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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Jo'ou Ranbu on December 31, 2012, 02:48:46 PM
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<Irotome> how i stopped worrying and learned to love the ko
G'morning for the next year, everybody!
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You are unwell.
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You seem to have a penchant for blankly stating the brutally obvious, sir.
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Good morning!~
(well in half an hour or so in that it'll be 12 am >_>)
Was going to hop on chat but mIRC is misbehaving again~
So probably just going to have a drink of Irn Bru to bring the new year in then head to bed directly after >_>
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Happy New Years peeps! I am just putting on the dinner~
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My year started off with a bang, literally. The bang of a fat PS2 falling off the closet shelf above my bed and landing on my ear and head. >_< Just a concussion and getting my ear glued back together, but still.
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So... it seems like SnowXDjinn isn't going to work out. I'm so depressed, and I've ruined every facet of my life now. What's worse, it's all my fault and you're all welcome to hate me now.
The story, in summary: Snow and I met at DLCon and really hit it off. There were feelings and such and we continued to talk online and made big plans to have this trip together and be romantic and such. Months pass, both of us are still interested, but we're trying to be realistic that long-distance exclusivity isn't something that works. So we agree to just be friends with potential. Seeing other people is fine.
Well, I made the mistake of falling for someone. And I couldn't bring myself to tell Snow it wasn't just a fling. Now he's here and I feel awful for keeping it as "Just Friends". Bonus points, I didn't tell my special someone about Snow and that has also blown up in my face.
I don't know how to make this better. I don't know if it can be made better. I'm the terrible human being that angry female pop singers like Beyonce write hatesongs about.
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Three way.
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I had no idea that this was a thing. So :( Well I might have caught it didn't seem like Snow was ripping as much on Djinn and being nicer but. Wow. Yeah :(
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Drinking some tea I received from the lovely CT. Thanks so much, dear!
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You are welcome. Glad they managed to get there ok eventually. Looks like all the stuff I already sent made it. Just have to send the rest of Tai's stuff and LD's gifts which were delayed because I didn't manage to get them away in time before the last Christmas post~
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You know, making public your failure to commit or be honest to people who have feelings for you is disrespectful to both Snow and the anonymous person involved. I have nothing further to say, I'm sure Snow and whoever else is mature enough to talk this through and handle it privately.
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I'll just chime in to say I'm fine. If anyone wants to talk to me about it, feel free to PM me. I'll just ask any of you to not lash out on Djinn. We more or less sorted this out.
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Alrighty~ Glad you're ok and have more or less sorted stuff out, hope you both come out of this ok with no hard feelings~
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it's all my fault and you're all welcome to hate me now.
Nah, I don't think I'll be doing that. Relationships are hard. People do stupid things under their influence all the time. Glad the two of you sorted it out.
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I'll just chime in to say I'm fine. If anyone wants to talk to me about it, feel free to PM me. I'll just ask any of you to not lash out on Djinn. We more or less sorted this out.
Three way.
(http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/13/89632.jpg)
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it's all my fault and you're all welcome to hate me now.
Nah, I don't think I'll be doing that. Relationships are hard. People do stupid things under their influence all the time. Glad the two of you sorted it out.
The blunt of it is we're still friends. And thanks for the good sentiments.
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I'll just chime in to say I'm fine. If anyone wants to talk to me about it, feel free to PM me. I'll just ask any of you to not lash out on Djinn. We more or less sorted this out.
Three way.
(http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/13/89632.jpg)
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So when does the trolling start?
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There never wasn't trolling to begin with. If you mean a Rickrolling, though, 2009 is on the time machine to your left.
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HELLO I AM THE REAL SNOW. THERE WASN'T TROLLING TO BEGIN WITH. IF YOU MEAN A RICKROLLING, THOUGH, 2009 IS ON THE TIME MACHINE TO YOUR LEFT.
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You and I are connected by the red string of fate.
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I'M A DALEK
I can't tell whether you missed the double negative on purpose and that makes your joke far more meaningful than it ever has any right to be.
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If this is how 2013 is going to be, I want a mulligan.
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2009 for rickrolling? WTF I tried to rickroll my job back in 2007 give up your internet hipster title
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2009 was when they rickrolled an entire stadium, effectively jumping the shark for good.
Also, bought Arkham Horror today. Hopefully I'll get to have Locecraftian beasts destroying Brazil.
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One new years resolution, which isn't fixing anything more than altering a timetable...
Try to sleep by 11PM, wake by 6AM.
This year I did a wonky 1130/1200ish then 7A~ thing. Will set six alarms instead of four.
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TIME FOR ANOTHER EPISODE OF SOAP OPERA ASHLEY:
That job that I was a shoo-in for, the one that would let me design a new department? That fell through. It got really *weird* around the end of December. They started not responding to emails as quickly, and then sent me a vague one asking me to call them. I did, and they said it didn't seem like I was as interested. The behavior that triggered that? Three emails in a single week, each one offering more suggestions of job descriptions, and reference contact information. Not Good Enough!
Then they called my references anyway. Then they waited until just this past Monday to let me know "it looks like what we have available is not the best fit for your skills and experience level." Uh huh. Whatever.
The job they wanted me for, at least the job we talked about, was perfectly in line with my experience and their requirements. They wanted to pay less than $45k for a job whose tasks recommended a salary of $55k+. So, basically, I think they completely wasted my time by not knowing what they wanted.
Next step is... I don't know. Still not at the point where I *need* a job, so I guess back to pursuing alternatives and keeping an ear to the ground for opportunities worth applying for. I'm plenty okay with this!
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Speaking of which, the Airbnb job I applied for fell through. Ashley, if anything else shows up in your area that I'd be a decent fit for, shoot me up as well. I've been doing some looking myself, but there are issues when you're in a different country. >_> I should pull up a cover letter model once I get back.
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I'm sorry that one didn't work out. :( I'll definitely keep an eye out! I'm regularly combing through Craigslist and LinkedIn for jobs for myself, and you're not that far off from my skillsets. Easy.
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I'm fine. I vaguely suspect they weren't actually willing to foster a visa, truth be told. And I prolly should make a LinkedIn profile myself. Thanks for the help, by the way. =)
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The only places that really seem to be interested in sponsoring VISAs right now are medical residencies, and even then, places seem a little loathe to do a lot of it.
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School week starting. Life over; checking out. Made some video game progress - now all will be on handheld (and even then, progress cannot be made when riding a bike)..
Happy school year EVERYBUDDY! CHEERS to never starting real life!
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Going back to Brazil in roughly an hour and a half. The year just started and I already want another break.
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My new boss reminds me of Snow. He's a hot, midgetty South American man with a fantastic accent.
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My new boss reminds me of Snow. He's a hot, midgetty South American man with a fantastic accent.
Wait I'm hot?
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Flaming.
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Both flaming and hot, good combination IMO
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Speaking of which:
<Hello-WaddlethedralWaddleDee> Oh Dave Matthews Band cover night eh not doing anything else tonight might as well pretend I'm Ashley. Plus, look at all these boy-girl couples this is totes a straight night
/me somehow ends up in the arms of a cute Psych grad student for the rest of the night and picks up a telephone number.
Apparently I just -attract- teh gays.
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I met Pyro's wife and daughter this weekend! Mrs. Pyro is awesome (and hilarious), and their progeny is adorable. Well done, sir.
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I met Pyro's wife and daughter this weekend! Mrs. Pyro is awesome (and hilarious), and their progeny is adorable. Well done, sir.
...wait, what?!
Have I really been out of the loop here that long!?
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Yes, you have.
Tangentially, today was very weird. The good kind of weird, though.
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Sexually?
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Kinda.
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I have never been so cold! 5 degrees at night? 13 in the morning?!
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5, but it feels like -18!?!?!?!?
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Visited the family to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Observed). Or, you know, a very belated Christmas/New Year.
My mother has apparently realized that I am now older than she was when she had me (her oldest child), and that means the incessant backhanded comments about having children have begun. God help me.
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Fine, I guess I'll just be content never living to see my grandchildren.
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This is a great time of you all to remind me another benefit of being gayer than a San Francisco public bathroom in Mardi Gras. My mom forcibly transferred all her grandma expectations and psychological torture methodologies to my sisters.
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It doesn't always work. One of my friends was looking forward to the end of that routine after he came out, but now that he's getting married and his little brother is a confirmed drug addict, his mom is just yelling at him to adopt the day after they tie the knot.
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Well, yes. My middle sister at least picked up the slack and is getting married in less than two months.
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Being gay should not get you off the hook for the grandkids lecture. Also, that friend of yours in particular is awesome, he will make a good dad.
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Being gay should not get you off the hook for the grandkids lecture.
Worked for me. Although there's also the part where I've told my mom I'm -still- considering a vasectomy even though I haven't even ever kissed a girl (and now I definitely won't >_>). She knows when to raise the white flag.
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I think it is less that you are gay and more that your mother has met you.
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FUN THOUGHT: basically everything I know in terms of sass and horribleness I learned from her. I bow to my masters where it's due.
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Wow, your mom is somehow a sassier, more demented you? What, is she Colombian?
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Bolivian and Portuguese blood. It's a wonderful combination.
EDIT: Wait, my mom's branch of the family ain't Italian, I think that's dad's.
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Fine, I guess I'll just be content never living to see my grandchildren.
That one usually degenerates into me acting like I don't comprehend passive-aggression and cheerfully agreeing.
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Fine, I guess I'll just be content never living to see my grandchildren.
That one usually degenerates into me acting like I don't comprehend passive-aggression and cheerfully agreeing.
"Yeah, probably not. It's awesome, isn't it? C'mon, up top! What, you're gonna leave me hanging like that? Don't be such a bitch."
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Fine, I guess I'll just be content never living to see my grandchildren.
That one usually degenerates into me acting like I don't comprehend passive-aggression and cheerfully agreeing.
Pretty sure I have a PhD. in fake non-comprehension of passive-aggression by now thanks to my grandma~
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So, a nightclub burned down and over 230 people died in the fire last night in the city one of my best friends used to live. In the media, it's been said it's the worst victim tally in a club fire in pretty much all history. I'm speechless right now, just trying to spread news and help requests.
And then, there are people in high social media making jokes about the fire. I hate the internet.
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The internet continues to be a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
That event made the news here, so I'll admit I was pretty glad to see you around and okay today!
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Glad to hear you're ok Snow.
Not glad to hear that some people have no standards whatsoever.
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Oh, it didn't happen here. Just a city a very good friend of mine is from, and I have other friends in the region. Right now, there's not much else to do, I shared some links and contacts for people who are closer than I am (I'm over a thousand km from the area) for support, which is about as good as I can do within my limits. Still, this just shot my mood down the drain for the rest of the day.
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Speaking of, big rains and some minor flooding g in Brisbane. I am fine able to go to work and stuff. We lost power though because a branch of a tree fell and ripped the overhead wore that connected our unit to the lines across the street off the building. Hopefully get power back today. Not sure if will have net connection back or not.
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Glad to know you're all right as well, Gref.
Mood still shot the whole day due to yesterday's incident and the news about it getting progressively worse and having slept two hours today. Then, The Cure announces they'll perform in São Paulo three months from now. On a Saturday.
Yeah, today ain't completely hopeless yet.
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Performa-organized African Surrealism event next Friday in NYC. Be there or be square.
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... I just got a leaflet through my door asking me not to support/vote for genderless marriage and to let my MSP know I was opposed to the plans for this. Wat. I am so mad right now.
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Something that amused me which I heard in a phonecall after I confessed that I hadn't played any games made by Rockstar.
"You know, it's funny: usually the only people who haven't played any Rockstar games are people from China, where the games were banned for a while...and women."
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That males me a girl, then? OH SNAP
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Something that amused me which I heard in a phonecall after I confessed that I hadn't played any games made by Rockstar.
"You know, it's funny: usually the only people who haven't played any Rockstar games are people from China, where the games were banned for a while...and women."
That does eliminate about 75% of the world's population, so...
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Perspective: a bitch.
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That males me a girl, then? OH SNAP
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Although I have to say, I'd be curious what Snow would make of LA Noire.
So a couple weeks ago my previous place of employment closed down, which really took about two months more than I thought it would. However, I never got my W2s, and I find myself wondering how the hell that works now.
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That males me a girl, then? OH SNAP
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I earned this and you can't take it away from me.
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New suit. <3
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Although I have to say, I'd be curious what Snow would make of LA Noire.
So a couple weeks ago my previous place of employment closed down, which really took about two months more than I thought it would. However, I never got my W2s, and I find myself wondering how the hell that works now.
Did they run through a large processing company like ADP or Paychex? If so, you could probably contact them and hunt it down that way (especially if you have the 2011 W2 from the same employer with an EIN).
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New suit. <3
Good to see even you can make a sound decision occasionally. Now buy some scotch that's old enough to get thrown in scotch jail for banging other, less expensive scotches.
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Did they run through a large processing company like ADP or Paychex? If so, you could probably contact them and hunt it down that way (especially if you have the 2011 W2 from the same employer with an EIN).
They didn't, but if that's the way to go I can probably figure out the accountant.
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Realized that I am now inducted into a faux-Sex in the City close-knit girl group. Not sure how I really feel about this yet, although I know I'm great friends (and 'bffs') with one. But when girls get do the group-y thing, shit gets ridic. Everyone has their head on their shoulders though, so. . .
Brightest side to this? Professional clothes shopping at Nordstrom and The Limited, with a quick-fuck-I-need-kitchenware grab at Sur La Table --- has never been so much fun. ^-^ And I now have four dresses to -kill for-. First Fridays at museums, here we come.
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I don't advise killing for clothing directly, you risk damaging and staining them too much with most easy methods. You might think strangulation would work but there is lots of struggling involved usually. Better to wait until they wear something else and get their house keys. Pick up your new shirt later.
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You need an espresso machine.
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I don't need one when I keep buying Black Blood of the Earth.
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You might think strangulation would work but there is lots of struggling involved usually.
Play The Walking Dead, Gref. It's the first game that really made me think about how difficult it is to strangle someone to death.
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New foster acquire: kittens!
This is good. I have been kind of low this week. Tiny adorable kittens will fix all.
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Went clubbing and ended up sharing a bed with a cute guy at a lesbian's house in a different town - and the lesbian's christian cousin slept on the bed just below. Then I lost my keys. Guess the weirdest part of this conundrum, win nothing.
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I don't need one when I keep buying Black Blood of the Earth.
Only works here if you're using demi-tasse.
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Biked to work this morning in 22 (17 feelin) degree weather in a gray dress, bright orange leggings, leg warmers and black wedge heels. No peekaboos either. And I got comments from other bike chicks, so I feel a little good about myself -- biking fashionably while not baring it all! I TOLD THEM THE SECRET! Chicksandbikes.com; keepin' it real. (-= And what's great is that air was still able to travel, so I didn't arrive perspiring. ( - :
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i stopped drinking japanese beer because ew. cheap tequila and 3 limes per bottle costs less for the equivalent amount of time that beer lasts me so hell yeah. also i guess i'm dieting? anyway i eat a lime a day now.
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/me randomly internets.
/me spits drink.
Waitwaitwait The B-52's are playing in Brazil this October? On a Friday -and- a Saturday? Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
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God fucking dammit. It's fucking 2013 and I have to hear from my mother that she still doesn't believe my sexuality. THIS SHOULD NOT BE A TOPIC WHEN YOU CAME OUT THREE FUCKING YEARS AGO AND CONSTANTLY DISCUSS THE MATTER WITH FAMILY.
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Just make a movie, take pictures, show her IRC logs and hit on your father.
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Denial?
on the flipside, congratulated by my dgs and director today... And also received a call from Yale... (;
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You have a posse of DGs to cheer you on?
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Denial?
on the flipside, congratulated by my dgs and director today... And also received a call from Yale... (;
It's a lot more complicated than that. At least it didn't end in the note I last pointed out. It's being people. It's difficult. We deal with it. At least I can actually count on her honesty - for all that, in some points, we'll never see eye to eye.
Also, you're pretty much on fire! Go girl!
You have a posse of DGs to cheer you on?
You mean she ever hasn't?
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we'll never see eye to eye.
You can say that about most of the population. Either they are too tall or you are busy looking 45 degrees down.
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Worth noting neither applies to you, which probably says much about our dynamics.
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Quod erat demonstrandum.
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It's a lot more complicated than that. At least it didn't end in the note I last pointed out. It's being people. It's difficult. We deal with it. At least I can actually count on her honesty - for all that, in some points, we'll never see eye to eye.
Yeah, most definitely. I would also just nudge one step further and conclude with "moms." I recall her wondering about your future baby potential, so your sister's wedding and knocked up potential is now turning attention to the unmarried, un-knocked up sibling???????? Here's hoping the mamadrama chills ASAP.
Also, you're pretty much on fire! Go girl!
Thank you ! ! My first acceptance was a bit surreal, but receiving that call from Yale has turned me into the biggest ball of nerves ever. I figured Yale was just my -apply to apply- PhD. And now I actually have to make a choice and am trying to imagine simply how much stress and types of collegiality that I'll be able to handle. The stress part is the biggest problem. I haven't even heard from Northwestern yet, and if I have the opportunity to choose between all THREE, I am going to shit storms. No clue about UTA, but their online app system was ridiculous, and I know how to use app systems AND THEIR APP SYSTEM (omg too many conjunctions) WAS RIDIC.
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Yeah, most definitely. I would also just nudge one step further and conclude with "moms." I recall her wondering about your future baby potential, so your sister's wedding and knocked up potential is now turning attention to the unmarried, un-knocked up sibling???????? Here's hoping the mamadrama chills ASAP.
There was talk about children tangentially. It's mostly that my mom still can't wrap her head around how my sexuality pretty much stomped all her expectations regarding my social and affective future - expectations that were never -mine- to begin with. She also lost family members who -were- gay to hate crimes as well and ends up misdirecting her fears. That's the frustrating part - her refusal to realize that those issues don't stem from someone's sexuality, but from the environment's fucked up logic that arbitrarily dictates what is right and what is wrong about it.
Thank you ! ! My first acceptance was a bit surreal, but receiving that call from Yale has turned me into the biggest ball of nerves ever. I figured Yale was just my -apply to apply- PhD. And now I actually have to make a choice and am trying to imagine simply how much stress and types of collegiality that I'll be able to handle. The stress part is the biggest problem. I haven't even heard from Northwestern yet, and if I have the opportunity to choose between all THREE, I am going to shit storms. No clue about UTA, but their online app system was ridiculous, and I know how to use app systems AND THEIR APP SYSTEM (omg too many conjunctions) WAS RIDIC.
Man, at this point the app system would be the least of my worries. Fuck, Yale -wants you-. I can't imagine how ecstatic you must be right now, and I pretty much bet just about any place should be baring its fangs to have you in their ranks.
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There was talk about children tangentially. It's mostly that my mom still can't wrap her head around how my sexuality pretty much stomped all her expectations regarding my social and affective future - expectations that were never -mine- to begin with. She also lost family members who -were- gay to hate crimes as well and ends up misdirecting her fears. That's the frustrating part - her refusal to realize that those issues don't stem from someone's sexuality, but from the environment's fucked up logic that arbitrarily dictates what is right and what is wrong about it.
"You will always be [her] child."
Man, at this point the app system would be the least of my worries. Fuck, Yale -wants you-. I can't imagine how ecstatic you must be right now, and I pretty much bet just about any place should be baring its fangs to have you in their ranks.
Even more reason to see a therapist ASAP, honestly. For Yale, my diss would need to satisfy two departments and two primary faculty advisors instead of one. And New Haven is the pits. Going to train down and check it out more, but my ENFJ may make me spiral out of control there.
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Good luck and pick one.
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(This is Elfboy posting from Ciato's account.)
Sooo my laptop is currently in for repairs. Yesterday, one of my friends grabbed a GameCube controller and the wire tipped over a mug of tea onto the keyboard, which put the machine out of commission. (Yes, two of my favourite things, tea and Mario Kart, conspired to ruin my day.) Anyway due to a loophole in the warranty*, the Apple Store is going to attempt to repair it for free, but depending on just what part died it may or may not be worth it. Could be just the power supply, but it could also be the logic board at which point I'm probably better off getting a new machine. :( Good news is that they confirmed the hard drive survived at least.
*There is a defect in the casing of my model of Macbook which causes it to chip slightly on the edges. I've never given a shit. But apparently it was a big enough deal that Apple created a special lifetime warranty where they will replace the casing, which requires taking apart most of the machine anyway.
So yeah, don't expect me to be around too much in the next few days. My apologies to the Disquiet crew in particular.
The week was going pretty damn awesomely otherwise! Fire Emblem being awesome, Canucks on a big winning streak, multiple of my classes telling me I am awesome at my job.
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Brandon Sanderson signing FLAIL
That was really cool. Really, really cool. Got a bit of a chance to speak with him privately, but the real fun begins tomorrow, when instead of being one of hundreds of fans (and technically being responsible for keeping fans moving, and the signing go by smoothly) I get to play Magic:The Gathering with him and 6 other people.
Fuck yeah.
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Brandon Sanderson signing FLAIL
That was really cool. Really, really cool. Got a bit of a chance to speak with him privately, but the real fun begins tomorrow, when instead of being one of hundreds of fans (and technically being responsible for keeping fans moving, and the signing go by smoothly) I get to play Magic:The Gathering with him and 6 other people.
Fuck yeah.
Your life is wonderful. Jus' sayin'.
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So Sanderson is doing a signing out here next week, but it's the memory of light tour and I have no interest in WoT. Still worth a 40-minute drive?
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If you want things signed by him, sure. The reading and Q&A (if he does one) will be Wheel of Time. But he's more than happy to talk about his other work, and sign anything of his you bring in.
Point of fact: someone brought in a My Little Pony stylized version of Vin. He was thrilled! He signed the poster for the fan, who gave Brandon his own copy of it. (I also got a copy of it because I told the fan how cool that was and that I was a fan, too. Nyah.)
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You should ask him why he stole the plot for Mistborn from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan.
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Or if he has ever considered writing a period Noir novel about the investigation of who put the bop in the bop shoowop.
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On the way to the gym this afternoon I saw a sign for Legally Blonde : The Musical. Not sure if OK and Snow have taken over the world or that I was right all along when going through my depressive cycles and we are truly in the decline of civilization and the twilight of humanity.
I hope it is the former and that terrifies me more than the inevitable end of all that I care about.
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That's been running for years mang.
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I don't care. I didn't have to see things to tell me it existed.
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So, I bought an HDTV. Apparently I just joined the modernity of ten years ago.
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Last evening was really surreal. Super casual, just me and Andrew and two others, and Brandon Sanderson. Chatted about Magic (of course), and life in general, and the nature of touring and the different worlds you live in when you're famous. Asserted that Bay Area is best place ever.
In a nutshell: ate ridiculously expensive cheese and macarons on the publisher's tab, playing Magic: The Gathering on tables in the bar at the Ritz Carlton with a NYT bestselling author.
That's a sentence I enjoyed writing.
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I flew to the moon and punched zombie Hitler in the face and declared Mars a new free Bogdanovist planet.
That sentence I enjoyed writing.
Yours is better for so many obvious reasons though.
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The puddles from mounds and mounds of snow are something serious. I can grow accustom to outside being a battlefield.
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University of Texas Austin wants me too. ( ;
I.. feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel...
gooooooooooooooooooooood.
3 to choose from. Janet wants me to choose Yale. I .. want to choose Yale too, but I.. am very nervous.
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Choose Yale, be nervous later. Just do the things you want.
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Nick Cave coming to Vancouver in April! Heck yeah. E6/Nick Cave within a month.
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Choose Yale, be nervous later. Just do the things you want.
The major problem is that the -major- names in my choice areas reside at UTA/Northwestern; snowstorm's prevented a meeting with Kobena Mercer, but he is -"the man"- in my area, and at Yale. So I will see how hot/cold he is. There's nothing more miserable than working with an advisor who may be overspent and less enthusiastic about your personal projects. You go to grad school for a "love of wisdom," yeah, but you primarily go for specific letters of rec for jobs. Just having the -Yale- name, rather than -excited Mercer- name won't do much in my field. It's sort of a joke that Yale grads always get the first interview, but rarely get hired at top schools.
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Well, you'll get to feel the heat of all schools first, won't you? Just exercise your tact, girl.
[insert Grefter.png here]
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Cave is playing Brisbane in March. So March has that and new Bowie album out. Think Cave'snnew one is due April.
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Feb 19 I thought.
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I might be mixing up with something else coming out. Memory not so good.
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Feb 19 is when the tickets for The Cure begin selling for the Rio venue. But this is irrelevant when the tickets for São Paulo begin selling a day earlier.
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[insert Grefter.png here]
I just want a great advisor. I currently have one. I'll of course let the entire world know if I choose Yale. It's cheaper to get there than UTA, but I get to VISIT UTA, WHICH MEANS OMG I GET TO BE IN THE SUN!!!
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I've considered going to UTA. Now, if I can drag a Canadian to hot-as-fuck land is another story altogether~
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Put him in an icebox. PUT HIM IN AN ICEBOX.
(PS, it seems like all the schools are going to reimburse me for travel costs. That's.. coo'...)
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In the same week, I have to RMA my tablet again and my desktop BIOS apparently goes south. Possibly the Luddites were rright.
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Got given core workout to do at home by my trainer. That means I had to clean my room because I don't feel like doing Supermans out in my lounge room while my brothers sit and laugh.
Well that took all fucking night but was Something I Should Have Done Forever Ago. Now I feel like I am going to sneeze forever and hate myself.
I don't even want to do this damned routine.
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Got given core workout to do at home by my trainer. That means I had to clean my room because I don't feel like doing Supermans out in my lounge room while my brothers sit and laugh.
Well that took all fucking night but was Something I Should Have Done Forever Ago. Now I feel like I am going to sneeze forever and hate myself.
I don't even want to do this damned routine.
parents jus dont understand
Actually can you post the entire course of the work out you're doing? Maybe in the exercise topic, or here, or whatever. I twisted my ankle and haven't been able to continue C25K so I've gone back to my weight training routine, but since I've been running my previous core routine no longer feels like it's doing anything, so it may be worth trying.
EDIT: also if your brothers sit and laugh you get to talk shit to them about being out of shape and fat shame them. rules of the road.
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New hipster glasses x1 acquired. The initial reaction makes me feel like I'm wearing 3D glasses.
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(http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/03/17/1226302/617085-dame-edna.gif)
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Man I wish.
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Desperation Day 2013 is a success.
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I assume that means you glassed some poor woman and got away with it.
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I like the implication that I am able to call down nuclear bombardments on people, but no, we just did a bunch of those energy drinks and did the Chicago Ferris Wheel.
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Dear god in heaven Rob.
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I suppose I should be glad I have no idea what the heck he did.
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I just took it literally >_>
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I'm not sure that's any better.
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The thing about energy drinks was literal. You were partly right at least.
E: #bonezone
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Northwestern took me off their waitlist...
and tossed me in the trashcan!!!!!!!!
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ! ! ! ! !
Oh well.
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That's a downer. Still two more to go, right?
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The thing about energy drinks was literal. You were partly right at least.
E: #bonezone
Remember dude. Finish strong and Separate Entirely.
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Moved into a new house!
It is nice and rent is cheap because I helped fix the place up from a concrete slab with walls into a proper living space. (Snow also helped while he was here.)
It's in a surprisingly convenient location, and it's really easy to make friends with rich people in this area, despite not being any kind of wealthy myself. This is great for the "Tutoring Rich Kids" business.
Valentine's Day is also a thing that happened. Awesome stuff, got cooked some delicious Chicken Parmesan, Cheesecake, and Chocolate-covered strawberries. Went to watch Wreck-it Ralph and drink beer. Finished up the day with sex and then a vigorous work-out at a 24 hour gym so that my trainer doesn't beat me for eating like that. >.>;;
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Clearly the answer was more vigorous sex.
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The answer is always more vigorous sex.
Three days until I can buy tickets for The Cure. Goddamn I'm anxious. On the other hand, yesterday I got to have a happy hour with one of my best friends. Figures I'd get a Valentine's Day gift (and it's not even Valentine's Day over here!) from a girl. >_> Come to think of it, it'll be a couple busy months. Sister getting married and I get to be best man, concerts to logistic-ferry for, preparation for -yet- another trip.
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That's a downer. Still two more to go, right?
Nope! I only applied to four, so 3/4. Pondering, pondering. Making a list and doing a whole balance-weighing thing.
Edit* If I got into Northwestern, I wouldn't have to ponder. It'd be Northwestern. POI sent a very nice letter, I can see why I don't "fit," since his work delves more into the contemporary realm these days. Le bleh.
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So, your situation is better than I thought -anyway-. It's kinda fascinating to see your fragmented thoughts over this, I have to admit.
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The thing about energy drinks was literal. You were partly right at least.
E: #bonezone
Remember dude. Finish strong and Separate Entirely.
No worries bro. Not only did I use a fake number, I used a fake name, occupation and place of residence.
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If you did anything less, I'd have to ask who are you and what did you do to Rob.
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By Rob, you mean Dr. James McEneely, M.D. F.A.S.C.
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Precisely.
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Family funeral, being asked to break into a friend's house and plotting to overthrow the admin of a site I've been on for almost 9 years. All in a day's work, I guess.
Oh, and I quit my job a couple of days ago. I guess that's also a thing.
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By Rob, you mean Dr. James McEneely, M.D. F.A.S.C.
Of the McEneely & Tobaggin Practice?
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Dr McEneely is a neonatal cardiac surgeon in Chicago. Mantis Toboggan is a general practitioner in Philly. So no. See, a mistake like that would torpedo the elaborate lies I build, which is why I have stopped making mistakes (instead, I BECOME someone's mistake for the night).
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Family funeral, being asked to break into a friend's house and plotting to overthrow the admin of a site I've been on for almost 9 years. All in a day's work, I guess.
Oh, and I quit my job a couple of days ago. I guess that's also a thing.
Sorry to hear it. hope everything works out well for you. p.s. maybe don't talk so much about overthrowing admins on facebook.
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New computer get! My old hard drive did indeed survive, and it is now snugly in a new external enclosure, all files intact. Unfortunately nothing else worth noting about the machine did. Fun story, the first couple places I talked to wanted to charge me $100+ just to transfer the data out of the dead machine. Phone around, and I find somewhere that will do everything I want (i.e. move the drive, since I don't trust my data to my own hands mucking around in there with a screwdriver) for $25. We call the first retailers scam artists. I guess they do it because they can get away with it, a lot of people might think that was a decent deal not knowing better.
On another note, went to Brandon Sanderson's Memory of Light signing yesterday! That was really awesome, it was a very long wait but we spent it nerding out with other Wheel of Time fans which was generally a joy, and the author himself was really cool to talk to even if just briefly. A great Valentine's Day. <3
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They gave us chocolate in the line. We also got a Memory of Light tote for having long conversations with the Memory Keepers. One of the MKs drove 13 hours to Vancouver to do it. It was originally going to only be four hours for her, but the signing was cancelled in Calgary. That's dedication! (Or insanity. :p)
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Congrats guys. (:
I am playing on my new Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet gift for phd studies..... this is fairly weird, but I like tablets that let you have multiple docs open on one screen. Will use this on campus now, but am waiting for some case that is supposedly sexy to arrive..... friends gifting me shit within the last twelve months.... ninentdo 3ds, sur la table swag (cept no one got me that 399 espresso machine.....) and now a tablet. Welp.
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Enjoy the gifts as much as you can, Doons. Nobody gives me the sexy electronics and then I have to buy them myself. Philistines.
Daylight Savings Time is finally over. Hallelujah, sisters.
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It is much better if you buy it. Then you don't feel like you owe something.... sure, spotting dinner/brunch, but tech?
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I think of it this way: if the people giving you a tech gift wanted to spend -that- much money on you, unless they're horrible human beings, the only thing you owe them is the unbridled glee of getting such an awesome gift. And if they're horrible human beings, they shouldn't be your friends anyway. Thinking of gifting as an action/reaction proportional deal can be very socially exhausting and unfulfilling, and it's good to just let it -go- at times.
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Gifting, yeah. Long established social history, and I agree. Grad school finances certainly exacerbates my feelings. I will eventually get over it like I did the 3ds. And holy shit, this fucking thing will not die. I have everything open D:<
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My advisor isn't teaching courses after 2014. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since she is still advising. But without her on campus consecutively teaching American art courses, I have little incentive to remain here. Yeah, amazing-amazing funding package, but.. sort of undermines my academic integrity if I graduate an Americanist. We'll see, I may have to pick up a position in the American Studies program, but bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh.
UTA sent me my funding package, five different fellowships each year, pretty fuckin' amazing funding package (except they make their TAs/AIs, both of which I would be, pay ~200 in tuition because of some increase; I believe no one should spend a dime for school, but their art history program is becoming much more reputable than UChicago.....)
Yale. So, what the fuck. I haven't received anything from my last call and am lead to believe I was in the first round of fucking calls, also known as the fucking waitlist not reflected on the online application, also known as maybe invite to the prospect weekend, also known as what the fuck. So maybe I was accepted into the AFAM (since they are the ones that called) and not the AH? Which means I am rejected all-together since I applied to the joint. And I fucking refuse to call and ask.
BU, UTA, BU, UTA, BU.. UTA, UTA.. UTA... BUTA... ;_______________________________; both good choices, I seriously just do not want to part with my advisor, but being in a shitty city and having to head to her house once a week........might as well choose the school where courses will be offered every year.... and has a better job placement rate (tied with MIT, what?) anyway.
*headdesk*
Visiting UTA. Have my Yale visit on hold due to moar snow this weekend and the fact that I ain't payin' jack shit for them to be like "Ooooh, yeah. Heeeey." It's not like they're organizing one for me anyway! Sounds like the reimbursement would take longer than nec. also. putain.
Edit* Apparently I'm her "last" student as well. So perhaps I can brilliantly frame my choice as poss: UTA, but with my advisor being 3rd on diss com and orals, so I get my 1820s-1940s down on fucking lock, then I got them awesome peeps as 1 and 2, so I won't be limited to only "Afam" art courses. ELECTRICITY BULB.
...Austin better wow me. $3.95 margaritas...ho shit
Edit edit* I am sympathetic to her 50+ years of teaching.
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I really hate everything about the job application process.
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Painful process of being judged on your worth as a human being in terms of value in profitability where the prize for winning is indentured servitude.
Hooray.
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Yeah. It really is the cliff notes version of everything wrong with humans and why western civilization cannot last.
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I got bored with my awesome low-stress private tutoring gig and decided to pick up a second job at something easy, like hotel work. I applied to three hotels and got three job offers. Also, while all of this was going on, I was randomly contacted by a new Tutoring business in the area which offered better hours, better pay, better student:teacher ratio, and best of all better management than the private school I was associated with, so I decided to upgrade. Fuck you, harpy boss!
So now I have two tutoring gigs - private (pays the most) and professional (more stable and long-term), and my choice of three hotel gigs to fill my free time.
Anyone have any opinions on my options: Embassy Suites (part time, $10/hr, high class beach resort, lots of employees, free hospitality training programs, opportunity to actually use my foreign language skills), Hampton inn (full time, 8.75/hr, cross training for all jobs in the hotel, benefits after 90 days, history of promoting from within and lots of available management positions to fill, but not as high class and seems to have a high turnover rate), And Candlewood Suites (part time, more flexible hours, 9/hr, extended-stay hotel, more responsibilities, lesser known but nice brand name, management seems unreliable).
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I avoid places with high turnover just because that usually means you get left holding the bag pretty frequently.
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something easy, like hotel work.
hahahaha
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Embassy Suites. But they're all going to suck.
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something easy, like hotel work.
hahahaha
Now now, let him find out for himself it's not all handing out fresh towels and complimentary blowjobs.
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Cocktail night with friends at Iris's house, watching (and narrating) Magic Mike, arguing with a cabbie from Kinshasa that I bet he speaks French but is lying and then only speaking French to him (which he then started speaking in French......) and waking up dehydrated with a flat stomach has made the last few weeks of my life bearable.
Now for munchy drunk brunching (:.... or just eating all day.
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something easy, like hotel work.
hahahaha
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...Austin better wow me. $3.95 margaritas...ho shit
Austin is nice, just stay off the roads. Worst drivers in Texas, and that's saying a lot.
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I've done a lot of customer service jobs. Crazy people don't bug me. Crazy management, yes. But I'm pretty well versed in dealing with irate customers. And children. I'm sure hotel front desk work presents its own share of difficulties, but every job does. I feel particularly well equipped to handle the ones associated with front desk, provided management is as sane as they seemed at Embassy.
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I got bored with my awesome low-stress private tutoring gig and decided to pick up a second job at something easy, like hotel work. I applied to three hotels and got three job offers. Also, while all of this was going on, I was randomly contacted by a new Tutoring business in the area which offered better hours, better pay, better student:teacher ratio, and best of all better management than the private school I was associated with, so I decided to upgrade. Fuck you, harpy boss!
So now I have two tutoring gigs - private (pays the most) and professional (more stable and long-term), and my choice of three hotel gigs to fill my free time.
Anyone have any opinions on my options: Embassy Suites (part time, $10/hr, high class beach resort, lots of employees, free hospitality training programs, opportunity to actually use my foreign language skills), Hampton inn (full time, 8.75/hr, cross training for all jobs in the hotel, benefits after 90 days, history of promoting from within and lots of available management positions to fill, but not as high class and seems to have a high turnover rate), And Candlewood Suites (part time, more flexible hours, 9/hr, extended-stay hotel, more responsibilities, lesser known but nice brand name, management seems unreliable).
Which one has the hottest boss you can sleep with?
In seriousness, look for better hours - if you have 3 jobs (not sure the time commitment on the tutoring, but...), you want to at least be able to schedule them effectively.
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...Austin better wow me. $3.95 margaritas...ho shit
Austin is nice, just stay off the roads. Worst drivers in Texas, and that's saying a lot.
I'll be walking/busing; after having consecutive convos with my friend (and one other internal MA that applied for a PhD at my uni), I'm discovering that everyone is abandoning the department. Sort of weird.
I've looked at some things about Austin, not much though. I hear it's a great biking city, ranks higher than Boston (and Boston people U-turn in both sides of traffic along four lanes) for biker friendliness (my major mode of transport) -- so I'm feeling really good about that.
IIRC, you live in Austin?
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No, Captain K Lives in Corpus Christi if I remember correctly. But Alex lives in Austin. You can be Alex's friend!
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('= that is a good thought, mmyes.
Yep it was a waitlist. Everyone accepted their offers, rejected. Hey. I came from podunk village and made it to an ivy league waitlist with less than five pubs under my belt. Well! Onto life again.
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Today was pretty bad. Was late for my lab teaching because an emergency happened on the road in front of us, everyone packed like a sardine in the bus, then the lab was a gongshow. Trying to get instructions on how to run a machine by someone speaks in one word sentences incomprehensibly, panicked students due to getting their accuracy points back this week (not pretty), and a clusterfuck of terrible machinery, Excel shenanigans, and my favorite was me pushing the Print button on a printer and it spitting out quarterly sales information for the printer company. Okay then. Finally managed to run all the kids out 40 minutes late.
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[18:05] <CmdrKing> Well that was brilliant. Decide "eh, snow's covering up that wetness, should be fine". Try driving into work, have to work to keep the car going straight on the main highway, start losing traction going up this hill maybe two miles from the house. So I think okay, if I'm having trouble now, two miles from home, I have no business being out here after work (which is probably like 1 am)
[18:05] <CmdrKing> Then promptly get stuck in someone's lawn trying to get turned around.
[18:05] <CmdrKing> Oh well, very nice people with a four wheel drive pickup and a chain. I should take them some cookies sometime.
And that's why my medium-term goals in life all involve leaving the state.
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Good thing it happened there and not Boston. No one would have bailed you out and you'd be an internet star by now.
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Oh god, another reason to add to my "Why Snow is Evil" list.
In an ironically related update on Life in Florida, I managed to get a sunburn yesterday, screwing over my beach plans for today. :(
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Oh god, another reason to add to my "Why Snow is Evil" list.
I swear, you smack a baby with a parasol -once- and it haunts you for - wait.
In an ironically related update on Life in Florida, I managed to get a sunburn yesterday, screwing over my beach plans for today. :(
:slowclap:
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/me finds out Florence + the Machine confirmed their presence in Rock in Rio this September.
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/me explodes.
Holy fuck, 2013 will be the best year ever for concerts on this end. So there. So. Fucking. There.
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We should see what's going to be in LA/San Diego in July...
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Fuck yes.
EDIT: Dibs on tossing Andy into a moshpit.
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Mystery package on it's way to the USA. Sorry about the t-shirt sizes, one might end up as more of a bed shirt I dunno, I was wanting to send a bit of British but the store only had one size left for each one, if they don't fit the S/O could wear them maybe~ There is other stuff too :)
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I'm coming home to a new Fire Emblem game today~
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inb4 <Grefter> Grefter.png
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I am graduating from college in two months. Too bad the degree doesn't come with a shiny, high paying job attached.
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The unemployment part is definitely the toughest thing about graduating. Holy -shit- it's easy to just get overwhelmed and hopeless. Congrats and good luck on your future career regardless - hell knows how long you've been plugging away at the degree goal.
EDIT: I kinda miss the times when I'd post like twenty times on G'morning topics every day.
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I am strangely sanguine about job hunting. I figure if I totally strike out, I can just say fuck it and start looking at international options or grad school (ugh). I did enjoy England.
MAybe I can combine both and do my grad school at somewhere like Oxford for maximum LD trolling.
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If you went to an Oxbridge college for a PhD I would stab you in the face in envy.
Three shots of coffee and I haven't trained yet. Work to go the. Training again in the afternoon. How much caffeine will I drink today? No idea. When do I think I will crash out? Hopefully 7pm.
Healthy riet??????
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Been feeling sluggish this last few weeks, so I signed up for the gym today, as well as trying to cut my extreme addiction to sugar and drinking tea at night.
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Hands shaking as I wait for bus to work, not sure if it from gym or from excessive caffeine. Good start to day.
Tea before bed is okay Ciatos, just gotta get the right kind (something that isn't technically a tea specifically). It is a good time to bust out the Rooibos. Drink it black without sugar and you are good :).
Edit - that is stuff made without tea leaves, like Rooibos. Rooibos doesn't have caffeine in it.
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/me comes back home with a handful of <3.
Man, I've been so chipper these last couple weeks. So excited for this month and the next.
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I fucking hate you and will stab you in the eye with a screwdriver.
Also that is the weirdest cock emoticon ever.
So answer to previous question of if it was caffeine or the training session draining me answered. My leg won't stop shaking so it was the caffeine.
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I fucking hate you and will stab you in the eye with a screwdriver.
Also that is the weirdest cock emoticon ever.
If that was a cock, you'd want to stab me in the eye with two screwdrivers.
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The heart symbol is just an inverted pictograph of a scrotum anyway. Just ask any historical protolinguist you know.
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Read that as Proctolinguist. Was all "Sick burn" then realised I am just tripping.
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If I told him to talk to a proctolinguist he'd be having a conversation with himself though.
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How many men rim my ass is none of your own goddamn business.
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We aren't interested in how many men. How many professionals have done it though (Doctors don't have to be male you fell for classic social programming sexism there).
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Maybe proctolinguists are illegal wherever he is and he has to go to a back-alley protolinguist who does his work with a coat hangar while high on paint thinner. That's the sad reality in many parts of the world. Add to that the fact he was just proven to be sexist, and you realize he gots problems.
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We aren't interested in how many men. How many professionals have done it though (Doctors don't have to be male you fell for classic social programming sexism there).
They do if they're seeing my bare ass.
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Just proven sexist by Grefter the Sexism Prover. Pkow pkow.
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Just proven sexist by Grefter the Sexism Prover. Pkow pkow.
I concede defeat.
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Someone please change Gref's user name to The Sexism Prover ASAP.
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Done.
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Hands shaking as I wait for bus to work, not sure if it from gym or from excessive caffeine. Good start to day.
Tea before bed is okay Ciatos, just gotta get the right kind (something that isn't technically a tea specifically). It is a good time to bust out the Rooibos. Drink it black without sugar and you are good :).
Edit - that is stuff made without tea leaves, like Rooibos. Rooibos doesn't have caffeine in it.
A better option than drinking rooibos, which is nasty (seriously, Gref. rooibos AND lapsang souchong?) is get yourself some quality looseleaf tea and brew it a second and third time with the same leaves. the caffiene all goes out in the first brewing. Works best with green and oolong, but also works with non-flavored blacks (but not finely cut tea like English or Irish breakfast). I do this all the time so I can enjoy drinking huge quantities of tea and avoid caffeine in the evening.
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I don't really dig Rooibos, but if you want caffeine free tea it is there.
Alternately you could do things that take a bunch of effort and leave weak tea.
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So I have pissed and moaned about tired etc here all week. Got this text from my sister this afternoon.
Apparently there's a free talk on this evening at the GOMA. Discussing perspectives on cultural memory, history and place in contemporary society.
There is no way I could make it through training, that, more training tomorrow and Nick Cave without falling asleep during one. Let alone training in group session on Saturday.
Any other week. FML etc.
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@Greftism Prover: So just how many days a week are you training now? It sounds like you got a proper personal trainer. Do you have some kind of specific goals apart from "Grind X hours a day"? Curious about the results.
In related news, I didn't sleep more than 2 hours last night and now I have 9 hours of work followed immediately by Crossfit to attend before I can sleep. I like the new jobs, but goddamn I hate getting up this early again....
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Hands shaking as I wait for bus to work, not sure if it from gym or from excessive caffeine.
Late, but hands shaking is -abnormal-?
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I am graduating from college in two months. Too bad the degree doesn't come with a shiny, high paying job attached.
Very few actually do.
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I am aware of that sad fact. It does give me more options and I can actually go get an MLS if I so desire as well.
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3 day a week with a PT. His goal is to get me down to 85 kg but life is making me not do so well at that.
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85 kg is like 190 lbs, right? That's a pretty low goal. You're not gonna work on building muscle?
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I could get him to that goal in like four days and WAY below that. Probably. Depends on how much amphetamine his system can handle.
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All speed does is make you focus anyway *nod*.
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It is 15kg away at this point and half as much again as I already lost, so yeah.
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All speed does is make you focus anyway *nod*.
Well if you just take it normally maybe. My system also incorporates advanced biorhythm manipulation technology* in my revolutionary weight loss program.
*I wrap everything below the neck in Saran Wrap and lock you in a sauna after you finish your speed.
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You should really think about strapping them to an exercise bike as well so when they flail they get some extra cardio in.
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If having that much speed in you at once isn't cardio, then I guess there's still the part where you go into cardiac arrest and I hit you with the paddles.
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Nick Cave concert.
So it started and I was all like "Can Nick Cave like maybe not dance? I don't know what is going on." He kind of looked like your cool Math teacher from High School (we all had those right?) doing slam poetry on acid and then you find out later he hasn't ever touched acid in his life (Nick Cave has totally touched acid though). Like especially when you hit Higgs Boson Bluess. Giant fucking nerd moment. They played through about half of the new album which was all pretty good. Then he broke out into From Her to Eternity and that answered my question. Nick Cave can dance, it is just that you can't dance to modern Nick Cave. Old stuff that like gives a fuck about structure and form you can totally dance to and his dancing fits it perfectly. That moment is pretty much the moment you find out that your cool Math teacher from High School likes to bust out the old stuff he wrote when he was nearly arrested for being an eco-terrorist. Incredibly angry and noisy as fuck.
It really solidified stuff I had been saying when I tried to hook Ciatos on him a few years ago, Nick Cave changes completely post Murder Ballads which is the perfect in between point for grim fucking music about terrible things he was known for after The Birthday Party and the extremely poignant bittersweet borderline spoken word he does now. It sort of culminated into this really chill laid back album about people dying. Also showed the videos of him singing live that I have seen did not lie. His voice carries through amazingly accurately from the studio to the stage and that voice is goddamned amazing.
Anyway they closed out with the Encore as Stagger Lee which was pretty great as Stagger Lee stuff tends to be.
Concert was worth price of entry because it gave me two things in life that I needed to have happen. First of all I saw Nick Cave singing Red Right Hand live and oh my gods was that brilliant and one of the things on my list of things I wanted very badly to see (here is hoping Bowie does a tour on this new album and then I can probably die having most of the things I want to see from music fulfilled that are still physically possible). Second of all, I learned how to rock the fuck out while playing a violin thanks to Warren Ellis (not that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Ellis) one this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Ellis_%28musician%29) one although to be honest there isn't a huge difference in what they do within their mediums honestly, both are weird and amazing).
Also of note, I realised that there is people out there that Nick Cave was their jam back in the day rather than being like an intellectual obsession. This was the stuff they just bounced to and totally dug obsessively. Straight up fist pumping and doing that weird point your finger in time with the music thing that people do at concerts to stuff from Henry's Dream or Your Funeral ... My Trial just seemed so weird. Like they are cool albums with cool tracks, but nothing that I would really say is an album you nod your head to and really get totally into like that. It was weird.
So in short Nick Cave was a sexy High School Math Teacher with an amazing voice who makes no fucking sense. You should go with Ciatos and take notes Elves or you might be in trouble. Nothing was played off Nocturama in the set he played for me Ciatos, but there was Love Letter for something off No More Shall We Part, so that was good (and strangely out of place in the set honestly). A good selection of tracks either side of Murder Ballads outside of the new stuff and only one of Murder Ballads itself. Good fun concert, I hope the one get later in the year is just as good.
Also I realised that The Weeping Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhOVY58zIo) is the most Kotori song ever. It is literally a song called The Weeping Song and is about Weeping.
It literally has the lines
This is a weeping song
A song in which to weep
While we rock ourselves to sleep
Literally the most Ko sentiment expressed in the most Nitori styles.
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PET SHOP BOYS CONCERT IN SÃO PAULO THIS MAY. Holy -shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit-.
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I didnt get tickets. For some reason the website was glitchy and didnt process my order, and then they were sold out. Grrrr!
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I probably won't be able to attend anyway - it's either PSB or not going bankrupt in the middle of California misadventures, and I gotta keep my priorities straight.
EDIT: And, for Women's Day, I publish a story about my company's positive gender equality and women's welfare policies. Sometimes, the weirdest things satisfy me.
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I have burdened myself upon thine Sir Alex and enjoyed a wonderful and enchanting game of Boggle. Of course, I forgot how to play the first row --- only to receive at WTF look from Alex --- and to cackle endlessly; it later all went well.
Also, touhou. i saw it and alex's elite houhou skills. It was a fun time. Thought I should note this.
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mumblemumbleglubglubblortblortwumblegrumble HOUHOU
Houhou~
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mumblemumbleglubglubblortblortwumblegrumble (http://blogs.babycenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Ho-Hos.jpg)
~
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Grefter.png at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.
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http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2013/1159.html
Oh hey a trailer for Pandora's Tower well that's pretty cool I guesIS THAT TCHAIKOVSKY'S 6TH SYMPHONY PLAYING LET ME GIVE YOU MY MONEEEEEEY
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Not a typo!
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I mad at work. I mad at life. Can't find new Bowie album at my usual music stores even though they have it listed on website. Raging and want to eat terrible food. Oh Heart of the Swarm came out. That can be my impulse buy.
Still not going to box this arvo like I was going to. Dunno why being mad makes me not wan to work out at home.
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I brought up Bowie with my boss who quickly replied that it is apparently "no bueno." ): Let me know; I want to try it out at the record store soon enough.
After turning in my forms for Ghana, they were upset I didn't purposely make overnight stops in different cities, and that I was actually being economical.... so they increased my base flight ticket even more, so I am now having an overnight stay in Germany and Senegal. First city I'm not sure about, but there is someone I can stay with. I.. guess it'll be fun. Ich ich ich.
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I am currently experiencing what happens when the body reflects the mind. Consider, too, that the mind has slowly been sinking to the bottom.
I may not need the money, but holy hell do I need a project.
In brighter news, I will have health insurance as of April 1. THANK YOU OBAMACARE
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THANKS OBAMA.
You need to write a book. Off you go.
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In less than 24 hours I'm going to see my sister marry. I suspect I'm more anxious than she is.
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Congratulations to the peoples!~
My sister's been in hospital, think she's out of the woods now so it's safe to say, the family cat has been dressed, and a lot has happened. I am due female things so I'm all topsy turvy, one minute I'm like yaaay tots happy I want everyone to feel this wonderful feeling then laters I am like baw and then scold myself via what the f is wrong with mes, also I'm starting to really wonder if I have some form of dyslexia or something, noticed it with writing, texting, etc some before but it's pretty concerning when you come out with such golden blunders as "Pasty bought her dog a son" "I went walking with Pasta" and when you read a bus stop billboard as saying "Penises" and not the Pennies it actually was, a man holding a jar of pennies for one of those savings things~
Also the charity I volunteer with/help out at is been invited out to dinner next week with a member of the Scottish Parliament and the Chinese Ambassor, I am one of the volunteers invited to go~
Edit - Oh yeah and I got my hair did today, still have to find something to wear~
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Wow congrats Snow!, congratulations and best of luck to yous~
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Finals Monday and Wednesday then I'm finally done with classes for this term. I think I might go to Seattle during spring break? It's my fourth-favorite holiday.
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I am currently experiencing what happens when the body reflects the mind. Consider, too, that the mind has slowly been sinking to the bottom.
This must be what you mean. http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g262/jacorlett/DSC00014-1.jpg ; IAS though, hope you get a project soon!
CT: HAIR PIC NAO. And am glad that the woman side of your family is lookin' up, even the kitty.
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I actually shed some tears during my sis' wedding. I'm growing old and soft.
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Softie. (-=
I've made my decision.
I'm sticking with BU unless UTA offers me additional funding, as BU has recently increased mine.
BU, instead of four, I now have five (two years of diss writing instead of one), full tuition, health insurance, continuation fee covered, pot of $2500 traveling stipend.
UTA, five years of funding, not including health insurance or continuation fee, paying $500-700 on taxes as a TA/AI for three years.
BU, if I can live alone, I have ~8k disposable income; if I live with a roommate, I have ~11k+ disposable income, higher cost of living
UTA, if I can live alone, I have ~8k disposable income; if I live with a roommate, I have ~12k disposable income, lower cost of living
Weather doesn't matter anymore: either really hot or really cold
A major weighing factor: I only have to be in Boston for three years; I have to be in Austin for five per teaching funding
BU Advisor: Five Star Rating, UTA Advisor: Four Star (and still confused about how much weight her name carries).
So yep. That's.. that.
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Now you need a Foucault avatar for ultimate brainsex. </lolwut>
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Done.
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Party time?
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Not in this house.
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superaielman: always trying to fruitlessly ruin all beautiful things.
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So I had a great weekend. I played with my extended family. I chilled. I had lunch and morning tea with them. Then went and watched Django Unchained and had dinner with my mother.
Lay in bed playing stuff until 2pm on Sunday. Played ToGfffffff well into the night. Got up Monday morning hit the gym and had an okay time.
1 hour at work before I wanted to punch someone in the throat.
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Rationality is completely out of the window.
IDFK anymore.
:GSL:KJF:LSDJKFS
HURRY UP UTA SEND ME A NEW OFFER GFD
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Got a snazzy package from overseas the other day -- hooray!
I admit I broke the ban on open flame in my apartment and lit the candle immediately. The magnet is now among the menagerie on the refrigerator, and the keychain is added to the growing ball of "keys" that is more ring than anything.
The lady-size shirt is a bit big for me, but who cares it's LONG and I *love* long T-shirts (and, um, the band and stuff). The Rolling Stones shirt is perfectly awesome, and if Andrew refuses to wear it, I will.
And so much thumbs up for the pen and writing pad. I have two pails of writing utensils and a huge stack of journals, and I can seriously never have enough of them!
THANKS, CT! :D
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Hahahahahahaha I am glad I remembered that life isn't actually anything serious because goddamn did some parts of it go full retard this week.
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): ??
Also, quick google of the consignment stores in austin means I may be dragging alex around window shopping! ! ! ! !
holy crap, looks like a consignment heaven!
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<Ranmilia> :( :)?
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So my extended family visited a bit this week for Spring Break. I got to see my Grandma and Great Aunt and a host of 1st and 2nd cousins. Three of them were little kids ages 2,4, and 6. And as the only teacher in the vicinity, I was immediately given the job of babysitter. It wasn't too bad, all things considered. When I finally ran out of energy, I brought out my 3DS (finally got it back!) and got them to take 3D pictures of everything and doodle on the pictures. Just so you know: DS is a better babysitter than TV.
Eventually, the oldest boy Jackson wanted to try some games and the only thing I had with me was FE13. I had no idea if this was the kinda game he'd like but he wanted to play it, so I began the task of teaching a 6-year-old how to play Fire Emblem. He loved making his own avatar (named Jackson, of course) and I am convinced he would have thrown the whole thing down in boredom if he didn't have the avatar character in there. It was just a huge selling point to him. He wasn't a great reader yet (though he could read some), so he skipped all the tutorials and most of the story he just mashed through, so I gave him the cliff's notes versions as he went. He had a little trouble maneuvering characters around at first, and the concept of "select button" and "cancel button" for navigating menus seemed alien to him, but he picked it up quickly enough.
Trying to explain the finer details of weapon triangle and ranged attacks was pretty much a lost cause, but he was pretty content just to move Chrom and "Jackson" around slaughtering everything on Normal/Casual. I could see his little face light up with strategic possibilities when he got Lissa and suddenly there was a unit who had this really weird ability to make good units healthy again! I think that was the moment he was hooked, when he realized he was going to be recruiting all these team members with different skills and abilities.
I felt so accomplished just showing him how the game worked and then him playing four maps without pausing for air until his sister demanded a turn to take more 3D pictures. It was pretty awesome. Today, I have witnessed the birth a new gamer. Today is a good day.
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Aw, that's so cute! :)
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Imagine how excited he'll be when you give him games that are more than an animu slot machine!
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Life is really weird sometimes.
So I've been dabbling in sewing. Plushies and the like for now, but eventually I want to make clothes and stuff. I found a machine I really wanted -- it is capable of doing 4x4 embroidery, which is a fantastic touch -- but since it hit an all-time low of $275 in January, it's been hovering at ~$350. Just a bit too rich for my blood. So I dropped it on my Amazon Wishlist as a way to monitor it, and figured I'd come back to it once I got good enough/made enough money to make it worth purchasing. Instead, I used some saved up Amazon Gift card money to make the purchase of a basic sewing machine ~$30. That got here last Thursday.
Sunday morning, I log into reddit and see orangered -- a PM from another user. "Hey," it said. "Do you still need that sewing stuff in your wishlist?"
Uh, well. Yeah. Sure. It'd be great.
"Awesome! It's on its way."
... wait, say what?!
Sure enough: today I received a box with nearly $500 worth of sewing stuff, including that machine with embroidery capability.
What the fuck, universe. What the actual fuck. People aren't really that nice to complete strangers are they?!
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So, do I get a plushie as a welcome gift? =D
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/me hopes so/they are :)
Late, but glad all the stuff got there safe LD :), did the Erin Smith art get there ok too?~
Also it's really heartwearming to hear a story like that in this economy, gives me hope/reminds me that some things are still worth it =)
Edit - Hmm, ninjad? Hmm, well point still stands I think!~
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So, do I get a knit gimp suit as a welcome gift? 8=====D
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That's yours.
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Bitch please. Mine is a corset, because I lift and we are separated.
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http://imgur.com/33RQmsK
This is me hugging my machine. <3
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I will make ALL THE PLUSHIES. Don't you have a baggage allowance though, Snow? Wouldn't want you to have to ship it to Brazil or anything, which would be stupid expensive.
CT: Uh oh. Art is not ringing a bell. Was it shipped separately? D:
And I'm so touched by this person's random generosity. It's funny, because I had just been thinking about leaving the community I'm a part of that lead to this gift. They're ridiculously prolific gifters of the ~$5 item sort, and the posts of thanks and gifted was flooding the hell out of my main reddit feed. It makes me feel awful when I can't be as generous in return! So I'm making him a few plushies as a thank-you, which is the least I can do. :)
Grefter: It will take me some time before I can make clothes. Alas.
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Bitch please. Mine is a corset, because I lift and we are separated.
You can be whatever you want, as long as you don't pull me into your BDSM schtick.
EDIT: Also, Ashley has the bestest jacket. And I've fit multiple plushies into my baggage before. Texas, a Hello-Kitty. Florida, a Moogle.
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Good chance I'm going to be in IRC in the next few days yelling at people while blind drunk. You've been forewarned.
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Good chance I'm going to be in IRC in the next few days yelling at people while blind drunk. You've been forewarned.
Like in almost all of my posts?
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Zenny might not be right though.
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Good chance I'm going to be in IRC in the next few days yelling at people while blind drunk. You've been forewarned.
:-* I'll try to be online tomorrow to yell at you back.
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Moved in with a friend today. Kiiinda weird, since he still lives with his parents, but they had spare rooms that they usually let to students during summer months. Still sucks that I had to move 5 months before I move away /anyway/, but whatever.
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Ohmigosh, attack of the kaitlyn/katelyn/caitlin game developers.
At GDC, I met a designer from ubisoft called Kaitlyn (she randomly sat down beside me at the women in games lunch). And at my new job, there is a Katelyn animator. (This is in addition to the Caitlin I already knew, but hadn't worked with before).
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New job! Grats!
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Ohmigosh, attack of the kaitlyn/katelyn/caitlin game developers.
At GDC, I met a designer from ubisoft called Kaitlyn (she randomly sat down beside me at the women in games lunch). And at my new job, there is a Katelyn animator. (This is in addition to the Caitlin I already knew, but hadn't worked with before).
This post is full of <3. Congrats on the job! Also, Kaitlynrush kekekekeke.
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At the airport right now. In roughly ten hours, I'll be watching The Cure live. <3
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Concert times are fun times. Make sure you get so drunk you forget everything that happens! :)
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The concert will be really early! I'm considering going from show to clubbing. And I'm not sure I can forget things by drinking. I remember all the embarrassments I go through when I get plastered as a rule of thumb.
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The concert will be really early! I'm considering going from show to clubbing. And I'm not sure I can forget things by drinking. I remember all the embarrassments I go through when I get plastered as a rule of thumb.
Clearly you've never been drunk enough then, Cranberry Juice.
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It's not my fault whiskey and tequila mixed together just aren't that strong.
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Tequila's great if you're a 19-year-old girl. Drink a bottle of Wild Turkey and get back to me.
e: the barrel proof stuff.
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You're on.
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Tequila is a bad fucking idea regardless of who is drinking it and I will not hear otherwise.
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Vodka?
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Tequila's great if you're a 19-year-old girl. Drink a bottle of Wild Turkey and get back to me.
e: the barrel proof stuff.
He did drink most of a bottle of Chivas while he was here at DL-Con.
And to be fair, Snow might as well be a 19-year old girl.
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Vodka is kind of a kiddy drink as far as I'm concerned.
Three and a half hours of concert with Robert Smith being a godlike frontman. Two encores. The Cure may as well be the best damn concert I've ever been to.
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Not the best I ever went to, but yeah that was similar to my experience when I caught them a few years ago. No support, just a them playing most of the night and going through pretty much every era of them as a band.
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I'm sure I'll attend enough concerts in my life that it'll go down in the rankings eventually. But yeah, that was pretty much it. And Robert Smith still sounds very much the same as he did twenty-seven years ago. His voice is Dorian Grey.
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Summer garden complete; this year I increased my volume. I hope all goes well when I'm absent for a month.
Lupines, alyssums, spinach, oregano, foxgloves, dahlias, sweet peppers, swiss chard, summer squash, patio princess hybrid tomatos.
Oh. Also, submitted my decision today. So, that's that. It hurts to turn down money, but I'm getting the same elsewhere. If only you could hold multiple fellowships...
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ITT: Kids pretending that they're hard calling liquors kiddy drinks when really it all gets the job done.
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Spoken like a true rageoholic.
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Fuck you, fuck your stupid face and fuck your life.
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Fuck you, fuck your stupid face and fuck your life.
Sounds like you need a hug. Partly 'cause it'll only make you angrier.
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Want to know how telecommunication corporations screw you all over?
Here we had a major private operator (Free) come in with very aggressive pricing last year.
Two plans:
- 20 euros / month: Unlimited text messages + unlimited calls + 3G Internet (Unlimited but with reduced speed after 3Go)
- 2 euros / month: Unlimited text messages + 2 hours calls (Text messages are seriously that cheap for them)
No issues whatsoever. Every other company panicked and had to drastically lower prices (or offer 4G) fast to stay competitive.
Hoping something similar happens in every country. I've looked at the AT&T plan page and I'm sad for all of you.
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Pricing is poorly spread, really.
MetroPCS is growing in numbers and provides comparatively lower costs; it originally stuck to you having reception only in one city, but apparently coverage is expanding pretty awesomely. No iPhone, but many Androids and allegedly the new Blackberry.
Edit*
Shoe therapy. Spent an amount on shoes that I don't want to mention, except mentioning that I'm mentioning it.
Got a few dresses.
Biking around in the city with all of my coursework 95% complete was... "nice, man."
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Shoe therapy. Spent an amount on shoes that I don't want to mention, except mentioning that I'm mentioning it.
<3
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Pricing is poorly spread, really.
MetroPCS is growing in numbers and provides comparatively lower costs; it originally stuck to you having reception only in one city, but apparently coverage is expanding pretty awesomely. No iPhone, but many Androids and allegedly the new Blackberry.
don't worry verizon or att will buy them out sooner or later
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I hate you brain. Work out whether you are depressed or not. Don't blame endorphins either. Get your shit together.
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In light of everything exploding in Boston, are there any DLers in the area? I seem to recall Idun lived near there. Everyone all right?
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Idun is okay. Called her when I found out. She was about 4 miles away, indoors. Didn't even hear it.
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I'm not living near Boston anymore. My family is ok, too.
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All of my friends that I knew had a chance of being in the area are thankfully accounted for.
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In light of everything exploding in Boston, are there any DLers in the area? I seem to recall Idun lived near there. Everyone all right?
I don't live in downtown/Back Bay; I live in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston but ~4 miles from Boylston Street. I have about six friends who couldn't get out, two friends that were runners and none who had children thankfully. Called a close friend only to hear her panicking, her sister was in front of the first bomb but wasn't severely hurt. So Copley is closed down today. I tried to ignore calls/texts because I was waiting to hear about other bombs that may have been set off and/or found (part commute, primarily fear) --- one found in the JFK library which was originally considered unrelated; according to WEEI, there was one found down on Comm Ave, which is BU's stomping grounds; Northeastern students were told to stay in, so I'm not sure if any bombs were near them. See, JFK is in "South Shore," or literally the Eastern Shore of Boston, and was much further from the bombing than where I live. I'm not sure they've released where the several other bombs were found.
Edit* going to toss three flowers there if security allows.
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Glad everyone here from Boston and there families and friends are safe/ok.
/me hugs Idun and Jim
Just read about Texas though. Urghh what a week ;/ Hope ours Texans are alright =/
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Hello all...it's been a while!
I just recently got back from the Arabian Peninsula and Afghanistan...fun times...
I'm now in Germany, where I'll be for at least the next two years. Must say...it's good to have some spare time again!
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Cue The Final Countdown. Welcome back, ID!
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Hello all...it's been a while!
I just recently got back from the Arabian Peninsula and Afghanistan...fun times...
I'm now in Germany, where I'll be for at least the next two years. Must say...it's good to have some spare time again!
Welcome back man. Where in Germany? I'll have to catch you on AIM or IRC sometime to catch up.
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Welcome back dude.
I am going to assume that this (http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16700000/JAG-jag-16722083-1852-2560.jpg) has been your life for two years.
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Howdy.
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Note to self: If the porkchops don't taste right, don't assume it's freezerburn and keep eating.
The worst part about self inflicted food poisoning is you can't even be mad at anyone about it.
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Sure you can. You just can't tell the difference through your normal levels of self loathing.
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Self-inflicted pain is the best kind. At least you can learn something from it.
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In the blink of an eye, my 11 yr old Little Sister is now one inch taller than I am.
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life, fairness. pick one.
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You're legally allowed to murder your younger siblings in their sleep if they ever become taller than you. I can't clue you in the details since I was the kid who outtalled my sisters eventually.
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hah!!
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By the way, being sick sucks. I want to go back to work. ._.
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so I've figured out how to put my keyboard into korean mode
ㅋㅋㅋ
ㅈㅈ
강남스타일
요
여자
에프엑스
엠
엘
오빠
And that's about all I know how to write.
In other news, I'm trying to figure out how to get a certain boy to notice me.... Like...he definitely likes me as a friend, but I feel like I've been friendzoned, and the internet tells me boys don't have friendzones. I'm confused.
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Friendzone is basically an asshole term made by people who feel they're entitled to obtain sex from girls they've been nice to in hopes of getting laid by them. I'd honestly just go out in the open and be prepared to hear the "I just don't like you in -that- way" speech and move on (if you're okay with just being friends, do so! Otherwise, yeah. But do what hurts you less in that regard).
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Oh I don't know, there's a certain, for lack of a better word, velocity to romantic relationships. For practical reasons, it's best to get into one when you've known someone long enough that you know you like them but not so long that there's a well-developed friendship that will be potentially awkward if you make a move and they don't reciprocate (or vice versa). Just because the word friendzone is associated with entitled assholes doesn't change this basic calculus.
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Oh I don't know, there's a certain, for lack of a better word, velocity to romantic relationships. For practical reasons, it's best to get into one when you've known someone long enough that you know you like them but not so long that there's a well-developed friendship that will be potentially awkward if you make a move and they don't reciprocate (or vice versa). Just because the word friendzone is associated with entitled assholes doesn't change this basic calculus.
This.
It is a thing that exists, and should not be confused with privilege/entitlement syndrome or the woeful tale of the nice guy. It's not always an easy line to toe without consequences.
It is a myth that boys don't have friendzones, though.
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Yeah, I can acknowledge that kind of paucity in relationships in general. Calling them "friendzone" immediately transports me into roll-eyes-so-hard-they-create-crevices-in-my-eye-sockets land, though, especially considering the social context where the friendzoning context flourished. The bottom line remains that nobody is -ever- entitled or obligated to romantic/carnal affections in a consensual relationship.
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The situation it refers to is the same but attitudes regarding it are totally different: feeling like you're 'unjustly' placed as a friend and why don't they just see me as romantic partner material, as opposed to wanting more but being afraid to compromise what you have if it goes sour. One's eye-rolling privilege mongering, the other is a real social dynamic concern.
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I am clearly not one to say anything on this one, but just saying something is the apparent way to go about it. Harder to do than to say to do so though...
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Indeed. Best of luck to you, MC!
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I am clearly not one to say anything on this one, but just saying something is the apparent way to go about it. Harder to do than to say to do so though...
ㅛㄷ모, 솜ㅅ'ㄴ
whoops, switch keyboard mode...
Yeah, that's my problem. Like...we've gone to dinner together a few times, and he's insisted on paying...some of the time, so like...that makes me think there might be interest there. And he has used the exact words "I do want to see you again" which at least to my western ears is a phrase that tends to have romantic connotations. (But he's an Asian immigrant, so I'm not sure if these are romantic signals or if this is just a cultural way he was raised).
But like...I invited myself over to his place a little while back, and among other things we watched a movie and some dreamhack stockholm, and I was trying moves like shuffling closer to him till our arms were touching lightly, but whenever he moved, he'd be very careful not to initiate any physical contact, and I was like...huh?
And as much as I was thinking it, I was not anywhere near brave enough to say "yo, don't be afraid to touch my arm, I mean really...."
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That's actually kind of adorable. But yeah, it looks more like a situation where a little bit of forward honesty might do good, since it looks more like shyness than actually being in that awkward middle-ground between friendship and romantic inclinations.
EDIT: Of course, keep in mind that my perspective is brutally blunt.
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Your first problem is that you're "figuring out how to get a boy to notice you."
Shit don't work. You've got to be pretty obvious if you want to draw the attention of guys if you don't already have it. Be up front. If he likes you then you taking the first step is going to be appreciated especially because I have a hunch that, if you're into him, this guy is nerdy and awkward as fuck. If he's not into you, it will only ruin the friendship if you continue to cling to any sort of hope of a romantic relationship with him.
Awkward guys are awful at picking up on signals, and are probably too scared to act on them even if they do pick up on them... for the exact same reasons you're afraid of making the first move. It will only ruin your friendship if one of you keeps hoping for a romantic relationship where there isn't one to be had. Be forward. Ask him out on a date. Say it exactly like that: Do you want to go on a date with me? If he says no, well that's just that much less time you'll spend crushing on him instead of pursuing relationships with people who will be into you.
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EDIT: Of course, keep in mind that my perspective is brutally blunt.
Much like you, the jokes are too easy.
Pretty much what Zenny said. Zenny giving good advice about relationships. This is a thing that happens.
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EDIT: Of course, keep in mind that my perspective is brutally blunt.
Much like you, the jokes are too easy.
A hundred bodies and counting. Or not. I honestly lost the tabs on that.
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You stopped the Mister Szaz style count after 3 I assume.
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3, 60, same thing.
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Get drunk together. "Good liquor peels off awkwardness like it does paint." Buddha said that.
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Feelings are awkward, relationships are complicated~
In my experience I think if it's a really/good friendship it's possible to put feelers out and establish whether or not there could be any more to it without compromising the friendship and not being too direct or too vague, might just be me though.
Hope you're feeling better Snow.
Received quote for getting shower installed in bathroom today, inc electric shower, four sheets of splash back board (going for platinum wave, blizzard or frost white if I go for the deal), shower pole, curtain, electrician and plumber labour - £1100~ approx >_> More expensive than I thought, didn't realise the splash board was going to be so expensive <_<
Considering my poor history of hygiene while depressed and also not being the most vigilant/vigorous/excellent at cleaning I think it might be good for my mental health to go for it and I've been told splash back requires a lot less effort/time on cleanings than tiles, also been told tilers charge by the hour and I have a fair bit of wall to be done >.>
Also I have been invaded by ants.
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Gaaaaaaaaaaaah death to all ants everywhere
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Setting my location to be Korea has had almost no impact on my computer other than enabling unicode in several programs.
Oh, and Mcafee antivirus now only displays in Korean x_x
Talked to my friend a bit more directly, used the Ciato approach of asking "are you single". Got an answer of "technically yes, but I'm not on the market, and am bad at relationships."
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Oh well, too bad. Better luck with the next guy.
(Things that area easier said than practiced: this)
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I've been getting seriously back into job searching, which has been a little disheartening. This week had some good news: one of my friend's companies is hiring for what I do, so I got an in-house referral opportunity that has turned into an interview with the hiring manager on Tuesday; a recruiter contacted me about a unique opportunity to work with a CMO one-to-one; another recruiter contacted me about a paid internship with high probability to turn into a FT gig at the end.
I am really gunning for the job with the referral company. They pay decently, I know the company is pretty laid-back, it's in the city, they have international offices I have a chance at someday transferring to, they have awesome benefits, plus my friend said he'd give me the referral bonus they'd give to him. <_<
It's nice to get some bites. I was getting really paranoid about my qualifications and personality because 9 out of 10 applications were going without reply. Given how I made the connections above, it seems it's still true: networks are everything.
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It's nice to get some bites. I was getting really paranoid about my qualifications and personality because 9 out of 10 applications were going without reply. Given how I made the connections above, it seems it's still true: networks are everything.
A-yup. Also, here's hoping you land the job! Unemployment sucks.
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And make that four interviews: Andrew and Laggy's company just called me to set one up for next week.
Yep, definitely need to pay more attention to this networking thing in the future. Apparently most companies shouldn't even bother with open applications given how often they promote/hire from within or within's closest contacts.
It's nice to get some bites. I was getting really paranoid about my qualifications and personality because 9 out of 10 applications were going without reply. Given how I made the connections above, it seems it's still true: networks are everything.
A-yup. Also, here's hoping you land the job! Unemployment sucks.
I hope one of these works out! Unemployment does suck. I feel like a fake American every time I avoid making a purchase because of budgeting.
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Instead of every time you live in California?
In other news, now I know what it feels like to throw up the food you ate 10 hours ago. That is way more work than I expected.
Not sure what to do for breakfast now...
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Um. Ow. That doesn't sound fun.
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I grew up in Texas. It didn't instill me with any great loyalty to that state, but it did encourage me to stake my loyalty in a state. I've chosen California. Therefore, California is the only true America.
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Boo on losing dinner. Any luck on it having included Vegemite? A lot of the time, vomiting can turn someone off of a food entirely.
Then again, Vegemite already tastes like vomit. So who knows.
Hope you find something to settle your stomach, in any case -- definitely not cool. Broths, starches, and ginger have all helped me in the past, maybe one could help you?
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It was probably just poorly prepped chicken. That is what I get for cooking. Pink after 2 days in the fridge should mean throw me out, not just try fixing it on the stove. I think I just singed and burnt the outside without fixing the problem.
It really sucked because I had started prepping today's chicken before it happened... Sooo I have a day and a half so of chicken that my stomach protests whenever I look.
I had a protein shake and that is sitting pretty good. I will have Oats before training and see how I go.
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Yeah, having worked in a meat department I know all too well to never take a chance on poultry. The best way to check it is the smell. If there's any smell whatsoever, I wouldn't even take it out of the pack. That said, a little pink will be... okay. Just be sure to take a meat thermometer to it and make sure the insides reach the magic number: 185 F for chicken and turkey, if I remember right.
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This is chicken cooked earlier and put in the fridge.
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165 just to be clear.
So wait, the chicken turned pink on the outside? Or there was still pink internally? If it's the latter then it was going to get you either way, assuming the aussie food industry is much like the usian (where something on the order of 75% of chickens have salmonella). If it's the former I'm at a loss what the hell even happened to it but clearly it wasn't good.
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So I am celebrating my college graduation with guns, liquor, and cooking. Rob would be so proud of me.
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That's just smart.
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DONE!
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Until I sow away the next half decade of my life in the fall!
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TO GHANA DEAR WATSON
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Your life is pretty awesome.
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<3 <3 Congrats! Hope you have fun in Ghana :)
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Your life is pretty awesome.
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So. Last night I stuck on my metaphorical top hat to go get Culture (TM), which meant going to the opera (but the cheap seats.). Never went to one before, figured I might as well expand my horizons. And also see the source of many silly references by both Americans & Japanese writers, because I picked The Ring Cycle, favorite among the pretentious. Specifically Die Walküre, the second one, which was supposed to be the best and also the one with "Ride of the Valkyries." I didn't realize it at the time, but the plot was all new to me; my rough knowledge of The Ring Cycle was parts 1 (evil dwarf, ring, god problems, #poorlifedecisions), 3 (hero, dragon, princess), and 4 (things go boomy, angst? Götterdämmerung is a dang cool name though.). I was expecting to see some, say, Valkyrie Profile or Xenosaga references, maybe with a side bit of Lord of the Rings.
No, instead I mostly got FIRE EMBLEM references, 'cause that's what the DL does. This is probably old news to some, but for those who played the game, you'll recall that the Sacred Twin weapons of Renais were Siegmund (spear for Eph) and Sieglinde (sword for Eirika). Well, Act I of Die Walkure opens with Our Hero Siegmund fleeing from hordes of foes. He takes shelter in Sieglinde's house, and they're hitting it off, and Sieglinde's husband comes home, notes the two look similar, and asks that the stranger tell his story and all. Seems that his twin sister was taken from him as a kid and his home burnt down, so he & his dad Valse were stuck being bandits in the wilderness, and then his dad disappeared, and he's had to kill a bunch of people and life sucks. The husband is all "Yeah I was one of the people chasing after you, but since my wife foolishly gave you guest right, enjoy the night, we're fighting tomorrow. Also get a sword." Sieglinde, after knocking her husband out with a heavy drink, is all "Hey, we're twins, I was forced into this marriage against my will, but we each have the hots for each other, so I'm gonna sing about noble brows and such. Also I think your dad Valse was really Odin and left this magic sword for you." Which would make the two prince & princess, sort of. Their love literally turns the winter into spring. Briefly.
SIEGMUND
Wife and sister
you'll be to your brother.
So let the Volsung blood increase.
Then it's off for the hot & steamy sex scene offstage.
Basically what I'm saying is the twincest Eph-Eirika A-support in Japanese FE8 appears to be pretty much what the writers were thinking of here. Ayup. Go search up the deviant art images yourself, I'm not doing it for you.
Of course, afterward, there's weapon breakage into permadeath in the duel, but that's okay because in the next generation their son Siegfried will be the ultimate hero to sort things out. Literally Fire Emblem.
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I am going to dream that you are my son. I will drop you into a volcano. Then I will get a theme park built about me just to mess with a teenage girl.
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For best stat optimization results on time-travelling Snowfire, S-Support Grefter with an overlevelled reclassed DLer.
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All four phone screenings turned into phone interviews and have now turned into in-person interviews. One tomorrow, two on Friday, one on Tuesday next week. Hopefully I'll know whether I have a job by the end of next week.
Whew. This process is exhausting even when you have everything going for you. :|
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Good luck LD! =)
Yaay Idun <(^^)>
~~Happy Birthday weeks Ciato!~~~
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First interview down.
It went fine.
They said I was overqualified. This makes sense, because it's a part-time summer internship. They are asking for someone who might be passingly familiar with a program I have direct training in and over a year's deep experience with. They said if they were to create a full-time position for managing that kind of stuff -- which they very well might do; things are shifting and growing quickly -- that they'd hire me in a heart-beat. As it is, the hiring manager basically gave me the polite "you're too good for this job, but thanks for slumming with us at the interview" which was worth a shrug. Made me wonder why on earth they invited me down if it was gonna be like that, but whatevs.
Tomorrow I have the more relevant interviews for actual, career-level full-time jobs. I am glad to have had the practice for one that was not as important to me. Inane questions like "tell me about yourself" and "where do you see yourself in 5 years" are the sort you just don't get to answer unless you're interviewing for jobs.
(Thanks, CT!)
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If a person expresses interest in a job they're overqualified for, I say interview them. There may be a specific reason that hasn't yet come to light why they may have a sincere interest. For example: if you were planning on enrolling in school or going overseas in the fall, it would make perfect sense to shoot for a summer internship you were overqualified for.
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True, and I also expect that bit about being unsure when and whether they would be creating any more FT positions in the department was also a factor. In the end, it only benefits me to make a good impression, so I'm not really worried about it.
Was just kind of funny -- and anticlimactic -- to spend 2 hours talking to folks about how exciting what they were doing is, what a benefit the position would be for the work they're doing, and how awesome I would be in the position only to be told, rather abruptly, that they thought I was overqualified.
Two big interviews today, and these I am a little nervous about. I have never been very good at talking about myself. Which is great, because my interview style is a lot more focused on finding out what they're looking for, what they're hoping to fix, and whether I can be or do those things. Except for when the inevitable canned interview questions come up.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"On Mars."
"What is your greatest strength?"
"About 15, but that was a lucky roll."
"What is your greatest weakness?"
"BAKED GOODS OMG, it's just so hard to resist a cookie fresh from the oven, you know?"
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I have a dissertation topic. (-: Kinks to be worked out, but hory shit. Such a relief. This summer will be so stress free, I'm loving it. I am happy.
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Relevant. (http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2150#comic)
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Congrats on finding a topic! :D I am glad you get to enjoy your summer rather than worrying about that.
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Shale: I'm not that cool or dedicated, alas. Given I am poster child fat kid right now, I am not really sure the baked goods answer would even come off as funny. More tragic.
But pity is good when trying to get a job, right? ... Right?
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It worked out so well for the 99%.
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To Snowfire: The Siegmund/Sieglende thing was noted several times in the past. Before playing FE8, I knew they were husband and wife (and parents of Sigurd/Siegfried), but it was later I learned they were Brother and Sister as well. So yeah, either it was intended, or Japan recognized what they did after the fact, and decided to do some lampshade hanging by acknowledging it with the weapons.
ON A DIFFERENT NOTE!!!
The joys of cleaning up your yard. Dodging the mine field that is pet feces while picking up leaves and putting them into bags. spent about an hour doing that, had to stop because car requires tires rotating!
...this is probably the single most boring thing mentioned in this topic...
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That went so much better than expected. No dumb filler questions! (A little disappointing, since I didn't get to use joke answers, but oh well.)
The second interview went best of all. It went so well, we went an extra 45 minutes over the scheduled time, and they ended the meeting by saying, "So we don't usually do this, especially on a Friday afternoon, but everyone was just so excited we want to offer you the job."
It's a pretty great job, too. The team was great. The manager is a terrific guy -- not only does he interview very well, he seems to really care about employees' careers and fit, and their happiness. When we talked salary, the exchange of numbers went something like this:
Him: What were you thinking of, in terms of salary?
Me: What were you thinking of, in terms of budget?
Him: For the junior position, about $X-high $Y. For the senior position, high $Y to $Y+5. We see you as upper junior, lower senior.
Me: That's great! My number actually is $Y+3.
Him: Mm hmm. How about we say you start with the junior title, but start you at $Y+5?
Me: ... that sounds great!
Especially since $Y+5 represents a 50% raise on what I was making at my last job. Yessiree, I think I can make that work.
More important, though, I liked the people and I liked the job and it really sounded like they were building a solid department with great vision for the future. The most important thing to me, in trying to find a new job, is to find a place that really -fits-. And I do think there's room to do a lot of great stuff at this one.
Even when you consider that it's also Andy's company.
Apparently, they just -really- hate their hourly employees. >_>
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So the HR director and the hiring manager are so excited, they gave me an offer letter not an hour after the interview wrapped up, and are working with me via email and phone this weekend to hash out the details in the hopes that I can sign the offer letter by end of day Monday and start work on May 20th.
Soooooo not what I was expecting from today. But I am so grateful. :D
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More fresh meat at my corporate salt mine yesssss~
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So your birthday present to me is that you are going to become a corporate shill.
I can't love you anymore.
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It's your birthday too? Man, this is like the week of birthdays or something. It's my little sister's 21st on Sunday, party is tonight though >.> This is a thing, I've never been to one of those before.
Wow, that's fantastic LD! Well done and congrats! :)
Stress free and happy Idun is good <3 Congrats~
DL, how do I do party?~
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It is later this month. 21st specifically, but given timezones she will start on my Birthday for me.
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Congrats on being employed in the coming weeks with a salary and working environment you favor. (-:
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That is fan-friggin'-tastic. Congrats.
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Happy birthday Grefter~
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So I got your mental baggage in the mail on your birthday Grefter.
What the MOTHERFUCK. I -THINK-I get it, but OMG what the fuck ! ! !
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Congrats!
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It is later this month. 21st specifically, but given timezones she will start on my Birthday for me.
A week early, but yeah tah guys.
There isn't anything to get other than that moment where you open the box up and go WTF. Welcome to my sense of humor completely unfiltered. I was so close to putting "Gay Wizard Costume" on the shipping slip.
Edit - Well I lie, the statements put in the shoes is pretty clear me on a political statement. Most of it is just hollow words though that go with the article of clothing somehow.
Also plz donate unwanted stuff to charity.
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Pics now
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Fun times and Hotel Hijinks with Djinn:
So I've been working at the Embassy Suites for a few months now and for the most part, it's pretty fun. I like working with people and the job isn't too high-stress except during holiday weekends.
But this week has been different, and it had very little to do with Mother's Day.
I began training recently to perform the Night Audit shift. It's basically 8 hours during the middle of the night where all I do is some paperwork, occasionally give directions to a drunk guest, and play handheld video games or read books. Best of all, I can sit down the whole time and there's no managers around (not that they care if we spent the whole time on youtube so long as the paperwork gets done).
It's great, but it messes with your sleep schedule, and management hasn't been particularly quick to pick up on the fact that most human beings can't go to sleep at 7 AM and then be alert and ready to deal with 200 hotel guests at 11 AM. So I've been a little grouchy lately. It's not entirely management's fault, I know my boss is trying, but there's been some complications this particular week. Mainly that we suddenly got understaffed more quickly than anticipated.
You see, I was training for Night Audit because one of our two current Night Auditors is leaving. Additionally, his fiancee is one of our main day shift Front Desk people and they are both moving away soon. Okay, so the hotel was preparing for that. However, this week also saw another Front Desker hospitalized with a burst cyst in his -mouth-, and another Front Desker (my usual evening shift co-worker buddy) was just informed his mother had finally passed away from cancer. Less than a week before Mother's Day. Yeah.
So I volunteered to cover his usual shifts in addition to mine AND had to start Night Audit training all in the same week as we dropped down to half of our usual staff numbers. I'm a bit drained since I'm -still- working 2 other jobs AND working out 5 days a week.
And then yesterday I finally broke. Not so much from the work. The job is easy and I'm good at it. No, I broke because it was Colin's last week at the Hotel and I was stuck working with him for the evening shift. Colin is the Night Auditor who is leaving. Colin is a huge JRPG fan, a comic book geek, pretty clever guy. He's also a raging racist asshole and I now entirely understand why he was put on duty at Night Audit shift where he'd do the least amount of damage talking to -people-.
The previous few times I'd gotten to work with Colin, conversation was decently fun, we had a lot of interests in common and he's got a forceful, funny personality. He also is one of those people with no boundaries or filters. He's a bit abrasive, but whatever, most geeks worth talking to are abrasive.
Yesterday, he went on a short tirade about black people and it bothered me.
He'd made comments like this before, but I just assumed he was exaggerating for humor purposes. This time, there wasn't really any qualifications to his statements. He wasn't saying "Oh, those black people that just checked in were stupid/unintelligent/cheap/ugly/dishonest/poor/assholes/whatever.", he was making broad generalizations about the entire race. And yeah, he was trying to be funny, but there wasn't any joke being made. The humorous part to him was that they were black, and oh aren't black people terrible.
Maybe I was tired and I read too much into what he was trying to say? So I countered with, "Well yeah, those particular people were assholes, but it's not because they were black."
And then he launched into a tirade about how he used to be in the military and has lived in like 4 different states and he's never met a black person worthwhile and I lost it. He pushed me onto a soap box and I called him out for being a close-minded racist and an abrasive asshole in general for about an hour. And then had to work with him for the next 4 hours.
It was unpleasant and I was too tired to deal with him.
Now I have to go into work with him again today and it's his last day.
I have no idea how I'm going to get through this without going off on him or quitting mid-shift. And I'm still fucking tired from my stupid work schedule.
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Wondering how it panned out? Best of luck.
At least one thing you can be content with is not having that problem of "wishing you had said something" after the moment.
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Yeah, I hope it went well.
Up in DC for a job interview. It took me an extra hour and a half to get up here last night because traffic was so appalling. It was heavy to bumper to bumper from just outside Hampton Roads all the way to Dale City. (A little over 100 miles. NoVa really is the worst; I blame Ciddy.
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He started up his intolerant bullshit again, this time mocking some dude who came to check in because he had an obviously gay way of speaking. I yelled at him again. He asked me why I got so defensive. I told him it was because he was a racist asshole and it wasn't funny. It was kinda awkward for the rest of the shift. And I think he stole forty dollars from me while I was on lunch break, but I can't prove it was him. At any rate, it's over now.
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Tell your manager. The hotel quite possibly owes you the forty dollars anyway since this happened due to someone who was an employee (although I wouldn't press it), and it's possible that the employee hasn't received their final paycheck yet - which is quite possibly forfeit if they do something stupid like vandalize the hotel on their way out, or in your case steal from the till. He'll go on the "do not hire in case of ever" blacklist for the hotel chain at the very least.
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I appreciate the idea. And while it does sound nice, I don't have any proof that he stole it since I wasn't looking when it must have happened. More importantly, I'd rather not get a reputation for someone who goes crying to the boss to tell on my co-workers. That would not make me any friends at the hotel and I'm pretty sure I'd rather not bother to jeopardize my friendships with my other coworkers when the problem guy is leaving soon anyway.
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Theft isn't something minor, that is something management should know about. It doesn't matter who did it.
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That *might* be a genuine worry if your coworkers stole from the hotel and you were reporting on that. However, the departing dude stole from you. Tell your manager. (But not if you wait TOO long, then it looks suspicious.) Only if your manager is truly dysfunctional will this get you "in trouble."
Also, you don't need proof. A strong suspicion, a motive, and no other candidates are often enough. This isn't a court of law; this is a business.
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I'm pretty sure he stole from my till is the problem. If I report him it just looks like I messed up my cash intake and am trying to blame it on someone.
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In all seriousness, if this guy legitly was ballsy enough to steal from your register while you were on lunch, there are good odds you are gonna lose more money/something else before the guy leaves. You really might want to consider heading it off.
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Look, if the guy didn't take it and you report it, then you are slightly embarrassed and may feel shame for up to a full week afterwards! The horror!
If he DID steal and you DIDN'T report him, and he gets found out later, you look like an accomplice and some of the consequences go back to you.
If you're worried about looking like a rat, I don't really see that happening unless you start ratting everybody out.
Just tell your manager that you don't have proof but you have your suspicions, and leave it at that.
Cover your ass, dipshit.
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In other news it has been recommended to me that I see a therapist by one of the mentor foreigners here. Fuck that, only therapy I need is a lime to cover up the taste of cheap tequila.
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It's not like it would -work-.
Well, not like the lime works -either-.
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Just echoing what other people have said, Djinn. Worst-case scenario in telling is that they think you're slightly less competent, which is something you can recover by showing them otherwise. Worst-case scenario in not telling is... what Zenny said.
So, I've been very lazy with jobs these last few months because uni in 4 months. Then, interview for a games store outta nowhere. Interview is two days away. oh gods i'm terrible at these things i have no idea what i'm doing :v
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It's not like it would -work-.
Well, not like the lime works -either-.
"Therapy is a very expensive lime."
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I have a special physical therapy that will help you. Tears are involved. You will love it.
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Having worked in a cash office where I balanced $50,000 and cashier tills would come up $50+ short several times throughout the year, I will suggest that this "shortage" really isn't anything unless it happens often. Second, if they have a camera, report it. If you did it, I can't imagine them railing you in public so long as this isn't any other colleague's info too.
Went to NYC 2 times now. Second time was righteous. I absolutely love Spanish Harlem and did not get lost in Central Park, the Jewish Museum was awesommmeees, shopping shopping, the end.
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Final results were anticlimactic.
Job I interviewed for which was a PT internship: They liked me a lot. Enough that they wanted to bring in the VP of Marketing, and try to convince her to create a FT job for me. They just don't have it in the budget, though, not for another month. So I had to pass on that one.
Job I interviewed for on Friday that isn't the job I'm taking: They liked me a lot. They were getting ready to put together an offer, and have me come in to talk to the CEO. Unfortunately, Company I Am Taking Job From was just too damn fast for their timeline. Regretfully declined this one, though they did ask me to seek them out if the job I'm taking didn't work out.
So
I am indeed joining the Laggy and the Andy in the world of exploitative F2P vidya games. They liked me enough that they offered me a $3k starting bonus, in addition to the ridiculous salary and a promise to review my status in 2 months.
I start Monday.
... now I need to look into relocating, because I don't know how Andy handles it but I am not a fan of spending 2+ hours a day in traffic, commuting.
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Jobbity job job~
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So, I actually signed up for that therapy, after snapping at one of my students for... nothing really... and having another one of my students come up to me and tell me, verbatim, "I sink... Mistaa (Zenny)... lookusu... えっと、悲しそう英語で何。。。ああ、 saddo. Faitto!". Sigh. That's a problem.
The guy I got referred to, in addition to working with the problems I'm having, is also a substance abuse specialist so I get the feeling I'm going to drop it after one session. Still at least worth checking out. Maybe I can even get some drugs off of him! Like ones that I can take before work. And shut up all the yelling I do in my head. That'd be nice.
Pretty sure it's going to be a waste of money though.
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Okay srs face time instead of joking, I am glad you have at least tried it. Therapists are a mix bag and different ones are different for every person. If this guy doesn't work out and you are still up for trying then I would ask him for a recommendation. A good therapist should give it. He should also respect your choice with drinking in my opinion. We both know it would probably help in the long term, but I don't think it is necessarily the time or place. There should be other environmental issues that are impacting you as well that can be addressed. Take wins where you can.
Also we are mostly in the same timezone. I know my availability is spotty while life is being bullshit, but if you aren't trashed and want someone talk serious with then just drop us a message. If you are trashed and want to yell or just piss about then that is an option as well. I don't think serious discussion will help if you have written yourself off though.
Been legit worried for you most of the last year or so dude.
Edit - and anyone that hands out meds on the first session isn't someone you want to see.
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... now I need to look into relocating, because I don't know how Andy handles it...
Poorly.
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Don't preemptively diss the therapy, Zenny. Therapists are good, but I would also suggest a therapist when you return to America, just because cultural differences about coping, etc. may differ? Dunno. Anyway, I'll catch you on gchat one day and see if it's helped!
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Oh right. I didn't mention this. One of my aquariums sprang a leak! Not amusing. Who would have thought that a glass box full of water could present problems like that?
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You oughta check why even inanimate objects take a piss in your house instead of using the bathroom.
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So sonso so drunk. Necer bikin like this again wooilooooah ah party hard. Post enter
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I hope you at least drank a good distilled brew. Or Portuguese wine.
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I'm pretty sure he stole from my till is the problem. If I report him it just looks like I messed up my cash intake and am trying to blame it on someone.
My advice:
Go to management. Tell them that you lost $40 at X time and place. Do not mention that you suspect it was your coworker, even if that is a blindingly obvious inference. Let them make the inference. Do not, in the first instance, demand the money from them. If they are obligated to pay, that obligation will not change over time. Check back with management in two weeks to see if they have taken any action to address the issue. Do not suggest to them what you think said action should entail.
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Changin' schools, ditching town. Dust in the wind baby.
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Duvel.
Good shit. I think I kept repeating Dover last night. HAH!
Good menu though @ Church: http://www.churchofboston.com/restaurant.html if you're ever in the Boston area.
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Changin' schools, ditching town. Dust in the wind baby.
You forgot
*shades*
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Changin' schools, ditching town. Dust in the wind baby.
You forgot
*shades*
If you aren't picturing me wearing a suit and sunglasses at all times, you are picturing me wrong. Don't need to put on shades when I am already wearing them.
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I'm pretty sure he stole from my till is the problem. If I report him it just looks like I messed up my cash intake and am trying to blame it on someone.
My advice:
Go to management. Tell them that you lost $40 at X time and place. Do not mention that you suspect it was your coworker, even if that is a blindingly obvious inference. Let them make the inference. Do not, in the first instance, demand the money from them. If they are obligated to pay, that obligation will not change over time. Check back with management in two weeks to see if they have taken any action to address the issue. Do not suggest to them what you think said action should entail.
This is what I have done.
Management gave me $40 and mysteriously said nothing about the culprit.
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Operation get mom drunn k complete! Awesomecab ride homes
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/me gets a passing glance on news about a 5.7 earthquake on NorCal today.
/me rings a bell for a wild NorCalDL call.
If this happened anywhere near your vicinity: hey guys, are you okay? LadyRogues, Laggies, mcs, GateRains?
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No worries -- it's about 4 hours away, and in the boonies. I didn't even know there was an earthquake! Besides, a 5.7 is just a fun ride.
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First week at work has been awesome. I love the people, the job is interesting enough, there's plenty of room for me to do stuff I care more about, and I am actively encouraged to play games at work. I get my first ridiculously large paycheck in two weeks, and I'm just trying to find a new place to live so Andy and I don't have a 45-90 minute commute each direction every day.
Unfortunately, rent here is even worse. We're looking at paying $700-1000 a month more than what we're already paying. Plus, apparently having a laundry machine in your unit is the most luxurious of luxuries, so it's been hard to find the right place I even feel remotely satisfied with paying that much more for. Less fun.
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Since work has been so busy, I missed this the day of, but HAPPY BIRTHDAY WEEK TO GREFTERS~
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No worries -- it's about 4 hours away, and in the boonies. I didn't even know there was an earthquake! Besides, a 5.7 is just a fun ride.
If an earthquake happens while I'm in California, I might suffer an actual heart attack. Just so you know.
EDIT: Also, belated happy birthday to my ex-husband.
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Posted this on FB already, but for the rest of the DL crowd: Got a job in LA, moving there on the 10th. Should be an adventure.
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Therapy 2 sessions in. May be the most stressful thing ever. Do not like talking about my emotions or their causes that deeply, which is to say, at all. Think it's beneficial though... maybe. Going to give it until the end of June before I decide I'm just going to drop out and get anti anxiety medication from a hospital here. Tellingly, one of the things that came to light is that I should be talking about my emotions more but oh man fuck that. Emotions is bad news bros.
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Congrats, super! Good luck in LA. You'll need it.
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Congratulations to you, too, Zenny. Therapy is a difficult thing to start, and I am glad to see you are willing to give it some time to shake itself out. Do not be afraid to see what you can do to find another therapist if the one you're seeing isn't clicking. In the past, it took me a few tries before I found someone I really got on with, and when that happened the experience was wholly different.
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Found an apartment, so we are moving in a couple weeks. It's amusingly similar to our current place, except I have to use a coin-op laundry machine again (damnit). But at least the commute won't be an hour each way anymore.
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Congrats, super! Even though you are leaving the right and proper coast for the heathen Pacifics, I will not be bitter. Much.
We could have harassed Cid daily damn you
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We could have harassed Cid daily damn you
You mean we don't?
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In person, though!
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Ciddy appears in DL far too infrequently for that kind of harassment.
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Also, congrats, aiel. Maybe now San Andreas' Fault will finally swallow California whole.
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It will, of course, wait until you get here, Snow.
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If it gulps me down, I'm taking all of you with me.
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It will, of course, wait until you get here, Snow.
sno r u fat
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It will, of course, wait until you get here, Snow.
sno r u fat
No, but you seem quite willing to die.
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So my wife and I are taking care of our niece for the summer. It gives her a few months in a stable environment after getting bounced around from parent to parent (both of whom are getting divorced, and not from each other) and constantly lost in the shuffle like she usually is. And we get to spend time with a good kid, which is nice.
So of course my asshole landlord has decided that this Will Not Stand, and is telling us to send her home or we'll be in violation of our lease. Which allows kids, including this specific circumstance (where we're not actually adopting her, but are legally responsible for her care). She doesn't seem to care about that, so obviously resolving this will not be a drawn-out stressful pain in the fucking ass.
I really just want to scream a lot and then punch somebody in the face right now.
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Time to lawyer up then. What a dick move on your landlord's part.
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There's a mediation process the county runs that we can go through before court becomes an active concern, which is nice. And we're out of here when the lease expires in three months anyway, because fuck staying around after this bullshit. I'll commute from Idaho if I have to.
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Landlords using physical means to eject tenants is a crime pretty much everywhere, regardless of whether there may be grounds to evict, and if your landlord continues to accept rent payments that typically means they give up any right to evict over conditions they are aware of (for that month). A L/T attorney will know exactly what your rights are, and more importantly know what procedural hurdles can be erected to prevent your landlord from exercising THEIR rights (assuming they have any). Anyway, seems like you're on top of things, but it may be worth chatting with an attorney sooner rather than later. Find one with a free consult and they'll probably tell you what you need to know (because in all likelihood the answer is "there's no way they can evict you before the lease runs, and no claim they can make against you for money damages")
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Managed to get some time off over the weekend from the hotel and teaching, so I of course did what anybody does on Memorial Day weekend. I camped out on the beach and got hired for a modelling gig wearing swimwear. Awesome~
Apparently there was a photoshoot going on at the beach and one of my friends knew the photographer. $200 bucks for 2 hours worth of work. I can't complain. I also got to hang out with a bunch of drunk models on the beach. Definitely in the running for best 3-day weekend ever.
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(http://bluesuedeshoes.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/13zoolander.jpg)
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Is... is that the Blue Thunder?
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That's a new name for Ben Stiller after being punched in the lips?
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Is... is that the Blue Thunder?
That's Le Tigre. I presume you were talking about Blue Steel though.
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yeah that
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Hayfever + late period + lack of sleeps + too much sun ... yeeah I feel awful >_>
All the best with the therapy, etc Zenny, know it's a long, hard road/how it goes some. The emotions stuff ... yeeah. Writing stuffs down and how is your mood on a scale to one to ten ... yeah there's a lot of that.
Congrats to super (again) and Djinn~
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Started a summer job as a teaching assistant for 15 hours a week. Trying to balance finishing my research work and this job and it's getting pretty crazy. Trying to prepare samples between teaching times while still trying to be social~
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What's work-life balance?
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Something work talks about while giving you 60 hours worth of work for a week.
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True story, I just used the phrase "accurate in our client's favor" to describe some math we're doing to get our client to financially qualify for something.
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Good luck Ciatos~
Is Idun away for the summers now?~
Still feel kind of crappy, but doing better than yesterday. Woke up still feeling ill and was coughing so hard I was sick so made it a priority to go out and go to the chemist for medicine. Felt somewhat better after taking the anti hay fever medicine, picked my anti depressants up as well since I didn't go out yesterday, mum and other peeps on the phone said it sounded more like a cold than hay fever but if it's a cold it's a bad one >.> Paracetomal didn't seem to really help yesterday so really not sure. Taking a hot cold relief drink today anyway. I have suffered from hay fever before so yeah is kind of confusing~
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Moved into the new place, and we have internet again(yay). Living with Jenna's mother and sister again is not so yay, but at least this time the hellspawn nephew isn't here. Decided since a) we were now sharing space with 2 other people, and b) we were sick of carrying around stuff we haven't used in forever, we just got rid of like half of all our possessions, including most of our furniture(their stuff is better anyway).
Thankfully, this is Cali and we found a junk company that wastes basically nothing. Anything that can be reused/donated/salvaged gets taken care of, and anything that can't gets recycled. Pretty cool.
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Was running late for gym this morning. Gun my Preworkout while I walk to gym. PT asks if want to just do stuff this afternoon. I mention I had had the pwo. Okay let's do things. Shitty lifts compressed into 20 mins. Still better day than most of this week at this point.
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Depression clearing up. Not so coincidentally, this coincides with having my weeknight evenings free now that I don't have dance practice basically every day. Forcing myself on a 5 day a week workout schedule now that I CAN is doing wonders for my mood. Apparently running doesn't work as well as lifting weights does for me.
Thinking about cancelling therapy since my mood is improving because that is an expense I'd rather not pay. Long term, probably a bad idea and I need the help. Short term, paying off my student loans and having money to send home every month is going to make me a lot less stressed out so I can worry about dealing with my emotional issues later.
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Go to Gym and do Deadliffs in the morning. Match my previous PB for single rep in sets of 3/2/2. Feel pretty stoked because of it. Go have a cold shower. Come out to watch someone crying in pain.
Is this what it feels like to be the Ideal Zenny?
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If you were the Ideal Zenny (in the Platonic sense) then you would be both the man out the shower and the man crying in pain. At once.
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Well now I am full of caffeine and have to sit at a desk in an office job.
Is the Meeple Hell?
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The Meeple is Hell, yes.
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folks blowing hot air in Accra about FFXV.
*punts bombax tree*
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Moving this weekend. Finally will stop having to drive an hour to work and an hour home. Now will be ~10-15 minutes. Yay!
Less yay is the actual moving part. I hate moving. I hate boxes. I hate trying to find everything I boxed up, and find a place for everything.
I do like having gone through the pantry to find food that expired a year or two before we even moved to our current place, or even the one before. WHY DO WE STILL HAVE THOSE?!
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Moving this weekend. Finally will stop having to drive an hour to work and an hour home. Now will be ~10-15 minutes. Yay!
Less yay is the actual moving part. I hate moving. I hate boxes. I hate trying to find everything I boxed up, and find a place for everything.
I do like having gone through the pantry to find food that expired a year or two before we even moved to our current place, or even the one before. WHY DO WE STILL HAVE THOSE?!
You obviously need materials for that organic nuclear bomb written in your destiny.
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Time moves differently in pantries. It's still good. Try it. =)
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Dammit, I keep wanting to read that as "time moves differently in panties". I think i work with too many perverts.
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Eh, either way works, really.
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So, there's a drink here called Umeshu. It's Ume, Japanese plum, and Nihonshu, or sake. Last year, a friend of mine changed up the recipe and made Umequila, which you can guess what that is.
This year, I am making 4 liters of it. Party time.... in 3 months.
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I knew there was a reason I had homoerotic fantasies about you, Zenny <3
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Because he is a human who is easy to manipulate because of his emotional instability?
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Because he is a human?
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Hmm, are you ok Snow?
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He was fine as of last weekend when he had attended a demonstration, that is the last I am aware of, but I have not been around most of the week either.
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Yeah, the riots were the main headline on the BBC this morning, apparently some dude died or something. Man, if you've been/are out in that Snow do take care~
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I am having mild panic attacks.
I am staying next to Gayatri Spivak for the rest of my time in Ghana. She's in Kofi Annan and I'm in Rosa Parks. And oh my god. OH MY GOD. I can't do anything in my room anymore I have to step out. I am.. .. omg I have to go out to lunch with herrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Edit
more imp: hope all's seamless/well/could be Snow.
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I'm okay! The protests have reached an absolute ideological nadir, though, which means, in return, that I'm not going to any of them any time soon, and I think they'll start waning in due time.
In related news: this year's Slut Walk was absolutely -gorgeous-. I posted some pictures in my profile, it was all kinds of great.
In other related news: I'm apparently - 8.75/- 8.51 in the Political Compass test.
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Well, I can finally say my mouth is cavity free!
...no really, I had like 6 cavities (one HUGE one that was in jeopardy of requiring a root canal), finally got the last of them filled in. That'll teach me to not do semi-yearly dental check ups <_<;
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I recently listened to a lot of songs I haven't listened to in a long, long time. Most of them videogame OSTs. A lot of nostalgia brought back, but also a lot of...
god, what the fuck am I doing with my time here? I can read most things fine (Heisig, baby), but... my listening and speaking skills in Japanese are wholly subpar. What I'd expect to have upon COMING to the country, not being in the midst of my time here.
It's put me in a really depressive mood. Like, I go out when I can, try to talk to Japanese people when I go out, but maybe I need to step it up. Maybe I need to stop reading so much in English when I'm relaxing, try to immerse myself in Japanese. But then again, I do want to keep writing, which has been coming along more.
I don't even know what I'm rambling about. Maybe I'm just drunk. Still, you'd think I'd be able to understand more than half of what's being sung in these songs after being here two years. Maybe I'm just wasting my time.
God
just
Fuck you Meeple.
Fuck
you
fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
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Can you understand half of what gets sung in English without really turning your ear to it? Lyrics have the flow of language all fucked up, the rhythm is all off all the time. No shock that you still struggle with it for a second language.
That or maybe you are stupid.
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Zenny: put it in perspective. Go find a random group of foreigners who have lived in Japan for 1-3 years and see how good their Japanese is. When you find out you're inevitably better than at least 50% of them by virtue of putting in -any effort whatsoever-, you'll feel better and not worry about it so much. This 'not worrying' thing will also improve your speaking/listening fluency. And you get to do it by acting superior to others and reveling in their failures! It's win-win!
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Zenny do this positive life affirming thing that is not sucking dick for 50 yen.
Bullshit. Buuuulllllllllshiiiiiiit.
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I don't even know what I'm rambling about. Maybe I'm just drunk. Still, you'd think I'd be able to understand more than half of what's being sung in these songs after being here two years. Maybe I'm just wasting my time.
Yeah, don't measure fluency by musical lyrics. Worry if there are serious gaps in communication between persons. When did you become such a baby? This is not the Zenny I know! To be sad, frustrated, drunk, call upon God and then reveal your lust for Meeple. . .
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Zenny do this positive life affirming thing that is not sucking dick for 50 yen.
Bullshit. Buuuulllllllllshiiiiiiit.
Now now, I never said he should stop sucking dick for 50 yen...
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Zenny do this positive life affirming thing that is not sucking dick for 50 yen.
Bullshit. Buuuulllllllllshiiiiiiit.
Now now, I never said he should stop sucking dick for 50 yen...
Gref's just warning Zenny not to price himself out of the market.
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Wow, I don't even remember writing that.
Apparently comiserdrinking with a friend who found out some pretty shitty news and then getting on the internet after they pass out is a dumb idea.
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It's okay. Remember that time I talked about how I was feeling?
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Was that the time you said you could feel your hands and that meant you hadn't drunk enough?
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Your drunken coherence is an inspiration to us all, Rob.
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Personal Best competition just done by dudes at my gym today. 105 kg Squat, 85 kg Bench and 130 kg Deadlift. I failed 90 bench and 140 dead. Pretty okay with this.
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You can bench 85 kg? That's like benching Trancey... Or maybe even Zenny. Not bad sir. When did you reach that benchmark (no pun intended)?
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About 5 hours ago. Edit - This was a 1 rep max comp, not like that is a work set or anything nuts like that.
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You can bench 85 kg? That's like benching Trancey... Or maybe even Zenny. Not bad sir. When did you reach that benchmark (no pun intended)?
No, I'm down to 75K now. Grefter can bench me easily.
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Personal Best competition just done by dudes at my gym today. 105 kg Squat, 85 kg Bench and 130 kg Deadlift. I failed 90 bench and 140 dead. Pretty okay with this.
Jesus christ, you can bench like 1.25x me.
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I hate being away from home on holidays. It's when I feel my heart ripped out most.
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I hate being away from home on holidays. It's when I feel my heart ripped out most.
=(
For all that such a feeling is kinda foreign to me. But I'm just not that attached to either holidays or family.
Trip in roughly seven hours. Neurosis, unleash.
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I'm a mostly healthy 20-something. I go to the doctor every year to confirm I'm still generally healthy, and that's that.
Now I have new insurance. New insurance means seeing new doctors. Which means, despite being generally healthy, I had to make an appointment for this morning, and then I will need three other appointments just to keep up to date with "I'm healthy" records.
Then I also need to make a dental appointment, and a vision appointment.
Ugh.
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Speaking of which. SirAlex, Grefter, and myself all got pretty and put on dresses to go to the fancy ball yesterday. SnowFire = SirAlex >>>> Grefter in elegance, of course, which isn't shocking since Lady Grefter is a "courtesan" and certainly not on the level of society ladies such as ourselves. SirAlex's boorish husband AndrewRogue might have yet impressed the ball with his tales of closing the German deal (despite having less $$$ than my dear LordDoor), except when Lady Grefter made the scene about Andrew treating her like an, ahem, working girl (I believe the exact words were "cheap whore"). There were gasps of dismay from the shocked onlookers, although I can't say I was surprised myself. It's a little odd that snooty-pumpkins spends so much time around Lady Grefter himself, but it's for perfectly understandable reasons; he's just tutoring her in fine manners and society behavior that is so resplendent in us happy Doors. I'm sure there's nothing to worry about there.
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You lost me almost immediately.
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Sure, this is more explicit:
Lady (Lord) Door & Snowfire - 23 elegance points from clothing + more money
AndrewRogue & SirAlex - 23 elegance from clothing + 3 bonus elegance from AndrewRogue's contract-closing stock market shenanigans
Grefter - 11 elegance (lol)
The courtesan was the worst-dressed, so clearly not enough was spent on her for her tastes, so she denounced whoever equipped her with the least elegance - which was AndrewRogue. By a lot. He thought he could stick his thing in Grefter for just a single piece of clothing. Shameful.
In other news. Mystara was saved thanks to the almighty power of coins trumping dragons & lichs, Laggy jumped off a tree to his demise below, I got devoured three times by a horrible Elder God (Which then devoured everyone else anyway after being woken up by the Deep Ones since Innsmouth was batshit monster central), and SirAlex & myself manhandled SirAlex & Lady Door at Tichu. 1120-80 or the like was the final score. You don't need to know the game to know that's trouble.
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We played a game of this (http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124380/ladies-gentlemen).
Not gonna lie, it is pretty cool.
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In conclusion, I make a much better Lord and Gentleman than I do tichu player.
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New form of torture: give someone mosquito bites on the bottom of their feet. I think this may be the first time it has ever happened to me, and dear god do I hope it is the last. I can barely walk all because of two bites on the balls of my feet.
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Found a home. (-: Now I can have the rest of my summer. Reunite with my sanity.... [-: Now waiting for Ciato to visit me in December ('s gotta happen! you even get a ranhat)
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New form of torture: give someone mosquito bites on the bottom of their feet. I think this may be the first time it has ever happened to me, and dear god do I hope it is the last. I can barely walk all because of two bites on the balls of my feet.
Been there. Sux.
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So. To clarify, I'm doing a lot better than when I had needed to seek therapy. Previous drunken ramblings were mostly drunken ramblings.
That said, the whole of my social circle that I carved out here in Amakusa is uprooting itself. I'm happy that everyone is going off to make their futures and I think everyone made the right choices for themselves, but that said I'm pretty down that all my friends are leaving. Fortunately the ones closest to me are people I will likely see again. Still, it is sad to see them folks go.
Going on Vacation in 36 hours back to New Mexico. Couldn't come at a better time. Now, more than ever, I need to be reminded why I left.
After that, starting on September 1st, I will drop off the face of the planet as far as you all is concerned. I spend too much time thinking in English, and my Japanese is not improving at the pace I'd like it to, so I'm going the total immersion route. I don't know how long I will (can?) keep it up, but hopefully doing this will let me leave here satisfied with my own progress.
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GRE Scores gained!
Verbal - 153 (58 percentile)
Math - 162 (84 percentile)
Writing - 5.5 (97 percentile)
Verbal and Math are roughly what I expected; Writing I am legitimately scratching my head at how I pulled that off.
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Well, clearly "Brevity" is not an axis that GRE writing is graded on...
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Did not manage to score SDCC tickets this year, despite trying REALLY DAMN HARD. Decided to come down to San Diego anyway, to visit friend who lives down here.
In random stroke of serendipity, vendor with whom I am working at my new job invites me and my friends down for dinner and drinks on the company, and oh by the way would you like to borrow my badge?
YES PLEASE.
Tomorrow is brief but glorious time INSIDE ComicCon, instead of just wandering around the convention center looking real sad.
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Been run ragged.
Monday: Work, early preview of We are the Millers, dinner.
Tuesday: Work, beach day.
Wednesday: Work, bar with coworkers, dump off things at shelters & furniture donations.
Thursday: Work, Third Thurs @ Isabella, karaoke.
Friday: No work, but early leave of Boston for Natick house w/ 5 acres of land, bbq on hot day.
Saturday: Work, lunch with friend, movie: The Heat.
Sunday: finally cancelled on my friend.. flopped on the bed.
They won't let me not do things before I leave, and while it's great, it's such an energy sapper. No time to myself.
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Did not manage to score SDCC tickets this year, despite trying REALLY DAMN HARD. Decided to come down to San Diego anyway, to visit friend who lives down here.
In random stroke of serendipity, vendor with whom I am working at my new job invites me and my friends down for dinner and drinks on the company, and oh by the way would you like to borrow my badge?
YES PLEASE.
Tomorrow is brief but glorious time INSIDE ComicCon, instead of just wandering around the convention center looking real sad.
SCORE
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Edit: Thanks
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Zenny: best of luck.
Meep: congrats.
Fenrir: I've been there. Hardest time of my life. Raymond Chandler once wrote something like that true misery always looks like melodrama. That was certainly the case for me. I found myself naturally thinking about my situation with the language of poetry and metaphor, because I found that without those tools I wasn't equipped even to describe how bad I felt. Even just to myself. Anyway, here's hoping everything turns out for you the best it can.
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*Blinks* Ouch Fenrir, hope it gets better. I know you were really happy there. You're doing the right thing re: pulling yourself together though.
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Fenrir, I wish you a swift recover.
on my side, which is fwp and not particularly srs:
tried to straighten my hair w/ all the blk tricks of the trade; guess wearing a fro for 6 mos straight said HA HA BITCH YOULL ALWAYS BE PUFFY; been natural for quite some time and apply no heat to my hair.. should have expected this. needed to clip my ends though.. I look like a lion, haha.
closure with my Little Sister was a bummer, but we're ok. omg she is like a mini me now!
visited a professor whom i've grown close with. she also makes artwork, and my first visit in the fall I fell in love with one piece. the second visit, she gave me a LE print of it. i am so happy.
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visited a professor whom i've grown close with. she also makes artwork, and my first visit in the fall I fell in love with one piece. the second visit, she gave me a LE print of it. i am so happy.
:)
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tried to straighten my hair w/ all the blk tricks of the trade; guess wearing a fro for 6 mos straight said HA HA BITCH YOULL ALWAYS BE PUFFY; been natural for quite some time and apply no heat to my hair.. should have expected this. needed to clip my ends though.. I look like a lion, haha.
:)
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MAH HAIR KNOWS IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL WITH NO FRYING
=)
EDIT: <IdunsHair> whateva, whateva, I do what I want
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Seen on someone's shirt at the airport: "Essential NPC: do not rob, maim, or kill."
Probably a useful distinction to have while in Mexico. (Our resort was basically a transplanted bubble of 1st world safety though, and we did not leave it.)
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I noticed VSM watches VGCW. It IS pretty great.
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I'm on a boat!
Cruising to Jamaica, Cayman islands, and Cozumel. Back on Monday. Holy crap this is fun!
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Please don't accidentally fall off and drown!
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Well, in addition to the usual tropical island paradise thing, this cruise trip totally makes up for how little karaoke I got to do in California. I have literally gotten to karaoke every night this week.
Also, the cruise has this particularly awesome free-pour bar called "The Alchemy Bar", where they mix everything from burned cinnamon, exotic fruit, shaved chocolate, rosemary, basil, olive oil, and of course every liquor known to man. It is like watching art in creation when they start mixing. I've known good bartenders before but -damn-. Roughly 75% of my pictures on this cruise are of the drinks I've gotten from there.
I'm doing a talent show tonight. Wish me luck!
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I suppose you won't be arrested for showing that in public if you are in international waters.
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I need to stop viewing the past with rose tinted goggles. It is easy to forget the very valid reasons I had for leaving where I was, and easy to think that going home would make me happy but it won't.
It's a good reminder.
It's a good reminder that all of the excuses I make are just that. Excuses.
Seize opportunities when they come, then strangle them dry and don't make that sacrifice be in vein.
What I want will never be in the United States. What I won't likely won't be in Japan. Home has no place for me and I'm OK with that. That's what I strove for, right?
Right.
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Right?
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From that I'm guessing coming back to America's been a mixed bag?
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Also: is America so barren of what you need that it cannot provide? Or just the America you call home?
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Actually, this trip has been everything I needed it to be. It's been a lot of fun and partying but there are a number of realities that come hand-in-hand with the things I was doing here that I conveniently forgot.
America is not entirely barren of what I need but whether in New Mexico or elsewhere, at this point in my life I don't see myself settling down there without good reason.
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You're fairly young to consider settling down as well.
Moving today. Exhausted from Newport Folk Festival..... f a n t a s t i c. And who'd a thunk there'd be more mansions in Newport than regular houses. . . obvious.. slight exaggeration here. Anyway, went Sat/Sun so I missed Feist on Friday. Father John Misty is annoying, but I like his music. I'm sure he shot up before the show. Favorite was Michael Kiwanuka, as expected -- Uganda, woo woo. Next best was Lord Huron, followed by a fun Lumineers show. Neyla is the cutest white woman I've ever seen. Adorable.
Yep. Moving.
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Well, my long awaited speeding ticket came in the mail today.
They want 356 fucking dollars for my infraction. Plus some confusing wording about how I may or may not need to pay $61 more to take traffic school (which I may or may not have to do).
Motherfucker.
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In unrelated news, NaNoWriMo has an early bird fundraiser, so I've topped my $300 so Andy and I can attend this year. (That's $300 I don't mind spending!) Added the usual link to my sig and to profile website link, feel free to drop a 100% US tax deductible donation if you are so inclined. I'll make a bigger post about it come October/November, but that's all you'll hear about it from me other than the signature.
Also feeling good about buying some school supplies for underprivileged kids in the area.
Yay for doing good.
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So unexpected expenses thus far:
During DLC, Jenna had to shell out ~$1300 to fix the car, so she could drive down to LA to get a copy of her birth certificate(needed it now, takes 8 weeks to get by mail). Good thing we did, since what we knew wasn't working(cruise control) turned out to be not the only thing wrong. Good odds her BREAKS would have failed on that long trip if we hadn't taken it in.
Shortly after, cat goes to vet because he's vomiting every day. $500 for the vet to tell us that he doesn't know what's wrong. Will be another $300 to get some test results once we can afford it. Thankfully, cat is no longer throwing up every day, so its waiting until next paycheck.
Get a notice that Jenna missed a court date due to a traffic violation and failure to pay the fine. We go "what the fuck, what fine?". Jenna calls the contact number, finds out they sent the notice of the violation(running a red light apparently) to the house we lived in...over two years ago. But apparently were able to send the notice that we hadn't paid so her license was suspended to the right address? $400 for the ticket + $500 for missing the court date, and it's not their problem that they sent it to the wrong address. They sent it! We didn't get it, so that's our fault.
Not unplanned, but $300 for child's band fees(band gets no money from school, 100% supported by parents...). Just came at a bad time. Putting it off is not an option, they won't let him in band if we don't pay now.
All told, that's $2700 in surprise expenses with another $300 in "we knew it was coming, but shit timing" + $300 more on the horizon. All within a 3 week span.
I do not have language strong enough for all of this.
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...I have no words for that Gate. really, I have absolutely no clue what to say in this situation other than "god damn does that suck, sorry to hear that."
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The upside is that we have the ability to take this hit. We have to juggle bills p.damn hard and borrow money from Jenna's mother AND sister, but we can do it. Should just be 2 months or so until we're back in the clear, and a month after that we can resume saving like we're supposed to.
Since we're saving up to put a down payment on a house in 2-3 years. Once we have that savings built up, shots like this won't hurt quite so bad, they'll just set back our plans awhile. But right now we're basically just starting it.
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Well, that's good that you can weather this one. Still, it seems like every time I hear from you life is just taking a shit on you and your family. I hope that turns around soon, because goddamn you could use some good luck.
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Eh, we're mostly fine actually. I just, uh, never remember to post in here unless I have something to gripe about. No news really is good news with me, I suppose?
In an effort to toss up some good news, yay for Tonfa and Tai being out here for awhile, sadly not concurrently though. Having people to hang out with in person is awesome. Tai jumped into a solo-game I run for Jenna for a session, as usual. This time it was a much lower level game, so instead of high powered outsiders and mage-warriors, this time it was animated paintings and a tiny sized golem that was *really* good at running away and hiding from them(they needed the key it had). Then getting banished into the gallery by the ghost painter while an NPC ally was forced to finish his last painting for him. And by into the gallery, I mean into the paintings themselves. It involved a trip through a terribly painted archery contest were one round's losers become the next round's targets, a construction zone(hardhats and all) as drawn by Escher, a Secret of Mana reference(walk the seasons, spring to winter~), getting attacked by a very angry bear-skin rug, a painting of a painter who was painting a painter painting a painting of a painter(etc), and more. Yakkety Sax was played at least once. It was funtimes.
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Eek, Gate. Second Zenny's sentiment.
On my news in Austin, I really love sharing (whether anyone responds or not) how awesome it is being black, because people always try to locate you. I've been called Ethiopian, Nigerian, Haitian, Jamaican, Kenyan. "DNA test says my maternal side is from Cameroon." After my awesome chat with Gayatri Spivak, I feel comfortable with my reservation: who the fuck cares. I'd quote her, but... no.
Anyway. Point. On bus to go get free bus pass. Asian man sits next to me. OK, whatevs. Used to proximity, being from Atlanta and definitely coming from Boston. But he turns to me and talks to me the entire time, explaining that he is Nippon (?)/Japanese and he finds me so attractive, am I Haitian. Then I say I'm from Georgia, to which he understood Georgia as a country and not the state. Then he says am I African, he means African, and I say no I'm from the United States. Then he says oh, ok, I don't see many black women who embrace their natural beauty here and I think you're beautiful. My bus stop was three points away; I say: "Thank you so much," and keep looking out the window only to feel dirty rubbing passed him to get off the bus. What a weird, weird, weeeeeeeeird (AUSTIN, WEIRD, OMG) experience. People don't normally keep going. And ps, Austin asians are p. cool, tattood out the wazoo.
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another weird moment
take roland out to poo, neighborhood black cat that lounges in apt courtyard came batting at Roland. Cat is black. Cat looks just like Jack (my black cat). Roland is confused. I swat the cat away with my hand and it keeps coming. SO. I run Roland around to back patio, open gate, close gate, cat is trying to hop over my fence to get into back patio. I just bought some motherfucking corrector spray and I am not afraid of cat scratches (-hits bicep- once separated Jack from an outside cat fight), put Roland inside and ran in to get the spray, followed that cat to no end with corrector spray. debating on letting Jack outside, but nope. Nope! CALM DOWN. Will just report to management property; people never seem to take aggressive cats seriously over aggressive dogs. And Roland was just batshit confused, but thankfully only a shallow slice on his nozzle.
Day 8 almost over. I have to cook.
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I am home now. I really want to thank Andy, Ashley, Laggy, CIATOS and elves for the place to crash this holiday. I needed it so much and all of you guys were amazing (as always). I had an absolute blast this year and got to see and interact with people I didn't expect to. Catching Sopko's mum was great even if only quickly.
I can of than Ciatos and elves enough for having me for so long and the Proto-elves once again for many a good dinner and conversation. DL parents ftw.
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and keep looking out the window only to feel dirty rubbing passed him to get off
what
the bus.
oh
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Today was so hot that my village's siren went off and they warned people to be very careful if they went outside. Absolutely ridiculous. August is the worst here. So goddamn humid.
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I've mentioned this in chat over the course of...a while...but might as well bring it up here. Mentioned it in Misc. Links topic, but maybe this is better? Whatever.
Friends and I are doing a charity Marathon for Child's Play organization where we just play through games. Think of it as SGDQ only nowhere near as awesome because we aren't speed runners (well, one of us is, kind of, but shh!) The stream starts on Monday morning, and can be found here:
http://www.twitch.tv/dapuffster (http://www.twitch.tv/dapuffster)
Schedule, for those interested, is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhCHMHSHVD8YdGhEaUZrQ0VaVzBueWNYa2ZWRXJ4aXc#gid=0 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhCHMHSHVD8YdGhEaUZrQ0VaVzBueWNYa2ZWRXJ4aXc#gid=0)
Games I'm playing are the 2 Mega Man games, Shadow the Hedgehog, and I'm one of the 3 people playing Sonic 2k6 because what started as a joke between me and 2 of my friends turned into a reality, and we're still not sure why we're doing it. I'll be at the marathon most of the time naturally, being, well, me in on stream...and yes, that means you may see me off in the corner plying my 3DS or something when I'm not playing.
I know some people were actually interested in seeing me play, especially the Sonic 2k6 thing (raw Meeple suffering in video game form, gee, I wonder why people are pro-this?) As an added factor, the guy whose house we're doing this at made a trailer for the event! I'm not going to say it's awesome or anything, but I'll link to it anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChnHJVb5O0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VChnHJVb5O0)
Be cool if you guys supported, or at least watched a little bit of it, even just the segments I'm playing (and you can forever ridicule me as I screw up playing MM1/3 on stream!)
As a fun side note: while I have practiced MM3 several times in the past few months, I haven't touched MM1 in years, so yes, I'm doing a buster only playthrough with no real preparation!
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Mmm, have some free time tomorrow. Might catch the tail end of it.
Was visiting grandparents today. Grandfather fell at the weekend and ripped his arm open. Huge gash the length of one side of it. Black/bruising around too. Not pretty. Dry wound now though. Grandmother has been up and down at the doctors and hospital, her heart condition is active, racing heart/beating too fast, etc and problems with her blood pressure as well, she's been for some blood tests and is going in for an x-ray, they are trying to work out what the exact problem is with her heart/heart condition this time to see if they can get her better treatment. She does look ill though and both of them were moving stiffly and out of breath. Not good on the whole.
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Wishing you strength and patience, CT.
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Sorry to hear it, CT. Hope things go as well as they can for your family.
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:( to CT. I hope the best; I've been through that before and it's not easy. All I can do is wish you the best, which I kind of just said.
And back from the Marathon! Thanks to those who watched and donated (I know who two of you are, and you know who you are...I hope?), and I am surprised End of the World in Sonic 2k6 wasn't as painful as it could have been! Staying in some dude's basement for nearly 48+ straight hours does get tiring even when you're mostly just lazily sitting around, eating, and talking. Raised about $150 total when I left.
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-Just- found out that Lord Huron is playing at Stubb's BBQ, and they are sold out. I also apparently have fellow person to DDR with. This is great; haven't had a DDR partner since 2006.
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There will be a scalper or someone selling a ticket online that thye can't use any more. There always is.
Edit - Looking for one quickly online shows that Alt-J are headlining that show. Alt-J are pretty decent. Would really recommend trying to find tickets now.
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Yeah, saw the Alt-J already. I don't have the money to deal with scalpers yet. I wanted to eat at Stubb's and also listen. I'll check again, but it can't be much.
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I lied. I like theory.
Courses:
Historicizing the Politics of Identity
Post-Structuralism
Black Theory I
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A good set of courses. Want to buy excuse to do a whole unit on Post-Structuralism.
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I think I'm getting old. Sleep cycles are starting to affect me way more. Two nights ago, about 7.5-8 hours of sleep, felt amazing almost to the point of obnoxiousness. Last night, 6.5-7 hours of sleep, exhausted, have a headache, and on the verge of a panic attack.
Gr8. Best job. W8sted my youth. Gr8est.
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I registered for the GRE and the GRE in Literature.
I've talked about doing this enough, but never followed through. I've been out of university for four years now, and I really miss the academic environment. I took a break so I could stabilize myself a little better, and I'm more confident now that I'll be ready by Fall 2014 than I ever was about one fall to the next.
Mostly, too, I miss flexible schedules, being required to read, and a general depth of conversation that exceeds "Did you remember to include the cover sheet on your TPS report?"
Chances are that I'm going to completely flop on my applications because I am being extremely choosy and not even bothering to apply for places I know I wouldn't enjoy. But at least I'm getting started.
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Good luck!
But why would you apply to programs you wouldn't enjoy, anyway? "Safety"+grad school for Humanities/LA is a murky situation and probably a waste of time unless something's convincing you that you just need to get x degree.
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Best of luck to you!
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Good luck!
But why would you apply to programs you wouldn't enjoy, anyway? "Safety"+grad school for Humanities/LA is a murky situation and probably a waste of time unless something's convincing you that you just need to get x degree.
Safety is a lie with grad school, given that even the "safest" programs have <10% admission rates (or shitty funding, meaning may as well not bother) and still depend mostly on notions of fit. But there are programs that are good or great in my field that I have absolutely no interest in applying to because of stupid things like a worse ranking, or a location I'd not like (like NYC). The schools I've chosen have admissions rates <5%, generally, but are also good fits. I guess it's just about winnowing down to 10-12 schools in whatever way!
That said, I do consider getting the MA or PhD purely for the ability to have a career in higher education. But still, I don't think it's quite worth it if the 5-7 years spent at whatever school feel like drudgery because of a personality mismatch.
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Thanks, Jim. :)
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Sounds practical and the way most people with lives apply to programs. 10-12 is a fucking shit-ton.
Well, whatever. I'm done commenting.
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Can I request that you finish up all discussions with "Whatevers y'all. Peace out bitches!"?
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I officially got accepted to a Grad School! Hopefully in a few years I will be an actual teacher.
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Can I request that you finish up all discussions with "Whatevers y'all. Peace out bitches!"?
[-= Haha.
AND OMG, MEEPLE!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS. (-:
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I said it on Facebook, I'll say it again here:
Congrats, Meeple! Must be great to know you're going somewhere, even if you're not sure exactly where yet. Yay! :D
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My legs are covered in bug bites from going to the park yesterday. Must not spend all waking hours thinking about scratching bug bites...
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Try covering yourself in honey.
I don't know what good it will do, but it sounds fun!
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Long pants and/or bug spray go along way in protecting against those critters!
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I used bug repellant, I just unwisely forgot to put it on the back of my legs. The front of my legs are fine!
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Yeah, bugs have high enough move that you can't rely on that front evade alone~
>_>
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Bought some allergy meds and some ointment. The pharmacist told me it looked like an allergic reaction to a non-mosquito bug that was maybe in the grass? Took the meds and rubbed some ointment on, and they are way less swollen four hours later.
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Mini round of layoffs at work today. Almost 3 months after I started (20th would have been), which is eerily similar to my experience at my previous company. At least this time my position wasn't eliminated, though my department did lose someone.
Also contacted randomly by a recruiter from a big video game company.
I think whatever happens my career is okay.
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well, went to Mountain Creek, a water park, today, with Mandy and Jeff; my mother joined us later because she was curious what it was like and free tickets. Don't ask, I don't know what goes on in her head.
TIME FOR SOME RANDOM MISADVENTURES THAT WILL BORE PEOPLE!
Fun fact: I put on SUn Screen! Only later to learn by Mandy that it was Bug Repellent and had to put on ACTUAL Sun Screen instead. I've never seen Cream-based Bug Repellent before, only the spray kind! CRAZY STUFF MAN!
Jeff makes everything more complicated. He didn't want to do the things Mandy and I wanted to do, so goes off by himself...without letting us make up a meet up spot or time after a point. We stumble upon him easily enough. Mother gets there, we decide to do rides we can do as a family (she was planning on leaving earlier too), Jeff still finds ways to complicate things.
Then when she's leaving, brother decides he wants to go too, ok fair enough. Mandy and I go to have lunch! While eating, we see Jeff walk up to food court then turn around...we thought he left, we have no clue what's up, we worry we might have to take him home without KNOWING. This isn't a "ARGH JEFF IN A 40 MINUTE CAR RIDE!" thing more a case of I hate being uncertain about plans and thus being unsure if I am responsible for something...he also didn't have his phone.
Mandy and I run into him randomly, because he...couldn't find my mother in the parking lot, claiming she never told him where to meet her. Eventually, I get it through his head "LOOK ONE MORE TIME" and he does, apparently finds her, and we find out about this later when I call home (just to double check things), thus relieving some stress of having to look for him in the park.
So all in all, ignoring Jeff screwing things up, it was fun, and I only got sunburned on my right shoulder...and my feet are a bit scorched because we walked barefoot due to being too lazy to keep taking our shoes on and off, we just shoved them in the locker. Not the wisest of ideas <_<;
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Suddenly, a 10%+ raise post-category strike showed up. A few days later, I find out my company's about to be restructured, which will pretty much abolish the vast majority of special functions. My immediate superiors will definitely suffer, but I'll be entirely unaffected. Declining from my former commissioned position feels more and more like the best decision I've made in my working life in this place (not that it didn't already).
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That's fantastic, Snow! (Espeically considering the circumstances.) :D
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In a sense, in that I'll be one of the least affected by the restructuring in a holistic personal sense. It's still going to cause a bevy of changes, many of which will likely heavily affect our environment, many others which won't be exactly wholesome for press activities. But it'll be at least another couple months until they take full effect. We'll see.
EDIT: I'm still somewhat worried for my friends in my department because I know how much of a departure the commission pay is from the base, especially in their current responsibility draw. On the other hand, once you go past the realm of $4k (I'm making $3.6K a month now), taxes start biting really hard into the paycheck.
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Met guy who is no 1 on the ddr machine
He holds the bar, plays in his socks and sounds like an elephant
Uuuuuugh i hate it when people use the bars they slam down soooo hard thank goodness he wasnt playing on the left pad. Wear and tear times 50.
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i bet u mad when people tilt pinball machines as well. fight the man. tilt is legit strats.
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The only high level DDR Experience I've seen is when Chris G played it at The Break. There is something inhuman about him...
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actually totes support tilting; tilted last night on the nightmare on elms street pinball machine bro. those magnetics no joke.
chris plays ddr? .. huh times to yts
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Chris G plays everything and is at worst "Good" at everything he plays. One of the first things I saw him do when I met him was in fact playing DDR to some Sonic song that I didn't recognize!
There's basically a DDR machine at The Break, or a DDR derivative or something. I can't tell the difference between them all, it's all dance games with 4 arrows that you have to hit at the right time to me <_<;
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There's a difference. Back when I was going to the University of Houston, they had two machines: a DDR one in one food court and I THINK another that had 9 buttons at the other food court.
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well, it's one of the ones with 4 basic directions, hence why I said "DDR Derivative" and not just "some sort of dance game." I know there's one that's actually 5 buttons, which is 4 diagonals + one in the middle.
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Ya, that's the one. I recall they had it at the other student center and at the Dave and Buster's downtown.
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The difference between DDR and In The Groove is that the latter has crappy music and un-fun gameplay. High-level In The Groove is a good reminder that it is easy to design levels (or tracks) that are super hard but no fun at all, and that there is a great art to good level design. That the game completely lacks.
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ever see that remix one-winged angel 10 steps on a ddr machine?
that is my new goal. i saw it. i heard it. i was conquered. .. i am old, i don't remember seeing bomb things on ddr. wtf.
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No I never have. I am intrigued, although 10 steps is usually too tough for me. Do you recall what version of the arcade has it?
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Can't find a video online for it or any listing. It must be either a Stepmania filter song or just one added to the hacked machine also played through Stepmania, because the steps are pretty interesting. I'll take a video next time I'm there. There's a few good Beyond the Beyond songs, Castlevania, etc.
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good Beyond the Beyond
I object to this combination of words on principle.
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The bleeps are awesome for stepping bro.
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Holy hell when did I last post?
Life has been busy. Honestly, here's my biggest thing recently (that really pissed me off):
I love cats. I really do. We found an abandoned cat (~2-3 years old) outside of our apartment complex a little over a week ago. Nice, sweet, cute black cat. Took it for a scan, no microchip. Cat is still clearly domesticated, probably abandoned by someone moving out of the apartment complex.
Put up signs. Most were taken down.
We have 4 cats and can't really take a 5th on in. So I take it to the humane society. Humane society calls me a week later and says that she doesn't like it there because of the dogs barking and will euthanize her, despite her starting to get better at acclimating. I pick her up, and have to keep her in the communal laundry room because EVERY SHELTER FOR 100 MILES IS COMPLETELY FULL AND NO ONE WILL TAKE A CAT. A couple places even said they would just euthanize her if we brought her there. Found one place who said they'd take her...brought her there, and she sneezed in the intake area. Immediately, we were told they would have to euthanize her if we brought her there! Wow!
Seriously...everywhere is full, and no one can take her unless we want her dead. I took her to the vet, and she's completely clean. No FIV, FLV, fleas, etc. Eventually, I finally found someone on Tuesday to take her, thank god. I think the apartment company was going to murder us if she was there another day.
Life lesson - unless you can take it in, try to ignore the crying outside of the apartment in the future. Every shelter is full this year, apparently due to a massive kitten birthing.
So...uh...go adopt cats!
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That's pretty O_o OK.
In other news, High Holidays continue to suck. Ok, meeting with family isn't too bad in the afternoon/evening, more just the long services in the morning, and the hecticness in the house before people get there.
Worst part is...next week is the worst of the two, so I have that to "look forward" to.
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Holy hell when did I last post?
Life has been busy. Honestly, here's my biggest thing recently (that really pissed me off):
I love cats. I really do. We found an abandoned cat (~2-3 years old) outside of our apartment complex a little over a week ago. Nice, sweet, cute black cat. Took it for a scan, no microchip. Cat is still clearly domesticated, probably abandoned by someone moving out of the apartment complex.
Put up signs. Most were taken down.
We have 4 cats and can't really take a 5th on in. So I take it to the humane society. Humane society calls me a week later and says that she doesn't like it there because of the dogs barking and will euthanize her, despite her starting to get better at acclimating. I pick her up, and have to keep her in the communal laundry room because EVERY SHELTER FOR 100 MILES IS COMPLETELY FULL AND NO ONE WILL TAKE A CAT. A couple places even said they would just euthanize her if we brought her there. Found one place who said they'd take her...brought her there, and she sneezed in the intake area. Immediately, we were told they would have to euthanize her if we brought her there! Wow!
Seriously...everywhere is full, and no one can take her unless we want her dead. I took her to the vet, and she's completely clean. No FIV, FLV, fleas, etc. Eventually, I finally found someone on Tuesday to take her, thank god. I think the apartment company was going to murder us if she was there another day.
Life lesson - unless you can take it in, try to ignore the crying outside of the apartment in the future. Every shelter is full this year, apparently due to a massive kitten birthing.
So...uh...go adopt cats!
Of course OK's first message back would be to go out and get more pussy.
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Young, at that.
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I don't think I've fulfilled the terms of the joke yet, so here you go:
How do you know if someone is vegan?
They tell you!
Yo, guys. I'm vegan.
Been eating that way for 3 weeks now, with no issue and only a few small exceptions (honey on some granola bars I had, 1 Pumpkin Spice Latte (which has milk in the base mix) because I fucking love that drink and I got one for free). Sticking it out for the long term, it looks like! Probably 80% vegan, 10% vegetarian, 10% omnivore, but so far it's been 99% vegan. Woo.
Also, did you know that Oreos are vegan? As are Skittles? And a whoooole bunch of other cookies and bread and other crap I shouldn't be eating? Amazing. Also destructive. But despite eating so many of those things, I still managed to lose 5 pounds. Double woo.
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Skittles kinda surprises me. I'd have figured it'd have some bug-dyes or something.
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They weren't, until 2009. They used to use carminic acid (beetle juice), shellac (beetle shell) and gelatin (hooves). Now they don't!
Oreos being vegan amuses me. What? That cookie with a cream center? Whipped soybean oil, bro!
Most people would realize that makes Oreos really far from an actual food. Oh well!
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Soybean oil is way more foodlike than I'd have assumed.
I'm kinda curious now what Skittles switched to. Intuitively I feel like at least some of the colors would have to be artificial, and honestly I'd rather have bug-guts. Buuuuut it does make it vegan I guess.
... actually it could be lycopene and the like, I guess. Although that seems like it'd spike the cost of the things.
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Oreos weren't vegan for a while themselves actually. I know this because they were considered unkosher due to having Animal Fat in them, and thus we bought Hydrox, essentially the Kosher variation (which technically was made first, but who cares) instead. Mid-90s, that changed, and Oreos started using Vegetable Shortening or whatever instead, and have been doing that ever since.
Easy way to tell if junk food is vegan is if it's Kosher and lacks any milk products in it, often (well, and honey, I suppose.) Kosher symbols are usually a K, usually in some sort of symbol or shape, or a circled U. If it's kosher, then that means there's no meat products in it, so checking if it's Dairy is the logical next step.
Also, often there's a "D" or a "P" on the product too. "D" will mean Dairy, so obviously not Vegan. "P" means "Parve" which, in short, means "not Meat nor Dairy"; no, doesn't automatically mean Vegan because Fish is considered Parve too, though I don't think that really plays a role in junk food.
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My condolences.
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At least she's not doing it to rebel or something. She clearly didn't have any problems eating copious amounts of cow at DLCon when we went to the Brazillian steakhouse.
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Nah. I care about the normal stuff - factory farming, resource waste, etc - buy I'm mostly doing it because I can, it's cheaper, and it forces me to eat more vegetables and just generally be more mindful about what I'm eating and what impact those foods have on my mind, my body, and the rest of the world.
Kinda zen, I guess?
I noticed that about Kosher, since they tend to put that symbol next to any assertions about whether it's vegan. Lucky for me, milk is an allergen, so it is usually called out in bold at the end of the ingredients.
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Milk being an allergen does explain the Vegan route instead of just becoming a vegetarian. If you can't have milk, and are going to have a more vegeratian diet, I guess the only difference between Vegan and Vegetarian is "will you eat Eggs and Honey" in this case?
Also, having dietary restrictions isn't as hard as people think, as most places have at least one thing available that is eat-able. Passover, no the other-hand...that's a different story entirely.
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So I saw a pair of jean shorts sitting on top of a banana peel at the gym today. Take a picture thinking I can make an Andy Warhol joke with it sometime. Then I realize that there needs to be a gay lifestyle Pop Art themed gym called The Factory somewhere. I hope there is and I hope it gets a ton of business.
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To be clear, Meeple, I was commenting on the US food production world acknowledging milk as an allergen, which means they tend to put it in bold text and call it out separately on an ingredients list. It simplifies things because then I don't need to try and guess which by-products actually include milk.
That said, milk and I don't always get along, so I'm okay putting dairy aside.
Eggs and honey I enjoy, but am indifferent to. The hardest part of cutting them out is the number of things I do enjoy that include them. But it's not worth it to me, so whatever.
The hardest part is that it's hard to have to cook all your food. It's SO DAMN EASY to go around the corner to get a burger or a burrito or a pizza or a sandwich when you can eat anything (whether you should or not). This is where that mindfulness thing comes in handy. I've saved a lot of money by sticking to home eating so much more, and I've saved a ton of useless calories by not going for the easy version instead of the homemade version.
But it's got nothing on High Holiday rules, I'll grant that!
It's been easier for me because we have a vegan friend. We've been aware of a lot of the ins and outs of veganism through him, so it's not such a huge leap into the darkness for me. Plus, since we see him almost every week, and he doesn't ever cook, he gives good insight into what's available!
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Grefter.
That is one of the most Grefter things I've heard since you left. Kudos.
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Technically, Passover isn't a High Holiday, merely one of the "Festivals" which is still pretty important mind you but...well...
SPEAKING OF THOSE, Rosh Hashana ended the other night. I think I might have said this already, but yeah. I'm actually tempted to do another "Meeple Informative Rant On Jewish Holidays" for those who are actually interested in those kinds of things, but that requires being unlazy (this would be on both Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur)...yes, talking about the Holiday as it comes up is a great way to dread it more, I know <_<
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I'm always interested. My relationship with religion is a strange one, so I enjoy hearing about others' experiences. I'm particularly fascinated with generational religion.
My own parents were indifferent at best. My mom's parents were faithful Anglicans. My best friend was a devout Baptist, since lapsed, and I went to a number of youth groups with her up through middle school. I spent much of my younger years in the South, which has its own special relationship with religion.
I study a period of literature that is greatly influenced by the origins of Christianity and its relationship to extant religions. I regularly spend time in churches (mostly Catholic ones) for purely secular reasons. I've attended all of one Catholic service, accidentally.
All that to say: religion fascinates me, but I'm definitely an outsider, especially when it comes to non-Christian faiths. I love hearing about rituals and traditions.
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Technically, Passover isn't a High Holiday, merely one of the "Festivals" which is still pretty important mind you but...well...
SPEAKING OF THOSE, Rosh Hashana ended the other night. I think I might have said this already, but yeah. I'm actually tempted to do another "Meeple Informative Rant On Jewish Holidays" for those who are actually interested in those kinds of things, but that requires being unlazy (this would be on both Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur)...yes, talking about the Holiday as it comes up is a great way to dread it more, I know <_<
To give you an idea, I'm an atheist and I like reading your rants. Understanding a basic idea of rituals and traditions outside one's life sphere is, if nothing else, fascinating.
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Milk being an allergen does explain the Vegan route instead of just becoming a vegetarian.
Just saw this. I remember having the most difficulty being a vegetarian and having a lactose-intolerance, simply because the uncreative minds of cooks simply replaced not eating meat with copious amounts of cheese. Awful.
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I choose to blame America at large for that one. Yeah, everyone associates cheese and wine with France, but by god in america you can get cheese on anything, and generally speaking that's just what people WILL order cheese on.
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Tri-Ace is alive!!! Eeryone!! Tri-Ace is ALIVE!!!
Just... just why are they making the new Phantasy Star!?
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Technically, Passover isn't a High Holiday, merely one of the "Festivals" which is still pretty important mind you but...well...
SPEAKING OF THOSE, Rosh Hashana ended the other night. I think I might have said this already, but yeah. I'm actually tempted to do another "Meeple Informative Rant On Jewish Holidays" for those who are actually interested in those kinds of things, but that requires being unlazy (this would be on both Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur)...yes, talking about the Holiday as it comes up is a great way to dread it more, I know <_<
To give you an idea, I'm an atheist and I like reading your rants. Understanding a basic idea of rituals and traditions outside one's life sphere is, if nothing else, fascinating.
*Nods*
I'll try throwing something up this weekend then. I was considering doing it tomorrow (when I am not doing anything sans unexpected work), but then I realized talking about Yom kippur rituals is only going to make the anxiety of the holiday worse. Might as well do it right after I finished and it's all in the past, and I can joke about the suffering I went through!
And yes, I am being melodramatic and jesting about Yom Kippur and suffering. The holiday does suck, mind you, but "anxiety" is blown it out of proportion <_<
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And yes, I am being melodramatic and jesting about Yom Kippur and suffering. The holiday does suck, mind you, but "anxiety" is blown it out of proportion <_<
I have never known you to blow something out of proportion.
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I choose to blame America at large for that one. Yeah, everyone associates cheese and wine with France, but by god in america you can get cheese on anything, and generally speaking that's just what people WILL order cheese on.
If it's fried, it's fair game supposedly! If it's grilled, it's all good supposedly. If it's baked, well, now, who wouldn't want cheese in anything baked? If it's sautéed, perhaps it'll only be good if you genuinely know what sauté is. Yeah, apparently the transition from omnivore to vegetarian puts you in two phases: months of different vegetable medleys to medley-like quiche or tortillas. It was awful, awful.
Wish I could call some of our eating idiosyncrasies "fads." Ever heard of "cronut" or "butter burger"? I'm sure both are delicious, but my word.
Edit* Niu, cool!
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Tri-Ace is alive!!! Eeryone!! Tri-Ace is ALIVE!!!
Just... just why are they making the new Phantasy Star!?
Is it a new Phantasy Star Online title or are they going back to glorious offline RPG?
Cause that could be pretty cool. Link?
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It's a single-player game with co-op combat, not sure if it's 100% offline but it's not shaping up to be an MMO so I'm assuming it'll have, like, a plot and stuff, set in the PSO2 universe. So...we'll see.
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Wish I could call some of our eating idiosyncrasies "fads." Ever heard of "cronut" or "butter burger"? I'm sure both are delicious, but my word.
Truly you have moved to the south and embraced it.
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It's a thing that came from NYC proper and that's a thing that came from Wisconsin. I would consider Texas "South" in terms of pace/relaxation/suburban reliance on cars and heat, but more Southwestern really. I want to check out Houston because I hear it's p. dope. There's a train possibly connecting Austin to San Antonio in the near future as well.
Also, people try to be really weird here, and the weirdos are diet-loving hipsters coming from the New England area or Arizona/California. Seriously, I've never seen so many tattoo'd people in my life. There are good things here, more than Boston and at the cost of Atlanta/Durham. But always being able to go to a lake or pool almost year-round and float with beers? Get at Austin, bro.
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Was finally able to catch the long-haired gray kitty that this apartment's previous owner decided to abandon. Separated Jack, well, since he hasn't fraternized with cats in a while. I -really- want to keep it, but I can't afford three pets and natural food diets/insurance/vet bills. So, I discovered that most of the animal facilities are no-kill here, one having a shorter duration than one that has a high adoption rate for cats. So I'll take him/her to the latter tomorrow & check in to see when the cat's adopted. If not, I like doing that whole -basic shots at the shelter- and asking friends if they want a cat afterwards.
I'm reporting the previous apartment renter for animal cruelty. Awful. I swear, some people shouldn't have pets.
Edit* Oh crap (and weird) OK! ): Sorry!
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Edit* Oh crap (and weird) OK! ): Sorry!
Refined essence of a conversation with OK right there. I wish I had that level of skill with language to so perfectly distill point down to 6 words and an emoticon.
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Directions: feel like an asshole after posting happy success story, remember you never replied to sorrowful story.
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Real life trends that make me feel old:
Bathroom graffiti still exists, but now people carve responses to it like they're on Facebook. I literally just saw one that says "Fuck the KKK" followed by another one that says "Like" with a bunch of checkmarks in different pens after it.
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Real life trends that make me feel old:
Bathroom graffiti still exists, but now people carve responses to it like they're on Facebook. I literally just saw one that says "Fuck the KKK" followed by another one that says "Like" with a bunch of checkmarks in different pens after it.
Kids these days have no respect for the great art of bathroom graffiti. Why back in my day we used to just write our phone number and an indication that good times can be found on this number.
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Real life trends that make me feel old:
Bathroom graffiti still exists, but now people carve responses to it like they're on Facebook. I literally just saw one that says "Fuck the KKK" followed by another one that says "Like" with a bunch of checkmarks in different pens after it.
Some of the best arguments I saw in college were written on bathroom walls. Apparently sitting down to using the bathroom is conductive to debates on religion and personal freedom, who knew?
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More fat guy body horror. What is this why do I have a lump!!!! Oh that is a muscle.
WHy is there a raised line on my arms??????? Oh that is a vein.
Then getting to feel like a moron having to google "why do veins stick out" to find out that it is a heat sink technique.
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Expected more from you, Bruce Banner.
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Headed to DC in October for Smithsonian event!
goingtodcgoingtodcgoingtodcgoingtodc . . by far my favorite place next to Chicago. YES. I GET TO EXPERIENCE CHANGING WEATHER! *FIST PUMP*
edit* meaning I can legitimately eat pumpkin/spiced/cider/apple things without feeling like a seasonal heathen.
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Welp, my attempts to be a fucking adult have once again proven fruitless and that all I do is lie to myself constantly.
Try to go to a Crossfit thing a fair ways away from where I live in the morning. I don't drive. I plan travel route, avoiding a bus I know is inconsistent, picking one that comes with higher frequency, plan to catch one earlier just in case, but the next one will get me to the train station in plenty of time. The trains here are pretty consistent and okay, I have like 10 mins leeway from there to catch the bus I need to get to the destination and the bus starts its route at this stop. So I should be pretty covered.
Miss the first bus, second bus no shows. Have to ring someone with a car.
(http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/2011/57/6129_129879236915.jpg)
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Did you get your ios7 update yet?
And to think, I just started understanding this phone
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A bit of girl talk for ya'll.
In general I am pretty happy to shop inexpensively, pinch pennies where necessary...
But there is a NEW VICTORIA'S SECRET IN VANCOUVER!! Yay!
I have gone through this cycle where every few months I will shop for bras at some other place and they will inevitably become unusable due to either a warped latch or torn latch or tear or broken strap so I will pull out old VS ones. This is the kinda shit you need quality for, and even though I sniff my nose at their very sexual advertising and prices, I can't disagree with the fact that both in Oklahoma and in Vancouver, their product is just vastly superior to anything else I have found.
So I shelled out some moolah, but now I am happy.
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Not yet. I will wait for it to notify automatically so that there is chance for day 0 bugs to be resolved.
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C ~ I ~ A ~ T ~ O
#twerkforamerica
#twerkforscience
#puresmex
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I will do many things for science, my love~
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Would you do Meatloaf at Karaoke for Science?
(http://www.smokersclub.com/video/Jukebox/MLiwoulddoanything.jpg)
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3 Good things in a row happened today. Nothing major...well, one of them arguably is.
-Aunt had an extra 3 day pass to Comic-con which she is willing to give to us. This means I can go on Saturday as well as Friday/Sunday. Annoyed I had to pay more but I can probably pawn off the extra tickets to Jeff or something and get some money back.
-Car passed inspection, don't have to get it inspected for another year! Why another year and instead of two years? Apparently the 1 Year Extension was a mistake to send to us, though because I had the sticker, authorities couldn't hassle me, just means instead of another 2 years between inspections, I have one for the next one. That's minor; what's more important is it passed, so don't have to get anything done on the car and bring it back there.
-Pretty much got confirmed that I'll be able to substitute in my home town district this year again, after they pulled out of the organization I was working with, so yay to close proximity jobs or something!
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Professor: A Master's degree is an excellent next step. Get one of those.
Me: Okay. Do you have suggestions, other than what's on my list already?
Professor: Sure. Try (Program #1) or (Program #2), and maybe if the faculty there looks good (Program #3). But make sure to avoid the British schools. They treat international students as cash cows, and I haven't met a student yet who comes out of that without additional debt to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Not a good proposition for pursuing a PhD in English.
Me: Sure, I agree. I'll look into it.
Two hours later...
As I already suspected, US Master's programs are no better about treating students like cash cows than British schools are. Why on earth would it be "better" for me to pay $45k tuition + living expenses in one of the biggest cities in the US than for me to pay $30k tuition + living expenses in a smaller (but admittedly still expensive) city in England?
:|
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I will do many things for science, my love~
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panties
This. This, this. This equinox I've seen how fast I could fall in a month's duration.
And no, handling school readings (although it is a sea of words) is manageable. But I came home last night after a poetry slam (seriously was upset at the lack of diversity in topics and problems white women have that I could not empathize with; seriously I'm amazed at the rocks people live under, welcome to the belated 21st century!) and, I mean.. my house was a wreck. A pure wreck.
I haven't fully unpacked yet. Kitty litter needed changing; hyperactive dog bouncing off the walls; dishes in sink even though I have a dishwasher (what's that?), toilet rolls fell out of cabinet and onto floor; my bed isn't a bed, it's more of a bookshelf; what started off as a bookshelf became a stackable legos design; although I have hangers for every single piece of clothing, I had clothes all over my walk-in closet; unopened mail that really needed to be opened UNDERNEATH TWO PIZZA BOXES (I hate pizza, but I've been living the low fast-read crappy-eat life); I open the fridge and all I have are carrots and half a bottle of water, some old zucchini and a can of cat food; then I trip over my bicycle I happened to leave in the middle of the living room. Then I start my period. Then I look for panties.... and they WEREN'T THERE. BECAUSE ALL MY PANTIES ARE DIRTY. All in three hours. I pretty much sat still on my bed, twiddling my thumbs and I got a text message to which I dramatically responded just like this big wall of text.. then I had my first late night visit by someone I don't know all-too-well who's helping me get my shit together.
My mom would be so disappointed. I normally keep my house/pets pretty fucking immaculate.
I need a man at home. :| Because when he helped me out, holy shit.. my floor is clear! I CAN WALK IN MY APARTMENT. Probably not gunna get a text today. Or maybe.. I dunno.
#twerkforphd
#twerkforarthistory
#twerkforhobnobbing
#twerkforpanties
#twerkforscheduling
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What kind of white lady problems? Did any of them slobber over Sheryl Sandberg? Honestly, as a working class white girl, I find a lot of white lady talk alienating myself. :p
#twerkforpanties
#twerkforscience
Am I doing this right? ;)
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mmm you see, I chose not to say "white women problems" and picked "problems white women have." lots of slam poetry's where people draw inspiration, like being an orphan, raped, separation from family... but the less crowd guilting ones talk about things like grocery shopping or politics---
but all the white women talked about being powerless because they were afraid to "use their voice," all in instances where their friends died of progressive abuse, rape, drug addiction, etc. but it was never about their friend, it was them trying to reconcile the fact that they were dipshits; fiction or not, the narratives were way too narcissistic and p. borderline exploitative. seriously. all of them all had the same stories. so that night i chalked it up to problems white women have AND lack of creativity. those white women. but I was also sort of hinting at the fact that white chicks approach me like racism is a new thing, ignorance and all that.
you're doing it right
#twerkforfriendship
#twerkforavoice
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Haha. That honestly sounds about right. I think we are trained to prioritize our own feelings.
*goes to write poetry about lasers, robots, and science*
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Sounds like you people should have guns. People will listen to anything you have to say if you say it pointing a gun at them.
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Should I include guns in my poetry about science as well? Laser guns maybe?
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Wouldn't water guns be more appropriate?
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Water guns filled with strange and unstable chemicals!
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I don't care what you have in it, just make sure it looks like a real gun. That's the lesson you all should have learned from the Brendan Frasier/Steve Buscemi/Adam Sandler vehicle Airheads, other than the lesson that there was once a time where Brendan Frasier was considered a bigger draw than Adam Sandler and thus got higher billing.
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My cousin that I babysat for several years is in labor today. I will take this opportunity to
cry about my oldness thank god I don't have any children.
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You'd be a great mother so should you decide to pop out some footballs.
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Not sure what is worse. Realising that your habits aren't so weird after all and someone normalising them, that you are not even nearly remotely as unique as you would hope/expect or that there is other people just as fucking crazy in the exact same ways you are in the world.
In other words GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD RANDALL MUNROE (http://www.xkcd.com/1271/).
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Curious. I do the same thing.
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I also do that, but my dissatisfaction arises when the shapes are symmetrical.
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Not sure what is worse. Realising that your habits aren't so weird after all and someone normalising them, that you are not even nearly remotely as unique as you would hope/expect or that there is other people just as fucking crazy in the exact same ways you are in the world.
In other words GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD RANDALL MUNROE (http://www.xkcd.com/1271/).
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You mean it's not uncommon for people to fidget with their mouse while reading things, and also not uncommon for people to favor symmetrical shapes over asymmetrical shapes?
The hell you say.
I honestly just kind of assumed alot of folks do this, or Snow's variant of it. Or at least anyone prone to fidgeting with stuff. (Spoilars: I do this too.)
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Ya'll are weird.
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Ya'll are weird.
Andy speaks the truth.
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dc was p. epic this 3-6th. saw part of that car chase/shooting, gumment shutdown, went out PARTYING. Maaaan I shouldn't stay away from dancing that long
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PG&E (gas & electric) continues to be an amusing and infuriating piece of work.
Andrew and I have mentioned a few times that PG&E regularly doesn't give a fuck when it comes to billing. They'll randomly drop our automatic billing without telling us, then happily charge us monthly fees for, oh, 4 months with nary a notification letter. They've done this a few times to us, so we try to track it.
We moved in June, so we swapped our account from the apartment in Emeryville to our new one in Sunnyvale.
Or so we thought.
Today we got a letter in the mail that said, "Your apartment is currently scheduled to shut off because it has no services." So we go "wut" and check our online account.
Not only does our automatic billing not work, it turns out we switched our ACCOUNT to this address but not the SERVICES! Who knew? :D
So calling the office to get the services set up takes 10 minutes of a combination of holds and transfers. Then we ask how much we owe since, you know, June. Oh, they don't handle that, we have to call PG&E Billing! Which is, for some reason, an entirely separate department which requires yet another phone transfer.
PG&E being a publicly subsidized utility is clearly only working in their favor, since apparently they don't need to take money from the people using their services.
What the fuck, PG&E. What. the. fuck.
EDIT: This, by the way, marks month 6 of "here's a random charge out of nowhere that's going to cost you at least $400." I don't know why this has been happening, but it's been true since May. Replacing the brake pads, replacing the tires, speeding ticket, PG&E back-charges, random medical bills from the previous year... ugh. I wish I would stop feeling poor while making as much money as I am.
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Had to get our cat put down today. 15 years old and diabetic, but still, kinda hurts.
Of course, this was Kiernan's cat. And he was off at a band event all day today. And trying to wait until tomorrow would have left Sekhmet in pretty terrible pain for an extra day, which was something we really did not want.
Good news is, we can donate all of the excess pet supplies, the special food, his carrier and litterbox and all that stuff, to the vet and they'll see that it gets to the local shelters that need it. Will be doing that monday.
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Sorry to hear it, Gate. Even when it's expected, it's tough.
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Nooo :( Kitty :(
Sorry, Gate.
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So sorry to hear about the kitty, Gate. My thoughts are with you guys and Kiernan.
Thanks for thinking of other kitties, too, and donating the supplies. Shelters really appreciate that.
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I'm sorry, Gate.
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PG&E (gas & electric) continues to be an amusing and infuriating piece of work.
So I just learned that a big power company in Florida stopped taking Visa. And didn't, like, tell everyone right away, which is maybe not the best approach when tons of your customers have set up automatic debits. Also who the fuck doesn't take Visa?
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:( Gate
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Won out this week; led two sessions, one on post-structuralism, gay liberationism and queer theory & another session on the predicament of black feminist thought in the postmodern era.
OK, so, school is great and all, but I have not -ever- had to read over 1100 pages in just one week while trying to maintain sanity and clarity (on a srs note: will look at page counts before signing up for presentations in the future). But I did it, and ended pretty fucking successfully.
Amid my extreme exhaustion (which brought me to physical, non-emotional tears yesterday before passing out), I trudge back to my library carrel for even more reading and find a wonderful, wonderful surprise from a friend-artist: CANDY RAINBOW CIRCLE WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL.
What best matches the extreme infantilizing process of doctoral study but NONE OTHER THAN CANDY AND STUFFED ANIMALS? Love it, and thank you library for not removing it.
Edit* voici la photo
(http://i.imgur.com/bMtOzP1.jpg) (http://imgur.com/bMtOzP1)
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I have just done something crazy illegal and the only way to cope is through laughter....... ommmmmmggg lol /maturity
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Remember that it is better to destroy than try to clean stain out. Burn the shirt even if no blood got on it.
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>_> i aint kill nobody
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There are other illegal activities besides murder that involve stains on your clothes. :D
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Ok Monica
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blood
There are other illegal activities besides murder that involve stains on your clothes. :D
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;D
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So.......last night I was up until 3am drafting Theros with mike (whom some of you met at DLcon this year), a couple of people who own magic shops, and...the best Canadian SC2 player and the best American SC2 player (actual american, not adopted american).
*fangirl squeal*
(Wording this slightly vaguely as I don't want someone google searching this and it appearing as a news item or something).
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Where do I put the bodi..oh
Hope things work out ok Dunie.
There's this guy I like but I don't know for sure whether it's friend like or like like, I think I'm kind of attracted to him/have a bit of a crush on him, but neither do I want to ruin a friendship, I would like to meet him to get closer/develop a close bond either way but I don't want to seem desperate. See as far as maintaining friendships go I'm never sure if I'd taking the initiative/being proactive or if I just come across as desperate. Socializing =/
Like are there really laws/rules on this kind of like message person > wait for a reply > message person, etc or if you have lots to say does message person > message person > message person > etc seem kind of desperate? >_> What if it's a mixture, like hot/cold kind of thing where a person was messaging you lots but now it's spacey nnn (or messages before were apparent flirting but now not so much)~ Maybe I read the subtext wrong. Gad.
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Here is a recurring thing in my life.
I have been pretty frustrated with work of late, I am having a shorter fuse than is sometimes justified. I will get angry and wind myself up over something and then have to bottle it up while I deal the issue like a professional outside of my immediate business associates (who unfortunately get to witness me periodically lose my shit). Then once it have helped where I can to resolve an issue I am just emotionally drained and don't work as well as I want to because frankly I am just not invested as much as I would be if unwanted to do a good job.
Then it is a Wednesday so I get to go boxing and suddenly everything is :D and I don't give a fuck about anything else.
Today was one such day. My PT filmed one round of pad work that we do with a new combo we were working on this session. Actually seeing how much better I have got is strange and kind of impressive. I still know stuff in need to improve on, but my punches look a lot better than they feel.
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Where do I put the bodi..oh
Hope things work out ok Dunie.
It's all good in the 'hood, girl. I needed the release.
There's this guy I like but I don't know for sure whether it's friend like or like like, I think I'm kind of attracted to him/have a bit of a crush on him, but neither do I want to ruin a friendship, I would like to meet him to get closer/develop a close bond either way but I don't want to seem desperate. See as far as maintaining friendships go I'm never sure if I'd taking the initiative/being proactive or if I just come across as desperate. Socializing =/
Like are there really laws/rules on this kind of like message person > wait for a reply > message person, etc or if you have lots to say does message person > message person > message person > etc seem kind of desperate? >_> What if it's a mixture, like hot/cold kind of thing where a person was messaging you lots but now it's spacey nnn (or messages before were apparent flirting but now not so much)~ Maybe I read the subtext wrong. Gad.
!!! Based from my tumultuous and neverending zoinkyness of relationships, I'd say that building a solid friendship base is the best thing to do. If romance happens, it happens, but don't force it. Also, developing patience for the message responses and don't think anything off a difference in response time. He could simply be busy. And hello, haven't seen you in a while. [= When are you in chat?
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I actually screwed it up already >__> Sad kitty.
Thanks though Dunie *randomglomphug* Haven't been in main chat for a while. Been lying low. CT inna shell. Depression sucks. Not great at keeping up at socializing. Lack of concentration/zonkiness/forgetfulness/etc sucks. Was in chat some last/this week though. Also had a lot to worry about with family and housekeeping. Feeling better some this week but have been remembering to take meds vigilantly every single day so >_> They took me off the iron/vitamin supplements so that's been a thing for trying to work round. Have to take my hearing aid into audiology again today as well.
Glad things are better over there :)
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And no problem, that's a lot to take on. Here's to reaching some emotional stability. Best wishes. I'll just keep randomly popping in chat. I forget the whole different country/different timezone thing quite often, too, so don't mind my prying. . .
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Get on skypes yo or PM each other on the boards. Talk and be merry! Or talk here in public.
And based on the amount of words I spewed out on Discussion just then, apparently I have OPINIANZ on stuff because holy fuck that was like 2 hours of writing I didn't mean to make that big.
Edit - That was here because I am trying to say it is late and I am tired.
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I avoid Skype. I've stood up too many friend Skype dates. >_>;;;;;;;;;; I like "randomly" running into people I like.
PS, I read half of it, will reread the other half later, but yeah.
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Don't make appointments. Send each other messages off line and if you are both online then you can talk, if not then you can just leave each other notes like strangers talking on the bathroom walls.
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Computer dead. Well AC power adapter -and- battery dead. On family laptop at mum's atm~
Don't know if I'll get it fixxed today.
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Sounds like a good excuse to play handheld games! (Go play Final Fantasy Dimensions, CT, you will LOVE Alba!)
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Thanks Djinn :) True, never thought of that opportunity (well for handheld games in general, I don't have Final Fantasy Dimensions =() Heee, Alba though, I love that name ^_^)~
Got fixxed though. Shop couldn't do battery but managed to get universal adapter with proper pin for my laptop (actually it came with a bunch of pins, but one of them was the right one), slim kind too :) Granted laptop took forever anyway and thought it really was knackered and wasn't going to come on, but apparently removing ded battery did something and triggered disc checking to work, it did it's repairy thing and finally came on/loaded desktop and stuffs eventually. Also bought External Hard Drive today and am going to transfer all those videos over to it. Hopefully that will help as well :)
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I am finally moved. PC not setup yet, but stuff mostly here. Will unpack secondary shit once roommate gets moved.
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Congrats! :)
Lappy gave up the ghost for realz this time. Bluescreen error of death! Well this happened Tuesday =( Taking in it to repairs shop something when I find insurance paperwork or something. At librarys now, but no internets weekend~
I don't think I have any handheld games for 3DS I haven't played but might check depending on if I get tired of books and things~
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There were shooting in the LAX air port in the morning, resulting in 6 deaths.
On the same day, my dad is coming back from Taiwan and we have to go pick him up.
The traffic is AWFUL.
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GRE done. Math awful, verbal good, writing great. I am applying (In order of desire to go there) to: UCLA, Maryland, Alabama, LSU, and Buffalo. Weeeeeee
E: Sign of my maturity: I didn't flip off the cameras in the GRE testing room. I was tempted though. I did completely write scribbles for the cursive handwriting section. The GRE is a dumb waste of money and ETS treats you like a prisoner after you pay for the honor of taking said dumb test.
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Hey guys.
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ITS YOU
Edit - You were missed. How is life?
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Is that...Gourry? Holy crap man, how have you been?
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GREFTER WE MUST YELL AT EACH OTHER ABOUT PC GAMES.
Life has been a bit rough, which was the major reason for my hiatus, but things are calming down. I've missed you guys, and it was great meeting Elfboy and Ciato a while back (I freaking love Vancouver). They said that when Grefter was there, he finished a playthrough of Mass Effect in like 10 hours which is the Grefterest thing.
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As for what's going on with me, I'm in Nashville TN now getting a PhD in Cognitive Psych/Neuroscience, and I'm in my third year. I'll be here for another 2.5-3 years if things go well, but very soon it will be dissertation mode, which is frightening. I'm enjoying it here but am terrified of my prospects on the academic job market. Maybe I'll just be a post-doc forever.
Had I known that people were taking the GRE, I would have volunteered to take it for anyone here. Killing standardized tests is sadly one of my skills. For females, I'd be willing to put on a wig and makeup. I'm surprised that super mentioned there's a handwritten section since I thought it was all computerized.
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I was in Vancouver, I did a Mass Effect run like I was a Vancouverite. No side missions at all. Pretty short. I found out that if you don't recruit enough people the game auto saves Wrex because they can't let you go through a sequence with less than 2 party members (Kaidan/Ashley split up, only forced other characters are Liara and Wrex).
Duuude PC games man. So much good stuff in the last few years! X-Com: Enemy Unknown is probably the highlight and if you don't have it yet I have a spare copy on Steam.
Also my envy at how much more success you are having in fields than I is palpable (good job man even if it is super stressful. I can tell you the corporate space is no better, at least in IT). Congrats dude.
But please, you should know you don't need a wig to pretend to be super.
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I never thought of doing a minimalist party but given story events, I suppose everyone you mentioned makes sense as forced characters, but I did think you could refuse to take Wrex. So he just kind of appears if you don't recruit him? Being too minimalist also makes you miss Garrus, someone I apparently can't be without when I play ME games.
I saw that Baldur's Gate got an Enhanced Edition where one of the new party members is a monk, which just sounds disastrous at low levels (especially in this edition where they don't get a Wisdom AC bonus). Monks take a while to get going in SoA, I think they start standing out at around level 13-14? Whenever the fist becomes d20 and their magic resistance becomes noticeable.
The new X-Com is just fantastic. Loved every bit of it and it retains what was so enjoyable about the originals. I've not heard what they're doing with Enemy Within, though. I thought Terror of the Deep got ridiculous but maybe they can salvage something from that since it would make for interesting maneuvering with this new system.
I assume you liked Dragon Age so that's that.
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I loved Origins, I have played through the sequel twice and like every part of it that isn't actually playing the game. Varric is a very us character.
I haven't plowed through Enhanced Edition yet, my only Infinity Engine game in a long while has been Icewind Dale like a month ago. I think they are actually pretty okay in BG1 though, they are a spikey class. AC scales with level rather than Wis, so they aren't at 10 AC the whole game or anything (but they aren't massive AC like in ToB). They really just benefit from the move speed bonus (think you get it at like level 2 or 3?). You can kite like crazy with it if you want or just not gouge your eyes out at melee dudes being stuck behind a wave of archers/mages.
That said, not as good as a Fighter. BG1 is very very fighter oriented.
I think Wrex is optional technically? But I didn't seem to have a way to turn him down. I might have to try again sometime. It might be that he is forced if you don't have enough people or something.
Glad you dug X-Com, we can still be friends.
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Hooray, welcome back!
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GREFTER WE MUST YELL AT EACH OTHER ABOUT PC GAMES.
Life has been a bit rough, which was the major reason for my hiatus, but things are calming down. I've missed you guys, and it was great meeting Elfboy and Ciato a while back (I freaking love Vancouver). They said that when Grefter was there, he finished a playthrough of Mass Effect in like 10 hours which is the Grefterest thing.
Hopefully things are looking up, the last time you talked you were pretty understandably unhappy. Death to the GRE.
E:
Had I known that people were taking the GRE, I would have volunteered to take it for anyone here. Killing standardized tests is sadly one of my skills. For females, I'd be willing to put on a wig and makeup. I'm surprised that super mentioned there's a handwritten section since I thought it was all computerized.
The dumb section where you have to write out the paragraph before you take the test. I didn't write anything profane in there, though I was tempted!
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HOLY SHIT DUCK OUT OF NOWHERE
Great to see you (such as it is) again!
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Yo.
I really would like to offer you something like a Cave Noire stat topic but no time really.
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Yo.
I really would like to offer you something like a Cave Noire stat topic but no time really.
I'm sad you didn't stat topic Demon Souls or Dark Souls.
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I almost stat topic-ed Mr S from the SaGa 2 remake on the DS but it just wasn't the same without you.
(also he had like the exact same stats)
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Yo.
I really would like to offer you something like a Cave Noire stat topic but no time really.
You feeling better now that a little tim e has passed since the breakup?
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Yeah.
(Especially now that Gourry has come back)
Time, no contact with ex, more contact with everybody else, lifestyle changes. It works.
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Speaking of lifestyle changes! I'm moving! Yay!
My friend James and I have decided to escape the life of Unwindulaxing in Northwest Florida to hit the "Big City". We're both getting transferred from our current job locales to promotions in more tourist-heavy sectors. Exciting! The move will be in about 4 to 5 months (Feb-March-ish) to get trained before the big rush of the Spring.
Our options for new locales are San Francisco or Orlando. So... yeah! No matter my choice, I end up near a Disney Theme Park... and that's all that REALLY matters.
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I wouldn't consider North California quite "near" a Disney theme park. Isn't the distance from San Fran to LA Area similar to...oh...from Jersey to like South Carolina?
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Castro is pretty much Disneyland for DJ.
Edit - Way more rides though of course.
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I have had an epiphany. Call me superficial, biased, bitchy, veering off into problematic territory, but..
Holy shit, Batman. I thought I was just attracted to intelligent, outgoing men. No, that's not the situation. I've liked dumbasses. But what I've noticed is that all of these intelligent, outgoing men are my conception of a MAN, something I've toiled around with too often growing up as a child of the US & the black southern communities.
Like, a MAN, man: career-oriented or in his career, older than me, dresses in nice collared shirts (not necessarily tailored!), tennis shoes only on lazy days, having assets, family oriented and being really motivated. Woah. That blasts my gender-oriented skirt out of the water. It's like I'm performing Marilyn Monroe, but am keeping my dress down for sake of not allowing my horniness to bust from the seams. Tall. Physically fit. Gorgeous smile. Puts me in my place (not as a woman, but as an intellectual equal!). Somehow knows every time to grip me. I really love men. Assertive, dominant (but not creepily so) men. A person with their shit together, friend or lover, is the best thing...
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I have had an epiphany. Call me superficial, biased, bitchy, veering off into problematic territory, but..
Holy shit, Batman. I thought I was just attracted to intelligent, outgoing men. No, that's not the situation. I've liked dumbasses. But what I've noticed is that all of these intelligent, outgoing men are my conception of a MAN, something I've toiled around with too often growing up as a child of the US & the black southern communities.
Like, a MAN, man: career-oriented or in his career, older than me, dresses in nice collared shirts (not necessarily tailored!), tennis shoes only on lazy days, having assets, family oriented and being really motivated. Woah. That blasts my gender-oriented skirt out of the water. It's like I'm performing Marilyn Monroe, but am keeping my dress down for sake of not allowing my horniness to bust from the seams. Tall. Physically fit. Gorgeous smile. Puts me in my place (not as a woman, but as an intellectual equal!). Somehow knows every time to grip me. I really love men. Assertive, dominant (but not creepily so) men. A person with their shit together, friend or lover, is the best thing...
Be careful, knowing what makes you horny is a good way to overlook the bullshit that usually comes along with the traits that makes you horny.
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Said for truth. Yes, I agree. And next to this horniness is an intense happiness, so it's even more problematic because I feel intoxicated. I've been practicing how to not rush into things, since I 80% of the time do.
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And now for a porn recommendation. Go watch Educating Rita. Go gay for Michael Cain.
Edit - Disclaimer in that this might just be Grefter porn, there is no fucking in it.
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Yes!!!! Mais sans infidèle... (:
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(Or murderer, right?)
I really reaaaaally don't think you have very particular / strange tastes, in any case. Don't worry.
Or at least I hope because I've just started wearing classy shit 24/7
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:( And to think you could be wearing a seven wolf moon shirt and a Duke Nukem forever hat, Fenrir.
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Hey guys.
Holy shit, is that--WHAT IS THIS, WHAT'S HAPPENING.
Belated welcome back, dude.
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Meeting with Elusive Professor actually happened. And she gave me an A-, and agreed to write my recommendation letters, and even suggested I definitely apply to two dream schools I'm still not certain I have a chance at.
Yay!
Now to fit in studying for the GRE (a week from tomorrow), writing everything for those apps, writing for NaNoWriMo, replying to recruiters, and art class homework, on top of work. Hrm. How many hours are in a day again?
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Was she covered in blood? Did you interrupt a matter of national security?
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Having to track down elusive profs seems to be a strangely common problem.
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(Or murderer, right?)
I really reaaaaally don't think you have very particular / strange tastes, in any case. Don't worry.
Or at least I hope because I've just started wearing classy shit 24/7
Ahaha. You should share your classiness with your frumpy American counterparts, too.
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I would normally recommend anyone take a year off from school, but FFS make sure you get your recommendations and other administrivia set aside before you do. I can't even imagine what I would do if I didn't happen to still live near campus. Suck and die, probably.
Interestingly enough, there's a damn good reason she was hard to reach for a portion of the time I was trying to contact her: she took a 2-year medical leave due to a breast cancer diagnosis. Welp, as excuses go, that's a pretty solid one.
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Duck!~
Be going Christmas shoppings on Thursday! Been saving hard all year =) Spoil people fun times now~
It is good your prof came through that Ash =)
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Man. New toy is performing well. Soon, soon the savings will shower down upon me and erase the absurd cost of toy!
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Is there a way to gift you apps? Because I will totally buy you FFD if I can figure that out.
E: Just checked, Gifting Apps is EASY! But Gifting FFD is impossible because it is technically a Free App with a $17 in-app purchase that is the actual game. >:I Dammit Square! You won't even make it easy to give you money. Why are you so ashamed of FFD, it is literally your best product since Crisis Core...
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I plan on getting the game next week anyway. Just waiting for cc bill to come basically.
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Wait uPaid CK?
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Call with recruiter went well today. Will be scheduling actual phone interview for later this week. Then, if they like me, they fly me up to do an in-person round. My salary request of a 30%+ increase from my current rate did not phase them, so that's cool. Would be awesome company to work for, though it would mean relocating.
AT THE SAME TIME:
The company Andy, Laggy and I work at has been contracting. Our particular jobs are safe (... I think...), but my department may be facing cuts sometime in Q1 next year. That's why I'm seriously entertaining the recruiter's interest. In addition to this, my current manager is an awesome person and he's been giving us as much knowledge as he's allowed to impart (and then some). In our one-on-one conversation, he said I was strong, but of course he can't guarantee anything. I mentioned I'd be open to opportunities in the EU if it came to it.
So today, he says the EU has some positions in their marketing department, and if I'm interested he's happy to talk to the department head (who I work with from time to time anyway) on my behalf.
Um, heck yeah.
ALSO AT THE SAME TIME:
I am working on applications for graduate school. The programs are all Master's, and cover schools domestic and foreign (UK and Canada). None of them are in the Bay Area, or even California.
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HELLO LIFE WHICH SUDDENLY WANTS TO PULL ME IN THREE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE BUT SUPER APPEALING PLACES D:
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ETA: And I got ANOTHER contact from a recruiter (for a gaming industry job in Barcelona). Considering I'm not actively looking for a new job, this is pretty crazy.
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I'm in Toronto for the next few days for a conference. Does anyone have recommendations regarding particular things I should see or good restaurants? The DL Canadians are mostly from BC as I recall, but I figured I'd ask.
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I don't visit downtown TO much but there's a few places that you may be interested in visiting:
a) The Eaton Centre is a good place for shopping and the streets around it usually have some sort of show going on. It's actually right on the subway line. Just get off at Dundas and you're pretty much there
b) The CN Tower, if you haven't been is in Toronto. I don't recall specifically where but you can probably do a quick google search
c) The University of Toronto (if you're interested in visiting campuses) is obviously there. Actually, more scattered around downtown Toronto, but certainly in Downtown.
d) As for restaurants, the one I recommend is Rodney's Oysters. They serve mainly seafood though, but it's very good. Also, the oysters are great if you've never tried.
e) There's a table top game store that has loads and loads of them, along with a weekly get-together-and-play-new games. It's called 401 Board games, if you're interested
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I'm in Toronto for the next few days for a conference. Does anyone have recommendations regarding particular things I should see or good restaurants? The DL Canadians are mostly from BC as I recall, but I figured I'd ask.
Apparently the city government is turning into a spectator sport, so you may want to consider that too.
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I'm in Toronto for the next few days for a conference. Does anyone have recommendations regarding particular things I should see or good restaurants? The DL Canadians are mostly from BC as I recall, but I figured I'd ask.
Apparently the city government is turning into a spectator sport, so you may want to consider that too.
I'm definitely going to get into a drunken stupor and smoke crack because that's just what happens when people drink.
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Man. New toy is performing well. Soon, soon the savings will shower down upon me and erase the absurd cost of toy!
Ah, yes, webcam porn will pay off handsomely. How is that dildo, by the way?
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Why don't you pay the 99c and find out for yourself?
You know that feeling when you fail at something that is hard? And you have someone else saying they were just the same last week? And you are all "Yeah but this is different, you don't have to have unreasonable expecations of yourself, because you aren't a fucking dickhead like I am"? You know that feeling? You don't?
Well shit. Now I feel even more hungry than I was before.
What I would love to eat for breakfast is a .45 right now.
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At least you're not Rob Ford.
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Go to gym in morning, can't find headphones, okay use spares. Have morning tea wonder what to eat for lunch. Find out forgot my keys. Genius.
Edit - Get to watch Pigeons fight. Interesting.
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Why don't you pay the 99c and find out for yourself?
You know that feeling when you fail at something that is hard? And you have someone else saying they were just the same last week? And you are all "Yeah but this is different, you don't have to have unreasonable expecations of yourself, because you aren't a fucking dickhead like I am"? You know that feeling?
Yes, actually. Failing sucks, so I try not to do it anymore.
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When it is something you can justifiably expect to fail at though it is an entirely unreasonable response.
If there was no risk of failing then it wouldn't have been difficult. The reason for failing was lack of proper preparation on my part. I need to get better at eating correctly before doing heavy weights sets.
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since you made the <3 sign
the lil wayne rich as fuck song is an encore to an incredibly valid lesbian moment at a club; big booty lesbian didn't think I could split and twerk on the ground, chick was surprised, hey. i'm from atlanta git real, fuk dat noise
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You are a real person that has these things happen. Life is amazing.
Today I watched a for reals grown ass man stand on a seat in a bus shelter thing to avoid getting wet in a storm. You are like 40. You know this is futile. Why are you taking up that much space on the seat that someone else could use if you just sat he fuck down. You are going to be wet when a bus comes to pick you up or just drives by anyway (which is what happened).
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Ah, yes, webcam porn will pay off handsomely. How is that dildo, by the way?
Porn does not work that way.
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GRE done. Scores acceptable but not outstanding, so fuck it, whatever.
Birthday surprise was best friend driving up to spend Wednesday-Sunday with me. Yay! Except for last week being so goddamned busy and that super duper interfered. Oh well, friends are more important things in life, especially when you're like me and you have practically zero of them.
Did NaNoWriMo fundraiser dinner thingy. Wrote a wrist-crampingly astounding 18k+ words in 6 hours, which put me at par for where I was supposed to be as of yesterday which I am now promptly going to fall behind again on because...
This week is Important Phone interview, Will She or Won't She for the conversation about the move to our Berlin office, attempt at previously canceled but hopefully rescheduled appointment, and Goddamnit I need to get my professors the stuff they need for recommendation letters LIKE RIGHT NOW. Plus Doctor Who needs catching up because the special is on Saturday, and also MLP season premier.
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You are a real person that has these things happen. Life is amazing.
Today I watched a for reals grown ass man stand on a seat in a bus shelter thing to avoid getting wet in a storm. You are like 40. You know this is futile. Why are you taking up that much space on the seat that someone else could use if you just sat he fuck down. You are going to be wet when a bus comes to pick you up or just drives by anyway (which is what happened).
Haha. Sir, pause. Really though?
Also, these things happen if you go to the right places. . . it's not hard, but only so many people mop the floor. You get there early to do it before the floor gets one drop of alcohol on it. Then you leave early, like an old person.
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So after 3 months of hell due to unexpected expenses... overcharged medical fees, surprise car repair bills, unfortunate traffic ticket, reduced hours in my job... I thought I was finally getting passed the hard part. I found a better job, managed to fix some of the medical fees, got some extra flexibility on some of my bills for the month, worked some extra hours at my part time job. I thought I was really gonna be able to get my savings back that had been nearly wiped out. And then my roommate told me that my current living arrangements weren't going to last for much longer and I have maybe 4 months to find something else. And last week I just started my new job and I have to redo a bunch of training that I already did at my last job, slowing down my chances for progressing quickly there. And then two days ago, my car broke down in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.
It blew a rod and busted a hole in the block, making it completely unsalvageable. I had to pay for a $100 taxi ride home, and then towing fees, and then junking fees. I have to finance a new car and put myself into debt for much longer than the four months of 'stability' I have left, leaving me trapped in this place and unable to travel or find a better place to work or live.
I also had the unfortunate experience of finally having to tell my mother about my bisexuality. Despite my impression that she had basically always known and wouldn't care, she was actually very shocked and said she felt awkward and wished she could tell me to just keep it secret and that she wouldn't tell anyone else in the family, but not to worry she would still help me look for a car. I guess it could be worse, but I still felt awful. Additionally, when she called around to my relatives to see if anyone could help, my Catholic rich uncle (my family's Italian, of course I have one of those) started asking about my financial situation and judged that I didn't have a good enough set of jobs and that my mom needed to make me 'get my act together', so I have double-familial-disappointment coming at me, despite making more money than my mother. It gets worse because apparently he is now lording my decision from years ago over me when he offered to help pay for me to get a Master's degree but I had been offered the job with the JET Programme so I wanted to start working in Japan instead almost five years ago.
Yes, Uncle Tony, in hindsight it seems obvious that a record-breaking earthquake would hit Japan and influence my decision to give up that well-paying job and return to the economy-ruined US where I got another amazing job that eventually didn't last long-term either so now I'm stuck in a only-slightly-better-than-entry-level job and have fallen on hard times all because I didn't get a Master's degree in Psychology so I could do... what exactly? I guess a Master's degree and not living in a foreign country would have been beneficial if I had found a steady job five years ago, but it's really no guarantee that I could have found some perfect high-paying dream job that you deem 'appropriate for the family'. It's easy to disapprove, but I notice he offers no suggestions.
Argh. I don't have time for this, I have to find a car and go to work. And somehow find a better job. And a place to live nearby in four months...
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I'm sorry DJ Djinn *mrffhugs* I hope your mum comes to better terms with that. People shouldn't have to hide, and things. Sorry about all of it, but yeah *moar hugs*
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My response to your family is middle fingers, specifically for your uncle. That is a shitass thing to do. He can either help or shut up. *Rereads* No actually, the response from your mother is pretty terrible as well. I recommend more middle fingers.
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That sucks, DJ. :(
Family favors have a way of biting you in the ass, whether you take them or not. If you take advantage of it, they will lord it over you, take credit for your success, and blame your failure on your inability to execute on their generosity. If you don't take them up on it, you're ungrateful, wasting an opportunity, and any failures you face are 100% because you turned their favor down.
I hope things look up for you soon.
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Yeah, I sometimes wonder the value in second-guessing decisions from the past. I can't offer much in the direction of advice, but I would certainly say that having run-ins with the family at a time when you really need support can be the most soul-whittling thing. If you need a 'sistah', I'll be around in PM or whatevs. It sounds about time to get out of Florida though (?).
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If anyone has any advice on getting a new car, that would be incredibly beneficial right now. Until I can do that, there's no way to either get a better job of get out Florida.
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Police auctions can be really good if you have any money to pay for one out of pocket. Do your research on what is a good deal before hand and you can generally get some really good ones. Just bring someone who knows a bit about cars so they can appraise their condition before the auction, but generally I've heard that they're pretty honest in these.
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I haven't done any boxing training for 2 weeks as I lead into a bunch of PB runs for various lifts.
All life is doing is make me want to do is hit things.
Life.
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Go back to boxing asap.
Edit* on my end, I flow yoga'd with a very aggressive yogi who decided to work the quads all night: re: I ran three miles out of stress, not having ran in years. I was broken after yoga. 2) I am moving in January into a large, OCD clean (YES!) house with my pets, their pets, and two gay guys. my fantasy is now really happening.
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I get to box next week. Bench is on Saturday so I can kill my shoulders boxing after that.
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Bench comp done. Weighed in at 82kg, 8 kilos less than my last comp. Lifted 95kg, that is 10 kilo increase with 8 kilos lost. I even got to try at 100kg but failed at that (and nearly killed myself).
Then because it was at the studio that my trainer trains at (rather than where he works), he was staying to do squats afterwards and since he was my lift home I did some light squats there. Interesting environment and fun as group training always is.
Now I am super fucking tired and there is a killer storm coming and I have no food to cook. So eggs and protein shake for dinner it is.
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Hey DJ, hope everything works out for you. I know a man selling an SUV, but I don't know if it would be affordable. Then there's the fact that you would somehow have to come to Tampa to get it, and you are without a car at the moment...so....
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In other news I have a shiny new Golden 3DS. The 3D can go to hell, I'll likely never turn it on, but it's so prettttttty.
I also have finally gotten over my debilitating ankle injury to the point where I am confident enough to run around and enjoy outside sports again. I was worried for awhile since I opted (was too broke to pay for) to forgo surgery with the hope that the tear in my ankle would heal. It did, somewhat. If I stretch it too far I still have lingering pains down in the joint, but I can fully rotate and plant on it. I had to deal with conditioning, strengthening and regaining some confidence as I worked my way back from this set back.
The fact that I can run on it without it getting sore (to an extent) and no longer swelling up is a blessing. It's still a little bulky compared to my other, less injured ankle, but it's serviceable.
Now begins the hard part; getting back into shape. I am such a fatty right now. I have easily packed on 20 lbs since this freak injury put me on the shelf for a year plus. I am also very lazy too which does not help the process. The fact that I work in a gym should make this easier, no? But I usually (what I am doing atm) just sit behind the desk and browse the internet. time flies and before I can think of a work out plan, it's time for me to leave work. I really should make the most of my time here.
I could work out from Tues through Sat while getting paid which seems like a dream scenario. I do the insanity workout with some members on Wednesday, but that is not enough. If I could just get it programmed to run at least of the rest of those days and lift the other two days I think i could start to see some of the weight begin to melt off. Getting back into a rhythm is always the hardest part.
I blame video games.
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With a new used car, comes new car problems. Sigh. I found a pretty awesome 05 honda civic with 160k miles on it for a very low $3500 price tag. Turns out that the catch was a giant oil leak between the head gasket and engine block. Or so the mechanic I took it to says. "You got ripped off, you should take it back". If only that was an option. Sigh.
Currently in car limbo waiting to hear if returning it is an option or if fixing it will be easy enough that it won't cost an arm and a leg.
The worst part is trying to figure out when to get all this stuff done when the drive to the dealer and my trustworthy mechanic is roughly an hour apart. And both are about an hour from my home. Also working the new job. The one my uncle still disapproves of. And I still don't have time to look for another one or put in resumes because I'm constantly working or trying to find a vehicle that's not on fire. Also my savings are gone. Whee.
Fml.
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Really you should just tell him that yoru current job is still better for your resume than a graduate degree in Psych. You could probably get expert testimony to that effect.
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Graduate degrees in psych are useful, they let you practice. Undergrad psych degrees... haha, no.
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Technicality. I'm not convinced that you'd pull in more income that way.
(More a commentary on being soviet america where it's pills or gtfo in terms of psychological care. Which of course you need medical degrees to do in addition to pyshcological ones.)
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I just nabbed a publication space in the major journal in my secondary interest area. I feel excited yet also.. meh, and the feeling doesn't come from academic successes from this last year. I think I'm anxious about two specific research projects that I need to start selling to American art journals by this summer. I felt like sharing this in case anyone else has mixed excitement about publication opportunities and why; the approved publication is a review, which is by far a nonissue. To review programming is pretty dope for the CV.
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Possibly the creeping feeling after you have been published that this is now your work as well as being something of interest and achievement?
Regardless still congrats.
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Yeah. I've published before, but now it's even: "this shit is real."
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Happy Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, Family Day and Hannukah.
Edit* Hanukkah, even.
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Graduate degrees in psych are useful, they let you practice. Undergrad psych degrees... haha, no.
If anyone has questions about what to do with psych degrees, clinical or no, feel free to ask me.
Also, happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Was just in the city last night and this morning.
Went in, saw Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. It's definitely a production more built on the spectacle of "hey, look at all the cool stuff we did!" more than anything else, for all that the songs weren't bad for the most part, and story was...well...it's basically the first Spider-Man movie re-imagined, with this forced Arachne factor and 6 arbitrary villains for the Sinister Six. Yes, I know why they're there; the play underwent about a bajillion revisions, and they had the costumes, props, etc., so why waste them? Fun stuff in any event then.
Then we killed time in Time Square Toys R Us because shut up,n it is big! ...and served as a convenient indoor place for Mandy and myself to meet up with parents (who went to see a different play), as the other option was waiting outside of parents theatre...on a cold, rainy day. You can see why we went with the Toys R Us option...
After that, mostly went out to dinner with family, hung around in member lounge of big ass hotel, then next morning watched the Macy's Day Parade from my Hotel Room. We apparently got lucky and had one of two rooms on the floor that actually overlooked the Parade Route, so we could watch it from 37 stories up! Hey, beats standing out in the cold, and we had binoculars if we needed to something upclose (as well as the TV on so we can have a guide for the "whose that?" to a degree.) Not much to say here, though our Hotel was right where CBS was shooting so we would see the parade, and then they'd show the part we just saw at the same time...when they weren't using it for times to PLUG IN RANDOM CBS SHOW HERE WATCH WATCH WATCH!!! by not shutting up with an actor and all that.
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Unpacked my box with textbooks this afternoon. The collection of other books in there was probably the most representative intellectual pieces in my collection.
Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond by Mark Ames
Ethic by Michel Foucault
The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgivenes by Jacques Derrida
The Communist Manifesto
In other news, CD sorting I am nearly out of shelf space that I had previously jammed them into sideways and all over the place. I have just done M, so half way through the alphabet and looking to run out of space at O. Need to source more shelving.
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C O N T A I N E R S T O R E!!!!
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But the point is to have easy access to them so I can actually listen to my collection.
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Ahhh a pain I know oh so well. Only with DVDs rather than CDs. Damn you, CDs take up so much less space.
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But the point is to have easy access to them so I can actually listen to my collection.
The Container Store IS easy access. But for books it'd look really cheap; not many wooden things except for wall mounts. >:
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Nelson Mandela. I am floored, and depressed... But may his peaceful rest be calming for such a good soul. I hope that people put effort in remembering his work and continue to be inspired.
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Godspeed, Mandela.
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Godspeed, Mandela.
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Yeah :(
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Way to put my life's struggles in perspective, that's for sure.
I do not like using #firstworldproblems except in irony, because each person's struggle is individual, but there are people in this world who have taken on more than their personal burdens and acted to change the world.
My own feelings on Mandela are complicated -- I am never sure whether I can separate the man from his terrorist affiliations, even if terrorism becomes revolutionary if it changes things for the "better" -- but the inspiration he's provided to others is enough by itself.
He will be missed, but in the sense of dying twice*, his second death is a long, long way off.
*"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?” ― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
or, more recently: "They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and the second, a bit later on, when somebody mentions your name for the last time." - Bansky
“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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Do you mind explaining a bit more about why you're troubled with his affiliations? ANC? AU? RCC? Because I have a response but am not sure if it's worth it.
On a lighter note:
I am so surprised. OK, so Austin is incredibly, incredibly white -- the downtown area. East Austin is cool, but I don't live in East Austin. But somehow out of the few black people I have met, they are all sci-fi gamer girls. So now I have a group for marathon rewatching Star Trek. o.m.g. Mind blowing. At least I found a haven.
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That does sound amazing~ (Even if I haven't really watched Star Trek.)
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Well then. We know what to do when you visit. And then other things around the town, too.
There is also a large 3DS community here; I can take it out and am sure to catch at least 10 new folk at my gate. get wrecked
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I was thinking more of early ANC/MK, but it is less about him than the overarching concept of using terrorism to affect positive change.
I highly doubt I'm educated enough in this area to have a cogent conversation.
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I am so unsteady/shaky and wobbly when I go out now it's a wonder I don't fall over more often~
Christmases sent to people. I still have to find the rest of Christmas for some people. Been writing Christmas cards out. Having fun~
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I lived to see a picture of Barack Obama and two prime-ministers taking a selfie at Nelson Mandela's memorial service on Twitter. I don't think you can top that level of embarrassment before 2015, world politics.
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#signofthetimes
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Three Way
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I am probably a terrible person
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What happens when a cashier's check doesn't go where it's supposed to?
I'm about to find out. :|
EDIT: Looks like they can put a stop payment on it and reissue. Whew!
EDIT 2: That relief was SO premature. Apparently it takes a special process to put a stop payment request on a cashier's check. Today, I spent 2.5 hours going to the branch to initiate it, getting two sets of paperwork over to a notary for signature, returning to the branch to turn in those documents and sit with them as they called the branch to walk through the process, and then get a cashier's check re-ordered and printed for me.
This time, I am sending the damn thing via certified mail instead of just regular postal.
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Today, I spent 2.5 hours going to the branch to initiate it, getting two sets of paperwork over to a notary for signature, returning to the branch to turn in those documents and sit with them as they called the branch to walk through the proces
The branch couldn't notarize it for you? Seriously?
(Perhaps I am biased because 100% of the people working in my office are notaries.)
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The particular branch I went to didn't have one, but they sent me to another one nearby that did.
You wanna know the best part?
I got a phone call at 8:30 this morning from my landlord telling me they checked the mail and the check was there.
WHAT THE WHAT
Goddamnit it.
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done w my 1st phd semester. packing to leave for atlanta in thirty mins. wow, I'm going to feel like such a tourist
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I sent Dunie Christmas but I don't know if it'll get there safe because apparently I put stuffs in that I shouldn't have. Oops.
(found out when I went to post office to post other Christmases and they showed me a list of stuffs not to send, well hey they didn't do that last time >_>)
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So I'm back, basically. November was stressful as shit and my Japanese-only project kind of fell through then as I was preparing to give a talk at a conference, but I got a lot more comfortable with the language which is really what I wanted anyway. Japanese media is still crap but hey at least I can say "Alchemist" in Japanese now RIGHT? rite? rite. (It's 錬金術師, btw.) Part of me wishes my tastes in media still reflected my adolescent tastes because then I'd enjoy this shit a lot more on levels other than language acquisition, but oh well.
Saw Neutral Milk Hotel in concert a few weeks ago. So many hipsters in one place. Got asked not to dance by some asshole behind me because I had my hands in the air. I told him it wasn't a fucking museum. This marks the first and probably last time that I had the comeback come to me during the conversation instead of in the shower a week later. Fucking Hipsters.
Kept up with P90X. For various reasons I'm not finished yet even though it's a 3 month program, but whatever. I haven't lost weight but none of my fat clothes fit anymore, and I actually have muscle mass. Is good. Also excellent for regulating my mood.
Speaking of mood regulation, I started using a Trans-cranial stimulation device after a couple of ALTs got them and I tried it out. Basically it's a machine where you stick electrodes to your head and shoot electricity through your brain. It can be used (apparently) to improve finger dexterity or language learning or a whole host of other things depending on where on your head you put it, but I and my friends use it to deal with depression. Well, purportedly it helps with depression but I haven't seen that, but what it DOES help with is anxiety. Oh man, it helps so much.
Also, long story short I was approved for a transfer to a different board of education next year, so I will be staying in Japan for one more year (through July 2015 at least, most likely July 2016). Lots of good things happening at the end of the year that *almost* make up for how shitty the rest of the year has been. *Almost.*
お知らせを終わります。
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Bathroom handjob
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Wait am I giving you the handy, are you giving me the handy, or is this some sort of mew-too-al mass turb aviation thing?
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I figured someone finally accepted your offer.
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Officially heading to Hawaii for a conference in February for a week. Gonna be giving a presentation about my research for 3 hours and spending the rest of the week being a bum.
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Ciatos.life
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So very much.
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Officially heading to Hawaii for a conference in February for a week. Gonna be giving a presentation about my research for 3 hours and spending the rest of the week being a bum.
awesome!
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After a harrowing journey, I finished building a computer with some help from Ash and it appears to work.
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I sent Dunie Christmas but I don't know if it'll get there safe because apparently I put stuffs in that I shouldn't have. Oops.
(found out when I went to post office to post other Christmases and they showed me a list of stuffs not to send, well hey they didn't do that last time >_>)
D:
There may be no issues! Let us pray.