This is the Thread Where I Say Pt. 30: AY! Get your bitch-ass back in the kitchen and bake me some pie!

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What can I say? I love a good pah.

This is the Thread Where I Say pt 29: 'Til the handle comes off!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I need to start the thread with this particular gif

http://www.insaniteesonline.com/images/South%20Park/stan%20fart.gif

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

"Need" is a pretty strong word.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

It's a pretty strong gif.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I have butt on the mind, yo.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

New "I've never posted on one of threads before!?!?!?! What happens in here??!?!?! I don't understand what this is about!?!?!" posts now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Luna, you have hit upon one of my dreams. I want to own a bar/bookstore out in West Texas. With a goat farm on the side. This is my retirement plan.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Everyone tells me that there's no point in owning a bookstore anymore because of Bookstar, Barnes & Noble and Brentano's - but you know, if there were more small bookstores around, I'd frequent them. I'd much rather give my money to a person instead of a chain.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

A pie bookstore, now this sounds worthy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

A small little bookstore can still do okay, I think. I knew a few people who run them here.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

No it doesn't, it sounds dumb. People would get pie on the books.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

And then people would lick the pie off the books and you couldn't sell them.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Right!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Luna -- you absolutely should open a bookstore! LA blows for bookstores! Worst city for bookshopping of any of the dozen cities in which I've lived! Just keep a front-line of some weird hipster pulp (or another niche-market) and you'll make a killing.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Also... employ me. I luuuurve weird hipster pulp.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Deal!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

http://barros.rusf.ru/sfmags/docsavage/covers/docsavage193303.jpg

― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Is Book Soup still open?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

What is this distress over my pie bookstore idea -- it's conceptual, therefore it will attract venture capital.

Remy needs to be the dude in Luna's bookstore who wanders around, sees what other people are reading and launches into random monologues.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, it is, Michael.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

But that would still be interesting, right?

I think you could do fine owning your own bookstore if you found a good location. Every once in a while, I dream about running a small business, but I know that at best I'd break even. Also, I'm so lazy and it would be really hard work.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm not opening a pie bookstore. My bookstore will occasionally have candy, or cookies or rice krispie treats or king cake (or hurricanes if it's Mardi Gras and you're over 21), but there will not be pie. NO PIE.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

And I love pie! But I don't think it goes well with books.

Besides, I hate to share.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I think you should hire me for all your personal needs. You know... um, like for stuff.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

the small little towns in west texas have no big stores, of any kind. The only competition there would be online stores.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

You're hired! And a 15% discount for all ILXers.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

You must carry the pat teh bunny book.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

goes without saying.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

15% discount? That's like an invitation to shoplift. I want 25% discount or I'm coming in wearing sweatpants.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 14 April 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

You must have a store pet.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Yep. This one little bookstore in Richmond had kittens for a while. It was a pretty good incentive to go inside seeing them sunning themselves in the window.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I think the store pet should be something exotic. A Bengal tiger, maybe. An elephant.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Luna's got two pit bulls. There will be no robberies. Unless the doggies decide they want to take a nap. Or like, hide.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

I want to go to the beach. I need sun.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
WELL I GOT DOWN ON MY KNEES

etc.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

And I said, "Oy vey."

Er, wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

just to tie in jeanne's first post w/the bookstore talk:
http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/images/critics/Everybody_poops.jpg

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Yes, 15%. Y'all are my friends, but I need to make money, too, you know.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

What will you name your bookstore?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I haven't figured that part out yet.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

DA BIZZOOK NIZZOOK

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

No one over the age of 35 would ever come in.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Book Ends - then you could work that pic of your ass into the logo!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

There will be NO BUSINESS WITH MY ASS.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Okay. Can anyone think of anything non-ass-related that Luna could do to represent the double-o in the shop sign...?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

No boobs!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

If it'll help, I'll have a special deal for ILXers - if you spend $250 or more in my shop, I will take you in the back room and moon you.

Howzat?

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there a new show with P4M 4nders0n about a bookstore and it's called Stack3d?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

There is, sadly.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I think "Aimee's" is a fine name for a bookstore, or any establishment.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I suppose my 30 ft pink neon BITCHEZ sign would not be a good idea.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Aimee's Den of Literacy
"If you're stupid, go away."

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Aimee's Den of Iniquity

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Whatta great word. "Iniquity."

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Cooters!

(hahahahahahahahahaha, I kill me)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

It's like H00ters but not! FABULOUS!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

And as you just said: Cooters, A Place for Books.

It works!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

though you may get sued by a man from hazard county, ga.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh my.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

COOTERS
...
Apple pie a specialty

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and koala tacos.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Apropos of nothin - Just down Sunset from Book Soup is a strip club, Hustler I think. My gf and I were staying nearby and I wandered out one morning to fetch us coffee, saw a guy coming out with a latte (n. b., my gf pretends that she doesn't believe this) and went in. A rather garish young lady (in my bigotry I simply thought, "L.A.") was inefficiently working the espresso machine, so I absent mindedly looked about me to examine all the little impulse shopping doo-dads. To my pre-caffeinated surprise they consisted of explicit post cards, dildos, vibrators, and other sex toy fun.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Dammit Ned, there will be NO FREAKING PIE.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I think you mean the Hustler Cafe, Michael - it's not a strip club - just a cafe and a dildo store.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I stand corrected.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

if coffee and dildos can coexist under one roof then why not pie and books?

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

PIEIST!

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Only in LA. (Except they probably exist other places... still...)

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

I explained why, oops. Shut up now.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

just a cafe and a dildo store

This is the kind of phrase which must casually dropped with absolute nonchalance for full affect.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

well i guess candy and rice krispie treats are good enough for me.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

in LA do they also have sidewalk dildo vendors? with a gruffy old guy yelling "DILDOS. I GOT YER DILDOS HERE. COME GET YER DILDOS"?

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes. His name is Larry Flynt.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Having long dreamt of retiring to a bookstore/cafe (hence my earlier Book Soup question), I have noted with dismay that many of them fail. I believe this to be due to only one half of the business being profitable but being used to prop up the other. As to independent bookstores, the specialized ones which cover an underexploited niche are the ones most likely to survive in this day and age. So Luna, any idea what kind of bookstore you're considering?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

A rockin' one, of course.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I think pie is a great idea, and luna should reconsider her anti-pie stance. I believe her judgement was made in haste, and without the benefit of all available information. Specifically, that pie is good.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Just eat the RKTs and shut your piehole.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

A rockin' one, of course.

This description alone will, of course, be all that is required for any business loans she may require.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

She should snap and point when she says that to the loan officer.

"Rockin'!"

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

She should also tell him/her about the $250 mooning deal. She could make little stamp cards like cafes do. "Only $47.40 left to the next lunar cycle."

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

You lot have been having FUN! while I lose at poker. Damn my Britishness.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

this thread is going to make me want pie for the whole time it's active, isn't it?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I love pie. I don't like sharing pie. I won't have pie in my bookstore.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

You are cold and mean.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Nuh uh!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

How about tarts then? Tortes? Popovers? Cakes? Eclairs? Petits Fours?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps one day.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

Um, you know, if you REALLY REALLY want to have a pie & books experience, you could walk into a bookstore, BUY A BOOK, go over to the nearest diner, BUY A SLICE OF PIE, and there you go. Book. Pie. Together. Unless you would like to stick around Luna's bookstore so you can sneak peeks at her ass. In which case, you could just reverse the procedure.

Damn. Now I want a slice of cherry pie. WANT, I TELL YOU. Tomorrow I think I'll go over to Luby's, buy a slice of cherry pie to go, and mmmm, cherry pie goodness.

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

Okay, okay, I will have a combination cafe and bookstore, and the cafe will sell pie.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

*merry* At last there is a balance of good forces.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

And should Luna launch franchises, the first should be founded here

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Make sure you have a rule where, if they sully your books with pie (or even drop books into the pies), THEY PAY FOR IT!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

http://utfb.fb.org/News/May02/cherry%20pie.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Yay cafe/bookstore combo! (Boo lack of cherry pie in my vicinity. Or pumpkin. Or a really good pecan pie. Or coconut cream. Or apple/cranberry. Or triple berry. Or ARGH.) (I feelin' better now, thanks.)

And that's a pretty town. I wonder if the people behind Pie Town Productions were from there.

(xpost)

M. White's got a good idea. And... whoa baby I want some of that sweet cherry pie goodness.

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

So racy, Dee!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 April 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

(Now I have Warrant's Cherry Pie stuck in my head).

(Kill me).

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Ned. Glad the mention of baked goods really rises your yeast roll, if you know what I mean. ;)

LUNA! This must be rectified! Ummm... "And I said what about Breakfast At Tiffany's and she said I think I remember that film, and as I recall I think we both kinda liked it, and I said well that's the one thing we've got!"

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 14 April 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Okay. For some reason, right now I'm thinking those insecurity-related thoughts, but they're not really depressing me so much as kinda bumming me out. Like -- I know a lot of people go out of their way to avoid me, either online or offline. I just seem to be bloody-minded about it when I'm offline, going about my everyday life. Then there's the whole music thing; it's kinda like I either end up discovering a community of people who fit a similar sort of demographic to mine but whose musical tastss are vastly different from mine, or I find people whom I have a lot in common with music-wise but who, otherwise, lead lives & fit into demographic slots that are way different from mine and, thus, are unrelatable. And then there's the issue of my not knowing jack about music in comparison to a lot of other people, and when it comes to actually TALKING about the music I love I usually can't articulate it. Going away from the whole music thing -- yeah, I also feel highly unattractive, like I'm this mega lardass with a hideous face and I want to curse my ancestors for even beginning to intermarry with the Native Americans who've cursed my features with a lack of delicate femininity, and I also want to curse my own self out for turning to food for comfort when things were really bad awhile back (ha, I say this after a post I typed out about the glories of pie). And I feel like I just ramble on about nonimportant stuff and that's why people avoid me, because they don't want to talk about nonimportant stuff, especially not to ME, and I do really wish I could someday log onto AIM in the afternoon to see if things are different, but, yeah. Anyway. What's interesting is that all of these thoughts aren't making me feel sad and mopey and depressed but rather are just thoughts roaming about, making me feel just lackluster. Which I could certainly get into.

Anyway, it's getting really late so I should be going to sleep about now. Nightnight and thanks for your patience, ESPECIALLY to Pink, N/A, Luna, Julia, and the others who've been patient with me throughout this thing. (Again, I must remind -- I'm not feeling particularly sad at the moment, just... blah. You know?)

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

April ennui?

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:14 (twenty years ago)

Wait, wait, here's cool portmanteau ... Ennupril!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

well, i feel VERY sad. there i said. i also just ate a japanese belgian style (but not really) waffle. :-)

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

don't be sad, fat kitty will help you out!

http://www.sashy.com/etc/cute/fat%20kitty.jpe

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

SEX

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

are you talking about the old punk sex or WHAT?

― nathalie doing a soft foot shuffle (stevie nixed), Friday, 15 April 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

Dee, what's your aim name? I'm not sure I have you on my thingy (and you probably don't have me).

One thing, though:

And I feel like I just ramble on about nonimportant stuff and that's why people avoid me

But but 99% (literally) of what anyone talks about, anytime is unimportant stuff. It's the lubrication that makes the world comfortable. Really, don't fret about it. In fact, maybe talk about *more* unimportant stuff - people will like you for the *way* you talk about it (you write beautifully) even if they don't come out of the exchange a person educated.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

That really is a fat kitten.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

heh...lubrication. uh, sorry, ignore me.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Last night, the Praire roared.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

I really can see why these threads confuse people sometimes.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Winds in excess of 80 km/hr. It was rad until the lights went out.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Then it got radder.

Today is a day of Italian prog/punk merriment. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

It's kind of hard to find pix of fat kittens. I guess their mom's don't feed them enough Mickey D's. Somebody give this kitten a french fry, for god's sake!
http://paw-talk.net/sighosting/users/jade/sabrinasidesm.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

I promise I won't turn this into a cat pic thread, b-but here's a picture of my kitty, Pepper, I took a couple of days ago.

http://photos8.flickr.com/9427484_68fe18851e.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.yourproduceman.com/images/rhubarb_pie.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Those rhubarbs look Binoculars!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

seeing those images in order makes me think that there's kitten in that pie...

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

DO NOT SULLY MY PIE WITH ICE CREAM PLZ THX

(or kitten xp)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Subject of my greastest non-erotic fantasy:

Eating an apple pie with my kids in the back seat of a car driven by my fantastic wife on a leaf-viewing trip around New England. Introducing them to the regionalized, and wonderful, tradition of homemade apple pie & cheddar cheese as breakfast of the gods. Which would, naturally, be to my wife's displeasure, especially as I allow the children to gorge themeselves. Note: this will happen.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

So I guess there's a Cher concert in town this week or something. A co-worker was like, "I can't believe Cher is coming to our town. I just can't pass this up!"
So I said, "That's how I felt about Idi Amin."

And now everybody will leave me alone for the rest of the day.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

That sounds great, Remy. You should update your Little You thread sometime soon, prettty pleease. (Do you have a wife/kids?? Or is that just part of the fantasy?)

My family is complete nutballs. And by my family I don't mean my husband and kids, I mean my mom, dad, and both my sisters. THEY ARE LOONS! One sister begged me to come to her graduation (from law school). So I finally got a ticket. Then, it turns out:
1) My mom persuaded my other sister to walk in her graduation that same weekend because she didn't walk with her class last year (and said graduation takes place 5 hours away from where I'm flying in and starts before I even get to the airport)
and
2) My other sister's graduation is actually Sunday afternoon, when I'm supposed to be at the airport flying out.

In short, I will miss both sister's graduations and this is COMPLETEly WHACKO and my Dad is suggesting we split up into two groups and half celebrate one graduation and half the other on separate sides of the state. Someone kill me now.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 15 April 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

forget the pie/cafe/books. I want to know what you guys think of my bar/bookstore plans. (with goat farm)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure how good an idea it is to have a bunch of drunk guys near a bunch of goats. I'm just sayin'

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Fresh goats milk is delicious.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

the goat farm doesn't neccesarily have to be next door. It's a just a key part of my West Texas retirement plan (along with the bar/bookstore).

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Where in West Texas would this bar be? Small towns already have a bar, and don't need more than one. But if you put it in the middle of nowhere, you won't exactly do brisk business.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

So one of the interns was just telling me about how the touchscreen on the photocopier here isn't as good as the one he's used to at the university. "That one, you just have to gently graze it and it makes really great copies!"
So, um, since I hate all interns (except the ones I love), I said, "Well, the last photocopier we had, all you had to do was wink at it. And it didn't just make copies, it made the real thing."

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Huk, people like that perplexe me. On the one hand, I'm amazed at how in tune they are with simple pleasures and the minutiae of life. They probably stop to smell the roses. On the other hand, I wonder how they can be so petty and how I could get away with killing them.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, this guy...he, um, I don't know what his deal is.
He tells me these stories that at first seem like they're going somewhere, but really he speaks in sort of inverted pyramids. He says what he has to say, and then he keeps talking, getting further and further away from his point.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

i don't know what small town yet. I just love the remoteness and isolation of small towns out there and know that's where i'd like to die. i'm a conssieur of small neighborhood bars and could think of no better way to wind out my days.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

You could just wind out your days drinking in a small bar in West Texas. Pay less taxes that way, too.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Huk, is a Cher show up yonder as gay (and I mean gay in the sense of full to the rafters with fabulously flaming queens) as it is here in California?

Sam, allow me to say that ~~Sam Sheppard wants his dialogue back~~ that post is poetry, somehow.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

nah, I've got to have my own bar so I can fill the jukebox with my own shit. and drink beer at wholesale prices. U&K

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

He says what he has to say, and then he keeps talking, getting further and further away from his point.

Doesn't everyone do this? Just me? And this guy? Oh.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

so I can fill the jukebox with my own shit

Now why-a didn't I think of-a this?

― Piero Manzoni (Mark C), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

When I was a junior zookeeper way back in the day, one of our duties was to get a collar on a goat so they'd stay still while we groomed them. It is very difficult to catch a goat. Them goats had me running like Forest. And you can't get behind them because they kick. Good times.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Saskatchewan has very low recognition of camp quotient. And the gay pop. (that I know, at least) are..., well, I was going to say they're hipper than Cher, but actually, I think I remember a few people getting really excited last time she came through.

And, as it is probably everywhere with populations below 1M, most of the gay people from here don't live here anymore.

xpost.
Goddamn it, Je4nne. You were a junior zookeeper? I swear, you are the coolest person I (don't actually) know.

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I heard a story on NPR a couple of months back about how immigrants were creating quite the demand for goat meat here in the US. they said at current rates of breeding it would take 20 years to meet the demand. So that has made me determined to be a goat farmer.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Yay feta breeding!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Okay, okay, I will have a combination cafe and bookstore, and the cafe will sell pie.

See Washington, DC's Kramerbooks and Afterwords.

Dammit, now I want pie.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

"junior zookeeper" is an awesome phrase

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

It was one of the best summers of my whole life. I kid you not. Animals > People. Makes me question just how much of a city girl I really am.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Animals > kids > people

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

PIE > Animals > kids > people

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 April 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Makes me question just how much of a city girl I really am.

Not to derail the thread completely, but me and Jessa have this argument all the time about moving to New York. She's like, "There's too many people, and I don't like people." And I'm like, "They don't make you leave the house and party all the time just because you live in New York." We've covered this on other threads, but I'm not much of a people person, either, and that's why I prefer the big city. People mostly ignore each other here. It's bliss.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I liked the ignoring people aspect of nyc but the texan in me just hated everything being so crowded. I wanted SPACE.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm a totaly lame-o, but when people say things like 'she already knows we all want to fuck her' about me - it irritates me, and it kinda makes me sad and feel all pathetic as well. Because, yeah, I don't think that way.

I'm in a sort of very small funk.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, luna. How about a hug? I'm not even one of those people who hugs, but this is an emergency.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Luna, personally, I think you're a shmuck. So there.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I would like a hug, please, thank you.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Here is a monkey.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20031006/gallery/laughter_goto.jpg

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

i'm in a funk today too. relationship problems. don't want to get into online but they seem to follow me for life.

the image of me with the bar and goat farm never fails to be an image of me solo. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh, sweetie. I'm going to put a rush on that crush tape, ok?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Friday, 15 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I spent one of the best summers of my life in the foothills above Grasse in the south of France. My then gf, Alexandra's family owned five buildings (one of them mostly in ruins) and a barn in hamlet outside a village perched over the Siagne River which is the prinicpal water source for Cannes. They had fixed one house up and rented it out to tourists, kept one house (full of Ethiopean weapons, masks, and furniture from her anthropologist uncle's visits there), and rented the other house to an ex journalist and his family for next to nothing. Their real rent consisted of tending to the olive trees and pressing the olives for oil. None of the houses had electricity though we did drive into town to get propane for the stove and water heater. Albert had diabolically bushy eyebrows and a wry sense of humor. He had left the modern world to make goat cheese and though he was living in an Alpes-Maritimes idyll, he made his in the fashion of his native Burgundy.

Albert would sometimes let Alexandra and I take the goats on long walks through the olive forest down the terraced hillside toward the Siagne were we tarried in the drone of the cigales and the everpresent scent of thyme, and made the kind of love only young lovers do under the underwhelmed stares of the devil-eyed goats. Afterwards, we would bathe in the pool which was no more than a long, deep, concrete basin filled laboriously from a hose and read in the langorous afternoons when the mistral wind came up the canyon and stilled the cigales until dusk when we would come back out to sit by the pool sipping thyme infusions and watching as the lights began to appear in the villages on the opposite hills.

Apart from the billygoat who was one of the angriest animals I've ever met (and the widowed goose who, upon losing her gander had declared war on the world and snuck up to bite us regularly) and the sad necessity of slaughtering the male kids, the goats were lovely. They were affectionate, espcially if you had been so intimate as to milk them (relieving the pressure on their udders) but not needy like a dog is and mostly content to graze with their own kind. Their milk, which the French strain through cotton wool is tangy and sweet. Albert, who never fully let me in on how he made his cheese, could tell you when a cheese had been made by the telltale tastes left over from the goats' diet and the corresponding season to which said tastes were linked.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Right now, I'm feeling humiliated for coming across as desperate and clueless. I'm also feeling like I'm actively being avoided by a great many individuals. I wish I could crawl into a black hole and be sucked into the abyss. I can't turn anywhere else BUT here to vent all of this out. I am SO hoping today will get better. Or else -- I wouldn't know what to do if the "or else" happened.

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Dee, if you're around, email or IM me or something - we haven't talked in a while. I worry about you.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Dee you do not come across as being desperate OR clueless. I wish you didn't think do badly about yourself - you are a perfectly normal, valid and wonderful young woman.

― luna's e, Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

It's so gorgeous outside. In unrelated news, I feel like I've been hit by a truck.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty here too, and I am suffering from a slight touch of the cocktail flu.

I have to go cart my mom around town - whee.

― luna's e, Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Is your mom my mom? Because I'm doing the same thing. I'm wearing a tank top and I can't get over how pale I am. Um, and my dad just told a joke that included the word "testicles." I love being home.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

calling to get a debit card activated:

me: i opened the card in rhode island
lady from bank: rhode island, new york?
me: huh?
lady from bank: what state is that in?
me: rhode island
lady: you already said that, sir. and i'm asking you what state rhode island's in.
me: RHODE ISLAND IS A STATE!
lady: I will be transferring you to another representative who can better provide you with excellent service.

(click) hangs up.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 16 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

wow, michael, nice story. so there were no cabarito tacos involved or anything?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 16 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

My teacher kicked me out of a test review session because I sneezed. She's a fucking basket case.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 16 April 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I'm scared that she's going to pull a gun on me.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 16 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

probably

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

cabarito tacos

Que?

― M. White (Miguelito), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Mmmmmmmm...goat...

― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Hi dere!

I ate goat once, in a curry at the Notting Hill Carnival. I am so white and middle class.

I also ate goat ASS once - well, that's what goat's cheese tastes like. ASS.

Can we talk about ass again?

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

i just got back from climbing a small mountain. there was a smallpox graveyard from 1780ish with unmarked graves at the north most tip.

today is national astrnomy day. i hope to see saturn later tonight.

― kephm, Saturday, 16 April 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

I just put the title of this thread through Gizoogle. It came up:

This is tha Thread Where I Say Pt. Boom bam as I step in the jam, God damn. 30 ya feelin' me?: AY! Get yo bitch-ass bizzle in tha kitchen n bakes me some pie fo yo bitch ass! (168 new answa)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 16 April 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

New "I've neva posted on one of threads before!?!?!?! Wizzle happens in here??!?!?! I don't understand what this is `bout!?!?!" posts now so sit back relax new jacks get smacked.

-- n/a ( nizzy.), April 14th, 2005.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Saturday, 16 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I jizzle put tha title of this thread through Gizoogle. It came up:

This is tha Thread Where I Say Pt . Freak y'all, into the beat y'all. Bizzy bam as I step in tha jam, God diznamn cuz Im tha Double O G. 30 ya feelin' me?: AY doggystyle! Get yo bitch-ass bizzle in tha kitchen n bakes me some pie fo yo beyotch ass! (168 new answa)

-- Rizzle ( jcoomb...), April 16th, 2005.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Saturday, 16 April 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

(ex-girlfriend called me. haven't spoken to her in 6 months, but she's in LA and wants to go to dinner. Okay?)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 17 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I rushed out the door tonight to get to the laundromat before last wash at 9 pm. I was a bit scatterbrained, I admit: I forgot my phone (I was gonna call my dad while I waited), and I forgot to bring quarters (so I had to go to the coffee shop down the street to break a twenty). What I didn't realize, though, until I had folded up my triple load of laundry after taking it out of the dryer, was that I forgot to PUT DETERGENT IN THE WASHER. So my clothes have basically just gotten wet and then dried again. I'm trying to decide how okay I am with wearing them. I mean, they're cleaner than they were.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Hot or cold water?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Either way, my first thought is, wear the shirts and pants, but re-wash the socks and underwear.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Warm.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, not a bad idea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

I should say, I'm not dealing with any stains or severe dirt or anything, either. Just my day-to-day clothes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

Still. Butt crack is butt crack.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

spiral, spiral, spiral, there goes my life.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

i assume remy's referring to the now image-bombed "insulting and irrational people" thread. luckily, you only have a few more weeks in the class, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

that was a strange turn of events

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Ever get to the point where peoples' stupidity is so grossly huge that you want to stuff them into a garbage disposal and flip the switch? I'm at that point right now. Idiocy knows no boundaries. Boy oh boy.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I have some random aggro brooding going on you can borrow, Jeanne, if that'll help take care of the idiocy with extreme violence.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

So I was at the point of applying for a different job in a different dept. because I am so mindnumbingly bored in this one, and when I went to the employment page the posting is gone. It was only posted a week and a half ago, and normally Purdue takes like 3 months to hire people. But it's not filled yet... but I still feel like crying. Also, I got sunburned this weekend. I didn't even realize it until Adrian (my new boyfriend!) touched my shoulder in the record store and I screamed like a banshee.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

New boyfriend! Hurrah, the circle of life.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Yay, jocelyn! (but not for the sunburn)

I am really pale (as you know, since you've met me) all winter long, but then in summer I turn lobster red. There is no in between.

When are you coming to Chicago next?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Adrian! That is a good name.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh yay, the REALLY LOUD DRILLING ON THE SIDE OF THE BUILDING is in full-focking-force this morning. The blood in my head is at a steady simmer. (Oh, and congrats on the new bf!!)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Nice one Jocelyn - the only thing that's surprising is that you were single beforehand!

Jeanne, this is the first time in 7 years working that I *haven't* been next to a building site. It was pretty cool the time they were tearing down an office block; but apart from that, I empasympathise entirely.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

We will be in Chicago on the 13th of May for The Mountain Goats. But I think Nick said on the Chicago thread you will be out of town?
-The worst thing ever was going to high school while they were renovating the school and one day an I-beam came crashing through the window.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Everyone is just kind of going about their daily doings, trying to ignore the fat, hairy elephant in the room wot be the really loud, hammering noise.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

The construction outside my building is legally not allowed to start until 8, but they've found a loophole. They seem to have no problem with moving equipment, backing up trucks with that horrible BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP, and making all kinds of machinery grinding noises starting at about 7:30.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

OH, that's right, Joce. Sorry I won't see you then.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

the construction outside my building is legally allowed to go from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.! :((((

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure all the mothers with napping babies really appreciate that legal ruling.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

The worst thing about the construction going on next door is not the noise, or even that they're blocking my view of the Sears Tower, though I will miss its reassuring presence first thing every morning. It's the architectural pollution. It's a godawful ugly building made of cinder blocks, like all new condo buildings are now, with this slapdash red brick facade stuck on the front, and all kinds of pointless setbacks and "decoration." If you're going to build a big box out of cinderblocks, just go ahead and do that. Let it be a box. Give it clean lines and solid-pane windows and sleek, colorful gutters, make it a celebration of its inexpensive building materials. Don't try to make it look old and fancy on the cheap. It's shit.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

man. . .today I was supposed to get my final check from the school district. our secretary had told me it would be direct deposited like the others. well it wasn't which means i'll have to wait for it to be mailed and who knows how long that will take. meanwhile my account's in the negatives. grumble, grr.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Today I:

have had about two and a half total hours' sleep;
was woken up at 630 am by my mother talking to me about renewing Spencer's passport AGAIN (we had this conversation about three times last night);
have not yet had breakfast;
have to have a staff meeting, which is the only real reason I'm here;
got to talk to one of my favorite people first thing this morning, but for sort of a weird reason and it's left me feeling a little odd;
am in NO MOOD to deal with stupid people or stupid crap.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

garbage. disposal.

― flick the switch, hotstepper (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Garbage disposal or wood chipper?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

Wood chipper is very great white north, whereas a garbage disposal is for everyone.
Are you and Spencer going on a nice vacation?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Luna, it's time for that neutron bomb.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 18 April 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

http://home.millsaps.edu/~mcelvrs/Pointer_sisters.jpg

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 April 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Garbage disposal because the mess is taken care of. Wood chippers, not so much.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

When I was a youngin', I'd have killed for those get ups.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I so did NOT need to see that this morning.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Jump in, you know their arms can feel you up.

― jump, you want to taste my kisses in the night then (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Did we really think that looked GOOD?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 April 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I took dance, so I got to wear all kinds of crazy outfits like that.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Ok, my mom saved these as a pdf file, so the quality is HORRIBLE, but click here to see some of the funny outfits I got to wear (and an awkward picture of my dad and I when I was in my early teens).

ON the other hand, I wore crazy stuff all the time, like my favorite neon pink jeans and neon pink sweater combo or this dress:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/IMG_0721.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey, that's not me!
Let's try that again:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/meme.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I loved that dress when I had it.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Wow, nice threads, dude! I admit to wearing a bright yellow duckie costume (bright yellow leotard with gold sequins and tights + orange feather cap) during my one and only dance recital.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Aww, cute!

― same initials (initials), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

My sisters had a chicken costume her one year of dance. They flapped their arms to a song called "I am a groovy Chicken."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I was just thinking last night about how I should scan some of my old dance pictures just to point out the weirdness of the world of ballet.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

when i was in kindergarten, our gym teacher (whose name was Deenie! and was also the high school girls' basketball coach) took us up to the high school where, at halftime of the boys' basketball game, we performed a tumbling routine choreographed to 'YMCA'.

i was probably wearing too-small shorts and t-shirt with white socks pulled up to my knees, though--nothing like that dress.

(this is the closest i ever came to a dance recital)

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I broke my Panasonic camera yesterday, but now I'm ok again. When I realized that it would cost $300 to fix, I just bought another camera. A Canon PowerShot. Basic little pocket camera -- everybody's got one. But apart from the 12x zoom that I had on my other camera, this camera is superior in every way. It has the same effective megapixels, but a faster lens, both faster and slower available shutter speed, more auto modes, more manual pre-sets, more more more. This is the camera I would have bought if I hadn't got the other one for Christmas. That camera was riddle with problems, really -- for one thing, it was just too damn big. It was big to carry, and it was too attention-getting. Everywhere you went with it, you were announcing, "I AM GOING TO TAKE PICTURES. IF YOU DO NOT WANT YOU PICTURE TAKEN, HIDE." And hide they did. But even more importantly, the colors were flat and flavorless. It's color reproduction was really crap, actually. I was always Photoshopping the images to give them more contrast, more brightness, more red, just anything to make them less... dull.

Anyway, I'm really happy, and for less money that it would have cost to fix the other camera that I didn't really like that much anyway. Don't tell my Dad, though. He thinks it's the greatest camera ever made. I don't have the heart to tell him that if you make a camera with a big, SLR body and a huge lens, and you don't even allow for adding lenses or even filters (!), you may as well be carrying a pocket camera. A really freakin' huge pocket camera. It's just for show, quite crap, really.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure Nick has the Powershot. Whatever it is, I love it.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Do you know what else is weird about kids' dance classes/recitals? The one little boy in the class who wears a weird outfit especially for boys that coordinates with the girls' weird outfits, who is inevitably the center of attention/ center of the stage for most of the routine.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

That's because boys are better.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

I'll probably get a powershot next. the fuji I have now is SLR-like but pretty useless. It takes soo long to reset I'm always losing shots. Little control over shutter speed too so it's nearly usless taking pics of bands and stuff. And always photoshop correcting, always.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh man.
I've reallly got to take a whiz. BUT, I just walked into the bathroom, and there were two burly men on either end of the row of three urinals. There was just no room. So I washed my hands vigorously, and got out of there. I thought about using a shit-stall, but, um, gawd, I really should have.

― Huk-L, Monday, 18 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

"Scuse me, my dick is rather gigantic and there's not enough space for me to go wee-wee so kindly step aside lest I piss all over the back of your pants."

― next time, say that (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

I have a powershot, too. I love it.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Completely apropos of nothing:

I'm having to pack up (temporarily) a whole bunch of stuff I had stored up in a cabinet in another room so that it and all its possessions could be relocated to the lowest-level (inside storage) room. I don't have enough boxes for it, so I'm not finished with this, but I was going through the videotapes (have only packed up half and it already takes up a large box that previously held a vacuum cleaner) and I was noticing that I had some videotapes that looked like they were last touched several years back. So I took a couple of the more promising-looking ones out and... oh my God. Mid '90s flashbacks. Lots of bits and pieces and uneven recording, because the VCR I was using was this one from the mid '80s that I had a really difficult time working with. But... lots and lots of MTV. Lots and lots of embarrassing VH1 too, to balance it out, but lots and lots of, well, STUFF in general. Not enough commercials for my liking, though; I should've had the sense to know that I LIKE OLDER COMMERCIALS. The cheesier, the better. Though an older commercial for a then-new less fat type of Pringles had my laughing my butt off. (Not literally, unfortunately.) Anyway, it was a good (bad) flashback and I can't wait to delve into the other videos I pulled out. (We really have progressed since then.) (Also, why am I still up?) (Good night. I shall catch up with you guys latah.)

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

^%#$#@%@%!@#$!%#&%&#@%#!@%(*&()*^*$^#%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

i'll second that.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

hi luna!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

hey teeny!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

hi luna and teeny!

Why is it so busy at work today? It's like it's MONDAY or something!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

You know why I love these threads? There's girls here.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

There are girls on most threads!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Not on ILM. And not girls I know!

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

this day sucks so far.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I was swearing because we had a big meeting yesterday with the fucking useless office manager, during which we expressed our feelings that the attorneys should be able to clean up after themselves and put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher just as easily as the staff (we're expected to run it at night). He appeared to agree with it, then emailed us today with the following:

"Dishes in the sink should be placed in the dishwasher if it isn’t running. This should be done several times per day if you’re on kitchen duty. If it’s your assigned day, and you get too busy, please find a substitute for you (and please agree to be a substitute if someone asks you and you have time). We want to avoid the situation where clients come into the kitchen and find a sink full of dirty dishes.

(Hi, clients NEVER come to the office, much less into the kitchen.)

Lawyers and paralegals bill their time (which generates what little money we do make around here), so it isn’t time-efficient or cost-efficient for them to poke around and see if the dishwasher contains clean or dirty dishes. So it’s up to you guys to load and unload the dishwasher. If you happen to be on kitchen duty for the day, you’ll know anyway, so it saves everybody else having to inspect the dishes in the dishwasher. And as you might know, there’s nothing more irritating than finding clean and dirty dishes all mixed together in one dishwasher."

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

get one of those clean/dirty pig magnets to stick on the front.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Can I stick it on his face?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

With a hammer?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Man... I wish *I'd* gone to law school so I wouldn't ever have to do dishes again. Must be nice.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I know, me too! They should really advertise it that way.

Go to law school, and NO ONE ELSE WILL EVER MATTER AGAIN.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Fuck. You. Chains.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Part of my job description is kitchen duty - I make sure all of the coffee/hot chocolate/ popcorn packets and cream and sugar are full/displayed. I fill the dishwasher and run it every night too. That doesn't bother me so much though, because I've never had a dishwasher and this one is faaaaaannnnnccccyyyyy to boot. I do mind, however, when people leave their tea bags or stirrers in their mugs. YUCK!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

tell em about the "90K struggle" comment

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Go to law school, and NO ONE ELSE WILL EVER MATTER AGAIN.

this is so true! I'm all the time agog at the stuff mr teeny is encouraged to put off on the staff, like once he was carrying a box of stuff downstairs and some lawyer pulled him aside and said "your job is to bill hours. We have people who will carry things for you." He is super nice to his secretary of course and brings her presents and food all the time, so that makes me feel better.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Yes - he said, when we were talking about salaries, that he's 'struggling on $89,000/year." HIS WIFE IS A VERY SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR.

Also, one of the staff pointed out that's a fuckload different to be struggling on 90k than it is on 30k.

THANK GOD I HAVE A JOB INTERVIEW FRIDAY.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Then again, I do feel like I've more than paid my dues picking up other people's shit and doing their bothersome tasks, so if I'm ever in a position to let someone carry things for me, I will be inclined to use it. (I will consider it a privelege, however, not a right.)

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

:-) Good luck with the job interview, Luna!

The time for me look to other fields draws nigh. Not until my summer vacation passes, but soon. I think my grouchy mood is revolving around the fact I feel in abeyance until then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, good luck with the interview - that's good news, and you need and deserve a better job!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Good luck, luna!!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

i think the first person to offer me a job at this point gets me. my bank account is hundreds of dollars in the negatives and my last teaching check hasn't come.

sam's a very unhappy girl.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Okay, I'm baffled that part of ANYONE'S JOB (aside from a dishwasher) is to do the fucking dishes. Get one Dixie plates. Fucking *children*. They need my mom up in that office. Holy shit, would they be singing a different tune.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Can't have Dixie plates. Not nice enough. What will the clients say when they see the lawyers -- LAWYERS! -- eating off of PAPER, during one of their frequent sojurns into the kitchen?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

They have plenty of time to use the dishes. To stand in the kitchen watching People's Court (some of the staff watch it at lunch because they think it's funny, whatever) while they micorwave their food. To sit down with the staff and eat. But suddenly, as soon as they finish stuffing their faces, they no longer have time to open the dishwasher and put a goddamned plate inside?

I am incensed.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but they're just struggling to survive! who has time to think of things like dishes when you don't know whether you'll get that 7 series BMW or have to settle for the *gasp* 5 series????

― ()ops (()()ps), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

The 7 series is very nice.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I need to know how many of these lawyers are men and how many are women. Just curious.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

You just need to up that famous old sign near the fridge or the microwave:

"Your Mom called. She can't make it today. So do you mind cleaning up after yourself for once?"

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

I AM BORED SEND ME CRUSH TAPES WHILE I AM OUT OF WORK FOR TWO MORE WEEKS! I WILL SEND OUT SOME TOO.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I'm sure the cheque will arrive soon. Good luck with holding on for it.

With Luna's appalling bosses, there is now a tragic irony in the thread title.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Out of 11, 2 are women. Surprise.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I want a Toyota Prius. Then I could say, "I DRIVE A TOYOTA PRIUS!!!" the same way Will Ferrel's character says, "I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!!!" in that SNL skit which you may or may not have ever seen...

Everyone in my office has a sparkling new car or two or three. Mine doesn't have a stereo system and you have to reach your hands into the hole in the console to change the AC/Heater settings.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Re the Toyota Prius:

Larry David bought three, including one so that his character, "Larry David," could drive one on his HBO series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

"It works on every level," says David, who is married to a staunch environmentalist. "I'm doing something good, and my wife has sex with me more often."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I was just saying the other day, when I get another car, I'll want it to be a cool project more than a reliable automobile. Something tiny and hip -- a MG Midget, so I can pretend I'm a college professor, or a Karmann Ghia, which I will work on all the time but will never actually run.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)

Someone threw a rock through my friend's car window and ran away with 3 iPods (one mine), my laptop, my camera, and assorted other things that were in my backpack.

That's fair enough. Even if it sucks massively, it happens. But then the perp decided the truck would make a nice toilet. People suck.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

I caught that story on the 1981 thread and was appalled! (Even more so just because that set is so ridiculously great, am listening to the mp3 disc now.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. :( Fittingly, the only disc that wasn't in my bag was the Heart/Emotion disc. They can steal my stuff, but they'll never get my heart.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Martin, your good wishes are good luck. My check did come today (totally didn't expect it so soon with forwarding and all) and IT'S 2K MORE THAN USUAL!! I have no idea why it's so big and I'm not going to ask questions.

oh this is good. . .

Julia, I also got your package and now that I have some cash yours will be out shortly. *hugs*

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

yay sam!!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Fantastic!!! I'll send some more good wishes for job and love matters as well!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

ah yes thank you. you may have special powers yet Martin. ;)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, I must try wishing for something good for myself...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

hooray 4 tha big check, Sam!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

Online Translators Are Hilarously Awful: Exhibit A

(beginning of interview of Argentinian NBA player)

Dear Andrés... meant that sos an example to You of player by temperament and drags. It wanted some consejitos to gain a minita to me (small) to which a long time ago I come to him rowing...

Andrés: "If long ago you come to him rowing we see. It never fails the one of the cinema. You you take it to a film, preferably of terror, with that one goes away to scare and you become ' locó you embrace it and there everything can begin."

― ()ops (()()ps), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

i'm nervous about class tomorrow.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Phew - finally caught up!

Dee - sweatheart, you know i love you, email me anytime!
Sam - Yay on the check lady, hopefully the jobfront will sort itself out in the not to distant future.
Luna - I can comepletely sympathise with your kitchen situation. The company I work for is predominently males & they can never seem to fill up the water jug (for the kettle) or put anything in the dishwasher. or clean out the microwave for that matter. grrr. Still best of luck for Friday.
Jocelyn - way to go girlfiend! *clicks her fingers in a circle & sticks her hip out*
Julia - Any news on the move darl?
Sarah & Nick - when are you coming to the UK?
Huck - *mwah*
Remy - why are you nervous huh?
Orbit - how the devil are you?
Martin - How are things going with you?
Ned - I like the pie & book idea! *ducks from Luna*

So much has been happening here, so I'll fill y'all in on a couple of things. My kitties are finally all jabbed up & are outside. Yesterday was their first day where they were out all day whilst we were at work. We'd just got home & then one of them comes running in with a bird! Fortunately we managed to get her to drop it & let the bird go out of the front door. it was a real shock to say the least. Then only an hour later the other one managed to catch a bird too!! Again we managed to get him to drop the bird & again fortunately it flew away. I felt really sick. I knew it was inevitable, but not so soon. I never thought it would be this tough! *sigh*
I have decided to take part in "race for life" which is a sponsored run in aid of cancer research. It's odd, cos I hate running, but it's only 5k, so hopefully I will be able to raise some decent money.
So a new pope has been elected. I'm not really sure how I feel about it to be honest. I was hoping for a more liberal pope, but alas, that is not to be. I have always been happy to be a catholic, but I am not sure I can be any more. It's a very odd feeling.
Anyway, hope y'all are well! xxx

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

The neighbourhood cats have decimated the bird (and fish, and amphibian) life in my parents' garden. That's what cats do - it's one of the things you just have to accept. Of course, if you're driven mad by songbirds at 4am every summer's morning, this is a very good thing. Since I got double glazing, though, I don't want the birds to die.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

That's what cats do - it's one of the things you just have to accept.
of course I realise this, my point was it was just a bit of a shock is all.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Pink, I'm sort of up and down. The last few weeks I've mostly been down, but not dangerously so, after six or seven really good weeks. I hope I can get back to that state soon, but it kind of feels like things could go either way in the immediate future. Last couple of days, I've been absurdly overemotional, my mood swinging very wildly at the slightest provocation.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Did you actually have your hopsital appointment yet?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Anyone want to outbid me on Gear!? I just can't think where I'd put him - my flat's crammed enough.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

So I bought a new computer last night. Fuck.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

They drained my bank account now. :( Luckily there was only $25.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Tell us about the computer! I'm excited for you. I love new computers.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

It's a bare-bones type of thing.
It somehow wound up costing nearly three times the sticker price, but I still got a really good deal (and a significant chunk of the mark-up went to enrolling in the big chain's enhanced customer service plan).
It's not even 512, it's the other thing, but the actually helpful sales dude said for what I need, it'll be fine and it'll be a snap to upgrade.
My home computer beforehand was a surplus 1995 laptop that doesn't even have a CD drive, so I'm fucking impressed with the new thing.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

What hospital appointment? I did finally get to see a psychiatrist in January, and started on extra drugs around the start of February - this was also the start of that really good patch I mentioned, but there were other things to which I might just as easily credit that. My next appointment with him is next week, which feels like pretty good timing.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

It's around 85 degrees here. This means that there will be shirtless business men sunning themselves on their lunch break in Bry4nt P4rk. Welcome to summah.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh, man -- it was around 74 degrees when I left this morning, I rode to work in just a t-shirt, and now it's dropped down to 55. I'm going to be so cold on the way home. Maybe there's a jacket I can borrow from someone.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

It's 64 here right now. Not that it matters because I am stuck inside all day...

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

85 now sure, but the weekend is supposed to be dreary and in the 40s, dammit. That's my Washington Square Park geetar playing time.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

It's 85 in NY? I'll be there in two weeks. I hope it's warm. Last time I was there I froze my tits off.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, this is why in April I have to check weather.com before I go to work. (I put the jacket in my bag this a.m., and put it on when I went to lunch.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

having 5 classes in rooms with no windows sucks on a day as nice as today.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Today at lunch, while I was eating a SALAD, a coworker said, "You must have a great metabolism!"

And I ask, "Why do you say that?"

And she says, "Because every time I see you, you're eating!"

So I was a little annoyed, but it was a self-fulfilling prophesy. I ate ALL afternoon and now I feel sick to my stomach. And it wasn't even good food either! It was just crap sitting on the free stuff table in the kitchen. BLAH!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

umm, freeee ::drool::

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I bought a mountain bike yesterday. Do I have to get a helmet? My physical therapist said biking is the best thing for the knees. My legs are going to be fine specimens, so are my buttocks.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 21 April 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Good mornin'. I got to work 30 minutes early this morning. How did that happen??! And then I thought, well, at least I'll have more time to screw around online, but my coworkers got here super early today for a meeting. NO!!

The forecast:
Tomorrow - rain
Saturday & Sunday - rain and SNOW
Monday - rain

:-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

As some of you may remember, my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Fortunately, she has made a full recovery. In light of this , I have decided to take part in this year's race for life in Cambridge. If any of you would like to sponsor me, I'd be really grateful. My webpage for sponsorship is http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/sarah-cambridge
Cheers guys.

Oh & Luna - you are the best. Thanks for my card darl, it certainly brightened my day! :-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 21 April 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

Just in case you guys were wondering...I didn't win the Leacock Medal this year. Once again, it went to a Ferguson brother. I didn't even think Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw was that funny. I didn't think it was supposed to be that funny, I mean.
Clearly, I'll have to actually write a book and have it published to get my deserved medal.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 April 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I feel weird! Like I should be really sad, and I'm just... sort of... not. I feel bad for my mom, though.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Chris, I'm not sure how much you use your butt cycling (maybe you could replace the saddle with a single thin tube, and clench for the duration).

Huk, I've heard interesting rumblings from the Pulitzer judges...

HI EVERYBODY!!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

you do use your butt a good bit cycling. as well as hamstrings.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Stairs are good for the ass as well, but probably not so much for the knee. Let's not lose focus here.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Butt, and also the upper thighs, those big muscles in the back of your legs which, when toned, push your butt up and give it a better shape.

Mmm... butt.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I am in a bad mood today. : ( Nothing personal, just sick of dealing with bureaucracy and people who don't do their job, at work. I just went off on a rant and my co-worker passed me one of our work "comment cards" so I filled that out and it made me feel a little better, but not much. I just want to go eat food that's horribly bad for me.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

That reminds me....

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

yay, we're talking about ass.

also, yeah, bureaucracy can kiss my pasty white ass because it has FUXORED MY LIFE lately.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

(Sorry to break up the butt love-in.)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

we can bitch and talk about ass all at the same time. isn't that what this thread is for?

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 April 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

If this: I feel weird! Like I should be really sad, and I'm just... sort of... not. I feel bad for my mom, though was too cryptic, I was referring to my post here: A death in my family

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 21 April 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pugdogs.ca/images/puppy_pics/New/thumbs/kissThm.jpg

Pug kisses will help you feel less weird.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I want a pug! I want a dog in general! I want stuff! I. WANT!

I do not want for food though. I'm stuffed with pizza and root beer.

Thanks for linking that thread, luna. Sometimes I get a little too comfortable just staying on this one all day. I'm sorry for the loss, but I'm glad you can be there for your mom when she needs you.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 21 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

I love pugs.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I love drinking beers at lunchtime, then going to the annual general meeting for the company I work for, then having angry shareholders ask me questions. All very fun.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Are you gonna go to the Airship Conference?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Dunno. Should I? Sounds pretty good. Will there be floaty snacks?

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 21 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Thanks to Markelby for the sponsorship! *hugs*

big hugs to Luna also. Just to reiterate what I said on your own thread, you are a great person & I am sorry that you feel weird. It's ok to not feel personally upset by this.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 22 April 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

Good morning. I spilled half a bottle of tea tree oil in my bathroom last night. The vapors made my eyes water.

― 4sshat ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

i just spilled day-old tea on my shirt and sleeve. really. i can't make this stuff up.

― grrrrr (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm at my mom's this morning - she made me come and stay last night to pack for her and get her organized to leave today... Poor thing - she kept apologizing to me for 'being a wimp' because she was crying. She said that 'I always feel like I can't break down because I have to take care of everyone else...'

Ooooh, so THAT's where I get it from.

I'll be at work, but not til later on, 'cause I have to take her to the airport. Jeannie, if it makes you feel any better, I just spilt tea on myself, too. Hot, right out of the kettle tea.

Ow.

― luna's e, Friday, 22 April 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Ooooh, so THAT's where I get it from.

Ta da!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 22 April 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Also, my Friday interview is now a Monday interview.

― luna's e, Friday, 22 April 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I have a test on Tuesday with a stafffing agency to measure my photoshop/web authoring skills. I be afeared. It's been awhile since I've done that stuff.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Given what we've established recently, good luck with that, Sam. And good luck to Luna with that interview.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 22 April 2005 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Good luck Sam and Luna!

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 22 April 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

I third the good luck sentiments toward Sam and Luna.

And on a different note... I have officially regressed back to when I was around 14 and really into artists like the Thompson Twins and Howard Jones. In other words, it's massive hello time to detached white-boy funk! (And yes, I did admit being into Howard Jones -- I still like his stuff, BTW.) ONLY, this time it's with more obscure artists and songs. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've heard my nickname-sake over the past 72 hours. It's just "a lot".

I really should be asleep by now, but strangely I can't get myself to fall asleep. All I keep thinking about is, "I need to read as many threads as I can so I can be up-to-date with stuff, and I want to listen to all of these songs too, and I don't know if I can do it all, and argh." Oh, and "how can I stop from being a killjoy?" But that's a different subject altogether.

The pug picture was very sweet upthread.

(Luna, I'm sorry about what happened.)

(Big bear hugs to everyone.)

(p.s.: If that whole "hugs" thing gets to be annoying, please tell me.)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 24 April 2005 07:23 (twenty years ago)

Dee, This is totally off-topic, but that mix you sent to Nick a while back is still on my i-pod and it's especially great workout music. Kinetic is my favorite and makes me think of leg warmers and 20 minute workout with Jane Fonda.

I'm feeling happy and healthy today. I hope the job interviews are going/went well!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Yay the job interviews! :-D

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

oh man I forgot about that test I have tomorrow. Im totally not ready for it.

I had a great weekend but feel really horrible today. I had a really long, awful dream. I was pregnant but my due date came and went and still no labor. finally we went to the hospital and the sonagram revealed the baby was stillborn. the dream went on forever and I never felt so depressed or heartbroken before. I can't shake it and have been crying all morning. It was just a dream but i'm so depressed now I can't do anything.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

What a terrible dream to have Sam :(

I keep looking at the thread title and thinking 'yeah, that's right! I want PIE'.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I bought pie this weekend! I blame this thread!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I saw an old high school friend this weekend. Turns out that there are a lot of girls from my hs living here. Not sure if this makes me happy, sad, or scared.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

- I have the Hoppity Song stuck in my head.
- Dee, hugs are never a bad thing.
- I have that interview today at 4, and there is very little I would less rather do.
- I slept REALLY well last night (and had total sex dreams... it was great!)
- I am not ready for Monday.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Hell yeah, hugs n pie.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

What would the filling be for a hug pie?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.riteaid.com/product_images/full/T92/T92789.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I have had lots of completely awful baby dreams. I'm sorry to read about yours. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

i had this dream that i had nowhere to live so i was staying in the storage room in a fast-food place. i had bare feet and kept stepping in ketchup on the floor.

it seemed like a very long weekend. i'm actually glad it's monday, which is a bit strange.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 25 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

I lost $99 on cards this weekend. I cried at one point. And now my honey is in Massachusetts. But on the plus side, I will be too soon!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the good wishes. i'm a little less sad now but still bummed and completely motivationless. which sucks since I had so much I wanted to accomplish today.

We had a great weekend, barhopping and karaoking on friday night. afternoon drunkness with a free show and dallas friends on saturday. flea market and movie yesterday. probably my most enjoyable weekend I've had in Austin yet. why did my brain have to go and fuck it up with a bad dream? It's like my subconscious wants to remind me that there's always new lows in case I get cocky and actually start to thnk I'm happy.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Howard Jones *RULES* I will not debate this.

I played some 80's stuff acoustically on Friday. We didn't do No One Is To Blame, but we will, oh yes.

- I have the Hoppity Song stuck in my head.

Bwahahahahahahahahhaha! You will never escape the fiendish clutches of the Hoppity Song!

― Ash (ashbyman), Monday, 25 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

howard jones makes me all wistful and smiley.

hope your day looks up, sam. sucks to have such a horrible dream setting the mood at the onset.

i have actual pie in my fridge! i should have some!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

So I put new laces on my sneakers, and now my sneakers don't squeak. WTF? What does one have to do with the other? INSANE.

― Huk-L, Monday, 25 April 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

I am a fucking. rockstar.

I had to re-reschedule my interview because of a last minute work 'emergency' (fucking lawyers) and since I was planning to go home to change and now don't have time, I called and she said oh no, come tomorrow. So I shall go tomorrow.

BUT I GOT THE MOTHERFUCKING FILING OUT ON TIME.

AND IT'S PROBABLY EVEN RIGHT!

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Yay, Luna!

Sam, I'm sending good thoughts out to you. I know what it's like to be blindsided by really messed up dreams.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Dee - as Luna said hugs are always a great thing!
Sorry to hear about that dream Sam, no wonder you were upset. I hate it when dreams affect your waking life. Hope you go ok on that test.
Good luck with the interview luna!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Morning all. Any suggestions as to how to motivate msyelf today? I need to be efficient and effective this week as I'm off on hols on Sunday.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

i don't remember posting on this thread earlier. i am sure i was drunk. i should post here more often because i like everyone here, a lot. i don't know what my problem is.

i slept from about 8 pm to about 1 am and i haven't been able to get back to sleep. it's 6 o'clock now, thinking about just walking to the bagel shop soon to get breakfast and much-needed coffee as i have to be somewhere at noon.

markleby, i hope going on vacation would be motivation enough.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

it's funny, i am so not a morning person but on the few occasions i am up this early i really enjoy it. esp. now that it's spring and the birds chirp loudly and musically out my window.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Stence, good to see you a bit happier than on the "i'm being evicted" thread. Yes, you're right, it should be motivation enough. That it isn't says a lot about my personality/attitude :/

British people - if you're buying foreign currency, I recommend Travelex online - I got a much better rate from them than from the Post Office (and their much hyped bureau de Change service) and the high street banks.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

i am not really that happy but i'm making an effort. and these birds are still chirping and sounding good. maybe i'll go to the diner.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

the sun's really up now. okay, i'm gonna get going. be back later i'm sure.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Hey Stence! Nice to see you on this thread!
Markelby - I always have the most awful stressed feeling the night before I come back to work after some time away, that in itself is enough to make me sort everything out before I go. Also, if there is anything left outstanding others will invariably discover this when you are on holiday, which is never nice to come back to.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

d'oh! mike's coffeeshop opens at 7, not 6:30. so i walked to the bagel place on myrtle, near tracer hand's new place, and got coffee and a bagel. then i walked up willoughby to vanderbilt, past st. joseph's college, which i swear must be the smallest college in the world, and down dekalb to ft. greene park. i sat on a bench in the park drinking coffee and writing, while yuppies watched their dogs run around and play (the sign sez leashes from 9am to 9pm but everyone ignores it). they talked about some mugging in the park last night, some uber-perky woman said "oh awesome! i was there an hour before!" in a really-too-enthusiastic voice. after writing for about 2 hours, i went to tillie's to get more coffee and sat for a minute or two. then i went to the pioneer and carrot's to pick up some groceries. now i'm home and listening to luc ferrari's "presque rien" which so far is great morning stuff.

i thought wow maybe i could be a morning person, then i realized that my hands were shaking the whole time, i couldn't be out without sunglasses on, my hair was unkempt, i'm unshaven and unclean. no wonder when i was sitting on the bench this guy summoned his dog away from me immediately (he must've picked up the scent of the bagels i took home), as if i was a junkie or an animal abuser or a pervert. as i was walking to the grocery store i just thought about how you can't atone for your sins, even if you try. and that's not a catholic guilt thing, i'm not catholic, or religious in any way.

i want to make some kind of new start though, i don't think i'll be successful at it, but i'll try. i want to contribute something other than provocation and insults (tho i'll probably still do those - and people shouldn't take them seriously). there are far bigger sins than being a jerk on an internet message bored - believe me, i've done most of them, but still.

how's everybody else today? it's a beautiful day in new york. i hope i can stay awake to help phil move.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

It's a beautiful day in Chicago too. It was supposed to be chilly and rainy today, but so far it is lovely.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

stence-hope you're doing okay.
I flipped out yesterday when I got to work because the first thing I always do it check the news. Well, I saw that a commuter train had crashed outside Osaka, where one of my closest friends just moved to. He wasn't on that train, I frantically called another friend to confirm, but it was one of those moments where my heart stopped for a second. It left me pretty shaken yesterday.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

wow, yeah, glad your friend is okay. i was sorta freaked out by that, not because i know anyone there, but because i was gonna post to the amtrak thread about how japan is the only country where privatizing the rails has worked. yeesh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen any of my Japanese students since last week. Hope nobody they know was involved :(

Springtime is a good time for changes stence, hope you get to feeling good about everything.

I'm all cross with thieving students (see the 'vent' thread) but apart from that pretty happy. I'm having trouble with my current paper though: usually I struggle with the substance but can write easily, but this time I have loads of ideas but can't seem to express/structure them. Grr.

It's Matt's birthday today - I bought him one of those Tibetan singing bowls. Don't think we'll be celebrating much tonight though as he has a cold, and has also spent all day baking and eating hash cakes as far as I know...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I had tofu sour cream last night. It wasn't bad at all.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

i eat tofu cream products all the time! i am nearly vegan now, my belt just broke and my jeans fall down off my ass when i walk now.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

The weather in CVhicago is, if you'll pardon the expression, awesome. I AM FILLED WITH AWE.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I feel a bit better, because despite the fact that I woke up in the rottenest of moods and angry at my job, I talked to my boss this morning and realized that at least half of the problem was a lack of diplomacy on my part. I have to get better with people, face-to-face, there's no two ways about it. Funny, I think that it wouldn't take much. If I had just a *little* more confidence and tact, it would make a world of difference. Something to aspire to.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

i should post here more often because i like everyone here, a lot.

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), April 26th, 2005 4:54 AM. (hstencil) (later)

Hi!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Not you.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Well it's got sunny in London too, so ner.

Yesterday, as my girlfriend was flying across the Atlantic, I had to read a script about a plane crashing into the sea. The descriptions of gore, blood and death were very graphic. And, best of all, I have to fly on Sunday.

Kenan, I think we're quite similar really. I wonder how you'll take that ;)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, as a compliment! Why would I take that badly?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

I had to read a script about a plane crashing into the sea

A script is nothing. Read this:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200111/langewiesche

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh, nevermind. The whole article used to be there... not you have to be a subscriber.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

for the record it is gorgeous here in Austin as well. Sunny and the high today, not quite 80. remarkable weather for April. Maybe I'll go for a walk or something. Then again, no I won't. who am I kidding.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

My day so far:

- At 2 am, I was awoken by the crazy homeless guy who lives in the alley behind my house. He was yelling at my neighbor Alice, and also at Spencer's father (hi, he was not there) about how they're fucking with him. He is a conspiracy theorist. Also a crackhead. And did I mention BAT-HOUSE FUCKNUT CRAZY? Some neighbors and I went outside and I called the police, as did Alice. They didn't come and I fell asleep again at around 4 am.

- I was woken at 6 am by my mom calling from Australia (where it was 11 pm), calling to ask me to go over to her house and wake her brother up to tell him they 'need him to come' to Australia for my uncle Philip's funeral. Philip's son is leaving tonight, and she thought Bryan could get on the same plane - another sister will pay for the ticket. They need him, go wake him up. I did, and he doesn't want to go. Doesn't need the 'drama'. I am unsurprised by this, as he is one of the more unemotional people I have ever met, but christ, your brother kills himself and you can't get your jobless ass on a goddamned plane WITH A FREE TICKET for a couple days to be with your family? He is a class A jackass.

- My car needs 35,000 mile service, so Eric agreed to take it and also to go fight my parking ticket, and I was going to drive my mom's car and pick up Spencer, then go to my interview. Mom's car has a kill-switch alarm, which is all of a sudden dead. Can't drive the car, the malfunctioning switch will probably kill the engine at some point. Fuck.

- I rented a car from the VW dealer - all they had was a Passat Wagon. My Jetta is as far into MOM CAR as I am willing to go, and this thing drives like a fucked up tank and is too big and I hate it. Granted, I'll return it before the end of the day, but STILL. I should have gone to Enterprise (I only agreed to get it from the VW dealer because I wanted a convertible bug! Bastards!)

- My interview is at 4, and I have to pick Spencer up at 1:35... the parking ticket thing is at 1:30, so if Eric doesn't get out by 3:00 or so, I have to just cancel the interview because rescheduling 3 times is lame, and I can't take Spencer with me, nor is there anyone I can leave him with. Argh.

It is, however, sunny and warm.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

There is that! *good thoughts* Hopefully the rest of the day will be at least *less* painful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

As for me, my essay here caused a very cool Indian-American student who works here at the library to write me an extremely complimentary note about it and my writing, which got me all blushy. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Aw, luna I hope your interview and the rest of the day goes well.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

The interview lasted 15 minutes because the OM was really really busy, but she'll be calling people back for interviews with the attorney on Thursday or Friday. I got a good feeling, though.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Dallas, Texas is going to shit. But it's sorta fun.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

good luck luna!

n/a i don't hate you dude. stop being paranoid.

i spent all day hanging with phil two, which was awersome.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

ps. Mom's car has a kill-switch alarm, which is all of a sudden dead. Can't drive the car, the malfunctioning switch will probably kill the engine at some point. Fuck.

is your mom mad max?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

1. Dee, This is totally off-topic, but that mix you sent to Nick a while back is still on my i-pod and it's especially great workout music. Kinetic is my favorite and makes me think of leg warmers and 20 minute workout with Jane Fonda.

Wow. I'm incredibly surprised and rather grateful that you guys have enjoyed it. :) You know, I took another look at what it is that I included in that mix CD, and -- wow, that was actually representative of what I love about the '80s! *laughs* Anyway, I'm totally not used to hearing this about what I love musically, so, well, yeah, this is cool.

2. Sam, I'm sorry you experienced that bad dream.

3. - Dee, hugs are never a bad thing.

Yeah? Okay. I just don't want to end up being overly silly with them or anything. I mean, to the point of eye-rolling and "there she goes again" and everything.

4. The words "holy shit" just escaped my mouth for the following reasons:

I just read Markelby's "I lost $99 on cards this weekend. I cried at one point." post. Damn, hon. I'm sorry that happened.

And... there are HoJo props herein?? I thought I'd never live long enough to see that! I'm delirious with happiness.

5. Big bear hug to Pink!

6. Welcome to this thread series, Stence!

7. I'm glad Sam's in Austin now so that she can be here to describe for you guys what it's like weather-wise over where WE'RE at. Austin and S.A. are so climatologically similar that you really only need to know what's happening in one place in order to figure out, generally, what's happening in the other.

8. Good luck luna?

9. I. Have. Got. A. Headache. Right now. Size of Antarctica. Maybe it's because I should be asleep by now... ? I don't know. I should be going off to Dreamland soon-ish, though.

10. Me need play namesake song again. Me have compulsion. Me start to wear out song's welcome. Grunt grunt. ;)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Big bear hug to Pink!
Right back at you darlin! xxxx

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

Luna, sorry to hear that your day was such an ordeal, hopefully the phone call will come soon & the next interview will be a breeze!

I had an email this morning informing me that someone has sponsored me for my run via my website, but I have no idea who they are!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

You know that creepy guy in accounts, the silent one who slobbers and always seems to be looking at your boobs?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Haha, the name was Carol! haha

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh & being as I work in accounts we openly discuss my boobs! haha

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

Ahhhh. Tomorrow is my last day at work for ten days :)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

ooh lucky you arch!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Aaron, what the hell's wrong with Dallas?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Nice, Archel!

I'm hole-punching user manuals for the INSINKERATOR, which is a disposal. I've had lots of coffee, so I keep imagining it's this futuristic torture device.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

With a name like that it surely IS one? It's torturing the English language for a start!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

We have an insinkerator! It scares me.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I am having terrifying mark s nightmare visions at the INSINKERATOR, only slightly tempered by the fact that he['s so lovely and cuddly that being insinkerated would probably be akin to being smothered by a plush panda.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I need one. What is it?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

I think I've been having auditory hallucinations at night and it's freakign me out. Haven't been sleeping well since I moved. Either I can't get to sleep or I wake up in the middle of the night and it takes me a couple of hours to go back to sleep.

Occasionally during one of these bouts of insomnia I'll hear mechanized chimes. A pattern like you would hear from a churchtower announcing the hour but tinny as if coming from a gadget. The first time I heard it I thought it was G.'s phone or clock and it kept waking up approximately every hour during the night. I was furious and going to jump on him the next morning but I wasn't sure it was real when I awoke.

Since then I'll hear it and be sitting there thinking, am I really hearing this? last night it happened every five minutes, five chimes, for about an hour, then nothing. I finally mentioned it to G. and he has no idea what I'm talking about.

what the fuck's wrong with me?!?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

i stayed up for 30 hours, then slept for about 3, then up again. i feel really good, surprisingly (tho i'm gonna take it more easy today i think).

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

It's the auditory hallucination that's freaking me out. wtf??

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

What are auditory hallucinations associated with, Sam?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

according to stuff I've found online today, everything. Schizophrenia, parasominas, sleep deprivation, epilipsey, migraines.

!!!!!!!!!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

The other night I could have sworn someone was sawing wood - either stealing my bike or breaking in the apartment - but it was just my cat scratching at the bedroom door.

If you live in an apartment, Sam, maybe you hear something like someone's clock/cell phone/music from another floor? Next time you hear it, you should wake up the bf and say, "LISTEN! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

A pattern like you would hear from a churchtower announcing the hour but tinny as if coming from a gadget

my cellphone makes exactly this noise when it's low on batteries! I hope it does turn out to be something silly like that. When it first happened my husband thought he was going crazy because he could hear it and I couldn't.

Maybe it's your biological clock! ;)

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

no, I'm in a house now, thank god. I thought about waking him up but figured by the time he was awake it would've stopped.

ah teeny, that's exactly what I was thinking it could be. except G.'s phone was plugged up and charging last night, I plugged it in myself. and why would it do it a few times then stop? I don't know. maybe my freaking out about it is the sign that I'm crazy.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, I was at a street fair this weekend and they had roast corn and I thought of you :)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

hey I had roast corn at the flea market this weekend!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

mmm that sounds good. I've been a veggie-eating machine lately, spring is so awesome.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Okay, you guys seriously, I'm craving a slice of pie. I am salivating.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

wow this has been one crazy week. first sunday weird stuff at work, then all day anxiety monday, then optimism-and-fun-times-with-phil-two tuesday, now weird outta-my-control stuff wednesday.

thursday better be the most boring day ever.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

It was cold today so I had pho for lunch. Now I'm sleepy.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I had yummy steamed cauliflower for lunch with lemon pepper, lemon juice and mozzarella cheese sprinkled on top. yummm.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I just had a lasagne followed by banoffee ice cream. In case anyone doesn't know, that's banana flavoured ice cream with toffee syrup rippled through it, and over the top.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Holy cow, that sounds incredible!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

i loves banana ice cream

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

It was good, yes. I have only a tub and a half left now, though. Perhaps I should go and buy more?

Also happy because I just heard one of the all-time great bits of football commentary. Liverpool play all in red. The commentator was explaining how committed their player Jamie Carragher was, how long he'd been with them, how much he loved them, building up to his big finish, "If you cut him he'd BLEED red!"

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

i realize now that i have never had banana ice cream in my life. i am intrigued.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Last week's ice cream was good too. I don't know if you have chocolate orange in the US - chocolate with a little orange flavouring. This was a similar mix of the two ice cream flavours, i.e. mostly chocolate, with pieces of the most popular chocolate orange brand. I think I prefer the banoffee though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I nearly didn't have any ice cream, in fact. I am intending to give up smoking as soon as my supplies run out (Sunday or Monday, I would think), and I am now on lithium, and the doc told me that one frequent side effect was weight gain. That seems a bad combination, and I feel unattractive enough at the best of times, so I think I should start being careful. Also, I have a tin of sliced mango in syrup chilled nicely in the fridge, so there was a competing less fattening temptation anyway.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

(ha, an average month's worth of posts from me here, and it's all ice cream)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

i don't eat most dairy anymore, sadly.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Seek out Ben & Jerry's Chunky Munky ice cream. Banana ice cream with huge chunks of dark chocolate and walnuts. Mmmmmmm.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

There's no actual monkey in it, then?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

It is monkey-free. I wish it came with a baby monkey, though. That would be excellent.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

What would Enzo think about that?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

in our local weekly a couple of weeks ago someone was giving away a pet monkey. He wore diapers and liked to smoke cigarette. I begged and begged George for us to take it but he refused. :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Poor monkey with a monkey on his back...

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.allthingschristie.com/archives/family-guy--evil-monkey_large.jpg

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

J'ACCUSE!

― happy fun ball (kenan), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Enzo just might be part monkey because he's so damn animated. Then again, his intelligence level doesn't come close to a monkey's.

― Je4nne ƒury, proud owner of a dumb cat (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I should watch what I say about him. He reads ILE, you see.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y66/jeannefury/computer.jpg

― he's got a little head the size of a lemon, too (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

hstencil, what's brought on this trend toward veganism with you?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I love Enzo.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

He is my second favourite cat named Enzo - one of my very best and oldest friends has a cat of the same name. Given that I don't get to go over to Jeanne's place to watch her Enzo close up, he will have a hard job getting to first place with me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I love Enzo, too. I want to squish him. He would bite my toes.

I had three margaritas with lunch and now I am in such a good! mood!**

(**Also slightly horny and kinda sleepy. Oh help me).

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

not wanting to have sinus congestion all the time.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

that's a great pic of enzo!

fuckity fuckity grrarrgh. maybe i need margaritas.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

J'Accuse! is one of my favorite underused cultural references.

Of course I also think the evil monkey that lives in Chris' closet is a woefully underused cultural reference, so do with that what you will.

If I ever leave work tonight, I might seek out a margarita, now that Luna mentions it.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Hi dudes. I am content but fragile. Any thoughts?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

I just dropped $75 on the cure reissues!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

so tired

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

Of course your famous two-word non-takedowns remain dud, but I do agree in this case.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

I mean, it just seems like such an ordinary bummer nowadays. Not even very influential, for interesting academic rock-critic-y purposes.

Hugs to Teeny, and Raggett, and you know, all you sad sacks out there. :)

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

i was describing my current condition, dipshit

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh.

...

Sorry I said anything.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

sorry for calling you dipshit. and it's not like you can read every post, but:

i stayed up for 30 hours, then slept for about 3, then up again. i feel really good, surprisingly (tho i'm gonna take it more easy today i think).
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), April 27th, 2005.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

that was 12 hours and 20 minutes ago, and i haven't slept since then either.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

May I ask why? Insomnia? Work? Meth binge?

― happy fun ball (kenan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

no wal-marts in new york, yeah.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Even more hugs to Pink! And to Archel! And to anyone else here who wants one!

Sam, maybe it could just be that your ears are trying to tell you something along the lines of "hey, do you think you could do a check-up on me?" or something. I don't know. Are you in a much quieter environment than the one you just came from in Assassination City?

Stence, your life seems brimming with excitement. Trade ya for 24 hours? That way you can be bored out of your skull.

I had yummy steamed cauliflower for lunch with lemon pepper, lemon juice and mozzarella cheese sprinkled on top. yummm.

With the exception of the cheese, that sounds delightful! I don't like cheese with vegetables. I'd rather eat them cheeseless.

This sounds like one of the most awesome ice cream flavors out there: banana flavoured ice cream with toffee syrup rippled through it, and over the top. Yum! Thank God I've just finished scarfing (it's my "midnight/study snack") one of those little snack pie pocket type things. It wasn't half bad.

Je4nne, your kitty Enzo looks sweet! Aw. Yay for "dumb kitties"! Heh.

I just dropped $75 on the cure reissues!

Yay for you, Teeny! What's your verdict?

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

I myself am feeling intensely wiped out. Very tired. My eyelids feel as though they weigh like 15,000 lbs. My bed looks very inviting, but I can't jump in just yet. I can't wait until the weekend, when I get to sleep in.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

... and now I'm wide awake and listening to Kajagoogoo. I am Eighties Girl. ;)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:21 (twenty years ago)

Wide Awake In The Middle Of The Night Musing # 159,083: "Hang On Now" oddly sounds better in the warm time capsule trappings of a very low bitrate MP3 rip than it does in the more inauthentic gloss of a shimmery stereo MP3 with a high bitrate. I guess because the former makes it sound like it's coming from some uncorked '80s radio transmission (magic!), while the latter just makes it sound like it's coming from a CD (no magic at all).

I am Strange Eighties Girl.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:34 (twenty years ago)

Hi Dee! Hope you get to sleep soon and have sweet eighties dreams :)

I really want chocolate orange ice cream NOW. It's 9.45am. So having ice cream is neither feasible nor sensible, I fear.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

And now my butt is asleep! I can't have my butt be asleep! I need to sit on it so I can go on without having to retreat to my bed and... and... and... it looks inviting... and I'm starting to feel tired again... and I'm addicted to a new song, but what the hell, I'll just dream of it tonight like how i dreaemed of "Goodbye Indian Summer" a few nights ago.

(This is going to look awfully embarrassing in 24 hours' time.)

(So good night.)

XPOST!!

Hi Archel sweetie! There's no such time as a WRONG time for ice cream, you know. You could even have some for breakfast! Says me, that is. So -- nothing wrong with having ice cream in the early a.m.

Anyway, me go off and have those "sweet eighties dreams". TTFN!

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

(Oh, but first, I need to correct that pesky "dreaemed" typo thingy. "DREAMED". Dreamed dreamed dreamed dreamed dreamed dreamed dreamed. Anyway, 'night!)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Enzo is the shiznit! (soory been listening to snoop!)
Dee - you are beautiful, just thought I'd say! :-)

Aftereight ice cream is the best ice cream in the world, believe me!! num num num!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

So many ice creams are so good - I'm not sure I have a favourite. Though I'd like to try this After Eight stuff.

I'm properly excited about going on holiday now. I'm trying to finish things at work, I've got to-do lists and packing lists (note to self: pick up binoculars) all over the place. I have my currency bought, my baseball tickets booked, my accomodation sorted.

Oh, and Sarah SAW A BEAR by the Mass pike. SO jealous!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Wow! Hope she's saved some bears for you! When do you leave?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Mmmmmm aftereight ice cream. so nummy mark, you gotta get some you just gotta!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

MArkelby, any word on if you'll be visting sara's friends in worcester?

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

I've been waking up at around 3 a.m. for the past two or three weeks. It takes me a while before falling back to sleep -- if, in fact, I can. Verdict: it sucks.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

mmm sleep....whats that. since i've been out of work i have been up all night. its going to suck once i have to start getting up at 4am on monday again.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I feel like doing absolutely nothing today. I better get started.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Archie, I leave stupidly and annoyingly early on Sunday (I'll have to leave the house about 5.30am, I think). There had better be bears for me - I go into a state of rapture at unusual fauna - in fact, my current PC wallpaper is a type of rattlesnake I'm going to look for in the state parks of western MA!

Chris, no news on that yet. I'd say it's maybe 50/50 - we've got a surprisingly large amount of stuff to fit in :/

(how's the poker going? I had a good night last night after my weekend of doom - see the poker thread for horrible, horrible details)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

I haven't played poker all that much lately. been too busy...drinking beer.

Mark, email me and I will give you my cell #.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I am a bad son. My parents are in town this week but we had band practice last night instead of hanging out with them and then tomorrow night we're playing a show, which I had originally encouraged them to come to since they haven't seen me play music live since I was 14, but then I found the place we're playing is kind of divey and small and that we're playing last (so probably around midnight) and so now I'm telling them they probably wouldn't have much fun and shouldn't come, which means I probably wouldn't see them at all tomorrow either.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Naughty. Oh well, I am making up for you by being a ridiculously dutiful daughter-in-law and going all the way to bloody Leicester to meet Matt's mum's extended family ('so they can have a look at you since they're not invited to the wedding, dear'), none of whom have been in touch with Matt for at least ten years.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I want some chocolate orange ice cream and some pie, but maybe not together. Instead, I just ate a bunch of donut holes someone brought in. MMM!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Man, that pic of Enzo rules. :-)

One last huge blast of winter today with a massive early morning rainstorm. I woke up at 5 am and the truly frustrating thing was not so much being awake at that hour as it is being awake with the rain coming down and nobody to snug with, or more. Rain does that for me, y'see. (Perhaps I am gladder than I know to live in a place without much of it.)

On the flipside, all the Cure reissues are spectacular and listening to Faith right now, specifically "The Funeral Party," which I first heard way back in 1989, is pure serene grace.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

I am jealous of all the Cure re-issue owners but I can't justify that kind of money right now.

I love the picture of Enzo. Here's my fat lttle beastie, Ava, doing some flower arranging:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/avadogwood.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

At first, I thought she was actually a very slender, tall, poised kitty, but now I see she's standing up.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

The colors and lighting in that picture are beeeautiful. Um, and the cat, too!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Whatever we put in that vase, she likes to inspect in a very paws-on kind of way... and then try to destroy it.

xpost

Thank you, Je4nne.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Yay Ava! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Ava is 3 and our other cat, Benchley is 16. He's starting to get reduced kidney function, not in an immediately dangerous way, but enough where we have to take him to the vet more often. So, last week we took Ava too for her shots and a check up. When we got her 2 years ago she weighed 5.5 lbs (we called her the permakitten), now she weighs almost 8 lbs! She doesn't eat with Benchley and she doesn't eat when anyone else is around either but we've since discovered that she likes to snack all night long.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I think we should have named her
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/pussyfoot2.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I have new wallpaper. Of Ava!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

I want some chocolate orange ice cream and some pie,

Sarah, my car stereo thinks the same today, it keeps saying "seeking pi" on the display!! I mean wtf?! I will, of course, be very pleased when it finds pie though!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Here's Ava on her favorite table protecting me from coupons and catalogs:

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/3f12bb70_9b87/a215/__sr_/c0c2.jpg?phNuQcCBy5XrmBba

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Aww, she looks like Molly!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Hey, you never know what could happen with those catalogs...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

That's why she doesn't get to get anywhere near my credit cards, luna.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

today actually might be pretty boring, which will be cool. just at work 'til 8, then drinx afterwards in *ahem* park slope.

managed to get to asleep at 3:30 last night, woke up at 9 today. that's not so bad.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

That you know of.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

"Honey, did you order 500 cans of tuna on our credit card?"

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Though I was a bit afeared going to sleep (afraid I'm going to start seeing things) I actually slept well. yay. hope you catch some z's stence.

Dee, when you gonna come eat ice cream with me? We can go to Amy's together.

G. still hasn't hooked my computer up to the ethernet thingy or I'd post pictures of my mountain lion, QTip. He's 12 and weighs 20 lbs. Due to me feeling guilty about losing his sister in December he is the most spoiled kitty in the world these days.

sigh. I must do some housework today. we're going out to see some bands tonight and G. is scared b/c they've announced layoffs are about to happen at work. I should bake him some cookies or something today. I make a poor housewife.

Mark, enjoy your vacation!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

WTF, I just got an e-mail fresh in my inbox dated OCTOBER 25, 2004. (from an old co-worker) (except she wasn't old back then because I WAS STILL AT THAT JOB!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Snail mail, indeed!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

i actually got a fair amount of sleep, but feel more tired. as usual. i think i actually had some weird auditory hallucinations as i was going to sleep last night too, sam, though they weren't nearly disturbing at all. then again my ears are so shot it's kinda hard to tell anything.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

i got like 7 hours of sleep last night, which is a vast improvement over what i've been getting for the last couple months. i forgot how nice it is to wake up feeling refreshed. i just need to remind myself of that when i come home at 11:30 at night and want to play online for hours.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

You probably should get more than 5.5 hours of sleep per night, no hstencil?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I just posted a question, where has it gone?!!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

It's right here:

I just posted a question, where has it gone?!!!

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

ha! *punch* ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I had a huge candy (namely, chocolate) craving, so I took a lunchtime trip to the drugstore and brought back a candybar (TWIX) but also some Starburst to put out on my desk for everyone. Brownie points ahoy! One of my head honcho bosses just took a whole handful and said, "My favorite candy!!! How did you know?"

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I just had an entire conversation with a coworker about Sh3ll3y Duv4ll. For some reason, I was really into it. It felt like a dream.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, why did you googleproof Shelly Duvall? I WANT her to find this thread!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

SHELLEY DUVALL, I SUMMON THEE.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

http://retro-park.de/shining/pics/21.jpg

― Duvall ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

God bless the innernets 'cause a cursory image search just taught me that she has pulchritudinously perky breasteses.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

probably, but can't.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could get a bunch of ILXors to call me at work, I am bored. But also I am not dumb enough to post my work phone number on ILX.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

For about a minute I was getting the TURN BACK YOU POXY FOOL!! message and I was about to spiral into a horrible depression.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

ahh, I was getting her confused with lily tomlin last night and couldn't remember Shelly's name. Bless you Jeanne.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

But you wouldn't even have her full name without me? You'd be like, "Sholly Dovoll? No. Shully Divill? No." ad infinitum.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I tell ya I don't get no respect.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Ok, so now both the owner and one of the architects have seen my bowl of candy, run over, and then said, "Oh, it's Starburst... I'll pass." The dumbest!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

there's nothing wrong with starburst

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

it sticks to your teeth.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

i'm not a fan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I like starburst, even though I can barely cope with calling them by that name - they were Opal Fruits here all through my young days.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

there's everything right with starburst

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I thought they would be more popular because so many people in my office are watching their weight.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Aaron, what the hell's wrong with Dallas?

Miss Misery -- Crime and poverty and mayhem, not just in the Cliff or South Dallas but everywhere. Muggings, car breakins, drug dealing even the 'better' parts of town (Lakewood, Lake Highlands, Richardson, all along 75 from downtown to LBJ -- it really is bad here.

So how has Austin changed (I bet you could write a series... but is it fundamentally the same? Haven't been back in 4 years now).

― Aaron A., Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone here *ever* put cucumber slices over their eyes and like, relaxed n stuff? Is that just some spa cliche or do people actually do it?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

ahh, well I was in old east dallas (closer to downtown than Lakewood) and that's how it always was. still loved it though.

It's been about 4 yrs since I've been in Austin. Hasn't changed much. Is annoying me just as much as when I left before.

Just heard from one place I've been talking to for a couple of weeks. decided to pass on me in favor of someone with more experience.

*sigh*

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I live at Bry@n and Grnville now, in the shadow of the DPD surveillance Winnebago, parked outside every day. Wasn't this part of town getting better there for a while?

― Aaron A., Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I can't exactly remember how, but a woman, probably my ex-wife, did once persuade me to lay back with cucumber slices over my eyes. I didn't feel relaxed, I just thought "I have pieces of vegetables over my eyes" and felt like someone was taking the piss, so took them off again.

Sarah, Starburst are slimming food? Are you sure?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

xpost

haha, not while I was living there. I lived at R0ss and Carr0ll.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

omg. Well, you made it out...

― Aaron A., Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone here *ever* put cucumber slices over their eyes and like, relaxed n stuff? Is that just some spa cliche or do people actually do it?

It is a spa cliche and people do it.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

No, Martin, but they don't seem as menacing as Snickers bars.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

damn, there was me thinking that we had the solution to my weight gain fears (I mentioned the drug side effects, plus giving up smoking).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

So Martin, what motivated the decision to put you on Lithium? I also curious to see how you do with it.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

The strangest thing at lunch. I took my tostada upstairs to the back of El Faro where you can look out at the tables of the restaurants in Belden Lane and looked down to see a woman I used to know. I was 17 and she was an 18 year old spoiled recent ex-virgin from Tiburon who took a fancy to me. I didn't really fancy her much but she was used to getting her way and I was an inveterate slut. We never really 'went out' but we were, for lack of a more atrractive term, fuck buddies for part of that year. She took me to her private school prom where I died a thousand deaths from boredom and we went our separate ways over the summer.

I am in a perfect voyeur's position, above her, to her left, and behind glass that's reflecting the midday sky. She is talking to a woman who could easily be her colleague. Suddenly amidst the sounds and smells of the restaurant, her scent, that I haven't smelled in over 20 years, fills my head for a brief moment. I can think of many people whose scent I would prefer to smell once more but hers was just there, recognizable and drawing me back to adolescence. In Marcel's case, the pastry was the trigger, but in mine it was sight that triggered an olfactory memory. I sat somewhat stunned and repelled by my lunch for a couple of minutes and watched as she got the check and she and her guest walked to the end of the alley at Pine St under the towering presence of the B of A building.

It's strange how things so remote in time can feel so immediate for brief flashes. I wonder if reading Proust has triggered my subconscious somehow to produce these little bits of random memeory?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I started seeing a psychiatrist from this January - the appointment that was urgently requested last summer - who thinks I might be bipolar. I was dubious, since I've not noticed anything one might call manic behaviour, but he explained that you can be bipolar and only one of the poles is apparent. It sounded like a distinction without a difference to me, but he said that the point was that there were different treatments, and that in a lot of cases where depression wasn't alleviated by anti-depressants, changing the diagnosis and trying lithium (I remain unclear why we have to rename the condition to do this) makes a huge difference. Well, I'd tried a range of anti-depressants with no great improvement, so why not?

So I've been on it nearly three months now. Unfortunately, in terms of any assessment of the drug, something gave me a better happy boost than any drug could ever match just as I was starting with it. I had two great months, as good and happy as I've had in years, then for no obvious reason it all went wrong about a month back, and I've mostly been in bad shape for that time. The last few days have been pretty good.

I saw him on Tuesday, and I am to have another blood test to check the lithium levels, as he thinks the dose should probably be increased (from 600mg/d currently).

Michael, reading Proust can only trigger memories of eating madeleines, you know that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

xpost - how close was she that you could smell her?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't smell her. That's the point. I had this massive scent memory that kinda freaked me out. You know, if you kissed a girl at the base her neck where her hair fell - you would smell her hair and the smell of her body. Everybody's smell is quite unique and it was just weird is all I'm saying since I havent seen her in so long.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

oh, well, the way you wrote it, it seemed liked you actually smelled her, which seemed kinda gross to me, even if she smells nice.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

This scent-memory phenomenon has tricked me into thinking Calvin Klein's Eternity is sophisticated and haunting and the most enervating fragrance imaginable. Blame it on my First Time.

― Aaron A., Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

It's like music, isn't it. There are songs I'm embarassed to say I'm emotionally attached to simply because they formed the musical background to a particularly memorable time.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

oh sure. but that's not what i mean.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

This scent-memory phenomenon has tricked me into thinking Calvin Klein's Eternity is sophisticated and haunting and the most enervating fragrance imaginable. Blame it on my First Time.

Though it's not a First Time thing, I have this same reaction to Curve.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

Borges wrote somewhere about how the books in his father's library were the original versions for him, as they were the first versions he had ever read so that years later, when reading Cervantes, for example, he would always compare it to the edition his father had. We often associate form and sound and odor to emotional memories and they often work in direct contradiction to rational esthetics.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

m!cha3l again i know that! i was just saying the prose was a little clunky, i thot you meant you literally smelled her.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

I was responding to luna and Aaron.

Suddenly amidst the sounds and smells of the restaurant, her scent, that I haven't smelled in over 20 years, fills my head for a brief moment. I can think of many people whose scent I would prefer to smell once more but hers was just there, recognizable and drawing me back to adolescence. In Marcel's case, the pastry was the trigger, but in mine it was sight that triggered an olfactory memory.

I had hoped the phrase 'olfactory memory' made it clear. My bad.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

no, not your bad. i missed that. i've lost a step or three. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

It's weird, isn't it? Seriously, a sniff of Curve and I'm zero to horny in .0006 seconds.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

*starts furiously writing down note*

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

It's especially bad because at one time, three of my male co-workers (who I was not and never would be interested in) wore it. Those were long days, my friend.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Ouch. I know the feeling.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 28 April 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm that way with nearly any man's cologne: drakaar noir, curve, polo. just memories.

good luck with the lithium Martin. You could have hypomania or, like me, more mixed episodes. Neither of which represent like typical mania. It seems odd to me though that the first thing he wanted to put you on was Lithium. Nowadays that's one of the last resort BP drugs. Newer things like a drug I was on whose name completely escapes me now are usually used first especially for depression-dominated BP. They are less maintence than Lithium.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 28 April 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

i am beyond shitfaced. bottle of vino and a 12 pack...made it an early night and busted this shit out at a bar...grabbed the guitar and jammed it.

Chewing on a piece of grass
Walking down the road
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here, joe?
Some people say this town don’t look good in snow
You don’t care, I know

Ventura highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You’re gonna go I know

’cause the free wind is blowin’ through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Did di di di dit ...

Wishin’ on a falling star
Waitin’ for the early train
Sorry boy, but I’ve been hit by purple rain
Aw, come on, joe, you can always
Change your name
Thanks a lot, son, just the same

Ventura highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You’re gonna go I know

’cause the free wind is blowin’ through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

Did di di di dit ...

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

oh and i took the shirt off to jam it....im amazed im still married.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

michael you are poetic and intriguing.

i've been having the 6 month re-appearance of grief over Greg's death, after I thought I was kind of over it. I guess these things re-cur. Watching the Dig! DVD didn't help.

Nice chatting w you the other night on AIM Dee.

Sam I miss you.

Best to everyone

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Night Two of Kajagoogoo-land, but playing it on Media Player so it doesn't show up on Scary MP3 Log Site. For what reason would I avoid that logging thingy? Well, I would hope I wouldn't have to explain this... As for the song -- I am *so* going to wear this song out. But I don't care. As long as I can dream this song, I'm okay.

Dee - you are beautiful, just thought I'd say! :-)

Aw Pink, that means a hell of a lot to me. Thank you ever so, honey. You always make me feel bettah.

Dee, when you gonna come eat ice cream with me? We can go to Amy's together.

When I can spare enough time to go and do something away from this town, hon. I'd actually like to eventually end up letting Mom go off with relatives who live in Floresville for a weekend and then drive up to Austin for a day-long visit. Maybe then you could educate me on this whole "brown power" thing.... ;)

I'm also sorry to hear about your job situation, Sam.

On the candy thing: I love Starburst. I figure the stickiness is part of the fun of eating them. I *think* the candy that one can eat while one is watching one's weight is supposed to be 3 Musketeers -- at least the ads and nutrition information leads me to believe that. Oh, and you could also suck on Jolly Ranchers. I don't know if England gets Jolly Ranchers -- probably some equivalent?

On the scents thing: Anytime I smell Oscar de la Renta perfume, it automatically reminds me of Mom, because that's the fragrance she wears, and anytime I smell Obsession for Men, I automatically think of Dad, because that was the fragrance *he* wore. Which makes me happy that we have a bottle of it here at the house, because that's what I gave Dad on Father's Day 2003 and he wasn't able to get to it.

(Okay, backing away from that now.... *laughs*)

Anyway, Second Night of Wide-Awake-Ville, which really shouldn't be happening. Oh well. I'll just let it happen. I won't fight it.

(xpostville)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

My dear Orbit, it's always a pleasure chatting with you. Also, just grieve, honey. Six months isn't that long a period of time.

Chris V, let that musical energy flow.

Oh, and speaking of letting musical energy flow -- Orbit, thanks once again for the BJM! I know that a Synthpop Girl "shouldn't" logically get into that kind of thing, but damn, they're awesome. And saying that while I'm in one of my "addicted to one and only one song" moments is saying a lot.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

Hey Dee! What are you up to this w/e?

Orbit - sorry to hear about your resurgence of grief, I can only echo what Dee has said. Don't try to be strong about it if you feel like hiding away for a few days with your own thoughts. *big hugs*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

Aren't you up really lat e too Dee?!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

hello!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 29 April 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Hey Gaz! How are you, long time no speak!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

i am battered. i got hit by a car when on my bike in the week. wrecked bike but i have just bruises...and fear. and work is fucked...but it is the weekend! and me'n'the boys have been playing scissors paper rock. and i've had a beer.

how're you? whats new?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh no, sorry to hear that! Hope you're ok.
I'm good cheers. Not too much is "new" just getting on you know. I'm running a 5km sponsored run, so I should be training really, so that I don't collapse, haha, but I keep putting it off! :-/

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

bloody hell! i alway thought you were fit (*o no hangs head in shame at lame sexist joke*)

i'm ok. i played football today on the old geezers side and managed to miss at least 4 goals (we drew)

how is the house? i have to replace a cistern tomorrow. i am crap at man things.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

I think ranchers are the sort of people you'd get in the US rather than UK, Dee, and I don't know any, jolly or otherwise, let alone knowing any well enough to suck on. Also, the calorific content would be by no means negligible - lots of protein. Thanks for the suggestion anyway, though I hadn't realised that was your idea of fun.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Remember the old jolly rancher commercials with giant godzilla fruits rolling over people in the street? We need more cheesy commercials.
Also, I heartily agree with Luna's sentiment about Curve. Adrian wears it and it's seriously a please shag me now smell. Olefactory associations are very odd in the way that they are so affecting. My mom used to wear Tatiana (Huh, I had no idea it was Diane von Furstenburg until I just looked it up online) when I was little and any similar combinations of scents make me think of being about 7 and getting ready to go to the ballet.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

Orbit, I'm sorry about your loss. I don't remember you talking about it before. I lost my grandmother a year and a half ago, but it still hits me every once in a while with a bang.

I saw the DIG! dvd recently. Did Greg really like BJM?

My Starburst are quickly disappearing, so someone is enjoying them.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I have the opposite reaction to the Al3xand3r Jul!an perfume. I smell it and I want to run very very far away.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

I had a boyfriend in ninth grade who wore Obsession, but when you got up close you soon realized he was just trying to mask his B.O. Long story short, I now associate Obsession with sweat, in a bad way.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I *love* it when women get on the subway and smell of something pretty, or when I'm walking behind someone and they smell good.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Me too, but it's tricky trying to wear some kind of perfume without putting on too much or too little.. Lately, I've been wearing K.A.I. or Henri Bendel Rose perfume (I'm probably mispelling that).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

SOSOOSOOSOSOSO CCCAAFFFEEEIIINNANAAAATTTEEEDD

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

do you ppl always wear perfume/cologne?! this is foreign to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I usually do. According to the Noise Board, that makes me a douche, which I will take as high praise.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I never have and never will wear cologne. I wear aftershave cream, but only cuz I don't like my neck & face to be covered in rash.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Fortunately for me, my body produces a natural scent very similar to Elizabeth Taylor's "Diamonds & Sapphires."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

does anyone have any recommendations for scentless soap?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

i used to wear perfume all the time, and don't at all anymore. it seems like a strange thing to me now. i have to use lots of lotion for my dry skin, and so sometimes if a lotion is kinda scented i smell faintly of that. i just ordered one that smells a bit like almonds, which sounds good to me.

the other day out of nowhere i thought i smelled liz claiborne reality, which i used to wear in college, and it got me thinking a lot about the way i used to be then.

obsession for men reminds me so so so so strongly of this guy from college that i pseudo-dated. and drakkar noir, of an asshole guy from high school who played with my mind. it sort of bothers me to smell those fragrances, i don't want to think about those guys...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Does scentless soap erase any odour your body might produce, or does is simply not add another scent?
I ask because I'm trying to get rid of a dog.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

I don't wear perfume. I use yardley oatmel soap which doesn't really smell like much, oatmeal.

Orbit, hang in there maybe I'll catch you on aim one of these days.

i feel like crap today. we went out last night and i'm supposed to see a friend later but i don't think i can pull it off.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Lately I've been wearing Escada Rockin' Rio 'cause it smells like passionfruit and makes me smell goooood. Really, here, smell me!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Get closer, you.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

The yardley soaps Sam mentioned are very nice - and very cheap too at your local drugstore (but they look and smell fancy).

Right now, my favorite soap is Tocca, which is more sophisticated than I'll ever be:
http://store1.yimg.com/I/amenwardyhome_1841_25267470

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I announce my presence with sound, not smell.
I'm the loudest man in the world today. Sqeaky sneakers, cords, change & keys in my pockets, and a windbreaker.
This is me:
skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep, skree, voot, clankle, veep.

― Huk-L, Friday, 29 April 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Hey y'all--just online briefly while trying to work out my mom's old computer problems. Hope everyone is well.

Chris, my friends in Worcester won't be living there after today, it turns out. Is meeting up with y'all in Northampton(ish) sometime still possible? Our time is filling up with more plans than I thought it would, but if you've emailed mark your # then we'll be in touch, and I have internet on occasion. I thought about starting a MassFAP thread, but I haven't yet.

I am sort of getting along with my mom ok although I arrived home to find that she'd given away (or thrown away, in the case of my favorite levi's with holes in them) most of my clothing last fall, without mentioning it to me. This was like 4 or 5 garbage bags full of stuff, at least, that I wear when I'm home and have been gradually ferrying back in extra suitcases on each of my visits, and had planned to do so this time. Luckily, no shoes were purged. I can understand her reasons, but DAMN, if she'd only asked! I sort of cycle from loving her and being glad I'm visiting, straight into irritability and frustration and then back.

Also, I saw a BEAR, but I see Mark has given you all that news.

I heart the Berkshires.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Because of your bear sighting, I expect to see at least one moose when I'm in Maine in a couple weeks. Someone put out a bulletin or something, please.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

i have a date tonight!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

AAWWWLLL RIIIIIGHT!!!!!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Yay, hstencil.

I'm going to NYC next Thursday. What kind of wildlife should I expect to see?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

squirrels, birds, homeless people

michael you gonna be around next weekend? email me, i know of a l'il party concerning a horseracing event that you might be interested in. also jeanne email me about that too.

i think it's a date, i don't really know (how do you say "is this a date or not?" on a date? you just, like, either do things that indicate it or not). but i figure if you make vague rumblings about doing something, and the other person sez 'let's get drinx at 10 on friday night,' that's something, right?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha, Cinco de Mayo? Put yer party hat on.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Stence, it's def a date. (And I can't go to your party because it's my best friend's bachelorette party. *smiles through teh phear*)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

oh, dang jeanne. but wait, what time is your bachelorette shindig? because i have a buncha frenz that are going to one too, but it doesn't start 'til 8. derby party starts at 3, race is like 6 or 6:30 or something (and only 2 minutes long).

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

squirrels, birds, homeless people

No moose or elephants!? WTF?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

maybe if you go to the zoo?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Hstencil, are you going out with Mandee? Because she doesn't know if she's going on a date tonight either.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

my honey's coming home early today as they get to stop work at 2 and have a carnival in the parking lot. They're always doing crazy shit like that. One Friday each dept. went to lunch and a movie together, on D3LL. WTF? Who's job takes them out on dates?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

As long as he doesn't have to put out afterwards, what's the problem with that, Sam?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

i am not going out with mandee, unfortunately. it's a long drive from here to colorado, much longer than the g train to williamsburg.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

I grumble b/c he would be going on dates while I was having to teach. high perk jobs just shouldn't exist anymore. anyway, he's coming home early so that's a good thing.

it's really bizarre to me how D3LL has come from a venture started in a dorm room to the humongo scary coporation it is now.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

high perk jobs just shouldn't exist anymore

Wrong. Teachers should have them.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

high perk jobs just shouldn't exist anymore.

i agree. save the money and pay your employees better!

xpost m. white otm!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

teachers should have decent working conditions. that would be an enormous place to start.

i'm just being grinchy. obv. free things off of work are a good thing. They even have things like smoothies during mtgs. weird.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

I just saw two dudes on 43rd smoking w33d -- a joint and a pipe. They weren't foolin around.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

How rare is that in NY nowadays? I see people flagrantly smoking out all over in SF.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't see it much, but then again, I don't go anywhere fun.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

So I'll be in NYC from Thrusday to Tuesday. Looks like Saturday eve might be open for a while and Monday. We'll be staying at the mandarin.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I've been convinced I don't really want a dog. Two coworkers brought dogs in today, big dogs too. They keep humping each other, drooling on everything, begging... and how could I forget DOG BREATH?? We were all eating in the conference room during lunch and people kept feeding the dogs their food and letting them lick their faces.

But, keep it up, dog owners, because I like seeing dogs being walked around the neighborhood.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Dogs are like children. They're cute and entirely better off in someone else's hands than mine.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

ok dude michael you gotta come to the derby party then! rulin'!

sarah you could get a small dog

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

What part of the metropolis do you inhabit, hstencil?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I want to meet Enzo.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Enzo lives with my parents. If he lived with me, it would not be good. He's used to inhabiting three very large floors. To confine him to my place would cause a very unnecessary nervous breakdown.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

m. i live in clinton hill, brooklyn - conveniently located on the A/C lines to/from manhattan, and the G line to queens

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

we will get a dog soon. as soon as the leasing company fixes our back fence. meanwhile I dog shop on petfinder.org and imagine which doggie we shall give a second life to. we're leaning towards a black lab mix, adult.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/happyatthevet.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Je4nne, don't you love that a creature so much smaller than you requires living space so much larger? I trust he has your parents well trained.

Which z-dog is that, luna?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

-ero.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Ava purred so loud at the vet's the other day that she (the vet) couldn't listen to her heart. Such a slut.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

That one was the day after his seizure when I had to take him to the vet. He was happy because:

(a) he was sitting next to 'daddy'
(b) Oh! New People!
(c) I can lick some of them!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

I wanted one of these for a while, but then learned they don't live very long at all:
http://www.welpen.de/zverzeichnis/bilder/caval.jpg

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

I can't stop thinking about this kitty:

http://www.petfinder.com/pet.cgi?action=2&pet=4132840&adTarget=468catgeneral&SessionID=42727e653a321974-app5&display=&preview=&row=0&tmpl=&stat=

When I was down here during SXSW I saw him on the morning news. he has heart murmur and is solid white like my kitty Qtip. then when G and I went to the pound looking at dogs I saw him and sat and played with him for awhile. so sweet. it makes me sad that he's been at the city pound for so long

I think a lot about adopting him but G has really bad cat allergies so I would feel mean bringing another. also I don't know if I could give the right amount of love to a dog, a lizard and two cats. also Qtip would hate it. he loves being the only kitty. *sigh*

(Qtip purrs loudly at vet too but it's b/c he's nervous, not happy)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

That was my very first dog, Sarah. His name was Tyson and he was my best friend in the whole world, ever. My mom was going to give him to someone who wanted to breed him when we had to move to Australia, but he got into a dog fight and one of his eyes got knocked out and the woman didn't want him anymore, so my stepdad had him put down. He and I were both about 8, and you know, I still miss him.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Zero smiles for the camera. Holy friggin' cutie faces.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

King Charles Spaniel, or whatever they're called?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, yeah.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

haha! I need some stuff from the store and was going to head up to the ghetto market up the street but didnae really wanna. it's hot out, my car is driving like death and I hate putting on bras. So I called my BF and he will stop on the way home. yay! boyfriends are great!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

They're awfully cute. I like Springers a lot too.

xpost (in case you were worried, Sam)

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

http://cavalierclub.wz.cz/images/historie/van-dyck.jpg

Young Chuck with his sibs and dawgs.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

stence, did you know that B1ll Calla han lives in austin now? I didn't until he was in the paper this week.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Some dude from the fancy pants magazine (they work on our floor) was asking my department if anyone wanted a coupon to Sakks. He went to every cubicle and no one said yes. So he gets to my cube and is basically FORCED to offer it to me. And so I took it. Let it be known that I am wearing a kelly green zip-up hoodie, jeans, and slip-on sneakers. I look like a homeless teen. La dee da.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah actually i heard that, sam. i also heard he's dating j0anna n3ws0m but i dunno if that's true. i guess he was impressed by the days inn, er, uh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I think Fancy Pants would be a great name for a magazine.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

who's that chick? and what's sakks? I'm a bumkin.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

j0anna n3wsom was discovered by ~~jaymc~~ (hahaha JUST KIDDING DUDE) will oldham and got signed to drag city in 2003. (smog) played 3 dates with her on that tour, she's nice. she plays harp and sings, and sold a lot of her first record when it came out last year.

read that austin chron interview, it's not so bad. i didn't get to hear the grackles, tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

saks is a high end department store

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Man, do I loves me some Smog.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

you couldn't have missed the grackles. they descend on the city as soon as night begins to fall.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

ah around that time i think i was in emo's, selling t-shirts and hanging out with you and kenan and my other frenz, grackle-less.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

thanks for giving jaymc the cred!! haha!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

all cred where cred is due.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

i don't know why i avoided the Pt. X threads. they're totally normal. i guess i thought it was a secret club or something.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

If by "totally normal" you mean "very kind and sweet yet extremely ADD," then yes, you're correct.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Hey Kelsey! Hey everyone! Hey Sgs you gorgeous thing :)

Nothing to report (do I ever have anything to report) other than it's bedtime. "Parenthood" is on telly, but an unsympathetic Rick Moranis and a be-permed Tom Hulse (who I totally rate btw) aren't likely to help me get my beauty sleep.

We're at a baseball game on cinco de mayo. Cinco de mayo means nothing to me, as a Britisher. What should I expect?

29 hours till I leave for the airport...

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Mark, you know it's the Mexican holiday where they celebrate the ouster of Emperor Maximillian by making mayonnaise in the sink, right?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm really very sorry about that one.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Sarah to answer your question way upthread, Greg was in Dig! He was the guy who discovered BJM (president of BOMP! Records, which put out all their singles and albums before they were signed to TVT). I worked for Greg, and was the promo person for BJM during that time. In short, yes Greg liked BJM. He was a good friend and mentor to them, and all our lives are bound up in one way or another, in the both a sad and hilarious way, depending on what day it was.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 30 April 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Mark, You can expect to get drunk off yuppie mexican imported beer and perhaps eat a sad Midwestern version of guacamole.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Midwestern? In Connecticut? Cool!

(I feel dumb for not knowing what BJM is.)

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

there are mexicans in connecticut, sort of.

hi everybody. um, last night, well, yeah. things are good.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Excellent, hstencil.

― M. White (Miguelito), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

i haven't been home yet.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Markelby. It s the lazy way of writing Brian Jonestown Massacre

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 30 April 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh Mark I thought you were in Mass. for some reason. Which I guess still isn't really the Midwest. I think my geography education is lacking since we're taught with maps that look like this down here:

http://www.thepostcard.com/walt/maps/mp846.gif

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

oh Miss Misery!
The thing you sent me on myspace has catapulted me into, at the request of those who care, the legalities of things. This is stressful. But I'm glad you sent me that. I heard it's posted everywhere. I'm too lazy to log back into myspace so I'm posting this here.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

well I hope it didn't upset you b/c I know you were already down. It was a bulletin that a friend of mine reposted from somewhere.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

THE NEW INTERNS ARE HERE!

― huk-L, Monday, 2 May 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

hstencil: are you talking about your date? i hope you're not posting that from her house!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

"Hold on a minute, sweetheart, I'm just gonna wash my face...and post to an internet message board."

― Huk-L, Monday, 2 May 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

uh well i did check my email on her computer but i thot maybe i should wait with the internet mentalism 'til later.

i was posting from work, where i went after her house.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

so things went well then?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

yay!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Boo YA!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

*merry*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

* hiccups *

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Excellent!! P.S. I told you it was a date ;)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

So I was just filing some expense claims (other people's, not mine) (like filing them as in putting them in file folders), which isn't really part of job description to begin with, but I've just noticed that a certain executive has been charging cab rides from the airport to his residence to the company. He just got back from a holiday, and there seem to be more inappropriate expense claims.

― Huk-L, Monday, 2 May 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Is he nice to you?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

He will be now.

― Huk-L, Monday, 2 May 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I often see this but luckily our expenses program has a final affirmation process whereby you swear that the expenses are legitimate to the best of your knowledge. Since I am always working off the info they have supplied, I'm safe should they get found out.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Technically, I wasn't even supposed to be looking at them. I was just supposed to file them according to dept.
But, like, I know where he lives. ANd I know where the airport is. And I know it's like an $8 cab ride from the airport to his house. What a douchebag! He's an executive. I mean, fuck. And maybe, maybe, he just didn't have any Cdn cash when he got in and paid the company back, or plans on paying the company back when someone higher up than me notices this.
But I was given dirty looks for putting my own mail with my own stamps on it in the daily outgoing mail bin.
"This is for company mail."

― Huk-L, Monday, 2 May 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Everyone up in my workplace needs to relax.

― ƒury goes to Hollywood (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

ah fucjnd/rehn;fe;uofbvgo'[equbfto that's my day in a nutshell!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Here's something very minor that has, nonetheless, bugged the hell out of me since I have started working this job: Hanging up in the kitchen near the watercooler is a sign, presumably from some state govt. agency, that says: "In Illinois, women earn 71 cents for every $1 a man earns."
I am the only man that works in my office.
I am the administrative assistant. I am the lowest on the totem pole. There is NO WAY IN HELL that I am making more money than anyone else in the office.
Is this kind of offensive, or am I being dumb?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

You should stencil in under it: "But not here."

They'll never guess the culprit.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

i AM SO BUYING THIS

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

N/A, I believe the sign means that if there were a female admin asst, she'd be making less than you are currently making. (But perhaps not, since all your co-workers are women and are clearly hip to gender bias.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

You should write underneath it in black marker "I have a 9 inch cock"

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Exactly, I find it mildly insulting because of the particulars of my workplace. I could understand it in another context, but I'm not sure what the point is here.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

was it there before you got there? it's probably just a solidarity thing.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Well, there are a bunch of other forms on there about worker's rights and stuff, so it's more likely a "we got a bunch of stuff from the state in the mail and slapped it all up on the board" thing, and I certainly don't think it's intended to intentionally insult or anything. Eh, it's not that big a deal, just seems kind of insensitive.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

(Nick, I just tried to call you back, but I guess you were on the phone with someone with a headache...)

Hey, guys. I've got too much work to do this morning and a coworker said I had to get out of the spreadsheet I was using so she could update it - and all my work hinges on using the spreadsheet. *sigh*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I feel kinda out of ILX after the AarZ debacle this weekend, I know it didn't affect things like TITTWIS, but it sort of tainted my normally fun Monday morning checking what happened over the weekend. But just wanted to announce that I am leaving in 10 minutes to go get tasty gyros for lunch. Yum!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

It's probably a solidarity thing. I think women are up to 74¢ on the dollar in Canada. And it's not so much that if a woman was doing the same job that you are she'd be paid less. That does happen, but a larger issue is that women often wind up in jobs that are generally lower paying, with fewer opportunities for advancement.
Also, a much higher ratio of women work part-time jobs because they're "better off" doing that than paying for full-time childcare.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Also Nick that figure probably represents an average for the work force, not just you. Rest on the laurels of your historically-well treated gender and don't sweat it.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

um, nick, that sign is prolly mandated by state law to hang in all illinois workplaces, like many labor notices by both fed and state govs.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Somehow the fact that lots of other dudes are making tons of money doesn't make me feel better about getting paid shit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

I think women are up to 74¢ on the dollar in Canada.

But that's only $0.590205 USD!!! Poor Canadian women!

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Forget it, I guess I'm just an asshole.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

no, but you are working a low level job, right? all low-level jobs pay shit. Ask all the single moms making minimum wage that our congress refused to raise.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

YES, I ALREADY SAID I'M AN ASSHOLE. Now can we please discuss something else?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

haha. . .I don't think you're an asshole.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Wear a skirt to work tomorrow.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm also the lowest paid person in a workplace largely composed of women.
Mind you, I'm also sitting at my desk reading a Batman comic. And it's work. I'm currently being paid a very small amount to read a Batman comic. Meanwhile the nearest woman, who makes about double what I do and gets full benefits, is poring over a document outlining Transfer Payments between Federal and Provincial Gov'ts.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

I like this skirt idea. I could probably get away with it here in SF if I said it was part of my new gender identity.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I am grumpy now. I feel weird and I can't tell if it's bad allergies or if I'm getting sick again but my throat is tickly and I keep coughing and my eyes are watery. I hate my job and I'm going to be stuck here forever. Blechk.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

i don't think you're an asshole either, n/a.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

And I doubt you'll be stuck in your job forever.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i'm living proof that even the biggest asshole can get a new job!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Thanks dudes. I'm mostly suffering from crippling boredom today I think. Maybe I need to take a short break from ILX, just for like an hour or so.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Dammit, I read Batman comics too, and no one pays me to do it. What am I doing wrong? Who should I start billing?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Well, now I'm reading a Katy Keene. Or rather Betty & Veronica feat. Katy Keene. So, y'know, it's not all kicks.
(I'm doing a feature on Free Comic Book Day)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

I would happily read that comic for free! Maybe I wouldn't pay for it, as I generally do.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

haha, one of those moments when, just as you hit submit, you realise that you could be heading for the 'quoted out of context' thread.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

(Nick, I was going to grab you some birthday cake, but it is filled with - prepare yourself - banana cream!!)

Is it 4:30 yet?? *whine whine whine*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Is it Nick's birthday?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm ready to break heads. I love it when people dump a project in my lap, don't explain JACK SHIT, and expect me to write up edit plans. And where are they while I'm trying to stick square pegs in round holes?? Flittering about the office saying "I'm bored. I'm hungry. What'cha doing?" Makes. Me. Homicidal.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Nick, I think it is kinda insensitive of them to leave it up. Someone put it there - it's not part of the regular wage/labor packets that businesses are required to post... I say take it down!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Today is another day of "oh, here's a last minute filing from the retards in Texas, please format these nine documents, copy them 10 times each and get them out the door to the court in the next half-hour, k thx bye."

MOTHERFUCKER.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

speaking of comics . . . i'm going to see marjane satrapi tonight!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

luna, it might be mandatory in illinois tho. they got that new democratic governor, rod blagojevihaeronsavoaroigafvasnacooovich.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

N/A is it bothering you because it makes you feel guilty for being a guy? I don't get it.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

It bothers him because there's some dude out there who got his 29¢.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

That's what happens when you miss a meeting, n/a.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

this is what happens when you meet a stranger in the alps!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Somehow the fact that lots of other dudes are making tons of money doesn't make me feel better about getting paid shit.

Beleeeeeeve me, I understand this emotion. I need a bigger apartment so bad I can taste it. (The size you and Sarah have would do nicely.) And a new computer. And a sofa that you can sit on instead of this completely bizarre thing that I have, which subtly encourages you to please kindly move elsewhere in the apartment. And... well... lots of other things that only money can buy.

Oh, and more job satisfaction. That'd be nice, too.

I am confident, though. Not all the time, mind you, not every day, and not when I haven't had enough coffee or have eaten too much or am otherwise feeling unmotivated and stagnant. Then it seems there's no way out, that I'll be poor and unhappy forever. If today was one of those days, I guess I wouldn't be writing this. But there ARE those days, more often than I'd like to think about.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

I'm over the whole sign thing, I'm just going to "accidentally" vomit on it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Ever the rogue.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

today has been a productive one. I did yoga this morning (badly), just got back from a huge grocery trip, bought mother's day cards, and am about to bake a cheesecake. yay!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

On November 29, 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I hope they made him play at least once.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, thanks for that image, Martin!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Behold. The power of poop.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Duh, the pope played hockey: http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/humour/images/17pope.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

I think he played football in his youth. I get my popes mixed up, but wasn't he a goalkeeper? That seems decent grounding for baseketball - jumping, catching, ball-handling and all that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

[insert catholic ball-handling joke here]

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bigboy.com/images/dessert.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Martin,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/funny_old_game/3242602.stm

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Struggling Liverpool? I note that as soon as the Pope dies, they get to the final of football's greatest club tournament! Proof, if more proof were needed, that God doesn't exist, I'm sure you'll agree.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Either that or Karol had a talk with the Big Man. How do you spell 'scouse' in Polish, anyway?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey everyone!

Sarah's finishing off her shower and we're off to get BURRITOS in a moment, before shopping for winter coats (it being bloody 40 degrees in this here New England and I didn't bring anything remotely warm) and maybe seeing a film. I love being in the States!

Wtf was that Aaron thing all about, anyway? That was one hell of a superiority complex - does anyone remember Doomie at his most preposterous? I read the thread, but was honestly glad I was slightly out of the ILX loop at the time. All I know is that several people seemed genuinely concerned for him, then he turns into a PSYCHO LOSER and dumps all over everyone. Weird.

Sarah's mum made like 60 cup cakes. I have eaten 4 so far, but it's my aim to finish them by next Tuesday. Give me strength, oh lord (of cakes).

― Markelby in MA, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I think Aaron was in the grip of an extreme manic phase, Mark.

Burritos! In New England? Is that legal?

Tomorrow to NY. I hope you nad Sarah have fun, Mark.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

hmm, is today cinco de mayo? ah no, that's tomorrow. have fun mark, have you been over before?

yes Aaron appeared very ill and I just wish people would have left him alone instead of baiting him/engaging with him. "psycho" is a bit innappropriate here.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Burritos! In New England? Is that legal?

Anna's Taqueria in Boston makes the best burritos on earth. This is not subject to debate. I did my undergrad in Boston and the only thing I miss about that godforsakn city is Anna's Burritos.

Luna, that looks like some fine pah.

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Tomorrow will be nacho y cerveza fest. If only I had a sombrero.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Did I mention Nick's mom made CHERRY COBBLER for his birthday? (ok, so it wasn't STRAWBERRY or PIE, but I just thought I'd mention it because it was delicious)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid
And my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent
When this grey world crumbles like a cake
I'll be hanging from the hope
That I'll never see that recipe again

As I walk, I think about a new way to walk
As I think, I'm using up the time left to think
And this train keep rolling off the track
Trying to act like something else
Trying to go where it's been uninvited

It's not my birthday
It's not today
It's not my birthday, so why do you lunge out at me?
When the word comes down, "Never more will be around"
Though I'll wish you were there, I was less than we could bear
And I'm not the only dust my mother raised

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I just want to say that I really, really dislike one of the new interns. I don't know which one, but she's standing behind me talking up a storm about how awesome she is and stuff.
One of them said "good morning to me" today, and I answered, "Hello, intern."
Because learning their names is totally beneath me.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

didn't you tell us the other day you sit around reading Batman comics at work?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

ZING!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

One of them said "good morning to me" today, and I answered, "Hello, intern."
Because learning their names is totally beneath me.

Huk, you snob!

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

dategirl update:

-hung out at her pad on sunday evening
-plans to go out again friday
-she just asked me to go to dinner tonight! awesome

this dude is psyched.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 21:07 (twenty years ago)

[pitter-patter]

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

I just sneezed 12 times in a row.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

dude. bless you.

it seems that i now have allergies, which sucks ass. it's a cliche that if you live in dc for ten years you'll get them, so now i've become even more of a living cliche.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Hello thread.
I'm in anxiety-land, in the middle of a probate battle trying to protect my dead friend's son's future. I don't know if there is anything this stressful. I had to take 2 klonopins just to make it through the workday. The ability of adults to be selfish and callous and "not my problem, don't involve me" just blows my mind.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 5 May 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

*soothes Orbit*

*hands luna tissues*

I've just been informed some news that's disturbing ME at the moment. You guys know who Genene Jones is? The nurse from TX who was convicted of murdering a little baby girl and who was suspected in additional deaths and injuries? Well, she's really itching to get out now, and that's really got me all knotted up, because she worked at the hospital I was born in, at the time I was born, and I have heard from a couple of sources that I narrowly avoided becoming injured or even worse by Nurse Jones (because I was born around 9:30 in the morning a healthy baby, I was able to be discharged shortly before the overnight shift took over, which is the shift Jones worked at the time).

I hope hope hope hope HOPE HOPE HOPE a hell of a lot of people are going to be available to raise hell so that Genene Jones doesn't get out. I hope she spends the rest of her life rotting miserably behind bars.

Anyway.... </delurk>

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

(Okay, so now I find out that this is not exactly "new" news, that this has been common knowledge for about three months. But I just found out about this now, and I think her parole hearing is going to occur really soon. Oh, I do hope she gets denied.)

(Anyway, back to thread.)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

Yep Anna's Burritos are where its at. I lived down the street from one, it was my hangover cure.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 5 May 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey lovelies!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 May 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Hello, Pinkness!

Why does Microsoft Word have to be such a pain? I'm working on these labels and my boss wants me to put borders around only a couple of lines on each label, but some of the border lines keep showing up outside of the stickers. NOOO!!!! Someone please tell me how to change that.

I'm really tired today. But also, it might get up to 70. :-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Hey, what are you doin'? HEEEEEEEYYYY. What's goin' on?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Orbit, hang in there.

I feel ya on the allergies. There's something growing in Austin that didn't in dallas b/c I've been miserable ever since I moved down here.

The other day I said I was making a cheesecake but I failed. The $7 hand mixer I had burnt out while I was trying to cream the cheese and the project was aborted halfway. last night G. comes home with this:

http://www.goodmans.net/item_images/sn%2d2346_FULL.jpg

and says he doesn't want me to be frustrated by little things anymore.

holy moly.. .I dont' even know how to use this thing. I think it's engine is more powerful than my car's. I'm going to have to bake him cakes and pies forever now. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

sounds like a win-win sitch, sam.

i have once again gone from top-of-the-world awesomeness to feeling utterly shitty. no, nothing to do with dategirl, but the bottom seems to be falling out again re: my "career."

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I get frustrated by little things ALL THE TIME. I really want to simplify my life, but I don't really know what I mean by that exactly. I want to de-clutter, so I'm having this yard sale. I'm ambitious and lazy at the same time.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Hi again,

Sam, yes, I've been to the States about 9 times (all in the past seven years - I'm addicted, I think). I'm in MA right now, though tonight we're driving down to CT to see a baseball game (with popshots Dave, if I can get hold of him).

And the Burritos at Wogaffers in Great Barrington roxor. I've never had a burrito in Texas (the nearest being at a Taco Bell in the Arizona desert).

We're going hiking on Haystack Mountain on the way to the baseball. I hope to see a rattlesnake.

We saw "Fever Pitch" last night. Has anyone else seen it? Any thoughts? I thought they were adorable.

TTFN,
Mark

― M to the Arkelby, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

want to throw a burnt out hand mixer in with the lot?

G. is too generous. the thought was great but this thing's an expenisve behemoth. I feel compelled to become Lil' Suzy Homemaker now. or perhaps to go out and buy a blender for our kitchen so I can have a pitcher of frozen margaritas waiting for him when he comes home. hmm it is cinco de mayo.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm addicted to burritos.
Yesterday I had a fever so I was in bed all day and I had this bizarre dream where this ex-con was trying to convince us to open a fried chicken place but not with real chicken, but rather what he called "prison chicken" which was lard and breadcrumbs and sawdust mixed together and fried. It was bizarre.
In other news, I am probably going to see "Hitchhiker's Guide" tomorrow night. I don't know if I really want to, but I ran into an old co-worker from the lab and he really wants to go and no one with go with him, so myself and some grad students felt bad for him that no one said yes, so we are going. Maybe I can convnce everyone to get Mexican food afterwards.
Also, things with Adrian are going very well. He had a really difficult exam earlier this week (statistical mechanics. I don't know what that is either) so I made him a cake. I am going domestic.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't really do burritos. Couldn't say they're that great here b/c I don't think many others hold them up either.Tacos yes (make mine carne asada please). Migas, absolutely. There's a taqueria on every corner here in Austin and I judge them by their migas and their combo plates. A combo plate basically nets you two types of meat (barbacoa, fajita, pollo, pork, sometimes tongue) rice, beans, and "salad". All to be eaten with a steaming pile of tortillas and salsa. yum.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

What's a miga? I don't remember that from my time in AZ.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

eggs scrambled with bits of corn tortilla (or chips), tomatoes, onions, jalapenos and sometimes cheese or chorizo. tres yum!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I like me some frittatas!

Actually, I usually get veggie (black bean) tacos. I love them with avocado.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

oh that sounds great!! we had something similar called a chilaquila, but it was more like a casserole dish--layered eggs and tortillas with like an enchilada sauce through the whole thing, and then veggies or chorizo also depending on who made it.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

that sounds similar to chiliquiles which you get often in Dallas. Migas seem to be a dish of these parts only. Migas means crumbs and it's not exactly high cuisine. very much comfor food.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I've been making frittatas lately. I'm becoming some kind of awesome chef.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

is a frittata like a quiche?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Debating whether to drink beer or margaritas tonight. Hmmmm.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

What kind of beer?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I'd go for the margaritas.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't tell you what the difference between a frittata and a quiche is. Probably a quiche has a crust, and more cheese.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Frittata has no crust. It's kind of like a big thick omelette with a bunch of stuff in, sometimes rice, sometimes potato, sometimes spinach, etc. It's kinda in between an omelette and a quiche.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

And quiche is sorta whipped too, right, so that it's lighter?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Luna, you're just trying to get me wasted, you minx.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

I admit nothing!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

start with a margartia Jeanne and then go to beer.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

A plate that will do for me = just one general entree, rice, beans, and that "salad" thing that's really just shredded iceberg lettuce and diced tomatoes. No "combo" plates; that'd be too much for me. Or, my current favorite, the "breakfast plate". I know a place that does REALLY good breakfast plates -- my favorite being the papas con huevo plate with beans and two slices of bacon. And tortillas. And salsa for my beans -- I *have* to have spicy beans.

The migas that we make at home = just diced corn tortillas that have been fried crispy first and then incorporated with eggs. I have yet to have the additional stuff on migas, and in fact think of that extra stuff as actually being in chilaquiles, which Mom loves. Me, I just want my eggs and tortilla.

Mind you, I say all this kinda hypocritically. I could do very well without eating Tex-Mex or Mexican for a LONG time, because I'm exposed to that kind of stuff all the bleeding time. I celebrated Cinco de Mayo by going out and getting me a DQ burger combo for dinner. Whoo hoo, viva Mexico, etc.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

(Another odd way of celebrating Mexican independence from Spain: I'm currently tuned into C-SPAN 2's simulcast of the BBC's election night coverage, because it's the most exciting television on at the moment.) (Oh yeah, babe, I'm DEFINITELY taking my heritage into consideration tonight. *laughs*) (BUT -- I'm half Mexican and half Spanish, right? So -- should I celebrate or should I abstain from celebrating? *laughs again*)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

hmm, what you describe as Migas is what I typically see served as chilaquiles.

cinco de mayo is a whitey celebration anyway. Don't most Mexicans celebrate Sept. 16 anyway? (is one of your parents from Spain Dee?)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

That's odd -- migas as chilaquiles and chilaquiles as migas.

Heh. Yeah. El Diez y Seis seems more festive around here. Anyway -- both my parents are from Texas, but my mother's ancestry is pure Spanish and my father's was pure Mexican. Well, I say "pure" -- really, there's a little bit of Native American thrown in there on Dad's side of the family, but aside from that, yeah.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

(Mom has naturally light brown hair and skin that makes it easy for you to see when she's getting red-faced. Which is often. Dad was Dark With A Capital D, with jet black hair. I'm somewhere in the middle, naturally.)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

I think the two things are almost interchangable as they stem from the basic idea of using up leftovers. From my experiences though chiliquiles tend to be less eggy and more casserole like.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Right... though I often saw migas as an "easy dinner", something whipped up on Friday night after a stressful week for the whole of the family. Dad would add diced weiners to the dish and I would open up a can of Gephardt refried beans to warm up along with the (what we called) "migas", and Mom would be the one to dice the tortillas.

Ugh, all this food talk with my stomach as full as it is. Ugh.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:22 (twenty years ago)

"Gephardt"? "Gebhardt". I think. Whatever. You know what I mean -- the stuff in that orangey yellow can. ;)

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Hey Sarah! How is your bike?

Luna - how did you get on with the job?

Hey Dee, I think you should celebrate & feel guilty the next day! haha.

Sam - that was kinda sweet what G did. Perhaps you could make cheesecake for everyone?! No, just a thought! ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 May 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

drunk fri night

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 6 May 2005 08:55 (twenty years ago)

Mark, I saw fever pitch. It was pretty good. Kind of disgusting at the end if your a true Sox fan and that poser and his fucking shitty co-star are on the field running the moment.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 6 May 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

"ruining"

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 6 May 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

drunk fri night

Hooray!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 6 May 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I just realized that I've got FOX News on my cable now. It's insane! Everybody (and I've only seen male anchors so far) looks like they've had one too many facelifts.

― Huk-L, Friday, 6 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Just got back from a Bklyn design expo. Lots of hand carved wood furniture. I thought there'd be more variety, but there wasn't. I have a pounding headache, too.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 6 May 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Nothing came of the job, Pinx, but I have more interviews set up for next week.

I didn't do a thing to celebrate Cinco de Mayo last night - unless you count going home and going to sleep. I'm so fucking exciting.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I had Cinco de Sleepo last night. 8pm.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 6 May 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I rented a convertible for the wedding back home, and have just looked at the weather reports and found that it's supposed to rain at least two of the days I'm there - perhaps more. (They only forecast 15 days ahead...)

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 May 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

You can't trust weather forecasts that far ahead - it might turn out to be perfect convertible weather.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 6 May 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

I hope so!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 6 May 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, let's hope the forecasts are wrong and that you get lots of sunshine.

Timeline of today's events:

5:00 a.m. - Wake up. Drag self out of bed. Decide that the best morning TV option out there is to play my Japan video compilation. Get dressed in the dull glow of the TV set.
5:45 a.m. - Decide to go on the computer for a short while.
6:00 a.m. - Pry self off computer, go downstairs to brush teeth. See a tiny bit of Paula Deen on TV.
6:10 a.m. - Go for polling place approximately 1 mi away.
6:15 a.m. - Walk into polling place, began to help with setup.
7:00 a.m. - Began day as election official.
9:00 a.m. - Pop off for a moment to check on status of guy who mows our lawns and to make a breakfast food run.
9:15 a.m. - Come back with breakfast tacos. No sign of guy.
10:30 a.m. - Go out again to check on status of lawnmower dude. Spot him, give him money.
10:45 a.m. - Back at the polling place, people keep coming in at a steady pace.
12:00 p.m. - Surge of activity.
1:30 p.m. - Surge of activity stops; lunchtime.
2:00 p.m. - A fellow worker's "boyfriend" (which sounds weird when referring to a 45-year-old man with teenagers for kids) comes in with chicken.
2:30 p.m. - I am eating chicken.
2:45 p.m. - I have stopped eating chicken. (Actually, I sorta inhaled lunch, because I wanted to get back to work as soon as I could.)
2:46 p.m. - With clean hands, I go back to work.
3:30 p.m. - Lull in activity. Start doing yesterday's crosswords. Go off for a moment to check on closure of things at home. Check on status of little puppydog.
3:45 p.m. - Back at polling place. Still doing crossword.
4:00 p.m. - The steady stream comes in again.
5:30 p.m. - Actually help local anchorman and wife with signing in (!) Anchorman is S.A. institution. On-air, he looks like Mr. Spock; off-air, he looks human. Wife is appealingly NOT a plastic surgery victim and has sunny disposition.
6:00 p.m. - Anchorman and wife stop talking to presiding judge, go off. Anchorman is to be later spotted on TV reporting on election results in the same outfit he was in when visiting the polling place.
6:30 p.m. - Nobody else is coming in to vote?
6:59 p.m. - Oh wait, there's someone. i.e., Last Person To Vote.
7:01 p.m. - Last Person To Vote finishes; dismantling begins.
7:30 p.m. - I AM GOING HOME.
8:00 p.m - I am at home eating a sandwich for dinner. I have my feet propped up. Ooh, this is comfortable.
8:30 p.m. - zzzzzzzzzzz
9:45 p.m. - Huh? What? What happened? Why am I chilled to the bone? What time is it?
10:00 p.m. - Tune into election night coverage on local TV.
10:15 p.m. - Now mentally preparing for runoff activity. I decide to close up downstairs.
10:20 p.m. - I am finally back in my bedroom.
11:00 p.m. - Am reminded to wrap up Mother's Day gift. (Shhh, don't tell Mom it's an accent lamp and a water-resistant watch.)
11:30 p.m. - I am wrapping up this post, which looks like something I could also post on my LJ.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 8 May 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear about the job Luna, they obviously are asshats! Have things resolved themselves at your work re your pay?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 May 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

I have cramps and a severe attitude problem this morning.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I slept in. And I was nearly an hour late.
Nobody took into account the fact that I stayed an hour late on Friday when I showed up either.

― Huk-L, Monday, 9 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

good work on working the election Dee.

Our smoking ban passed which I'm glad for but have to be quiet about. All my drinkin' rocking club-goin' friends think only rich, clueless losers who never go to the bars we do wanted it to pass. Uh, you know, severe ashtma over here. so yay.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

I don't mind other people smoking outside, but I would be a very very happy camper if the smoke levels of my favorite venues could be cut by at least half. It's hard work for me to sing at all anyway, but I really have to struggle when my throat is all dry and beat up from other people's smoke. Yes, I am a diva.

It makes my eyes hurt and makes me feel all stuffy and gross. Also, I'd really appreciate it if my downstairs neighbor could go outside to smoke because every few days I'll come home to an apartment that totally reeks even though I don't let anyone smoke in it. GRRR!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Nope Pinx - and they won't - not here. There's just no money. It's okay, however, because even though I finally fell asleep last night at around 3 and I had to be up at 6 to go pick up my mom from the airport, she smuggled me a meat pie from Oz (which I am currently eating) and it is the best. thing. ever.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

:-D Rah for smuggled food!

I have a sinusy infection thing which is making my morning miserable. I should go home.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, Ned. :-(

Hey, guys. I got a rather drastic summer haircut this weekend including 1-st time ever partial highlites and NO ONE at work has said anything! This must mean either:
They really didn't notice (which is bad) or
They don't like it and can't manage a little white lie or even a "Hey, your hair is Different..."

Whatevs. I went to the bathroom to check myself out in the mirror and I think it's an improvement. Screw 'em.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I got a haircut a "new" place on Saturday. It's actually an ancient place. And the guy didn't want to take me, because he thought I had gel in my hair. But really, I had just gotten out of the shower.
But it was only $10!
But it looks like a $10 haircut.

― Huk-L, Monday, 9 May 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

My pie is gone, and I am sad.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bestreadguide.com/tampabay/images/050504/keylimeLR.jpg

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I had a key lime milkshake on Saturday. It was quite lovely.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Something about that doesn't even sound good to me, and I love key lime pie...

(This could be because I have the early morning squeams about milkshakes, too).

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

oh no, it was wonderful. had bits of crust in it. yum.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

are those the ones from sonic? Those are great! I have key lime yogurt in the fridge waiting for me, what a lovely flavor.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

no this was from Amy's ice cream down here. they have key lime shakes at sonic? I shall have to check this out.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

So I just RSVPeed for spa day with the bridal party of the wedding I'm in. I'm getting a manicure and pedicure. I have never had either. I'm not so sure how I feel about this.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

it'll be fun because you're chatting with the other ladies. I find the manicure where you have to chat with the manicurist INCREDIBLY awkward.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

oh speaking of pedicures, luna, did you say the girlfriend's guide to pregnancy was good or bad? Because someone gave it to me and the only part I've read so far is about how it's a great idea to get pedicures because even though you can't see your feet, they're in everyone else's face while you're up in the stirrups. WTF.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Pedicures are a lot of fun (for me anyway) if they involve a nice soak and foot massage. I'm getting one this Wednesday as a reward to myself for going to the gym somewhat regularly. Hello, open toed summer shoes!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

xpost Dude, there's a baby in your cooter. Who cares about how your feet look? Though I imagine preg women's legs and feet ache a lot because of all the extra weight.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, that was mentioned as a benefit, I forgot.

I now have two copies of what to expect when you're expecting, if they keep coming in at that rate I'll have ten by the time the baby comes out.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

You could console yourself with the 'fact' that if you are worried about what the doctors and nurses think of the condition of your toenails when giving birth, that probably means you aren't in terrible pain. Alternatively: if they are staring at your feet, demand new staff immediately.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I don't know about that one, teens, it was the 'your pregnancy week by week' that I thought sucked big green weenies. And not in a good way.

I get pedicures because I like them and it's pampering and fun... and I'm all about being pampered.

And yes, when you're pregnant, your feet ache, your legs ache, your back aches, you can't sleep on your stomach or your back, your stomach hurts, you get these weird sort of pelvic, sort of more like the pudenda cramps and you think OW FUCK WHAT IS THAT? but it's totally normal, you get kicked from the inside, your hands and feet and ankles swell up and yeah, good times.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

ah, I know you said one sucked but I couldn't remember which one. My sister-in-law gave me like a dozen enormous baby books last weekend (she's a yard sale nut, which is awesome) and also gave my husband two tiny baby books for dads, which are horrible. I think all they have on each of their 50 pages is "tell her she looks beautiful and ffs cook dinner once in a while dumbass." I really despise a lot of the pregnancy culture, it's highly weird.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I found (thank you, Google) a long-lost friend from college's blog after finding out that she had a baby and she spends a lot of it reviewing baby books and advice forums. From what I can gather she disagrees strongly with a lot of them.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, I find this column on Bookslut ammusing, even though I'm not planning to get preggers any time soon. (For those out of the loop - Bookslut is run by a regular ILXor's girlfriend - this column is by her sister; Regular ILXor, can I name you?)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, I really think you should start a bullshit- and fairy-free preggers blog.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

"I'm knocked the fuck up and droppin' science" by Teeny Teennyson.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I second that emotion.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

aw thanks guys. Dooce already does that pretty well, and thanks for that link sarah! If I had a blog, at this point I really don't know what I would write about other than how much gas I have and how much preggo women forums freak me out.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

It would be the most interesting blog out there. (Include a sidebar about your rapid breast development and you'd be Pulitzer material.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

"sidebar"

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't know what that meant.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

teeny, you could have graphs for the growing size of your chest and your belly.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Hey, what a great idea!

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I CAN'T HAVE EVERYONE'S BABY YOU KNOW

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

*hears opening chords of "Lady Madonna"*

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Eeeeee!!! *hides from Teeny's hormonal wrath*

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

i don't think it's a secret who bookslut's bf is! anyway, he has a habit of getting named in almost every article about her! cf. this week's chicago reader. (i like when the reader makes me feel like i'm all connected with this city, since jessa was the lead story in sec. 2 and the guy whose studio canasta is recording at was the lead story in sec. 3.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh you guys are recording with that dude in that article? Crazy, I didn't make the connection. That sounded cool. Are you doing it as part of his EP project, or is he just doing the recording?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I don't know why I am mentioned in every article about Jessa. It doesn't seem right, really. I mean, if the article was about me, would they feel compelled to mention the girl I live with. I call SEXISM.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

We're just doing it at his studio, he's not actually doing the recording himself. Although I think he's going to play upright bass on one track. And maybe theremin if we can't master it ourselves! But we're probably going to do the EP project, too, once we're done with the album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

On a completely different subject, I really love my job. No, really. I do. I was thinking about it today. I really don't mind being there 9-5.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

Orbit, please can I come to work with you?
Mmmm - illegal pie!!
Teeny - you should so start that blog

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

i have been so craving key lime pie since someone mentioned it on some thread yesterday. i love that stuff.

i'm moving in two days. happy to be moving, but nervous. it'll be an interesting week.

that's wonderful to love your job, orbit. you don't hear that sentiment from people v often about their work...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I haven't ever had key lime pie! My life is over! :-(

Good luck with the move Julia! It's taken so long to come around, I'm sure it'll be fine!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

good luck Julia, it will be so sweet when it's over.

orbit you lucky dog.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

i wrote a song in high school about how i had never had key lime pie. i have since, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

it's really good. i like tartsweet stuff. lemon meringue pie they always make too sweet, but key lime turns out right that way.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

my entire contribution to ilx: ruminations on pie. encouragement of discussion about ass.

both good things, though, really.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Hey everyone! I fly home today :(

We're off in half an hour to get lunch at a cute silver diner before Sarah drives me to Wassaic station (1 hour), I get the train (2 hours) to Grand Central, then the bus (1 hour) to Newark "Liberty" Airport (I like to think that's its nickname, like Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott), then waiting around, (3 hours), then the plane (7 hours) to London's trendy Heathrow airport, then the bus (30 mins) to Feltham station, then the train, (30 mins) to Barnes station, then the walk (10 mins) to my house.

The Berkshires is/are lovely. I wish I could stay longer. Yesterday we did outdoorsy things in wonderful, breezy 70 degree sunshine - a hike around Bartholomew's Cobble and a trek down a scarily vertical path to Bashbish Falls. I'm sure there are places that beautiful in the UK, but they're not anywhere near where I live.

Julia, you're finally moving! That's so cool. You'll have to tell me all about it!

Sarah McL, I didn't want to say, but you look FANTASTIC with your new hair. All the guys at work think so too!

Hi to everyone else - I love this thread. Hugglez! And now, to pack.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Safe journey you two!! *huggelz*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Indeed!

Ah...bleah. Head colds, nyurgh. Vaguely improved from yesterday, but *why* am I at work? (Answer: the free picnic lunch.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

mmm picnix lunch you say Ned, I'm coming over!!!

Sarah - have you posted a pic of you & your new hair? I must see it!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, no Pink. He's just being silly.

Maybe I'll take a pic when I get home. It's so pretty outside! I need to go on a picture taking walk.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

God I wish I was outside today instead of in a windowless office. I really need to get my new bike tire tube so I can ride to work again. I am looking forward to my lunch (a sandwich of vegetarian ham, lettuce, cheddar, and dijon mustard and Reduced Fat Cheese Nips) so I can go sit outside and read about evolution some more.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I promised a coworker I'd wait for her to eat lunch outside at 1, but I'm starving. PBH time!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

i hate it when soy milk is all kinda sludgey/chunky at the bottom.

it's a gorgeous day. i like this weather.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

PBH time!
???
Peanut Butter & Hugs?
Peanut Butter & Humus?
Peanut Butter & Honey...oh. Never mind.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Warm day here. I have more orange juice in me now, I am listening to calm music and am about to write a piece on a fave book of mine. All is generally well. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

i can't drink orange juice anymore. heartburn. :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm debating whether or not to waste the last 20 minutes of work by seeing how many mints I can fit on my tongue.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

what kind of mints?

(and yes, you should, and keep us updated)

(i'm rather bored)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Are you just talking one layer of mints, or piled up on top of each other? And what kind of mints? We need to know, so we can guess, and gamble.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

They're little teardrop-shaped mints. They were promotional so there's no brand on them. And I would only lay them side by side. No piling.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Wait, now I'm scared of choking and dying. That would be a sad-ass way to go.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

J-j-j-je4nne - I hope you didn't die!!!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

I fucking wiped out hard out my new mountain bike yesterday. I am captain injury.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

in other news im putting my condo up for sale...double what we paid for it. in the process of looking for a house.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Um, are you okay?

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Hey all, I have just caught up with lots of this thread--Teeny, conratulations on being pregnant! I'd also love to read the blog everyone suggests you write. I have recently realized that of all my good friends on the east coast, the only childless one is now pregnant.

Chris are you planning to stay in Worcester? I am still in MA and it is gorgeous here. I see Mark has detailed our adventures above... in my last week here I'm spending more time with my mom, whose house renovations are occupying most of her time/mind lately. The roofers showed up this morning, made some noise, collected a few tools, and then left for another job, rather than finishing their shoddy work on this one. As they sped away over the hill, a bunch of small things tumbled off the open flatbed of the truck. They're still lying in the road.

Jerks. I think my mom should've kept a blog about this house. I mean, there's tons of work left to be done, she still could start one, but since the kitchen and bathrooms are done now, those are the most glamorous parts of the remodel I think.

Anyway why am I banging on about this? Anyone want to go for a walk? It's a beautiful morning here and the birds are tweeting.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Yes, we are planning on staying in Worcester as its basically the only place we can afford these days. Unless we want to move to NC...and we don't. We also thought about moving to western mass, but its far too long of a commute for my wife.

and yes, im ok. just slammed the knee again and hurt my elbow again. same old same old.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

My pinky is bleeding. Sweet.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Hi, eveybody! We got back from NY last night to a house of disgruntled cats. Had a great time in NY but now I'm feeling a little run down.

Je4nne?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

Yay?

Still recuperating from the bleah. The sneeze is mostly gone but I still feel a touch woozy. And yet I come into work, despite having literally almost 15 weeks of sick time. Strange.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

(The 'Yay?' part was to Jeanne.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

(xpost to Chris) Does she commute to Boston? Sorry if you've said that and I've forgotten. That would be an annoying trip from here. It is so nice in this place that whenever I'm here I never want to leave, but house prices are seriously inflated and if I did live here I'd have to start my own business or something since I have no idea who would employ me.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Sgs, get off the internet and call me :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

My pinky is bleeding. Sweet.

Wha?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

My pinky is bleeding. Sweet.

Forgive me, but my first reaction to this was "Oh, Je4nne's period started."

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Mine too Huck! *frown*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I'm oddly relieved to hear that, Pinko.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Haha! :-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

yes, she commutes to boston.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

my mozzarella stick just came all over me.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Chris, you must stop over-stimulating the cheese.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

my mozzarella stick just came all over me.

Awww, little mozzarella babies!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Pink, with my luck probably not... :(

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

I broke a nail and burned myself on my hair dryer/hot brush thing this morning. I am Captainette Injury.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Um, no, literally, my pinky. It's bleeding. By the nail. *slaps head*

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who refers to her cooter as a pinky should be kneecapped.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Pink, with my luck probably not... :(
Aww, sorry darl!

And yes Luna, I'd like to put you in charge of enforcing that!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

And Jeanne. I need backup.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

woohoo, i was just approved for $230000

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

for online poker?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

ha, i wish. for a mortgage.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

i just bought a dvd player! woohoo! and as of tonight, i'll be in my new place. not really moved in, just with a suitcase, but it's a start.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I just saw Altman's 3 Women last night, so "my pinky is bleeding" reminded me of the scene where Sissy Spacek's character (named Pinky) spills shrimp cocktail all over her dress.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Nice going, Chris! Nice work, Julia!

I am going out for a walk - Sarah tells me that BA recommends "gentle exercise" (I've never before noticed the irony in "British Airways Baracus" before, but now I do). Any jet-lag-avoiding tips, y'all?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Migulito's NY adventure:

Thursday - Checked in at the Mandarin (54th floor and fan-fucking-tastic view of Central Park) and went to meet our friends for dinner at Raoul's.
Friday - First the new MOMA, then Cafe Un Deux Trois, The Algonquin (I can't resist a bar that has a cat and we have a cat named Benchley after all), the Campbell Apartment (though now that you can't smoke all I see is a pretty space defiled by callous commuters), Swifts, Phebe's, and finally some place called Sin Sin where I managed to fall down without spilling my drink.
Saturday - slow start to the morning but we went to the Met w/our friend who's in sales at the hotel. (Chanel/Ernst/Arbus) and lunched at La Goulue. We walked back to the hotel through the park and had one of the best meals I've had in years at the hotel restaurant, Asiate (which precluded me going to hstencil's k derby party). We had a tasting menu and we had almost entirely Long Island wines, most of which were quite delicious!! Later I went out with a friend of mine to a party in a loft on Spring Street.
Sunday - Went to see our friends (and their cats) in Park Slope. Our friend won $220 or so on Giacomo. First sojourn in Brooklyn. Went to the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. Very pretty fruit trees in bloom everywhere. Too slow moving, unfortunately to make it to see the Basquiat. Later went with some of gf's family to a 'biker joint' bar-b-que place in Harlem.
Monday - We walked through the park and through midtown doing mostly window shopping, had lunch in Bryant Park 'cause the weather was so nice and went back to the Algonquin to see Mathilda. My gf's business event was that night at the W Hotel on Lexington where I was my usual drunken freeloader self. Later we had dinner with one of her clients at Bao 111 on Ave. C, which was amazing.
Tuesday - Coffee in the park again, checked out, then strolled down to have lunch in Union Square and made our way to the airport...

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I just got a $150 bonus on top of my paycheck today, for having to work hard to get ready for our annual benefit. This is officially the first cool thing that has happened at this job.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

*happy dance*

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

What I'm doing in 36 minutes, by Sarah Johnson
1- driving home, which will take me 10 minutes tops
2- eating a couple of Hershey's miniatures
3- going to get my nails did

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

M. -- sounds like you had a damn fine NYC excursion.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

And it was so pretty on Monday and Tuesday, Je4nne.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Plus on Thursday at Raoul's, Frederique van der Wal came by to say 'hi' to our friends. Damn, that woman is tall! Later that night I was staring quizzically at Julianna Marguiles, thinking (to put it generously) that I knew her from somewhere, and she smiled at me as she left the restaurant.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Ooh sarah, how are the nails?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 12 May 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

Are we all busy today? I miss you people.

Luna, check your email.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Not super busy. Sick though. My head feels as though it might burst.

Totally unrelated question - Has anybody seen the glue-on nail covers for cats? My friend in Brooklyn has them on his cats. Seeing pink nails on a 20 lbs. grey tom was a treat

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Heya,

I now have this thread on an RSS feed - I'm not really sure how it works, but hey. Should it tell me when there's a new post? I guess we'll see after I press "submit".

My jetlag has calmed down, but maybe that was just the coffee I drank.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Today's okay so far - hardly anyone (boss-wise) is in the office, and I got here a little late (I couldn't drag my ass out of bed, okay?). I found out that two of my co-workers are quitting on the 31st, and I really need to get my butt in gear to get out of here. Both of them are leaving quickly so they don't have to train their replacements (well, it's the standard 2 week notice, but the way things move here, it will be awhile before there are replacements) and that kinda chaps my ass because that means *I* get to train them. Thanks y'all.

Enniweigh, otherwise I'm mostly okay. I had a sort of fight with a friend of mine yesterday that I feel kinda bad about, even though I meant what I said.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

OH GOD.

Y'know that coworker who drives me fucking batty? Actual words out of her mouth: "So our queen is Queen Elizabeth the second?"

― Huk-L, Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I've been breaking my ass for the last three days, working late, etc, and I have decided that today is the day I will just sit around and play with the new version of Photoshop. So much new stuff! You can tell they were saving all the good stuff for the hard-to-crack, must-be-registered version. Those bastards with their intellectual property and their wanting to make money. The nerve.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm leaving for Maine on Sunday night.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

What's in Maine?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

And I just found out that instead of a two hour layover in Chicago, I now have a four hour layover in Chicago, and I thought oooh, that's enough time to leave the airport and do something and come back....

Except that my 4 hour layover begins at 5 am.

Fuck you, United.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

My best friend's wedding in which I am the maid of honor. This is my big red dress:

http://img.davidsbridal.com/db/s05_8567.psd.xml&cmp-color=top,x99062A&ftr=5&cmp-end=1&wid=330&hei=460&cvt=jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

that is SUCH a fuck-me-I'm-a-bridesmaid dress.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Is that 5am Monday morning? Because I'd LOVE to meet you at the airport, if only to hang out in the airport, but Monday morning is gonna be tough.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Sunday morning is much better. You should move your flight back so you have a 24-hour layover, and we'll hang out all day Sunday.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

(sez the guy who doesn't have to be anywhere special or spend a dime getting there)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to New York from June 1-6. Who wants to entertain me?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

You'll look smashing!

Great things about America, part 1: Public broadcasting. While I was over there, I watched or listened to programmes on young classical musicians, The Carter Family and, ooh, a couple of other things that I wouldn't normally have cared less about but which were funny, moving and fascinating accounts of cultural significance.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about moving it, actually - I don't want to be anywhere at 5 am Monday morning except in bed.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I love our public broadcasting. HOwever I got more of it in Dallas. The local NPR affiliate has tons more local programming which at first blush sounds nice. However in Austin local programming=a bunch of hippie folk and world music. ARRRGGHHH!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Mark, but aren't you used to all that kind of stuff on your own publicly funded TV stations?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

you could take the el out to anne sathers, eat breakfast, and get back maybe? is anne's considered totally cliched by chicagoans? I still love it since I only get it once in a while.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Cliched? Swedish pastries and pancakes for breakfast? Such things could never be cliched.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

John, I can't tell if you're being serious or not... But assuming you are, then no, not really. Now that the BBC has extra cable and radio channels (BBC4 in particular, which is the "arts" channel), the answer is probably yes, but I hardly ever watch/listen to them. BBC2, which is regular, free, terrestrial TV, certainly has serious programmes, but I'm sure seldom goes as left-field culturally as NPR and PBS - they're much more viewing-figures driven.

More thasn that, though, I was exposed to these programmes because the alternative, on TV and certainly on radio, seems even more unappelaing in the States. Is this fair?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I thought you meant "fair" as in just haha. Yes that's accurate. I never listen to commercial radio stations. When the local NPR becomes boring I just turn the radio off.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Yes. American cable has such a plethora of channels that one can usually find something that is quite good. Mostly it's what y'all would call 'rubbish' though.

xpost

Like Sam, I don't bother with commercial radio.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, I was totally serious, Mark! I didn't watch very much TV when I lived in the UK (because we only had sets in common rooms in my dorm) -- but I've always assumed TV in the UK was this wonderful bastion of smart, interesting programming. Like the fact that Mike Leigh was perfectly content to work in TV for nearly 20 years before returning to feature films -- I can't imagine a writer/director of his stature in the US doing that at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Chicago Breakfast FAPancake?

Fuck 5 am is too early. I'm gonna see if I can move this around.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Before a couple years ago, I never used to listen to commercial radio. But now I do, because I like keeping up with pop music and writing about it, and so it's sort of part of the job. Sometimes I listen to sports talk radio during the baseball season, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I forgot why I clicked on this thread just now in the first place: So my mom just called me and asked if I'd be free to come out to the suburbs on Sunday for a "family meeting." I said sure, what does that mean, though? She said, "oh, you know, just some issues and things worth discussing." Should I be concerned? "No, no, I don't mean to sound mysterious, I just -- we can talk about it when you come out."

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

She's gonna come out of the closet.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

It does sound vaguely ominous.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

If she's like me, jaymc, she hates talking about serious stuff on the phone. Maybe she's planned an intervention to keep you from listening to so many commercial pop stations.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I mean, she was at work, so maybe she didn't want to say anything personal or whatever, but I'm going to be obsessing about this until Sunday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Why don't you just go see her sooner in person instead of waiting until Sunday? Is it too far away?

My nails (fingers & toes) are be-a-ut-i-ful. And the lady that did them only spoke polish, so I was able to sit back & read magazines. Fun.

But more importantly, I'm wearing my new shoes today.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zappos.com/images/550/7143550/985-94264-d.jpg

Yeah, luna, if you keep that flight, I'll just miss you at the airport by about 11 hours. (I'll be coming back from Virginia Sunday evening)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 May 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I'd have sex with those shoes.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

They're pretty cute, huh?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm a freak for open toes.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

I am in boulder this weekend deciding whether it would be a good idea to talk a year off of school and spend it here working. hopefully there will be a good show or two

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I started my period today and am all crampy. :( I usually only have my period every three months or so and this seems to make it worse when I do have it! boo.

I've never had a pedicure. I hate my feet and hate people touching them.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

I just spent the last 10 minutes trying to explain to one of my bosses that the photocopier isn't broken, it's his original document that's faded. The photocopies are exact duplicates of it, you fucking douchebag.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

I used to hate my feet because I thought they were Huuuuggge. But guess what?! I found out when shoe shopping this past weekend that I wear a smaller size in dress shoes than I do tennis shoes. Duh. So now I'm a dainty size 10 instead of stupid size 11 Ronald McDonald feet.

I also love getting my feet massaged. Bring it on!

Sam, maybe if you had a pedicure, your feet would be happy and you wouldn't hate them so much.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm a freak for open toes.

You little foot fetishist, you.

I hate to pry, Sam, but quarterly periods doesn't sound good. Are you OK? (I agree on the foot thing. It's not so much that I hate my feet as they're ugly and I don't want to sully anybody else's day with the vision of them.)

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I think they look nasty and I'd be embarrassed the pedicure lady would laugh at them. I also fear the staph infection.

Huk, could you not darken the copy?

(Mike, I skip them on purpose by skipping the sugar pill week)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, the shoes are lovely (though I'm not a freak for the open toe - I love a nice sexy/demure rounded toe) - you'll be statuesque in them!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I can and did darken the copy, but he wouldn't believe me that problem was with the original document and not the photocopier itself.
"I think it's low on toner."

― Huk-L, Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Saeah, I love your shoes.

Huck, your boss is stupid.

Sam, I feel your pain.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I argued with them until they let me change it - so now I'm going through DC. I'll still be coming back through Chicago though - at 6 pm the following Monday.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

oh.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't have changed it, but I made an appointment at home in Maine on Monday afternoon that was difficult to get as it was, and if I land two hours after I was supposed to, I'm pretty much fucked in trying to make it home and to the place on time.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Sam I used to have quarterly periods, and when I got out of an abusive relationship they magically regulated! (I wasn't/am not on the pill). I think the quarterly thing does bad things to the hormones and makes mood problems.

Speaking of abusive relationships, I disgusted myself by realizing how thoroughly conditioned I am to putting up with all kinds of crap without even thinking about it, where most people would pick up a large object and brain the offender or at least scream at them to fuck offl, I smile and deflect with a joke, a well chosen word, no anger, no cause and effect, just quiet survival.

The sheer depth of the conditioning is disturbing. It's like a knee-jerk reflex to give people the benefit of the doubt that they CLEARLY don't deserve.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 13 May 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that's something that's close to my heart. My ex did her thesis on the psychological effects of abusive relationships, was an expert witness in some court cases revolving around the subject, and so on. Also, she had suffered some abuse, and I saw the long-term effects on her.

Most heartbreaking kind of small example of that abuse I have heard (I do not plan to mention the big examples): my ex was taking someone who had left an abusive relationship to, I think, social security for a benefit interview. They were walking to my ex's car, and the woman stopped at the back. My ex looked at her enquiringly, and the woman said "Don't I have to ride in the boot?" (Trunk, I guess, for Americans.) Her partner had always made her ride there, and she took it for granted that that was where she would be. It's a sort of small illustration, but it moved me to tears.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 13 May 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

this is my first post in here in quite a while. i start me new job on monday morn. i also left the dive bar early tonight, despite it only being round 1 of the pub quiz. Assembling my band has taken longer than i thought.

also, this

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Friday, 13 May 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

Hey dudes,

Cheer me up if you'd like. I didn't sleep, lost at p***r and feel rotten.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear mar, how much did you lose?

Sam - sounds bad, I am awaiting a visit too! :-( We should get together & eat peanutbuttercups & drink tea or hot chocolate!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

£30 in total, Pink (though I also lost a decent amount of profit I'd accumulated before starting to play like a twat).

Worst thing, though, is that I don't want to be at work - I have no appetite for working today, I am tired, I feel weird, I am pissed off and I'm not even looking forward to the weekend for some reason.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear, sounds like a rubbish day M! What about getting yourself a big fat cake?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

friday night drunk!

Markelby do you smoke a cigar when indulging in p***r ?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Come and play tennis with me, Ken and possibly Lex on Saturday, Mark! That will cheer you up*.

* no guarantee of being cheered up is implied by this statement.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Only if you play in Wimbledon Park, Martin*

No cigar, mully, smoking makes me vomit. I like the image, though. Recently, I have been playing poker with tears streaming down my pallid, saggy jowls.

*I might be up for this but am waiting to hear when my plans are being arranged for

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone got any good recipes for toad in the hole. I know it's just batter & sausages, but you know.

Oh & Luna, I forgot to say, that dress is stunning! Pics pls!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Recently, I have been playing poker with tears streaming down my pallid, saggy jowls

:-O
this is not good. why do you keep on?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

I feel Gaz has asked a very pertinent question!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I normally wear round toed dress shoes that are quite prim and proper but I felt like steppin' out and goin' crazy with some open-toeds.

I'm sorry about your mula loss, Markelby. If it makes you feel any better, I just found out that my two minute visit with a doctor at the ER after waiting in hospital for hours and hours a few weeks ago is going to cost me $350 out of pocket (after the insurance). For those who didn't see my post about it back then, I had a bad cold and was worried it was something more. When I saw the doctor, he just said, "You have a bad cold. Go home." I called my insurance company because they had referred me there as an Urgent Care facility WITHIN the ER, but they said I'd have to write up a formal complaint.

But enough about that, it's Friday! I leave at 12:30 today to go to Virginia, where it really is summer!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, when I play properly, I seem to be okay at poker, particularly tournament play (where I'm over $100 up). It's ring games when I'm angry, upset or not concentrating that are the problem. It's called "tilt", when psychologically you lose it and end up betting on dumb hands, playing without guile or tactics and refusing to carefully consider the strentghs and weaknesses of your hand and your opponents.

So there's a lesson. I'm sure I'll bounce back. And I haven't actually ever cried while playing (after, once) - and though my jowls are saggier than they should be, I'm dieting/exercising soon to get rid of the flab gained on my American adventure!

Sarah, that sucks the big one. Much sympathy, and fuck tha insurance company.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Here's a couple of decent pictures of the best winged lion I've come across (for my provisional tattoo - of course, the artist will need to convert it into a 2D image). And here's a bigger picture of a different, slightly inferior lion.

What do people think?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

That last lion has quite a furry, curly belly. Would you want your tattoo to look like a statue of a winged lion in particular or a REAL winged lion? :-D I think it will look great as long as you avoid a cartoony look.

Only 3 hours of work left for me today!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

i have just discovered i have to have quite a bit of very expensive dental work done. i'm 31 and have have never had a single filling, so this is especially galling. i, however, do have a bunch of caps and crowns after having a few teeth kicked out a while back and these are the problem. My own teeth are strong as can be but the caps need replacing and have worn the front two natural teeth quite badly, too, so basically it's the dental work that needs to have dental work done on it and that's messed up some perfectly good teeth, too!!! this is going to cost me about £1,500. i'm annoyed.

― stelf0xxxx, Friday, 13 May 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I want it to look like the somewhat archaic version of the lion of St Mark, the one with the kneeling doge being the best example so far - there are several designs around (the earliest ones look nothing like a real lion), but I want quite a realistic one, and one that was used in Venice. I'm sure I'll find one one day.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

the teeth getting kicked out was a legitimate sporting injury not being and idiot and fighting, btw - just felt i had to clarify that for some reason. mark, where are you thinking of having it done?

― stelf0xxxx, Friday, 13 May 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

This is quite good, and almost 2D:

http://www.wpg.cc/stl/images/6759.jpg

Dave, that's the rub. I really don't know - most parts of my body can already be taken out of the equation for one reason or another (back, upper arms, ankles, chest). Any suggestions?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

tattoos. . .nice. :)

I'm heading out shortly to take a test for an information analyst position at UT. hopefully today's infamy will work in my favor. (my mom's always claimed fri. the 13th to be a lucky day for her, we'll see).

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

It is for my mom, too, beause she was born on a Friday the 13th. But, you know, she's had a pretty crummy life, so maybe she just doesn't have a good hunch about what's lucky.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I might never leave work today.
Someone who gets paid at least twice as much as me has a family emergency and I have to cover for her. I don't begrudge her this, but the fucking management wants me to. Because they decided, after I asked, that I don't deserve extra pay for doing her job. Also, they don't want me working any extra hours, and if I do, they won't recognize them, because HEAVEN FORBID THAT AFTER FOUR FUCKING YEARS HERE A WEEK FROM NEXT TUESDAY I SHOULD GET ONE BENEFIT.
So, I don't know, what am I supposed to do? I can't possibly do her job and my job within the time they're willing to pay me.

Someone just came and told me that someone needs me for MY JOB part of my job, and I told them, "I'm not really here today, since I'm doing Francine's job. Get who ever does my job when I'm not here to do it."

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm never not here.

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

mark, the shoulderblade would be good for that one, although it did hurt a bit for me - not too much mind, it's just a bit more uncomfortable than more fleshy areas. as you seem to have discounted everywhere else, though, i'd suggest the genitals or face.

― stelf0xxxx, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, hahaha same is true for my mom so I take that with a grain of salt.

Mark, why are those areas excluded?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Sanctissimus Mark, I really like idea of your tattoo. Make sure to show us what you finally decide on.

Sarah, write the 'formal complaint'. $350 to be told that you have a bad cold!!! Did they kick you in the shins too, to make sure that you understood the full contempt that they (the ER and the Insurance) feel for you?

[insert prefix]fox, I too have expensive dental work looming. Oh frabjous day!!

Huk-L, what else is there to say but, 'Fuckin' swine!!'?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Well, I can't do lower arms (too in your face). Current favourite is porbbaly calf - not the classiest, but anywhere above the kneee is a bit weird, isn't it?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

not upper arms? ultimate classic.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

I just got an earful about not doing my job.
"But I'm not supposed to be doing MY job. I'm supposed to be doing FRANCINE's job."
"And your job."
"Do you mind if I roll my eyes now?"

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

At my last job, whenever someone quit, they would just split that person's job up into 2 and give it to coworkers on top of their own jobs. I mean, what a way to save money, huh??
This also happened when I left, poor suckaz.

Huk, I think you need to create a split personality to handle both jobs. Use a special Francine voice when working on her stuff. If you are Francine and someone asks you about your own stuff, say something in Francine's voice, "Huk isn't here right now. I'll be sure to relay the message."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

mark, this might change your idea a bit : a lot of milwall football hoolies have the club's lion tattooed on their calves. go for upper arms or shoulderblade.

― stelf0xxx, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, I am wearing a dress today. But that's really more of a Klinger thing.

xpost

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

I like the shoulderblade idea, too.

Pinx, I still have this box of pbcups to send you - I r a slack tart.

Sarah, did I mention that I love your new shoes?

I'm so glad that it's Friday - I have way too much to do to be at work.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I've been sick for a good 48 hours now. Just some kinda vague stomach crap. I have to eat more carefully.

I think I'm taking my bike out tomorrow for a little camera tour of the west side. UIC campus, Cook County Hospital, this thing, and anything else I run across. Should be fun.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Maybe that would have been better to post on the Chicago thread. I can't imagine the world at large cares about Cook County Hospital. It's lovely, though -- it really is.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Pinx, I still have this box of pbcups to send you - I r a slack tart.
Oh darl, no sweat! :-)

Huck, do you want to come & work with me? I am much more fun that your work colleagues. Plus we can sneak (we will be able to literally just walk actually) out at lunchtime!!

Good luck Sam.

And with that, I am out of here for the w/e! Love to you all! xxxx
p.s. Man i miss home interweb! :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, if you want a biking buddy, give me a call. I have to go get a new tube for my tire first though, and I might slow you down.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I like buddies. Gimme a call.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Mark, upper arm = classic

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

No, YOU give ME a call.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

Ok.

(Oh, incientally, my email is down for the day because I let my domain name expire. Because I'm an idiot. It'll be back soon, though.)

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Good luck with the test, Sam!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Now my dumbass coworker doesn't believe me that the Royal Family is actually of German descent.

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

On both sides. Windsor is the patriotic name that the Saxe-Coburg Gothas took in 1917 and which the Queen in an act of patriotic viragoism imposed on her kids who should, had her husband's family not already assimilated under the name Mountbatten, have been called Battenberg.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 13 May 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

She thinks I'm making some kind of reference to Fawlty Towers.

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone had Dill Pickle potato chips? I don't know why I haven't tried these before . . . delicious!!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Huck, now tell her that in the First World War the opposing leaders were all first cousins by blood or marriage. Her head will explode.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap! How did you get past the age of 8 without eating these?
Or maybe they're not as plentiful outside of Canada where we have 8 billion flavours of potato chips.

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Pickle chips are awesome indeed.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

that test was hard and it hurt my brain. the first two parts were pattern recognition, that was cool. the third part was very hard math word problems! arrrghh. not only are those hard but i'm really shitty at basic computation I mean, fuck, that's what calculators are for. By the end I was frustrated and flustered, making many dumb mistakes I'm sure. I'll find out in a week how I did.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

I took a test on the Gov't of Canada employment site, I thought it was for Civil Service Entry, but after I breezed through it, I discovered it was a basic literacy test for the developmentally challenged.

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Don't worry Huck, they're the same tests.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Did I mention that I am technically entitled to a 1 cent tax refund? I did half an hour of math for ONE CENT (and they don't even send cheques for less than $5)!

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

I have a growing list of petty grievances with the Feds.

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

why don't you just credit that to next year's taxes?

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

That would assume I'm not going to fake my own death and assume a new identity.

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

or that i will assume your identity.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

KEEP YOUR HANDS OF MY PENNY!

― Huk-L, Friday, 13 May 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Even saying this outloud guarantees future failure, but I just won $35 playing poker. I feel slightly better.

The last two nights I've dreamt about being scared in unfamilar, sprawling houses where I don't know my way around, and there's an element of competition (last night) or bodily peril (the night before). Both houses have had elemtns of Sgs's mum's house and my flat. Anyone want to give suggestions?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

It's natural, maybe even right and inevitable, to feel kind of lonely and lost right now, and I wouldn't try to interpret much further than that. I'm not convinced that bit's right, even. Mark, you know where I am if you are feeling like some company some time, right?

(haha, weirdly this may in part be me trying to compensate for a non-existent slight: I nearly made a pisstake post to you earlier but resisted because while in person the intent would be clear, it might have seemed nasty in print.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

is everyone alive this weekend?

I want a doggie so bad but g. has all but left it up to me to pick one out. Going to the shelters and looking at dogs on line make him too sad so he's staying hands off. argh.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Hi Martin,

I'd find it very hard to see you as being nasty to me, but thanks all the same for what you did - I can be overly sensitive sometimes.

FWIW, I've just posted like 3 bitchy posts in a row on ohter threads and I've come here for some kind of repentance I think. Specially to Vic, if he's reading - you're a wonderful poster and though I don't agree with you, I bow utterly to your knowledge.

x-post - hey S-dawg, you okay?

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

What kind of doggie do you want, Sam? A big dog, a tiny lil nipper?

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Sam, make the lame fucker come with you. He's just trying to negate his own responsibility to said pooch.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

nah. . .i just think it truly makes him sad. (gee you are bitchy!)

We want a medium-sized dog. We both like labs but it would have to be a smaller one. maybe some sort of terrier.

Right now I'm just torn between choosing from the city shelter or from a private rescue group. For the former the benefit is we'd know we're saving a dog from imminent death however the shelter offers little information on the dog's behavior, how they do with cats, etc. From a private group, the dogs are usually fostered in home so their behavior is well known and the hard work of house/crate training is done.

i don't know.. .so many poor homeless animals.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Well, if you were choosing a car or a kitchen together, he'd particpate, no? But something you both ahve to love and care for? Psychologically, if you make the decision, it becomes your responsibility. I thinmif you're both going to be its oweners/carers, he has a responsibility to make this decision. Otherwise it'll always be "the dog that S chose".

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 14 May 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

this thread is too long, hint hint
i hope luna hasn't left already, or we're f-u-q-e-d.

― Huk-L, Sunday, 15 May 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Others have been known to do the deed, Huk.

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 15 May 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, start a new thread - I need somewhere to hide ~~from my demons~~.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 15 May 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

I disapprove of anyone but Luna starting these, and I suspect we won't see her on ILX for 9 days or so.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 May 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Fair enough I guess. In that case, can people here tell me in what ways I am good, as I am feeling quite slef-hatey after my dumbass outbursts last night.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 15 May 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

It's true that you are a bit irritable, Mark, but other than that you are a very nice man, caring and all that, and you're smart (I know it can be hard to feel that way in a place like this), and you have a girlfriend who adores you, and whom you adore - that's a bunch of good things there.

Also, me saying I disapprove above is not the same as there actually being something wrong with it, of course.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 May 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. Thanks Martin, that's very sweet of you and just what I needed. When I was a kid, I was really sweet-natured and shy. Even as a teenager, I used to console myself with the fact that whatever else was wrong with me, at least I was *nice*. I don't know if I can say that any more - at best I'm selectively nice, and an utter cock to people who yank my chain.

Enough emo crap. Thanks again :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 15 May 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

today my parents just announced to me and my brother that they are getting a divorce. after 34 years of marriage. i'm still reeling because i always held up my parents' relationship as a sort of paragon -- they did a great job raising two kids, they never fought, they knew when to stay out of each other's way, they seemed mostly happy -- in essence, it seemed like a totally mature, healthy relationship. but now they say they are "drifting apart" and feel like it's right to separate. it's a mutual decision, but i can tell, just from the way they both talked about it, that it was my mom's idea. for one, my dad seems much more broken up about it than my mom: he had trouble forming sentences; she got defensive whenever i said something. apparently, he's already gotten his own place, and it just makes me sad to think of him coming home alone at night. anyway, i've spent most of the night drinking. it's obviously easier to deal with something like this when you're 26 than when you're 12, but i still feel like something's been shattered.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Wow.
I don't know what to say. "Good luck with that" (my first instinct) seems a little glib. You always kind of figure that if a marriage lasts longer than 20 yrs, it's a done deal. But people are...to quote Depeche Mode...people.

― Huk-L, Monday, 16 May 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

yeah. i asked them, "what do you hope to accomplish by getting divorced? i mean, i understand you're drifting apart, but every married couple drifts apart, yeah? and after 34 years, why not just ride it out?" that's when my mom got defensive and was like, we don't need to tell you everything, we don't need to justify it to you, you don't know what our marriage is like. i was like, that's cool, whatever, i was just curious. but then she said something about feeling like they no longer had an emotional connection. so i mean, yeah, i guess that makes sense.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:18 (twenty years ago)

although then my dad said, i think maybe we have different perspectives on the health of the relationship. which my mom said was as "clear as mud," but i understood the insinuation that he didn't think there was a problem.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

So he probably didn't see it coming, which then probably reinforces your mother's reasoning.

― Huk-L, Monday, 16 May 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

wow. my sympathies. sounds like at least they'll be able to have some type of relationship?

― ()ops (()()ps), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

i think he saw it coming -- they've been talking about this for a few months, it turns out -- but i wouldn't be surprised if he was pushing for them to stay the course, while she was ready to give up sooner.

yeah, oops, it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot of animosity. they assured me that there wasn't any one particular thing that precipitated the decision -- no affairs or anything like that -- so i'm hoping it won't be too awkward to deal with.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear it Jaymc!

Oh & Sam, fwiw, I can completely understand why he can't go to the pound with you. Last time I went I stood in the middle of the place & cried my heart out. mark - I think you are over simplifying things here.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 16 May 2005 07:35 (twenty years ago)

Pink, yes, I might be - I also have never had a pet or been to a pound so I'm not talking from experience.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 May 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

j, lots of luck and love to you.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Sam, get a Sato, thats where we got George and he's the best.

Markelby, in my tattoo experiences, the one in the middle of my back hurt like a mother fucker. the arms, not so bad.

Jaymc, you have my sympathies. Divorce is a tough thing to go through. hang in there.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

I am coming round to the upper arm. I'll have to work out the logistics.

Jaymc, let me add my sympathies too. I hope it works out in the least painful way for all concerned.

I HAVE A COLD AND IT'S MISERABLE. Boo.

Kenan, I loved your church photos. I hope you'll keep that thread going.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 May 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

John, I'm really sorry. I seriously feel like my parents' divorce was a traumatic experience that I'm still learning to live with after all these years. I know it's not really a comfort, but when you said your parents had an announcement I was really worried for you that maybe one of them was very sick and they wanted to tell the whole family at once. The news of their divorce, while very upsetting, isn't as bad as it could have been.

Email me if you want to talk about it. My parents' divorce made me lose hope in marriage in general. Thusly, I'm not married even though I've been going steady with my bf for going on 7 years.

But yeah, we can talk more outside of ILX.

Everyone Else, my trip was fantastic but I never want to fly again.
:-D

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

You have a boyfriend, Sarah? Don't tell Nick!

― Huk-L, Monday, 16 May 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Why don't you want to fly again Sarah?

yeah I'm sorry Jay. My parents divorced when I was 11 so it's hard for me to remember what it was like when they were together. But I imagine the shock of it after it's gone for so long and you thought it was good. Try to be there for each of them but don't take sides.

I think I'm going to back off on the dog for awhile. It's something we talked about before we got our house and I know we both want it but I think G.'s a bit hesitant right now. I still haven't found a job there are still a few major purchases we need to make for the house and I think this instability might be making him drag his feet on getting a doggie. Which makes sense. I'm going to let it rest for awhile and revisit in a few weeks. Unemployed, I just have nothing to do but sit around and browse petfinders.org all day. I do think I might start volunteering at the shelter though.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

John, I'm sorry about your parents. I remember when mine told us they were splitting up it was like...but you can't *do* that. Nate and I knew they didn't like each other and fought all the time, but they had some sort of obligation to us. Which is totally selfish in retrospect, but that's how teenagers think. Um, I don't really know what else to say other than that I hope you and your brother are okay.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 16 May 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, everyone :)

Right now I just feel a little woozy from having smoked four cigarettes (!) last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

somehow I ended up on ILM and it was very confusing. I kept wondering why there were so many music threads today and was about to post a thread asking then when I finally looked at the top of the page. doh!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

That would have been insanely hilarious and would have resulted in an all-time classic episode of ILM navel-gazing.

Why Are There So Many Threads About Music (and what's on the other side)?

― Huk-L, Monday, 16 May 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys.

Yikes John. Divorce sucks whatever age you are I think, it makes your parents so flawed and human, not just 'the parents' any more. My dad has been in a messy breakup from his second partner basically all year. He moved out last month. Is moving back in next month, they're giving it another go... fingers crossed.

Wow I'm stressed. Planning a wedding + job + planning my MA research project + two term papers = BRANE BREAKING :(

Hugs to Mark and Pink, just because.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Getting a hug from Archel makes me doubly happy, for its own sake and because my logic goes "someone as sweet and lovely and bright as Archel likes me --> I can't be an irrevocable cunt"

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Aslo, big hugs back, sweetie - if you want to chat or unburden yourself check yo aim!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 16 May 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I just had a really flustering experience yesterday. Long story short:
- My flight was cancelled at the last minute (or, rather, 30 minutes after we were supposed to board).
- I stood in line for an hour in hopes of rebooking to be told I was in the wrong line and needed to go to THAT ONE OVER THERE (ie: much longer line).
- I stand in that new line for over 2 hours. The few people behind me in line use their cell phones to call American Eag1e's 1800 number and get rebooked. So, they leave the line and I'm the last in line. Meanwhile, I'm a dumbass and notice my phone isn't charged. I can't get in touch with Nick to tell him my flight was cancelled. I leave a message on a pay phone for my mom to come pick me back up.
- When I finally get to the front of THAT line, I'm told to go to US A1rways' check in to try to get on a flight there.
- When I'm finally handed the ticket (which involves a transfer, but whatever, I want to go home..), the guy behind the counter says, "Run! You'll probably miss it! They're closing the gate!"
- I run. The security folks think I look suspicious. I am held for a ridiculous amount of time. I am talking gibberish and crying because I am so frustrated. They think this makes me look more suspicious so they frisk me for FOREVER. I should have asked for some massage oil.
- Then they have a security officer escort me to the gate where the plane is waiting for me.

Sorry, that wasn't short... But, TA DA!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Wow. If every person crying at an airport was deemed 'suspicious', there'd be nothing but frisking all day long...

This is why I have a phobia of airports.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

that's awful, sarah!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't think of why else they would have suspected me of anything, except that I was out of breath and the woman checking tickets probably recognized me from my first time going through the security gates (for the flight that never was).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Man, it sucks when I kill a thread, particularly TITTWIS.

I just had a great lunch. The work day is going by really quickly too.

Sam, I want a small dog, but my bf says it would be too much responsibility for us. But then I saw a King Charles spaniel this weekend - two brothers! - and now I'm starting to get obsessed again.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 16 May 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

jaymc I read about your parents this morning but didn't post because I couldn't really think of anything appropriate to say. I still can't really, except I'm sorry. It must have been a really big shock. You know Sarah and I are here for you if you need anything.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

Hugs to Mark and Pink, just because.

aww Arch, thanks for that! :-) Right back on its way to you! Need any help with choosing wedding shoes young lady?! (Oh btw, we're planning a trip down to Brighton in Aug to catch up with Roo, hopefully we'll be able to catch up at the same time!!??)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 08:16 (twenty years ago)

Yay! Wow, I'll be a married lady by August...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh Roo & Son, just got engaged btw!! Did the realisation just kick in there?! hahah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Wow, now I'm reeeling from the picture of a married Roo!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

See, all you hip young brightonians are getting hitched!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

What is a Roo (and can we eat it)?

Morning all! Just booked a long weekend in Venice for me and the missus (yes, she knows about it, it's not a surprise :)) - only 4 weeks away! How exciting! I need to finish the history of Venice I'm reading, and nag Sarah to finish Jan Morris's "Venice" so I can re-read it for tips on what to visit. I love the city of my forefathers*

*technically, it's only the city of my actual father - his parents moved there from Verona and Padua. But both of them were part of the Republic of Venice, and that's good enough for me.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Ooh! Venice! I want to go.

I hardly ever have any actual work to do (at work). This morning my desk is covered but I'm in denial.

Good morning, TITTWISers!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Hey Sarah. Thanks for reviving the thread! Work is dull today - with this crappy cold I just don't have the energy to be proactive, and I don't have many immediate tasks left on my desk.

CHERRY JIUCE ROCKS.

I managed to make back my poker losses, btw - I'm now £36 up on the new, British poker site I've been using.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

jaymc, just read the thred after a while off - sorry about your parents.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Further on the melon-farmers who surround me, and their total ignorance of the world around them (esp. pertaining to the Royal Family), someone yesterday refered to the Queen's mother as "Queen Elizabeth the First".

These are trained and well-paid journalists.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Markelby, which history are you reading?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

John Julius Norwich's, Michael. Do you know it? Or would you recommend another? It's superb, though I don't know if someone without emotional ties would find it quite so stimulating.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

thanks nick and j--l.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

didn't you just get back from holiday Mark? damn I want to go somewhere. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

For your amusement: the CEO of the company I work for has decided, after reading an article in the newspaper, that blogs are the wave of the future and that we can make a lot of money off of them. I work for a non-profit health organization. So my boss handed the project of researching blogs and how we can make money off of them to me. I get to write a report. Uh huh.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I wish the company I work for would wise up to blogs.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

It's such a useless idea for our company. Bah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

From another thread:

When I was a moderately successful teenaged actor, I used to go to conferences all the freakin' time and get wicked nametags.
Oh, and when I was a moderately successful entertainment journalist I used to sometimes get laminates and shit that had my name on them. Those're nametags, don't kid yourself.
Now that I'm wildly successful at NOTHING, nobody's interested in my name.
-- Huk-L (handsomishbo...), May 17th, 2005 11:18 AM. (later)

Uh, Huk, please explain/clarify/gossip?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I was sort of well-known in certain circles as an improvisation actor between the ages of 15 and 17, and was frequently called on to attend conferences for high school kids and do role playing workshops and stuff.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure I hobnobbed with prefame Tom Green and Alaniz Morizzette in Ottawa in '93. Well, Alaniz was known in Canada.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Aw. Now that IS cool.

'Hi, I'm Huck. You might remember me from such improvisations as School Bully II: The Wedgie Strikes Back and Help! I'm Canadian!'

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

John Julius Norwich's

Markleby, sorry I got called away. Lord Norwich's book is quite good as was his history of Byzantium. I read the book you're reading before going to La Serenissima the year before last. Also enjoyed Gary Wills's book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671047647/002-9724219-9736062?v=glance

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Yup, that was pretty much it.
Sometimes I'd get called to these teen peer support strategies conferences where I was supposed to stay in role as a youth-at-risk the whole time and conferees were supposed to figure out what was wrong with me and CURE ME!
Eventually, I became uncomfortable with my own hideous ego and developed/regressed into stagefright.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Also, there's a series of mysteries set in Venice that I breezed through about two months ago, by Donna Leon. Not really historical or enlightening, but fun airplane reading. Except for the murder parts.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I was supposed to stay in role as a youth-at-risk the whole time and conferees were supposed to figure out what was wrong with me and CURE ME!

Did you play it so the conferees you fancied could only 'cure' you with sex?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

HI THERE.

― GRACE MCKENZIE, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

i tried, but never got past second base (which was still AWESOME!)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Sorry about all those "AaronHz" posts. I'm such a bitch! Ooh, and maybe I'll post a pic one of these days...

― Grace McKenzie, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Now I have an image of Huk standing somewhere with a sign reading, "Will Act for Sex".

xpost

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Revive. I'm full of apple pie with caramel topping.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Some magazine just came out that has an article with our organization's toll-free number in it and now I'm getting 50,000 phone calls at the same time from people who want our stupid useless information. I haven't gotten anything done today because all I've been doing is answering the phone. I think I'm going to have a heart attack.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm full of strawberries. and chocolatines.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Y'all girls sure are sweet...

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I skipped lunch, and now I regret it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

fuck that "who's cool" thread. i just named some people & now i'm realizing that i left off all chicago folks plus jocelyn so i completely suck, okay? i'm sorry!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

that's why i haven't posted to that thread at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Tomorrow afternoon is "Spring Fling" for all uni.staff and we are supposed to all go play games and eat burgers under a tent and bond. What they don't do is make sure you actually go. So I'm leaving at 11:30 to go eat not-burgers and lie in the sun in the park all day.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

The Queen will be here in 3 hours.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

That sounds loverly, jocelyn.

I haven't even looked at that Who's Cool? thread. I always think, Oh, whatever, it's just dumb anyway, then I end up feeling personally offended. Good times.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, despite the thread title, I was interpreting "cool" as "people I like and I'm impressed by but also somewhat intimidated by, like people who I'm kind of scared to talk to because they seem much cooler than me" so that's why I picked Ally and LeCoq and Phil Two instead of all of you, because while I love all of you, you're all more like friends than "cool people," which in itself is cool but in a different, more healthy, and more approachable way, if that makes sense.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

How can we be lovers if we can't be friends?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I originally interpreted the thread as you did, Nick, but it seems to have taken a turn.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hmv.com.au/product_images/967292.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

The comment spam on my blog is seeing a huge increase in traffic in the last three or four days, and it's all about shemales. Asian shemales, redheaded shemales, big-cock shemales, shemale this, shemale that. Every single one of them. I just got one that said, "busty shemale pussy." Busty pussy? Howzzat work?

I know it's just spam, but it's making feel like a pervert through the sheer volume and puzzling specificity of it.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

SUCCUMB TO THE POWER OF SHE-MALES!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Is She-Ra a big role model to the she-males?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I just turned into Jerry Seinfeld there for a second.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

If you don't how busty shemale pussy works....

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

Do you know what ILX needs? A gossip/news headline on the main page where a select group of ILX0rs (1 or 2) finds out the latest goings on in ILX-land and posts them in big bold letters at the top. Like...

* DON'T LOOK AT THE "TUB GIRL" PHOTO, FOR GOD'S SAKE!
* NED HAS JUST REACHED 99 BAJILLION POSTS!
* ILX DOESN'T COMPLETELY LOVE THE SPRING/SUMMER 2005 HOBO FASHIONS!
* KENAN JUST CHANGED HIS USER NAME AGAIN!
* CONNER SM3DLEY IS BACK AND IN FULL EFFECT!

and so on..

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

kenan, are you using word press? my site is down at the moment but one reason I've been hesitating reviving my blog is b/c of that stupid comment spam.

i feel really bleh today.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, Sam. Bad Bleh or Just Bored Bleh?

* NICK STILL DOESN'T LIKE TOMATOES!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Have you upgraded to 1.5 yet, Sam? Since I did, it has caught every piece of spam. Not one dirty, poker-playin' thing has gotten though in the last three months or so. Works great.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

If you don't how busty shemale pussy works....

what? You'll show me?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

haha I like that idea, Sarah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

We need a news crawl. "Beyonce doesn't like the word 'bootylicious.'"

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Whew! I just dodged a bullet on Ebay. I'm *thrilled* that I got outbid. What was I thinking?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I have the bustiest shemale pussy you've ever seen.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Yow! Please, Huk, don't hurt 'em!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Kenan, I do that EVERY DAY.

Huk OTM.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

i'm bad bleh. no, I haven't upgraded. I have to just rebuild the whole thing from scratch and import tons of archived stuff so I'll do so then.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

(i think maybe all that means is that i have a fat ass)

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I am grumpy. I'm in another one of those "What the hell am I doing with my life? I'm going to be working at this shitty job forever, arent't I?" moods.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

PELVIC PAIN please go away.
kthnx bye

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

I try to think about what kind of job/career I want but all I can think of that sounds fun is hanging out in the practice space recording music by myself all day.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

I want a job hanging around naked and getting fat.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, I was hoping I had managed to stop that before it posted. I hate being whiny.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I would like a job, period. I'm feeling low and usless today.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

haha I wish I could take my post back, too. It's disgusting.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Me too, Miss Misery, me too, and I have a job. Just a stupid one. But I remember unemployment and I know that's no fun either.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I got to make the following note on a page at work today: Although she attempted a recent comeback, Tiffany's last chart hit was in 1989 and she has been largely out of the public eye since. Replace with Lindsay Lohan or Ashlee Simpson?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc! What about http://www.popcultmag.com/passingfancies/bottomfive/playboy/tiffany.jpg???

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I am sorry for participating in "the cool" thread, but I want all of you guys to know, you are the best ILXors (apart from those ones that I like that don't post here) got it?! ;-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

Eesh... I think I'll head back to lurkerdom. My first day of ILE return didn't go quite so well.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

Oh no Remy, stick around lovely!!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Hey Remy, I just read your 'pissing' post on the 80s film poll thread and thought - not for the first time - how great you were. Just saying like.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

This morning I found some pictures of my cats from when I was looking after my mum's place. And now I'm posting them here for no real reason (hope they're not too huge).

Cobweb looking unconcerned:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/cobweb.jpg

Portia looking VERY NEAR (she's jumpy as hell):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/slightlyfoxed/portia.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Aww, archel, how sweet! I will post pics of my two, but they will inevitably be links...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/kitties17.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/mollybox3.jpg

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh & I need your help, why am I choosing to argue with the person that was the sole reason for me leaving ILX (not TITTWIS) in the first place?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

yay kitties!

Because arguing with M is a perfectly natural reflex. But stopping it is the only way to save your sanity hon! M claims not to be able to stop himself ~~being an arse~~ posting, but you're a sensible nice person and therefore capable of restraint. Leave him to it.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

luna, you making it to Massachusetts?

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

Ah it's fine Archel, my insanity is intact for sure. I just can't help it today you know. My bad? I am not around on ILX long enough for it to bother me anymore! Cheers for the thought though. :-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

Hi! I've never posted to this before. Hello Pink - long time no see!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

Hello there lovely! How the devil are you? Welcome to TITTWIS! I was just about to add you to the "cool" thread, but I'm sure you know I think you're hella cool! hahah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 10:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm good - hey, thanks.

Also - there ought to be another Cambridge punt FAP and curry as soon as we've got a nice weekend.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

HAHA, sweet! You still in Hitchin or did you escape?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)

Chris, I believe that Luna is just in Maine (and not sure that she'll get online at all while out there) and pretty busy.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Bah, thanks Martin!

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Hi, This is the Thread! I've never posted on one of these things before!

ha ha

I miss Luna.

I love the kitties, Pink and Archel! Cobweb is such a cute name.

In unhappier news, I hate money issues. BLAAARRRNNNEEEYYY! I went to the gas station this morning to fill up the tank and the cashier said my card was declined. Sure enough I looked online and I've maxed out my favorite credit card (the one that gets me sky miles). ARGH! And I had wanted to buy tickets to the Intonation Music Festival, Lollapalooza, and Bike the Drive today. I feel like such a dumbnuts when it comes to money management. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Pink, I actually moved from Letchworth to Hitchin about a month ago. At least I'm living with mates instead of my Dad's.

Hey, can anyone tell me briefly what happened to AaronHz? He was a really cool poster but last time I read about him he was the worse for wear let's just say. What exactly happened?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

dog latin, I demand more Posh Tiger. You've been keeping up on edge for months now...
Aw cute kitty pics! I was going to ask for some yesterday and here they are.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Did you guys see all my kitty pix on my flickr page?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

There's been so much demand for Posh Tiger that next time I get a minute I'll do some more.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I have seen your kitty pictures, Sarah. I love your kitty.

I have for the second time been unable to resist putting a picture of one of my cats on my photoblog. Now they're both represented there.

http://giganticmag.com/photos.php?image=P1021775

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Apparently AaronHz is manic-depressive and is going through a very severe manic phase right now which caused him to freak out on ILX and creep out a bunch of his internet friends. Then he got banned.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

I see, fun times then Dog Latin!

I'll have to have a look at your pics Sarah, but I must do some work! argh!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

I'm reading "The Moustache" by Emmanuel Carrere which is about this guy who's had a moustache his whole adult life and then one day he decides to shave it off but then no one else remembers him ever having a moustache, including his wife, and it starts to drive him crazy, and I just realized we should have arranged some huge prank on jaymc where we would all pretend that he never had a beard and drive him insane. That would have been hilarious!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

xposts:
See, that's something that could be on my imaginary news crawl. But now I'm thinking it would need to be more of a teaser, so people would still actually read the thread and post to them. Like, AARONHZ GOES MANIC- DOES THIS MEAN THE END OF ILX 4 HIM 4EVR??! READ MORE HERE...

Kenan, I love that close up of your meanie cat, even if it is a meanie. She looks really soft. Or is it a he? And the eye close up looks like a deer's eye.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

It's a she. And she *is* really soft. She sleeps on me and purrs all night, if you can believe that.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

She looks very intelligent.
Even though I cannot afford it, I am getting my hair cut and highlighted today. I will post before and after pictures. Sarah we still need pictures of your hair.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

haha yeah i thought about mentioning playboy, but i decided that would confuse matters!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I just applied for unemployment, wish me luck.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

As a hypothetical newcomer to the English language, the above sentence flabbergasts me.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Good luck with that doll!

Aww, great pics sarah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Best of luck, Sam.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

huk, you talking to me? xxpost

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

First off, hello to one and all and all their cats. My gf's mom just got a kitten and as soon as I get them I'll post some photos.

I was just reading the thread Pink was talking about and, as much as I try to keep a certain reserve about this board, I have to say I found it depressing. When Aaron went manic, it could at least be attributed to a medical condition, but when people snark at length and at similar levels of mutual incomprehension, I just find it diminishes my hope that a board can be used for useful or pleasant communication. Having said that, I always find these threads to be cozy and friendly, so hugs for everybody (and cheek scratches for the cats).

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

^^I've totally figured it out though, just offer them hugs! haha. my tweeist nature will reighn supreme mwahahahah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

oops, added an extra "h" in there, anyone need it?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Just ignore them Pink. It's what I do to the persons who like to attack me.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

It's odd though Sam, because it used to really upset me but where ILX is concerned, I don't let it get to me anymore.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that was for you. I didn't mean anything by it, just that taken at face value "applying for unemployment" is kinda funny. Actually applying for unemployment, on the other hand, is not.

The Queen is here. The British one. It's fucking my day up.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

ah yes well I meant unemployment "compensation".

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Huk, are you still in Regina? There's gotta be at least a half dozen really awful jokes to be made if so.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

i kinda wish i had a cat.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

It's not the asshole of the prairies, but it's close.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I haven't read ILE much lately, and didn't know about what happened to Aaron until today. I've dealt with these sort of mental problems from a close distance, and it can be very, very distressing - especially if coming from someone you care about. When someone's having an episode like that, you can't really reason with them. I wouldn't blame the people who responded to Aaron, though; not everyone is (thank god) familiar with mental illness, and at first people migth've thought he was merely joking. From my experience there's not much you can do in a situation like this, except to wait for the episode to pass, which it usually does.

I hope Aaron is getting all the help he needs.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I do blame them b/c everyone was told what was going on. people are assholes.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Well, yeah, but he himself told he was just fucking with them and not having an episode. Obviously that wasn't the truth, but as I said, not everyone's familiar with these things...

Sadly, I think the faceless of the Internet can make it hard to distinguish between when one is trolling and when one is having genuine problems. In real life at least you'd notice the difference.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

"facelessness"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

It's not the asshole of the prairies, but it's close.

I didn't mean to cast aspersions. I was referring to the Queen being in Regina, etc...

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah. Well, it's not a coincidence. I mean, it's not like it was named after her, or her mother ("Queen Elizabeth the First" as one newscaster reported). But we're locked in this never-ending battle with Victoria, B.C. over who the real Queen City is.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

If memory serves me, it is pronounced with a long 'i' sound (as in vagina) and not the Latin 'ee' sound, right?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Yes, hence my first ever post that was EXCELSIORED, in a thread about coming up with a couplet that had never been recited before:
Regina regatta
Vagina dentata

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. Ruh-JYE-na. Someday, when I'm either ridiculously wealthy or completely removed from reality, I'd like to investigate why this city decided to break away from the traditional pronounciation of its name.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

It's just anglicised latin pronunciation, right Huk?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

But every other Regina is pronounced Ruh-GEE-na.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

And people here get SOOOO offended if somebody calls it Ruh-Gee-Na.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

And Guelph, Ont. has dibs on The Royal City (also the name of a neato band from there).

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

I have an interview tomorrow. I really really hate interviews. and it's at 9:30 and we're going out tonight to watch the Mavs. boo.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I think of that pronounciation I get the Sugarcubes song as sung by

It's not the asshole of the prairies, but it's close.

No, that would be me (about 575 km 355 miles away).

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Best of luck with that, Sam. I hate interviews, too. In fact, I'm really bad at them. I feel your pain.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Everytime I think of that pronounciation I get the Sugarcubes song as sung by my crazy brother.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I never know when to stop during interviews. Like I'll give a really good answer, and then there will be just a millisecond of silence, so I'll continue and just go off the rails.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

My best advice: these days, there are questions most everyone asks and questions that the job spec implies they'll ask. There are also a bunch of things that you want to say to show you at your best. These are two columns on a piece of paper. Work out how you'll answer the standard ones on being a team player and motivation and all that, and how you'll work in your best moments and qualities. This means that many questions come as no surprise, and you know what kind of thing to say, meaning that fewer give you that 'what the fuck do I say is being honest right and enough or should I think of some great example oh fuck I can't think of any' moments. Also, you know when you've made your point - I'm always at risk of the mistake Huk cites.

But mainly, Sam: good luck.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I think that's my problem too, Huk.

T.M.I.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I think most interviewers just want to get a feel for what you are like. You hope that they get this idea that you are very capable and bright and that you are just like work soulmates. I am bad at interviewing too, but I find that smiling and nodding helps. When the interviewer talks, be very attentive. Are you paying attention to me? Anyone reading this? Damn it. Eye contact is important.

But, like I said, don't listen to me.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Slobbery BJs are also helpful.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

I'm beginning to get a better understanding of your problems at work, Mr. Subdued.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm only the victim!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Uh-huh.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I had an interview once with a newspaper, and I started prattling on about how I read two newspapers a day, except on weekends, when I read three. Over two days. Not three each day. That would be too much. And on Mondays, I usually pass, because newspapers on Mondays aren't very good. Except this one. This one is great on Mondays.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

*long silence*

...actually, I only read TV Guide.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Masturbating to a photo of Connie Chung != "reading"

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Good luck Sam. Once again, why has this thread fallen so low on the new answers page AGAIN! tsk!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 19 May 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

I slept horrible last night and don't want to go. i'm not qualified enough for the job anyway I think. bah!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

Be brave, Sam! You can do it, put your ass into it! (merely an expression)

"I don't tend to read newspapers. I get all of my news from this messageboard called ILX, Yahoo's Entertainment news daily updates, and the Onion."

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Aww Sam, be brave!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

Motherfucker, people are STILL calling for this information sheet we had advertised in some health magazine. I have talked to like 800 people over the last three days. I just have to remember that I have the day off tomorrow, so today's basically my Friday.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

You should start your weekend countdown, Nick.

Today we're going to have cupcakes at work to celebrate someone's birthday. I am starving and the cupcakes won't be here until around noon. NOOO!!!! Bring on the chocolate and frosting!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I just put together a Fed Ex package for a coworker, something I do a few times every day. I think it's pretty funny that the envelopes say, "Do not ship liquids, blood, or diagnostics in this packaging." I mean, who would think it would be a good idea to put some blood in an envelope and stick it in the mail?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

I might go to Moose Jaw to see Star Wars tonight. I figure since it's a smaller city, all the nerds have already seen it and the lineups are probably waaaay shorter. Anybody who shares initials with Carl Pillagio wanna come with?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

I'm actually a little worried that blood doesn't fall under the category of 'liquids' in that warning.

Sam, maybe this interview can be one you look at as a practice interview? That would help me be less nervous, if it were me.

reading up, jaymc, I'm sorry to hear about your parents.

And Pink I like the hug tactics.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Thanks SGS! Haven't seen you around ina while, what's up?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 19 May 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the well wishes, the interview actually went really well I think! It's a very small dept. in a doctor's insurance company -- all women who have been there for awhile. They all were laid back and friendly and I think I made a good impression, we shall see.

While I'm talking to them, selling myself, a part of my brain is telling me I'd hate, I can't do all the things they'd want. Nevermind that I used to do the kind of work all the on jobs *before* I taught. That place really did a number on my self-esteem let me tell you.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Good, Sam. Break a leg (metaphorically). Don't let the past define you.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 May 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

still recovering from jetlag, Pink. Often when I try to keep up with these threads I quickly get behind after a couple missed days, and don't post stuff here even though it's probably kind of creepy to lurk on this thread and not actively say stuff--it's easier for me to just post the occasional thing on various random threads I suppose.

I'm glad to hear Sam's interview went well!

I am about to go shopping for a dress to wear to a wedding where there will likely be a lot of well-dressed (or at least expensively-dressed) posh people. Guh. I should've read Vogue on the plane or something to get in the right frame of mind.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 19 May 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Here is my putative mother-in-law's new kitten, Charley.

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/Charley.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 May 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

Cute!

I am really poor right now. And I'm sure you have all forgotten since my last post about it... was it yesterday? Anyway, now we're having a wedding shower for someone in my office in two weeks and we were each given a list of places she's registered. ARGH! Is there any way I can get out of this or do you think it's just one of those things credit cards are for?

In other news, I got to have cupcakes at work for someone's birthday.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Charley big paws.
I hate those workplace obligation things. Just get her something at Target. Is she registered there or only at expensive places?
In other news, I am happy with my hair.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

He's 11 weeks old. Sarah, that's annoying, isn't it. You have every right to budget your own life and the whole wedding=gifts thing annoys the heck outta me. Still, you have to decide on a case by case basis and the lady is a co-worker...

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

What does Charley big paws mean?

The couple is registered at Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn and Bloomingdales. Bloomies!!

Pix please, jocelyn!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

What does Charley big paws mean?
Never mind. I'm an idiot.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't buy anything for a co-worker who was getting married. Fuck that in stovepipe hat.
Mind you, I despise every single person I work with.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Get them 2 coffee mugs at the Pottery Barn.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm just being grumpy. My other coworkers have known her for quite a bit longer than I have. I hardly ever even talk to her because she's a busy busy busy architect who sits in the farthest corner of the office. Also - get ready for some super jerkfaceness on my part - everyone in my office is on a whole other realm financially. Life isn't fair, yadda yadda yadda...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

C&B and PB must have some relatively cheap stuff, no?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but if they are registered there, doesn't that mean I'm supposed to pick something off a list?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly. Why can't you ask a co-worker? I'd be blunt and say, simply, "I want to get her something but I don't have mucho dinero."

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I'd say, "Hey, you're a fucking architect. Build your own wedding present."

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm so surprised I'm not invited to more weddings.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

sarah, registrations are just suggestions. you can get her any damn thing you please and if she's a gracious person she'll be delighted. (or he)

I made an A on that computer test thingy. yay!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

YAY!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 May 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Sam is right, and proven to be so by getting an A (I'm sure there were some questions about wedding gift etiquette on that test, no?)(well done, Sam! But it's no surprise). You don't owe a colleague a present. For me, it's a couple of quid in an envelope when it's passed round for weddings, leaving, babies and the like. I can't think of anyone at work, anyone I've worked with in any job in the last 25 years, who'd get any more than that. If they are much richer than me, they probably won't even get that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I posted about the co-worker who'd never EVER spoken to me, who had a baby and I tried to refuse to sign her card, and everybody was like, "YOU HATE BABIES!"

I was all like, "Is that a crime?"

― Huk-L, Thursday, 19 May 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Hooray Sam!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Many congrats to Sam!

Sarah, I would probably just try to angle for something pretty but inexpensive. JC Penney routinely has wedding-related items for sale, pretty ones, ones like crystalline picture frames. Or, if that doesn't attract, something nice from Target or Wal-Mart will more than do.

I'm kinda feeling odd right now, because I'm on some new meds. I took yesterday off to take care of some medical issues I've been needing to take care of, and I've been taking meds since that evening. While they've really helped me out, they've also made me feel kinda squooky (you know, slight stomach upset) and now my mouth feels like the Sahara in the middle of July.

Anyway. Lots has happened over the past few days and I don't know why all of this craziness has to happen at once, but oh well. At least it's nothing bad like Jaymc's parents getting a divorce (I'm sorry to hear about this!) or Huck's employers completely shitting all over him (again, I'm sorry to hear about this).

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 May 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

So big hugs to all of you! Hughughughughughughug!

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 May 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

Hey kiddo!
Don't worry about me. If I didn't like it at some SICK AND PERVERTED level, I'd quit.

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually, that might be more cause for worry!

Hope your new meds settle down in yr system. I'm lucky enough that I've never had to take anything beyond antibiotics (and even those, we now learn, I probably shouldn't have taken, damn SUPERBUGS), but I've taken lots of stuff "recreationally" in my youth and now how those side effects can be.

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

"Kiddo", huh? Lording over your maybe 1 1/2 year-at-the-most age advantage, are you? ;) Anyway, please promise me you'll quit when you recognize the point when the job will provide you with more stress than its seemingly few advantages will be able to make up for. Sanity first!

Ooh, antibiotics -- those can be pretty fun to take. NOT. Stinky pills. Big, ugly, stinky pills that make your, well, OUTPUT smell. But we still need them, and we still need to take all of them, lest we contribute to the superbugs problem. Anyway, my meds are just for some breathing & allergy probs I'm having, and they ARE working, so, hey. And no stinky pill!

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 20 May 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

I meant "kiddo" in a familiar way than in a dismissive or diminutive way.
I've taken to calling people by weird titles. Like, I've been using "Lady" a lot. I even called my mom "Lady". On mother's day no less. "Can you pass the corn, lady?"

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

Psst -- Sam, Dee, John --

― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

Hey Dee & Huck, sorry to hear about your ailemts!
*hugs Dee*
*hugs Huck & goes for the grope around*
Sarah - Just get something you can afford, don't worry about sticking to the lists.
Sam - Congrats lady! Well done you on the test result & the interview going well.

Aww cute ickle kitty!

*Pls skim over if you don't want to hear me moaning*
Sarah, I know what you mean with regards to having no money. Tomorrow we are supposed to be going to a friend's bar-b-q/footie/eurovision extravaganza which I am looking forward to, but I have double booked so will only be going to this for a little while (yay no eurovision!). Thing is in the evening I have to go out for dinner & plenty of drinks afterwards, for my oldest friend's b/day. We have been drifting for a while, but I still love her & she is going travelling in June, so I really want to make the effort, esp as I haven't been able to make her b/day shenanigans for the last 2 years due to lack of funds. prob is, I'm really skint. We need to take food & alcohol to the barby & then after that go out for a Chinese meal plus drinks afterwards. I simply don't have the cash. I can borrow some cash, but I know I shouldn't be borrowing for this kind of thing. It's just a bad timing issue, although, debts are getting scarily large. Any ideas? Oh & my wisdom teeth have decided to put on a bit of a growth spurt! Woe is me & all that! :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

BarBQ/FA Cup Final/Eurovision with friends tomorrow for me, too! It's going to be a GREAT day!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

tonight im making a nice dessert. grilled peaches, skewered with a cinnammon stick and mint leaf. brushed with butter, bourbon and brown sugar sauce. then, placed on top of vanilla ice cream. i may hump them.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 20 May 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

My best friend's stag do is tomorrow - fortunately I do have the cash, but considering it's only one evening the budget is astronomical! But going out to a top-notch restaurant is probably the best way I can think of spending a stag, and considering the reason for the night I'm just going to take the finanical hit, drink and eat lots and have a wlae of a time.

(I am also pwning William Hill's poker site right now, so maybe that's a solution for you, Pink!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, Chris V, that sounds SO good!

I hate money issues. I hate hate hate them. I did just realize the shower in my office is after my next paycheck, so that's welcome news. Anyways, my debts can go f themselves.

My goal for work today is to stay awake until it's time for the weekend. I was a dancing queen last night.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the grope, Pink!

Long ago, life was clean, sex was bad, called obscene, and the rich were so mean.
Victorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrria (Day Longweekend)

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Haha Mark, do you think? Don't you need cash to speculate before you accumulate?

x-post

anytime huk! :-)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap, Chris, I think I just got a boner reading about your peaches! I'm breaking out my bbq this weekend (Canada to India, Australia to Cornwall) and I guess I've gotta try something like that.
I used to love grilling fresh (as in not canned, not as in grown on the prairie) pineapple, just enough to get a bit of caramelization. Mmmmm, that's some sweet eats.
All I'm going to bbq this summer is fruit.

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

I always wanted to post this, and say that I hope I never get too old or too cranky to lose my shit over a MAD cover: http://www.dccomics.com/mad/popup_mag.php?i=3967

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

The only dessert I have ever heard of on the bar-b-q is bananas & chocolate. You basically split the banana & place chunks of chocolare in there & place on the barby with foil around it! mmmm.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

bananas grilled are great with a dark rum sauce. i am captain grill, i grill all seasons.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 20 May 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I defy you to try it in a Saskatchewan January.

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

you got me there.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

My favourite things on a bar-b-q at the moment are halloumi & corn on the cob. num & indeed num!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

do you grill the corn on the cob with the husks still on? i do. well you need to take the silks out first.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

No I don't. - see your new thread! :-D

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

hi remy!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

hey all. . .yeah I'm trying to rely positive jobness into good weekend mood. going out to lunch with an old college friend in a bit. Then this weekend shall feature starwars, grilling, margaritas and home shopping in various measures. yay!

I hope everyone else has good weekends (broke or not, boo). dee, pills suck.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Aww yay Sam, hope your good mood carries on & your weekend is a good one also!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Pink, with poker, it helps to have a bit of disposable income for the learning period - I've only been playing 3 months but I've been consitently up (despite some rocky patches) over the last 2. I seem to have reached a comfort level where I can expect to make money 75% of the time I play, and with a bit of dedication I could probably get up to three figures a week.

You have to have the right kind of mind, an appropriate attitude to risk, you need to be able to deal with it when luck is against you, and you have to make sure you learn with every hand. But if you feel you could, then why not give it a go!

NB do not play Chris Venuti. Ever.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I haven't played in a long time. And last time I played you Mark, you took all my $.

― Chris 'Crusty' V (Chris V), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Ah no way dude, I am too attached to any cash I do [read don't] have!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I did not Chris! You took mine, twice - I only broke even cos I took Ken's (and maybe a little bit of David's and Dom's). All your aggressive post-flop raising - I had no idea how to deal with it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I am excited about the thread Pink might have started about grilling. mmm...

I've got 2 hours of work left before my weekend starts!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

ONE HOUR LEFT FOR ME

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

M.B.N.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

I haven't gotten shit done at work all week and I feel guilty about it. I need more discipline. And less morning sickness. But mostly more discipline. I'm still thinking about going home early though, because really, who wants to deal with me calling them on a friday afternoon?

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

Do you Americans have a long weekend? Memorial Day or something?

I was born, lucky me
In a land that I love
Though I am poor, I am free
When I grow I shall fight
For this land I shall die
Let her sun never set

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

that's next weekend.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh, too bad. We've got a long weekend starting (for me) in 20 minutes.

Stately homes for the Lords
Croquet lawns, village greens
Victoria was my queen

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Interesting (or not) Huk-Fact: the sum total of my day's labour is 3824 words.

― Huk-L, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

HI GUYS! By the way -- are you aware you're being illegal?

Sorry. Had to do that once in my little tiny life.

So, hi there. I'm posting once again, and I don't even know why! Oh yeah -- I know why -- to keep on proving to you that YES, I AM ALIVE. And I have absolutely nothing to say. Wait, that's a lie; actually, a great deal has been happening lately offline, which is why I'm absolutely drop-dead tired. I've already dozed off half a dozen times throughout tonight, and I've got a large cup filled with caffeinated drink product right next to me, that I keep sucking down.

But -- I guess my brain isn't really functioning at 100%. I have just spent a few minutes calcuating; in the past 65 hours, I've only ("only"?) slept 4 hours and 45 minutes. In all the excitement of what's been going on with various things, I've not been able to have a healthy, full night's sleep since Tuesday night, and even then I slept my usual bit of 4 1/2 hours. I am lucky that my eyes are not carrying steamship-sized luggage, though I do suspect that my lack of sleep is contributing to the general squookiness factor of the meds I'm taking. One benefit, though, is my reduced appetite, which is preventing me from even wanting to make unwise snacking decisions.

Yet, I'm still awake. Why? Why is it that I insist on doing this when I know very well that I should very sensibly just drop everything and go to sleep? I don't know. I don't even know why I'm typing all of this out save for maybe this compulsion I have to remember everything and make other people join in. But I do feel like I need to reconnect, so I am, and here I am.

I deliver many hugs to all of you from the purest source of my heart. I do feel great affection for all of you, especially since you are so free with your indulgences that you're able to tolerate rambles like this. So now I close up this post, thinking that maybe this should've been in my LJ (but maybe not -- I don't exactly have the clarity of mind needed in order to ascertain these discertions) (ha, look at Brain-Turned-To-Bowl-Of-Mush Girl attempting to resurrect old vocabulary terms!)... and thinking I will join you again when I once again return to the world of the conscious and feeling.

[embarrassing closure edited out in a brief moment of lucidity]

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

In another brief moment of lucidity: "discertions"? That even a word?? Holy crap. That was bad, that word selection. Anyway, nighty-night? Or not? Only I know at this time.

― Goodbye Indian Summer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 21 May 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Hey Dee, I miss you on here, hope you are back for good soon! *hugs*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 May 2005 08:06 (twenty years ago)

Hi. Obviously at 10.10 on a Monday morning it would be grossly unprofessional of me to be here, which is why I'm not.

Julia, how's the move going! Are you up to your neck? We need to know when you get a moment.

I went to a stag do on Saturday night. It was the third one I've been to, and the third one with not a trace of boobs. I am not sure that should be allowed. It did mean I got to eat in a fancy restaurant (and had snails! Well, a snail - it was disappointingly ordinary as it turned out), and drink several caipirinhas. But somehow the pressure of having to have a good time took the edge off the fun of the evening a little bit. I hope the wedding won't be the same (next Saturday, at which I'm ushing).

Did you know there are 150 species of asparagus, and all but one are inedible?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 23 May 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

You hope there will be boobs at the wedding?

All asparagus is inedible.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:18 (twenty years ago)

Haha, martin, no love for asparagus. Is it because it makes your wee wee smell like the devil?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)

It's because it is nasty. (I have love for no vegetables but two: chips and crisps.)

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

You don't like vegetables? *mouth drops open*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 May 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Martin is a famous vegetable hatah. But I bet I could convert him with my famous puy lentil casserole!

God, last night I dreamt it was the day before my wedding and NOTHING WAS PLANNED. Having woken up in a panic I then fell asleep again to dream that I was in a play and on stage without knowing my lines, and I thought I'd probably be ok if everyone else gave me the cues and stuff but THEY ALL STARTED TO AD LIB and I just stood there.

I suspect these are the same dream really.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 23 May 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

I used to hate asparagus because I'd always had it mushy, but it can be very good when it's cooked right! Tonight, Nick will be making some on the grill along with our veggie burgers. mmm...

I suspect Luna will be back soon?

Dee, what do you mean by saying we're being illegal?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Only 5 days of work and we get a long weekend! YAY!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

But vegetables are so yummy!
I wasn't sure what Dee meant either Sarah!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

How's your house, Pink?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

We had grilled salmon and yellow squash last night. yummy!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I am in a motherfukkin head-bash of a mood this morning. There are two people in this office (three, perhaps) that I want to slam fucking dunk. Person #1: Get the fuck out of my face and do some work for once in your career. Person #2: Shut the fuck up now and forever. (My mood could very well be due to the fact that I listened to 50 Ft Wave this morning and it makes me want to trash everything.)

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 May 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I am kind of annoyed at one of my coworkers. She has a tendency to ask me questions about my life, which is very polite. She always seems interested at first and will ask a follow up question or 2, but then she'll just stop listening all of a sudden, even to the point of talking to someone else while I'm still talking. And I'm not talking a lot either. I'll just be into my second sentence and she'll turn to another coworker and say, "So, how was that bridal shower Saturday?" Grrr.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne, it's criminal that life's circumstances have prevented you and Alex in NYC from becoming the most intense of lovers :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

How's your house, Pink?
Oh it's great Sarah thanks. It feels like we have been there forever now tbh! It's only 9 months, but it feels like longer. We still have plenty of stuff to be doing in the house, but lack of funds have put a stop to that for a while.
Maybe your colleague has ADD!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if she does, Pink.

Did you grill the squash too, Ms. Misery? If so, how did you prepare it?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

yum grilled squash.

not my usual whining: I had to do a presentation today on part of my thesis work, and it went very well! The comments were thoughtful, no difficult questions like I got last year, and my supervisor complimented me afterwards! I had my usual nauseous nerves, and then the computer wouldn't work so no powerpoint, and I was the first to present in the seminar...I so loathe public speaking that it's usually just a relief when it's over, but this time I am in a really bouyant mood, and I think I even smiled all through my commute. And then grinned at myself in the mirror when I got home.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Archel, feel free to try to convert me if the opportunity ever arises, but the odds are stacked against you.

Luna back tonight/tomorrow, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

haha, who says comicbook geeks don't know how to relate to women? This is from the Taschen book on Manga: "...and the various grotesque characters they encounter - the ugly hairy guy, a pregnant woman, a freak, a deformed man, a maniac, a murderer..." Sorry, Teeny! And anyone else who might be pregnant!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Way to go, sgs!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

ugh, I'm on my way to a job interview now. those are bad enough as it is but it's broiling outside and my car has no AC. By the time I find parking (it's on campus, no parking) and walk to the place I'm going to be a sweaty, greasy mess. :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Did that top grade in that test not get you a job, Sam? Good luck with today's.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

the interview today is for that job. The grade allowed me to get to this stage. One of my friends from back in student government days has been in the position for six years and has put in a good word for me. So assuming I don't completely blow it I think my odds are pretty good.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure they are! Best of luck! Take something with which to wipe your face before going in!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Good luck! I recommend bringing a tiny bit of makeup remover/more supplies if you're sweating (assuming you're wearing any eye makeup). You just don't want to show up looking like Alice C00per.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 23 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne, it's criminal that life's circumstances have prevented you and Alex in NYC from becoming the most intense of lovers :)

Oh please. I SO bow down to Alex NYC's rage-o-meter. I could not muster up a fraction of the desire to go ape shit over G00d Charlotte or pop music or whatever else is irritating that guy at the moment. He totally takes the crown.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 23 May 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

complete disaster! I left half and hour early and campus is only a few miles away. Stupid Austin traffic. .. by the time I got there and managed to parallel park (oh my car also doesn't have power steering) I got out of the car and the tower's bells were ringing 3:30 (when my interview was). Panicked, I hightailed the 3 blocks to the bldg I was scheduled for. Can't find the room. Wait about ten mintue for the dude at the info desk to get off the phone and look the room up on a map for me. Get there and it's an empty, locked conferece room. None of the other offices on the hall seem to have what I'm looking for either.

Bewildered and on the verge of tears I set off back towards my car and miraclously I remember the number to the office. I call and say I was scheduled for a 3:30 interview but must have been given the wrong room number. The girl who answers says the man's 3:30 is with him now and asks for my name. She says I'm not scheduled for an interview AT ALL and asks when and who I had spoke to. Itell her to set me up for the next possible appt (next mon) and then she asks if she can call me back. I sit in a pub nearby for an hour waiting and she never calls me back. WTF?!?!

On the upside I'm glad and I didn't have to sweatily explain away my lateness but on the downside I now have painful blisters from trying to run in heels and WTF???

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Aw Sam, I'm sorry - after doing so well on your test, I can't believe this is the end of it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Sam!!! *Sends Good Thoughts* Call back tomorrow, cool as a cucumber but slightly amused, explain yourself and pin down an interview. Make sure you get the person's name. Show up early enough to (a) find the room on time, and (b) make sure you can freshen yourself up to the point where you're not self-conscious.

P.S. If the lady 'forgets' to schedule again we'll all pow-wow to think of a way to make her feel the wrath of TITTWIS.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

xpost, Yeah, give the girl a call again later maybe? Sounds like someone (the girl who didn't call you back?) wrote down the wrong date/time or something...reminds me a bit of my interview disaster story that resulted in a sweet job offer. So don't give up!

(and thanks Sarah :) I am still feeling happy, like I might actually be able to complete my thesis and not have it be totally pointless.)

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah thanks, I'm definitely calling back in the morning. I scheduled the appt with a guy on Friday who apparently didn't know what he was doing but I didn't get his name. At least I got this chick's name. I'll get it sorted out. still, su ch a hassle.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Dee, what do you mean by saying we're being illegal?

Ha ha ha ha ha. I was quoting from Arcadia's "Election Day"! You know, delusion-fueled fannish craziness. I had to do it because it's the election season locally and because I'm always in the mood for that song/album.

I can't imagine anyone disliking vegetables! I love broccoli, zucchini, cabbage, carrots, corn, green beans, lettuce, spinach, avocados, onions -- a lot of veggies! A veritable succotash! And I'm an omnivore, so it's not like I couldn't live on as few veggies as possible. (Oh, nearly forgot about brussels sprouts -- thanks to Causistry, I've grown to love them too.)

The grilled salmon and yellow squash dinner sounds YUMMY. Every bit as yummy as what I had for dinner, which was a lot less healthy -- crispy dogs and guacamole. I love crispy dogs. They're comfort food to me. (Sam, I hope your job situation proves to be a lot brighter than it seems it is at the moment! Your kickass performance on that exam should prove to be a plus, if logic reigns.)

Plenty of good thoughts to all of you. Work can suck, yeah, but it pays the bills, so it's not all that bad, huh? Of course, if they're shafting you THERE, obv you have every right to behead everyone at work.

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

(Another veggie I love -- asparagus! Sorry. When you get me on the topic of food, unless you're talking about something incredibly exotic, you can't shut me up. *laughs*)

Anyway -- today I went to work, came home, ate a chicken salad sandwich (I made chicken salad from leftover chicken yesterday), took Mom to a nursery to pick up a few plants for the back yard, came home, started in on assembling two wooden file cabinets for the downstairs office room, stopped to eat dinner, went back down, came back up just to set the timer recorder to catch some stuff I'd be missing, and now I'm sitting here with 75% of the second cabinet finished and my CD boombox downstairs and a whole bunch of other things to do tonight SO WHY IS IT THAT I'M POSTING HERE, ANYWAY?

Oh yeah. The crazily addictive nature of this thread. Hello!

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

aww sam, sorry to hear your nightmare of a non-interview. At least you can call them back & rearrange.
Yay sgs, you go girl! *sticks hip out & clicks fingers*

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

This morning I start up the ipod on the way to work, and the first two songs are cracking live versions of classics (Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die by Country Joe & the Fish, and Add it Up by the Violent Femmes). And the sound of the crowd, their excitement and joy, made me literally tear up at the thought that I just don't go to gigs any more.

They were such an integral, vital part of my life for years, but it's equally long since I really enjoyed going to music shows. And I miss it.

So, if they're reading, can Senseless Things, Mega City Four and Carter USM reform for a one-off reunion gig at the Half Moon in Putney? Thx bye

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

I know what you mean Mark, sometimes I wonder why I am going to Glastonbury.

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Good morning. My coworker brought in donut holes! All is right with the world again!

I was starting to get down because not only did I max out my credit card, I went almost $800 over the limit. This means no tickets to concerts, no Bike the Drive registration, and no Sleater Kinney album, which comes out today. :-(

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking of going to the Cambridge folk festival. But it's sold out :(

Don't you just love coworkers who whinge and moan and then when you give them practical solutions to their problems they are just stunned, as if thinking about how to fix things had literally NEVER occurred to them?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but when you provide the solution, they expect YOU to do the work required to carry said solution out. I swear, half the people in this office have no skills beyond sucking client-ass on the phone.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Which, if you think about it, knocks camels and eyes of needles into a cocked hat.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm assuming I don't understand what you just said because I'm an Amurrrikin, Markelby.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

You got the camels/eyes of needles reference, didn't you? No? Damn separation of chruch and state!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I totally got it Markelby, do I get a prize? Please say I get a prize! There's no prize is there? :`(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

hmm new SK today? new Dave Chapelle DVD too. .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Sorry you're so broke, Sarah. The Sleater-Kinney album isn't that good, anyway, or at least the half of it I heard. Miccio gave it a B- on Stylus today. I was disappointed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

That's too bad. I heard it was pretty psychedellic sounding, which I was excited about. Carrie Brownstein is a great guitarist.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

The new SK is fuggin awesome. Blee'dat.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

If you're a fan, you'll definitely want to check it out to see where they're going. I can see how it might not rub some the right way, but I think it's pretty great.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

Teeny rubs the new album all over herself.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Remember a few months ago, like December or something, when I was posting all these cryptic messages about The Future, and how it had finally arrived and then The Future stopped returning my phonecalls, and I spiralled into a shameful bout of depression and anxiety and have come THIS CLOSE to figuring that the whole experiment of my various ambitions had failed?
Remember that?
WELL GUESS WHAT, MOTHERFUCKER?!?!?!
The Future has come crawling back to papa. On, no less, the four year anniversary of starting this heinous job that The Future was supposed to rescue me from!!!
The Future is being all coy, saying that it lost my contact info and has only just now found it again. Fucking Future. BUT I STILL LOVE YOU!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Mmm, cryptic.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Well, if it all works out (and The Future sounds REALLY desperate, so it probably will), let's just say you'll be hearing a lot from me.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna say something that's going to totally be taken the wrong way, but I don't care: my favorite S-K songs are like clitoral orgasms, whereas The Woods is more like a vaginal orgasm. Obviously, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but there you go.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Dude, that makes *perfect* sense. (Ummm, perhaps you should, like, see a doctor.)

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

hmm that might be an interesting metaphor if the vaginal orgasm actually existed. . .

I got turned down for the job I interviewed for on Thursday. They sent me a snail mail reject. Damn the must've knew quick that they didn't want me. :(

My interview at the University is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon so I've really got to give it my all as this is all I have as a possibilty right now. Martin if I got this job I think I'd be doing largely what you do!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Does The Future swallow, Huk?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Also, is it possible that the vaginal orgasm is just a gentler version of the clitoral? Or am I being dumb?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

xpost
Keep your chin up, MM. The Future is close!

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Break a leg, Sam. Your own, metaphorically speaking, if you get it and someone else's should you not.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

hmm that might be an interesting metaphor if the vaginal orgasm actually existed. . .

TEENY TO THREAD

― don't kill me, please (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I thought I had read that the nerve bunch at the clitoris extended around the vaginal walls and that the clitoral/vaginal orgasm thing was really from the same nerves but different women required different stimulation to have one kind of orgasm or the other.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Freud invent the term 'vaginal orgasm' and use it largely to make women who didn't have them feel sexually immature? Aren't G-Spots merely the back of the clitoris?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Good luck with that job then, Sam! I am officially a senior systems analyst, but still do a bit of programming now and then.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

If you scrutinize orgasms they'll go away.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Did you start out programming Martin?

I feel very unlucky about everything job related now and generally grumpy. bah.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne, I assume your first post to me is sarcastic?

Obviously, I have no idea what clitoral or vaginal orgasms are like, but the concept of them -- or maybe it's just the idea of clitoral vs. vaginal stimulation -- has birthed this metaphor in my mind.

Here's a good example of a clitoral S-K song: "Banned at the End of the World."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it's probably less offensive if I were to suggest that it could also play out as the difference between frenetic masturbation and sex.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

And I side with masturbation (what else is new).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Um, actually, I was being totally sincere!!! I know exactly what you mean. And I think your distinction is very accurate, which is why I suggest you get a mirror and pull your pants down. Just to make sure, you know.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Haha, good, I take that as a compliment, then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Only Je4nne could make being called dickless feel like a compliment.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

No, I started out in any number of different things, including two full-scale careers before this one; but if you mean the start of this career, I went back to uni and took a computing degree, then got a job as, officially, an Analyst-Programmer, but at first it was nearly all programming. As I got better and more experienced I had options, and my taste was more for the analysis and design side than the coding, and my skills were good enough to allow me to go in that direction. If you look at my recent boasting thread (Some days, you know how good you are at your job...), you'll see today's bit is all about coding - but in fact it was redesigning the whole approach to the code that was the inspired bit, and from there on it was the kind of routine stuff most of the senior programmers in the department could have done.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

True, Huk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

damn Martin. .I wonder if I could do that kind of work at all!

feeling very un-useful today. supposed to be designing a friend's dvd but have the inspiration and creativity of a rock!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I am suddenly consumed by the thought that if I had a gun in my home, which I do not and never would, but if I did, I would be the one who died at the end of it. Maybe a robbery, maybe an accident, maybe an ugly Phil Hartman scene, but the final score is always Gun:1 Kenan:0.

I don't know why I think of these things sometimes.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I definitely think that. . .have been in too many foul/depressed moods in my life. Primary reason why I don't have one.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

They sent me a snail mail reject. Damn the must've knew quick that they didn't want me. :(

Sam, It is highly likely, though probably not that comforting, that they already had someone in mind for the position. I have worked at jobs before where I was asked to send out rejection letters even before the people had come in for their interviews. It's not fair, but you could also see it as not necessarily being a reflection of how well you presented yourself.

In other news, I believe very strongly in both types of... oh, never mind... TMI!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

hi. i wish i had a gun. then this would all be over.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Sarah McLusty?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

All what, hstencil? Something specific or just... THIS?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

no, not this thread. this thread can stay. i should go. shit sucks. sorry.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you can stay. Look... Nick will mail you some beer. Better than a gun any day.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah. Lots of jobs have already been decided before they even post the opening, but they have to have interviews or accept applications to satisfy a board of directors or funding agencies or some shitty protocols. I wish they'd disclose that when you applied though, so that you wouldn't take it personally. Cuz a few times, I've actually become MORE incensed about not getting a job when it's obvious that the public posting of the position was a sham. I actually wrote a letter to city hall and nearly got them to withdraw funding to the public library (which would have resulted in the closure of three inner city branches) just because I was so pissed off about it.
Okay, I didn't really write the letter, but if I had, I would have felt terrible, because the City did try to shut down three inner city branches not long after I got pissed off.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Is nepotistic a word? becuase I was about to use it to describe how many of these sorts of hiring practices. Which is good if you know people on the inside and horrible if you don't.
Also, hstencil are you alright?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I have a degree and six years experience, and I could cite lots of evidence showing that I'm exceptional within the group of people in my line who have similar backgrounds. Don't assume you couldn't do it based on just getting into it. When I was 35, I barely knew how to operate a PC on a very basic level.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Sarah McLusty?
You have to believe in something. You know, faith is important.

I don't think I could ever have a gun in my house. I have enough nightmares as it is. I'm sure I would be in constant fear of someone breaking in my house and then finding the gun and using it on me. I don't think I could even hold a gun. There was a guy in my church youth group who shot himself in the face and SURVIVED. That supported the anti-gun sentiments I already had.

Also, I thank god we didn't have a gun in our house growing up. Things were really emotional when my parents were arguing and they could have easily hurt themselves. Oh, memories...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

naw, i'm not really ok, but i'll get over it. beer will help.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

Nepotistic or (nepostical) is a word.

In a typically weird, Michael way, the only gun I have ever lusted over was a replica 1861 Springfield general issue musket but even that would be vetoed by the gf.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

My dad had a hunting rifle when I was a kid. He never went hunting, it was just a holdover from my parents' hippie days when they had lived in the wilds of B.C. making shoes and shooting stuff. I remember feeling slightly disappointed when he sold it, when I was around 6 or 7. That's proabably why he sold it. Because I had taken an interest in it.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Hi honies, I'm home.

― luna's e, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

(I'll start a new thread tomorrow - I need to catch up first)

― luna's e, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Howdy, luna! How was your trip?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

welcome back!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they're turned around.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

Hey Luna! Welcome back!

I am fascinated by guns. I shot one, very low powered, when I was about 7. It hurt my shoulder. But I would LOVE to have another go.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

Sam, we can always find you a job in LA if things don't work out!

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

Aww Sam, sorry to hear that. Hang in there hun!

Yay Luna's back!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Let's not give the man with ILX's most inflammable temper a gun, please!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Agreed.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Wait, who's giving Dee a gun?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

(Dammit, that joke didn't work because Martin said "man." Sorry.)

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

He was obviously talking about Ned. Man, when Ned brings the wrath... whoo!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

I had pie with my dinner last night. Actually, it was called Cherry Apple Crisp and served cold, so I pretended it was just my fruit servings of the day. But, mmm.... anyway.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

morning all!

Orbit, If Austin's traffic is pissing me off I think I would implode in LA.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

looks like i'm going to houston, tx in july

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Is there another Houston?
The boss brought in donuts this morning. The BIG BOSS (she's actually a small woman, but the power she wields is ENORMOUS). She came up to me (no one else was here yet) and said, "You don't look like the kind of fellow who likes donuts, but..."

Clearly, I need to work on my image. I am sending out the wrong messages.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

why are you going to Space city? Damn July's a bad time to be there. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

re houston, i dunno if there is or not.
re donuts, i look like i like them and i do.
going to reserach a story, sam.
it's going to be mental hot, isn't it?

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

You might luck out. The ten-day forecast has highs in the upper 80's. Mild for Houston.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

but is that for right now Kenan? It's still May!

July and August are the worst months in TX and Houston's one of the worst cities for humidity and heat. How long will you be there?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm wondering what exactly it is about me that makes me look like I don't like donuts...

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

looks like i'll be there for a week or so - it's work so i can't complain too much even if it's horrible. i just wanted to see how bad it's likely to be and, yeah, you've confirmed my worst suspicions!

― stelf0xxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

but is that for right now Kenan? It's still May!

oh, right. Sorry. Yeah, dude, expect high 90s every day. Bring a towel.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm wondering what exactly it is about me that makes me look like I don't like donuts...

Are you skinny with nice teeth and a good complexion?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

is it like sunny hot, or just shitty hot?

― stelfox, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Huk, I wouldn't take it personally. People assume [read: know] that I like donuts! :-(

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

is it like sunny hot, or just shitty hot?

Is there a good kind of 100 degrees?

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorta on the slim side, but that's mostly because of cigarettes and self-loathing rather than nutrition and fitness.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

you've confirmed my worst suspicions!

Yeah, you ain't seen nothing 'till you've been there. Sorry to go on and on about it, but... Jesus. You know that saying that there's no bad weather, just bad clothing choices? Turns out, there is bad weather.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

oh well, i got to go.
no choice in the matter.
not going to grumble.
it'll be nice to go there anyway.

― stelf0xxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Dan Rather summed up Houston weather when he said walking outdoors was like walking into a hot, wet washcloth. (or something like that)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Well, you'll always have the shade from the grey cloud over your head.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I want to see Austin some day.

It's gorgeous in Chicago right this second. I just opened the front door and stood there, as though that looks any better than me just leaving work altogether and walking by the water. I could probably get away with it. But I'll be good.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

come one, come all. I love showing people around TX. It's probably pretty nice out here as it's still early but I'm lazy as all get out and well sit here on the puter till I have to get dressed for my interview.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

thanks everyone - i was hoping people would say "oh you must do A, try to eat in B, check out C..."
now i think i'm probably just going to sweat a lot!

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

joking apart, anything i should do?
most of the time i'm gonna be chasing down rappers, but i'm sure i'll get some free time.
i want some good barbecuse while i'm there especially.

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh, no kidding, Sarah. This is the best of all possible weather, I think. Sunny and in the mid-60's with a light lake breeze. Heaven. And it's going to stay like this for a while. Last summer, it stayed like this for four months!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

"oh you must do A, try to eat in B, check out C..."

Oh, there's that, too! It's not like Houston is a complete hole. It's a great city to go restaurant-ing in, actually. Lots of good ethnic food, none of it verry expensive.

and you'll want to check out the Rothko Chapel and the Menil Collection, but everyone says that. And that Water Wall in front of Transco Tower. That's one of my favorite spots. And the Campus at Rice is totally lovely.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

http://www.photohome.com/pictures/texas-pictures/houston/transco-tower-1a.jpg

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I fucking love the Rothko Chapel. . . also see the Orange Show.

eating. . .well I was a veggie while I lived there so I couldn't recommend you some bbq. Ask the rappers. (are you going to talk to Mike Jones and Chamillionaire???) Definitely good Asian food. Try Mai's for Vietnamese. They're also one of the few places open all hours so are good for seeing the rockers and rollers late at night. There's a Continental Club downtown which is just a copy of Austin's but hey you're going to be in Houston so take what you can get.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

sam, i don't want to talk too much about the piece here, but i'll happily tell you everything you want to know off-list. can i email you through the address you're signed in with?

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

yes, please. :)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

O M F G!! The sr art director just got A HUGE BASKET OF GIANT DECORATED COOKIES SHAPED LIKE BEARS. ONE HAS SUNGLASSES ON.

And. He's. Not. Sharing. Then again, neither would I.

Damnit, the bears are looking right at me. Argh, this stupid place.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

thanks people - i'm actually pretty excited about going coz i've always wanted to go to texas and nver made it. heat, schmeat... it'll be fun, i think.

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Jeanne, are you able to create some sort of diversion whilst you grab & then snaffle said bears?

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

thanks people - i'm actually pretty excited about going coz i've always wanted to go to texas and nver made it. heat, schmeat... it'll be fun, i think. right, i just sent you a mail sam, just to test that it works. i'll send you a proper one later when i'm not supposed to be doing my job!

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Pink, office ettiquite dictates that if you steal food and you are caught, you are tortured with angry bees. I am no sleuth. Plus, I'd have crumbs all over my face. I'll just sit here and look at the bears. Pretty bears.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

I have only ever been to Denton, TX. It looked like the rest of America. I went to Six Flags and a punk show with my friend Trey.

I really wanted to go to Rice, but I didn't get accepted.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Denton, pbbt.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

I really wanted to go to Rice, but I didn't get accepted.

Me either. :( It's pretty much an ivy league school, never mind that it's in Houston.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

I am going to Tennessee this weekend for Memorial Day, and I was really excited about it for months, but now I'm waning. I think it has to do with the fact one of my friends keeps wavering and that leaves me with the prospect of a 7 hour drive with a 24-year-old whose main taste in music is Anime pop stuff and musicals. Help me. I am going to swap all her CDs with Bikini Kill and Anal Cunt just for shock value.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Right after school I worked at a company founded and run by a bunch of Rice grads. cool people. A large reason I got the job was b/c of my major at UT and my senior thesis. I was in the Plan II Honors program at UT which is structured like an Ivy League education but in Austin and far far cheaper than Rice.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Nick, I'm glad you didn't get in to Rice. :-D

I got into every school I applied to, but I didn't try for anything I didn't think I could get. I have such fabulously low standards sometimes.

Jocelyn, Jesus Christ Superstar isn't too bad.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Pink, that was my professional office voice. I assure you, I was not telling you off. ;)

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I applied to a bunch of Ivy League schools because my dad thought I should. I didn't get in to any of them. I was accepted by William & Mary, NYU, and Emory College. I didn't want to live in Georgia, and my parents didn't want me in NYC (though my sister ended up going to college there) so I ended up at W&M.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

I almost went to Bard but in the end it just seemed too far away and scary.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Now I want a cookie bear. Or just a cookie.

Anyway, I need to start part 31 - titles, please?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Y'know what bugs me?
Women who wear shoes with really tiny heels and then they take little tiny steps because their footwear is so unfeasible. Clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip clip. SHUT UP!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I need to start part 31

This shit is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

NB: I would hate men who wear shoes like that too.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

I like it when my boss wears sandals because I can hear her coming - FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

i don't hate it - i admire and respect women for wearing stuff that's totally impractical but looks hot. heels are great.

― stelf0xxxx, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

This person is not hot, though. Now, I'm not hottist--some of my best friends are ugly--but I think that people who aren't hot should be put on an island somewhere.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

This is the Thread Where I Say Pt 31: This shit is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I second the bananas title.

I have too much work to do today. I keep getting approached by coworkers with the question Are you busy? which really means I have a huge project I need you to work on....

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

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