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[Reelya]

It's definitely in other commonwealth countries too. I doubt any English-speaking country except America calls college "school". (well possibly Canada too, but those guys got infected by the virus)

[Arx]

Aussies do it, for sure. Not here, though, we call it varsity.


Just watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It's pretty good, actually, and I really liked the score. Much better than most animated movies' scores, anyway.

[TheBiggerFish]

It IS an educational establishment, I don't see why it's not a school.  Eh.
See also: xxx University School of Y.

[itisnotlogical]

I typically skip Monster Madness and all of the non-AVGN, non-James & Mike stuff that Cinemassacre does for Halloween. I'm not really a big fan of horror films and classic monsters, since that's not the sort of film I spent a lot of my youth watching. However, I really liked the Halloween Specials episode of Monster Madness.

I actually like James and Mike videos more than AVGN most days. The latest AVGN episodes were really funny, but there's also a lot of boring, by-the-numbers AVGN videos too. Just watching them talk about stuff that they really, really like and are passionate about is fun in itself.

[Reelya]

"university school of x". In this case "school" means "faculty" or "field of study". It's a different semantic meaning of school altogether. See for example the "Austrian School". Which is not a school at all: it's an ideology.

[Descan]

In Canada, we split College and University into different things (college would be more community colleges, university things like University of Toronto/Guelph, 4 year programs instead of 2)

Dunno if we call it "school" though, never noticed.

[timferius]

In Canada, we split College and University into different things (college would be more community colleges, university things like University of Toronto/Guelph, 4 year programs instead of 2)

Dunno if we call it "school" though, never noticed.

I think I'd call it school randomly in conversation, I'd definitely understand if someone else did. I'm constantly confused by the American usage of the word College.

[RedKing]

Watched the new Star Wars trailer.

Then watched John Boyega's reaction video to the new Star Wars trailer.

THAT is pure joy. That is a man having a nerdgasm the rest of us can merely dream of.

[Rolan7]

I just had my old GM and his brother visit, hung out for a few hours.  In my place!  Was pretty unexpected, only found out they were in town yesterday!

Basically I continue to be amazed at how anxious I'm NOT getting with all the recent social interaction.  Almost a week of my bro visiting, a few days at his place, visiting the fair, *one* day of peaceful aloneness, then today this.  I feel more like a healthy human being than I have in years.

I kinda figured I'd want to play "how much rum can I down in one drought" about now, but I actually really don't.  I even tried to get drunk yesterday but failed out of disinterest.  I feel... good!  I even feel like I could meet someone new someday soon.

[TheBiggerFish]

I just had my old GM and his brother visit, hung out for a few hours.  In my place!  Was pretty unexpected, only found out they were in town yesterday!

Basically I continue to be amazed at how anxious I'm NOT getting with all the recent social interaction.  Almost a week of my bro visiting, a few days at his place, visiting the fair, *one* day of peaceful aloneness, then today this.  I feel more like a healthy human being than I have in years.

I kinda figured I'd want to play "how much rum can I down in one drought" about now, but I actually really don't.  I even tried to get drunk yesterday but failed out of disinterest.  I feel... good!  I even feel like I could meet someone new someday soon.

Congratulations on socialization!

[NullForceOmega]

Good progress Rolan, glad to see that you are feeling better about dealing with people.

[Akura]

I bought a very large coat today. It's big enough to cover my knees. I can't get on my bicycle with it(probably), but if I'm wearing it, I couldn't get on my bike anyway.

Watched the new Star Wars trailer.

Best comment:

Spoiler: And one of the replies (click to show/hide)

*looks up Miranda Kerr*
Lucky bastard.

[Truean]

While my life in general is very screwed up, I am grateful for a good friend I have now. We met through another friend and she's ever so accepting of my being secretly transgender. More amazing, her husband is wonderful about the entire thing and I'm actually not afraid of him (Note: I have had terrible experiences with straight men when hanging out with women, and he knows this). He's nice to me. I am glad our schedules line up nicely as well.

They both seem to accept me and my various issues, emotional, privacy/secrecy (especially about being trans and liking men). He has no problem with the platonic cuddling / movie watching we do. He's also aware and doesn't seem to have a problem with me wearing dresses / skirts in his living room with her. I'm still (partially because of hectic life) not wearing them around him (because I'm still anxious / have had bad things happen before). She also had me at her nice, small, tame bachelorette party, which was actually quite lovely.

It really helps with the emotional problems, the PTSD, the depression, and the anxiety, and we both emotionally benefit. More astonishingly, her husband seems to be happy she's feeling better since I started hanging around. He's actively trying to be my friend, which is so flabbergasting to me that I don't know how to handle it. I'm still in a not good place and won't be coming out for quite some time, because doing so isn't safe. That sucks, but is what I have to work with.

It's far from perfect. Also, her lovely and regular availability won't last forever, so hanging out will become less often. For a little while, it is nice.

[TD1]

I can finally read poetry, huzzah.

I have been told on numerous occasions that my reading is monotonous. Thankfully, being around tutors in my poetry module and listening to them read it has meant I no longer sound like I'm vocally vomiting.

[Orange Wizard]

Truean gets to meet normal nice people? +1.