. Let's see what this Animal Hospital will do. I know they need to make money, but I hope the fucking sitting fee isn't an arm and a leg. I get paid this Thursday, I'll pay the car insurance late and the cell bill on the 30th, technically 5 days late, but really. . . I'm so fucking tired of this capitalist advantage for veterinarians who make you pay out of the ass, even with fucking pet insurance. Fuck you asshole, jaundice? If I could make prednisone, I would. God, vets are such overpaid wastes of fucking research it's ridiculous. And the only reason I fear that they do this dumbass sitting fee + other fucking fees is because they don't want to get a law suit, which is understandable, but fuck that shit when it takes them 500 fucking dollars to send some fucking blood to get shit tested so they can have their asses protected. Fuck VETS. Independent vets.
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You know, I had a cousin who worked as a vet for over a decade. She left that job and became a teacher because the pay was a lot better (and teaching's not exactly known as a money job).
So...I'm not sure vets are overpaid. The entire vet system is arguably broken, sure, but....
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Yeah. I'm just angry. I set up an appointment for tomorrow. I just know that there's two independent vets with their own places here in Clay Co and they get away with murder. Jack's starting at a different clinic now.
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$109. I just hope he gets better.
What's for dinner then? Noodles!!
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God dammit Kotor what did you do to my Firefox now I have to use Chrome.
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Random question: Anyone seen VSM lately?
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Maybe he got a girlfriend, which caused a black hole to open up and swallow him into the deepest depths of the unknown before evaporating.
Ha, ha, no, I'm kidding. That's just so implausible. VSM getting a girlfriend. HA.
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Maybe he got a girlfriend, which caused a black hole to open up and swallow him into the deepest depths of the unknown before evaporating.
Ha, ha, no, I'm kidding. That's just so implausible. VSM getting a girlfriend. HA.
That's like you showing up in chat (or anywhere) sober, Zenny! Funny stuff, that.
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I don't know about you, but vote for your state when the time comes!
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Random question: Anyone seen VSM lately?
Steam shows he's been around in the last dozen hours or so, and I'm pretty sure I saw him playing TF2 then.
Hasn't been around in chat, but he's alive.
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I've seen him on Something Awful and in a different IRC chat in the last few days too.
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My parents would kill me. And by "kill me" I mean be very disappointed, which for a recovering perfectionist is pretty much the same thing. (See: how I got into this mess in the first place.)
He can take the BART, but the *AirBART*, which is how he'd get from the BART to the airport, doesn't start until 8am. So no dice. I could make him take the city bus, but doing so for the first time in a sketchy part of Oakland seems cruel at best.
I'll consider it an early start to the BEST DAY EVER*.
*for values of EVER including the period between April 2010 and July 2010.
Wait...can't he just take Supershuttle? Or is $15 too expensive?
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/17/california.bart.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2
Was this near your part of town, Andrew/Ashley?
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Wait...can't he just take Supershuttle? Or is $15 too expensive?
$15 is more than the negligible amount of gas I'd spend going. The dog also chewed on his ID, so my parents want me to be there/nearby in case he can't get through security or something.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/17/california.bart.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2
Was this near your part of town, Andrew/Ashley?
Yus, but not too near. It's 1 BART stop away, a little less than 3 miles. It's a fun fun place -- especially for being the one stop in between where I am (Lake Merritt) and the airport I use (OAK). The Mehserle thing has been a huge issue, and apparently is going to continue to be an issue until at least November since that's when they've pushed the sentencing back to.
Fruitvale/International Ave. is a rather shady part of town near the BART tracks/east of the tracks. I believe I mentioned it before, but when I was on the bus to go to the animal shelter last year, my bus had to be diverted on International Ave. because there was a shooter who had killed someone on the block and then could not be found. <_<
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Made quite a long list of my grad schools, broken up by date, and which university. I just want someone to accept me, and Pittsburgh's response makes me wanna die. I haven't even applied yet. Sadface. I mean, you get rejected and you try and try again, but I dunno if my brain can take the kicking. Yeah, sure, I should have paid more attention to my grades in school, but blegh. Even though the other aspects of the application can be weighed more heavily, don't tell me I already missed one benchmark ;_;. And it's a grade for a language class. Pah! WELL.
Yeah. Time to start studying for the GREs despite some of the schools not requiring it (but it can be used). Le sigh.
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What did Pittsburgh say?
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As I paste:
"We require competence (a level a little higher than B-) in two foreign
languages as these are essential for ongoing research as a professional
art historian. They are usually those you would intend to use in future
research and can be any language other than English.
If the other aspects of the application are strong we can admit those with
this level in one language in the expectation that they would take up
another during their first two years (the MA years). But you cannot go
further without completing this requirement.
So it is a good idea to upgrade your French."
Maybe I'm melodramatic? I can't upgrade my French without going back to school which I cannot afford! At least if they want university level French. There's plenty of French organizations around Atlanta.
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Grad schools are bitchy about language requirements. You will need "competency" in at least 2 scholarly languages by the time you finish your first two years of coursework, generally speaking, and most of the "big name" schools (which is an odd list if you're used to undergrad hype) have enough clout and applications to force you to show a damn fine reason why you don't already have those two languages.
In short: I sympathize, and that sucks.
Maybe you could see if they will accept alternate ways of proving competency? None of them are very palatable, really. You could take the national exam for the language (a la the DILF/DELF/DALF for French, etc.), you could find a local university willing to let you sit one of their competency exams (the sort offered to grad students that are sit down translation exams with/without dictionary), or... I dunno. The rest do involve taking courses.
Maybe you could ask Pitt to offer suggestions on acceptable alternates?
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RE: foursomes
me: if penises had bumper stickers, they'd read "does not play well with others."
alice: I thought they'd read "don't rear end me."
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Maybe you could see if they will accept alternate ways of proving competency? None of them are very palatable, really. You could take the national exam for the language (a la the DILF/DELF/DALF for French, etc.), you could find a local university willing to let you sit one of their competency exams (the sort offered to grad students that are sit down translation exams with/without dictionary), or... I dunno. The rest do involve taking courses.
Maybe you could ask Pitt to offer suggestions on acceptable alternates?
I suppose he just wasn't clear about the requirement for the language. Essentially I will need two languages, but not prior to acceptance. I can have one now, and do spectacular on the language translation part of the application, have a solid application package and get accepted. In order to stay in this specific program, I have to have two languages with reading/translation knowledge, a second translation exam for the second language before the conferral of a Master's degree which guarantees you tuition/funding wise into their Ph.D program.
I come from a state school with some lackluster grades. I am applying to more rigorous programs, but I believe Pitt is the only Ph.D program that I'm applying to. The others are Master's. Fingers and toes crossed, and if you're trying to get into grad schools too, fingers and toes crossed.
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That's about in line with what I've come to expect from graduate programs in the U.S.
Best of luck to you!
And yes, I'm looking into applying for admission to next fall's programs programs starting Fall 2012. Fuuuuuun times.
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Pitt is the only Ph.D program I'm applying to. I don't believe I'll get in since they admit 6 to their program each year. You're fully covered if you're accepted pretty much. I think I'm going to try to stick on my art librarian track, but focus heavily on the schools that offer dual degrees. But, I'm still going to apply.
*edit*
The fact that almost half of their staff is from Harvard unsettles me.
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I'm doing similarly, seeking English degrees which offer specialization in Anglo-Saxon and British Medieval literature, rather than going for a Medieval Studies degree. English professors are always in demand somewhere (even if the job market sucks and the places demanding them aren't so great unless you're lucky), but there aren't even enough schools that offer Medieval Studies as a program to warrant getting a degree in it.
Not that it matters, since the whole mess has an acceptance rate of about 5%. Not an exaggeration.
Hahahah, oh academics.
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Will likely be gone or at least not appearing as often for a while. Study season has kicked in. Time to work my ass off. Or at least attempt to. Hurray :/
*sets fire to accounting stuff*
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Yeah, so the acceptance rate coincides with the small availability of active researcher faculty. It'd definitely be harder under the philosophical approach for teaching to have too many grad students per professor for supervision. I know of one person doing Medieval Studies at Cornell, but that's all I've heard for success stories.
Edit* And GOOD LUCK (:
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3/5 colleges -
All e-mails sent, check
All REQs outlined, check
2/5 colleges -
All e-mails sent, lolno
All REQs outlined, lolno
Been surfing for fellowships/grants/assistantships and those are apparently offered upon acceptance. I shall stop looking for FA now. All I know is you have to multiply 4x2, and 8 is the # of letters of rec I shall need since I'm applying to two departments, and one college is the in-case-of-emergency option. Thankfully I already have three professors set up. I'll just give them a forewarning, especially since I was already sent a list of things they need.
On another note, I have Friday off. I think I will cut the grass. Sunday, I start training for volunteering at the Fernbank Museum. The High isn't accepting any volunteers yet, but probably will during the Dali exhibit. I just want to get in a museum, but I'm avoiding the Greeter position at all costs. It works harmoniously with my job hours, as I only have to volunteer once a month. Yay.
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Got the call center job at Verizon, so long as I can pass a piss test (they outright told me that the background check was just the references I gave them, so score one on calling their bluff). I should be able to do it since I haven't smoked regularly in months but, you know, anxiety and all that.
Suffice it to say, so long as I don't have the offer rescinded the last 30 days have been the best 30 days in my life. :) indeed.
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Went to get a cavity checked out, found out I had three I didn't know about! So I go back tomorrow to get two filled, and I'll be getting the rest done after DLCon to spread out the cost. There's no pain in any of them. Just sensitivity to hot and cold. So it should be fine.
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Went to get a cavity checked out, found out I had three I didn't know about!
I don't know if it's the material I've been reading or not, but this so did not make me think of "teeth." I was going to suggest you keep in touch with your doctor more regularly if you were finding new cavities!
On a serious note: that sucks. Glad they don't hurt, though, especially if you're going to wait a month to get them dealt with.
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Hahahahaha. Nice catch there. Didn't even notice that.
Thank god it was you that responded to that first. Others would have completely wasted that chance for comedic gold by being lame and crass. The straight man reaction was the only way to go to get maximum laughs out of that one<G>
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Went to get a cavity checked out, found out I had three I didn't know about!
I don't know if it's the material I've been reading or not, but this so did not make me think of "teeth." I was going to suggest you keep in touch with your doctor more regularly if you were finding new cavities!
Honestly? I can't think of any new-cavity-acquisition-methods that are doctor-preventable. Doctor-causeable, sure, but....
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Well... flesh-eating bacteria could certainly create a cavity of some sort, and that's somewhat preventable by medical professionals!
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I'm on my period for the second time this month. ;.;
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Double Not-Pregnant! ;D
So today I found out that the English teacher guy who has been bullying me and the rest of the younger teachers at my middle school all year had some kind of heart attack and he's now in the hospital.
I'm not really sure how to feel about that. On the one hand, I don't like anyone having health problems. On the other hand, work is so so so much less oppressive without him around. I might even go so far as to claim job satisfaction now. This probably makes me a terrible person, but I hope he takes extended leave until my contract is over and I never have to see him again.
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High fives for being terrible people.
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Well... flesh-eating bacteria could certainly create a cavity of some sort, and that's somewhat preventable by medical professionals!
You're thinking of abscesses. Which ties in to my story for the day!
Children, if you think you have an abscess, you should get it checked out rather than just ignoring it. That way, you don't end up like this guy who came in today who had an abscess under his big toenail. So the doc numbs him up and lifts up the nail, which is already loose, to look underneath. And you know what he finds? Maggots, like fifty of them, and they're crawling around underneath and falling out on to the floor.
Even if you have one that you figure is in a non-life-threatening place, it can still be extremely disgusting.
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Good news: Move s mostly complete. Old place is empty, and landlords were not as huge of dicks as they said they'd be.
Bad: News, way too much stuff for new place, and still no idea how I'm going to hook up my comp to the interwebs. Which is bad, as I intensely dislike this keyboard.
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Garage sale, garage sale~
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But my little sister who moved to Ontario years ago totally looked at that otherwise useless thing is a really funny manner when she was four and a half. How can we possibly part with it?
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But my little sister who moved to Ontario years ago totally looked at that otherwise useless thing is a really funny manner when she was four and a half. How can we possibly part with it?
I will kill you in your sleep and feed your corpse to the canadian ogresses if you get nostalgic -now-. Garage sale pronto, wretch.
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Oh, it's not him. >_>
Please tell me that at least the 46 computers are being considered for recycling or something. ;_;
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I'm not being picky, I can kill the rest of the opposition too.
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Got to like 105 today. I enjoy summer, but fuck that shit.
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If they are here, I didn't notice them being moved.
Also, managed to find a tub of peanut butter and a butterknife, and so a pb&j sandwich was made. I have been wanting one of those for two days now, and it was good.
Also, man, I thought it was hot here. But at least the lakes and rivers are not being boiled away by the heat of the sun. I do not blame you for wanting to fuck that shit, Super.
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Excal: I'm pretty sure he means Farenheight. It got to 110 Farenheight in Georgia yesterday, which is 43 in normal-people temperatures. Still hot, but water was not boiling away.
(I spent Saturday in my apartment with the AC On, and an ice-pack on my burns).
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... *giggle* So that's what people were on about. The antichrist cometh when lakes and rivers boil then turn to blood. If the metric system is in place, they boil EVERY SUMMER.
This may be the weirdest thing I've found funny in months.
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Ah man, I had a comeback, but it just doesn't work on MC. ;_;
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Great news for me!
A new Avatar series is in the making and they are remaking Tactics Ogre for the PSP!
*dances*
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Ah man, I had a comeback, but it just doesn't work on MC. ;_;
Now I'm curious, what aspect of me thwarted your comeback? (I can think of more than one potential aspect).
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Great news for me!
A new Avatar series is in the making and they are remaking Tactics Ogre for the PSP!
*dances*
New Avatar, yay! Already like the look of what little I've seen and heard.
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NOt as cool as "The Legend of Iroh" but I'll take it.
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I just love how the DMV works at the speed of paint.
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Got Donna moved into our new apartment this weekend. Went pretty smooth except for the hundred-degree heat (that's real degrees, not your silly Canadian substitute), especially since she moved out of her old place in large part because the air conditioning was worthless. Had some help from her awesome truck-owning co-worker, though, and now I've just got to get out of this lease and I can move in too. It's a great place; I can't wait.
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Ugh. Not been around much lately, not likely to be around much any time soon. Long story short, argument with my dad. Nothing too major, but he's acting like a dick about it, so like hell am I gonna deal with him. Spent the last week moving between friend's houses, planning to head home while he's out tomorrow to grab clothes and repeat for another week. I might actually head home in a few weeks, but won't be around much until then. >.>
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Got Donna moved into our new apartment this weekend. Went pretty smooth except for the hundred-degree heat (that's real degrees, not your silly Canadian substitute), especially since she moved out of her old place in large part because the air conditioning was worthless. Had some help from her awesome truck-owning co-worker, though, and now I've just got to get out of this lease and I can move in too. It's a great place; I can't wait.
I am jealous. I am happy for you. I am angry! GRAH! I WANT TO MOVE OUT.
On another note: How long have you been dating? Best thing about moving in hot weather - drinking lemonade. If you didn't drink lemonade, then shame shame!
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So apparently they can't test your urine sample if you've drank too much water in the hours before the test. Uh, okay, whatever. Gave another sample this morning.
You ever try forcing yourself to piss after only one glass of water? Ain't precisely pleasant.
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It's really disconcerting to taste things I put in my eyeballs at the back of my throat.
... eyedrops, people, eyedrops. Not whatever you were thinking.
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Too late for -that-.
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It's really disconcerting to taste things I put in my eyeballs at the back of my throat.
... eyedrops, people, eyedrops. Not whatever you were thinking.
Why would you put that in your eyeballs, though? Well, to each his/her/its own - whatever you and Andy do in your free time, so be it!
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LD: Could be worse, it could go down your nasal cavity. That is less fun.
OK: I like how your avatar includes a dude with a video camera when you say things like that.
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And the saga of the horrifying things Super does with his male teenage prostitutes continues.
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It's really disconcerting to taste things I put in my eyeballs at the back of my throat.
... eyedrops, people, eyedrops. Not whatever you were thinking.
For some reason I was thinking mustard.
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You always go straight to whores, Grefter. You really are an Aussie.
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Man I hate college. Good news and mostly bad news. A little background... I was told the other day that because of what credits transferred, I not only had to take English 101, I had to take a placement test just to get into it. Which is fine I guess. Stupid, but fine. I needed to take the math placement test anyway so just take them all at once. The test was a mere frustration, compared to having to take English fucking 101.
Good news: I don't have to take English 101 I think. They never counted my English AP Test for some reason, so I have to get them notice from the good ol' College Board (For $25 of course), but at the very least thats one less class barring some rage inducing fuckup on their end. Oh yeah, as for the placement test? I managed a perfect score on the grammar and sentence structure section, near perfect on the reading comprehension. It was a joke. Odd scoring system though... it's out of 120 points, but 20 questions on each section... I got 120 and 119... how does that happen?
Bad news: Their math placement test was mostly trig and precalc which I either never got to or bombed in high school. It was broken up into two sections, elementary algebra, which I passed with flying colors, and the precalc/trig part under the deceptive label "College Mathematics", which I just barely missed passing, so I probably just need a refresher. Bad news is still that I did not place into any of the math courses I need to graduate. However, I can take just the trig/precalc part again on Monday (for $10, and a $5 required study guide). Since I just barely missed it, knowing what I actually need to study now I think I have a good shot! My one beef is that nothing even close to the level of the stuff on the College Mathematics was on the online study guide for the test.
Also, the student grant money that I thought would cover me for the semester? Won't. Apparantly since I'm only taking 6 credits (due to out of state fees) I can only get HALF of the amount of money posted for the grant for the semester. You only get the full amount if you're a full time student, which... isn't really stated anywhere... so I had to take another loan out. Fucking fantastic. You don't have money, so you take less classes, and in turn get less aid, and in turn incur more debt! Oh well... whats another grand or so onto the pile?
Luckily I'll be in-state next semester, and probably taking 3 classes. So not only will the grant cover it and then some, they said I can cancel the second half of the loan for the Spring Semester.
Fucking bureaucracy.
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College is so wonderful, isn't it? :(
Sorry you've had so much trouble. I remember fin-aid and placement were ridiculous at my community college, and just silly at both universities. Administrative stuff doesn't really get any easier once you get in and start taking classes, either, so... good luck. Be vigilant. <_<
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I already took classes there. I'm going through all this because my credits didn't transfer until after my first semester was over, so woo! I'm pulling a 4.0 so far at least!
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Ah. That's fun.
Let's see, I graduated from my university a year ago this past May, and I *still* have to find a way to deal with the administration to get a transcript thing sorted out.
They really do just keep screwing up. As you're noticing.
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I. Hate. Traffic.
San Francisco traffic is ridiculous. I sat for 20 minutes at the same stop light because I couldn't go forward: the cross-traffic kept blocking the intersection, people kept skipping "Right Turn Only" lanes to zoom ahead, etc. Repeat for about 3 different city blocks. Then try to get on the bridge. THEN everything is fine -- but then an hour has passed and I've only gone 1 mile.
GARGHGTR@#(*%@!
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Sis and her family have come to visit for 3 weeks. This is going to be a major culture clash, given that they're vegetarian social people with a 1-year old (Pinxit), and I'm a hermit who almost drinks barbecue sauce out of the bottle and hasn't cleaned in months. On the plus side, this was the incentive needed to finally get that toilet bowl out of the living room.
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Dude what?
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Man, I hope there was some kinda hilarious story behind why you have a toilet bowl in your living room, or that's just kinda gross.
Anyway, I recently joined in on my local area's Dragon Festival, which culminated in a big fireworks-enhanced parade with a bunch of Japanese guys (and me) running all over the place with these giant paper dragons while people cheered and threw water and beer at us (both literally and figuratively).
When I signed up, there were a few 'practice' sessions, which were more like mini-performances since we had huge audiences each time and practically no instruction. We even wore the traditional Dragon-carrying garb and were accompanied by our backup drummers each time except the very first one. And on that first practice, we were even made to run under streaming fireworks, which admittedly, was pretty awesome, though I kept thinking the dragon was going to catch on fire.
The traditional "let's get drunk and carry a giant paper dragon up a mountain" attire consists primarily of bandages and white shorts that tie up in the back (Oh Japan...). There's also the tabi shoes, which are like plastic toe-socks with rubber tread. They had to special-order a pair for me since I'm roughly twice their normal sizes. The other Dragon guys had fun trying on my clown shoes and cracking jokes about my obviously-huge penis size. Japanese humor is so oddly self-effacing.
The day of the main festival, each of the five dragon teams went wandering around a different area of the city with our respectively-colored paper dragons, posing for pictures with kids and getting sunburned since the only things we were wearing were bandages and shorts. Also, some Buddhist monk guys tagged along, throwing refreshing water on us sporadically and collecting donations from townsfolk. Also part of our merry band were the sexy yukata-wearing girls who played the instruments for our Dragon team's various performances where we'd stop alongside the road where a bunch of people had gathered for the Japanese equivalent of a barbecue and we'd show up and bust into a run tossing the Dragon up and down and zigzagging in weird patterns while shouting nonsense Japanese "So-re... waSHOI~!" ...I'm told that it doesn't really have an actual meaning, it's just what you shout when you're carrying things at a festival. So I guess it might translate to something like "Whoo-hoo!" or "Huzzah".
Being the only foreigner and the English teacher at the largest elementary school in the whole 5-city area, I drew a lot of attention and a ton of my students would run up to me, shocked and excited, while their mothers took pictures of them half-carrying (it was way too heavy for most of them, so we helped hold it) the Dragon with their "Sensei".
So we did that from noon until 6 PM, when we loaded up on the trucks and headed out to the main festival grounds where we were to meet up with all the other Dragon teams for a co-op performance. There were five Dragons in all, each a different color: Green, Blue, Gold, Silver, and Red. I was on the awesome Red team, of course. How the teams worked was that each carrier position on the giant paper Dragon had 2 or 3 people assigned to it, and we would trade out mid-performance so that no one got so tired that they dropped the Dragon. The head and tail positions had roughly 6 or so people assigned to each because those were the only parts of the Dragons made from molded plaster instead of paper. There was also a hose running through it where we could hook up a tank and the Dragons could spew fire and steam out of their mouths, which looked pretty damn impressive.
The whole thing finished up when all five Dragons gathered at the top of the hill where everyone could see us under the flaring torches and spotlights. Three of the Dragons coiled up, spewing sparks or smoke at one another, and the others circled around them at top speed, everyone jumping and shouting and cheering, while the drums blared and the firecrackers popped.
Afterwards, we all got free food and beer and we hit on the sexy yukata girls. And they all lived happily ever after.
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Dude what?
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Man, that's the first japan story that actually makes the country sound awesome.
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Anyway, I recently joined in on my local area's Dragon Festival, which culminated in a big fireworks-enhanced parade with a bunch of Japanese guys (and me) running all over the place with these giant paper dragons while people cheered and threw water and beer at us (both literally and figuratively).
When I signed up, there were a few 'practice' sessions, which were more like mini-performances since we had huge audiences each time and practically no instruction. We even wore the traditional Dragon-carrying garb and were accompanied by our backup drummers each time except the very first one. And on that first practice, we were even made to run under streaming fireworks, which admittedly, was pretty awesome, though I kept thinking the dragon was going to catch on fire.
The traditional "let's get drunk and carry a giant paper dragon up a mountain" attire consists primarily of bandages and white shorts that tie up in the back (Oh Japan...). There's also the tabi shoes, which are like plastic toe-socks with rubber tread. They had to special-order a pair for me since I'm roughly twice their normal sizes. The other Dragon guys had fun trying on my clown shoes and cracking jokes about my obviously-huge penis size. Japanese humor is so oddly self-effacing.
The day of the main festival, each of the five dragon teams went wandering around a different area of the city with our respectively-colored paper dragons, posing for pictures with kids and getting sunburned since the only things we were wearing were bandages and shorts. Also, some Buddhist monk guys tagged along, throwing refreshing water on us sporadically and collecting donations from townsfolk. Also part of our merry band were the sexy yukata-wearing girls who played the instruments for our Dragon team's various performances where we'd stop alongside the road where a bunch of people had gathered for the Japanese equivalent of a barbecue and we'd show up and bust into a run tossing the Dragon up and down and zigzagging in weird patterns while shouting nonsense Japanese "So-re... waSHOI~!" ...I'm told that it doesn't really have an actual meaning, it's just what you shout when you're carrying things at a festival. So I guess it might translate to something like "Whoo-hoo!" or "Huzzah".
Being the only foreigner and the English teacher at the largest elementary school in the whole 5-city area, I drew a lot of attention and a ton of my students would run up to me, shocked and excited, while their mothers took pictures of them half-carrying (it was way too heavy for most of them, so we helped hold it) the Dragon with their "Sensei".
So we did that from noon until 6 PM, when we loaded up on the trucks and headed out to the main festival grounds where we were to meet up with all the other Dragon teams for a co-op performance. There were five Dragons in all, each a different color: Green, Blue, Gold, Silver, and Red. I was on the awesome Red team, of course. How the teams worked was that each carrier position on the giant paper Dragon had 2 or 3 people assigned to it, and we would trade out mid-performance so that no one got so tired that they dropped the Dragon. The head and tail positions had roughly 6 or so people assigned to each because those were the only parts of the Dragons made from molded plaster instead of paper. There was also a hose running through it where we could hook up a tank and the Dragons could spew fire and steam out of their mouths, which looked pretty damn impressive.
The whole thing finished up when all five Dragons gathered at the top of the hill where everyone could see us under the flaring torches and spotlights. Three of the Dragons coiled up, spewing sparks or smoke at one another, and the others circled around them at top speed, everyone jumping and shouting and cheering, while the drums blared and the firecrackers popped.
Afterwards, we all got free food and beer and we hit on the sexy yukata girls. And they all lived happily ever after.
There are lots of little moments like this, but happy news rarely merits its own post, after all..
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Anyway, I recently joined in on my local area's Dragon Festival, which culminated in a big fireworks-enhanced parade with a bunch of Japanese guys (and me) running all over the place with these giant paper dragons while people cheered and threw water and beer at us (both literally and figuratively).
When I signed up, there were a few 'practice' sessions, which were more like mini-performances since we had huge audiences each time and practically no instruction. We even wore the traditional Dragon-carrying garb and were accompanied by our backup drummers each time except the very first one. And on that first practice, we were even made to run under streaming fireworks, which admittedly, was pretty awesome, though I kept thinking the dragon was going to catch on fire.
The traditional "let's get drunk and carry a giant paper dragon up a mountain" attire consists primarily of bandages and white shorts that tie up in the back (Oh Japan...). There's also the tabi shoes, which are like plastic toe-socks with rubber tread. They had to special-order a pair for me since I'm roughly twice their normal sizes. The other Dragon guys had fun trying on my clown shoes and cracking jokes about my obviously-huge penis size. Japanese humor is so oddly self-effacing.
The day of the main festival, each of the five dragon teams went wandering around a different area of the city with our respectively-colored paper dragons, posing for pictures with kids and getting sunburned since the only things we were wearing were bandages and shorts. Also, some Buddhist monk guys tagged along, throwing refreshing water on us sporadically and collecting donations from townsfolk. Also part of our merry band were the sexy yukata-wearing girls who played the instruments for our Dragon team's various performances where we'd stop alongside the road where a bunch of people had gathered for the Japanese equivalent of a barbecue and we'd show up and bust into a run tossing the Dragon up and down and zigzagging in weird patterns while shouting nonsense Japanese "So-re... waSHOI~!" ...I'm told that it doesn't really have an actual meaning, it's just what you shout when you're carrying things at a festival. So I guess it might translate to something like "Whoo-hoo!" or "Huzzah".
Being the only foreigner and the English teacher at the largest elementary school in the whole 5-city area, I drew a lot of attention and a ton of my students would run up to me, shocked and excited, while their mothers took pictures of them half-carrying (it was way too heavy for most of them, so we helped hold it) the Dragon with their "Sensei".
So we did that from noon until 6 PM, when we loaded up on the trucks and headed out to the main festival grounds where we were to meet up with all the other Dragon teams for a co-op performance. There were five Dragons in all, each a different color: Green, Blue, Gold, Silver, and Red. I was on the awesome Red team, of course. How the teams worked was that each carrier position on the giant paper Dragon had 2 or 3 people assigned to it, and we would trade out mid-performance so that no one got so tired that they dropped the Dragon. The head and tail positions had roughly 6 or so people assigned to each because those were the only parts of the Dragons made from molded plaster instead of paper. There was also a hose running through it where we could hook up a tank and the Dragons could spew fire and steam out of their mouths, which looked pretty damn impressive.
The whole thing finished up when all five Dragons gathered at the top of the hill where everyone could see us under the flaring torches and spotlights. Three of the Dragons coiled up, spewing sparks or smoke at one another, and the others circled around them at top speed, everyone jumping and shouting and cheering, while the drums blared and the firecrackers popped.
Afterwards, we all got free food and beer and we hit on the sexy yukata girls. And they all lived happily ever after.
There are lots of little moments like this, but happy news rarely merits its own post, after all..
Dude what?
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Clearly djinn is just typing while in bed. That's rude you know, by the way.
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I was responding to CK's comment about how most of my Japan stories don't portray the country in a flattering light. It's mostly just because the little things that make the country fun are rarely worth ranting about, whereas the little things that piss you off tend to make me want to ramble at length.
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How I woke up this morning:
"Hey uh I think I downloaded a virus on your computer."
"Ugh what. God damn it. Here, let me see." *Google!* "Yep, virus. Fuck." *System restore to last week, problem solved as confirmed by a scan by AVG. Feel like a badass.*
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%*#(!@&
You do not need to wait until the last goddamned minute to do everything. You don't! I promise!
Ugh. It's bad enough to deal with one's own ADD, but at a departmental level it's just flat out insane. NO I CANNOT DO SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES CONTACTING AN OUTSIDE SOURCE WITH FIRM DEADLINES IN HALF THE TIME IT TAKES TO GET IT DONE. No, not even if you ask nicely or if you vaguely threaten my job.
Can. Not.
CANNOT.
You wanna know why it takes me so long? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's NOT MY JOB. Or that every time I try to build a system to deal with this stuff, you tell me "we don't need a system, it works fine the way it is" and ignore the framework I've built in favor of haphazard flurries of emails along the lines of "oh, by the way, here's a thing I knew and I should have told you at the start because now it means you're going to have to go back to step 1, making this whole thing take twice as long."
You all have worked in this field far longer than I have. You damn well should know that printers can't turn around 100,000 print pieces on a whim, and mailing houses take time to process your ridiculously poorly formatted and out-of-date lists.
Fuck. Direct. Mail. IN THE EYE WITH A RUSTY BOTTLECAP.
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Nothing like preventable chaos to make you want to strangle someone with their own shirt.
You all have worked in this field far longer than I have. You damn well should know that printers can't turn around 100,000 print pieces on a whim, and mailing houses take time to process your ridiculously poorly formatted and out-of-date lists.
What is the company going to do? Take a bath and pay expensive shipping to get the books in, or just run around and generally panic?
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Corporate-level duncery is really annoying. Despite the budget crunch we're definitely feeling, it's like they WANT to waste money. I was TRYING to save the company money. But that takes time and planning. So fuck it. Apparently they really want to overspend their mailing budget.
They're going to push back the ship date, likely, and then subtly glare daggers at me for it. There will be vague "woe is me" statements at meetings for the next few weeks and I'll be the one they blame because my part is the one holding everything else up. No one will say anything, of course. It will look like this:
"We missed the Back to School rush," slight pause while no one looks at me, "and suffered a slight dip in sales as compared to last year," another pause, more Pointedly Not Looking, "BUT we're going to recover by insert project that also has a ridiculously idealistic deadline that's nigh impossible to meet on top of everything else we're doing."
I would pause to headdesk, but typing up these rants has pulled away enough from precious OH SHI- damage control.
EDITED TO ADD: Come on now, seriously?
"So I want you to only suppress these things."
"Do you want me to suppress the things I suppressed last time?"
WHAT THE EFF DOES 'ONLY' MEAN TO YOU, WOMAN?!
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You know you can speak up and call people on their bullshit right? If you call them out on it then they are less likely to try and pull it on you in the future. Keep the mail you have saying "Pls do this" and then "plzkthxdothisthingIforgottotellyouabout2weeksago". Paper trails are fantastic.
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My manager is my gatekeeper, and everyone keeps talking to me as if this is all very reasonable.
Which is to say I just have to amass a full avalanche of such a paper trail before I turn around and point out how ridiculous they're being.
On a positive note, my CEO is actually very receptive to business suggestions. So guess what I'm working on the next time I'm not scrambling to fix someone else's problem?
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A Mass Driver to launch people through the infinities of space?
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Can Grefter or Elfboy get on IRC plz~?
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No.
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The beach is all fun and games until you get burned on the small of your back and the back of your arms, and not much else.
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I'm on my period for a third time in 45 days. ):
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Wow. Synchronizing with someone, perhaps?
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So. Sleepy.
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Stopping birth control can make your period come basically immediately afterwards, as well.
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I'm on my period for a third time in 45 days. ):
Well....you know you're not pregnant?
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Thrice not pregnant.
If I'm synching up with some female, I would like to tell them to leave me alone. I missed two periods in May/June, and I supposed that aberrant behavior is assailing my uterus now. I did stop taking my birth control with apprehension of an actual legitimate pregnancy, but I've been back on it for about two weeks. Just. No more this month.
I remember my period started at the beginning of the month as a pre-teen. Later it moved to the middle of the month, so maybe nature is reverting to my youthful roots.
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Highlights from today:
CEO phones me and tells me I'm undertrained for my job (NO, REALLY?) and since it's something she used to do when she first got in, we should chat about it. She admits that I don't even know the right questions to ask, so there's a seriously hole here -- one that hasn't been filled since she vacated the position 10 years ago. Even my predecessor (who made 2x as much as I do) did not have the whole of it. Result? Inefficiency! Wasted money!
You know, like I've been saying.
So I get to pull the system administrator out of a meeting to rehash what goes into these. The result of this meeting: another meeting is peremptorily canceled; the project I've been scrambling to make right despite repeated set backs will need to be entirely rehauled; I get to be the focal point for everyone's wrath/confusion; carry on!
Hooray.
EDITED: OOH, OOH, I forgot the best part! Since the CEO is actually out -on vacation- while making these calls, she wants to meet in person with the account executive of the mail house we work with. Next week. So I might have to miss some of DLC Thursday/Friday to get more of this set right. Awesome.
Also, I have a zit. This happens with relative infrequency anymore, but it's happened today.
Guess who gets to star in an advertisement that's being mailed to 100,000 educators, since she happen to be the youngest person on staff and can probably pass for a high schooler?
HOORAY.
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It only adds to the authenticity that is a graduate being made to look like a high schooler.
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Arrival in California!
Ashley and Andrew have such difficult opposite schedules.
Poor Andy ended up staying up 24+ hours due to having to pick us up from the airport.
That's WAAAY too nice for someone with a trolling avatar.
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My impression from DLC4 was that 24 hours+ for Andrew was about as abnormal as it is for me-inconvenient but not really abnormal. Andrew is, however, way too nice.
*Whistles.* Incidentally, since making my own topic would be tacky, and as such I will derail the random ramblings topic which is marginally less tacky; Anyone have any good advice for a cheap video card?
Thinking 80$ or less, don't care about the details(the one in this computer is like five years+ old. Based on my experience last time I shopped, *anything* I buy right now would be an improvement), just as long as it supports Shader 3.0. AKA the thing that makes every new game crash when I try to play it on this, as it supports Shader 2.0 but not 3.0. ._.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131342
Something around this is probably the best I can reccomend in the price range. If it HAS to be less than $80 including postage from New Egg you are looking at probaby a Radeon 4670. If you want to go an NVidia card instead of an ATI I don't know the cards from that era well enough to make a suggestion. A 5570 is an alright card and the jump from the 4000 series to the 5000 series is probably worth the $10.
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huh, that actually looks like it'll work with the PSU of epic fail.
Admittedly, not very well. Newegg has a PSU calculator and supposedly the setup ALREADY overdrains it's ridiculously bad 250W PSU. But, this won't overdrain it any more, from the looks of it.
(Also, in fairness, reports for this Dell's PSU are along the lines of "Fuck, it works with things way the hell higher than it's PSU should support. One guy mentioned he'd tossed every AGP card he could find at it it and they all worked". The only problems I've actually found are that it isn't AGP 8x compliant and hence that's not working. Seems like it should work with a PCI card though, unless something happened there in the last...six or seven years or so. I hate computer obsolescence.
Also also I can reasonably unplug one of these CD drives. It doesn't work worth a damn. That should more than make up the difference. Although now I'm wondering if they don't work worth a damn because of the overdrain from the card. ...oh well, don't care.)
Edit:
Wait, 5900 XF, not 5700.
*Checks again.*
NEVER MIND IT DROPS THE POWER CONSUMPTION ABOUT 20%. ahahaha, I guess it's a good PSU alright.
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You Wake Up In Razor Hill
Well, that was the best way to spend my morning.
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I thought my day was going to be wonderful. My body is fully waxed - I've been debeasted.
But then I went to work. And of course, it's the last day of the sale. We barely have any cashiers, too many managers are on registers. Etc. Etc. More bad things. BUT, at night when the cashiers were supposed to finish their duties, they just up and left. So, I left a scathing note to the CS manager. I have nothing to say to those grown ass adults either. Despite my frustrations with my job, I'm blessed to still be employed and am not operating on "me" time or fucking around. I didn't think I could come and go to work as I please. Yeah, fuck them. I'm done being Ms. Nice.
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Quit my job, went back to Grants to visit my parents and the last two of our dogs before they died.
One of the dogs barely moved, couldn't hear and couldn't see. I guess that's what happens when dogs are alive for 15 years. Poor guy. The three times he got up he seemed pretty happy for the attention. The other dog's 2-3 years younger and is still more alive than dead, so that's good at least. Still, it's kind of shitty to see one of your childhood pets on its last legs. So it goes. Great day of resting otherwise.
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Funny thing, vaguely related.
One of my dogs, a 14+ year old border collie, disappeared five days ago.
My family is terrible about leaving him out (He's usually moderately good but gets into our garbage and things when he takes random notions, which is why this pisses me off.) and he's been listless/tired acting lately, so I kinda figured he'd just wandered off somewhere to die.
He showed the hell back up today about five pounds lighter and covered in random junk. Apparently he'd gotten lost somehow. And managed to come back. Five days later. He was clearly not in a house or anything. And now he seems happier in general than when he left, not in worse shape.
What I'm saying is, my old dogs are weird outliers.
Then again my 20 year old kitty was running around the house and bouncing off things a few weeks ago.
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Update the fuck out of things on computer, things finally start working the way I want them to again.
*Fistpump*
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Man, on the trip here, I lost my favorite pair of panties! Did anyone see them?! What will I wear?!
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... I'm just saving this for posterity.
EDIT:
(http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/af83/Jo_ou_Ranbu/AielEpic.png)
Laggy-poo, is that you?
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You need to clear cookies when you use someone else's computer.
Edit: I'm betting on Toro.
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Gah. Who uses a white background by choice?
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Brazilians, apparently. Scary.
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Geez, Super, you would think you would have learned by now.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v143/bvh18/super.png)
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Not it this time.
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Visit to grandmother began with her hugging me and ushering me inside on the street, in front of all my siblings and other family members. Then it continued with her offering me fruit and cookies and drinks and all sorts of delicacies and she never offered anyone else any.
I declined it all, saying I was quite full and not thirsty at all (she'd also began offering various soda drinks), and when we leave she pushes a plastic bag in my hands which she filled with grapes and chocolate because she insisted I take something along. Once again neglecting everyone else.
... I am so thoroughly confused. Apparently I made "Favourite Grandson" without ever knowing.
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Well, I was given the day off work today, and I passed the stupid UA for the diversion so it is time to get FUCKED. UP.
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I am at work late at night due to needing to be at DLC~ Actually a blessing in disguise since it was really hot today and the lab has no A/C.
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Well, I was given the day off work today, and I passed the stupid UA for the diversion so it is time to get FUCKED. UP.
Good man.
Related, kinda. My friend who is teaching in Japan has been in town the past couple of days. Since he can't really do it in Japan, he has been getting trashed all day and hangin' out all America style. I haven't really had to work since I quit, so I've been joining him. It's been great. Party.
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I think I'm getting swamped with stuff I should be doing on my days off. Granted, I'm doing part of what I should be doing, but I don't think it' enough.
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You need to clear cookies when you use someone else's computer.
Edit: I'm betting on Toro.
Whoever it is gets a 2/10 for half assing it.
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Yeah, they didn't even bother with a PellegriXCitrine avatar.
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I think I'm getting swamped with stuff I should be doing on my days off. Granted, I'm doing part of what I should be doing, but I don't think it' enough.
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I'm off on my boat trip! I may come by ocassionally depending on the Internet service.
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And I got a raise. That means I'm going suit shopping.
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And I got a raise. That means I'm going suit shopping.
I'm Zenny, and I approve of this message.
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Back to school and work tomorrow. I spent a summer pretty much doing nothing after I got back from Scotland, so it will be good to get back in the groove. Of course I will likely hate school and be bored of work in a week, but hey.
Edit: Oh right, I have an 8am math class four days a week. Goodbye sleep!
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So I'm on the boat, waiting for it to finish fuelling! I've been sipping herbal peppermint tea all morning and it is amazing. I need to buy some -- I am getting a little tired of just drinking Earl Grey all the time (but I am so poor! ;_;).
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So I'm on the boat
I'm now trying to visualize Ciato rapping (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU).
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That is indeed our theme song.
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So I work the midnight - six am shift. I think that's the shift they put the noobs on -- yay! I am trying to stay up through it (my work starts tomorrow) but zzzzzz.
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Caffeine is your best friend.
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Only two more hours until breakfast! Then, slp.
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Oh, hey, I still live.
Last few weeks have been pretty hectic - I spent two weeks at friends' houses before moving into a new place. I've been here for about 2 and a half weeks now, and I've finally got some money sorted out, even if it's not quite enough. Looking for a job becomes that much harder without internet or a phone, but it's given me time to play lots of games, at least. >.>
Probably won't reliably be online for a while still - it's taken me a good 2-3 hours just to get on here to post this and on one other forum. Still, slow internet is better than no internet, and I'm much happier living here than I was with my dad. :)
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I don't drive, am not currently in school, and I have yet to find conclusive evidence that there is even a fucking bus stop in Davidsville.
So I'm going back to Altoona to work for at least a few months until I figure out what the hell I'm doing next, and save up some money to do it. Would like to work at Sheetz, since I can walk from my grandmother's where I'm staying, or at the hardware store my aunt works which is also an easy walk. Also, there are actually other people here since I'm in a city and not a town full of old people, and young people who spend as little time as possible where they live. Turning 21 soon, which will open up social opportunities?
Strongly considering culinary school YES I KNOW IT WON'T MAKE ME INTO MASTER CHEF but it will give me a better chance of being an overworked line cook at a good restaurant instead of having to work at Denny's, and I can go from there.
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Woah!
Talk about creepy!
I just had someone pank call me from my own number.
Ok, well not exactly my EXACT number, but it was the same number and my area code was one digit off. Still weird.
I didn't answer it the 1st time they called due to me not wanting the world to implode. They called again and pretended to be some US marshall with a voice decoder telling me that I had a warrant out for my arrest for possession of meth and child porn. Not too convincing! They had to know me, cause they knew where I lived and knew my brother...it was probably him or my cousin thinking back now, heh.
Looking up this at the moment.
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You should probably ditch the meth and child porn, too.
Just in case.
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Good luck with all that, Yoshi
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Oh, hey, I still live.
Last few weeks have been pretty hectic - I spent two weeks at friends' houses before moving into a new place. I've been here for about 2 and a half weeks now, and I've finally got some money sorted out, even if it's not quite enough. Looking for a job becomes that much harder without internet or a phone, but it's given me time to play lots of games, at least. >.>
Probably won't reliably be online for a while still - it's taken me a good 2-3 hours just to get on here to post this and on one other forum. Still, slow internet is better than no internet, and I'm much happier living here than I was with my dad. :)
Good luck with that. At least you're in a country where being able to do that is relatively simple thanks to a robust transportation system. >_> I hope you get things worked out with your dad, though.
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So I suited up last night and went out to celebrate finishing my legal battle. Hence, that bitchin awesome superman style photo I started rocking today.
Anyway, I was openly propositioned by a stranger. I assume they were trying to give me hepatitis so naturally I explained that I only like snuff porn and he was out of luck.
Then I went and saw The Expendables again, because it is an amazing eyeball orgasm. After that, I headed for another bar and met up with a friend of mine who had recently moved to Portland.
Oddly enough, she is I think the only person on Earth who has an unwavering belief that I am an inherently good person and that I deserve for good things to happen to me. My entourage was collectively baffled by the sentiment, as would be most people. I suppose you have to have a strange perception of me to hang around me as long as she has. But you have to admire her tenacity and willingness to stick to her guns on that point.
Then? Fantasy draft. Got Aaron Rodgers so I'm happy.
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Apparently Newsweek ranks Finland as the best overall nation in the world.
Godspeed, Mr. Vice President. Keep up the good work!
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Working three all-nighters in a row is aaaamazing~ I'm on the second one right now. Going to sleep until 11 PM. But after this I can slack for like five days!
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Spent most of night shift going down and through submission guidelines for various periodicals. Feeling a bit sick and shakey. A little tired of training the new guy.
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TL;DR: Your story has a better chance if it fits the aesthetics of the magazine. Your story has a better chance if it has a strong beginning. Your story has a worse-than-normal chance because it is fantasy. But people are fickle, so you never know. Your story has no chance if the ending sucks.
Andy: So, I'm going to pretend like I know what I'm talking about because I interned for a publication and have a vague idea of what goes through the minds of people reading through the slush piles.
I'll warn you straight up, unless it's a magazine that's specifically looking for genre fiction, fantasy stories (re: your story) probably won't get through slush unless it's absolutely, balls-to-the-wall, Mark-Twain-and-John-Steinbeck-had-a-kid-and-Kurt-Vonnegut-was-the-godfather brilliant. And even then...
At least at the Blue Mesa Review, genre fiction (not just fantasy--horror, romance, historical fiction, etc) was especially bad about it. Kind of for good reason, because all of it that we got (the stuff I read anyway) was tripe. In all honesty, had you mailed that off and I read it for the magazine I probably would have panned it. Not because it's bad (comparatively, it would have easily been the best piece of fantasy fiction in the pile... oh, man, you should have seen some the couple of fanfics we got), but because it's not mind-fellatingly awesome enough to shirk the stigma surrounding genre fiction.
Second thing: Regardless, that's with all stories, though. "Literary" fiction was regarded much more highly, but even then? Magazines, even small unknowns like BMR have a pretty high volume of material coming in all the time. People usually put in about an hour at a time to reading submissions, and by the end of it it all starts to blend together and it's hard to give ANY story a fair shot. It's pretty shitty that one's story can get panned and rejected because of things like this, but it happens.
Not that you shouldn't submit your work. I personally feel your story needs a couple of revisions before it will get picked up (and when I'm around IRC later this week I'm totally down to bounce ideas around), but you really shouldn't let that stop you. Revise it, yes, but send it out now regardless, then send out the revision later. Worst case, you have a bunch of rejection slips and getting rejected next time is easier. Best case, the story strikes the right chord with the right person/group, and blam, you're published. There's certainly going to be different standards at different magazines, but above all getting published is a pretty damn fickle thing.
Last bit of advice: If you want a good shot at breaking the slush reader malaise you need a damn fine first two pages and a good follow through the next few. One of the editors told me she only read the first two pages unless it really hooked her, and only finished reading if it didn't immediately drop off in the next couple. This is important. More important than that, though, is the ending. I can't count how many times I read a story, completely prepared to recommend it for a discussion meeting and then to argue for it to be published, and then the ending sucked--or worse, it was simply mediocre. So keep that in mind--strong beginning, stronger end. It matters.
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Hoo. Man. So I didn't realize this class was ending this week until a couple nights ago. Busy busy busy. Final paper done, and I finally heard back from some teachers who are willing to let me sit in on their classes. Huzzah! Now I just have the final project and test to do. Not so bad, except that the project is due Saturday evening, and I have no days off until then. It's doable, but ugh.
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Andy: http://rebeltales.com/ - They're looking for fantasy stories. The one heading it is a writer herself. I don't know what sort of periodicals you're looking for but hey, the more you can spread yourself the better, right?
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FWIW, I think Andy is planning on submitting primarily to genre magazines in the first place.
Not that it helps TOO much. Acceptance rates are still 1 in 100,000, and that's before weeding out those stories that are written by established authors with Names.
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Man, those acceptance rates make scientific journals look promiscuous with their acceptance rates >_>
Uh...I've reviewed for scientific journals and submitted (and been accepted) to several, so if any advice from there would help, feel free to ask.
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A lot less people write (serious properly researched) for scientific journals than write genre fiction, sooo yeah <_<
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FWIW, I think Andy is planning on submitting primarily to genre magazines in the first place.
Well, then ignore all the stuff I said about fitting the aesthetics of the magazine because he's already doing that. What I've said about the arbitrariness inherent in getting a story picked up and the notes about the strong beginning and end still hold true, I imagine. That's the nice thing about dealing with "literature" (god someone needs to come up with a better term for that)--whatever's happening in that realm is applicable to "genre" fiction more often than not.
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From here on out we replace all instances of "Literature" with "Macking on some bitches"
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Second thing: Regardless, that's with all women, though. "Mackin' on Bitches" was regarded much more highly, but even then? Magdalenes, even small unknowns like BMR have a pretty high volume of material coming in all the time.
That's the nice thing about dealing with "mackin' on bitches" .... whatever's happening in that realm is applicable to "masturbating and crying yourself to sleep" more often than not.
I like it.
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Yeah. I'm looking to pretty much submit exclusively to rags/ezines that focus on SF. Trust me, I know well and good about the opinions that the community holds regarding genre fiction. Its been something I love to rant about on a fairly regular basis, actually. Anyhow, based on last night's research, as it stands, my most reasonable list of candidates (thus far, provided I didn't bookmark a couple extras) looks like...
Fantasy and Science Fiction
The Absent Willow Review
Abyss and Apex (at a later date)
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
Basement Stories
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld Magazine
Clonepod
Daily Science Fiction
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
OG's Speculative Fiction
On Spec Magazine
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
PodCastle (in theory)
Realms of Fantasy
Reflection's Edge
Tor
and the L. Ron Hubbard Writer's of the Future Contest.
Blorch. So I've got a starting place at least, which means I can focus on revisions for the moment.
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Dog got in a dog fight. Not the most fun I've had in the past few months!
He's fine. A few scrapes we'll take him to the vet to check tomorrow, but nothing serious -- no broken bones, missing ears, torn muscles, etc. So, so angry at the other dog owners, though: 6 or 7 of them, and NOT ONE moved to do anything. Dog fights are MUCH safer to intervene in when everyone grabs a dog.
Instead, once Andrew pulled Tally free, everyone went on as if nothing had happened, letting their dogs resume roaming. It almost started a second fight.
For once, too, it wasn't Tally's fault that there was aggression. Some other dog took it as a matter of personal honor to defend to the death the stick that Tally had been sharing with three other dogs not 2 minutes before.
So much lame. :(
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http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
As I approach the one-year anniversary of working from home, this comic really speaks to me.
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HOOBA PORKRIND, Shale?
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HURR VIDYAGAMEZ
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NO PEEPEES.
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/me is dumbstruck by the image of people having sex in a giant vagina.
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Did you just discover 40k?
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obviously I'm talking about this.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/working_home/10.png)
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Well at least there aren't any ghosts.
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So in less entertaining news, doggy went to the vet today to make sure the wounds weren't terrible. He got staples. He will need to go back in 4-6 days for a check-up. Then again in 10-13 to remove the staples. CHA-CHING, CHA-CHING.
I have never felt more stupid for not agreeing to pay someone $50/month. (Pet insurance. Get it. Love it.)
The really awesome/gorey part? (Don't read if you're squeamish!) The big wound actually WAS exposing muscle and tendon, like I thought.
Poor puppy. He's at least in high spirits, despite having to wear the Cone of Shame again.
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:( At least he's all right.
Also, having lived with a irresponsible dog owner (well, irresponsible in that she never trained her dog to not start fights which made walking the boy a fucking chore... sometimes an expensive one*), I sympathize with the "Fuck those guys" sentiment.
*On that note, actually, it may be too late now but you totally should have raised shit about this and tried to get them to pay for your dog's treatment. There may be some legal recourse if you had and they didn't? Maybe not. Still this is something you really shouldn't have had to pay for.
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Cats have scats. I found out my neighbor's humungo-cat was beating up my kitten who would be outside on the porch with my other cat. Yes, I let my cats outside, therefore I am responsible. However. Humungocat was ripping fur off, etc. So. I caught the neighbor when they were checking the mail.
"Hey, your cat is beating the shit out my cat."
"Is it?"
"Yeah, I might beat the shit out of it next time."
Inconveniently the cat was found two weeks later dead in-between my yard and my neighbor (who never stays at home). I thought it was a bunny in the morning when I went to work. Obviously not when I came home. Walked over to their house: "Your cat is dead in my yard. . . . I think." Apparently his cat hadn't been eating, but I still feel like they have it in for me. I would never harm an animal besides a little spanking on the butt though.
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It is indeed too late to do anything about it (though I've run into the owner of at least one of those dogs in the past, so I know they're regulars). I am planning on writing up a poster to put on the boards about breaking up dog fights, though. It's really not cool for everyone to just stand back and then pretend nothing happened.
The main reason we didn't do anything while we were there is because we didn't even know he was injured until we pulled him far enough away that the other dogs (who, again, were not being restrained) couldn't come after him. Even after noting that he had a few scrapes, I didn't understand the extent of them until we got home and I could clean them.
Not really sure what I would have done at the time. I was very angry but also just worried about getting Tally out before he got beat up on more/was traumatized.
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Oh wow ... *hugs Idun and LD* Scary stuffs.
I didn't know you had a new kitten Idun.
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Oh, I don't. This was two years ago when my cat wasn't even one. Just hearing about LD's situation made me blabber.
I think the next thing we're going for is a puppy, preferably under 10lbs as we'll be in an apartment and the costs for food'll be cheaper. I want to name him Hubert.
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Class finished. Just got to student teach now. That's looking like I'll have something set up soon, so soon I will be certified get paid to tell people things about English.
5 year plan is moving slowly. Needs more oppressed workers arranging the blocks. Or something. I'm going to go sleep for a week.
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Mother@#(*@!
Last night's fun at the club got a lot less fun as I realized this morning that I seem to have dropped my keys somewhere. The club doesn't have them, which means they're either on the streets in San Francisco, or got picked up somewhere here in Oakland. Ugh.
That leaves us with a bare set of keys, and me without my key to get into work. :(
Why do I have to misplace keys on the effing weekend all the time, too? God.
I think I need to physically attach these things to my body next time. I'm sure someone can thread a piercing with one of those rings you put your keys on. Or better yet, implant the clip-on part of a badge reel so that I can bungee them.
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Key earrings, the new black.
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This is an odd story, but I have a friend who had a similar problem. What she decided to do was tape them to the inside of her bra, and covered them with a bit of tissue so they wouldn't hurt her breasts with the sharp end of the key. Apparently work well for her (granted, she was also a DDD before the breast reduction, but it still worked with a C cup).
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Spent a lot of the day working on Memory Assisted Correction, or MAC. I have discovered that I decided that I really needed the rest of the cast of Nightman Cometh with me for my Doppleganger Party I'm throwing next month. Well, I need a Day Man, and the only way that's happening is if I have a Troll.
So I call my friend Drew up, and told him he needed to start working on his Troll guy costume. Somehow the term "bouncy castle" came in to the conversation and he informed me that if I had a bouncy castle there was no way he wouldn't come as the troll.
I told him I had "a guy." A bouncy castle guy.
Other shit happened, but most immediately I need to find a bouncy castle guy so that I can get my ensemble cast together, because god damn if I haven't already committed to this.
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The Internet is back on the ship! Everyone at breakfast was talking about how much they wanted Internet back and it's highly amusing how much it dominates everyone's entertainment.
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So I'm going to ask an incredibly selfish question!
Is there anywhere here who has any connections with Blizzard Entertainment or an employee there? I'd love, love LOVE to get into some of the betas they have and I know that if you have any connection with them that you can pretty much get into whatever you want.
If anyone would be willing to help me out, please send me a message.
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So I'm going to ask an incredibly selfish question!
Is there anywhere here who has any connections with Blizzard Entertainment or an employee there? I'd love, love LOVE to get into some of the betas they have and I know that if you have any connection with them that you can pretty much get into whatever you want.
If anyone would be willing to help me out, please send me a message.
GET IN LINE BITCH.
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Fuck Hurricane season.
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I have a job! It is at a hardware store. Setting up party tents, taking down party tents. Delivering multi-ton shipments of wood pellets and removing them from the truck then stacking them by hand. Hanging out with people who have semi-casual conversations about which friends or family are in jail.
At least I'm making money, and it should only be a few months - and work will die down once people stop having parties under outdoor tents and most people have their wood pellets. Which might mean losing hours. Ah well.
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Mercury is in retrograde. OH YES, it most definitely is.
>_<
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Fuck you, Mercury!
Finally got everything moved out of the old apartment yesterday. Cleaned it top to bottom, turned in the keys, and now I'm well and truly gone. Yay!
Now I just have to move in. So many boxes...
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So my keys got stolen this morning.
I found the ones I thought I'd lost over the weekend (they were in a drawer I had no reason to think would possibly have my keys -- still not sure how they got there). This morning after I came back from the gym, I checked my mail. I got distracted, took the elevator up, and then realized I couldn't get into my apartment. After a quick curse, I went back to take the elevator down to the lobby -- and I JUST missed it as it went down to the floor below me. I wait for it, take it down -- and my keys are freaking gone.
GREAT.
No one is standing around trying to find the owner of the keys, no one goes up to the apartment the keys belong to (they were in my mailbox still, which is labeled with the apartment number), and I just finished calling 1) my leasing office; 2) the cafe across the street which is open at 6am; 3) the deli diagonally across the street which is also open early, and none of them have it.
So someone in my building stole my keys.
Goddamnit. >_<
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Do you have -any- keys left? :(
Man, with all the key-swapping that went on during the weeks us DL people were staying with you, and no lost keys then... and then like a week later, 3? sets of lost keys!
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I have the key + fob that I got when my brother was here.
Other than that, Andrew lost his keys (and jacket) on July 30th, and I lost my keys this weekend, found them yesterday, and had them taken today.
So I only lost -2- sets of keys, thankyouverymuch.
Not that it matters. Because of today's set being deliberately taken (and not returned to any sensible location), I have to change my locks.
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Between DLCon, hosting DLers, the dog fight, and now the locks, I've spent about $1000 more than I usually do in any given month. Let's just say that my budget is NOT that flexible, and I'm just glad I had the emergency savings to cover everything. Well, glad is not the right word for it. But at least trying to find the money for it is one less worry.
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So I'm heading back home for a few days. My best friend's grandmother died and I quite care about her, so I am heading out to her funeral on Saturday.
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mrf. Take care.
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I think happy pills have fried my brains. Either that or I've become too good at building fortifications. Nuuumb~
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I'm sorry Ciato.
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My favorite seasons are the Equinoxes, and I'm not sure how this came to be. Despite my incapability in eloquently explaining why, I'm starting to believe that the Equinoxes in the South are what keeps me somewhat linked with the North (less humidity, more color in sceneries, balanced lights for day and nights) whereas I've been cheated out of developing an exquisite taste for distinct seasons.
I've been waking up early and staying outside late just to feel the weather that I'm talking about. Plus it just smells a bit better. Then 10ish-11ish throughout the day I'm at work and can avoid the nasty humidity.
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Hard to argue with that. The weather has been perfect this week. Right around 8 and sunny, with a nice breeze and not humid.
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Bought tickets to go see Kamelot at the end of the month! <3
If my coworker fails me, I will fucking kill him.
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This is my jealous face.
Seriously, though, that's pretty cool. I wonder what kind of weird fantasy-themed show they would put on live?
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:( :( :(
The car got broken into. They broke the rear driver's side window (the little triangle window). YES, THAT'S RIGHT. THEY DIDN'T EVEN BREAK THE WINDOW ON THE ALREADY BROKEN DOOR.
They stole the little GPS thingy, and the air pump from the trunk. That's it. They left the power cord for the GPS, the iPod adapter, the GPS window bracket, and everything else - they smashed the window on the good side of the car to steal a ~$100 GPS.
Goddamnit.
Cost to repair the window? $237.95.
Guess how much Andrew just made in overtime? GEE. Just about that much!
>_<
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At least you can afford to fix it!
Man, is California always so crime-filled?
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Long day. Observed 5 hours of ESL classes (2 intermediate classes, one "integrated" class which was basically an intermediate class with 2 or 3 beginners and advanced students thrown in), and spoke with the teacher for about an hour and a half overall. Practicum requirements meet. The teacher I'm observing is a really energetic woman who loves teaching and loves talking about teaching. This is good, but I'm pretty information overloaded at the end of the day. I wish I could spread this out a little better, but I can't take any time off work until training's over, so I have only one day a week to get this taken care of. Maybe doing observation past my practicum requirement will be good for me, so if nothing else I have more time for this to sink in. And maybe I'll get some tutoring experience in addition to the observation out of it.
Zenny's 5 year plan is progressing.
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At least you can afford to fix it!
Man, is California always so crime-filled?
Yes. At least I can afford to fix it. :| This is like one of those stupid money cycles poor people get into, where they end up getting just enough money to pull ahead -- and then something happens and it all falls down again.
Except I'm not poor which makes this whole analogy terrible and terribly offensive.
First-world problems, blah blah, yes, I have them.
Anyway, I do live in Oakland. Everything you've heard about the city was true until about 5 years ago, and obviously its ugly face crops up now and again. ... oh right, except the break-in happened in Berkeley. Well... it was a few blocks from the train tracks?
No, I think I just hate humanity a little more.
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Hooray, Zenny!
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At least you can afford to fix it!
Man, is California always so crime-filled?
Yes. At least I can afford to fix it. :| This is like one of those stupid money cycles poor people get into, where they end up getting just enough money to pull ahead -- and then something happens and it all falls down again.
Except I'm not poor which makes this whole analogy terrible and terribly offensive.
First-world problems, blah blah, yes, I have them.
Anyway, I do live in Oakland. Everything you've heard about the city was true until about 5 years ago, and obviously its ugly face crops up now and again. ... oh right, except the break-in happened in Berkeley. Well... it was a few blocks from the train tracks?
No, I think I just hate humanity a little more.
If it's a University, people will break into your car.
Rather, if you're around other people and have a car, someone will break into your car. C'est la vie. Doesn't sound like this is your month, though. Sorry to hear it. Hope everything works out. "At least it can't get any worse", right?
On the upside, you can forgo getting it fixed and then duct tape a garbage bag over it. Then next time someone breaks in they'll just be tearing up a garbage bag. Best of all it costs less than 10 bucks!
EDIT: So I can't figure out a way to edit this not to sound douche-ier than I mean to come off, so I give up. Deal with it?
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No, I think I just hate humanity a little more.
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Hooray, Zenny!
It took me a minute to realize that these two statements weren't related.
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Found my reported/lost passport?
Where? In my GRE study book. I can only conclude that I should study more. I can't think of it as a waste of money either, as it allowed me to go to Egypt. Permanent residency document at least. Yeah, Charles and I will get our passports at the same time sometime next year then.
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1. Hey, kids, credit card debt is bad!
2. Student loans are annoying.
3. Don't live in a high cost of living area, especially if 1 and 2 apply to you.
Starting to apply for evening/weekend part-time jobs to fill some of the gaps in income. It's a temporary crunch, and the second job isn't -really- necessary, but it will make me feel better to have a bit more money to throw at debts and into savings against catastrophes and mini-disasters (like the last couple months of "are you kidding me?" annoyances).
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You kids have any plans of moving elsewhere? It may not be a bad idea... being broke all the time is a lot easier with a lower cost of living. Which prolly includes everywhere, considering you live in California.
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We have considered other places, like Portland, but without a friend base and without jobs, it's all sort of moot. We don't really have the money to move. Isn't that just so totally catch-22.
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Yeah, I feel you on that. Still, it might be worth thinking about if you can manage to keep your heads above water long enough.
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Met MC (: One word: adorable!
Very comfortable night. Two things have happened: my internet-meet-a-person-cherry has finally been popped, and it was by a Canadian~ WHAT!
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Met dunie
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, fun.
must reprouce this experience.
So...I remind her of this tiny hyper asian chick who was into Justin Beiber. I am deeply flattered by this. Even if I've tried and failed to get into Justin Beiber music >_>
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Of course. It shall happen again! Hopefully for longer w/o mom interruptions.
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So...I remind her of this tiny hyper asian chick who was into Justin Beiber.
Sounds right.
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So a bunch of my friends are leaving to do some after-college travelling, so I went to their going away party last night. I got tired and went to go sleep in my car while the party was going on, keys in my backpack so I wasn't tempted to drive home intoxicated.
Somehow, I woke up in their house. Keys still in my backpack. Backpack still in my car. fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuckin' thank god for Triple A, anyway. And then I went to work. And now I'm off.
You know, my day felt a lot more eventful than it actually was. Go go gadget Triple A.
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I hate the first Japanese person who was sitting around one day, eating dinner, when he says to himself "You know what would make this meal better? A buncha pickled baby fish corpses," and then proceeded to put a fistful of translucent organ-bags in his salad.
I also hate the Japanese people who were like "Man, this is DELICIOUS!"
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Went to Brandon Sanderson signing event. Picked up some swag, got a bunch of stuff signed. Posted a pic of it all in the Books thread if you're interested in seeing what I came back with (http://www.rpgdl.com/forums/index.php/topic,298.msg116755.html#msg116755).
He was a pretty laid back guy. I just missed seeing the reading when I showed up (shoved in the very back of a crowd of ~100 people in a store made to hold 75 at most), but the Q&A was very interesting. He talked about his writing process, where he gets his inspiration for the magic systems, what his plans are for upcoming books, how he handles religion and religious individuals in his books, etc., etc. Enlightening!
When we got up to the table for the signing, Andrew casually asked him "how he handled pacing his novels." Since he'd talked about his method of plotting out book events by starting with the end and working backward until he came up with a starting point, his answer elaborated on his tendency to pick out and plot specific action points and then build the characters to move from scene to scene. It put the Sanderson Avalanche in a much more understandable context -- after all, if you already know how it ends, and the trick is getting to that ending, why would you need to spend time absorbing what happens at the end when you've just spent the entire book explaining exactly how and why things got to this point?
He says his writing plan is essentially:
1. Finish Wheel of Time
2. Write 2 more books in the projected 10 book Stormlight Archive (what this new book, Way of Kings, is the start of)
3. An Elantris sequel
4. Everything else, with the occasional Alcatraz book thrown in to get out "the wiggles" (as he called them)
Good times. :) Looking forward to going to the Tachyon Publications 15th Anniversary Party and Presentation of the Annual Emperor Norton Awards next Sunday. Cherie Priest (Boneshaker) will be at the same store in October, too.
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Note my jealously. That sounds like a really cool signing- hell, any signing where you get a Malkier bumper sticker is a good one.
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I hate the first Japanese person who was sitting around one day, eating dinner, when he says to himself "You know what would make this meal better? A buncha pickled baby fish corpses," and then proceeded to put a fistful of translucent organ-bags in his salad.
I also hate the Japanese people who were like "Man, this is DELICIOUS!"
Fish is quite delicious, you know.
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I've grown a capricious addiction for Google Instant and finding its holes. I love the fortuitous general searches, but I abhor the more obscure searches with actual inclusive search tags.
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Ah, speaking of which, puppy hunting/apartment searching tomorrow. Was interested in adopting a lab/n.american bulldog mix, but the dog'll be roughly 60-90lbs - too large for an apartment. I would love to have a dog that size in a larger apartment, but we don't know the size of the apts yet, so no point in jumping the gun. That way, I can have him eat intruders who come after a lil-o-innocent-girl like me. Stopping by a few humane societies, etc. Our max is 2 months in age, and $150 dollars to adopt (including neuter, UTD shots). Our money jar will pay for 90% of this. Then we'll stop at Doguroo and get him on the puppy Go Natural Grain Free chow they have. I think I'm addicted to that company. Much longer post than this needs to be.
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Note my jealously. That sounds like a really cool signing- hell, any signing where you get a Malkier bumper sticker is a good one.
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Found a litter of free terrier mix puppies!! Will come home Monday with a new puppy. Either a Roland or a Mordecai, yes, Borderlands, stfu.
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Oh, right. Programming is about documentation and whittling away time with details that are seriously irrelevant (comments for lines that seriously don't need commenting, setting up your header on top of a program just so so that the TA can't whine), not about being able to program well or get things done.
I suddenly, angrily remember why I began to hate this field.
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FINALLY.
Man, was hoping to submit that paper a month ago.
Now, just to wait and see if it's rejected or not!
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So, now in addition to doing classroom observation, I'm going to be tutoring one of the students in a class I attended earlier today in reading and writing.
Holy shit I just realized I have no idea how to actually do that.
Um. Hoo. Okay, I gotta figure that out by Sunday I guess.
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Roland got his shots+dewormer+stuff from Jack's vet. I've never used Iams for two reasons: previously when I owned animals I was unemployed and could not afford it; since I am now employed and can afford much better, I will continue to keep him on the Go! Natural regimen. There is a sick ass coupon in the free puppy kit the vet gave me (8.00 coupon for Iams food), and depending on my mood, maybe I'll buy some? Maybe I'll give the coupon to my mom. His puppy chow is $21 with tax. So. We'll see.
Another thing: he is a fast learner. He's really getting a hang of stay, no, quiet and leave. This makes me happy as he's been exhausting me at 7,9,10,11 AM times waking up indecisively. OH! Speaking of which: apparently he likes his leash. I know I've had him for three official days, but I've never walked a puppy for so long (trying to tire him out) with this much ease.
Made him a makeshift home with cardboard boxes!
Need to study for the GREs. Jack is lurking in the shades. Gotta get him his yearly rabies shot in October.
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And now it's time for another "Good Idea; Bad Idea"
Good Idea: Ironing your clothes
Bad Idea: Ironing your clothes naked
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Good idea: Not reading OK's posts.
Bad idea: Eeeeeeeew.
Got my new big-screen TV! It is 46 inches and shiny as all hell. Games look great, and I'm finally getting some use out of that top-of-the-line upconverting DVD player I bought a couple of years ago. I just wish I didn't have to wade through menus to turn game mode or the 120Hz function on and off. Is there really any reason not to have a remote button for something like that?
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Yes, have you ever seen not tech savvy people use a remote? Especially if they are over the age of 45 having not grown up with abstract interfaces? Painful.
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Tutoring session over. Way less difficult than I thought -- my student's problems with spelling are pretty fundamental, so most of it was practicing associating sounds with letter combinations. Not that it made it easy for the student, but I was certainly over prepared, so hey.
More tutoring tomorrow, more classroom observation. Practicum will be complete by next Monday, and then I can take a little break. I'm certainly going to keep tutoring as long as people want me to, and continue classroom observation when convenient, but then the 12 hour days will stop. >_>
Blah blah blah arranging some blocks, five year plan. Feels good man.
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Went to the local air show today. Pretty fun- The Blue Angels were good, and Matt Chapman also stood out, as did the Jet Truck or whatever it was called.
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This weekend was awesome. Birthday weekend, had a friend visiting from the other side of the country, met up with him and about 12 other friends on Friday evening. DDRed myself half to death, then dragged people back to my house for a few hours.
Saturday, went wandering into town again, DDRed more, said goodbye to a friend who's off to university. Then back home to meet more people for a birthday evening consisting of singing along to the original Kanto Pokerap, You Are a Pirate and playing random games about Pokemon and games. Got to sleep at about 6am.
Woke up the next day, lurked at home for a while before meeting some friends in town for food and drinks.
Long story short, 'twas an awesome weekend. I keep getting told I'm old now, which is quite funny given that I'm one of the younger members of the DL~
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S'you're just a whippersnapper. :V
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I'm pretty sure you just insulted everyone Yoshi!
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This weekend was awesome. Birthday weekend, had a friend visiting from the other side of the country, met up with him and about 12 other friends on Friday evening. DDRed myself half to death, then dragged people back to my house for a few hours.
Saturday, went wandering into town again, DDRed more, said goodbye to a friend who's off to university. Then back home to meet more people for a birthday evening consisting of singing along to the original Kanto Pokerap, You Are a Pirate and playing random games about Pokemon and games. Got to sleep at about 6am.
Woke up the next day, lurked at home for a while before meeting some friends in town for food and drinks.
Long story short, 'twas an awesome weekend. I keep getting told I'm old now, which is quite funny given that I'm one of the younger members of the DL~
I keep getting the impression you live in one of those really cliched slice-of-life anime where you're sent to a retirement home when you hit the age of 22.
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never trust anyone older than 15.
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Yeah. They're too old to kiss at that point.
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[20:25] <Hello-StrawmanthedralWaddleDee> ... holy fuck
[20:25] <Hello-StrawmanthedralWaddleDee> holy fuck
[20:25] <Hello-StrawmanthedralWaddleDee> holy fuck my mom is moving out holy fuck my sister is moving in holy fuck what are we going to -do-
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There go all the home cooked meals~
(on a side note, is this a bad thing?)
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I have no fucking -clue-. It's different and change terrifies me.
EDIT: My mother's moving out ain't happening until December, though, so I at least have some time to digest this.
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[20:25] <Hello-StrawmanthedralWaddleDee> ... holy fuck
[20:25] <Hello-StrawmanthedralWaddleDee> holy fuck
[20:25] <Hello-StrawmanthedralWaddleDee> holy fuck my mom is moving out holy fuck my sister is moving in holy fuck what are we going to -do-
I have no fucking -clue-. It's different and change terrifies me.
EDIT: My mother's moving out ain't happening until December, though, so I at least have some time to digest this.
Uh.
Um. I... don't understand.
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Uh.
Um. I... don't understand.
Is not his mom supposed to try and get rid of him? I concur.
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Teacher: "Okay, so we need a responsible volunteer to organise some of this stuff. They'll also be responsible for communications with management and to communicate the students' wishes to us. So, any volunteers?"
Silence.
"Okay! So why don't we have Bard do it?"
And this is a story all about how my life got flip turned upside down. And I'd like to take a moment so sit right down I'll tell you 'bout how I became part of the student council.
... Actually, I still don't know how that happened, exactly. Uh, yay?
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And thus another harem anime starts.
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Harem animes would be better if they were more like Bel-Air.
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There's not much that could make most harem anime even worse. Of course, add the Gundam Wing cast and you just accomplished that.
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Somehow I have faith in harem anime to find a way.
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I dunno man, I mean, Akikan already happened.
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Akikan has the Gundam Wing cast?
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the Gundam Wing cast could only make it better. Significantly so.
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the Gundam Wing cast could only make it better. Significantly so.
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The premise of Gundam-based Akikan frightens me far more than just Akikan. Most of all because it suddenly turns the giant mech genre into giant mech porn (well, moreso than the budget hentai-doujinshi industry already has...).
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Unrelated note!
Today my students were tasked with crafting their own poems in English. We gave them a -very- restricted format and a bunch of suggested easy topics like "Moon, Stars, Hope, Friends," etc.
One of my students came up with this little gem, following our strict 1/2/3/4/1-word format:
Stars
Fighting Friends
Ada, Claire, Leon
Now they're so dead
Tyrant
I chuckled.
Another student picked "Sky" for his topic, and it struck my creative streak.
Sky
It's blue.
Sunny, Cloudy, Rainy,
She has many faces
_____
He couldn't think of an ending for this cute little poem, and it admittedly stumped me. I don't quite know what his intention was, and I couldn't think of a good suggestion for him.
So after mulling it over for a bit, I became curious how the DLers might finish it.
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*waving up at the sky* Hello!
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*Staring fixated on his hands.* Whoa...
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Hah, that is cute.
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In other school related news, we finally met face-to-face with the guy doing our timetables. Who turns out to be a she. We had an hour of Languages by a teacher who did not even exist. She came to formally apologise for this screw up, and we've had the opportunity to discuss our timetable's weird hours! Which was good!
We became a little derpherp again when it turned out she'd also mistakingly assigned three classes to a 32-person classroom. (we're a class of 32)
So in the end we started dirt early, and got off dirt late, and only had class the first two hours and last hour. Whooops. Hopefully this won't be a trend.
Our maths teacher had us math out how many years one would need to note down all numbers from 1 to 1,000,000, assuming 40 numbers for every 15 seconds. Ye gods.
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40 digits*?
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Yeah. 40 digits per 15 seconds.
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The company I work for has been having "financial issues." Not shocking since it's not only a publishing company, it's an educational publishing company. Anyway, we had a Mergers & Acquisitions executive join our office as COO, and one of his goals was to have an in-service focus group where he'd pull representative members of each department (shortest tenure, longest tenure, basically) and run them through this team building thought exercise gauntlet to generate some discussion on our strategic plan for the next 5 years.
I got picked. This meant I got to work yesterday (8:30-5), then stay late (5-10:30), then spend all of today (10-4) with 20 of my coworkers, including the CEO/President and the COO, discussing the state of our company.
It was ... interesting. Informative. Something we should do regularly, honestly (at least as far as reviewing what we're doing, what our competition is doing, and what our market is interested in). Not entirely sure how it will pan out in practice.
I think I may have complained about my job once or twice (hah), and these past two days have made me realize a little bit more about why that is. Primarily, our company is just flat out unhealthy, business-wise. The culture is reflecting this. Our processes reflect this. EVERYTHING reflects this - it's become our identity.
So the reason I liked this company so much was its idealism. I'm an idealist! It appeals to me. The CEO/President has a great vision for what she wants our company to do. Actually executing that vision has turned into the problem, and that has been the core issue. But how much of that is really going to change as a result of these focus group exercises? That remains to be seen.
And the answer to that is the bottom line in whether I'm staying at this company or not.
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I hate feeling like a student again ;_;
Stupid certification exam
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I thought you liked the feel of students.
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He's a pharmicist, not a procotolgist.
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Whee, get paid in a week or so. It only took six weeks to finally get paid after being rehired this time! I need another job.
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He's a pharmicist, not a procotolgist.
There's a difference? As a pharmacist, he's used to slipping doses of drugs to underaged kids.
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I almost got in a fight with an associate in the break room on my lunch at work today.
Gotta love the prepositions.
Bitch fucking pissed me off. I don't even want to talk about what HAD happened, but an associate started to escort me out when they saw bloodshot red eyes and me not backing down saying "Yes I am fucking serious."
Ugly fucking mid-30s bag needs to take her ridiculously unnecessary negative and rude-bitch attitude somewhere else. I don't know why she hasn't been fired yet.
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Concert, didn't have to bail early on this one because it was seating.
The Chemist was first support, didn't know they were even playing. Not bad, might pick up a CD. Was going to, but they could only accept cash and I was out of tender. They sounded pretty garage, none of their songs were terribly original, their influences were incredibly obvious and they badly needed to fix up their sound levels (too loud for the venue). All of this was fine, I like a garage sound, garage is normally too loud for its own good, the transparency of their influences is why the songs didn't seem original and those transparent influences were widely ranged and all very good taste. Australian band from Perth. No light show. Good show. Worth seeing. Better than The Vines were at Powderfinger, automatic win (The Vines suck hard just as an FYI)
Next up Silversun Pickups played, they were the advertised support, they are who I paid to see. They were the only band that had their sound levels right. You could you know hear and enjoy everything they played. Instrumentation was a bit distorted and the vocals could have been a touch more pronounced. My little brother was a bit bummed out that they didn't sound as good as some live recordings he has, but eh, they were the support act. They wouldn't have been given nearly as much precedence on getting the sound setup done properly. The fact that they had the volumes right and while slightly distorted everything was audible was enough for me. Well worth the $60 ticket price (for reference, Metallica tickets set my siblings back like double that, Gorrilaz are just short of double that) and I highly reccomend them to everyone. They worked the crowd and just were happy to be playing Australia again it seemed. They also sounded pretty garage at times, but yeah already covered audio stuffs above. Easilly the most stage presence for the night. Had a light show but never stopped you from seeing the whole band. Was awesome. Oh and the keyboard player looked like Hal (from very far away), hat, beard, glasses, skinny guy, probably tall (was sitting). He rocked out. It was pretty fun. The bass guitarist was good to watch, she was relaxed and pretty cool. Oddly the Hal association made me think of Metroid when watching her play. So yeah that probably helped give me a general positive association, making me think of two of my favourite DLers and getting me thinking about DL Cons in general rubs off positive over all (also I think I still haven't written a DLC5 post con wrap up, need to get on to that). They are from the States (California I think?), so you US types might see them touring (Haha DL giving a fuck about music)
The headlining act, now here I am just going to be mean. These guys weren't bad, let me just get that out up front, but I am just plain going to be mean. Take that into account along with the fact that I didn't go to see them and don't know their stuff very well. First up, their light show was fucking shit. That normal strobing bullshit ruining fucking everything. YOU DIDN'T WANT TO SEE THE BAND YOU PAYED TO WATCH RIET GUYS??!?? Normal headache inducing crap (at least it wasn't yellow lights). There was one truely inspired bit for like 30 seconds where they decided to play a projected sped up image of what looked like TV static playing while strobes went off. Thanks guys. They had no stage presence, and with the shitty fucking light show you could forget half the band was even there, you could rarely ever see the keyboarder or drummer in the dark. Seriously fuck this shit. When are we going to get over that crap and just go back to old school single colour washes? It might be boring, but you can SEE ANYTHING AT ALL. But yeah so you could barely see them and when you could? No stage presence whatsoever, so there was no fucking point (probably why they had the light show). Just no charisma to hold the crowd at all. The few points of engaging the crowd were dull and flat where the only person engaging was the singer. You know who can get away with an amazing concert with only the singer engaging the audience? People like Billy Corgan and Robert Smith. Honestly, between the light show and the boring stage presence, I honestly fell asleep at one point. Audio wise? Everything was clear and audible, they were setup well and used it well. Then of course they made it way too fucking loud and didn't even have that garage sound to it. Annoying and stupid and not the kind of music you can even justify it.
And here is where I get really mean.
Everyone was wearing skinny jeans. You know what is not a good look? Skinny jeans and a tartan print shirt. Skinny jeans on three dudes. Skinny jeans while you are playing instruments. Skinny jeans while all you are doing is singing. Skinny jeans where you are dancing like the whitest dude ever. It is an awesome way to look amazingly effeminate while not having the hair cut or top to carry it like the great classics (Jagger, Bowie, etc). If you are going to look androgynous you need to do it all over, not just from the waist down. You know what is hard? Dancing in skinny jeans. The lead singer spent like an hour and a half on stage I think. I lost track because I fell asleep. Anyway I took a note on my phone "White guy dancing in skinny jeans" because it was all I was taking out from this show. It struck me about half way through that he looked like a Thunderbird trying to dance. Now here is the really sad part. Where the Silversun Pickups got me thinking about how I should really probably put together a DLC write up because I had good times, this got me thinking about WoW. When you make me think about MMOs I have actually actively quit, wow, that is a pretty bad show.
Concert was totally worth it though, Silversun Pickups were totally worth the price of entry and I learned that I don't really care for Birds of Tokyo (they are fine, just not my cup of tea) and found another band that might be alright.
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Sounds like this whole concert could have been easily remedied if only no one had worn any pants.
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That has been done many times before. None of these bands were popular enough to get away with it.
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Today is Museum Day. This means you get into any Smithsonian-affiliate museum for free, just by printing the ticket. This also means, this is a cultural fucking excursion at no cost besides time, gas and wardrobe. Go to the fucking museum batches and see what their hegemonic-tastes have decided our acmes in art have been. Most fucking museums close at 5PM, but fuck it, there's god damn martini nights on Thurs and Fri at many, meaning you'll be in a presumably motherfucking adult crowd, so fucking GO.
(:
I <3 art.
As I motherfucking modify, the tickets stipulate the fucking 25th, but check your damned museum 'cause the High is apparently taking some today.
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...when did Idun turn into Grefter?
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Idun has a BA in Art History as I recall, so that'd be "she never wasn't grefter".
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Hi fucking fives for the Idun, bitches.
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Went down to the Oceanfront today to catch some of the Neptune festival, which is an end of summer/get the fuck out tourists/sandcastle building extravaganza. Oceanfront was completely slammed, so it took my friend and I about an hour to park, and an hour to leave. Still completely worth it, though- where else could I see a miniature Moscow city model made out of sand?
Also, parking lots charging 20 bucks was so fucked up that it actually belies my ability to convey what a ripoff that is with mere profanity.
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Got my root canal.
Didn't feel *shit.* Granted, I went in there with apprehension, but fortunately the multiple shots numbed the fuck out of my face. I feel like the Joker right now. Might as well spend some more money and schedule a follow appointment for a buildup and crown at the regular dentist. :| I still don't feel much pain really. i realize something is occurring in my mouth though. Thankfully I went to an endodontist. I hear horror stories for people who go to general practitioners.
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Got my root canal.
Didn't feel *shit.* Granted, I went in there with apprehension, but fortunately the multiple shots numbed the fuck out of my face. I feel like the Joker right now. Might as well spend some more money and schedule a follow appointment for a buildup and crown at the regular dentist. :| I still don't feel much pain really. i realize something is occurring in my mouth though. Thankfully I went to an endodontist. I hear horror stories for people who go to general practitioners.
Root canals from a skilled dentist don't really hurt. Mildly uncomfortable holding your mouth open while you listen to screeching drilling sounds, but that's about it.
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It's like a snow day, and it's 27 degrees! 27 degrees Celsius, that is.
Power went out at work and it won't be back until about 1-2 hours before the business day is over anyway. So they sent everyone to "work from home." HAHAH, SUCKERS! I can't. I barely have access to my work email from home, nevermind the servers or databases.
So... hooray for a paid half-day where I don't actually have to work!
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Got my root canal.
Didn't feel *shit.* Granted, I went in there with apprehension, but fortunately the multiple shots numbed the fuck out of my face. I feel like the Joker right now. Might as well spend some more money and schedule a follow appointment for a buildup and crown at the regular dentist. :| I still don't feel much pain really. i realize something is occurring in my mouth though. Thankfully I went to an endodontist. I hear horror stories for people who go to general practitioners.
Root canals from a skilled dentist don't really hurt. Mildly uncomfortable holding your mouth open while you listen to screeching drilling sounds, but that's about it.
True this. They gave me headphones and my hands were scurrying to find the volume button and the assistant guided me in the right direction.
Also.
Atlanta Greek Festival MC. We're going. It's like, 5 dollars. I will call.
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I read that as Atlanta Geek Festival and it actually made me want to attend.
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So, my car got broken into today, which was a pleasant little surprise just as I was about to leave for work.
And by broken into, I mean I forgot to lock the back last night and someone (probably a couple people) definitely slept in the car since both seats were reclined as much as possible. Also, all the spare change (pennies and shit) was gone, but amazingly they didn't take anything else. And nothing was broken. The only other thing was that they left the windows down and all the doors unlocked.
So. Fucking. Lucky. Really, everything worked out for the best on this one. One or more people got a shelter to sleep in for the night and some change (and some gum. I'll chalk that up as a loss.), and I have had my paranoia refreshed without having to pay for things to be repaired/replaced. Good surgery, doctor!
The only thing I'm worried about is that they stashed something there but I've thrown out all the trash in the car and found nothing, so that one's pretty unlikely.
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The only thing I'm worried about is that they stashed something there but I've thrown out all the trash in the car and found nothing, so that one's pretty unlikely.
Well, now you've at least got a forum post to introduce into evidence when you get busted for the contraband <_<.
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I love my professors. The whole "Well who's going to be at IU" really did rack my brain as their dual MLS program is ...a great program. "Stay sane, don't lose teeth, you'll be okay."
(:
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Forecast model's predicting like eight inches of rain in the next 36 hours. I am so glad I don't work at the pizza place right now.
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Man, the best thing ever just happened.
They split the ninth graders up into Advanced and Normal English classes and now I get to teach English without the bastard English teacher twice a week.
I just had my first class without him today and it was the most fun I've had at my Middle School in... well, ever. It's almost like I actually like my job when there's no one around actively trying to sabotage me!
Who knew?
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awesome!
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So, been a long week at work, probably the hardest I have worked to do nothing in a long time. Helping lots of people with stuff or doing difficult things that get no resolution because I have no pull really. Won a raffle, prize was booze and chocolate, I don't drink and we just yesterday went shopping and had to much junk food. So gave away some booze, gave away some chocolate and lugged around left over booze on the ride away from work. This sort of caps off the tone for the week. The only good things that happened to me with work directl benefitted everyone but me.
Went to my parents for dinner tonight, had fun there, gave my father and sister the left over wine. Got home around 8ish. Neither brother is home presumably one is out drinking and one is out watching others drink or whatever he is doing these days.
So I throw on some CDs on random, sit down and clean up my casual wear shoes I bought this year, a bit dirty from all the rain and walking through roadwords near hom. Then I polish my brown loafers that I haven't really worn since DLC (boat shoes are winner for to and from work, my new black loafers are at work for work wear when I am wearing black pants) and touch up the edging on the sole and heel. This is by far the most satisfying thing I have done all week.
Suffice to say, I am a douche bag.
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Grace hopper conference.
awesome. Exhausting. I'm going to be late this friday.
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I am. SO. happy (: PAPER, FIN.
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Went to a local anime convention today. Played a lot of Tatsunoko vs Capcom (my Roll play was complimented). Bought Arkham Horror (revised edition) - I want in on the next DL game. Got an autograph from the guy who played John Redcorn on King of the Hill. He looks exactly like John Redcorn - typecast much?
Cosplay was pretty meh. Surprisingly low amount of cheesecake on display this year. Most amusing thing was a person with a Weighted Companion Cube on their head walking around with the robot from FLCL.
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Um.
I'll be in Philadelphia this January to visit uPenn. Granted, chances of getting in are slim as they accept on 4-6 students a year .. . . . . from, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Yale, Harvard. . . . Williams.. etc, buttttttt
I want to visit the north.
And this gives me incentive to. Not to fucking meeeeeention, UDel says to visit and a prof wants to talk on the phone next week.
I'm getting sweaty ass palms here. These people are playing with my fucking emotions.
Modify: WHICH MEANS, OMG OK I WANT TO ME YOU (: (: (:
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Come to the minimeet then slacker! *Cracks whip*
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Pay for me.
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I'm not made of money! Go harass OK.
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Yeah! Super works hard for the money. So hard for it, honey. So you better treat him right.
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Peddling by way of a bicycle?
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I am sure bike shorts are involved at least. It's a sacrifice working day to day for little money just tips for pay, but it's worth it all just to hear them say that they care.
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AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH
Sometime between waking up and getting ready for school, I managed to lose my glasses. Time to find an old pair for driving and hope my new pair get here soon.
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Um.
I'll be in Philadelphia this January to visit uPenn. Granted, chances of getting in are slim as they accept on 4-6 students a year .. . . . . from, Yale, Harvard, Yale, Yale, Harvard. . . . Williams.. etc, buttttttt
I want to visit the north.
And this gives me incentive to. Not to fucking meeeeeention, UDel says to visit and a prof wants to talk on the phone next week.
I'm getting sweaty ass palms here. These people are playing with my fucking emotions.
Modify: WHICH MEANS, OMG OK I WANT TO ME YOU (: (: (:
Kawaii ^_^ Can't believe I just noticed this! Awesome!
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(: (: (:
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and the battle begins. . . . . .
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Just got off the phone with Dr. Ousterhout from Penn.
He made me brain melt when I introduced myself, and he said: "So, what do you want to know?"
"........ . . . . ....... . . . ..."
At the latter part of the conversation, 12 minutes and 53 seconds - I got the gigglies and said I'll call back with more questions (as he already answered the ones I asked). He got the gigglies too. I'm not sure if they were high brow gigglies.
This was the antecedent after my professor called at 9AM after I received a scam phone call and sounded half-awake asking her why she has any reason to be awake at his time. 30 minute phone call of gigglies prior to my coaching for the call. Thank GOD it wasn't an interview call.
Edit* I will be staying with a graduate student on campus rather than in a hotel. Thank goodness. That makes it a bit cheaper - only airfare and food. Maybe a trinket?
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/me starts researching visa procedure. Oh jesus fuck.
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Oh yeah you errr might not have the same easy waiver scheme I have, whoops >_> Do it now and you should probably be pretty cool though Snow.
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Be serious, Gref. Who's ever heard of snow in Texas?
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Jesus, Santa and your mum.
Hot.
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2011 is near. This is weird. Time shouldn't go by this fast.
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Time passes by faster the older you get. Nature of the beast.
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Evil Dead: the Musical starts in one minute. So that's pretty cool.
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Fucking awesome. Caught it on the last night of it's original run in NYC. I loved it. I know you will too.
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Bruce Campbell lives in Ashland, not that far from here, so apparently he has showed up here a couple times.
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Bruce Campbell lives in Ashland, not that far from here, so apparently he has showed up here a couple times.
In the original NYC run, he would sometimes pop in to assume the role of Ash in the play. I was hoping that he would at least attend the last show, but alas, it was not to be.
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If I know I'm behind on college work and I know that I only have a week to do said college work before it's way too late to ever possibly do, why am I spending my free time in chat, on forums and doing other random pieces of work? >.<
Damn me and my lack of a sense of urgency.
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Typical of men until they reach a midlife crisis.
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I resent that.
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What are you going to do about it? Cry into your soup, watch porn while masturbating furiously or play video games? Fucking men.
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I see 4 options there.
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Get all yer silly racist jokes out while you can.
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I'm mega bummed out today. Yesterday I was with my grilfriend at a concert when this weird number started calling my phone. I kept ignoring it, but it kept calling me back at least four times or so. I thought it was some annoying as fuck debt collectors calling about a loan I co-signed a long time ago. (I know that's biting me in the ass to this day. Never again.) It actually wasn't them, but we will get back to that.
The day concludes and I put my phone to charge and pass out. I wake up because my phone stats going off around 6am. I stumble to check who on Gawds green earth would disturb my slumber at this time of peace and rest. It was a friend who is known to be a drunk. So I ignore the call, even though he kept calling me for a good 10 minutes until the noise died and I fell back into my peace respite.
In the morning I get the strange feeling that something is wrong. Following that, my brother send me a text asking me to call him as soon as I wake up.
Great!
Now I know something I up. There are just too many varibles, the weird number, the friend calling me at crazy hours, and then my brother send me urgent text messages. I could only think of one thing.
One of my friends was in jail.
BINGO! Except it was so much worse. Turns out one of my oldest friends (known him since we were 3ish) is in some Miami jail about to get deported.
My first thoughts were, "Huh!?" You see this guy, bless his heart has made a fuck ton of mistakes in his life, but he was at the point where he realized he was on thin ice and has really made an effort to better himself. He also has a child around four years old and is also on probation for drug trafficking.
Really he isn't a bad person. he just made a lot of dumb decisions early in his life and now he has to find ways to correct them.
But he had a job and was working to pay his debts and child support and was doing fine in his probation until this all came around. Supposedly the job he was hired at was payign him under the tablem, and that is a huge no no or something? From what I was told they caught him not with a regualr job and arrested him on the spot. He was not born here, so now they are threatening to ship him back to Chile and be done with him for good.
The sad thing of it all is when I did talk to my friend who had talked to the guy getting deported he told me that Andy had one specific message for me...and that was to change and fix his fantasy football teams situation because he was unable to.
Crazy.
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Good to know the man has his priorties in order. <_< >_>
That really sucks, SCar. Nothing anyone can do there?
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good luck, man. that sucks.
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Class A hilarity.
In other news I woke up drunk. This day is gonna rule.
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can you pay my bills
can you pay my telephone bills
can you pay my automobiles
then maybe we could chillllllllll
I don't think you do
so
you and me are through
. . . . looking back at that song, can and do are two different things Destiny's Child. Initiate typical black female smh
*smh*
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The only thing that would keep him in the states right now if the fact that he has a kid who is American. Also, I think if you get deported, there goes the child support, so I don't think the govt. will allow a father who pays his dues to have all ties cut from his son.
At least, I don't think they can. heh.
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Sorry to derail, but I just had the most delicious shortbread cookies ever.
This is a friendly reminder that shortbread cookies are amazing and you should all have one today.
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oh man mood's spiked again. >.>
Sitting here drinking shandy at 10am. I'm stuck somewhere between failing alcoholic, by drinking this early, and failing AT alcoholic by drinking shandy. Classy.
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I am hungry.
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(http://members.optusnet.com.au/grefter/cakeup.jpg)
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Would a few writing nazis (i.e., not Meeple) be interested in taking a look at a letter of recommendation I'm writing for a student? I'd like to get some perspective from people outside of my field on it. I'll PM it to you.
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Would a few writing nazis (i.e., not Meeple) be interested in taking a look at a letter of recommendation I'm writing for a student? I'd like to get some perspective from people outside of my field on it. I'll PM it to you.
Looked pretty good on the whole, but one note: "I'd gargle his marbles" is not professional language, OK. Might want to change that.
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Seriously, OK, language is important. The scientific term is "reverse teabagging".
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...man, what I get for asking for help from a bunch of internet nerds/perverts
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Cranberries concert watched!
In two words: fuckin' ace. Great/10, would go again.
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nice!
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...man, what I get for asking for help from a bunch of internet nerds/perverts
Hi pot, I'm kettle. You're black.
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You racist ass. All you see is my exterior and make judgments based on that.
And yes, that comment on my prior post was the joke >_>
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Current exigent dilemma vexing myself which necessitated as I tweeted:
"Vexed!!! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows via IMAX 3D (gimmick, but seemingly worth it) or sans the 3Diness?"
I need to be fairly frugal up til February, and I must budget for HPDH. The additional cost for an IMAX ticket is enough to warrant husbanding my budget.
WHO IS GOING TO SEE IT IN 3D? The answer will determine my future. Be serious.
(*:
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Just wait until it's out on DVD.
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Go see it in 3D, girl. It'll be awesome.
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Went to Denver, saw LCD Soundsystem. Spent a lot of money, drove for 15/48 hours. Worth all of it.
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Things that have made today awesome before 9am:
1) I ran for 20 minutes without stopping for the first time in, like, ever. And it felt -good-.
2) It's FRIDAY.
3) It's raining! Yay for fall.
4) Because it's raining, my lameness for going to Starbucks for breakfast has turned into awesomeness: I get to have hot chocolate and a pumpkin scone for breakfast while it's chilly and rainy outside.
5) Andrew had last night off, so he took the dog for a long walk this morning so I didn't have to.
6) I got to sleep in an extra 30 minutes.
7) It's pay day, and I have 5 hours of overtime.
I'm now at work, so the awesomeness is likely to sharply decline, but I'll consider that a great start and try to run with it.
EDITED AFTER WORK: Nope! Still mostly awesome day. Adding to it: I finagled myself into the "company blog manager" position, so woot for that! Less woot is still having to go through the bureaucratic gauntlet when trying to do things. Oh well. Tinkering with web stuff is fun times.
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I can't access Google.
What.
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Fucking hell, it's not even in 3D.
/slitwrist
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Really? Now I'm actually interested. 3D shit always feels gimmicky and pointless to me. But I've never regretted seeing a movie in IMAX. There's actually a noticeable difference in quality. A positive difference.
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Soooooo the power was out from about 2:30 until 8:45. That was really boring. :| The exciting part is that the emergency lights only stayed on for an hour, so the hallways and stairwells were pitch black. The leasing office didn't even bother to check with PG&E re: expected restoration of service; when I asked them what PG&E said, they sounded annoyed and said they were "in the same position I was," and I should call them myself. This, after I asked if they had an answer for the dangerously dark hallways and stairwells. The answer was "Nope."
Then they left for the day (at 4, when they normally close at 6) and posted a note on the door that said as much, and to call PG&E for info.
Gee, thanks.
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Had nothing to read? Also, that is some quality service you got.
Got virulently sick this morning. It's just terrible timing, as I had a physics test that I missed and have a ton of things to do today. I'd honestly rather have had that yesterday, at least I would have had the time to get better.
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Look DL, I'm a pro-writer now.
I'll repost it shortly >_>
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Yeah, you have to get rejected a lot to get accepted somewhere. I wouldn't worry too much. Just keep submitting to places. It's time-consuming, sure. But if it's what you love, it's worth it, right?
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Also, I'd just like to point out that only suffering comes from New Jersey.
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What'd I ever do to you, Shale?
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My connection is being completely fucked at the moment, looks to be a network issue most likely, might be a bit intermittent in chat for a while. Currently I can't keep a consistent connection to any internet service. Can browse slowly, nothing wrong with our hardware, done all your normal trouble shooting there. Can't even connect to IRC at the moment even though it worked just before I last rebooted the modem.
So fucked.
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Worked 10AM-11PM yesterday. I needed the money. Or at least, the additional money that taxes would have taken away. Laying in bed all day now.
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Passed my state exam to be a Journeyman Electrician. Wootness.
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Congrats!
Power brick on my laptop died. SHIT
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Congratulations ! ! ! CK! YAY~
Dear OK,
I haven't heard from you in a year, and our baby is sick. I will be in Philly December 1st, as that is a Wednesday where the majority of professors for an AH program will be available for a campus visit at UDel. I know you will be prepping for a minimeet, but your child would like to see you for once. "Where is daddy OK mommy?" I can't keep him behind the curtains much longer ! ! ! I'll be willing to see you on my own accord prior to your trip. Holla at ya' gurl.
-Dooniemeister
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A rather somber update to my buddis situation.
He is still being held up somewhere in Miami, however the mother of his child was just shot and murdered today by the hands of her ex-boyfriend.
So now his child has no parent. The court system HAS to take this into account when trying to deport him. I would hope America has some sort of decency where they want this child to have some type of parent figure in his life growing up.
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Oh my God. That's horrible.
Not that his situation looks a bit better, but that the woman is dead and the child could end up with neither parent. Ugh.
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Scar, you live in strange and scary circles.
I find it particularly worrisome since I thought you lived in Florida, near where I used to live.
I never had any friends who had troubles with murdered girlfriends and deportation and I have to wonder how you managed to get yourself into that kind of life?
I don't mean any disrespect, but your somber posts always seem like Lifetime original movies. And I personally hate having any evidence that there is even a grain of truth to anything Lifetime produces.
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Huh?
I'd say my life is more exciting then that of the average person, but I guess we look at things differently.
I'm always positive, but this is kinda crazy. I mean this is my longest frienship and it's about to go the way of the dodo.
This story just adds even more tragedy in what was an already sad state of events. I just hope (not that I am gad this girl is dead midn you.) the courts take the fact that he is still the father of this child, and has had no reason or court limitations to his rights of parenting to possibly keep him in the states as the sole legal guardian of this child.
Then again, knowing my friend and his lack of luck, I'd guess the parents of that girl are going to try and take custody of the baby now.
The man deserves a break!
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He have a decent lawyer, at least?
And that entire story is terrible. I hope he gets some good news. Did they at least catch the asshole who killed the mother?
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The guy killed the girl drove away in a rental and drove into a vacant house and killed himself.
And no lawyer that I know of.
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*Blinks* Seriously? He should have some kind of legal advice for a situation like this.
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He was arrested by homeland security. What exactly can a lawyer do for him in this situation? He wasn't arrested for anything he did at the time, more like what he did in the past.
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At this point, anything is worth trying, no?
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What exactly can a lawyer do for him in this situation?
The only person who would know the answer to that question would be an immigration lawyer. Courts often take into consideration exigent circumstances, especially when kids are involved, but you have to be able to present the issue the right way. Immigration is a huge tangle where early missteps can come back to bite you. He should at least consult a lawyer to find out whether there's anything that can be done for him, and the earlier the better.
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A friend's cat had to be put down and the cat at my dad's slipped out the door and took off.
In conclusion: Fucking fuck.
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Well I haven't talked to him in a week or some, because his calls are blocked from my phone now...
but I assume that he or his family has made contact with a lawyer.
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...did I just come out of that meeting with 2 more projects I'm assigned to lead?
I'm honestly not sure. Whhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
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Obviously they knew of no one better to lead projects like "The Effects of Latex on the Large Intestine" and "The General Health of Today's Boy Scouts"
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The thought of OK as a responsible member of society, and a doctor no less, deserves its spot among such great thoughts as skinny dipping in oil and then lighting a smoke.
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Ah, but that's the trick, the secret to OK. He was normal once. It was the pharmacy collective that drove him to what he is today.
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No, I was never normal. You are a stupid lying doo-doo-face
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Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
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Mother-effing mother-efferrrrrrrrrrr
Worst. Night. Ever. (super: STFU. You can't top this unless someone died tonight.)
2.5 hours with an ambulance, a fire truck, city police, and animal control because ONE GODDAMNED DOUCHEBAG (swears and judgments deleted).
Andrew is okay, I am fine, Tally is fine. Everyone is alive and fine but freaked out and a little banged up. Threatened lawsuits mean I'm going to be vague.
But I am never, ever going to a dog park ever again. This is the first person we've had a direct incident with, but there have always been scads of people who seem to forget their little precious is a DOG with TEETH and ANIMAL INSTINCTS and insist that everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault.
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Just got back from a birthday party-turned house party early. Birthday girl had cat allergies, so I booked with her. Was Jackie's date and Jackie is b-day girl's sister so it all worked out.
But it's one thing that I've noticed whenever I go out - everyone but me smokes weed. Oh, and I know what sugar boogers means.
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Mother-effing mother-efferrrrrrrrrrr
Worst. Night. Ever. (super: STFU. You can't top this unless someone died tonight.)
2.5 hours with an ambulance, a fire truck, city police, and animal control because ONE GODDAMNED DOUCHEBAG (swears and judgments deleted).
Andrew is okay, I am fine, Tally is fine. Everyone is alive and fine but freaked out and a little banged up. Threatened lawsuits mean I'm going to be vague.
But I am never, ever going to a dog park ever again. This is the first person we've had a direct incident with, but there have always been scads of people who seem to forget their little precious is a DOG with TEETH and ANIMAL INSTINCTS and insist that everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault.
Was it the same douchebag as from the time that Chiaki and I went with you?
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Mother-effing mother-efferrrrrrrrrrr
Worst. Night. Ever. (super: STFU. You can't top this unless someone died tonight.)
2.5 hours with an ambulance, a fire truck, city police, and animal control because ONE GODDAMNED DOUCHEBAG (swears and judgments deleted).
Andrew is okay, I am fine, Tally is fine. Everyone is alive and fine but freaked out and a little banged up. Threatened lawsuits mean I'm going to be vague.
But I am never, ever going to a dog park ever again. This is the first person we've had a direct incident with, but there have always been scads of people who seem to forget their little precious is a DOG with TEETH and ANIMAL INSTINCTS and insist that everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault.
Was it the same douchebag as from the time that Chiaki and I went with you?
Different douchebag! Didn't recognize him or his (very pretty) dog.
Case in point on the "there have always been scads of people..." argument.
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Sugar Boogers? Is that slang got Coke?
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(super: STFU. You can't top this unless someone died tonight.)
The day is still young.
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And you're so beautiful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaKW7at5q_c)
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Yes, sugar boogers is coke - how keen-witted you are.
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But it's one thing that I've noticed whenever I go out - everyone but me smokes weed.
Yeah, I've been in similar situations. It's awkward, because I don't want to be like "please don't smoke that stuff in front of me"--it doesn't really bother me, but it still makes me an outsider in the group.
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I actually did 'the lean' when someone passed it to me. It doesn't bother me much besides it's smell. It's disgusting >_>
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I know my friends smoke weed, but I've never actually seen them smoke it. Something about respecting my views (completely anti-drugs) and not wanting to offend me. Weird Dutchmen.
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I actually did 'the lean' when someone passed it to me. It doesn't bother me much besides it's smell. It's disgusting >_>
Good, stand up for yourself and don't partake. There's nothing wrong with sticking to your guns under pressure.
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AAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH WOMAN GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!! >:( >:( >:(
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AAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH WOMAN GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!! >:( >:( >:(
Finally decided to make the full-blown swing into the Castle of Gayskull?
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Nah, just particularly frustrated with this one's crazy.
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This is a good example of why I don't date women.
This is a good example of why I don't date men.
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Grefter once more professing his love for trannies I see~
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But really, who doesn't?
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Well from the ones I have run into they are the better options, so hey whatevers.
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My significant other is a transgendered oven.
Amen.
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toasty.
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*sigh* GRE test soon.
Goodbye future.
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Some friends of mine want to set up a P&P session. Well, they are all looking at me to GM because that's I guess what being the leader is or something.
Anyway, decided on playing the Serenity RPG. Thinking up details for now, but my basic concept is that I'll be using the Captain as an NPC. He's the foppish son of a rich Core dude who wants to get a ship and "live the life," like how super-rich bastards who have never even seen a horse go and buy ranches. Well, he hires a crew, the players, and a couple of them are going to be actually working for the guy's dad to keep him out of trouble, you know, on the DL, and the rest are more conventional sorts.
Somebody else gets to be First Mate, which is essentially Captain, because I'll be spending most of the Captain's skill points on melee weapons/swords, athletics/golf, planetary vehicles/equestrian, influence/bureaucracy, and scientific knowledge/mathematics, which means his only practical application is to keep all the books balanced, keep the paperwork in order for border checkpoints, and give destinations and shit so I can establish some locations to hit up for exciting sexy adventures. Everything else gets delegated to the First Mate and the rest of the crew, who I assume will have more practical skills, like using guns and flying ships and shit, otherwise I'm going to need to come up with a scenario that can be solved by having a dude win a high-stakes bet on a golf game and then defend his honor by swordfighting on horseback before filling out a police report.
Anyway, my main goal is to set up opportunities for conflicting goals. What with the Captain being so inattentive everyone will be more free to pursue their own goals, which I shall be facilitating. I like schemy plots. It's why I like Paranoia! so much.
I'm happy; haven't actually played a P&P game in ages, you know, with real dice and shit. It's all java clients doing that, and that really lacks the substance of throwing dice on a table.
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Ahhhh a shame you aren't trying out Eclipse Phase, that was looking really good, was wondering how it would turn out from someone with some first hand play.
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LOGIC ERROR
Working for this company requires a separate rant board to record all the stupid bureaucratic nonsense that goes on.
Today's gem: we have 2 months until the end of the year, less than that (because of holidays and company closing) for actual work. NO ONE IN THE DEPARTMENT knows when projects are due, or how many other projects are also due at the same time. They're so "nose to the grindstone" about god knows what that they're missing the clusterfuck that is the next two weeks. This came up in a department meeting yesterday, to which the response was, "Let's get together for a short meeting Tuesday to get our schedules put together for the end of the year."
So I'm setting up the meeting today, and my supervisor says, "We'll worry about that meeting later. Let's just meet, the three of us ((supervisor, her boss, and me)) with the schedules and propose some deadlines and then present it to ((VP)) and ((product manager))."
"Okay," I say. "When would you like to meet? It'll probably be less than half an hour."
"I don't know. Let's see the calendar." I bring it up. Her boss is not here yet (!), lunch time is sacred (12:30-2) and she has a meeting 2-3pm. I leave at 4. She shrugs. "We'll figure it out." And then walks off.
SERIOUSLY, this happens every. single. time. we talk about doing something to get our heads above water on deadlines and projects. It's not even 30 minutes, people! And if you don't know what you're working on or when, how the hell are you going to get it done in time?
OH WAIT.
We don't.
Ever.
*headdesk*
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So I bought Gosick. Not even three chapters in and I spot the word "solider", and the main character's name misspelled as "Kazyua".
FFFFFFFFfffffffffffffff
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Ahhhh a shame you aren't trying out Eclipse Phase, that was looking really good, was wondering how it would turn out from someone with some first hand play.
Eh, maybe some other session. I already HAD the Firefly RPG (I wanted a goddamn map so that the system would finally make sense, okay?)
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GREs was like I thought - epic fail.
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Did you get your score already?
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Yeah. 1090. 560 verbal. After studying hard a couple months ago, and refreshing on verbal stuff again a month prior? Whatever. I'm e-mailing professors I've contacted with concern to this, and am willing to retake it in Dec (which means I won't make deadlines with the newer, and hopefully better scores) and seeing what'll be what. Otherwise, it's life and luxury as a hooker.
Edit* What's more frustrating is that I'm generally an extreme procrastinator. But I've been preparing for this test incrementally in different levels for a bit now through test taking (one online test, I scored a 720 in Verbal) . . . I don't know what happened. I'm not good at standardized tests to begin with, but I'm just so angry.
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Response from professor gives me hope.
We'll see.
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Is this a specialized GRE in art-history, or is this just the general one?
I know in Mathematics there's no subject-specific GRE, so it's not considered too important for application purposes.
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I fucking WISH there was a subject test for Art History that covered philosophical or contemporary theoretical subjects. Historiography is the shit. If I didn't get either a perfect or +/- 20 on that test, I'd give up on life. No, it's just general.
Apparently the schools I'm applying for (besides Master's of Library Science programs) don't use them as a cutoff for entrance. The professor I've been corresponding with told me it is one aspect of the application process and I could retake it if I wanted to, but I should focus on having a strong application. MLS programs cut off at 1000 *whew* Barely made it. Well, I almost made an 1100.
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Good luck, either way.
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My anxiety level is cranked up to 11. Why? I have no idea.
NaNo is going fine. Work is fine (that meeting drama is pretty par for the course). Andrew is okay, relationship is okay. It doesn't look like there's going to be any legal fallout from the stupid dog park incident, knock on wood.
So why the hell do I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop?
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My guess would be: general paranoia.
Anyway, been sick. Picked a good week to do it since I had asked for Tuesday off weeks ago. Still sucks. Haven't started Nano, but I've got my JET app mostly completed so the only important thing going on is going forward. Work is going to suck tomorrow though.
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I am also sick. I've been coughing like crazy. I missed work yesterday and went home early Monday/Tuesday. Today I am going to stay here! Even if I'm a little miserable.
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My anxiety level is cranked up to 11. Why? I have no idea.
NaNo is going fine. Work is fine (that meeting drama is pretty par for the course). Andrew is okay, relationship is okay. It doesn't look like there's going to be any legal fallout from the stupid dog park incident, knock on wood.
So why the hell do I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop?
When things look okay, it's when the storm begins to brew. Basic Murphy corollary.
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My anxiety level is cranked up to 11. Why?
My guess would be: general paranoia.
Anyway, been sick. Picked a good week to do it since I had asked for planned to take Monday and Tuesday off weeks ago. Still sucks. Haven't started Nano
Work College is going to suck tomorrow though.
Isn't it nice to know that someone, somewhere is going through near enough the same thing as you?
In other news, not sure I mentioned Expo. Came back from a weekend anime con in London on Monday. Probably best one I've ever been to, which just makes it all the worse when I'm coming back to a group of friends who I kinda tolerate solely because they're the best available - I'd move away in an instant if I could. Ah well. 7 months time and I can move away with relative ease, so bring on July.
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My anxiety level is cranked up to 11. Why? I have no idea.
NaNo is going fine. Work is fine (that meeting drama is pretty par for the course). Andrew is okay, relationship is okay. It doesn't look like there's going to be any legal fallout from the stupid dog park incident, knock on wood.
So why the hell do I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop?
When things look okay, it's when the storm begins to brew. Basic Murphy corollary.
Ain't that the truth.
The last time I remember feeling like this without any apparent cause, it was September 8, 2001 (which I know, because I blogged about it - hooray for timestamps!).
So, uh... y'all be careful this weekend? <_<
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So...
I have been a procrastinator all my life. I failed at USF my 1st time there. I failed at the Community College when I thought I was ready to try again. I failed another time after my stint as a clothing sales rep. I failed at trying to be a Fire Fighter.
I was never motivated with any of my classes.
I don't study. I never have. I managed a 4.0 in High School, but that transition from HS to College was a rough one for me. My 1st F in College made me so mad I just gave up.
I still do not study, or when I do I get distracted very easily.
I have majored in Electronics, Accounting, Buisness, Economics (the only one I enjoyed and passed classes in.), EMT, and now I am trying Mass Communications.
I figure that I like to write, and I enjoy writing about sports. If Super has ever written any of my stuff on the AE site, he might attest to that fact.
This semester much is the same. I never study, and I wait till the very end to do all my assignments. The only thing that has changed are my grades. I enjoy all of my classes. My teachers are all fun and interesting. Plus I now have four As out of my last few tests and essays.
That hasn't happened since High School for me, so I am pretty happy!
I have a ten page research paper due next wednesday and I have the topic based on the NFL's decision to extend the seaosn by two games. Is it a good idea or not. Still working on a Thesis, but the paper is pretty much done.
I can't say for sure, but I hope this is the write path in my life. I have looking for my place in life for so long I thought I'd never find it. Seems as if it were under my nose all these years.
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Relationship drama over.
You can all relax.
For now.
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My anxiety level is cranked up to 11. Why? I have no idea.
NaNo is going fine. Work is fine (that meeting drama is pretty par for the course). Andrew is okay, relationship is okay. It doesn't look like there's going to be any legal fallout from the stupid dog park incident, knock on wood.
So why the hell do I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop?
When things look okay, it's when the storm begins to brew. Basic Murphy corollary.
Ain't that the truth.
The last time I remember feeling like this without any apparent cause, it was September 8, 2001 (which I know, because I blogged about it - hooray for timestamps!).
So, uh... y'all be careful this weekend? <_<
I would normally make a flip comment here, but I have a long drive home. So.
The drive up to Morgantown was nice. I started in Virginia beach where it was still warm(ish) and fall was just started. Morgantown's at the tail end of the season, so I got to drive through the entire season in one day. What sticks out is driving over hill after hill, with the trees a mix of every autumn shade you can think of. The orange and red of the trees blended well with the rocky outcroppings from the ground, and the long hanging mist and steady rain really helped give a melancholy feel to the trip.
All the shit I'm doig means no NaNo this year, but oh well. ^_^ Always next year.
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You missed 5 days you pussy. If you want to write then fucking start writing you goddamned vagina monster.
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More a time thing than effort. Also, vagina monster? Really?
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Fine, vagina PERSON if you want me to be PC you pathetic excuse for a human.
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You are now just being racist. I thought you were better than that.
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chat is down?
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Not as far as I'm aware.
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chat is down?
It apparently just doesn't like you ;_;
But I love you!
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My anxiety level is cranked up to 11. Why? I have no idea.
NaNo is going fine. Work is fine (that meeting drama is pretty par for the course). Andrew is okay, relationship is okay. It doesn't look like there's going to be any legal fallout from the stupid dog park incident, knock on wood.
So why the hell do I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop?
When things look okay, it's when the storm begins to brew. Basic Murphy corollary.
Ain't that the truth.
The last time I remember feeling like this without any apparent cause, it was September 8, 2001 (which I know, because I blogged about it - hooray for timestamps!).
So, uh... y'all be careful this weekend? <_<
I would normally make a flip comment here, but I have a long drive home. So.
The drive up to Morgantown was nice. I started in Virginia beach where it was still warm(ish) and fall was just started. Morgantown's at the tail end of the season, so I got to drive through the entire season in one day. What sticks out is driving over hill after hill, with the trees a mix of every autumn shade you can think of. The orange and red of the trees blended well with the rocky outcroppings from the ground, and the long hanging mist and steady rain really helped give a melancholy feel to the trip.
All the shit I'm doig means no NaNo this year, but oh well. ^_^ Always next year.
*Sets fire to Ashley* What happened today is your fault now.
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You are now just being racist. I thought you were better than that.
Gref is as racist against giant vagina monsters as I am against elves.
When you consider that the only thing an elf is good for is filling a mass grave or testing chemical weapons to make sure they don't kill TOO painlessly, that's pretty racist.
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My anxiety level is cranked up to 11. Why? I have no idea.
NaNo is going fine. Work is fine (that meeting drama is pretty par for the course). Andrew is okay, relationship is okay. It doesn't look like there's going to be any legal fallout from the stupid dog park incident, knock on wood.
So why the hell do I feel like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop?
When things look okay, it's when the storm begins to brew. Basic Murphy corollary.
Ain't that the truth.
The last time I remember feeling like this without any apparent cause, it was September 8, 2001 (which I know, because I blogged about it - hooray for timestamps!).
So, uh... y'all be careful this weekend? <_<
I would normally make a flip comment here, but I have a long drive home. So.
The drive up to Morgantown was nice. I started in Virginia beach where it was still warm(ish) and fall was just started. Morgantown's at the tail end of the season, so I got to drive through the entire season in one day. What sticks out is driving over hill after hill, with the trees a mix of every autumn shade you can think of. The orange and red of the trees blended well with the rocky outcroppings from the ground, and the long hanging mist and steady rain really helped give a melancholy feel to the trip.
All the shit I'm doig means no NaNo this year, but oh well. ^_^ Always next year.
*Sets fire to Ashley* What happened today is your fault now.
Can't wait to hear what prompted that.
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It's that time of the year again, folks. Hooray for performance review time! I am so not going to enjoy this. -_-
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Rediscovered my blog from two years ago.
Oh haha wow.
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Ohhhhhh riiiiiiight. I forgot my city was going to riot tonight.
Here's hoping that unsettled feeling I've been having isn't related to this whole Mehserle thing.
>_<
Protesters massing in Oakland as businesses close (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/05/BAME1G7SPJ.DTL)
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Let's just say that today was a long day. >_________________________<*1000
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Surprise workday on Saturday!
I blame Ashley.
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I love that the joy I bring knows no country.
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Wait, you had Saturdays off? PERSONA HAS BEEN LYING TO MEEEEEEEE
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PERSONA HAS BEEN LYING TO MEEEEEEEE
Turns out you can't become popular with the ladies by praying you will be, either.
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Depends on where you do it really. At the least, I'm sure there's millions who would disagree and say prayer did let them hook up.
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Wait, you had Saturdays off? PERSONA HAS BEEN LYING TO MEEEEEEEE
Well, technically, everyone has Saturday off.
Unless you want to a terrible person and not volunteer to coach a sports team/culture club, or supervise Saturday study hall.
The kids, too, unless they want to be disowned for not joining a sports team/culture club, or concentrating on their studies enough that they don't go to Saturday study hall.
Luckily, I'm not Japanese, so this rarely applies to me. Except on special occasions like Culture Festival, where they need someone to put up/take down decorations from high places and carry their grand pianos and other heavy lifting.
As you might have guessed, an American's role in a celebration of Japanese culture is pretty minimal...
One thing that Persona DIDN'T lie about is that if they give you their special item, you'll Never. Be. Able. To. Break. That. Bond.
*shudders*
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Pffft film yourself putting special item inside another mans anus and post it on the internet.
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Look on the bright side, Djinn: there's about a 0% chance you'll turn out to be the childhood friend who promised to marry them when they were 5.
Also,
Pffft film yourself putting special item inside another mans anus and post it on the internet.
Redundant, Gref.
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Wait, you had Saturdays off? PERSONA HAS BEEN LYING TO MEEEEEEEE
Well, technically, everyone has Saturday off.
Unless you want to a terrible person and not volunteer to coach a sports team/culture club, or supervise Saturday study hall.
The kids, too, unless they want to be disowned for not joining a sports team/culture club, or concentrating on their studies enough that they don't go to Saturday study hall.
Luckily, I'm not Japanese, so this rarely applies to me. Except on special occasions like Culture Festival, where they need someone to put up/take down decorations from high places and carry their grand pianos and other heavy lifting.
As you might have guessed, an American's role in a celebration of Japanese culture is pretty minimal...
One thing that Persona DIDN'T lie about is that if they give you their special item, you'll Never. Be. Able. To. Break. That. Bond.
*shudders*
Can that special item be a semen-soaked condom?
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Guys like to this women are fixated on semen-related things, but men sure seem to be fixated on each other's goo much more.
Not that that's a bad thing.
But.
Yeah.
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I also went to school today.
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Guys like to this women are fixated on semen-related things, but men sure seem to be fixated on each other's goo much more.
Not that that's a bad thing.
But.
Yeah.
This was really weird to read out of context.
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Guys like to this women are fixated on semen-related things, but men sure seem to be fixated on each other's goo much more.
Not that that's a bad thing.
But.
Yeah.
This was really weird to read out of context.
Reading it -in context- is even weirder.
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Being the exciting guest star is the best role. If I had to be around all the time I might have an off day and ruin my perfect record.
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Look on the bright side, Djinn: there's about a 0% chance you'll turn out to be the childhood friend who promised to marry them when they were 5.
The hilarious part of statement is that the whole reason I ever became interested in Japan was because my best friend in elementary school was half-Japanese.
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yep, you're doomed.
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The hilarious part of statement is that the whole reason I ever became interested in Japan was because my best friend in elementary school was half-Japanese.
A better reason than Dragon Ball Z I suppose.
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Yeah, Dragonball Z came -after- having a Japanese best friend. He showed me Ranma 1/2 first and his mother cooked me some awesome Japanese food. Those tricksters roped me in~
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Guys like to this women are fixated on semen-related things, but men sure seem to be fixated on each other's goo much more.
Not that that's a bad thing.
But.
Yeah.
Yeah, guess which of my coworkers like to draw images of penises. Hint: not the straight females. Not the gay males either--in fact, they comment on how it's weird that the straight males bring up penises more than they do.
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Yeah, guess which of my coworkers like to draw images of penises.
It's you!!
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Yeah, guess which of my coworkers like to draw images of penises.
It's you!!
It's not the lesbians. Also, I'm pretty sure I don't count as my own coworker. >_>
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Not the gay males either--in fact, they comment on how it's weird that the straight males bring up penises more than they do.
Since when is it a surprise the straight male has a phallic mindset? Can't oppress the women and children without one~
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Not the gay males either--in fact, they comment on how it's weird that the straight males bring up penises more than they do.
Since when is it a surprise the straight male has a phallic mindset? Can't oppress the women and children without one~
It's a surprise to gay men that straight men out-phallic-mindset them.
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No no, Sopko has it. You'll find lots of straight men who obsess over that because by playing up its importance they feel like the important one in their relationships with the opposite sex, thus making them more comfortable with their insecurities in other areas of their lives. It draws attention because it's a -difference-, so of course gay men aren't going to be as obsessed; it'd be like being obsessed with the tongue or something else both partners have.
How'd we get on this subject, again?
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Because it is the hottness (?!!?) or something.
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Just because my tongue is bigger than yours doesn't mean you have to try to make it less important, ELF.
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Phallic mindset is one thing. Worrying about each other's phalluses is another.
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*Unashamedly thinks about phalluses*
Man, I'm totally better at this than straight or gay males.
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*unashamedly thinks about mathematical formulas and poetry*
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Phallic mindset is one thing. Worrying about each other's phalluses is another.
Seriously.
There's only one important phallus, obviously, and it belongs to me. Why anyone would waste time thinking about other ones is beyond me.
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So tomorrow, I'm going to get up, watch Lethal Weapon 5 again, and then go buy a suit so that I'm prepared for 11/13 (National Suit Up Day). Then I'll probably get sloppy drunk.
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I'm... working. This feels weird.
Yeah, I've allowed myself a 5-minute distraction to post on the DL and check Mafia on TTA. Otherwise, I've been working for about 2 1/2 hours, and I plan on working for another half an hour.
This.. this doesn't feel right. I'm not used to being productive. ;o
Edit: And now I make Flash games. Why do I not do this stuff more often? ;o
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You get used to being productive busy more easily than you'd think.
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It's kinda on/off for me. I go through a week or two of doing literally nothing, followed by a week or two of solid work, and then several months of being relatively normal before looping round again.
In other news, when the crap did I become some kind of political rolemodel? o_O
I'm apparently starting something of a political uprising, and I have supporters on the other side of the country. How the crap did this happen?
...I need to find someone with a camera so I can start putting out some propaganda videos. ;o
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What the hell, gin and Cherry Coke taste alright together.
Who would have guessed.
That or I don't have taste buds.
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Shock and awe as someone in the DL finally realises that they have no taste at all.
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Shock and awe as someone in the DL finally realises that they have no taste at all.
This is one small step for a nerd, one giant leap for a forum full of them.
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That is absolutely the worst combination since I got wasted and decided that if I love Dr. Pepper and I love Wild Turkey I would love them combined.
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That is absolutely the worst combination since I got wasted and decided that if I love Dr. Pepper and I love Wild Turkey I would love them combined.
If it's fizzy and sweet, I'll probably be able to drink it.
So that would work for me too.
I'm such a soda whore.
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Being tired all the time sucks. Why am I even wasting my time trying for 8-10 hours of sleep if I'm still going to wake up tired?
>_<
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Being tired all the time sucks. Why am I even wasting my time trying for 8-10 hours of sleep if I'm still going to wake up tired?
>_<
Try staying awake that time and tell me how you feel afterwards. Bad with 'em...
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Because eventually your body will catch up and you will stop feelling horrible. Do it for more than a week.
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Being tired all the time sucks. Why am I even wasting my time trying for 8-10 hours of sleep if I'm still going to wake up tired?
>_<
If 8-10 is standard, and you were behind on sleep before, then you're not actually catching up, and so your body and mind are still experiencing the same lag they were at the start.
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Shock and awe as someone in the DL finally realises that they have no taste at all.
Obligatory "That's just your OPINION" goes here.
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Being tired all the time sucks. Why am I even wasting my time trying for 8-10 hours of sleep if I'm still going to wake up tired?
>_<
If 8-10 is standard, and you were behind on sleep before, then you're not actually catching up, and so your body and mind are still experiencing the same lag they were at the start.
That would make sense if I was behind on sleep before. I haven't been. 8-10 hours is standard ALWAYS, to the point where I'll deliberately skip events that cut into that time. The worst I've done in the past month is 7 hours, and the last time I did that was 2 weeks ago. I wasn't suggesting I didn't need the sleep, just that it feels as if I'd only gotten 4 or 5 instead of 8-10, which means a good 3-6 hours "wasted." Of course it doesn't really work that way.
I just don't sleep well. It is probably breathing related. Some day I'll see a doctor about it. In the meantime, I am frequently tired and cranky. Hooray.
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*This post was deleted for being far, far too crass*
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Picked up smoking, OK?
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So, I have a collection of hats ranging from a lot of Florida sports teams to silly one liners. I was wondering if anyone knew of a website that hat some FF4 stuff. I could really sink my teeth into a Kain hat right about now.
=)
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I fell about 7 days behind in NaNo because I was in a serious funk last week. Today I've started making back some of that lost time.
I seriously <3 Write or Die (http://writeordie.drwicked.com) for giving me a system to word sprint against.
2138 words down in 33 minutes, 9511 left to catch up. I'm not going to catch up today, but it's given me a boost to know I can write a coherent story at 55-65 WPM. (Not that it's any good, mind you; just coherent.)
Besides, I have a word marathon on Sunday. (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/writeathon) I can do my catching up then.
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I fell about 7 days behind in NaNo because I was in a serious funk last week. Today I've started making back some of that lost time.
I seriously <3 Write or Die (http://writeordie.drwicked.com) for giving me a system to word sprint against.
2138 words down in 33 minutes, 9511 left to catch up. I'm not going to catch up today, but it's given me a boost to know I can write a coherent story at 55-65 WPM. (Not that it's any good, mind you; just coherent.)
Besides, I have a word marathon on Sunday. (http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/writeathon) I can do my catching up then.
I can barely make that many words in an hour...
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Running behind on NaNo as well. Should try and catch up, too.
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Go Lady Door!
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1686 in 25. Boo yah! 8-)
I really wish my story was coming together better than this, but... this is good! I am getting stuff out. It is helping me shape things better. And I am getting all the hurr durr out. At least, I hope I am. Right now it feels like I have a bottomless well of it. <_<
Night of Writing Dangerously on Sunday!
And I need to get my hair cut. But the Big Game is tomorrow, and Berkeley is going to be a mad house, so booooo.
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Soooooooooooooo I will be heading to Virginia in mid December. I was wondering if any of the Dl'ers live in or around there. I won't be there too long, prolly only three days, but who knows!
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Depends on where in the state, mostly.
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My damn picture keeps messing up. >_>
Er, it's actually not Virginia I guess? My gf says we will be flying itno DC and staying in some town called Port Tobacco in Maryland. It's close to Waldorf? I dunno. Never heard of either of them.
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That's way away from most of us, yeah. I'm near the NC border by Norfolk. DC's 200 miles from me.
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Well, an awesome weekend in Tokyo was just totally ruined by the worst Monday morning in a long time...
I woke up thirty minutes after I was supposed to be at work since my alarm clock didn't go off. I'd feel bad about this, but I had gone to bed early and there was no reason why the alarm shouldn't have gone off.
So I grab my phone, which I had plugged in the night before, so I can call my work and let them know I'm going to be late, and the battery's dead. It didn't charge for some reason. I don't even know -why-. I unplugged it and plugged it back in and nothing, so I figured my cord was broken. But then when I come out of the shower, it's suddenly charging. ARGH!
So I get ready and I'm now like an hour late. I get in my car and turn the key, but engine just sputters. I have a full tank of gas, and the headlights don't appear to be left on, so I guess the battery just decided to die on its own?
I don't have a phone, so I can't call anybody, and my neighbors are all already at work since it's an hour after work started... So I can't a jump from anyone (assuming it would even work?). So I walk to board of education's local branch and borrow the crappy public car assigned to me. Luckily I already had the key so I could just get in the car and drive off so as not to waste any time!
When I get to work and explain my situation, heavy with apologies, my bosses tell me things like "you're not a student anymore, you have to act like an adult", and "why didn't you call from the board of education?"... And they take two hours of my time off even though I wasn't even 2 hours late despite all the crap I had to deal with.
I just can't seem to catch a break... I'm probably going to have to drop some ridiculous amount of money on getting my car fixed knowing my luck.
And I have to buy a new alarm clock. Sadface. FML.
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Yikes. Sucks to hear, Djinn.
Man, things have been weird lately. I've done literally nothing for the last two weeks or so, except for work and play games. Given about 6 months of being social before that, it's really thrown me - doesn't help that I've suddenly run out of money either, so I can't be social even if I want to.
Oh, and I'm still not sure I can stay where I'm living. Landlord's in a huge dispute with his ex, and it's starting to look like me and my other housemate are gonna be forced out by the end of next month - wouldn't that be a lovely present for Christmas? Man, that reminds me, I need to spend even more money this/next month. Still, at least I get to see my family next month, and I always love this time of year - except for the fact that I've got a cold. Damn weather. ;o
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Struck out on the job with the city. *mutter* I did get to the interview stage, so it's a step in the right direction.
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I have rekindled my love for games through Symphony of the Night.
I share too much information.
I was literally stunned when a customer would not let me pull a Muscle Milk out of their really muscly, nice warm hand until they said: "C'mon Hoolia, jhou hahv tuu pull dat thing hahrdur." He was La-ti-no. I should have threw up in my mouth, when I just giggled at his typical male crassness.
When a black man told me "I'm doing good," and that "I'm an unusual black female," because "all other black females are getting pregnant and not going to college," I pedantically told him he's short-sighted, biased and I'm uninterested in further conversation. I actually feel like writing something on this - I've been told this from EVERYONE I know. Especially white people, which makes it more acceptable, 'cause they're white and shit. But it's fucking annoying the perception that people have about black women and I'm over it. I get my nails, my hair, my toes did and I fucking watch BET, love Tyler Perry and shit. I drop it like it's hot. I have a pair of Apple Bottoms (though I'm told I'm much more of a pancake bottom, a hur hur). I didn't choose to go to school, I just went. Etc.
I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.
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Let's see, three people in a row post about bad things? Must be time for my days to turn good again!
(I don't know what it is, but when other people seem to have bad days, mine turn good. It's terrible. And really funny. Well, to me, anyway.)
NaNoWriMo write-a-thon, Night of Writing Dangerously, was last night. I ROCKED SO HARD. I wrote about 13k words over the course of the night, including ~1600 in 15 minutes, which won me a word sprint and some nifty swag. My writing total put me about 1-2 days AHEAD, way up from being almost a week behind. Andrew also won a raffle for some local events and things, so we now have tickets to two different playhouses and some passes to the Berkeley Art Museum. Plus they gave us free food, and we got author photos (will show you later, when I get them, if I like them).
The dog training session went fabulously well, too, so I am especially pleased that yesterday rocked so much.
Plus I got a haircut on Saturday (it's fairly short and very dark brown now). And there was an AWESOME thunderstorm, complete with lightning and thunder which NEVER happens up here, also on Saturday. Plus we played games with friends for a short while unexpectedly.
...
I am sorry to hear about your less awesome days DJ, Yoshi, super and Idun. :(
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because "all other black females are getting pregnant and not going to college,"
[...]
I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.
First quoted part sounds like pretty much any female where I live. I'm genuinely surprised to find intelligent conversation, so I can't fault the guy for being surprised. Me thinking that, though, is just my general lack of faith in society as a whole, no specific race/gender, etc. I'm used to almost everyone I know either giving up as early as possible or lying their way through things.
Which is why I quoted the second part. Welcome aboard, Idun. People suck, for the most part; it's just a case of making the most of the few people who don't and... well, trying to ignore everyone else. >.>
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I wish I could remember where I saw the charts, but I could swear that broken down by demographics, the "black girls just get pregnant instead of having a life" is not all that true any more. It was something to the effect that black women were averaging 2.1 children a piece to about 1.7 a piece for white women (the article as a whole was pointing out that only the hispanic population, at 2.7 children or something, was saving the US from being below population replacement on the whole). These aren't real numbers, just approximations from something I read months ago, but still.
Although I wonder if somewhat negative population growth wouldn't be a good thing. I certainly wouldn't want more than one child in the (increasingly unlikely) event I had any.
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I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.
Aww Idun, we know you're not the personification of reflexive reaction to racial stereotyping. If you were, Clarence Thomas would be out a job.
Seriously, it's tough to know what to be more offended by: people's assumptions about what the black female profile is, or their assumptions that your life is some kind of deliberate reaction to the stereotypes.
All that said, CK: pretty sure it's still true that black women with kids are disproportionately single, though. Read an article referencing a study about that in the Washington Post a few weeks back. May just have been referring to the DC area, though.
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because "all other black females are getting pregnant and not going to college,"
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I just realized I hate people after the above paragraph.
First quoted part sounds like pretty much any female where I live. I'm genuinely surprised to find intelligent conversation, so I can't fault the guy for being surprised. Me thinking that, though, is just my general lack of faith in society as a whole, no specific race/gender, etc. I'm used to almost everyone I know either giving up as early as possible or lying their way through things.
Which is why I quoted the second part. Welcome aboard, Idun. People suck, for the most part; it's just a case of making the most of the few people who don't and... well, trying to ignore everyone else. >.>
I lived in Utah for a while. Highest percent of women entering college in the country, lowest graduation percent for women in the country. I would say something about overlap, but the Mormon church doesn't allow non-white people anyway.
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I gotta say a lot of the girls where I lived fit into the "get preggers during or right out of high school thing" and it seems like it happens across races to me!
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Near-misses are fun too.
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Also, it snowed here on Friday. This isn't the Vancouver I bargained for!! (I think it's already snowed more than it did all of last year.) I did not want to get out of bed but I eventually did, I didn't have anything to do at work but I felt obligated to go even if no one would care if I didn't. >_>
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Man, awesome weekend. Lazy Saturday, awesome seats at TSO's Philly concert, more laziness on Sunday morning, steak for lunch, massage, watch the Scott Pilgrim blu-ray.
I have this nagging fear that I'm going to be hit by a car to make up for it.
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If you find yourself hating humanity for something as minor as being stupid with stereotypes then you need to read some Vonnegut and remember that humans are dumb as shit and that they are totally awesome.
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Right, about the last 2 weeks...the DL site was shut down, forcing its members underground until they could cope with a pitiless and needlessly bureaucratic evil, able to communicate only through little-known alternative channels. Consider it our very own reenactment of the first half of HP7.
Let me know if you have any word of super. I heard they got him after posted about the server using its true name. That's how they've been finding us!
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And here I thought is was closed in drunken depression.
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Nah, that's just Zenny.
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/me spanks OK with a baneling and shoves a goat up...
Ahh, it's good to be away from GameFAQs' ToS, heh? >_>
Anyway, went grocery shopping yesterday and got a bunch of drinks (cola, vegetable juice, gravy), and it hit me as I was going out - I need to go Christmas shopping soon. Boo.
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Yay, forums are back.
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So my history prof managed to make me break out into a madman's insane laughter today.
Apparantly I don't need to take my history final.
This would be good news! Still is!
Only he waited until the very last day to cover what will be on the final (which is an in-class essay. My last one ended up being 9 pages), so I ended up taking 8 pages or so of notes. He waited until the end of class to tell us the final would be optional. We got held up a while past the end of class getting all the notes before he told us. Which was bad since I had a final I needed to take right away in the class immediately following this one, so paying actual attention and getting stuff pushed out of mind + no time to review directly before my other final, then finding out I don't even NEED to take the history one = Soppy breaks down laughing like a madman.
I musta studied better than I thought though. Did just fine on the final. Just got antsy then all the tension broke in hilarious, insane laughter.
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If you find yourself hating humanity for something as minor as being stupid with stereotypes then you need to read some Vonnegut and remember that humans are dumb as shit and that they are totally awesome.
That's the thing. It's not minor. You may think it is, but growing up with shit like this constantly in my face made it a major issue to me. Compound this with other racial issues and I just get so tired. To hear shit like that from men of the same race makes me wonder where any progress was made besides in words in laws and economical figures.
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They are very important places to have those victories. Remember, we are still in a life time where these laws were made. There is progress, but we aren't looking at 2 or 3 generations after no one who saw these laws be made is left alive, let alone still in power. Change is cool like that, people pay it lip service and write some garbage rhetoric that no one really pays attention to and in 50 years it is all the youth have ever known and they are confounded that people don't comprehend. 20 more years and duuuude your grandparents sometimes say some crazy things and another 10 or 20 and suddenly you are a really horrible bad dude for having treated corpses with such disdain in the past.
It is just people being people. They will stop one day, everyone does. Then if they are lucky there is still someone to mourn them.
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All that said, CK: pretty sure it's still true that black women with kids are disproportionately single, though. Read an article referencing a study about that in the Washington Post a few weeks back. May just have been referring to the DC area, though.
This is true, at least the wedlock rate for black children. It's a pretty endemic social problem.
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And almost immediately after my post crowing about a good day, I eat crow.
Shit fell down hard after that post. It is right now hovering in uncertainty over a pit of despair.
I am being mildly dramatic, but only mildly. Depending on what happens in the next week or so, I'm going to have to make some hard choices about my dog, my job, and my apartment. Regardless, it is going to cost a -lot- of money. It has already cost a fair chunk.
So >_<
But at least that's all par for the course.
ETA:
On the bright side: I won NaNo, and I won the overall word count for the write-a-thon which earns me a personalized viking helmet. Also going down to LA this weekend to play card games. And... um... I still have my health...?
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And... um... I still have my health...?
I dunno. You look like Death! *rimshot*
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*rimshot*
Haven't you, like, died of old age yet, Cap?
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Nah, that's just Zenny.
Hey-o.
So, let's pretend I bitched about my job and rambled for the past francisfordcouplaweeks. Boom DL was never down.
Also, that sucks, LD. At least... um. At least nobody's really that surprised?
That's a shitty consolation. But it's a consolation, right? Sorry. I tried.
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*rimshot*
Haven't you, like, died of old age yet, Cap?
Nah, I'm kept alive by my wheelchair, kind of like Von Bolt in Advance Wars DS. I plan on staying alive until I leech all of the money out of Social Security that you kids are feeding into it.
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Joke's on you! We'd need jobs to do that!
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ALternate joke!
Aww, you should really plan to live longer than 3 years.
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It is just people being people. They will stop one day, everyone does. Then if they are lucky there is still someone to mourn them.
Now, I believe I am more confused by the ultimate optimism from this response.
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After a long time of A) having someone else cook for me, B) eat at my mother's and C) take-out food, I've decided that December is Cook It Yourself Month for me, with Sunday 5th being the first day. (birthday parties and excuses for before that)
Yesterday I made sausages with spinach and mashed potatoes, today is chicken wings with chicken soup, rice and an assortment of vegetables I got out of a package. I'm actually not that disappointed with my cooking (although I failed the spinach). Tomorrow sounds like a Rice Day so I'm going to try and make saté myself. Still need to ponder veggies... what goes well with rice and saté?
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It is just people being people. They will stop one day, everyone does. Then if they are lucky there is still someone to mourn them.
Now, I believe I am more confused by the ultimate optimism from this response.
It is incredibly easy. You remember that you aren't honestly that much better than everyone else and hey if we all end up dead then at least you got what you ultimately wanted. If we keep living then hey that is pretty cool for a bunch of people as human as we are. I am not really good at this optimism thing.
Seriously though, Vonnegut.
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So for everyone who was a) not at mini-meet b) doesn't have my facebook entry I passed 3/4 of my CPA exams and I got the letter today that I passed the UFE (the Canadian standardized test for accounting). So yeah, life is good~ Taking a year off for self studying looks like its paid off. Now to actually find a job.
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It is just people being people. They will stop one day, everyone does. Then if they are lucky there is still someone to mourn them.
Now, I believe I am more confused by the ultimate optimism from this response.
It is incredibly easy. You remember that you aren't honestly that much better than everyone else and hey if we all end up dead then at least you got what you ultimately wanted. If we keep living then hey that is pretty cool for a bunch of people as human as we are. I am not really good at this optimism thing.
Seriously though, Vonnegut.
Try this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs)! Always cheers me up. Probably because my mom liked to sing it for us when we were kids.
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No clue why I thought his voice would be a bit deeper.
Happy thoughts: Roland is four months old and bites his leash at the door when he needs to go outside. Despite not walking him because I've been sucking the last month, his last trip to PetsMart was interesting. When he meets new dogs, all he does is whine and shiver, haha. Bought him some toys.
Sucky thoughts: I have to work.
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Mandatory 2 hour company meeting tomorrow. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!
To catch up you folks who don't remember/don't know the circumstances: my company has all-employee meetings quarterly-ish, but last year, shortly after I was hired, they had a couple meetings in a row where the company was repeatedly downsized. The position into which I had been hired was eliminated, but they made the position I have now and moved me to a new department. They entirely eliminated our warehouse staff. We lost about 20 employees overall, leaving us at about 70.
This past year, we've had dire numbers. 5 people (give or take a few, I don't remember) have left the company in the past 3 months; most of them were not replaced. The Sales department was entirely restructured, resulting in 2 more people leaving the company. Earlier this fall we had a "focus group" set of meetings wherein 25 people from the company got together to brainstorm a new direction. I was part of those meetings. The CEO and COO were supposed to meet with our parent company in Germany in November to propose a new 3-year plan. We hadn't heard what came of that yet, and I assume tomorrow will be the unveiling.
Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Passed the BCPS.
With a crazy high score too >_>
Good times. Now for alcohol and ice cream
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Hurray for passing!
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Congrats! :D
... though who the hell didn't see that one coming?
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Congrats! :D
... though who the hell didn't see that one coming?
Which part? The ice cream?
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Congrats!
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Congrats! :D
... though who the hell didn't see that one coming?
Which part? The ice cream?
Yes. We all know you are an ice cream fiend, after all.
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My professor seems to have mailed me my letter of recommendation for a college. Yes, I held it to intense light. "Superior character." Aw. Let's see what she put for weakest traits . . .
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That Julia's such a character...
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Mini-mini meet summary! So since Super was here in LA for a few days, we got to hang out on Friday and Saturday. I had one of the incredibly rare times of calling into work on Friday to avoid it. Not too much game playing on Friday since I my plan was to (successfully!) get Super to watch Legend of the Seeker since I didn't plot enough to get people to watch it at con. Luckily he definitely enjoyed it, and I think we got through 2 episodes on Friday and another 2 on Saturday? Watching on Saturday was even his suggestion! He was able to recognize the scene was my avatar came from despite the board having been dead for a while before then.
Saturday I think Super looked over my book collection and made me very wary about putting any more time into the mess that is Dark Tower; I had a spare copy of Spirit Gate by Kate Elliot, the book I was reading at the last con, and gave that to him.
Niu showed up around 2 on Saturday, PSP in tow. Two seconds after walking in the door, he really strongly insults Super and gives off an extremely insane crackle. Reminds me that I really need to hang out with Niu more. After Niu ranting a bit on the absurd time sink that is TO's remake, Super suggested we play Soul Blade. Which all of us had forgotten how to play. My strategy is doing flip kicks with Sophiettia, but the buttons aren't being my friend. So then we play SFA3. My strategy is doing flip kicks with Chun Li. Despite knowing it was coming, this works surprisingly well on Niu. That said, we had all forgotten how to play this too (After 10 years of not playing, I'm inept at qcf and qcb now). We switch over to RS, where my strategy is to...endlessly flip kick with Akira. If only I found my Tekken 3 copy, because that game I'm always be able to legitly play (...by backflipping with Xiaoyu, predictably).
Super heads off after this, and Niu and I go off to dinner (after I discover that he's fatally weak to both pickles and Ginger). Highlight of the dinner conversation is that I realize that thanks to bad bad FF 7 retcons, I'm now fairly sure that Aeris' actual murderer was Cloud. I think my explanation makes Niu laugh for a few minutes straight. Back at my house, we finally break out some RPGs. I show Niu show to trivialize demon path Rakshka even without extra levels, and after some DL shop talk effectiveness of final bosses versus DL performance, I put him up to showing me how to make Luther look like a low Light (mostly since I'm not that great at SO 3!). And oops, turns out that US Luther is apparentally completely different in some major ways as Niu figures out by having Luther kill him the first few times. Niu's respect for him jumps about 2.5 divisions; I promise not to post this fact before him. We go over a good other number of RPGs discussion wise and he tells me what to look out for coming out next year. Think he left around 1am.
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I had fun in LA, hung out with a cousin and got to spend some time with Dhyer and Niu.
Traffic in in Hollywood and going towards Santa Monica is somehow worse than you'd expect. Edit: Legend of the Seeker was really awesome and is so much better than the sword of truth.
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How does this FFVII retcon work? Tell tell! INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!
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Well, thanks to AC, it's fairly obvious that named FF7 characters can't die from unnatural causes. Get slashed and thrown across a room by Sephiroth's sword slash? Full recovery. Top of a building that's hit by missiles and completely explodes? Well, you'll live, just be stuck in a wheelchair. Impaled on Sephiroth sword? Sounds like's a full recovery...if you aren't at a bottom of a lake. Thanks to their willingness to make clusterfucks, post AC, it makes the most sense that Aeris probably drowned.
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Ahh, that. Damn, I was hoping for a new one.
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As in, she drowned, but insatntly revived, but drowned again, and then instantly received, then repeats indefinitely thus making Aerith stuck in a loop of pain forever. But you know what, I think this is very deserving for a FF& character.
Lucy's change in US version is the most DL friendly change I have ever seen. I would say the English Lucy in the end is weaker then the JP version, his steel body is not as tough and his recovery is bad. I mean, I was really shocked to see a full Acrobat Locus combo landed on him. But... none of these matters too much in DL, on the other hand, his new invinci frame in Perfect Symmetry had made that move stupidly accurate, effectively making him not a light any more in my eyes. Crap crap crap!!!
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Fancy pants company meeting pretty much meant jack and shit for my department, THOUGH one of my bosses is retiring next June (yay!) and I have a "new" boss. The "new" boss was a former consultant. He's still officially a consultant, but he's also the pro-tempore head of my department. The cool thing? He's a guerilla marketer! So I get to sit through a few months of someone telling the department to do exactly what I've been telling them to do, except this time they're going to be doing it.
Theoretically.
(The meeting was mainly that we reconfigured a few things, but it's almost literally slapping a new coat of paint on old infrastructure so I don't think it's going to be that much of a change. We did eliminate a layer of management (though no one was fired), and that can only be positive.)
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A tornado woke me up today.
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What a jerk.
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Sending out Christmas cards is always fun. (: Granted, I'm a bit late, but whatever!
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If it's before the 25th, you're early.
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I now know where I'm moving to in January and I found Jim's games. Good morning.
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been in this hospital bed too long so bored
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been in this hospital bed too long so bored
Back up. You ok?
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Back up. Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep.
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stomach flu and losing vision in my left eye
I should be okay though. I just really fucking hate IVs, they end up sticking me way too much.
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Sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon.
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:/
So, my grandma is apparently in the hospital and needs surgery. My mom is going to head back tomorrow to look after her.
Just *once* I would like December not to have some sort of wreck in it please.
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I hope her surgery goes well. :|
Uncle just passed. Vision not getting better. Someone else's grandmother is in the hospital. This week is indescribable.
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;_;
Really sorry to hear that. What's the vision issue like? Blurring, or blindness? I'm honestly surprised they gave you IV fluids, unless you've been completely unable to keep anything down. Granted, if you're feeling so bad you're in the hospital, it may have been justified.
*hugs*
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Apparently I have low blood pressure (86/60 at the moment), and it may be affecting my vision in my left eye. I don't have any blind spots. Looking solely out the eye, I see stars, water waves, blurriness and colors become fuzzy and patched. I have not had any blows to the head . . if I'm having migraines, I certainly don't feel them. I'm at home now. I have not been adhering to the broth diet. They checked my eye (though they said I should see an optometrist if it persists) and there was no blood, etc. etc. I really don't know. I may do a yoga routine to up my heart rate.
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So who tried to go to their local gaming store and pre-order FFIV for the psp?
*raises hand*
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Hey question: has anybody played the 2nd edition of Betrayal at House on the Hill yet? Is it good? (I'm woring on Christmas shopping).
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Haven't played it much, but have flipped through it. Its pretty much identical to the previous one, except cleaned up, streamlined a bit and containing some new stuff. If the recipient liked the first one, the second one is good.
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So who tried to go to their local gaming store and pre-order FFIV for the psp?
*raises hand*
Wait, they're remaking/re-releasing that fucking game AGAIN?
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George Lucas will never die of starvation clause.
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They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.
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So can we officially all agree that FF4 is just shovelware at this point?
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Spent last night in the ER (not for me). Fun. Came away with a diagnosis and prescriptions, though, so at least it wasn't wasted time.
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Sorry to hear. Hope everything with the other person is ok (got your PM after I had gone to bed, so I unfortunately missed it).
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I'm posting from my Mac. Do you know why I'm posting from my Mac? Because my PC has decided to suddenly stop working on me for unknown reasons, but I assume faulty memory of some sort. I'll have more info tomorrow when the tech guys have a look at it.
I also had my credit card declined when I went to buy a gift for a friend, but it went through when buying something for me. Maybe I'm cursed.
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It's called capitalism - selfish, selfish capitalism.
It's what Christmas is all about, after all
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Good news, bad news time!
Good: My Grandma turns out to be okay. The surgery isn't anything major, so looks all good. Here's hoping for a speedy recovery
Bad: My Finance test for the CPA exam came back. I have to redo it again :/. Looks like I'm still a student for now. Studying will begin a couple of days.
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Look on the bright side with your Christmas shopping - ever since America turned Saint Nicholas/Sinterklaas into Santa Claus, we've had to put up with celebrating it twice!
@Tide: Good luck with that. Hope your grandma'll be well. I know all too well the distress of having your grandparents suffering ills.
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Christmas shopping, round one: sucks.
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They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.
What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;
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FF4: The Puberty Years
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They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.
What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;
Trying to milk the hell out of plot that would be better off not existing is the very core of FF4.
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They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.
What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;
A 15-minute training montage.
(Montage!)
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They're putting out a PSP version which includes The After Years and some nominal new content bridging the gap between the games.
What kind of content do you need to bridge the gap between FF4 and TAY? Does it have a pixelated scene of Rosa and Cecil getting it on near a nuclear waste dump site to produce our somehow-even-stupider-than-you'd-expect protagonist this time around? Porom dealing with training bras? I mean... there's not a lot to explore in that time period, honestly... >.>;;
Djinn, RS2 remake on the cellphone requires more attention from you. Stop thinking about FF4 but all the pretty new 7 Heroes art by Kobayashi. UGHHH!! Why!! Why is the remake on cellphone!!! The Kobayashi art!! I want!!! And four more new dungeon that actually deals with the actual 7 Heroes meta plot?? CURSES!!!
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RS2? Romancing SaGa?
Hmm... I'd probably be more excited if it was a SaGa game remake of something I'd actually played before...
Also, cell phone game. >.>;;
Maybe if they release a DS port or something I'll buy it.
If it was a SaGaF remake, I'd be beating down some Japanese friends' doors and forcing them to buy the game for me. Several copies.
WHERE IS MY REMAKE OF SAGAFRONTIER, SQUARE!!!!!
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One of my friends from high school is a drummer. He was a drummer in high school, went to college for Percussion, and just finished his Master's in Music in Percussion Performance so... I think it's safe to say he's a drummer.
Anyway, he's entered this contest thingy, and he's currently in 2nd place with 24-odd hours left.
Would you visit his page and consider giving him a vote?
http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/33807
(For those of you who actually care, the music is a remix of Metric - Golden Guns Girls. And yes, that IS my friend drumming.)
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Good taste in tracks to mix as well, listening to it now, will likely throw in a vote.
Also I am at my parents place with just my laptop, so that is why I have vanished from IRC latey, if anyone needs to contact me then board PMs are a better idea for now.
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Home for a couple days. This means no SC2. This does also mean time with family + alcohol + food so this is a winning trade.
Work Friday, though. 7AM. Not looking forward to it. Ah well.
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So he pulled off 2nd place!
Pro membership to the site. Metric will pick a winner on January 20th, and there's nothing to do now but wait. I'll try to remember to let you guys know how he does in the end.
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In unrelated news, this is the dumbest week of work ever. It was last year, too. Whyyyyyyy
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Christmas eve at parents place. When I was getting a lift to the station with my dad he had his iPod touch playing on shuffle, so I picked it up and flicked it over to Velvet Underground and we sang along in the car to Venus in Furs and the like. While I was at work he dug out his vinyl collection.
So we spent tonight recording some vinyl to PC. The original Velvet Underground and Nico (!!), a print put out by MGM called Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground which has a smattering of tracks from the first three albums (might just be first two?), not an official album, but neat enough anyway. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is playing at the moment. We have ChangesoneBowie still to go on the Bowie front. A few others. A Master's Apprentice album, Lou Reed - Transformer. There is also a Hendrix single in there. For some reason there is a Gary Glitter single as well.
Going to get copies for myself because oh my god I love vinyl.
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I wish I was one tenth of the music nerd you are sometimes.
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Aficionado, more like, if you want to get technical, and you know I do.
So, the benefit to working at 7AM is negated by a few things: There's nothing I'd want to do tonight until 8 or 9PM anyway, and working a 10 hour shift means I went to work before the sun was up and came back after it was down, which is just slightly depressing if you ask me. Oh well, on regular schedule now, and it is the weekend. Time to... uh. Move.
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So the first snow of the winter is on Christmas day. I should probably be less bitter about this.
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And thus Djinn remains the only floridian who understands that snow is evil.
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So the first snow of the winter is on Christmas day. I should probably be less bitter about this.
And thus Djinn remains the only floridian who understands that snow is evil.
Your Chrismtas coal lumps were strategically placed inside the shoes you're going to use today. Thank you and good night.
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Excellent, I can use it to thaw out my car.*
* ACTUALLY it's been a pretty excellent winter so far, only one noteworthy snowfall and it's stayed cold enough to prevent thaw->refreeze ice forming. Going out for christmas I was able to easily back down the hill and get enough momentum to get back up, so at this stage the worst driving of the winter is already done. Wheeeee~
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Corporate life SUCKS.
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Heya Psy. Working a bunch?
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Much more than I'd like to, actually.
How are you guys doing?
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Heya, Psy.
On my end, doing fine, though I've been working like a mule myself. <_<
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Pretty well on this end. Christmas was good! You still in Rio?
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Pretty well on this end. Christmas was good! You still in Rio?
Still living in Rio, but going constantly to wherever the company needs me to go. We're creating a training schedule for some employees that are envolved with technical jobs and I also need to create a communication channel with all the universities in the country. I already mapped them, now I need to VISIT them. ;_;
Heya Snow, nice to know you're still around too.
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... holy -fuck- who are you working for?
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El Diablo, clearly.
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Please let me win these Cirque tickets.
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I love the symmetry of my vacation. Finish work and immediately fly home for the holidays. Finish holidays and immediately fly home for work. It is elegant in its stupidity.
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Julia gets home after a good day of work, and her boyfriend made dinner.
+100 points.
Julia sits down in bed, turns on 360 and wonders what this "DVD" is. Boyfriend insists that I look.
Well, if it isn't the Hangover! Yeah! I sent that DVD out back to Netflix today.
No? No I didn't? Then what was in the sleeve?! YOU PUT INFINITE UNDISCOVERY IN THE NETFLIX SLEEVE?
Julia becomes enraged.
-30 Points
After a brief google to see the potential of getting said item back, Julia gives in and calls Customer Service.
After a brief conversation with Tom, who uses "Right On!" so enthusiastically, Julia receives an e-mail stating they received a personal item and will mail it back ASAP. Julia then mailed out (today) The Hangover in a nicely fit envelope.
+20 Points
Realizing her student loan went through today in account she wants to close? + 10 points, it gets the money out of the account faster.
Waiting on her $100 rewards to post to the account before she closes it? -20 points.
Realizing she only has to pay one application fee of $77 dollars, and then one prior to Jan 5 of $50 dollars, rather than 2 $77 fees, and one $50 fee? +100 points. Now she may eat food.
I don't feel like calculating my rather arbitrary numbers.
Oh wait! Something just occurred.
Witnessing cat growl, and then "bark" at someone running through my yard? + 60 points.
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(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CCvnUeXUHZE/0.jpg)
I guess that is somewhere around 240 points.
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High five for the motherfucking Grefidunter.
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Was doing my work at home shit, long story short I got slammed with a hellish malware (anti-malware wouldn't even run in Safe Mode). Soooo won't be around for a while. Xer this -is- the one downside, make sure you got hella good prevention (I normally have better but I couldn't get it running well and still do the job, hadn't adapted yet to the new set up).
So yeah.
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Toro, have you considered running a virtual machine to do this job? Sounds like you got slammed with something nasty.
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Yeah, 's gonna be what I look into when I get it back.
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I use VirtualBox for virtual machines. Seems to work pretty well and it's free.
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So the tickets I won are putting me in section 204, seats 3&4. I don't know if that's a good thing, but hey, it's free. It's in a side area. So the map tells me.
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Free is awesome, yes. Have fun!
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Tai, check your PMs when you get a chance, it's important.
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Found out I have until the weekend to be out of my current place, yesssssssssss. Gives me much more time to get out of here.
Met both of my roommates now. One seems very much like a dude, and the other also seems much like a dude, so I imagine there will be alcohol. Is a good sign?
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Went shopping earlier to cover food for a mini-party tomorrow. Ended up spending about £70. Whoops.
Ah, well. Should be a good party, as long as other people can bring some alcohol - I was only covering food and non-alcoholic drinks due to a lack of ID. >.>
Also, spent most of today rearranging my room. I no longer have a computer desk (and am sitting on the floor right now) but will be having two chests of drawers by the end of tomorrow. A winning trade overall, methinks.
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New Year's Resolution stats: Kept. For the first time in my life.
2010's was to write a chapter every month. Not nessesarily of the same story, but just a chapter. Of something. And get it posted. I started the year with just Sword and Shadow(based on FE7, guess the characters and win the no-prize), which I started...before I came to the DL I think. And now I have four, each for a different game.
So if anyone is interested, here you go: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/996189/
My stories all link from there. None of them are finished yet, but hopefully they're enjoyable all the same. And even if not...well, I'm still just amazed I managed to follow through on something for once, so hey. I'm kinda ^_____^ right now~
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/me gives Gate a cookie.