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[Vector]

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*

[Vattic]

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.

[KaelGotDwarves]

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/

[Vattic]

"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.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

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.

[Solifuge]

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.

[Mindmaker]

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.

[SalmonGod]

Sigh... another spontaneous dogs vs cats debate... I miss my cat.

[Bauglir]

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.

[kaijyuu]

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.

[Dsarker]

Have you tried listening for laughter in the background, or someone making fun of it?

[TheBronzePickle]

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.

[SirAaronIII]

My Halloween avatar (thanks Heliman!) is kind of squished. That's okay, though.

[Vector]

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*

[SalmonGod]

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.