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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9701305 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37980 on: October 06, 2011, 12:59:39 am »

When your internet searches lead you to shit like this, you know you've reached a whole new low in your life.

*throws hands in air*
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37981 on: October 06, 2011, 01:32:21 am »

The sun is coming up and I'm still awake. For some reason this time of day makes me feel really lonely. I guess it's time to curl up with a book. I'm reading The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thomson but I've not really sunk my teeth into it yet. I've enjoyed his other work and it cost me nearly nothing, pennies even, at the local charity shop.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37982 on: October 06, 2011, 01:41:46 am »

The sun is coming up and I'm still awake. For some reason this time of day makes me feel really lonely. I guess it's time to curl up with a book. I'm reading The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thomson but I've not really sunk my teeth into it yet. I've enjoyed his other work and it cost me nearly nothing, pennies even, at the local charity shop.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." \m/

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37983 on: October 06, 2011, 02:07:15 am »

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." \m/
Indeed.*Grins stupidly* You've managed to cheer me up more than I expected to be by anything this morning.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37984 on: October 06, 2011, 02:24:51 am »

Blegh, only one of the four busses actually stopped, and it was packed even before it did.
And my bus pass doesn't work after 12, which is when the next bus is.
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« Reply #37985 on: October 06, 2011, 02:12:34 pm »

The manager who'd been pushing to switch me to a better, higher-paying department at my job was just relocated to a new branch, and my case for reinstating financial aid for the next semester was turned down during my meeting with the Ombudsman. They were nice dreams while they lasted.

On the way home a car pulled blindly out from a parking lot, then panicked and slammed their brakes to a stop right in front of me. I barely managed to avoid hitting them by swerving into oncoming traffic, and dodging an SUV. I get the feeling that the world is taking the opportunity to shit in my cornflakes today.
« Last Edit: October 06, 2011, 02:14:31 pm by Solifuge »
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« Reply #37986 on: October 06, 2011, 03:20:03 pm »

The 'Tutorium' was a bit dissapointing.
Not only do I travel more than an hour to get to university, only to get dismissed after fifty minutes (it was supposed to be two hours) and to be informed that we are going to go through the book at a 'one chapter per week'-snailpace.

Well, I do understand it takes a lot of time, with the ginormous number of students, but still...
Meh, guess I have to do some work in advance.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37987 on: October 06, 2011, 03:55:05 pm »

Sigh... another spontaneous dogs vs cats debate... I miss my cat.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37988 on: October 06, 2011, 04:56:09 pm »

So I'm now in the proper city, and still having trouble finding a place to park my goddamn car. The money I'll be paying to leave it in various garages in the meantime is going to destroy me, and even once I do find a place it's almost certain to be so inconvenient that I'll end up using the bus system anyway.

Also, I'm pretty sure this place is not really Iowa City, but is, in fact, Crazytown. Everything's scheduled on the half hour, instead of on the hour. Who does that?

Finally, I've never been terrified of the police before, but today as I was driving into town that happened. See, I've got everything packed into my (partially held-together-with-duct-tape) car, including my wine-making stuff. This, in turn, includes a lot of chemicals - sodium metabisulfite, pectic enzyme, and so on, but the important thing is that most of them are fine, white powders stored in plastic bags, some labeled only in black marker. So imagine my fear when I see signs reading, "Drug checkpoint ahead, be prepared to stop". Mercifully, I was never pulled over, but I did immediately switch the song that was playing from one whose most frequent lyrics are "Fight the power!" Last thing I'd need in that situation is even more misunderstandings.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37989 on: October 06, 2011, 05:03:17 pm »

Ugh, someone has Sean Hannity on in next room. Select quotes:

"Why should I have to pay for people who don't want to work?"
"Unrestricted capitalism brings out the best in people." (intended to mean the best in work ethic, but an ironic statement non-the-less)


Depressing that people believe this garbage.
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37990 on: October 06, 2011, 05:41:07 pm »

Have you tried listening for laughter in the background, or someone making fun of it?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37991 on: October 06, 2011, 05:52:36 pm »

The first sentence does make sense, especially given that there are so many people abusing systems like Social Security that a sizable chunk of the money is going to them.
Unfortunately, the options are we either spend tons of money trying to crack down on the abusers, let them slide and keep taking up money, or get rid of the system so they can't abuse it but deprive the people that legitimately need it.
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« Reply #37992 on: October 06, 2011, 07:29:24 pm »

My Halloween avatar (thanks Heliman!) is kind of squished. That's okay, though.
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« Reply #37993 on: October 06, 2011, 08:28:32 pm »

I'm suspecting that the entrepreneur is disinterested in me because I'm too busy learning to start Having Big Huge World-Shaking Ideas.

Awesome, asshole.  You just missed out on someone with enough sense to actually think about what she'd be saying before she started talking.  Go enjoy continuing to make yourself look like an idiot.


EDIT: And... yeah, I'm just tired and don't feel like work.  *sigh*
« Last Edit: October 06, 2011, 08:38:48 pm by Vector »
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #37994 on: October 06, 2011, 08:54:14 pm »

EDIT: And... yeah, I'm just tired and don't feel like work.  *sigh*

Beware burnout.  It's a serious thing.  You've got a crazy work ethic.  I wouldn't be surprised if you push yourself to that limit.
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In the land of twilight, under the moon
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Maybe people should love for the sake of loving, and not with all of these optimization conditions.
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