TITTWIS 38: Demon Seed

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I figured I'd start this up again. Anyways yesterday on my birthday my 24 year old sister calls me and tells me she is 7 1/2 weeks pregnant....and the father to be is one of my good friends. needless to say i didn't congratulate her at all. basically im hurt a bit because my wife and i have been trying for almost two years with no luck. she goes and makes a mistake (her and my friend are roomates and are not together) and well bingo...baby. I know I should be happy for her and I am in a way but I am also feeling kind of sad...more so for my wife who keeps seeing all these girls get pregnant and she isn't yet. i know im being a shit about this and should be excited to be an uncle and all and i know eventually i will be but right now i feel betrayed.

Oh and my father just might murder my friend.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Woah. That really sucks. I mean, new life is an occasion for joy and blah blah but I can see how bad it would make you feel right now. Hang in there...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Aw Chris - I can imagine how hard that must be. How do you feel towards your friend? Never having had a sister myself I just don't know how I'd react to that (though as a fellow eyetie I'm sure I should be polishing the lupara and ordering an extra order of cement at this point).

Is your sister happy? Or scared, or worried, or anything? Was she sensitive regarding your situation?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Well....i feel ok towards my friend. I mean he is a good friend and will take good care of her and the baby. he has a great job, owns a house and is a really great kid. so thats ok.

She is scared partially because she had severe health problems as a kid and her doctor has told her if she ever gets pregnant there will be great risks. so we'll all worry about that...that will be the major issue with my parents.

also, granted she is 24 but she is very immature and acts like a 17 year old...partially from being spoiled all her life. she thinks she is ready to be a mother, but i highly doubt it.

she was....as it came off to me...sneakily sensitive regarding my situation...apologizing and saying that they weren't trying to have a child it just happened. which is true and there is nothing i can do about it. it would have just been nice to give my parents their first grandchild rather than her.

ugh.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

Glad to see one of these up, hope the other regulars show.

Sorry about the shock Chris.
is a really great kid
Hmm anyone concerned then about children raising children? I know this has probably been asked before and is rather personal so ignore me if you want but have you guys seriously considered adoption?

I'm back at work today after the funeral and whatall. I'm so horribly behind in my six-month training program now it's not funny. I don't know what to do except try to find the stamina to get back into it.

I still feel severly depressed obv. b/c of my grandmother (and all the ugly family issues that got stirred up around that) but then I was kind of depressed before hand.

In good news my new $240 psychiatrist seems really fantastic and switched me to Lithium yesterday. We'll see how it goes.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

we have considered it...but we haven't even tried any alternative options yet...such as invitro and all that business. we just invested $200 into a ovulation monitor which is the first step. my wife has very irregular cycles and we most likely haven't been timing it right. so we'll exhuast these options and then go the adoption route.

actually, he's not a kid. he's 30....i just like to use that expression.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

sam, i hope everything turns out ok for you too...losing a grandparent is so so hard. i feel for you.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Aw Bingo, everything you're feeling is totally to be expected. And it gives me some hope that your sister did in fact realize that the news might upset you and your wife. I've had a number of women in my family and circle of friends have real difficulty getting pregnant. They all feel the same kind of resentment towards "accidental" pregnancies. But like you said, you and your wife haven't even begun to explore the options and procedures available. Keep the faith, dude.

Sam, I'm very sorry for your loss.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

My condolences, Sam.

Chris, your feelings are totally natural. What you do with them is up to you. Best of luck to you on the ovulation monitor.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

hey, happy bday chris, a bit late.

i had a friend who wanted desperately to get pregnant, but it took her four years. i think she's due soon.

so sorry about your grandmother, sam.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

thank you guys. i'll recover to my normal miserable self soon. julia i have a gift for you that I keep not sending. i suck.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Hey dudes!
Aw, Chris. Chin up, little fella. At least now you have the option of stealing yr sister's baby, and y'know, it'll stand a chance of looking like you, so you can plausibly claim it as yr own.

Argh, why do all my feelings of sympathy turn to thoughts of crime?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, just like The Archers. (Not that anyone in the US is going to know what that is.)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

arrrhghhh! I feel so depressed today. i hate depression. i don't have time for it. This lithium better start working quick.

massive :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

i really miss these threads, lets keep em going. its one of the only reasons i come to ILX...that and to make off color remarks.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

also javascript =

massive :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

whats getting me through the past two days has been Sun Kil Moons new one of all modest mouse covers....Tiny Cities. Good old Mark Kozelek has gotten me through some of the worst times in my life.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I just got back from vacation. Compared to Sam's grief and Chris's chagrin, it's not much, but I really, really prefer being on vacation to working. Profound, huh?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

i haven't had a godamn vacation since last september. although the 5 months i was out on disabilty could count?

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I took about three days off after xmas to go to west texas. but then i came home to find my cat dead and the year's gone downhill since then.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

because disability is such a vacation!

i need a vacation. or something good.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I haven't gone on vacation with John Goodman in 4.5 years. Or without JG. Fuck I am pathetic. I think I'm going to be quitting soon, though (see also, "I'm gonna quit my job next week!" Huk-L, Aug. 21, 2004; "I'm so out of here!" Huk-L, June 30, 2003; "I'm going to quit my job in the next month." Horace Mann, Dec. 17, 2002; "I figure I'll put in six months and then get back to pursuing my career as a writer." H. Mann, May 23, 2001).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

yeah i know disability is not a vacation. although sometimes the combination of pain killers and booze made me feel like i was on vacation.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I have a week off soon. I might stock up on booze and painkillers now.

Ugh, this job is getting me down. I think it's the fact that I'm totally exposed for 8 hours a day, on the front desk that entire time with no office of my own. It's a mission even to escape to make tea or go to the toilet sometimes, and meanwhile my coworkers are either hiding in their offices or swanning off on errands at will. It's not good for me to build up this resentment, but it seems to have happened.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 October 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

I am so glad this thread is back up & running!

Sam - I'm sorry about your grandmother, I hope you're OK.
Bingo - This must be tough for you & I'm sorry that it's upsetting you. I assume you have been to the doctors to make sure that all is OK for you both?
Archel - sorry your job is getting you down. Also, I'm sorry we did not have a chance to meet up on Saturday. We were up & out & walking along the beach quite early on as it happens.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

Hey Pink! I was entertaining the in-laws for much of the day anyway...

Hope the wedding was lovely!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 October 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

We just went to the reception as they had a really small wedding. It seemed like Roo's brother had the best time tho! ;-) Son looked gorgeous & they both looked so happy! Awwww.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 October 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

Morning kids,

Hey pink!

I'm holding up over here. I'm probably feeling sad about my grandmother only every ten minutes now instead of every two. I'm trying to remind myself that she's probably happier. If she had come home like they were planning on letting her she would have to have been fed through a tube in her stomach and I know she wouldn't have wanted to live like that.

I'm trying not to get overwhelmed at work/home. My worry and grief these past two weeks have gotten me dangerously behind at work and we're having a 'heads up' meeting this morning with my boss, education coordinator and mentor to figure out what's going to happen. :(
At home chores are piling up and we've been having $ squabbles which makes for tension everywhere I go!

I'm holding on to the fact that the new pysch I saw seemed really fantastic (even if I do have to pay cash for him) and I hope the meds change will help. Also that my grandmother would be really disappointed to see me fall apart over her. And my aunt needs help from falling apart. She misses her most of all.

*sigh*

There's your morning Misery report. Everybody have a great day!

― MissMisery, Thursday, 20 October 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

Aww Sam, hang in there darl! *hugs* I'm sure your grandmother would want you to pick yourself up & get back on track. Love & good thoughts on their way to you & yours! xxx

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 20 October 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

It's turning out to be a lovely autumnal evening here. I'm going to get drunk and make nut roast. Maybe not in that order though.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

So, after our building's water bill went up by 100%, we suspected we had a leak. First we turned off all the toilets - meter running at same pace. Then we turned off the water, period - meter running at same pace, but now we knew it was in between the meter and the other garage. We called the plumber, no problem moyennant 2,300 bucks to dig and fix. Now it's going to take a week to get the city to inspect. I am being stoic and not demanding too much from DPW but it seems like a long wait to me.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 20 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Do you own your place? I must say that whenever I get depressed about throwing half my salary straight into a landlord's pocket I think about the fact that I don't have to pay to fix the plumbing and rejoice.

Wow, this evening actually went to plan for once. A mere 4 hours ago there I was planning to make nut roast and get drunk, and here I am with nut roast made and eaten and half a bottle of wine put away.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

We are in a 4 unit 'TIC' which is SF legalspeak for a co-op.

What, pray tell, is a nut roast. It sounds intimidating to me.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 20 October 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Hello, TITTWISers.

I'm sorry to hear about your loss, Sam. Thanks again for being there for me when I lost my grandmother. I know it is hard, no matter how much you try to prepare yourself for something like that.

I have been super busy lately, but happy busy. Right now I'm completely exhausted because I was in Vegas this weekend with my office. It was a good time.

Have any of you read Million Little Pieces? I need to finish it for a bookclub I'm trying out tonight.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

A Million Little Pieces: Edgy author PWNED by plump media baroness

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Morning guys! Michael that sounds awful.
Archel - nut roast recipe purrlease!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

morning people! my sister hasn't told my parents yet....i told her to wait until i moved out of my mothers and into my house.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

why do you want her to wait chris?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

so i don't have to listen to my mother go beserk. my sister asked me to be there when she told my parents and i told her no.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

Ah right I see. Are you feeling any better about it?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

hello youse (thnx for the shout on mong thread pp)

sory to be an idiot...what hasn't yr sister told of chris?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

ok i backed up thread to read & i see.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Im feeling a little better about it, but not 100%. securing the loan on our new house has made me feel 90%.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

its a fuckin rollercoater as they say. yay on the mortgage. is there a chance yr sister and yr friend will stay together?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Hey Gaz! So how's it all going huh? Tell me all!

90% is a start Chris. So when's your moving date?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

its crrrazzzy pp. 3 months ago i couldn't stand up in front of people without having severe panic attacks and totally losing it. now, ah... wednesday i taught 7 hrs straight with no breaks. today two of the teachers said theres a f/t job coming up we want you we want you we'll help you do yr application...but i got no qualifications, no experience, no real fuckin idea what i'm doing. they say but we all like you.

nice ego masage fr sure but i'm slightly stressed at the thought.

and you?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm absolutely wicked for various reasons actually! You should totally go for that job!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

yes, there is a chance they will stay together. he's not the type of guy to run off.

close on 10-31! boo!

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

thumbs up gaz and chris!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

dylan aged 4 has taken to yelling "absolutely wicked!!!" pink p. he has seen the incredibles too many times.

can you let on about a couple of the various reasons?

thnks markelby.

bingo: so it might ba, ah, kind of ok to have yr friend as a relative? lord knows family gatherings can be trying.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 21 October 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Is that email real?!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

no but if you put the e back in mullygrubbr and use it as my name at gmail it will work.

why omg!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

haha, tell you what, you email me at my hotmail addy & I'll respond.
Nothing major btw, just don't want to jinx anything here!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

Oh boy...my father just called. my sister told him and as expected he is NOT pleased at all.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 21 October 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear, what did he say?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

not much besides "im going to kill him" and "i need to go for a walk".

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

http://img139.exs.cx/img139/3374/tony0ru.jpg

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ late to work again (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 21 October 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

YEAH BASICALLY.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Scary!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 21 October 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Sam, sorry to hear about your grandmother :(
And Bingo, same for your familial troubles...but congrats on the imminent new house anyway.

I'm in MA again right now, haven't been keeping up with ILE due to the glacially paced dial-up at my mom's, but glad to see you all here so thought I'd say hi. I've been hiking almost every day and it makes me stupidly happy--might be going to explore somewhere called BEARTOWN state forest later today.

― overseas sgs, Friday, 21 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

photos from the services:

http://www.askforjanice.com/photos/Ninnie/index.html

I got a sympathy card today from my other grandparents, the parents of my jailed father. I haven't spoken to them in a couple of years. I suppose they saw the obituary in the paper as I think most old people read those everday. They're very catholic and wrote profusely about how she is experiencing the ultimate happiness now b/c she has gone to meet god.

This made me cry terribly. i don't know if it was the painful touching-ness of them sending me a card or the fact that I don't believe in their god and can't take that reassurance. Every night I talk to my grandmother and ask her to send me a sign that she's okay, that she's happy and so far, nothing. Maybe it's because I don't believe.

― MissMisery, Saturday, 22 October 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

it's horrible to search for comfort and just find emptiness. i'm so sorry, sam.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 22 October 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

It's raining somethin' nutty tonight.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 23 October 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

No shit.

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Sunday, 23 October 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

Aww Sam, hope you're Ok honey! x

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 24 October 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Julia, and Pink. :)

I've got to work hard this week. Not like I normally don't but I can't allow myself to be distracted. It's very distracting up here.

How are people's Mondays shaping up? Has Luna disappeared altogether?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 24 October 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Not sure about Luna, I hope not!
Mine's OK as I get to leave at 3 today! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 24 October 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Hope everything is going ok Sam. This monday is rough after a rough weekend of dealing with my father and my sister. everyone comes to me for help...i have enough on my plate with my new house. yes im being selfish but i need some "me" time. i also spent most of last night chasing a mouse around my mothers house because everyone else was scared of it. i did have a good saturday morning after a single malt scotch fiasco friday night. i drove alone accompanied with my ipod and my autumn playlist to the Vt. border to take in all the trees. it was nice and cleared my head for a few hours. i also went and saw Elizabethtown yesterday afternoon...i enjoyed it.

― bingo (Chris V), Monday, 24 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Yo!
I've been headhunted. Interview in 1 hour, 49 minutes. WORD EM UP.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Good luck, huckster.

Bingo, What are some of the songs/artists on your fall playlist?

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Break someone's leg, Huk.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

I was wondering where this thread was. Much going on at work at the moment. i think I'm going to start a blogger blog until I get my own up and running again just so I can vent.

I understand being selfish chris. i'm always that way with my family.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Woo hoo!
That went WELL.
I'll find out in two weeks.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

my autumn playlist has the usual bands i like:

sun kil moon
nick drake
matt pond
HEM
Kings of Convenience
Lanterna
Iron and Wine
Jose Gonzalez
Pernice Brothers
Langhorne Slim
Archer Prewitt
Jaga Jazzist
Great Lake Swimmers
Jorma Kaukonen
Love
Jens Lekman

― bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

and many more.

― bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:39 (twenty years ago)

Morning!
Be selfish Chris!! Listening to Love must have sorted you right out!
Hope the interview went ok Huksta!

Here are my lovely new shoes that I designed. Well designed the colourway at least!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/NikeID6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/NikeID2.jpg

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 October 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

They're very you!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

I walked to work in a t-shirt today. What is up with this weather? Hottest October EVER fo sho.

Did anyone else see "The Curse of The Omen" on Channel 4 last night? I love that film, and I loved all the seventies footage. There's something wonderful about TV stock from 30 years ago, the blurring, the colour etc. US footage tends to have a grainy dull greyness to it, but US film is all yellows and oranges, indistinct shapes with colours and textures all running into each other.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

I will take that as a compliment Mark, although I'm never quite sure how you intend things to be taken! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

pink, those are awesome! im not much of a sneaker guy myself...i only own one pair...adidas shells.

― bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

its 39 degrees in massachusetts today. i love it...i move into my house on Monday. It can't come soon enough.

― bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 27 October 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

It's a compliment, Pink :)

Hey Chris! Sgs is in MA for the next few days and she told me she can already see snow on the mountain tops and the ski runs of the Berkshires. It sounds lovely.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

US footage tends to have a grainy dull greyness to it

Is this because NTSC pictures tend to look a bit oversaturated, so US stuff shot on film for TV was deliberately done with low saturation?

(I'm just guessing, mind)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh! I meant UK footage in that instance! Idiot Mark.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Bingo & good luck on Monday!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

great shoes pink! how did you get to choose your own colors?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 27 October 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

There are Nike ID studios around the world (well London, Paris, New York at least) & if you're lucky you'll get invited to go & design your own shoes. If you pick another shoe style you can play with materials aswell, but I wanted these ones so just colours.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

cool, I like those colors a lot.

I have a temporary blog up here: http://miserytx.blogspot.com/ and I know I used to list to many of you. So if you visit and leave me a link to yours I'll add it. I'm still working on my real blog but I need a place to write in the mean time.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

bleeeehhh

http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa051025_mo_fecalmatter.612a7a7.html

This happened in the store on the street where I lived in Dallas. Next to Ships. I ate those baked goods all the time. :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Pink, how does one get lucky in this context? Did you order it online and get picked in some sort of lottery? I had a look at some Huaraches on ebay - I wonder if they'd suit me (I have fairly small feet for a 6 foot bloke)?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

You pretty much have to know someone or be connected to get an appointment. Huaraches tend to come up small mark. Mine are a 6.5 whereas I'm usually a 6. They are extremely snug fitting & it does take some getting used to. Having said that, which type of huaraches. Ebay link?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 October 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

I liked the ones you posted a pic of - with orange detail? - a lot. I haven't found a specific pair, though if you'd like to find a pair you think would suit me online and show me them, I'd be really grateful!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Those are great, Pink.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Mark, mine were from FL on sale in London about 6 weeks ago for £25!! They've been a bit of a hit amongst the sneaker lot, so you'll be hard pressed to find them, but have a look at ebay for them or alternatively go into Size. You should be able to get them on sale at FL though for sure.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

are you guys talking about the mexican sandals?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Nope! these...
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/Trainers/Sarah20-10-051.jpg

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

well i get to finally be alone with the wife tonight in almost two months...much sexing will occur.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

May your sperm be super!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

too early for it to be super, she just finished her monthly bill. but it may just blow her head off.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

You know what practice makes though right?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 28 October 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

Crusty sheets?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

*groan*

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps in your house Mark cos SGS is away! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 28 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

ewww. . .

ah okay pink. When you said hurraches I thought of these:

http://www.huaraches.com/images/preview/huaraches/pachuco_rojo.jpg

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

MY FATHERS FAVORITE SHOES!

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh right, naaaah, it's trainers, innit?! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Oops.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/IMG_8154.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

While I'm at it. The living room:

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― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Is that your place M.?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Nice front room there M!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Yup.

Thanks mod, for deleting the first thing but you apparently also deleted a legitimate photo. I'll repost.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

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― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Wow, what lovely pictures!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Sam - how are you doing hun?
Has anyone heard from Luna or Dee lately? I miss them. :-(

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Pink. I love the last one. I took it at about 6:30 am last week.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

I miss Luna and Dee too :(. I'm good Pink thanks, I got your email. hope you're doing well too.

I'm just super busy at work trying to keep my job. *fingers crossed*

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Hey cats.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

How's everything, Huk?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

did you ever hear from that job interview, huck? hi all.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

still waiting to hear back from them. They said they would be doing more interviews this week. They have several openings, so them telling me that they still have interviews to do hasn't bothered me (much). So I probably won't hear from them for another week.

Did something happen on the last TITTWIS thread that sent people off in a huff? I always feel so dense when it comes to stuff like that.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Luna is around and okayish (a bit of bronchitis), and has been posting elsewhere here, though not much. There's no sense of abandoning this thread forever or any such thing. I can't speak for Dee.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

- Kate and I had a disagreement about talking about periods, which sent her off to start the UK Watercooler threads, and also chased Orbit off, if I recall.

- Dee and I had a disagreement about a series of posts on the noise board, which probably chased her away from here. Or maybe she's busy. And hates me. I really have no idea.

- I've been sick for the last week and a half or so, but today I'm at work and I feel blah. Otherwise, I'm superneatopeachyfine. Whee.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I shaved my AWESOMELY PROFESSORIAL beard off for my job interview last week, and now, I have to shave like EVERY DAY (tho I don't), and also, if I get this job, I can never grow a beard again, since I'll have to look like I didn't just crawl out of bed. So being in a job you loathe where you are all but invisible has certain groomatological benefits.
However, fulfilling work and vacations are probably better than being a beardo.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

BUT NOT MUCH.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

The bouncer said I could come back if I promised to behave. I'm mulling it over.

Whee.

Of course, I'm imagining this said in the voice of one of the rabbits in Wallace & Gromit.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah haven't seen orbit around lately either. . .kate has a way of barging her way in somewhere and then sending people off. hopefully all of tittwis' little birds will come home again.

(Hi Luna. :) )

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

Benchley thought maybe he could hide in the pumpkin.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/Benchleypumpkin.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Hello, everyone.

Nice to see you, luna. :-D I'm sorry you're not feeling well.

We Chicagoans and Honorary Chicagoans had some thread trouble today. It's our turn to feel the hate I guess. Or at least feel someone else's boredome.

Michael, your apartment looks amazing and so very posh. My bf's dad is in town and the other day he said, only semi-jokingly, that we'd really have to fix our place up before we had any kids. GRR! But whatever. I love it, it's very cozy. We can even have fires in the woodstove (though it gets a little smokey in there - hey, it's atmospheric).

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

By chance my gf got back in touch with a guy who used to be her shopper at In Wear, which ended up closing in the States. He and his boyfriend have an interior decor business and he did our place for us for really, really, really cheap. We basically got queer eyed.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

Awesome. I think I need to be queer eyed.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

The most expensive thing was getting the shelves built in the living room and dining room/library. They had a client who was divorcing her husband and wanted to re-do her house too and we got several items from her at bargain prices. We still have lots to do, though.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

i own a house. and sore legs to go along with it.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys!
Yay Bingo, way to go! (on the house I mean, I am sorry your legs are sore.)
Luna - Sorry to hear that you are poorly, get well soon.
ORBIT - PLEASE COME BACK, I MISS YOU!
Sarah - Hi Sarah, I loved your Halloween costume!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I have an evaluation this afternoon and am finding it very hard to concentrate. *sigh*. Send me work vibes.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I've got absolutely nothing going on and am finding it very hard to concentrate. I will send my work vibes to you, but they're probably bad vibes. Sorry! It's the thought that counts!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Bingo's got himself a love shack. Hi-five!

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Well done, Chris.

*Telepathically conveys good work vibes to Sam*

Hi, Je4nne. Long time, no see.

Sarah, that sure didn't look like bathtub gin you were drinking in the Halloween photo thread.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Good work vibes Sam! Although mine may make you fall asleep.
Hey Huk!
Hey Jeanne!
Hey M!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Hi Pink!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

what happened to our thread? it used to full of conversation now it's just a few of us managing to say hi. (granted I rarely have time for true conversation.)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Hi MM!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Hi dere!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Sam, don't threads kind of organically wax and wane over time?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

yes but this has been waneing (sp?) dramatically as of late. Also it seems as if this thread continues to spawn localized versions. Which are nice but not very inclusive and they leave this place barren.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

My ninnys are cold.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

I know what you mean Sam & it is sad. I do miss how TITTWIS used to be, but I'm sure it's partly due to regulars not contributing anymore & other people sticking to their own regional threads.
(btw, i wanted to say hi to the others, surely that's still allowed??!!!)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

THE OTHERS?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Ninnys, Je4nne? Please help me add this term to my vocabulary.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Sssh Huk, they'll hear you!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

ninnys = boobs

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

M White, surely you could have guessed that! Give 'em a squeeze Jeanne!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I did guess that but I wasn't sure and it seemed a bit of a non sequitur. I'm glad I asked, though, cause now it almost looks as if Je4nne's cold ninnys can hear Huk.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

I just burned my goddamn finger fixing a paper jam in the goddamn printer that was caused by RECKLESS PRETEND FIXING of the printer by MORONS who think they are awesome.
At my job interview last week, my potential new bosses asked if my current bosses would be sad to see me go.
"Oh probably...I'm the only one who knows how to work the fax machine."
They thought I was joking and laughed and laughed.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

i still read this, but i was never one to post much i guess. congrats on the house, chris, and good luck on the job, sam.

i am really fuckign exhausted and don't mcuh want it to be november. /grump>

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Hey Julia, how is everything with you these days?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

I think I don't have a lot to say right now - and since so many things I have said have been taken out of context or blown out of proportion (not specifically this thread, mind you), I've just been posting less in general.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Congrats on the house, Chris!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm coming over to sleep on yr house, Chris.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

er, to sleep on yr COUCH.
No, fuckit, I'll sleep on the house. Snoopy-style.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Hey y'all, glad to hear about the houses and interviews and such. Sam good luck with the job stuff.

I'm back from the US and jetlagged. There was a sudden dramatic dip of turbulence on the plane and I flinched somehow, tipping a container of salad dressing over me and the arm of the woman next to me. I still feel kinda bad.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

So wait, Luna, when you said you [insert sordid feat of sexual acrobatics here] with me, and I believed you, um, was I taking that out of context?

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

sgs, that's terrible. How did you enjoy your trip otherwise?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

SGS and Sam Jackson in....
SALAD DRESSING ON A PLANE

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Looks suspiciously like Ava

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

No no, Jeanne - that was all exactly right.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

And more than a little hot!

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Should we, uh, close the door and come back later?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I just inhaled a Better Burger chicken burger with fries and a fistful of Milk Duds. I am a happy bastard. Hooray for better chicken burgers.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

I had garlic chicken - no one should probably kiss me this afternoon.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Or they should just some, themselves.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I seem to have ommitted 'eat' in that last post.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

"Or they should just some, eat themselves"?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

précisément, Martin.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

Um, actually. The reason I haven't participated on this thread yet is the same reason why I haven't been an ILE participant in general in that same time period, i.e. I realized that this was a community that wasn't serious about the (I realize now) pretend "connections" it was building up amongst the various personalities on this forum, that one could easily be shoved aside in favor of getting The Big Laugh (or another method of gaining attention), that all the chattiness and "oh I really do care about you"s that one posts on ILE as a whole don't mean a damn thing if I can't actually get to know the individual who's posting what (s)he is posting (and vice versa), and that very few of ILX has actually let me get to know them (and, again, vice versa). I mean, it's pretty pathetic that the only ILX person I've regularly chatted back and forth with over the past few months is Anthony Easton, whose personal plate is pretty damn full.

So I've retreated to ILM, where I can stick to talking about music, which apparently is the only subject on the whole of ILX that people around here are willing to take seriously. It also prevents me from feeling like I'm actually building any real kinships with anyone, which I feel is a very good thing around these parts. I don't want to take anyone at their word when they give me friendly overtures now. I don't want to be lulled into that false sense of emotional and relational security only to have it come back to bite me in the ass. I don't want to feel like I'm closer to someone than I actually am. So that's why I am very reticent about participating in the whole of ILE or any other forum on ILX that is general chat-related. I'm still occasionally lurking on ILE, but ILM is fine enough for me now.

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 3 November 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

I FUCKED SOME MILK

― 123, Thursday, 3 November 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Dee, I'm sorry you feel that way, but generalising like that is pretty insulting. Everything I've ever said to you was totally sincere & from the heart, I'm sorry you don't believe that.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 November 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

CUCKOO

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 3 November 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Dee, I hear you. However, I wonder if your expectations of a message board aren't a little too high. I far prefer the friendships I can make irl, but if I eschew any kind of discourse and involvement here, I'm forgoing talking to people from all over that I would otherwise never meet. Acquaintances, even tenuous interweb ones aren't totally bereft of value. It's a mixed bag, but worth it overall, I think.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 3 November 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

My trip was pretty rockin' otherwise, M. The salad dressing container was thankfully not that big, and the incident helped to distract me from the turbulence (the kind where everyone incl. flight attendants clutches at stuff and goes "Woah!") so I guess it served a good purpose....glad I didn't spill it on Samuel L. though.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

What kind was it? I'm imagining a honey-dijon.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I may have already told this story, but wtf.

I was on a plane from Tokyo to SF once, seated next to an American and his Japanese wife. We had all just been served our dinners and they were in those clear plastic containers that have a top that folds over to close it (this was some time ago). The American gentleman was obviously really nervous about flying; he fretted and squirmed and sweated and fidgeted the entire flight. So, when right after we had been served, we hit a spot of rather dramatic turbulence, the man's wife and I calmly closed our dinner containers to wait out the storm, so to speak. The man, however, as if by sheer willpower he could transcend a turbulence which on several occasions actually lifted our asses off of our seats, continued to attempt to eat, only ceasing when one violent shake almost caused him to insert a forkfull of salad into his eyeball. I may have been projecting, but I could have sworn that for the rest of the flight his wife bore an expression, which if translated into the spoken word, would have been something like, 'stupid gaijin'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Hello. Oh, sorry! I didn't mean to just post another hello!

I do spend A LOT of ILE time on the Chicago threads. It's just especially fun because I see most of those people in real life too. I still read this thread though and I'm glad Chris started a new one.

I'm feeling like a Fatty Arbuckle this morning. Nick's dad has been in town visiting for a couple of weeks, so we spend our spare time with him or in the studio, which means we haven't been spending time at the gym. In conclusion, my bf's dad is making me fat. Also, I forgot to finish putting on my makeup this morning, so I have well-groomed brows and some lipgloss and that's it. I'm rather striking in a bad way. ha ha

In other news, I hate turbulence. I hate it with a vengence.

― Kittens Licking Cakes (coco), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

This thread has made me realize that I haven't been on a plane in nearly ten years. This will be changing soon, especially if I get my new job as a travelling lion tamer.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm feeling like a Fatty Arbuckle this morning.

Then whatever you do, DON'T come to SF.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Hey Sarah - I'm glad you still stop by!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, lest I have inadvertantly given offence, you do know about Arbuckle's trials in SF, right?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 3 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Dee I'm sorry you feel that way. Often it's hard to progress from chatty affection here to real getting-to-know people b/c of time. (I'm sure you know this.)

I'm not here much lately mostly b/c I'm too busy. I don't chat at home anymore b/c my computer is broken.

so, yeah.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, what Pink said.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Huk, it was "Caesar." Pale pink and gloopy.

I mostly only contribute to threads where I know people already, or I don't think what I have to say will cause a big ruckus. I lack the guts to put more of my personality/opinions on here I guess (when I have enough of either to spread around), and I doubt this earns me any popularity points, but whatever. I have never been able to get to know people well enough online to consider them a friend until after I've actually spent time with them in person. There are plenty of people I'd like to know better through their posts but I can't see that happening for me personally unless we were in the same city sometime somehow. In other words, basically what M. said.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

does anyony else think trading spouses is one of the most entertaining shows right now?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 3 November 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

i think that promo featuring the psycho, yelling woman is one of the most entertaining things i've seen lately. never seen the show though.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:41 (twenty years ago)

I take it that's like Wife Swap here Sam?!

SGS - I like your posts!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 November 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Woah - I thought Sam's trading spouses comment was a suggestion to help Sgs meet new people! I was about to put my foot down :)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I did wonder where she was going too Mark!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 November 2005 11:48 (twenty years ago)

hello there what a week no ilx how are you all?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Hey Gaz! I'm good ta, how are you?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

i am ok. i have not been here. or mongrels. is there any news ;) ? whats up wit dee :(

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

it is pouring down here.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

No news I'm afraid! Not really sure what's up with Dee, unreal expectations perhaps, but she upset me a bit with what she said.
The sun is shining here today!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

(Thanks Pink :)) I stand corrected about Hugh Laurie's american accent. Watched more of House last night and it's pretty good. I think what threw me off is that his voice seems so much deeper/scratchier in his non-English version.

I've got a meeting in several hours about a plum volunteer job, woo! Wish it paid but whatever. It could mean good career things.

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

(xposts that was for your compliment upthread btw)

― sgs (sgs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I figured! ;-) Good luck for the job.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

hello sgs i am gaz it is rainy friday night in central coast australia. good luck with job!

pinx: NO NEWS?

our duck had 11 ducklings but now has onlt 5 left :(

she brings them to our yard to teach them to swim in our (miniscule) pond.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Not really Gaz, I'm just keeping on, you know! ;-)
Aww that's so sweet, & sad at the same time. (the ducklings I mean.)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

yes nature is wonderful and yet cruel etc etc. MY GOD ITS BUCKETING DOWN.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

i raked leaves yesterday for two hours, then i mowed my lawn. two hours later the yard was covered in leaves again. im also steaming about this godamn tv stand i bought from IKEA....the piece of shit refuses to be put together. My new neighbors probably loved hearing "YOU SWEDISH COCKSUCKERS" at 11pm.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

haha.
but it serves you right.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

because i bought it from IKEA.....right?

this is coming from a man who once wanted to become a furniture maker...of course the furniture i would have made wouldn't have been put together with strange screws, swedish tools and a cartoon swede with an afro pointing at planks.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

its a tempting vision. quit the ratrace and become a...furniture maker. i have mates who dream of it. get a pair of shorts, a ute, a dog. make stuff out of wood. smile slyly at the ladeez but its ok cos, yaknow, yr a man who does things with his hands. earthy.

course the friends i have who dream of it are far from that. me too. it does sound nice.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

but yeah IKEA AAAARGH!!!!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

24 hours later. . .yes i was talking about a show which is probably like the UKs Wife Swap (which we also have on ABC but I like Fox's version better). Ooops the commericial pretty much summed up the show, but it was funny.

An upcoming episode trades with a family in Dallas and the wife there is a part of the Assassination City Roller Derby. So the visiting mom must strap on the skates. Should be hi-larious.

I'm having a hard time working today. All I want to do is listen to reigning sound and knit. :(

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

FIRST SNOW OF THE YEAR (started yesterday)!(and it's pretty much melting as it hits the ground)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Today's high: 88

weather's fucked.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

The photos I posted upthread of Coit tower and the Bay are sometimes the view behind me here at work. Today, it is straight grey. Nothing but fog and the prospect of rain.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

You have the Bay in San Francisco?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

You have snow in Canada?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

You have a rose in Spanish Harlem?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hbc.com/globalnav/images/bay.gif http://www.newswire.ca/images/companies/hbc.gif

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Just cause yours is bigger, Huk, doesn't mean you have to point it out to everyone.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Since 1670!!!
The HBC used to actually own pretty much everything west of Sudbury. Then they traded it to Bed, Bath & Beyond for some nice soaps.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Is CAMPING in London a bad idea?

― Rumpie, Friday, 4 November 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Camping is never a bad idea. I live to camp.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dantenet.com/er/chats/interviews/waters/waters.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to combine camping with a West End Show. Are there any campsites in London or should I just find a spot to hammer my pegs in Richmond Park?

― Rumpie, Friday, 4 November 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Not sure about camping in london, you can get cheap hotels though rumpie!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I FUCKING CANNOT STAND HAVING TO PUT TOGETHER FURNITURE FROM IKEA. So Chris, I feel your pain.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

i also become an irate bastard when having to put that shit together. of course i screamed at my wife for no reason.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

She's not Swedish, I hope.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

I am going to see Jon Spencer tonight. Ten years ago, I would be freaking out. Instead, I'm just bemoaning the fact that I'm going to be in a room full of people I don't really want to be in a room full of. I suck.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

norwegian....close enough.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

hello. (hi pink!). despite daylight savings, which i thought would help my insomnia, i seem not to be able to sleep til 2 or 3 am every night, arrrgh. then my neighbors turn on their booming music at 6 or 7, it's delightful.

people keep talking about thanksgiving and i don't want to think about it. i want it to be september or something.

sarah mcl linked to this from another thread and it amused me: silly video

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Hey Pink, how's it going?

I think a hotel will be the way to go, though who knows, city-camping may take off!

― Rumpie, Friday, 4 November 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm feeling like my namesake today. Work is not going well and I just had to tell one of my good, old college friends about my grandmother. Which made feel very sad and sick all over again. I just want to the day to be over so I can curl up under the covers with my kitty and cry.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

My family used to go camping near London when I was little. However, we usually went to a large naturist camp near St Mary Cray, which may not be what you are looking for.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Markelby:

1) I don't care if you respond to my posts. But try to do it without name-calling, okay? If you insult me I'm gonna respond, but I promise not to instigate shit with you.

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

2) When you're responding to something I've said, actually consider if you disagree with what I'm saying or if you're just using it as an opportunity to fuck with me.

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

3) We do not have a history; we do not have a future. We have an unfortunate and electronically-mediated present. This tangential aquaintence does not give you license to pass judgement on me. So don't. And don't claim you know me, or understand me, or presume me whatever horrible type of person I've become in your head.

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

4) Jon and some other noize boarders are my friends. I will defend them when they're blanket-insulted, if I feel it's necessary. But don't conflate me / ascribe to me some private insulting notion of what a Noize Boarder is.

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

5) Try posting this where it might be relevant.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

why is it irrelevant here?

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Why IS it relevant? The discussion you're referring to is clearly taking place somewhere else, so why not post your responses there?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

I thought this would be marginally less public… and we already insulted each other there, so I was trying to be reasonable here.

sorry if I'm wrong.

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Then perhaps email him. This just doesn't make sense, and it's entirely without context.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

(the email I sent bounced back!)

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

(someone stepped on my bitchy button, feel free to ignore me)

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

No, I agree with Luna. There are other people on this thread having conversations. It's just a dumping ground of random mutterings over here. Or a place to air grievances against someone just b/c they post here.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

What's the other thread? Can I go there and post inanities about my cats and SF weather?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

So I'm getting a new tattoo. It will cover up this one: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/dragon.jpg which is about two inches square, and on the back of my left shoulder. A friend of Eric's is coming to town in a week or so from Hawaii, and has said he'll do it for me for free, so I'm looking and looking and looking for ideas. If you have any, please feel free to share.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

http://web.bentley.edu/students/e/engert_jona/redsox.gif

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

i think my bitchy button is stuck down.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 4 November 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

haha Michael - don't think it didn't cross my mind... but no.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

How about the southern cross on a blue background?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Some fan you are, Luna.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

The only tatttoo I have ever really contemplated would be a variant on this. However, a white tattoo isn't really a good idea, from what I understand.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Er,

http://yorksforts.netfirms.com/images/Edwardrollhalfway.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

I believe the thread remy is referencing is the "do you believe in the hetero/homosexual line thread." It was a high quality thread, I almost went and got a bucket of popcorn.

I think the title of this thread means that anyone can post anything they want here, no matter how weird or seemingly arbitrary.

― stewart downes (sdownes), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

That's certainly always been the case for me.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

I think the title of this thread means that anyone can post anything they want here, no matter how weird or seemingly arbitrary.

It doesn't mean anything. My point was that I think it's silly to confront someone like that when there's no context or relevance and when there is AN ENTIRE THREAD on which the conversation is ALREADY TAKING PLACE.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

It's just a dumping ground of random mutterings over here

obv. there should have been a not in that sentence.

White tats are great but not good for a cover-up. I'm dying to get one in honor of my grandmother but just need the cash.

Luna, if he's Hawaiian get some trad. Sailor Jerry stuff.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps, he should have started a new thread or tried the webmail. I dunno. I can never be bothered to get into a fight here. When did Remy start posting again?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

I'm workin on a mermaid design right now Sam (it's like you're reading my mind!) I'll post it when I'm done to see what you think.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

This is it before my editing - I'm taking out the mic stand and moving the stars around and... well, I don't know what else yet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/drwmermaidchanteus.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

Quelle sirène ensorcelante!

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Nevermind. It's too small to work right.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

remy u git pwned!

― howell huser (chaki), Friday, 4 November 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/harvill/images/harvill_leopard.gif

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 4 November 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I post occasionally from school / cafes now, Michael. But I'm living without cable, internet, etc.

(and also… dudes, I posted a lot on earlier iterations of this thread for more than a year. So it's not like I'm some stranger to how TTITWIS works… if there's an error in my posting stuff to B. here, it's an error in judgement and not comprehension of the thread's purpose. I see A.'s point, and I think my explanation upthread is sufficient.)

Also, dancing leopards make rad tattoos. I wanted to get this on the bottom of my foot:

http://advertising.theeagle.com/specialsections/summerfun/2005/pics/Wild-Things.jpg

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I'll just say fuck it and get a tattoo and then cover the other one later.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

the mermaid one is pretty sweet!

― pretentioRemy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

though I admit that I don't really get why she's on the moon... I suppose that has to do with the mic/chanteuse thing.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

it's an homage to the moon pie logo duh

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

I *love* that mermaid Luna!

My computer is dead and the boy's out so I'm gorging on the net right now.

When/if I graduate out of this programming program I want to get a modified verision of this as a tat:

http://www.shannanigan.com/pinups/compinup_brun.gif

― MissMisery, Saturday, 5 November 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Remember last year's pink hair mishap? Yep. Happened again. I didn't do it myself this time, but neverthless, I have pink STRIPES IN MY HAIR.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 6 November 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/pink.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 6 November 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Okay, the hot pink part in the middle is largely flash, but still.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 6 November 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

Better now - but still not good.

― luna (luna.c), Sunday, 6 November 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Hey Remy, I had no idea you thought I was a cunt before you launched at me for making what was hardly the most offensive thing I could have said to Jon (which was like a JOKE much more than a diss btw, but it's not like he can't handle it either way).

As for your pronouncements on sexuality, I felt you'd gone beyond stating your opinion into telling people what to think, and I called you on it. My opinion on the matter, fwiw, isn't that far from yours, and I know that I get preachy more often than I should too, so maybe I'm a hypocrite.

I don't want a fight with you - I'm just sad I managed to make another enemy without knowing it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 6 November 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Sunday morning and im at work....yippee. My house is a pile of boxes and my tendonitis is bad, really bad. i need to go to the hospital after i get out of here and get a cortisone shot...yippee!

Luna, I love the mermaid tatoo. It reminds me of something from WWII.

― bingo (Chris V), Sunday, 6 November 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

To continue the in the vein of my previous shots of chez moi.

The dining room/library:

ihttp://photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/?action=view¤t=IMG_8155.jpg

Ava likes to 'help' with the dishes.

ihttp://photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/?action=view¤t=Picture004.jpg

In unrelated news, I still do not have pink hair.

― M. White (Miguelito), Sunday, 6 November 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

I no longer have a bike.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Fuckers

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

Hey Bryan, who is a fucker?
Morning everyone!

― What's wrong with PINK hair? (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 November 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

George on Dogtster.

― bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Awww! George is so cute Bingo!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 November 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

My guess is that Huck's bike was stolen, and if that's the case I'm hoping the thief receives a nice lube-free bumjacking from a very horny donkey sooner than later. I'm also hoping Huck has some insurance and can get himself a shiny new bike.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 7 November 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

the house...in handicap ramp teardown mode.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/cmvenuti/house.jpg

― bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 November 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Ah right I get ya! U ok Bryan, haven't chatted in a while?!
Purdy house Bingo!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 November 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Chris, my dog has just sent a Dogster request to yours.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

YAY!

― bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Aww you guys!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

No insurance, but I share your other sentiments. I think I doubled my bike's value last month when I put a new tire on it. It was actually pretty funny when I called the police to report the theft. The woman taking my report was very kind, and it was a good experience.
"Does your bike have any distinguishing marks?"
"Well, it's a 15-speed, but only five work. The right hand pedal is about to fall off, and there's probably bits of brown corduroy pants lodged in the gears."

In a week I get to go look at the bike impound (and maybe pick out a new bike?). That should be fun.
I actually think it's someone in my building. Or someone who knows someone in my building. There's been a rash of vandalism and shit lately, and it actually looks like two bikes were stolen over the weekend -- there was another hacked off bike lock laying on the ground beside mine. The lesson here is that I should have paid an extra five dollars and got a U-lock instead of just a cable lock.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Hey, guys. I had such a fun weekend! I hope you all did too.

I'm sorry about your bike, Huk!

Luna, I love love love the retro looking mermaid idea. I vote for putting it somewhere new instead of using it to cover up an old one, but I'm no expert in tattoo removal/covering up.

I wish I had a dog to put on dogster.

― Prancing Animals (coco), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I actually had a good weekend too. I saw/met Jon Spencer, and I got drunk (not necessarily in that order), and I had an interesting experience that I think I might turn into a epic novel.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Chris, your house looks cute as does George.

Huk, think of this as a valuable opportunity to get a bike less likely to actually come apart while you're riding it.

Luna, I too like the mermaid, albeit minus, as you mentioned, the mic stand. Sarah may be right about the placement, though. How high on your shoulder is the dragon's head?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

please someone convince to not quit my job this very second

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

So far, I know two Canadians who have been the victims of theft this month (my friend Karen in Toronto had her car stolen). Someone alert Michael Moore.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

There was a smashed Labbatt's Blue bottle beside where my bike was. I was tempted to get all Batman and dust it for prints, but, y'know, even if I'd done so (and I used to be to WAY into forensics when I was 12, so my amateur 'tec methodology is unimpeachable), I don't have a database of fingerprints to compare against (which was always the biggest barrier to solving neighbourhood crimes 16 years ago), so, like, so what. But I did draw a crime scene sketch and have arrived at several possible scenarios, most of which involve the girls across the hall and pillow fights.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Most of my ~~fantasies~~scenarios involve girls across the hall and pillow fights.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

So someone just called looking for a gentleman who apparently once worked in this office named Harry Kuntz. With all the aplomb I could muster, I told the humorless sounding lady that I'd 'look up Mr. Kuntz' on our homepage employee directory, but I couldn't manage to utter his full name, for fear of giggling.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

That was me.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

So, who would name their child that? Who would keep that name?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

"I'm sorry ma'am. It doesn't look like we have any 'Harry Kuntz' here," was the first thing that occurred to me and I almost lost it.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

huck, don't quit your job. money is a good thing to have, if you can manage to have an income.

george is ADORABLE.

i chopped off a good bit of my hair last week, but i'm kind of evening it out a bit (and i have v forgiving hair), so it's getting to be less of an oh noes hairstyle tragedy, yay.

xp--the last name 'kuntz' alone is bad enough...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Juulia.
I expect to hear about this other job (or at least a second interview) any second now (or sometime this week), but in my mind I've already quit this one, but I might not get this other job, and I didn't really want it anyway (I mean, I'll take it, yeah, but otherwise, my plan involves leaving this place), but I'm like constantly finding new reasons to abhor being here, and that's not healthy.

M., are you sure it wasn't a prank? I would very much like to believe that there exists someone out there in the world so pure of heart to name their beloved child Harry Kuntz, but the odds of someone else being so pure of heart to cold call looking for Harry Kuntz...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

Even if there was a Harry Kuntz IRL, why would they NOT use the name "Harold" instead?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 7 November 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I had a friend in high school named Liz B3aver whose dad had that same first name.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I think I may have to save the mermaid until later, so now I like these two: (and I may do both)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/koru.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/kiwipair2.jpg

I'm feeling my NZ heritage today.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

There was also a baseball player named Rusty Kuntz, but it was pronounced "koontz" (like Dean).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

why wouldn't someone go by their middle name in that sort of situation?

i knew a christine s3m3n, people were always misspelling or mispronouncing her last name to try to be polite.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

how do you mispronounce s3m3n?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

Seaman.

2002 World Cup joke: "Why are Brazilians the best lovers? 'Cause they can lob semen/Seaman (England keeper) from 50 yards."

I imagine the man's name is pronounced Koontz. At least I hope so. I was just so taken aback to hear that kind of language here. Usually we say 'hirsute quim'.

Luna, I like those. Will one of them work at covering over the previous one?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

in Canada, s3m3n and s3aman are homonyms.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 7 November 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Here too.

Sayman? Simmon?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I think the kiwi will work, but he'll have to be filled in with another color. Maybe red or blue? Pink to match my hair?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 November 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm not super conversant with Maaori tattoos. Do they use any other colors than the blue-black that I've seen? Could you put the kiwi over some kind of background?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

I could, but I don't want a background. I don't know if the Maoris use other colors, I can't recall having seen any, but I'm a pakeha, so what does it matter?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 November 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

...and there is evidence of the use of colors such as red and blue in addition to black.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

Oh well, perfect.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm not hearing your tone there. Perfect that you can use red or did I miss something in the article?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

The former.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Good, then.

What's the top one?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

A koru fern.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Might look nice in blue and green.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Hello thread. I exist. I would like to take a bow for being instrumental in providing the audience for Arnold's NBC Town Hall last Thurs, and having a subcontractor accidentally invite 3 members of the Democratic Central Committee, one of whom pointed at Arnold and said "No! I won't let you finish because you are WRONG". I dodged the press for the next 48 hours and have emerged unscathed. *whew* and *chuckle!*

My favorite moment: The protestor wearing a Big Bird suit with a sign around the neck saying "Arnold is a chicken". Most annoying moment: Protestor accusing me of "fixing the audience" by inviting Arnold lackeys. Ha!!!

Much surgery in my future, but that's ok. I have good insurance now.

I hope you are ok, Sam, and hello to all.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

Hey Orbit, I'm so glad you dropped by. Hope all is OK with you!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

Second interview today!
Hi Orbit!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Much surgery in my future, but that's ok. I have good insurance now.

????

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Sounds like you're up to shennaigans over there Orbit! Nothing quite so exciting here. Hope the surgery's not too bad.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Tip for job interviewees: Before you leave yr house, make sure yr fly is up.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

This is apparently something I have difficulty doing. On at least a handful of occasions this year I have noticed a small breeze as I walk from my bus stop to work in the morning and, upon inspection, discover that I am ventilating my crotchular region.

Did someone at the interview point out that your fly was down, Huk, or did you eventually notice yourself?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

How did you get on Huk? Apart from the fly incident I mean!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

I think I kicked ass. When they asked me "why should we hire you?" I started to get in to my self-deprecating schtick, and then I snapped out of it, and I said, "Actually, this is the time and place to say this: I am very, very good at what I do. I make this stuff look good. I can do this for you."
Also, I am the king of handshakes. I could handshake a gorilla and the gorilla would come away thinking I know what I'm doing.

Then, about 15 minutes after I left, I noticed my fly had been down. However, I was wearing a sweater that hung a little low, and after many re-enactments at home, I'm pretty sure they would have had to have been really, really staring at my crotch to have noticed. And if they were staring that intently at my crotch, I'm not sure if I want to work there.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Good luck!

Imagining you at home moving around in front of your mirror trying to guess if they noticed anything cracks me up. Have you been doing any more standup lately?

― Prancing Animals (coco), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

you should have whipped it out.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I haven't done any performing lately, but I've been writing a lot, and I'm probably going to record something short very soon, and I have some gigs coming up in the next month. Also, I'm working on a longer set piece about my bike getting stolen and how much fun it's been. Because it has been. For a cop-show junkie like me, filing a stolen bike report w/ the police was like phone sex. Only free. And not embarrassing.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

you should have whipped it out.

and said, "Actually, this is the time and place to say this: I am very, very good at what I do. I make this stuff look good. I can do this for you."

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

huk diggler

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

huk huggler

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

"This is an entry-level position."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Sounds promising Huk & the whole "fly" issue just says you are open (obvious), but coy (had the jumper covering your vitals!). *bighugs*

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the hugs!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Please tell me you said the part about the gorilla to them.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Please give me one compelling reason why I shouldn't quickly and humanely kill one of my hyper-defensive, self-righteous, nombriliste co-workers thus ridding me and the rest of humanity from a pestilent, loathsome miasma of moral foetor and paving the way to happier, sunnier days?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Why not slowly and inhumanely? You'll feel better for it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

No. At work, I like to be efficient and businesslike.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Rather than ruthless and calculating? So long as they're dead I guess it's cool.

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

There is no reason, carry on.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Luna, is that an existentialist battle cry in an irrational world?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

It's something, alright.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

ARGGGHH! I'm tired of flowcharting. Bring on the code already!

Can't believe it's thursday already. weeks go by too quickly.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Thursday? I thought it was Fri--oh wait.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Hi Pink and Huk, thanks for the greetings upthread!
Don't worry M., these surgeries are just things that must be done. I'm not upset by them at all really.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 11 November 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Hi darl! Good that you're being so brave, whatever it is! x

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 November 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

hello there hi orbit hope alls ok hi pink

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Hi Gaz, how's it going?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

ah ts ok. three more weeks of teaching then its holidays ( = NO WORK NO PAY)

you?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 11 November 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh, what will you do in the holidays then?
Oh yes, all is going well here! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 11 November 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

i will look for work and i will play with my children.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 11 November 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

ARGH!
The suspense is killing me! I'm supposed to hear about this job today and...it's today! No word yet. I guess I could kill the time by drafting my letter of resignation, be it resignation of my position or grim resignation to my lowly lot in life.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

:( sorry Huk.

I'm still happy I have my job.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Hang tough, Huk.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

There may already be a message on my answering machine at home. I didn't give them my work number (cuz, like, that's probably bad form). While all correspondence with them this far has been through email, maybe something like a job offer would be done via "more personal" communication methods? If only I had ever even glanced at the instruction booklet to find out how to retrieve messages via the phone lines.
Or maybe they're just lazy on a Monday, because, obv. a new job for me doesn't mean as much to them as it does to me.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm happy about my job too. I think the key for happiness at work for me is being at a new job. As long as the job is new and I'm not bogged down with stress and responsibility, I'm 100%.

Good luck, Huk!!

I will be in France in T minus 37 days. I wish I could visit the UK too but I'll have to wait until a trip in the fuuutuuure, hopefully with Nick.

― Prancing Animals (coco), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I might be going to France in January... ça va cailler...

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Before: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/dragon.jpg

After: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/lunacee/turtleturtle.jpg

It isn't what I went in wanting, but it's exactly what I wanted anyway.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

― heh, Tuesday, 15 November 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

That's really cool Luna, I like it!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it looks great. Looks kind of South Pacific in style to me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

Hi guys. I like the tat too.

I have terrible toothache and it's making me an irritable bitch. My poor boss has started to seem like some kind of idiot-devil-woman, and it's only partly her fault. She is being dumb lately though.

I have just applied for another new job. Don't know why really, since at the moment working in an academic library seems about as appealing as cleaning toilets for a living.

Speaking of which (no, but you know what I mean) - any news, Huckster?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Good luck with that Archel!
Huk, how'd you get on huh?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

― xqdq (ex machina), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

I had an email waiting for me this morning saying that they haven't made a decision yet, but they would "hopefully get to it" today.
Which means I'm still in the running! But may not know until the end of the week!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I'M exhausted and grouchy and all my prograams are bugggy.

and my office mate's computer sounds like a jet about to take off.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Best of luck, Huk.

I comiserate, Sam.

Looks amazing, Luna.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

thank you. . .what a grouchy post that was!

Yes the tat looks good luna. nice choice.

It's cold and windy here and I've just had some nice chicken cilantro soup. perhaps I can get all those bugs now.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

It's 80 degrees here today. In the middle of November. This is insanity.

Thanks y'all - I really like it, too. I decided that I only want this guy to tattoo me from now on - even if it means the occasional trip to Maui before he opens a shop in LA.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I'll trade you weather, dude.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

well our "cold" is high 60s low 70s. It was in the 80s yesterday but now we've had a cold front come through. woo.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

-25 C (windchill factor included)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

We're having a snowstorm right now but it's not that cold (-13 C with the windchill). I might post some funny pictures of it later. I like snow A LOT.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

We had a great snowstorm (probably you're getting our sloppy seconds) yesterday. It's so serene with the giant, sticky flakes. But today it's clear skies and foul winds.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

even if it means the occasional trip to Maui before he opens a shop in LA.

Your capacity for sacrifice is an inspiration. ;-)

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

It's a good thing you love snow, Bryan.

I love it too. It might snow here tomorrow (!). Also, I can't wait for it to get bitter cold so I can have a fire in the woodstove as often as possible.

And Luna, I really like the turtle!

― Prancing Animals (coco), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

I would absolutely trade weather!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

We've had almost a foot of snow in the last 24 hours. It's going to get cold overnight, down to about -14 C (7 F) before the wind-chill. It's going to be +8 C by the weekend so everything's going to be an ugly Toronto-y mess. Oh well. And now for a long, boring story.

I got to be a fireman on the weekend. I went outside and noticed that it smelled really strongly of wood smoke even though (I thought) no one around my place has a fireplace. I looked up at the fire escape of the building beside mine and noticed smoke coming off the middle level. It wasn't that nice a day but Winnipeggers often barbecue in the winter so I didn't think much of it other than "who do they think they are? Eddie Murphy's Uncle Gus?" Anyway, I went to my car and started to drive up the wee lane and as I got closer to the building where the smoke was I realised that there was a fire up there and it wasn't from a barbecue. I ran up and found a cardboard box full of ashes, with the cardboard burning and setting the 2x4s of the fire escape on fire as well. I stomped on the flames and put them out and since it wasn't too big I didn't bother to knock on the door of the apartment. I went back to my car and sat down shaking my head, looked back up to where the box was and saw that it was back on fire, so I went back and tried to stomp it out but it wouldn't go out. I knocked on the door and a woman answered. I told her she had a fire on her fire escape but she didn't seem concerned, so I pointed at the flames and that almost got her attention. I asked her for some water so I could put it out and she said some nonsense about having just got home and that her car was broken into and JUST GIVE ME SOME WATER! She casually looked for a container so I said "just put it in anything, a glass even." Six or seven cereal bowls of water later the fire was out. They had taken the hot ashes/embers from their fireplace, put them in a cardboard box and sat them out on their wooden fire escape. Now that's dumb. I should've let it burn.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

She's lucky you didn't let her dumb ass burn.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Missed Darwin award.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Hi you lot. I hope you're all safe from tornadoes and snow and wtf ever else you poor bastards seem to get hit with every 10 minutes.

(And hi Bryan!)

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Hi Trayce! How goes it with you?
Bryan - that's insane! How can people be so stupid?!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

Double standards really drive me crazy.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Is it just me, or do y'all really not find it amusing when people post im conversations they've had with other people? A friend of mine regularly does this on his LJ, and um... they're really not that funny.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

add that to the list of snobbery things. that drives me nuts too. i basically hate people.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Me too.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

i just got a call last night from my atty. i got a settlement offer for my car accident. $7500. KISS MY FUCKING ASS. I will have problems for the rest of my life because of it. I told my lawyer to tell them we'll see them in court. Insurance limits are $50,000 to $100000. I want at least $50,000.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I don't blame you. Insurance companies are such assholes - I got into an accident with my best friend when I was 17 and her insurance company bullied me into taking a check to cover only the hospital bill and the ambulance ride - I was too young to know better when the guy said "well, you don't want Jennifer's insurance to go UP, do you? That will happen if you sue us..."

I still have migraines today because of that accident.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah basically it would have covered some of my bills, the atty fee and left me with about $500.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

well they can take a big bite out of a shit sandwich

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Chris, how long were you out of work? I'd wager that your lost wages plus medical bills would have been near $7,500.00, no?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Hi everyone!
Great story, Bryan. I will claim it as my own at Holiday get-togethers.
I took the day off work, and then spent all day checking my email every five minutes to see if word came about the job. Nothing. Argh. Life goes on.
It got down to -27 C (before windchill) today. I was glad to stay home.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

all I want to know is how a chipped tooth can cost $925 to fix!!???!!?!?

― stewart downes (sdownes), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

I cannot even comprehend such a temp as -27C. That just seems... I mean surely after a while, its just FUCKIN COLD?

And to think I wanted to go to Montreal at xmastime! heh.

And hi Pink! :D I'm well... I'm tired and hungover tho. But FIVE DAY BREAK after today WOOOOO.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Ooh that sounds nice Trayce, what are you going to do with your time off?!

-27!!!!!!!!!!! OMG, I thought it was cold here today! brrr!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 November 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

Im gonna try and catch up with my Nanowrimo! No amount of Ned being insanely good, and Tep cheering me on, has helped :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 November 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

(much as I dearly luv both Ned and Tep of course)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 November 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

Awww! You can do it ~~Nicki~~ Trayce! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 November 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

It is 1C here.

Good luck Trayce! Maybe if I pretend my tedious 20,000 word dissertation is actually for Nanowrimo I will get it done... or maybe not.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 November 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Aww Arch, are you fidning things difficult?!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Archie, we we will on the South coast this weekend - though not as far east as you. We're going to Bognor!

Last night I was probably 10 minutes from quitting ILE, but I'm simply too lazy not to read it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

i was out of work for 6 months all in all.

― bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

Wow, I've never been to Bognor. It sounds depressing. Have fun!

Yes Pink I am finding it sort of hard, though I've got ages to complete it (well until May). But I have several mini-deadlines before then and the different aspects (practical research project vs critical review of all the literature etc) are making my head hurt!

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Ouch, I bet! Have you heard from that job you applied for?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 November 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

This made me think of you, Pink.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 17 November 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

It's -7 C this morning, which is, like, awesome after yesterday. I actually kinda like the nasty cold, when I'm dressed for it.
Don't worry, Trayce, Montreal is (slightly) more temperate than SK, though they get more snow.
I'm thinking about applying for a job in the Arctic.

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

Haha, I wonder why Michael! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

From that link for Pink, the following sentence caught my eye:

Brooks Brothers will whip up a custom sports jacket for about $1,000. Less tony clothing vendors have etc. etc.

Is "tony" an adjective? What does it mean??

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I can think of far better tailors than BB. 'Tony' means something akin to 'posh' chez vous.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

i was out of work for 6 months all in all.

Far be it for me to offer half-assed legal advice (though I did once work for an ambulance chaser) but it seems to me that your lost wages would be far in excess of the settlement they are offering, not to mention medical damages nor pain & suffering. I don't remember the question of liability being up to debate. Do you you know their policy limits? Are they just taking the piss?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 17 November 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

policy limits are $50000 to $100000. When my lawyer told me this, he said its typical for them to come in with a lowball at first. once he threatens to sue....and the longer we hold out they raise it.

― bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Bryan, When is your fireman calendar coming out??

― Prancing Animals (coco), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

i also found out today that my mother has been declared legally blind at 53 yrs old. She has age related macular degeneration...wonderful.

― bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Chris, I assume he's made a formal demand based upon med bills, loss of work, loss of consortium, and p&s, right, and the liability is clear, right?

Sorry to hear about your Mom, Chris.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear that Chris.

In other news, that magazine I wrote a few words for, well if you care to read it pls go here http://www.wah-magazine.com/WAH%20Magazine%201.pdf

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

I always hear "tony" used as a synonym for "affluent" in describing places, as in "the tony suburb of Winnetka."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Sarah, I really want to read your piece, but I kept getting big nipples on my screen. What page of the Acrobat reader page is it on?

― Prancing Animals (coco), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

BLAH, TENSION, ANXIETY, ENNUI, TEARING ME APART.
If I was out of the running for this job, they would have told me, they wouldn't send me an email the day they were supposed to make a decision saying they hadn't made a decision yet. However, if they want me for the job, WHAT'S THE HOLD UP?
I should cut bait, right? MOVE ON?
It's like, geez, I'm keeping everything else in my life on hold right now waiting to hear about this job, and they're taking their sweet time, and I'm getting OLDER BY THE MINUTE (true story).
Le Sigh.

Aw, Chris, that's horrible about yr mom.
Pink, sounds cool, will check yr link when I'm not at work.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 17 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I always imagined toney (as related to 'high tone') as having that extra 'e', but I might be wrong.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

It's a kind of middle-brow, American adjective as I see it, Martin.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 17 November 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

It reminds me of tony! toni! tone! Whatever happened to those dudes. What a weird adjective.

Sorry to hear about your mom's eyesight Chris. Hope the settlement increases substantially.

I am loving my volunteer job. Part of why I love it is no doubt from feeling smug that I'm helping out at an awesome place, partly also that I really want to do my best at everything, which is an attitude I haven't been able to adopt at most paid jobs. I got some (small-scale) compliments today that were nice to hear.

Yeah Bognor sounds like a Tolkeinesque troll-thing. Adding Regis to it always strikes me as laughable.

Maybe you should call them Huk? That's the kind of thing people tell me to do to follow up about shit and then I don't because I would feel pushy even though it's not and I'm lame and then other people get hired because they're pushier and GUH I hate being pushy. But it seems to work for some.

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 17 November 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the job I had before this one was like that. They didn't call me for a long time, so finally I called and asked what was up and they were like, "Oh, um, sorry we didn't get back to you. Sure, you have the job. When can you start?" Of course, that job ended up being bizarro, BUT maybe they just need to hear your voice again to get the ball rolling. They could just be preoccupied with other things and not have their act together.

Pink, I hope I didn't offend you with my question! I skimmed through a bit of the magazine, including reading a piece about going to the NB factory to design a colourway, but it was signed GL, not SL. Was that your piece?? Then I was just worried I'd get in trouble at work going through all those pages of topless hiphop ladies.

― Precious Johnson (coco), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

im soooo tired today, all this new house stuff kills me. Yesterday afternoon I took down more of the handiramp in the front. Basically by hoisting a 40lb pry bar in the air, ramming it into the wood and prying it up, piece by piece. That lasted approximately 1 hour and then i decided to drink beer and play NHL 06 instead.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Aww, no offence taken at all sarah! Lots of half naked ladies in the mag, I know! Mine's only a few lines really, as it's building up to another piece I'm doing. Scroll down & the first time you see a pair of trainers, my words are next to it! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Calling right now...HELLO, NEW BOSS? WHEN DO START?...AFTER THE BEEP? HELLO? HELLO?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Haha!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

The fact that there's nobody there even to merely answer the phone at this early hour is a very good sign (if they hire me, that is).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

i need a new job...i should get motivated and get the resume together...i've been here 8 years and i am going nuts.

― bingo (Chris V), Friday, 18 November 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Well done, Pink! So do you have a pair yet?

― Precious Johnson (coco), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

I have a pair of what I was talking about yes. I had to sleep outside a shop overnight to get them though! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

I admire you.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

You'd better after all the trouble whe went to.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I admire you.
What for being stupid?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

For being dedicated.

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

Well everybody has a hobby right? Mine just happens to be trainers!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 November 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Is it US Thanksgiving today?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Also, I would like some banana bread, please.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Which color did you get?

I am gearing up for some sweet potato casserole (=the real reason I'm flying home for Thanksgiving)

― Precious Johnson (coco), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Next Thursday, Huk.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I've got cake coming! Rum/lemon or something!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

mmmmmm tay-shty

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

You'd make a great guard, Huk...

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I got the yellow ones Sarah. The purple ones in the picture aren't actually available til next month.

Can someone send me a pumpkin pie, kthxbye. x

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh man. I shouldn't have had cake just before lunch! I've spoiled my appetite.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I had chocolate cake for breakfast! (leftover coworker birthday cake)

― Precious Johnson (coco), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I had a rueben sandwich for lunch. Right now, it has just picked a fight with the rumcake in my gut. WHO EVER WINS, I LOSE!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 18 November 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

This hole in the wall that I have my groin against as a young man in Morocco was sadly not a glory hole. I was misled.

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/scan.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/cstarrcstarr/PICT0042.jpg

I took this from my ofc window on Friday--Happy November from LA!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 21 November 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

And facing the other way--you can see Disney Hall down there if you look

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/cstarrcstarr/PICT0044.jpg

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mts.net/~twp62yo/portageandmainafterthesnow.jpg

Not as nice a view as the ones you've put up Orbit, but here's the view of Canada's most famous intersection (Portage & Main) from a window in my office a little while after it stopped snowing Wednesday.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

(it's the intersection in the back, and it's mostly obscured by a building but wtf)

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

Nice! I'm trying to guess what floor you're on--15th? 20th?
What is that intersection famous for--is it the biggest, or where the financial center is, or the site of historic importance, or?

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

I miss snow.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it's only the 11th floor (nothing here is very tall) not that it matters! Portage and Main is mostly famous for being incredibly cold and windy (you can't currently legally cross the street there; instead there's a mall/walkway system underneath the street), but it used to be the centre of the action in what was once Canada's 3rd largest city. A famous incident here was the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 and there are really cool pictures of people fighting police at that intersection.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Hey everybody. I'm a bundle of joy today. I've had a headache since saturday and I'm whiling(sp?) away the day waiting to see if I am "released" this afternoon. fun.

― MissMisery, Monday, 21 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh darl, I sympathise with the headache situ, I'm doing the same myself! When you mean "released" you don't mean losing your job do you?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

I hope your headache disappears and your job doesn't, Sam.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I have borrowed a friend's scanner to scan a few old photos. From the same trip to Morocco during which the photo upthread was taken:

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/scan0002.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

wow that photo is so imperial somehow!

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Only you could get away with that, M.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Also, migraine

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha!

Here's another from that same year or the next, I'm not sure. I don't usually lust after a woman's neck with the intensity that I would, say, after her bosom or her legs, but the woman on the right, Alessandra, had the most beautiful and memorable neck I've ever seen.

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/scan0003.jpg

Sorry to hear that, Luna. What's with all the headaches here today?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, these almost don't even look like real photos - just stunning.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

My grandmother's favorite.

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v483/Hereward/scan0001.jpg

My looks have undergone a steep deterioration since then...

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand: were those taken for a magazine or something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Vogue Uomo, some Italian bridal magazine whose name escapes me, and Vogue Hommes, respectively, jaymc.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Morning - just popping in for a moment to say hello because, honestly, Michael, did you think I could resist commenting on those photos? I always knew that you lived in a chapter of Brideshead Revisted and those picture are my proof.

― The Damp Is Rising (kate), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

P-I-M-P, michael.

― bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

Bingo - what's happening with the house then?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

all i need to do is paint the bedroom and hang two more curtain rods and its good to go. it has basically all come together.

― bingo (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

Great news, so glad it's gone OK!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

THIRD INTERVIEW tomorrow. Am crazy gluing fly up.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

3rd interview? Blimey! Best of luck Huksta.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Well, the job gets crappier with each interview. The first interview was for a f/t position I really wanted. The second one was for a f/t position that I learned to really want. Now I'm interviewing for a short-term contract (with "potential" to get on f/t afterward) as the boss's Man Friday.
So possibly, my 2nd interview (the one with my wang out) didn't go as well as I thought, but someone at the firm really likes me.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps they just didn't see enough of the wang on the 2nd interview. I say, go in there with not only your flies undone, but your button undone too. Say this is me, can you dig it or not?! Then stretch both arms out & move your head backwards, whilst they survey all that is good. Works like a charm!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Apparently, I want to work for Pink. Who knew?

Chris, painting is a bitch but well worth it in the end. Get a good supply of beer, order pizza, and have 'fun'.

Break many legs, Huk.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Come work for me baby! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Okay.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

When do I start?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Whenever you can.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Boy, is Huk going to be surpised by the office dress code.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

I finally had to re-register as I forgot my password and whatever email I had originallly registered with. bah.

About 30 minutes after I wrote that post yesterday I was fired. I knew they were going to do it. Bastards. right before the holidays too. As if anyone's doing any serious hiring before the new year.

grumble grumble, grinch grinch.

*sigh* maybe I should start a new unemployed thread.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

My sympathy to you!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Awww, Sam, that's terrible.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

What assholes. I'm sorry, Sam.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Aw fuck Sam, I'm so sorry.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

thanks for the sympathies. hopefully something will turn up soon. basically they spent 5 months training me how to program in their propeitary languages and then cut me loose. I'm hoping some other office on campus will be happy to snap up someone with my skills without having to wait in the long, official line for an analyst.

in good news, my headache's gone! Apparently it was work-related.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh Sam, I'm sorry. best of luck in finding something else.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

fucking companies....nice laying people off before the holidays. that shit pisses me off.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Yuck--sorry to hear it Sam.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

off to Interview #3. Jeez. I'm sick of this whole process.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

Merde!, Huk.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Q: Who kicks ass?
A: Moi!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

so it went well? hurrah!

Good luck to you huk and then pass it back to me, k?

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 24 November 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry to hear about the job--I hope you get a new one soon!

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 24 November 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

So I assume you nailed that sucka Huk?!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 24 November 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah. There are still many details to work out, and it could very well be that I won't get to quit my current job until sometime early in the new year, and the pay actually kinda sucks (to start), but it will be a thrill to actually work in a job that demands creativity and thinking and stuff.

Boss Man: I'm going to need to you to watch A LOT of TV in this job.
Me: Dude!

So hopefully this is the beginning of good things for TITTWISers, I believe Sam is next in line for awesomeness.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Aww yay, so happy for ya Huk! *bighugs*
Sam will get another job & Bingo will get pregnant & they're we're all set! :-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 24 November 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kinopolis.de/filminfo/j/img/juniorplakat.jpg

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 24 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

You can tell he's smart because he's wearing glasses!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 24 November 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Hello all! I know this isn't really up & running any more, but I just wanted to tell you something. I'm going to be a mummy! I had my 12 week scan this morning. I'm sorry if this upsets you Chris, that's obviously not my intention & I hope you & your good lady have a baby soon.
ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Pinxor/littlepersonX.jpg

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

pink i am not upset! that is wonderful news congrats! YAY PINK BABYS! we are still "plugging away"....

i have decided that if its not meant to be its not meant to be...i can't kill myself over it.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

look at the size of the penis on that kid! haha, just kidding.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Aww thanks darl! I've known so many people to "give up" on the idea of having kids & then all of a sudden they are pregnant. I am hoping that you guys don't have to get to the give up stage though. I'm really routing for you both over here! x

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

well this weekend we are putting the $300 fertility monitor to use. lets see if it works.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Best of luck!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Woah Pink - excellent news :) Congratulations honey!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Thanks darl! x

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Way to go, Pinkster!
Good luck, Chris!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

Congrats, Pink. Can we refer to the upcoming family addition as the Pinklet?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Huk!
Indeed, I like that! :-) God if I was twee before, it's going to be hell now! mwahahahaha!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Is giving birth THE ULTIMATE in twee?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

I think it's pretty harcore, but i don't want to think about that for now! *sticks fingers in ears* "la la la la la la la!"

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

So, if anyone's curious. A full 8 days since being offered The New Job, I haven't heard from The New Employers about when they want me to start, so I am going to try to find a better, newer job out of spite, so that when these folks finally get around to making good on their job offer, I'll be like, "oh, jeez, sorry, can't do it now!"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh Huk, that's rubbish. Have you called them?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

congratulations pink! that's a really good scan, especially for that early. Good luck with the first trimester, if you have a rough one remember the second one is usually really great. Do we need to start a rolling pregnancy support thread? It does feel terribly twee to go on about it but it's pretty fun and sciencey too.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Well I'm all for it Teeny, but then I would be! Haha! I've had some sickness, but it's nearly all gone now. Just still pretty tired. I'm 12+3, so hopefully things will improve from now on.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Yay pink! :)

and Huk! woohoo!

I've been trying find envelopes all morning to no success. :(

glad this thread's back up.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Wow, Pink! That's so exciting! *clapping hands* Have you picked out the baby room? (and what does 12+3 mean?)

Teeny, how is yours going?

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Sam & Sarah.
We have chosen our baby room & we've brought some paint to go in there, but didn't want to buy anything else until after today. 12+3 mean 12 weeks & 3 days into my pregnancy.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations! Honey, I'm so happy for both of you! xxxxxx

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Can I buy naming rights?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Luna!
Huk, you can buy the rights, but you know the baby's gonna be called Huk either way?!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

oh my goodness, we didn't get the nursery together until, like, last week. I'm not much for decorating. I'm technically due sunday but I doubt I'll deliver before then. I did have some decent contractions last night though.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Do you think it's Braxton Hicks or the real thing Teeny?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www1.vertbaudet.co.uk/images/vertbaudet/images/products/2704601.jpg

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking the same thing, Luna! The Pinklet will know more about trainers than any child in Britain.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Braxton Hicks

Rhyming slang?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Teeny, I believe I suggested Sunday morning for the birth, so if you don't mind...

Braxton Hicks

Twix?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

No, that's what they're really called - the false or 'practice' contractions.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

"Sometime towards the middle of your pregnancy (or even earlier), you may notice the muscles of your uterus tightening for anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds. Not all women feel these random, usually painless contractions, which get their name from John Braxton Hicks, an English doctor who first described them in 1872.

Doctors and midwives believe that Braxton Hicks contractions are part of your body getting ready for labour, and that they get the processes of effacement and dilation going in preparation for delivery."

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Luna is wise! Twix indeed!!

Luna - pls tell me what I need to know!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 09:14 (twenty years ago)

PIIIIIIIIIINK!!!!!

TEEEEEENY!!!!

god i am such a baby sap these days.

onyas

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Haha! I wondered when you were going to "pop up"! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

yes hello how is it? are you showing? i've been reading the diary!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Aww have you?!! Yes I have a bump already. Not sure if it's baby or too many pies! haha. It's all going really well though & the scan yesterday was just amazing.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:15 (twenty years ago)

its wonderful.

and i'm sure you'll find some clothes

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

I have loads on order at the moment. I mean WTF is the point in having maternity clothes on your website & then when you try to order them, it says "out of stock". I phoned up Next & actually asked them if they had any stock of maternity clothes at all & the woman said "no not really"!!!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

haha.

seriously though...next?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

Next is a shop that happens to have a nice line in maternity clothes, or not though as seems to be the case.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

i can't remember what voni wore. i'll have to dig up some photos. so...it'll be a winter/spring pregnancy and a summer(ish) birth?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

yep! Finding the right sort of jeans is killing me! Winter, then spring & a summerish birth is exactly right.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

we did plaster casts btw - just an idea :)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

Haha, what a great idea. They say to take pictures or yourself through all the trimesters, but I must admit, I don't really know if I was any pics. I don't exactly feel at my best at the moment!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

aw go on. say you will. you will you will. are you still not quite feeling beautiful? i remember voni just looking so *radiant*
(and then again tired, stressfull etc)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 2 December 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

Haha! perhaps I'll start blossoming during the second trimester, but currently only just into the second trimester, I am still spotty & tired! :-( Not quite got a bump but definitely gotten fatter!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

I want baby. :( I'm being housewifey at the moment, spending my days doing housework and printing up recipes for dinner. I though 'how nicely a baby would fit in here.' But there's the whole second income thing and the fact that I can only do the stay-at-home bit for a few weeks 'till I lose it. Maybe next year. Got to before I'm 35. . .

Why are there so many "rolling" threads at the moment? I don't like ILX trends.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

When come back bring baby! ;-)
It'll be you soon enough Sam!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

yes, since I'm not in the hospital now, those were braxton-hicks (for some reason my husband calls them elliot spitzer contractions [spitzer is the attorney general for new york state]). I didn't start getting them (that I could tell) until my last month, and they're almost always painless, your belly just gets all hard, that's all. But a couple of nights ago it hurt a little and I thought it might be the start of something. I had a doctor appt the next day and it was nothing, I'm still sealed up tight as a drum. The baby is already kinda big so we scheduled an induction at my 41st week, if I go into labor before then, well that's fine too. Oh, and I was leaning toward a natural birth but I have since decided to fuck that noise and get an epidural.

It's amazing how tired you can get in the first trimester helping that little bean grow! You'll come out of the fatigue soon. And if you're at all inclined toward dresses, they're so much more comfortable than trousers. If you're spotty I bet it's a girl. ;) Guessing gender is so fun and worthless, I mean, it's a 50/50 shot!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

now with all this pregnancy talk this thread title seems ominous.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

i know we should change it. my sister is constantly tired and easily tired out. She looks healthier than she has in years...and the whole family is happy now, which is a good thing. my father had to be Tony Soprano and be all tough guy italiano but now he is warming up to being a grand dad.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

and when i get home today (the old lady has the day off) i am doing it.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

A girl you think? One of my friends is sure it's a girl. It seems to have been all boys this year, so maybe all girls next year.
I loved how gooey my dad went!

x-post

Give her one for me Bingo, or something like that! haha! ;-)

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

haha, my dad went beserk at first. we got really drunk on some 25 year old scotch.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Hooray for fertility! Congrats Pink. Teeny, I still remember your IM to me on April Fool's Day and thinking "Does she think I'm *that* naive?" Bingo, you're totally going to be a big pappa. I can feel it in my loins.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

Pink, did you ever have to do any convincing your guy to make him want kids?

Mine isn't against it and we talk about it often but he always brings money and how he doesn't feel comfortable enough to do it right now, etc. I think that's an argument you can always make but then I'm not as concerned with money as him.

I'll be 32 next week my clock's ticking! ;)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

We both said from day one that we really wanted kids quite early on in our relationship. If our first house hadn't have fallen through, we'd probably already be pregnant or with a baby. We wanted to wait until we were in the right situation, housing wise at least. We had planned to start trying next year, this was a happy surprise shall we say. I was throwing up for a week before it clicked into place!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 2 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

We both said from day one that we really wanted kids quite early on in our relationship.

Jeez, fast movers!

"Hi, I'm Pink"
"Hi, I'm J"
"Do you want kids?"
"Yes, do you?"
"Yes"
"YAY! Let's DATE!"

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

When I went to watch the Man U vs. Pompey game yesterday at the Mad Dog, the bartender, a young man from North London, said I looked like the Milk Trade man. Can any Britishes please explain?

― M. White (Miguelito), Sunday, 4 December 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Milk Tray man? In the advert for Milk Tray (a box of nasty chocolates with aspirations of poshness), the Milk Tray man is a kind of James Bond/spy type character dressed all in black, who carries out all sort of death-defying stunts (leaping out of helicopters on skis to career down a sheer cliff face, etc) and then breaks into women's bedrooms to leave them chocolates. "All because the lady loves Milk Tray". Black trousers, polo neck, hat, etc.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 4 December 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and I can see you looking like that kind of suave hero, Michael. I have never heard of a 'milk trade' man.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 4 December 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Ah. I see. I was wearing a black turtleneck and jacket. I had never heard of this Milk Tray man

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Good morning, TITTWISers.

Look at the weather in my neck of the woods! Ow! My toes are still cold from my short walk from the car to the office this morning.

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

this is currently our weather...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

you don't want to know

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

lOVELY SNOW COMING SOON

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I want snow!!!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

we already have three inches...it snowed all day yesterday and was quite peaceful. i like sitting by the fire and watching it snow.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

today i am listening to A Rat Pack Christmas. I love Dean Martin.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

When I left for work this morning it was -30 C. It's supposed to get up to -19 C, though. And the forecast says COLD, BITTER December. Why am I here?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Huk - what happened with that job?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Still waiting to hear back from them after two weeks ago when they said they wanted to work with me. They want to try me out on one specific project, and they're still waiting for the green light on this project, though the last I heard, they were super close to getting the green light, and were going to call me on Monday (last Monday, that is). I'm lately returning to the idea of blowing off to Vancouver without telling anyone.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm not surprised! I guess you have called them?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I should call them today and find out what's up. SIGH. I guess I will. I'm sort of, ugh, because the pay is really not so great, and the job has a really vague description and I'm 90% sure it's a lousy job, and I already have a lousy job, but even a new lousy job would be at least something new.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Good monday everybody. I'm applying to jobs. woo-hoo.

I think it's about 50F here.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

I have an interview for a new lousy job next week, too. It would be nice to have some new coworkers to get homicidal about.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

You simply must put that on your resume/CV, Archel.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Heh. I'm in such a bad mood today that I just had an uncharacteristically cross and indiscreet moan with (not at) a colleague on the phone, and now I'm all paranoid that my boss thinks I was out of line for expressing my opinion without talking to her first, even though she probably agrees with me, because she's mysteriously disappeared with our other boss (who she may or may not be shagging) and I think they're talking about me and I'll probably be fired before I even get interviewed for this new job. I need to go home :(

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Yikes. That sounds grim. Isn't it leaving time soon, though?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly I work till 6 (another 50 mins). They have gone to the bloody BAR though, so I don't see why I should linger. May claim women's problems.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Keep your spirits up.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to leave early today, claiming women's problems.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

If you got girl problems, I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one.

Take a breather, Archel! That sounds awful. Can you go on a quick walk somewhere away from your desk?

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Hey y'all, been off ILE lately but wanted to say congrats to you Pink!

Hope things work out with your job offer Huk. Maybe keep calling them to check in, it can't hurt to remind them you're interested, and if the greenlight falls through, perhaps they'll keep you in the forefront for future stuff? Then again what do I know, I just submitted my eight millionth job application.

xposts that sucks Archel, I bet more than likely they are talking about office gossip.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

So, our oldest cat has lost almost another pound over the last quarter. He's 16, with the usual kidney ailments of an old cat, so we can't feed him too much protein or fat and he's just wasting away in front of our eyes. He's definitely my gf's favorite and this is starting to feel really grim. Just to add insult to injury, her 93 yr. old grandmother collapsed again and was taken to the hospital on Friday. Apparently she has some kind of valve problem in her heart that MIGHT be remedied with open heart surgery, which she's elected not to do 'cause that's too much trauma for someone her age. My gf's mom is freaking but her brother (my gf's uncle, that is) had some prior plans and blithely went away for the week nonetheless. We have to pick her up and take her home today. For some reason, I'm not in the best of moods this morning.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Aw M, I'm so sorry to hear it.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Thanks.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

Sorry to hear that M, seems like you & your good lady are having a really rough time of it.

Thanks SGS!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

Sorry M, that sounds rough :(

I feel no better this morning, although slightly more persuaded that I am just paranoid and boss couldn't really give a shit what I say on the phone. But neither she nor big boss have appeared yet this morning, which does add an extra dimension of intrigue. I prefer to think that they're involved in a sex marathon/huge row than talking about me, obviously.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Even worse would be if they were talking about you whilst having sex!!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Ew! No, even I am not quite self-absorbed enough to think that...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

Archel, if I thought for one moment that you thought that, I'd be shocked!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Got my contract offer today. Well, last night, but I accepted it today. I'm going to be working 75 hr/wk for the next 3 months. Also, I'm in WAY over my head (but I have to keep reminding myself that every single thing I've achieved in my life/career has come from jumping in and learning to swim). But if I manage to pull this off, at the end of the contract, I'll be offered a full-time okay-paying gig, with possibility of (and interest from the company in having me) learn more, do more, BECOME A MASTER (and hopefully make more money).

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

75 hour work week? christ you must want this bad.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, 75 hour weeks! Well if you're happy Huk, then I'm happy for you! *mwah*

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Me too! Here is a virtual drink on me... Cheers!

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

congrats Huk. hope it works out.

I have a job interview on Friday. I hate interviewing and the whole job search process period.

We might get freezing percipation (suddenly that spelling looks all wrong) here in a few hours. aahh! I have to hurry walk the dog and go to the yarn store before it all hits.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

The 75 hrs is this new job on top of my current job, and is also an estimate. I'm going to be working the new job from home and I have a feeling that I'll be able to really maximize my time and hopefully cut that shit down to something more like 60 hrs a week, but, um, SO LONG Christmas relaxation, schmoozing, etc.
If things go well with this new contract, then I'll definitely quit the current job, but for now, I don't really have a sense of how much I should trust this other firm, considering that when I went in for my first interview BACK IN OCTOBER, they told me that they were hoping to have this project underway by mid-November.
But wtf, I have no family, no kids, no real social life, and I'm just under 30. I might as well go all out while I can.
I think I'm going to have to put my radio show on hiatus, which is a bummer, because I think that having that 2 hours a week to just sit in a dark room and play my favourite records would be very therapeutic during this ordeal, but I don't know at this point how I'm going to handle all this and I should probably clear as much off my plate as I can.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

It would be a shame to give up the radio show Huk.

Good luck Sam!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

geez huk, that sounds kind of nuts. Not that you can't do it, just seems like it will be very stressful.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Congrats, Huk.

Best of luck, Sam.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

When we came back from dinner last night, the entire block was without electricity. So we lit all of our candles, started a fire in the fireplace and had the neighbors over to drink wine and chat. It reminded me of being a child in Yosemite where the storms took out our power at least 2 or 3 times over the course of the winter. I love spending evenings without TV or music entirely by candlelight.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

you're a fool michael. Lost is on tonight!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

I love spending the evenings fucking by fire-light, too. (That's what you meant, right?) xpost

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

No new Lost episodes until January. /unfortunate buzzkill

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Good luck, Sam!

When I was a kid, I used to have "dark parties" (no doubt inspired by the fun of a black-out) where I'd turn off all the lights in the house and just sit there calmly, enraptured by obscurity and letting my imagination run rampant.

Yeah, it's gonna be a downer to let my show go, I've been doing it four years now. But if this all shakes out, I'll be able to go back to it, and possibly with even more gusto! I'm on the frigging BoD of the radio station, so I'll be able to get another show no prob.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah whats with this lost hiatus bullshit!

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps you could just get a stand in Huk.
Michael - that sounds lovely, I miss powercuts!
Jeanne - you old romantic you!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Before y'all start talking Lost specifics, pls don't as we're way behind you guys.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

i've come to the conclusion that i love 10CC's "im not in love". perfect song for fucking by the fireplace.

we won't pink, don't worry.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I love spending the evenings fucking by fire-light, too.

While I am fond of the neighbors, I'm not quite that fond of them, Je4nn3.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

No new Lost episodes until January. /unfortunate buzzkill
:(

we aren't really the chatty neighbor types and we don't drink wine. we'd be forced to stare at each other over beers in candlelight.

I'm going to try and walk the dog now. won't the cold be too much for her paws? maybe we should get her little shoes.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

i've come to the conclusion that i love 10CC's "im not in love". perfect song for fucking by the fireplace.
Seriously? I cannot stand that f*cking song!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I had a girlfriend in France whose family essentially owned a hamlet in the Alpes-Maritimes consisting of threee houses and a decrepit farm building none of which had electricity (though they did have gas for the water heater and the stove). We used to go down there on vacation and spend weeks without any electric light whatsoever. There was much fucking then, Je4nn3.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

speaking of chatty neighbor types, my new next door neighbors are a young couple with a small kid. mr chatty mcchatty pants chews my ear off every chance he gets and the guy is always wearing shorts. i should call him chatty mchatty shorts instead....dude get some pants its fucking 20 degrees out. mother fucker has had shorts on everyday since we've moved in. i am not a chatty neighbor type....oh and his fucking dog loves to shit in our yard. his dog unfortunately does not wear shorts.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

sounds like it's time for a fence, bingo! To keep the dog out I mean. One of my curmudgeonly (or socially disordered...) traits is that in certain circumstances I really hate making small talk with people, to the extent that I will avoid them in order not to have to engage in their small talk. Neighbors are a prime example of this and I would so hate having one who was relentlessly chatty mcchatty shorts. Then again I hear stories like M.'s and marvel at how people who are not me occasionally manage to be pals with their neighbors.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

hey congrats on the job Huk! and good luck on the interview Sam.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

sgs i am captain avoid people to make small talk. the other day i took a stick and hurled some of his dogs shit back into his yard...when they weren't home. and yes i can tell its his dogs shit because my dog has tiny little turds...this fucker has 12 pounders. I have named his dog Turd Ferguson.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

First off, they're not just our neighbors but also co-owners in the building, so, regardless of whether we liked them, it would behoove us to be civil. Secondly, they're well travelled, fine cooks, dote on their two cats (and catsit when we're away), share really good wine with us and they're rather funny, so what's not to like?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

hopefully they don't shit on the floor of your side of the building.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

i am captain avoid people to make small talk.

Ha ha, we should start an aloof army, you and me. I'll be Col. No-Eye-Contact

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Lt. Head Down

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Funny thing is my wife is all into the new neighbor thing and made a few of them cookies for Christmas and went and dropped them off the other night. She asked if I was coming and i was like 'hell no'.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Major One-Word-Answers
Pvt. Checks-Watch

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I, on the other hand, am relatively adept at small talk. I try to smile and say hello to the people in my neighborhood. The secret to it is brevity.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

General Shifty Eye

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

i was good at small talk when i was in college and was trying to meet girls. now thats out of the question so i see no need.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Captain Shuffle and Mumble

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

ooh,thats definately me. of course liqour me up and you'll get colonel buffalo bill dance from silence of the lambs.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Lance-Corporal Inappropriate Giggle

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

thats why i like messageboards...no one can see me not looking directly at the computer screen and noticing i have my head down. plus i come off quite bold and outgoing on here.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm (at work at least) much more of the terse reply strain of anti-social.

"Hey, Huck, how's it going?"
"Fine."
"Working hard."
"I guess."
"Great!"
"Yeah, bye."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

xposts I didn't mean to critique at all M! In fact I'm kinda envious you have cool neighbors with whom you have stuff in common. My prior neighbor relations (when they've existed) have been civil or pleasant if at times slightly awkward. (Except for that one time in Peckham when some squatters moved in next door.)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Chris, you are me.

I know it's not a great way to live as you might need your neighbors someday or they could be really cool. But I barely manage to stay in touch with my family and current friends so why bother.

I think where you live has a lot to do with it too. If you live somewhere where you drive and live in a house, you're prone to be more isolated. Apartments, walking cities leave more opportunity for communication. Fortunately, this is why we have the iPod.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

But if you smile while say it, Huk, it comes across more as business-like than as 'go-away-I couldn't-care-less-whether you live-or-die'.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

man, i come in here at 5:30...put my headphones on and they stay on until i leave at 1:30...just so i don't have to engage in any sort of conversations with fellow employees.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

sans booze sgs = Brigadier Gen. Awkward Silence plus booze = Captain Dancing Fool

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

~~Sarah~~ er, General, ma'am, the tone of my post is perhaps exagerated. I didn't take it as a critique. I'm just happy myself, that our business partners/neighbors turned out to be people we can hang with.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

when i lived in boston for 8 years with no car and walked/t'd everywhere i only met one new friend.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, we doin this one for all da ladies. Ha…H-town boys.
Kickin it with my boy luc.
Fo da ’93 you know what im sayin?
‘cause we will be knockin da boots
G.I. Shazzam and dino
They gon’ do something a lil sexy like you know what im sayin?
Yo, check da verse…

A late night I thought to back to when we made good love
Listening to some Marvin Gaye all night long
But I want that whole thing back
Make these moments once again go right
So wontcha, so wontcha, do it for us babe

Good loving body rockin’ knockin boots all night long, yeah
Making love until we’re tired, till the break of dawn.oh come on
Oh come on and turn the lights down and let me get on it yeah
Cause when I do just me and you, it’ll be so right

Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
Some body rockin baby, Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
That’s all I need, I need, Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)

I feel so good when I’m near you
That’s why I always wanna be close to you
Im so addicted, im so addicted to making love to you baby
All night long baby, all night long long long

Good loving body rockin’ knockin boots all night long, oh oh
Making love until we’re tired, till the break of dawn.ohh come on
Oh come on and turn the lights down and let me get on it,oh
Cause when I do just me and you, it’ll be so right so right so right

Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
That’s all I want baby yeah, Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
Give me some good love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
Some sweet rocking, some sweet love (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
Giving you mounts of pleasure cause im ready (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
Im so ready, im so ready baby (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
To give you every thing that we’ve been waiting on so come on and give it to me babe (some body rockin, knockin da boots)

Aww yea..right about now were in the intermission tip
So all you ladies go get your towels you know what im saying..
Hah..cause its laid out like that you know?
But wait a minute we aint through. kick the amp.

Woaahh oh ooohh
Ooooohh aww babe
I want your good touch baby
You hearin me my baby?
Its driving me crazy (some body rockin, knockin da boots)
So wontcha come on
Come and rock my body, rock my body baby
Go on and rock my body
Yeah, I wanna lay you down ( some body rockin knockin da boots)
So let me make some sweet love

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Yo Vanilla, kick it one time booooy

Yo VIP let's kick it

Ice ice baby
Ice Ice baby
All right stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop yo I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle
Dance go rush to the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
Deadly when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it you better gang way
You better hit bull's eye the kid don't play
If there was a problem yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

CHORUS
Ice ice baby vanillla (x4)

Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in and the vegas are pumpin'
Quick to the point to the point no faking
I'm cooking MC's like a pound of bacon
Burning them if you ain't quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi-hat with a souped up tempo
I'm on a roll and it's time to go solo
Rollin' in my 5.0
With my rag-top down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby waving just to say hi
Did you stop no I just drove by
Kept on pursuing to the next stop
I busted a left and I'm heading to the next block
The block was dead
Yo so I continued to A1A Beachfront Avenue
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Rockman lovers driving Lamborghinis
Jealous 'cause I'm out getting mine
Shay with a guage and Vanilla with a nine
Ready for the chumps on the wall
The chumps acting ill because they're so full of eight balls
Gunshots rang out like a bell
I grabbed my nine all I heard were shells
Falling on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car slammed on the gas
Bumper to bumper the avenue's packed
I'm trying to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene you know what I mean
They passed me up confronted all the dope fiends
If there was a problem yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

REPEAT CHORUS

Take heed 'cause I'm a lyrical poet
Miami's on the scene just in case you didn't know it
My town that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake and kick holes in the ground
'Cause my style's like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can invision and feel
Conducted and formed
it's a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade, slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast other DJs say damn
If my rhyme was a drug I'd sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it's time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem yo I'll solve it
Check out the hook while D-Jay revolves it

Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby (oh-oh) vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla
Ice ice baby vanilla ice
Yo man let's get out of here
Word to your mother
Ice ice baby too cold
Ice ice baby too cold too cold
Ice Ice baby too cold too cold
Ice ice baby too cold too cold

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

I remember when I first saw the Vanilla Ice video for that song...I called my friend Tim and told him to put on MTV. "Tim there is an awesome song on MTV right now." We were both in amazement.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

I am always surprised by the fact that I know most of the words to the song.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

i know the fucking dance moves!

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

you know there was an interesting thread on ILM about what Lloyd Dobler would be playing on his stereo today, rather than "In Your Eyes". I think the most voted on choice was "Maps".

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

I am in way over my head.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

Then don't open your eyes Huk!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Good plan!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

What is Vanilla Ice up to these days? car dealership openings?

I have a job interview in two hours for an editing job at the university. Have I said before how much I hate interviews? And it's freezing outside (literally) and I have to wear a skirt. grrr. . .

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 9 December 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

vanilla ice is busy lighting up the stage and waxing chumps like a candle

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Confidence (or the appearance thereof) is the key!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

make eye contact sam....as hard as that maybe. which is an interesting point, it always kills me in interviews to keep my eyes focused on the person asking the questions. colonel shifty eyes wants to come out so bad.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Shake hands like you're arm-wrestling an angry gorilla. Or maybe not.
Think about what questions they MIGHT ask you, and if you've got someone who can roleplay an interview, as corny as that sounds, you'll feel much more comfortable for the real thing.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

also, check yr fly (though if y're wearing a skirt, not an issue)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

But check that your skirt isn't tucked into your knickers at the back!
Good luck Sam!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

theres an woman from the UK who sits a couple cubes over in the training dept. Yesterday I held the door open for her and she said "cheers"...it made me think of you UK Ilxors.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

People here say "cheers" all the time. I find it pretentious, but only slightly because it's also so widespread.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I say 'cheers' all the time, not only 'cause I'm pretentious but because I hang out in an 'English' pub where I hear it all the time. I don't mind 'cause I get to hear Geordies and Brummies and other assorted Englishes say, 'dude' with their funny accents.

I. Am. So. Hung. Over. And. My. Legs. Hurt. From. So. Much. Dancing.

*Morning after company Xmas party*

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I used to have a friend from South Africa & she would say "cheers" when she meant goodbye.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Eight years ago, here, you could tell what bar people frequented based on whether or not they said "Cheers." I think it all started with one bartender who spent a year in the UK, and everybody who drank from his tits picked it since he was so dashing.
One of my brothers dated a Scottish lass for a while, and now he says "TA."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Also, eight years ago, when I first considered people saying "cheers" as pretentious, I was bitter and angry like you wouldn't believe. I don't think I'm as bitter and angry as I used to be, but there are parts of that phase that have really clung to me, particularly through other people's eyes.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I love Scottishes. *Am I still drunk? Could be.*

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I think it all started with one bartender who spent a year in the UK, and everybody who drank from his tits
!!!!!!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Yoy know what he means, Pink!

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I don't :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Yoy!?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

(I was just trying to make the story more interesting)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 December 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Not only dashing but has liquor spouting tits. Hmmm.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the tips. interview went very well. The interviewers were very laid back and seemed impressed by my variety of skills. There will be a second interview next week. If I'm offered the job face a tough decision. It pays $600 less a mth than what I was making previously. I already had taken a big pay cut when I moved here from Dallas so going even lower is pretty harsh. But I like working at the university and their benefits start on day one. V. important since I only have a month's supply of my medication. So do I:

1. Keep looking for a job with pay better matching my experience but risk running out of meds.

2. Take the first acceptable job just to get my insurance and *some* income flowing again.

*sigh*

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Almost always better to look for a job when you have a job, Miss. You'll do great next week.

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

How long would it take for the insurance to kick in?

I would be more neighborly, but the other apartments in my building all have an extremely high turnover. Within a week of starting to chat up our downstairs neighbors (we even had them over to a party), they announced they were moving to California. They had a cute dog too. It was such a shame. The neighbors right above us have been there the longest second to us. We'll chat a second when we see them. But then I just found out they're moving away too. One said, "Oh! Tell me when your next shows are before we leave. I'd really like to see you guys play one time!" and I thought it was kind of weird because it's not like we were BFF or even several several steps below that.

Nick and I once made the mistake of being friendly with a neighbor across the hall in our first apartment together. Then he started talking to us from the adjoining porch, wearing tiny shorts and no shirt with his hairy chest and huge gaping nipple rings. Also, he'd come to our door to chat and then lean his head way in and comment on things in our apartment since we weren't letting him all the way in. Ick.

Anyway, if I ever own I'd like to get to know the neighbors.

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that hairy guy was nice! He would go on long monologues about the origins of our names.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Nice and weird.

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Friday, 9 December 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

How long would it take for the insurance to kick in?

Well at the university, where I was just working, your insurance starts on day one. No waiting period. Along with just generally liking the place that makes it my number one choice for employment.

The situation is just really shitty. I use generic wellbutrin and that's still $160 for a month's supply. I could get the lithium for $15 from Canada but Strattera and some of my lady meds.. . .forget it. I don't think what I'll earn from unemployment (if I'm approved) would even pay for one month of my strattera.

There's a state MHMR clinic here that will treat you for free if you have serious mental illness but the wait's about 3 months long. I'd be useless by then. I hate America sometimes.

Oh, neighbors. . the neighbors on our left are two girls and a guy probably late 20s/early 30s like us. One night my friend was dropping me off after dinner and there was a cop car parked in their driveway. I was very curious/frightened already but then the cop started walking over to me. He asked if I knew the neighbors well and I said no, only talked a couple of times. He asked when was the last time I had seen the guy, so I had to stop and think about it. He said his father had called the police and reported him missing. If the guy came home tell him to contact the cops. wtf?

The next day I see all three of them pull up, unloading suitcases, obviously from a weekend trip. Then I had to go over there and say, 'uh, hey you're dad sent the cops over here and they thought you might be dead. so you should call them and tell them you aren't.'

bizarro.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Saturday, 10 December 2005 02:43 (twenty years ago)

everyone have a nice weekend?

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Sam, could you take the job & keep looking for something else?

W/e was cool ta, you?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

i spent $2000 on christmas presents and i loved every second of it...except the lines.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Blimey! We went on Saturday & only half an hour in & everybody was annoying me.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

yep i went saturday night and lasted 20 minutes, i got up early yesterday and went at 9am. much better. well, as im getting ready to be an uncle i decided to go a little overboard and spoil this little guy.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Monday, 12 December 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Aww, what d'ya get?

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

oh christ, too much to count!

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I made the mistake of going to the Dickens Fair on Saturday. I had remembered it being fun in a kitschy Xmas way but instead all I got out of the experience was to know what the Renn Fair geeks do during the winter.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha.

I spent the weekend on the couch, in and out of sleep in a cold meds induced haze. Sadly, that means I didn't get anything done on my To Do list at all, especially any Christmas shopping. The upside was that I didn't care and had a chance to relax.

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

I went to the mall and considered buying stuff.
My contract starts today. I am about to become OVERWORKED. In a good way, though. Hopefully.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Dear Fuckface Coworkers,

Don't put yr Christmas cards in the office outgoing mail. I am not your butler.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Happy monday morning.

xxxxxpost, pink, if I get a job offer from the university (which is where I want to be) I'm going to take it. If something better comes along later I'll worry about that then.

I am now a year closer to death but strangely feel the same as I did on Saturday. G. gave me a course of knitting lessons for my present. But I'm scared that I'll get in there and all the other knitters will make fun of me and tell me I'm doing it all wrong. :(

Also my license's expired and I have warrants here. Which means I can't renew it till I pay the piper. bah humbug!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

Was it yr Birthday, Sam?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY if it was! If it wasn't, HB retracted.
Good luck with the Uni job, regardless.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

It was yesterday. 32. Highly uneventful although I did get a mimosa with breakfast.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Don't think of it as one year closer to death, think of it as one year further removed from shitting yourself and not caring.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

32 is really young, Sam! And knitting classes would be fun! I'd love to get that and I know nothing about knitting. I mean, isn't that the point? To learn with other people who want to learn?

― Sarah Kittensmew McLusky (coco), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Happy Birthday, Sam!

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

danke.

I've taught myself from books to this point so this is an intermediate-level class, which is why I'm scared.

Go to my MySpace page and look at the card my brother made for me:

http://www.myspace.com/missmisery73

so cute!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Sam, I'm a slack bitch this year and I didn't send cards - happy belated birthday!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Luna, I've been a slack bitch for the past ten years! ;)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

I am listening to Breathe "Hands to Heaven"...when i was a young boy i used to fantasize about making the sex with ladies to this song.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't know the song, and am kind of glad. ;)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

i bet you would know it if you heard it sam.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

happy birthday sam!

and good luck with new/possible jobs to huck and archel and sam.

i've just been plunged into a bad mood over SHOES. i'm so silly. i found a pair. the perfect pair. cute and comfortabl. a lot of research went into this. ordered them online from nordstrom last week, get an email yesterday saying 'we're sold out, tough luck'. i searched online, everywhere is sold out. except a place in my hometown! so i order them online and call this afternoon to ask them to hold them for me rather than ship them. no problem. then get home to an email saying they don't actually have them, they have been discontinued so can't get more, do i want them in two tone with burgandy bits?

i guess this is a sign that i should let these shoes go. but it's so maddening! how hard is it for shops to only sell stuff that they have?

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

As I watch you move, across the moonlit room
There's so much tenderness in your loving
Tomorrow I must leave, the dawn knows no reprieve
God give me strength when I am leaving...

So raise your hands to heaven and pray
That we'll be back together someday

Tonight, I need your sweet caress
Hold me in the darkness
Tonight, you calm my restlessness
You relieve my sadness

As we move to embrace, tears run down your face
I whisper words of love, so softly
I can't believe this pain, it's driving me insane
Without your touch, life will be lonely

So raise your hands to heaven and pray
That we'll be back together someday

Tonight, I need your sweet caress
Hold me in the darkness
Tonight, you calm my restlessness
You relieve my sadness

Morning has come, another day
I must pack my bags and say goodbye...

Oh hell. That's gonna be stuck in my head all afternoon.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Hope you had an ace birthday Sam!

Colette - I feel your pain!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

ARgh, I'm in so much pain today. For many weeks (months?) I've had nagging pain in the muscles between the base of my neck and my shoulder. I wrote it off to work (being on computer 9 hrs + a day) although past RSIs of mine have been in the elbow/wrist.

Well I haven't worked for three weeks now and am on the 'puter less than two hours a day but the pain just gets worse. It's always worse at night and I can't sleep on my right side (the hurting one). The past couple of days it's been unbearable and I hardly slept at all last night. I can't extend my right arm fully and can't turn my neck to the left without excruciating pain. wtf?

In the past G. would massage me and it helped but last night it did not. Neither did a heating pad or otc pain meds. I'm want to try ice except we don't have any ice. Maybe I'll use some frozen greenbeans.

Could it be possible that I suffered any injury months ago when my dog tore across the road while I was walking her? I was holding the leash with my right hand and it bruised the fingers so much I was afraid I had broken them. Could that have also done a whiplash type thing to my neck which has just slowly been building up?

Obviously if I had health insurance right now I'd be asking the doctor all this. But I don't. :( So I'll just whine to ILX. *sigh*

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

hmmm to me (obviously not a doctor) you may have pinched a nerve or tore a muscle.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

aleve didn't work?

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I've only tried asprin. For some reason I think that's what's safest to take with all my psych. meds? I might have to move up to the big leagues though. I'm also thinking icy hot.

need job now! need doctor!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I'd think it would be a trapped nerve or something Sam. I'd try to get it looked at asap, but I know you've got to wait for health insurance.

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

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― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Good work Bingo!

― Panther Pink (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

oops i failed to read the part where it says to talk to dr or pharmacist if you take other meds....so maybe talk to the pharmacist?

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

I think it may be just tylenol that's bad; b/c it can be hard on the kidneys/liver. Lithium's very hard on those so you don't want to add to it.

I'm going to have G. bring some aleve and an ice pack home. Could always go to the emergency room but man do I hate ghetto healthcare. It takes forever and it's usually subpar. :(

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I'll use some frozen greenbeans.

Use frozen peas. They're small so they mold to organic shapes well.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

too bad i can't give you any of my meds from my accident...they put you on queer street in 45 minutes.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to vomit on the crowd at the Living Things show last night. I was embarrassed to be there. No one moved a muscle. I actually apologized to the drummer on behalf of the turd fergussons. How can you NOT freak out with that band, especially when the singer is a giant, skinny doll wearing turquoise pants? Fuck NYC cool kids. They make my dick itch.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

jeanne i think if you lived near me we'd be pals.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

i read a review about their show in beantown today, the writer blamed the band.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

I was out carousing with my boss until midnight, last night, and I was here this morning at 6:40 am. I feel ever so slightly peaked.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

xpost That writer is a jackass. And yes, we'd *totally* be BFF. :)

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't know The Living Things but people who pay money or even just bother to show up at a gig and stand around all 'I am above all this' can spread my delectable toe jam on moldy toast. There's little enough joy in the world as is.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

HAHA.

I am listening to Ministry - Thieves right now and I want to ram my head through my monitor. I bet if i did they would let me go home early.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

i just went outside to smoke a cigarette and noticed a foul smell on my way past security. so i come back in and the fuckstick security guard has his fucking shoes off and has his giant flipper feet resting on the heat. NO ONE WANTS TO SMELL YOUR WET FOUL FOOT ODOR!

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna go have a smoke.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Chris, people like that make excellent fertilizer.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

OMG LAST DAY AT JOB

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

not to mention that this guy weighs approximately 400lbs. i often wonder about the security at this place...most of the security guards are either 70 years old or massive. one of the older guards wears slippers...corduroy slippers. if something was ever to happen at this place i can't see any of these guys actually having the ability to act on it. what are they going to do? throw a slipper at someone or knock them out with foot odor?

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

"Stop or I'll take off my socks!"

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

what gives, N/A?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Got new job, gave two weeks notice, two weeks are up, new job starts tomorrow, tripping balls

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Congrats.
I started my new job this week too. But I get to keep my old one. It's like, um, bad.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Well my new job is part-time for the first two months, starts at 6:30 AM and is out in the 'burbs, so it's not perfect. But I think it will be good, esp. once they switch me to full-time and I'm back to making the money I should be.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Nothing newsworthy to report.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

Congrats n/a. I wish you all could send some of your new-job-getting luck my way.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

ME TOO FUCKERS!

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

me too. I haven't heard from the job I had a second interview for. I don't think I did too good on the second one. :(

Hi Luna!

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

should we start a new thread? i know these aren't as crazy as they used to be but fuck it why not?

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

New thread. im keeping it alive one way or the other.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

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