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get in here, deathdrone goons

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Is this the right borad

http://i.imgur.com/joWXD.png

lol

i really did feel a little pang of sadness when i looked over the board list and there was no 77

crutislessness

Time to buy some folding screens to put up around this thread. Something tasteful.

guys i wish there was a sekrit teachers board on sandbox, b/c i wd rather share this story privately and give some more details but but but anyway but,

i was telling a kind of thumbnail version of a family story in the faculty room for two or three coworkers. and this other teacher, sitting at the end of the table and intermittantly injecting comments into the conversation says –– the second that i finish –– "WELL, MR. C-----, THAT SURE IS FAR-FETCHED" and everybody laughed at me, and she shook her head all "shame, shame" at me and left. now i have a reputation as, like, a lunch liar. :(

remy i have been in your company when you have told some pretty wild stories but it never has crossed my mind to, like, not believe you!

i guess i am trusting or something.

i bet that lady never even said that.

that's where you pull a Kramer and just bust out "I slept with your mom" or whatever

;_; 77

i bet kramer never even said that.

hey can we all just hang out on this thread and post too much and stuff? having a sort of bummed out night and would like to post too much

sorry you are having a bummed-out night, Z_S!

I don't have much else to do myself.

oh, it's not such a big deal. just a bit lonely. cracking open a beer on this kind of night is so comforting but also sort of depressing.

but so tasty!

*drinks a Three Philosophers*

xpost

i'm making an effort to "discover music" on spotify, and it's making me feel like an old man. in the old days i would just sit around and people would wander over and play awesome stuff and i would find out about all sorts of things. these days i occasionally have a moment of clarity where i'm like "jeez i've listened to this album about 26 times over the last few weeks, i guess i should go 'discover music' on spotify"

in other news, after biting my nails since i was born (i think - i can't remember not biting them. there's probably a baby picture of me doing gross things to my nails), i finally quit last month in the wake of a terrible breakup. i was like FUCK IT, THIS IS A NEW AGE.

just caught myself biting them again yesterday. and again a few minutes ago.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

one time in high school i even purchased some nasty smelling stuff that you were supposed to rub on your nails. it was so nasty that only the grossest kid in the tri-county area would think of biting nails with that kind of smell. i kept biting them and got used to it

let's just listen to Spacer Woman and chill the fuck out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgBzF9_CQhY

oh man nail biting.

i am the absolute worst nail biter.

i would challenge you on that, in the grossest challenge ever

I don't really think of myself as a nail biter, but I never have to clip my nails because I keep them short through…biting I guess? And peeling? It's a little gross come to think of it.

friends of mine attest to regularly painting their nails as how they stopped nail-biting fwiw.

drinking prosecco, thinking about watching Homeland. because of the max.

*googles prosecco*

how do i spend my life drinking and yet not know a drink

oh hai nail biting

uh, i guess wikipedia has updated their pictures

http://i40.tinypic.com/i36mht.png

irl lols; sorry, fierce looking lady

she seems like she should be married to David Carradine

otm

David Carradine's entry:

"He died on June 3, 2009 under unusual circumstances.[1]"

uh, well yeah i mean

i'm going to try to look up other people who died via auto-erotic asphyxiation and see how their death was explained on The Free Encyclopedia

as much as i fuck up and never live up to expectations, at least i'm reasonably sure i won't die of auto-erotic asphyxiation

i'll drink to that

loooooooool i know this joke is played out, but still

http://i41.tinypic.com/15n5bnc.png

Frantisek Kotzwara, musician:

"He is perhaps more famous for the notorious nature of his death.[2]" the notorious masturbatory nature i think you mean

Stephen David Wyatt Milligan, British MP:

"He was found dead in his flat in Chiswick, London in February 1994, strangled by an electrical cord during an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.[1]" - well there we go, that's frank, bravo

Vaughn Bodē, artist:

"Bodē's death was due to autoerotic asphyxiation, or perhaps the use of asphyxia as a meditation aid: his last words (to his son) were, "Mark, I've seen God four times, and I'm going to see him again soon. That's No. 1 to me, and you're No. 2."" - uh ok, that's the end of researching this topic. i am fucked up for lyfe now

as much as i internally criticize my dad for being emotionally detached, uninformed conservative, at least he never told me auto-erotic asphyxiation was No. 1

having a sort of bummed out night and would like to post too much

o hai

three philosophers? three forties morelike

well i'm up to six philosophers now if you know what i mean

there's nothing like easy to solve riddles

just stop before three philosophers cubed, ok

she seems like she should be married to David Carradine

― Z S, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:58 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

she seems like she would BE david carradine

z

as you were growing up until now, what were your favorite things

just stop before three philosophers cubed, ok

haha, 27 philosophers? or i guess 9 three philosophers? shit's expensive, i'll be stopping long before that!

besides willie mcgee i mean

DAMMIT

where da ws at

as you were growing up until now, what were your favorite things

let's see, i think my answers would probably be pretty boring, but hey:

til age 6 or so: ted e. bear - cleverly named teddy bear
6-10: illustrated children's bible - i used to be really religious and read the bible constantly, but the illustrated version was like my candy that i would afford myself on occasion
10-12 i was collecting a lot of baseball cards at this time. and reading all of the stats on the back, memorizing. i had them arranged by team, and whenever a player switched teams, i'd move them to their new team. shit got complicated really quick
13-16 i kind of blacked out on this period of my life. i'm pretty sure i was just playing videogames, not hitting puberty and not talking to my dad. objects...i was practicing percussion and drums constantly. like 2-4 hours per day. i didn't even think of them as my favorite things, it was something i had to do.
17-19: ernest the furnace. yeah, i named my pipe. this really was an awesome pipe, though, legendary in certain (really giggly) circles. after a particularly spirited evening i accidentally dropped it through the train tracks of a bridge about 100 feet above the ground, didn't bother chasing after it. rip ernest
20 - i had a bootleg german dvd of kraftwerk, can, neu, la dusseldorf and popul vuh performances/videos, and it fucking blew my mind. i watched it constantly and probably annoyed the hell out of everyone i knew
21 - ? let's face it, i drink a lot of alcohol

i can't avoid mentioning the NES game Marble Madness. this was a constant in my life up until a few years ago. i am the unofficial world record holder (beaten the world record, just haven't recorded it and submitted to Twin Galaxies). i have played it roughly 18 trillion times.

i bit my nails until i was 16 or 17 and then my grandma gave me a manicure kit and i replaced my nail biting obsession with a nail care obsession. which has waned a bit in the past decade at least. now i mostly don't bite my nails because ew germs.

i haven't been sleeping enough and was so grumpy this morning - and then the power went out 15 minutes after i woke up! it was out for blocks! but it did get me out of the house to have breakfast with a friend :)

also today i bought my new climbing harness and shoes and etc and am good to go! climbing on thurs night, doing push ups in preparation.

oh man, climbing! i started to get into it this past summer. i was living with a few roommates who went the the climbing gym (and occasionally out to boulder) really frequently, and i joined them several times. i had to move out (lol sadface breakup with gf) and haven't been back since. i should get back into it. i have negative 34 armstrength at this point, but i do have decent balance and instincts.

aw man

illustrated children's bible was pretty fucking sweet; still vaguely remember shit about jeraboam and jezebel and such (tree limbs! dogs!)

kinda curious about 13-16 but i'm guessing it was much like mine apart from god-fearing parents

21+ i hear you cluckin' big chicken (did the cards winning please you at all?)

i dunno man. you're *very* recently broken up and your parents are . . . apparently not helpful (do you have siblings?)

at the risk of being weird i kind of feel like you are a male abbott, i.e. potentially incredible.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Abbott_and_Costello.jpg/250px-Abbott_and_Costello.jpg
l-r Lou Costello, Z S

jeez, i'm on philosophers 7-9 now, sigh

the attention afforded to revelations is always a little annoying - it's definitely the most violent and sci-fi/fantasy book of the bible so i can understand - but the images in the illustrated bible were mesmerizing. sinners clutching their heads in agony, multi-headed beasts descending near video rental stores. crazy and addictive.

i have a sister. she was definitely my best friend growing up, and we're still similar in many ways. but she never left missouri and is generally way more traditional than i am these days. i'll love her to pieces until i die but i can no longer share everything with her like i once could.

being compared to abbott is pretty much the nicest thing someone could say.

i was out earlier tonight, chatting with an old friend and whatnot, and she reminded me that in high school i was known for drinking too much, puking in my hand, and politely walking it over to the toilet without spilling a drop.

?

Z S you da best

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvg0c16HqN1qzrlhgo1_500.png

aaaaaaaahahahahahahahahah

god, delete world

in the old days i would just sit around and people would wander over and play awesome stuff and i would find out about all sorts of things.

This is what I've really enjoyed about that Outloud.fm room. I never just sit around and play music with/for people anymore.

I'm sorry now that I haven't been following this thread until now, which is my bedtime. Z S maintaining position as The Best, though though that image is a strong challenger for that title.

let's just stay up all night!

this'll be a great calling in sick email: "hey, i was on the internet all night, you know how it goes, my throat is scratchy, don't want to spread it around"

god bad brains is awesome, just now catching up to this

Music is the biggest thing I miss about having a car. My music consumption went way down when I got rid of my last car 2004). Headphones on the bus or train are no good bc I miss ambient noise, plus I'm not mentally I'll enough to enjoy singing along on public transit as I would in a car.

as much as i criticize cars (and am thinking about applying for an Undriver license), there are some really nice things about it. after I broke up recently, i flew back to St. Louis and rented a car to drive around to see people, and it wasn't until about 10 minutes into the rental car journey that i realized i could scream my head off, for the first time in years. i said many bad words. it was amazing. and then i listened to music at top volume. i still dislike cars, but i do miss that outlet.

Yeh. I understand the many many problems with cars, but I never feel more at home than when I'm driving. This makes me very popular as an Ikea chauffeur. Doing that this Saturday. Also love flying - specifically taking off and landing - and airports.

No challops

yeah this is one of the things i miss about driving. one time 15 years ago (!) i was driving from mpls to pittsburgh and was *psyched* to listen to the new afghan whigs record (black love) and all its antecedents until i fully understood n/a

a great calling in sick email: "hey, i was on the internet all night, you know how it goes, my throat is scratchy, don't want to spread it around"

yeah we'll see how this goes

someday, that'll be a great calling in sick email. the world isn't ready for it right now

eh, they don't really want to pay me anyway so it'll be fine i'm sure

ZS, you should sort it out and record your Marble Madness score for Twin Galaxies. Holding a world record would be sooooooo sweet, even if it's not necessarily something you'd want to put on your CV or whatever. I keep meaning to send in a score for Civ II on the PS, but I'm scared by the whole "need to keep awake for 20 hours while I playthru" thing.

wow can't believe I am now a member of 77!

yep, and the best part of it is that it's google protected. so go ahead and tell us all about your sex life ken!

couldn't sleep last night

kinda feel like this guy tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w89bFK3PvBA

hahahahaha

also, for some strange reason, i have a menacing headache this morning.

http://www.merchline.com/storeimages/iso50-77-5050blue.jpg

First I was like:

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/omg.png

But then I was like:

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/c7cb01ed.gif

hahahahaha

lol :)

hi, is this where I apply for wafflolz invites?

ZS I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE SO GOOD AT MARBLE MADNESS OH MY SHIT

I think you have said that before and every time I have thought THIS MAN IS AN AVATAR OF DAVID WISE'S MUSIC *C****O****n****S***C***I***O***U***S***N***E***S***SSSS whoaaaa!!!

in unrelated news I am get a divorce

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/surprise.gif

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nf1JDLqN22I/TWWqRaMe4XI/AAAAAAAAAZU/7Y5ITkbxpXA/s1600/BabyWhaaa.jpg

that baby is awful

it looked cuter as a thumbnail

I don't think you're awful for posting it tho

thx abbott. are you okay?

yeah I'm feeling good!

in which case, i don't have an excuse to post this http://whoisshmira.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/angry_baby_head.jpg

man I guess I just don't like babies

Um, Abbs, was that a joke? :(

sorry to bum everyone out
it is real

aw, both of you - you have my support.

Aw no Abbott. I'm sorry, dude. <3 to you.

^^^

Abbbbbottttt, you know we all wish you (and the Viceroy) the best. Sad it is coming to such a pass, though.

Yeah, I'm not even sure what to say except for that I hope you're both feeling better after this tough decision than worse. <3

<3 indeed

<3 from me too, i wish you both all the best. onward!

abbott i'm so sorry. you had said something recently that made me think of the possibility, but i'm sad to hear it confirmed.

i mean, in the end of course it's for the better. but it must be really difficult right now.

Abs - you already know this but <3 and I'm here if you need to talk, obv.

much <3 to you abbs, hope the transition into this new part of your life goes as smooth as it possibly can.

sorry to hear that, Abbs <3, hugs, no baby pics

it is happening again

http://i44.tinypic.com/dbh2tu.gif

this has pretty much been the most alcoholic 2 months of my life

just saw abbott's post. very sorry to hear that news.

and hope all is well, zs. hope the "alcoholic" line is a jokey overstatement.

tbh this thread has made me want a three philosopher's and I've never even had one

sorry for DEvIL'S TEAR in the philosophers

three philosophers seems to be pretty great in the evening, but between the hours of 7am-6pm, the day after drinking it, i've found that i really hate it

I want you and Viceroy both to be happy, Abbs, and I'm sorry you can't be your happiest together because of how much I like you as a couple in my head, but I support your choices and hope you do well and feel well. Big ups.

abbott, i created a login just so i could say good luck and go get em. You'll both be awesome.

Oh, dear. We'll be here if you ever want to talk, Abbott.

btw:

ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧ ✆ to forksclovetofu show details 11:32 PM (11 minutes ago)
Thankyou for registering. Your password is: assienum

no that is a gift from god

the atomic weight of assienum is 69 iirc

check your email abbie

My temp password was athighth. Well, I chuckled.

xpost sixty niiiiiiiiine

(i never understood wtf everyone was laughing about in middle school so now i laugh about it to myself as a pathetic adult)

sixty niiiiiiine yah

Ith athighth fit for thure.

sorry to hear this news, too, Abbott. i don't know what to say except that you are great and i hope you're both doing okay.

hey abbott, hope all goes as well as possible for you both.

god, three philosophers has been on my mind since last night's episode.

*logs in as forks*

it is happening again

http://i44.tinypic.com/dbh2tu.gif

this has pretty much been the most alcoholic 2 months of my life

― Z S, Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:30 PM (Yesterday)

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg214/scaled.php?server=214&filename=webcam201112010200.png&res=medium

*logs in as forks*

haha i thought the same thing

guys I had the best night!!!!!

well, I didn't make out with anybody or get laid. but otherwise!!!!

Congrats!!!

only just read this thread

:( Abbott hope the road ahead is as straight as you want it, for both of you

hey abbott i hope things go okay, webmail if you have any use for a surfeit of break up metaphors, x

abbott, be well. i really want to talk teaching w. u, but i want real ilx to come back so we can do it in sekrit, b/c of employers and all.

so sorry to hear this abbott, please be well <3

guys I had the best night!!!!!
yay!

but i want real ilx to come back so we can do it in sekrit, b/c of employers and all.
yes. <--- stern, because that's how i am these days

We could start a 77 board here. I know the Sandbox has private board capability.

I did not actually read the thread when I barged in last night to say how great my night was. I feel like a bit of an ass! Abbott & Viceroy are two of my favorite ppl and I hope this decision is a step towards greater happiness in both their lives.

It's ok. Everyone deserves good nights!

Hey, Abbott, you're great and I wish you the best.

O shit Abbott. Hope you're OK.
When's the real ILX coming back bc I need to talk about some mad stuff that might happen in my family.

good tidings to abbs & viceroy

ditto. channeling good strong vibes in the direction of you both.

I'm turning into a real star at these sponge baths, I have a whole technique where I wash whatever I can fit under the water, and then move and wash again, lather rinse repeat. It's just not something I ever wanted to practice this much.

You people with two bathrooms, I haet you right now just fyi.

Abbott :-(

i ated too much popcorn

totally shitty mood despite pleasant hours with an ilx user

was supposed to have a 'date' tomorrow; canceled it

missing kitty

basically only want to sleep and drink with intermittent periods of self-loathing

fuckin smiths on random

<3. Smiths on random is the only way to go. Or for me it works to go to bed with a book (fiction) and intersperse crying and reading.

wait until Rubber Ring comes on
a song can be your best friend

don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life

maybe one song has been getting me through the past five months, I can't say

divorce sucks. sorry to all fellow ilxors dealing with it.

i can't count how many times i listened to "it ain't me babe" on repeat (both dylan & nancy sinatra versions)

:-/ sorry mookie. do you know what triggered the bad mood?

YES Abbott - that is THE song.

10,000 songs on shuffle and 'i know it's over' came up

pretenders now tho

it's true though -- i *am* sleeping; i do not want to believe

Once I went to a Smiths opera, a dead serious one. Watching them do Rubber Ring was jawdropping.

oh abbott, oh mookie, i wish i could give you hugs right now! tho i know that wld not solve much but it wld be nice probably

and they wld be good hugs too because my arms are getting super strong from The Climbing! also, i think i have enough endorphins for all these days... i went climbing again tonight and did routes that were tough for me, a relative beginner (5.7s/5.8s/attempted 5.9), including slight overhangs, which previously had freaked me out, but today it was like, okay, rest, breathe, DO IT. yaay :) climbing is a metaphor for lyfe for me right now. (i promise not to constantly talk about it when in NYC next week tho, haha)
so. tired!

When I get in a bad or depressed mood, there is absolutely nothing in the world that can change it. Booze and drugs keeps me in the same mood that I was in beforehand, and so does music, comedy, talking to people about my problems, etc. All I can do is wait in agony for the pain to go away.

My sympathies to Mookie and all of you that are having problems.

tempted toward whiskey in my morning coffee, won't make me any less productive

job interview in 2 hours! it's the first round of a two round process, a skype interview, and i'm in my room at home. i'm never hear during the day, so i didn't realize how loud the construction is across the street! and it's just as loud throughout the house, no matter where i go. to counter this, i've positioned my mattress across the doorway to block out the noise. it's working, but when combined with my new room layout (i had to move the desk around so that there's a blank wall behind me for the webcam instead of the various ridiculous things i have hanging up) i feel like i'm in a david lynch movie.

i'm never hear!

aw gawd, i'm screwed

moment at which you accidentally jog the computer, repositioning it to reveal that you have blocked sunlight from your apartment with a mattress. "oh that? sure yeah i just LIKE TO KEEP THE NOISE OUT"

you'll be fine!, the idea of a skype interview blows my mind but i can think of notable advantages, eg you do not have to wear trousers

haha, this is my first one (and hopefully last - i'd prefer in person, and if i make it through this first round the final interview will be in person in either Chicago or Brooklyn), so yeah it's gonna be a little weird! i am, however going to wear nice pants and shoes and the rest, just to get myself into the full work mindset as much as i can.

abbbott <3

There's no 'fuck cancer' thread on sandbox but ms mac's dad just got an all-clear after two years and i wanted to say

I've been overwhelmingly sad and anxious lately and it's been tough. I'm concentrating on the little things like today being Friday and the fact that I'm getting a massage tomorrow morning. I did something to my back/neck a week ago - over a week ago - and have been in agony ever since so tomorrow morning can't come soon enough imo.

Good luck ZS. Chicago sends you like positive vibes and stuff.

given that my better half is now at the end of an intense 9 months process of chemo/stomach removal surgery/chemo i too would like to shout out "fuck cancer" ..

v. glad to hear of the all clear SB, that's a day i look forward to

xpost

holy shit mark e, i had no idea. hope you've turned a corner now and that things are now going well <3

Good luck ZS btw!

xp Also, you may have to get up for some reason during the interview, or they may make up some reason for you to get up so that they will know that you are "detail-oriented" and all that rot.

whatever kind of construction is going on over there, it apparently involves a big vehicle that is always moving backward

BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP,
BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP,
BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP,
BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP,
BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP,
BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP, BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP, BEEEEEP,
BEEEEEEP, BEEEEP....

i can't see it from my window, but it's possible that the 4th annual Big Machine Backwards Race is being held today in my neighborhood. just my luck

$5 on the backwards gravelator

great, now i have 'love in a gravelator' stuck in my head

The Caterpillar engineer who invented that sound died about a year ago. (No, I don't know why I know that, either.)

i am having evil thoughts about the sounds of his funeral, and also the way he died

That guy and the guy who put strobe lights on the tops of school buses are both on my list.

perhaps his eulogy was delivered in morse code:

BEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP, BEEP!
BEEP, BEEP! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
BEEEEEEEEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEEP, BEEP!
BEEEEEEEEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEEP!

BEEEEEEEEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEEP, BEEEEEEEEEP!
BEEEEEEEEEP, BEEEEEEEEEEP, BEEEEEEEEEEP!
BEEP, BEEP, BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!

it made that noise as they lowered his coffin

his gravestone says RIPEEP PEEP PEEP

Bestest wish, Abbott - take care.

There's no 'fuck cancer' thread on sandbox but ms mac's dad just got an all-clear after two years and i wanted to say

― Sad Banter (p much resigned to deems),

Thought about starting that thread yesterday -- my dad's not doing too well right now.

fuck cancer tho

otm. Also fuck sepsis and staph infections that get in through chemo ports.

i really dont want to wiki what that means now do i, sounds grim William :(

ignorance is bliss and all that ..

fuck all, of it, yeah

thoughts to both of you

just finished interview

jesus fucking christ

interviews are INTENSE, man

good lord

word

i always feel like there's this mutual awareness of the performative, pantomime element that is going on, something that could at any moment be ruptured by you breaking the fourth wall & saying CMON YOU KNOW I JUST WANT THIS, I ACTUALLY REALLY JUST WANT THIS JOB + COULD DO IT TOTALLY

you try to imbue your answers with that subtext like it's pictionary or something but it's incredibly frustrating to have to tip-toe around the kind of useful/sentimental/enthusiastic declarations that might actually offer some insight into yr reasoning

Oh your interview. Right.

I thought you were dissing someone here for a second!

co-sign with everything schlump said.

i think it went well! i did about as well as i can imagine doing, although a few of my answers were a little too long. but even if i don't make it to the final round, i'm not going to be kicking myself for not preparing well enough.

it's a lot like girl probs imo

Posting from Amtrak wifi

Were you wearing pants during the interview?

i was. and shoes!

no shirt tho, gotta keep it fresh

shoes, for that professional feeling

I meant "pants" in the British sense.

I'll just say it plainly. ZS, were you wearing panties?

i would do anything for this job, anything!

*hangs head in shame*

yes

lol

I can barely make rent, but I really want to buy tickets to the live John Waters Christmas show next weekend. Is this a dumb use of money, or will I be forever happy for seeing JW live.

feel like playing with those effects some webcam software offers would have been a winning skype-interview strategy, like they ask you about whether you're technologically literate & suddenly your head is on the body of a fish in a fishbowl

this is not the job pro-tips page, and i don't feel like creating a new one just for sandbox, so ww77d:

- i would like to send a thank you note to the interviewer. in fact, important interview guides printed out and laying out nearby reported say "Sending a thank you note is not an option; it is a necessity"
- "email is the standard form for sending a thank you note; always email your thank you note within 24 hours of the interview."
- cool. i can do this. *winky fingerpoint*
- BUT
- my interviewer never directly wrote to me, so she never gave me her email address. instead, a generic email address set up for this round of interviews has been used to correspond with me and the rest of the candidates
- BUT
- of course, it's the internet, and i found the interviewer's normal email address in about 7 seconds FLAT. 7 seconds FLAT, people
-BUTT

- i'm probably overthinking this, but should i write to the personal email address and risk looking like a creepy internet researcher?

i would probably use the generic address but put an FAO in the subject line

hmm, that sounds like a good idea, thanks!

try to find a home number z s

the only way you should be playing w/any FAO bullshit is if you're spraying something on the side of her house, which i guess now i mention it is maybe an option?, show you're keen &c

i better check out my skywriting options

handwritten note on a brown paper bag w/ poop inside, in flames, is the only acceptable way

Jumping in late to give support to abbs and mooks. One day we will all get together for ILX divorcee FAP and be all "been there, done that, sucks for a while, gets lots better, now lovin' lyfe rrobyn-style."

poopstepped my way into a lot of good jobs iirc

business is done on the golf course, & you only get to the golf course if you do business on someone's front step

lovin' lyfe rrobyn-style

^^^how to live imo

my feeling EXACTLY

-three days of being broke with an overdrawn account and no dog food, bread, milk....

-was finally able to borrow some money from my sister-in-law and told her to put it into our account for us as cash

-she put it in as a check, so we can't touch it until tomorrow

-fuck. We have bills to pay.

-some money came in from my crowdsourcing efforts, so I could get some dog food, people food, gas, and rum

-am drinking said rum with coke

-also, we spent the day getting my brother-in-law's stuff cleaned up and out of the house so that he could pick it up and take it to his new place in St. Petersburg

-he used a friend of his, the guy I've mentioned before who beat up his ex and her boyfriend with a bat, to carry and load all of the heavy stuff even though he had just gotten out of back surgery a few months ago. The friend later went straight from here to his doctor to have the damage that was just done taken care of.

this song came up on random and i'm basically sitting here crying

what the hell is wrong with me

no shame in weakerthans tears! <3

Oh mookiep- I'm sorry you're feeling low.

We care about you, Mookie.

That song gets me, too. xoxo

-in bed getting warm under the covers, snuggling up with doggies*, half or three-quarters or whatever drunk, smoking an e-cig, reading SandILX.

*The bed in this room is a single, so my husband has been sleeping on a pile of blankets and sheets and dog beds on the floor in the TV room. My brother-in-law gave us his old mattress, so we should be sleeping together again tomorrow night. Yay!

You may remember I posted about a nu metal looking dude in my apartment complex who was yelling "I WANT TO PUT MY DICK IN YOU" over a Smiths song. Today I took my dog out at 6:48 a.m. and he was in a different apartment, door open, no inflatable penguin this time, yelling "I WANT TO PUT MY DICK IN YOU, IT'S THE SAFETY DANCE" over "Safety Dance," which was playing pretty loudly. A woman was saying "fuck you" in a lot of different colorful ways, like "fuck you with a fork" and "fuck you with a rusty pipe." What the fuck??

not uplifting

i ended up telling that story to someone bc i thought it was so funny, & it ended up additionally complicated by the added layers of it being my remembrance of the story, of it being from ilx/the internet, of me having to aloud rather than in text pronounce the guy's alternate lyrics, etc.

the apartment roulette is such an interesting extra dimension. i feel like there is more room in this example of it for it being those guys' crazy inside joke, but wasn't he alone last time? harrowingly alone?

alone except for the inflatable penguin
there was a crying child in the apartment this time, too

Hahha... is it ok to yell "I wanna put my dick in you" around a baby?

ask a finn board

there was a crying child in the apartment this time, too

it shouldn't be funny, but that is hilarious

after being sick for 3 days and not being sick for 2 days I am again sick

except that being 'sick' just means 'really fatigued despite sleeping 9 hours, also some sniffles'

either go hard to go home, cold virus! smh

- the auld fella's home from the states for three weeks.

- i give it two days, but for now it's v pleasant

jeez do i ever need a secret board atm

- i think i am going to go to staples later today
- you think it's easy, but you're wrong

that's a great trip. sunday at staples. just bought some pads there. their 'impulse purchase corridor' section along the queue for the counter is a strange assemblage though

combos candy sharpies as seen on tv foot scrubber flamin hot cheetos postits

p much. + some far out trail mixes.

yvot, what did you go to Staples for? I love office supply stores.

combos candy sharpies as seen on tv foot scrubber flamin hot cheetos postits

I was trying to watch read that while watching TV and it wasn't making sense b/c I kept wondering if there were actually such things as Cheetos-branded Post-Its candy Sharpies.

at staples anything can happen

As part of some changes at my office, I was going to be relieved of the task of ordering office supplies, but I held onto it b/c it's a fun and easy chore. Plus I have authority to order pretty much anything I want , so we're always getting fun stuff. Pre-hole-punched paper is the best thing ever invented.

this guy has been yelling at his wife through the window of her car for like half an hour now. they are double parked outside my window.

"i have not prostated myself enough for you, Janel?!"

sometimes when i hear people arguing i want to join in, it stems from growing up in a large catholic family where any small disagreement could erupt into an exhilirating free for all.

*exhilarating

haha - your family sounds fun!

I feel like yelling out the window, "Dump his ass, Janel!"

either Janel must be very patient and forgiving, or she must feel horribly guilty and is perhaps a more aggravating person than her vituperative spouse

sometimes when i hear people arguing i want to join in, it stems from growing up in a large catholic family where any small disagreement could erupt into an exhilirating free for all.

― estela

i recognise the situation but not the sentiment

i'm far more with you than not, i completely refuse to join in on the family ones these days, but overheard trouble is still alluring to me.

other people's arguments are great fun, i can always think of snappy comebacks for them but am never sure would that type of coaching be appreciated or not

i think you are sure really.

-grabbed the handle of a pan that had just been in the oven 5 minutes ago

-fuuuuuuuuuck

Ahhhh that is the worst! Actually, the worst is taking a hit pan out of the oven, not telling Jeff, and then he grabs the handle. Guilt!!!

Anyway, protip: drape a hot pad over the handle as a note to self/others that it's hot. Also I hope you are okay!

yeah it was for less than a second, no blisters and only mild lingering pain atm - thanks for the concern tho!

Okay, good.

One time I picked up a hot pan off the dinner table and then yelled at my mom for not telling me it just came out of the oven. The next night everything on the table – serving bowls, pots and pans, glasses, plates – had a post-it note with her handwriting on it indicating its temperature:
HOT
COLD
LUKEWARM
ROOM TEMPERATURE

hahaha

need a "Mom Zings" thread

My mom is the zing master.

lol

my dad has announced that he's thinking of changing his marital status next year, just all casual like

Haha.

Tonight I was making a grilled sandwich in a cast iron skillet and I stepped away from it to get the Blu Ray player warmed up(Netflix streamin takes forever to load) and got sucked into fixing a problem with the ethernet cable.

Later I was reading some article online when the smoke alarm starting bleeting. When I looked up, the kitchen and living room were thick with smoke and my sandwich was charcoal. And it was hard to find the fucking smoke detector. It is tucked behind a light fixture outside the bathroom.

"haha" is an xp re the zings, obviously!

- had to choose between The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Frankenhooker on TV
- wd probly have been better off with Frankenhooker all things considered

frankenhooker looked awesome but i was votoed h8 these fuckers so much

bet jjjusten has seen it

i've seen it! but not for a long time. it's great, like all of Frank Henenlotter's movies

well i mean how could it not be, i read the synopsis

begins with a fatal lawnmower accident iirc

I meant to say that the reason I smell the burning sandwich that filled the room I was in with smoke for like 5 minutes was that I have no sense of smell.

Wanted to clear up that hole. Thx.

eh, no, i think you have that mixed up with 'amadeus'? xp

matt stafford looks 16 and stoned

i love him!

lol sorry wrong thread

we love matt stafford on this thread too

:D

img search says he looks like andy samberg is that the guy?

he does kind of! i also love andy samberg tbh; not trying to hear ilx comedy nerds who hate him.

lol Jesse, I was going to say - that's pretty good evidence that your sense of smell, which I know you had recently said you might be getting back, is still gone.

- Just got last of my xmas shoppin' packages from Thinkgeek
- they have accidentally sent me two copies of Nintento Monopoly. Hahaha! I havent been charged wrongly, theyve stuffed up in my favour :D
- TF am I gonna do with a spare Mario Monopoly borad.

give it to a good kids' charity for their xmas toy drive, obv

oh god, of course, I am embarrased that didn't occur to me.

thread's been deindexed fwiw

I'm seriously dismayed at the orange-ness of the "red" paint I just put on one window-frame. Trying to decide whether to do 2nd coat and see if the color firms up, or just go back and buy a quart of another color. Damn.

HEY I JUST RE-HUNG MY SHOWER CURTAINS AND AM ABOUT TO USE THEM!!!!! First shower in over a week. Maybe 10 days??

I, er...

ah...should I confess this, or not? Well, here goes....

I've been taking a shower only once every 3-4 days for the last few months. And I sleep in my clothes. I need a job or a reason to meet with people regularly, quick, before I turn into Pigpen.

thread's been deindexed fwiw

yaaaay, i've smelled like ziggy marley all day, it was excellent, have smiled a bunch, was definitely the dude having the most fun at the war on drugs show

all by myself, mind you

haven't done that in a long time, and it was actually fun!

now having another beer at home why because 2011 fucking blows, let's get it over with already

Speaking of which, I found the bag of greenery that I lost a while back. Might have some tomorrow or the next day. Now if I could find my missing cell phone, everything would be much, much better.

- droppin my girl to train station on her way to job interview, she'll be home in 12 hrs

- the economy, eh

on the bike ride home i saw a beautiful cat, dead on the side of the road. looked like it just happened.

saddest fucking thing

today, the 6th of december, is the day i took out my air conditioner

every time i see that kind of thing i just feel so terrible. cats especially but birds, deer, raccoons. a squirrel was dead on the bike path i run on. it was totally intact. i always think its family is going to be wondering about it and they'll be sad and their brains can't comprehend what happened its just unexplained suffering. i also hit a bird with my car and saw in my mirror it was fluttering its wings weakly as it hit the road life is so sad
xpost

lol yeah i always take mine out in like november after not having used it for 2 months (i used it once this summer even though it was so hot, i'm cheap)

i took mine out the day before the halloween snowstorm

it was 60º here, even this morinng, and i'm half-expecting a sirocco to come a'blusterin down the pipe when come the yule

remy if I ever visit you you're gonna have to keep that air con on full blast 24/7

cause, you know, I'm hot

*makes hand guns*

it is v. foggy here and the ships in the harbor are making mating sounds

in your apartment/

The weather here was kind of nice (for December in Chicago) but you could feel the threat of the brutal cold to come in the air. I kind of love it.

kind of kind of kind of

I will just park any hot-ass people in the corner and roast marshmallows in their radiant glory because it is perpetually cold in my too-po'-for-heat apt

fuckin pbs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Woman

There was a cat the other day spawled on a foothpath near my place that was... dreadfully still, and my bf said "oh yeah that cat was there when I came up here on the way to yr house" which was even more WTF, I was like "ARE YOU SURE ITS NOT DEAD FFS", it was just kind of lying there, middle of the pavement. He said it was just sleeping and he'd patted it earlier. It looked pretty immobile to me, and it was STILL there when we came back past a couple hours later. It is going to bug me forever not knowing if it was ok or not.

(it did just look asleep, but still.. ugh)

if it offers you any consolation that does sound like a 'signature cat move', the 12 hour sprawl

Yeah it *did* look like it'd shifted position the last time we walked past.

I pretty much pray every day that I don't see a dead cat on the road :( :(

also, trayce has a bf now??
I go away for one wkend and...

also, I am in NYC
and ate dumplings! tonight

oh man

when there's nothing sadder than lower-case dumplings!

jesus. i can't write. strike the "when."

- put up our xmas tree
- went to a sweet wreath making party had some drinks made a p lame wreath but its still nice enough to hang on our front door
- made fun plans for dinner tomorrow
- hung out had drinks met some cool ppl feel better abt life/everything
- just wish it would stop raining

I can't believe sandbox doesn't all caps exclamation mark dumplings
I still have hope for the future tho

I gave a hug to a tall man in a sports jersey and I accidentally drooled on his arm.

In other news I wish secrette 77 tchr thread existed too bcz today was a whopper. The part I can say is I was trying to get rid of a urine-soaked notebook and during this quest I ran into the vice prncpl. I was in panic mode so instead of being discrete I asked, "Where can I throw away this notebook? It has urine on it." His reaction made me feel awful.
I have tried to console myself by saying
if another school asks about me (during hiring)
and this story is retold
and that school chooses not to hire me
then I don't want to work for that school
I want to work for a school where they view getting rid of a urine-soaked notebook as a problem that needs to be solved
not where trying to throw one away is met with 'ewww you are grossing me out'
you have to handle them to get rid of them
I want to work for someone who thinks that is true
I did not soil the notebook
I am probably overreacting to this
so many things happened today but that notebook was really #1 weirdest

i am watching incident at oglala

smdh @ u usa

abbott that story is nuts

p much

ugh vice-principals

i think your way of thinking about this incident is correct and also eff that dude imo.

Good parts:
- I was nice to the kid who had the notebook and solved the problem quickly
- None of the other students knew what had happened or complained about the smell
I am just so neurotic about dealing with stinky objects –– I also understand urine is unhealthy and odious on a non-smell level, but the VP was really giving me a hard time about willingly handling something so stinky. I could keep saying a lot of things about how & why but it's been this bad feeling I can't shake all day.

xp thx horseshoe

- I was nice to the kid who had the notebook and solved the problem quickly
- None of the other students knew what had happened or complained about the smell

^^^this is the whole game afaic. also i hope this doesn't weird you out but i was idly thinking today what a great teacher you must be.

hi heaventyheaven

abbott i find it hard to believe a urine soaked notebook isnt a common occurrence in a school. maybe VP had other troubles on her mind and just didnt want to deal with it. what was her reaction btw?

also i had some unpleasant run-ins with the principal at my first student teaching placement last year and they felt awful in the thick of teaching, when i could hardly catch a breath to get some perspective but now that that intensity is over i can see that she was just miserable. it makes me mad that she had that job, but it didn't affect me in the longterm.

Abbott it sounds like you handled that perfectly fine. I mean, what else were you supposed to do? That guy sounds dumb.

abbott is prob the best teacher imo

I'm imagining you standing there stuck holding this urine soaked item while the vp hassles you endlessly about "Why are you holding a urine soaked item?" The answer being, "Because you won't shut up and let me go dispose of it!"

That was exactly it!! "Is it dog urine? cat urine? Human urine? How can you even stand holding that?" argh I just want to get rid of it

Many a wine out of nowhere spell will be cast on my desk tonight.

bless

I hate saying this, but you really shouldn't have been carrying around an item soaked in human bodily excretions, esp. if it was dripping wet. You didn't have a garbage/shopping bag available to wrap it in?

really?

abbott you did fine, imagine if you hadn't gotten it away and another student figured it out how much worse it would be for that kid than for you. you took a bullet for him like!

also you are the best teacher

yes, it was a kind and lovely and swift thing to do,

this may be the first, but it will not be the last time you are expected to do something like that
welcome to the club

I hate saying this, but you really shouldn't have been carrying around an item soaked in human bodily excretions, esp. if it was dripping wet. You didn't have a garbage/shopping bag available to wrap it in?

Have you been talking to my vice principal?

No, I've just been working in health care for a decade. You're not paid enough to take the chance of getting sick. I understand that you did what you had to do, though, and I don't fault you for doing it.

abbott, i like yr. line breaks.

last year i had a serial butt-scratcher
asshole-manipulator
in my class
he was also very huggy
inappropriately so
and i made him settle for occasional handshakes

a pee-covered notbook is only a prelude to
realizing there's a silver-dollar-sized smear
that isn't chocolate
on the side of your hand
and that you have no idea
how long it has been there
and that you have to bleach
and purell and bleach again
and eventually take a shower
and clip your nails a little
before you can feel clean again

and not let on how icked out you are.

http://www.mayfieldhsband.org/images/large_brown_ribbon_8th.jpg

haha what can you do
I used to work with developmentally delayed kids and once in a store one of the kids pulled an entire turd out of his pants. I took him by the wrist (same logic as holding a snake right under its head) and walked him to the bathroom to deal with it. I could have yelled or lectured or told him he was awful and gross and unhealthy, or hemmed and hawed and wished I had a plastic bag, but I didn't. You have to work with what you have at the moment and solve the problem. I did tell the kid while we were in the bathroom that this is the place you go when you need to poop.

Abbott the public school administrators of the world do not deserve your awesomeness

pulled an entire turd out of his pants

omg

Christine - isn't urine pretty sterile? Given the situation it sounds like Abbott did exactly the right thing and I know I would have done the same.

How did the urine get on the notebook? Did I miss that part or is no one asking the important question?

it is a pystery

smdh

It's awful an dismal out today but it's Wednesday which is sort of close to the weekend which is nice.

Couple of my friends surprised me with tickets to see a John Waters 1 man Christmas show on Sat night. Psyched.

goddam u. i waited too long to get tix to that and then they were too expensive, and now i am sad. also, apparently, missed him signing books at the coop by about 20 minutes.

Well, two people cancelled so they have extra tickets they're trying to get rid of! Want me to find out how much they would want for them?

i was once pooped on by another kid, and the school didn't do a very good job of helping me out at all. i would have loved to have had an abbbottt helping me out that day!

how did the pooping on happen

^keepin it 77

e - yes

I'm already on it. :) Will let you know.

dublin-stansted-poznan 07/06/2011

Holy shit this just became a thing

pricey? I'm getting my arm twisted majorly at the moment

just booking the outbound flight, 80 quid pp no bother

Lol wait we're flying to leipzig

Sure it's only down the road. There's all sorts of harebrained schemes involving complex combinations of flying and driving being presented to me.

campervan ftw, or tent/interrail

Every other option seems to be too dependent on scarce/dear accommodation

how did the pooping on happen

1. kindergarten
2. sitting really close to the kid next to me, like legs touching, for some reason
3. diarrhea explosion
4. squirted up the back and side of his jeans
5. "plop"
6. *staaank*

7.
8. profit

9. someone did end up taking me to the bathroom, where i splashed water on the poop stain on my right leg
10. she asked if i would like to call my mom to bring a change of pants, but i was afraid of making my mom mad (???) and so i said no.
11. spent the rest of the day in class with a poopstain on me.

see, an abbbottt-esque figure to help me was totally absent, i would have really appreciated it

plop

*plop*

1. kindergarten
2. sitting really close to the kid next to me, like legs touching, for some reason
3. diarrhea explosion
4. squirted up the back and side of his jeans
5. "plop"
6. *staaank*

This seems like a setlist at an industry showcase

dude it was awesome & then half the crowd just left but they came right back on & played *staaank* it fuckin slayed

diarrhea explosion brought the house down

2 is a medley obv

2 is actually kinda a beautiful poem fro the ny school, just w/o linebreaks

sitting really close to the kid next to me
like legs touching
for some reason

I was Pooped On: the Z S Story

*staaank* breeze

Certain band being awesome today, making me feel all hopeful and like I have a heart again. Damn them.

- havent eaten a real meal since monday. currently polishing off a basket of fancy cheeses and crackers and antipasto that my aunt sent us for no reason

- havent gotten dressed, havent showered

- spent most of the morning playing skyrim and the afternoon playing records and interneting

- terrible waste of a midweek day off, so many boring chores to do

- thinking abt spending the change i scraped together for laundry on pizza instead

hi-5 @ all of this

apparently I have an interview with a Big Boss for a possible Major Promotion tomorrow at High Noon

also, trayce has a bf now??

Gah, sorry for confuse, its still veganboy, I was just using shorthand really, its too confusing otherwise. ALtho appartently it still was, haw.

Anyhoo:
- went to doc about worrying skin cancer potentiality
- relieved to find out is just "age spots", ha (tho I do have some other spots I need to watch)
- while at doc, mentioned my psoriasis and itchy ear and strange deafness
- ... apparently I have a fucking perforated eardru, and now I think about it, probably have done for a long time
- no wonder I cant hear :(

ah, i see!
xp
! well, i'm glad you do not have cancer and that you at least have a diagnosis re: eardrum

i am in NYC and today went to the russian turkish baths (during women's-only hours) and it was awesome - so relaxing, so exfoliating
drinks/"fap" at Mona's tomorrow after work! :)

luck q

ahhh i went to that place once, i was thinking of it earlier, i remember coming out & feeling this weird absence of specific memories relating to the previous three hours of my life because it had been so totally like ... physical, w/no cerebral input whatsoever, it was me just being like JJUHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRrrrrr for a few hours in various hot rooms. there was a cavernous one in which a woman was being beaten w/plant leaves that still occasionally freaks me out when i remember it
xp

i was not beaten with plant leaves nor did i see any plant leaves beatings but i did see the sticks with leaves on them.
there is also a big sauna room (there are 5 rooms + a v cold pool) that is so hot i sat in it for 1.5 minutes before it felt like my skin was on fire. you are supposed to dump buckets of water over yourself in there.

yeah, that sounds kinda familiar, again my brain was not really making memories through the hours i was there, it is just a hazy memory of being in various states of supreme bodily shutdown

it was def good tho & would go again. i got into a weird grudging haggling thing over membership w/the guy who ran it, who i also later heard crazy stories about

Also just read upthread and bit puzzled at anyone reacting with massive freaking out over a bit of wee, ffs. Lots of people have kids? And little kids like, you know, wee everywhere and it gets on you all the time?

Also, cats? (the amount of cat poo and urine Ive had to handle in my life... ugh)

yeah, it's especially weird to hear from somebody in a school setting. kids are nasty, and I would imagine anybody who's around them would be accustomed to a lot worse than a pee-soaked notebook. but i can also imagine an administrator making "a thing" on some weird grounds of decency or whatnot.

-ran out of garlic
-nooooooooo

- my US residency status seems to be in jeopardy right now
- probably in reality it isn't, but on paper it is
- rational, objective brain knows that we will get through this
- other part of brain is in constant state of low level anxiety

My fate lies in the hands of someone not dissimilar to that paypal agent who tried to fuck over regretsy, except I don't have a legion of fans to stir shit up for me

remy: yeah exactly, what a stupid reaction from the VP. Theyre kids! Wee and vomit just happens, yo.

gah that is such a stressful situation! i hope it gets sorted out in your favour asap
xp

ruby i think you DO have a legion of fans to stir shit up for you. i've got my stir-stick ready, just point me to the pot.

and if you and ytth need to go on the lam, you know where i live. <3

<3 !

It will be ok, it's just scary bc our whole lives are here now, and we're happy, and it would more immigration stress getting ytth into nz

holyshit guys the vampires got dayo i xan't believe how calm y'all are

lxy otm and hope you sort this out soon J! Preferably not by having to deal with a Murray at the embassy haha xx

-ran out of garlic
-nooooooooo

I FEEL YOU BRUV

I was like, how the fuck did THIS happen, didn't have so many unused cloves that I was afraid they'd all go bad?!? And the answer was: Yes, but then Thanksgiving happened.

this is why i buy bags of peeled cloves and keep them in the freezer

I never thought to prepeel and freeze garlic. Thats genius. Can ytou just cut/cook it from frozen?

i buy bags that are pre-peeled bc i am lazy! i keep it in an airtight container in the freezer, zap a few cloves in the microwave for 15 secs to defrost (or just take them out of the freezer a couple hours before cooking), then i'm good to go.

i'm sure it probably loses some potency, but it's working for me

this is why i buy bags of peeled cloves and keep them in the freezer

OTM.

The Asian supermarket sells 1lb. tubs of peeled garlic for ~$2.50.

BTW, TJ's smushed up jars of garlic paste are TERRIBLE. Why can't they just have normal minced garlic? I bought that paste when I still had a sense of smell and it smelled like methane.

xp- it thaws very quickly, so I never bother to thaw it at all.

It might not be good where raw garlic is called for, but cooked, it's A-okay.

many xposts - Q, good luck! Do you want the Major Promotion or are you Ambivalent?

Minced garlic inna jar is blechhh cos it has to be preserved with like vinegar or citric acid to stop spoilage and that gives it a taste :(

(dried granulated garlic isnt too bad for emergencies tho)

(oops this isnt the cooking thread is it hahaha)

Good luck to Q with the job and J with the immigration hassles!

-I told somebody today they look like linda hamilton in the terminator but on GISing linda hamilton I can only find pictures of linda hamilton when she looks older. I hope the person won't be offended :/

?
http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsH/7331.gif

that's a good 'un

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Terma3.jpg

It's a compliment either way. Probably

oh ok. I just don't want the takeaway to be "you're old" or "you have 80s hair"

is she old and does she have 80s hair

im p sure there are at least some ppl who are old and have 80s hair and who look great

yeah kinda depends but overall it would sound like "you're petite and ripped" or "you have a square jaw and blonde hair" at the worst, i think
and neither of those things are fundamentally bad

once i told a girl she looked like a young liza minelli, which to me was a huge compliment because she was super cute, but the girl only knew old liza. i held my ground and told her to gis because she really looked exactly like her here, ie insanely cute

http://static.flickr.com/103/275366017_a4744016e7_o.jpg

she looks v "irl anime" there

like the opposite of one of those "CARTOONIZE YOURSELF!" ads

Big Boss postponed talk about potential Major Promotion because someone More Important Than I was available to meet at High Noon.

-fortune cookie reads "get ready to do something daring"
-do I dare do something daring today

Dare to do, dyao.

^ importance of commas

eat a peach, roll up pants etc etc mermaids bla bla

(the love twitter of J Alfred Prfrk)

lol

oh man i made a bad public situation :(

I was in a crowded café and asked an old guy using two tables (one for his bag, one for himself) if maybe I could sit at the table his bag was on. He was all "You're really making things hard for me, there are other seats around. I mean geez, what's wrong with sitting over there?" – and he indicated a seat that was at a table with a baby - "can't you sit on that one?" I said, "uh, okay, if you really need two tables i'll go elsewhere" and walked off. As I was walking off, he said "no, no, come back, I guess I can manage." Two minutes later a seat opened up at the primo directly across from him and I took it now he is scowling at me and looking really miserable with life and I have an irrational desire to buy him a coffee or something and say peace, happy holidays. B/c he is obviously having a shitty day/life.

dayo, the instruction is to get ready to do something daring, not to do something daring. i fear you would be very easy pickings for a genie.

remy, that's not a bad public situation, that's a dude playing the crotchety card

nah give him the finger for like ten seconds and make stone cold neutral eye contact while u do it. he'll be scared shitless!

xp

(the love twitter of J Alfred Prfrk)

― Leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it. (Trayce), Thursday, December 8, 2011 11:28 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

<3 <3 <3

he is ... tuning a violin now. without playing it? without listening to it. i don't even understand. he just has a violin out and he is tightening and loosening the pegs, and rubbing a lint-free cloth around the body. it is a very, very nice violin. i am glad i sat here now: he is v. entertaining.

Remy where you at? I'll come down there and give him the stinkeye.

I hate old people who have a serious case of old. And i dont care if that makes me seem mean. Especially the old bats at the supermarket who PUSH IN FRONT OF PEOPLE in the checkout queue!! "I ONLY HAVE A FEW THINGS" well lady if you'd asked nicely I might have let you by but now you can go jump, you senile old cow.

He left, after talking very loudly to ELIZABETH, MY DEAR ELIZABETH! on his cell phone about THE NASTY CROWDS AND PUSHY PEOPLE AND DAMN TOURISTS GETTING WORSE (here, I got a look), and about WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS AND OH, YEAH, I'LL MEET YOU AT THAT EYE-TALIAN PLACE, WHAT A LOVELY OFFER, AS LONG AS THERE'S A SAFE PLACE TO PUT MY VIOLIN.

Old fucker.

if i make it to what can plausibly be described as old age i am gonna be as cantankerous as fuck, just for laughs

Admittedly, me too. And I sometimes suspect thats why some old people are assholes, cos theyve been waiting all their life to get away with it.

if i make it to what can plausibly be described as old age i am gonna be as cantankerous as fuck, just for laughs

OTM, I can't wait 'til I'm 85 so I can actually pull off complaining about a $5 copay increase by telling some stranger about every bad thing that has ever happened in my life. That was how I dealt with this very situation when I worked at a call center where mostly olds called. 'Someday, I will get to be this anciently entitled.'

No one ever hit me with a bus, I want to complain deeply and constantly someday.

i imagine i will be vastly more mellow as an old than i ever have been as a not as old

speakin of gettin old i played 3hrs of subzero football and now my lower back has locked. Lovely.

dayo, the instruction is to get ready to do something daring, not to do something daring. i fear you would be very easy pickings for a genie.

― estela, Thursday, December 8, 2011 5:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I realized this after I posted! so I got ready to do something daring but then I didn't actually do it

Just deciding that playing 3 hrs of sub-zero football is a good idea means you're not old.

dude, hey whoa, hey dude, whoa

hey dudes

hey hey hey hey

- blah shitty day capping off a shitty week with still two more shitty days to come :/

hey hey,

what's up, what is going on, how's it going

hey hey hey hey ZS what's up!

Your fabulilxor gifs ruining my sexytime tumblr faves is up for one ;)

that's cool, right on, yeah i mean that's cool, right

*checks your sextime tumblr faves*

i am about to eat 3.6 fl oz of americone dream ice cream

hold on, let me turn on the this thing on this page over here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omGnzAd28YM

wait a second, your voice of treason, you're telling me that not only do you still believe in the americone dream, but that you're actually about to eat it?

i find that hard to believe

I'm the <sorta my display name> guy following the shit out of you and your gifs are sublime as always just sayin' Z

imo the americone dream was always a myth to 90%+ of the population, and it's persistence is the source of at least 1/10 of our delusion

and it tastes like barf sandwich

i'm high so i'll post one sorry, but i was bummed that this one didn't take off

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvcglupLio1qdmmiqo1_400.gif

yooooooou aaaaaaaare allllll theeee woooooooooooooorld
yooooooou aaaaaaaare allllll theeee woooooooooooooorld

<3 <3 <3

i've thought about starting a band called Evil Guide Dog ... would you feel infringed?

I certainly wouldn't

j/k

dru/nk

oh that was a question for ZS

I FEEL INFRINGED

i will come up with a different name then!

wait a second, your voice of treason, you're telling me that not only do you still believe in the americone dream, but that you're actually about to eat it?

i find that hard to believe

― Z S

ate it y'all sorry \(^o^)/

i'm calling my lawyer

hold on.

on hey, yeah Jeremy, this is zach. yeah it's about evil guide dog again. i keep my 10-foot pole with me all the time, but no matter what i do, they want this intellectual property! i'm telling you this evil guide dog sells like gangbusters, like GANGbusters! yep so this time someone's asking me in advance if i would "feel infringed", holy shit and it's in writing on the internet! so obviously we drain 125K out of her, and in the meantime i dangle a little "evil guide dog" over on 4chan or whatever and boom we got another potential financially lucrative lawsuit victory guaranteed, i love this country and the founding fathers, alright talk to you later jeremy.

ctrl+d what a great thread,

ate it y'all sorry \(^o^)/

― your voice of treason, Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:03 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

markers did the recession

just wanted a lil ice cream ;_;

i am also drunk, yeah i admit it.
you can start a band called evil guide dog, of course! that would be awesome. actually just yesterday a friend of mine called and asked for a band name and they used what i gave them! which is terrible because i once named a high school band Chrystalis

drunk and high? my mang! :)

see - Evil Guide Dog - would basically be me playing all the instruments and "Sebastian" the guard dog from the record "Sebastian Speaks" would be on vocals.

alternate name: Sarahel and Sebastian

xpost it IS thursday night

jesus, so i just realized, i suggested the name "Apostates" to my friend, and he loved it, but i realize now that if someone doesn't like their name they will inevitably be referred to as "A Prostate". that's why no one used it before, among other probable reasons

http://api.ning.com/files/u6XUeysIPpwDctYqpbYJIw5QRA1-k7A-CH0PpwFrH0UVsF6fZj86-FESN6rokQhRS1IbpLEBvLBay9QsKRbJbg__/Phoenix_Wright.jpg

"JESUS, SO I JUST REALIZED!"

http://api.ning.com/files/u6XUeysIPpwDctYqpbYJIw5QRA1-k7A-CH0PpwFrH0UVsF6fZj86-FESN6rokQhRS1IbpLEBvLBay9QsKRbJbg__/Phoenix_Wright.jpg

it IS thursday night!

http://api.ning.com/files/u6XUeysIPpwDctYqpbYJIw5QRA1-k7A-CH0PpwFrH0UVsF6fZj86-FESN6rokQhRS1IbpLEBvLBay9QsKRbJbg__/Phoenix_Wright.jpg

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAATHER!!!! !!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! oh GOD!!

http://api.ning.com/files/u6XUeysIPpwDctYqpbYJIw5QRA1-k7A-CH0PpwFrH0UVsF6fZj86-FESN6rokQhRS1IbpLEBvLBay9QsKRbJbg__/Phoenix_Wright.jpg

We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx!
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls!
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx!
All the gifts of life are held within our walls!

All the GIFS of life are held within our walls!

fixed for u boo

You take the good, you take the bad,
you take them both and there you have
The gifs of life, the gifs of life!

There's a time you got to go and show
You're growin' now you know about
The gifs of life, the gifs of life!

When the world never seems
to be livin up to your dreams
And suddenly you're finding out
the gifs of life are all about you, you!

It takes a lot to get 'em right
When you're learning the gifs of life. (learning the gifs of life)
Learning the gifs of life (learning the gifs of life)
Learning the gifs of life!

source: http://www.netscapenavigatortips.com/

well this is just silly, sorry thread

peace to everyone

very disappointed netscapenavigatortips doesn't actually exist

can you sing us some lyrics from crysalis, za?

here's a protip: upgrade to netscape navigator gold for a gold colored netscape navigator icon

http://api.ning.com/files/u6XUeysIPpwDctYqpbYJIw5QRA1-k7A-CH0PpwFrH0UVsF6fZj86-FESN6rokQhRS1IbpLEBvLBay9QsKRbJbg__/Phoenix_Wright.jpg http://i.imgur.com/gfo1w.gif

all those other suckers = http://i.imgur.com/WalOB.png

you otoh = http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn166/GiZZoR/NetGold.png

http://api.ning.com/files/u6XUeysIPpwDctYqpbYJIw5QRA1-k7A-CH0PpwFrH0UVsF6fZj86-FESN6rokQhRS1IbpLEBvLBay9QsKRbJbg__/Phoenix_Wright.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1Lbjy.jpg

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn166/GiZZoR/NetGold.png

these logos are so hilarious to me now. i mean yeah, i get it - maybe the browser could only display 256 colors at a time or something, and the original art had 2000 colors so it got all pixelated as a result. but isn't the natural response to that limitation to design something that uses 256 colors or less rather than degrading something else?

what i mean to say is that i want to see the original Netscape Navigator Gold 3 artwork, signed

wisk I was kisking it with ZSd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uIfLIWflI

i want the wordless chorus forever

i've thought about starting a band called Evil Guide Dog ... would you feel infringed?

I've totally thought this too. Damnit.

i was thinking of it as a recording project. maybe we could collaborate?

i don't want to have to sue you

but if you don't start a recording project called Evil Guide Dog, i will be forced to sue you

best case EVER

<3 u mang

Three people this week have told me to buy a laptop
and three times I have denied them

you are the judas of laptops.

Okay, sarahel: you, me, Evil Guide Dog. But on one condition: it has to be a concept album.