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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60930 on: April 28, 2013, 12:23:17 pm »
I've got to do this presentation tomorrow, but I'm having trouble getting myself to sit down and prepare for it... Ugh.
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« Reply #60931 on: April 28, 2013, 12:34:13 pm »
My back and neck are fucking killing me.  I need to graduate, and then get a paycheck so I can go back to taking yoga classes.  This is ridiculous.

At least my mom owns like a billion shitty yoga DVDs, so I can just use those in the post-graduation interim.

Also I have three final papers to write in three weeks and a final exam to study for, which means I'm going to spend about a billion years reading texts I really want to have nothing to do with.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60932 on: April 28, 2013, 01:06:16 pm »
Quote from: Vector on April 28, 2013, 12:34:13 pm
Also I have three final papers to write in three weeks and a final exam to study for, which means I'm going to spend about a billion years reading texts I really want to have nothing to do with.
I couldn't deal with that level of work to save my life.

I'm having enough trouble getting myself to do this dumb as hell presentation stuff.
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« Reply #60933 on: April 28, 2013, 01:14:10 pm »
Lulz, I'm currently on volume 3 of a ~2500 page Chinese novel (on which I'll be writing a 20-page paper), and really need to try to finish reading by the end of tomorrow.  I can't deal with this level of work to save my life.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60934 on: April 28, 2013, 01:57:03 pm »
Quote from: Dutchling on April 28, 2013, 12:08:56 pm
I would be okay with monthly fees if they were lower than the average price of a game o.O
At most, EvE is ~$15 a month, much less if you buy large blocks of time. It's also possible to buy gametime with in-game currency via "Pilot Liscence Extensions," which somebody has to buy with real money and put on the in-game market (this is the only way to spend real cash to gain advantage in the game).
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60935 on: April 28, 2013, 03:07:32 pm »
And yet another politics thread is locked, if only temporarily.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60936 on: April 28, 2013, 05:29:54 pm »
How in the hell did 5 hours of work make me feel like a 12-hour shift in the factories? I stood around and did basically nothing (I sold one printer. One. For fuck's sake.) for 5 hours, but my back is killing me.

Ugh. Can't wait to graduate and get a job with health insurance.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60937 on: April 28, 2013, 07:17:55 pm »
Quote from: Fniff on April 28, 2013, 12:05:37 pm
Monthly fees... I get nervous paying for a game. I don't want to have to spend constant amounts of money just to play.
This.
Incidentally this is why I play forum games on Bay12. Free!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60938 on: April 28, 2013, 07:52:38 pm »
Quote from: Vector on April 28, 2013, 01:14:10 pm
Lulz, I'm currently on volume 3 of a ~2500 page Chinese novel (on which I'll be writing a 20-page paper), and really need to try to finish reading by the end of tomorrow.  I can't deal with this level of work to save my life.

Dream of the Red Chamber or Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
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« Reply #60939 on: April 28, 2013, 08:10:45 pm »
Dream of the Fucking Red Chamber, fortunately, though I'm also planning to read The Water Margin, The Plum in the Golden Vase, Journey to the West, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms over the next few years.

Actually, this is sort of good for me.  Bracing work that makes me think "ah, I'll never complain about novel length again."
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« Reply #60940 on: April 28, 2013, 08:19:56 pm »
2,500 pages? Sounds like an excellent doorstop :P
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60941 on: April 28, 2013, 08:20:49 pm »
Quote from: Vector on April 28, 2013, 08:10:45 pm
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Actually, this is sort of good for me.  Bracing work that makes me think "ah, I'll never complain about novel length again.
Try reading the uncut version of The Stand. Then you'll never complain about novel length again for sure. Reading it during lunch, every study hall, and before the start of classes it still took me the better part of a year to finish. Around 3000 pages, as I remember it.
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« Reply #60942 on: April 28, 2013, 08:22:58 pm »
Well, you know... that particular novel is downright pornographic :P


Longest time spent reading has got to be Moby Dick.  I thought I would never finish, and that was only 650 pages.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60943 on: April 28, 2013, 08:25:12 pm »
Quote from: Vector on April 28, 2013, 08:22:58 pm
Well, you know... that particular novel is downright pornographic :P
I know. That I somehow remembered that having never read it is why I decided to comment.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #60944 on: April 28, 2013, 08:28:47 pm »
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on April 28, 2013, 08:20:49 pm
Quote from: Vector on April 28, 2013, 08:10:45 pm
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Actually, this is sort of good for me.  Bracing work that makes me think "ah, I'll never complain about novel length again.
Try reading the uncut version of The Stand. Then you'll never complain about novel length again for sure. Reading it during lunch, every study hall, and before the start of classes it still took me the better part of a year to finish. Around 3000 pages, as I remember it.
Only about a thousand pages according to wikipedia (though obviously page size would adjust page count)... about 500k words, going by some cursory searching. RotK is ~800k (or slightly more than 50% larger than The Stand, uncut). Couldn't find one quicklike for Dream of the Red Chamber (though it's only coming out at about 350 pages, paperback. I'd guess around 2-300k words.).

... I've read fanfiction that was over a million words for a single work <_< >_>
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