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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9703697 times)

Max White

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44010 on: February 28, 2012, 09:31:36 pm »

Because suffering is sexy these days. If I write about orphans in Africa suffering at the hands of mercenaries getting rich by committing war crimes, I am a meaningful author, while if I write about a romantic couple that buy a bicycle to travel across the landscape, I'm just another dime a dozen romantic novelist. You write about any form of human suffering and you are a revolutionary, regardless of lack of any other effort to solve issues you raised in your book.
This is because people are so pretentious that they like to think they are making some kind of effort to stop suffering by reading about it in their leisure time. As if awareness alone in the form of a novel will change the world, and by reading about the war crimes orphans they are caring people, while the romantics are just shallow and self centred.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44011 on: February 28, 2012, 10:36:30 pm »

Ethan Frome, y u so depressing?
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Bitching is so much easier than writing well.

Saying something sucks surely seems successful. Succinctly showing suffering satisfies sycophantic simpletons; simpering softly somehow siphons stories' substance, sickeningly sours society.

Shit sells. Soul stagnates.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44012 on: February 28, 2012, 10:43:59 pm »

I might nave a todo chance top start a hematology residency indica a prestigious hospital. If ir comes through ir might be te bes choice I hace outside repeating the speciality exam, which I was strongly considering.

Still, I hace this feeling of loss, which I would likely have anyway no matter which speciality I picked (beforehand I was feeling kind of saddened that I was deprecating hemato in favor of surgery. That is, until a cold during the spec exam ruinated that).
On the othrr hand, retaking theexam is always an option. And hemato is short enough to merit considering doing the whole spec and then do another on top of it if doubts remain
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44013 on: February 28, 2012, 10:51:00 pm »

Ethan Frome, y u so depressing?
Spoiler: spoilery synopsis (click to show/hide)

Bitching is so much easier than writing well.

Saying something sucks surely seems successful. Succinctly showing suffering satisfies sycophantic simpletons; simpering softly somehow siphons stories' substance, sickeningly sours society.

Shit sells. Soul stagnates.
So succinctly stated.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44014 on: February 29, 2012, 12:26:09 am »

So... fecking insomnia.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44015 on: February 29, 2012, 12:53:42 am »

So... fecking insomnia.
Yeah I wasn't able to go to sleep last night.  Gonna try again tonight!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44016 on: February 29, 2012, 07:21:16 am »

Personally, my alarm clock was off for some reason. .-.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44017 on: February 29, 2012, 10:03:15 am »

So Avery, my work, calls me this morning. I haven't had a shift in a few weeks so woo. I get showered, get on my work boots, get ready to go in the car... And they call me back and tell me the person I'm replacing has come in to work and they won't need me.

Fuq. I need a more stable job. :/
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44018 on: February 29, 2012, 10:08:00 am »

I woke up this morning with tears in my eyes about a dream I had where my dead dog came back and hugged me and had a conversation with me. Does that count as sad?

(Incidentally, everyone in the house had a dream about our dead dog.)
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44019 on: February 29, 2012, 10:42:00 am »

I woke up this morning with tears in my eyes about a dream I had where my dead dog came back and hugged me and had a conversation with me. Does that count as sad?

(Incidentally, everyone in the house had a dream about our dead dog.)

The house is HaaaaaAAAaaauuuuUUUnteeeEEEed! *Waves arms infront of you.*
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44020 on: February 29, 2012, 10:42:23 am »

Gonna have to agree about the house being haunted.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44021 on: February 29, 2012, 12:53:55 pm »

Gonna have to assert that you exhume your dead dog, cut it's head off and sew it back on backwards, burn your house down, find a new home and life in a far away country, and live the rest of your days scared, sneaking glances over your shoulder, making sure nothing's there.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44022 on: February 29, 2012, 02:13:33 pm »

Banking shenanigans. I've just learned that charges are not actually necessarily deducted from an account in the order they are placed, but holds are placed until those charges are actually deducted. Now, my credit union has a thing where they'll pay charges even if you don't have the available money, but they charge a $25 fee for every such transaction. However, what triggers the fee is the worst possible metric for members - it's every charge actually deducted, when the charge exceeds your current balance minus your holds.

As an example, what happened to me. I had a balance of about $130 yesterday. I drove to my hometown to visit friends, and do a bit of shopping I can only do there. So I spent about $50 on winemaking supplies to last a couple years, $10 on miscellaneous purchases throughout the day (about 3 or 4 totaling the $10 when summed), $40 on a nice dinner, and $20 on gas. By my reckoning, I had $10 left, and indeed that would've been fine if my cell phone plan hadn't made a charge of $20 at about 2 AM because I forgot to disable the auto-charge (this is entirely my fault). So the winemaking purchase and the gas had already been charged, and now there's a new hold; when the dinner charge is actually deducted, it triggers the $25 fee, giving me a negative balance (even though I wouldn't have had one without the fee), and I've now got 3 to 4 additional charges that, if actually deducted today, will run me $25 apiece. If deducted tomorrow, I'm fine, but it's a work day today so I don't have time to carry out any of the possible shenanigans to get my balance positive (all I've got left is a giant pile of recyclables, and the possibility of donating plasma, neither of which I can do in the hour I have left). If deducted today, I'm an extra $100 dollars in the hole and I can't really afford that.

All I can do is wait and hope.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44023 on: February 29, 2012, 04:00:26 pm »

Sick. Blurgh. (No, I'm not hungover. Alcohol doesn't cause stuffy nose and sinus pressure.)
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #44024 on: February 29, 2012, 04:08:26 pm »

Sick. Blurgh. (No, I'm not hungover. Alcohol doesn't cause stuffy nose and sinus pressure.)
It might...ever laughed with a shot of tequila in your mouth and had it shoot out your nose?

NOT FUN.
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