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Oh dear. : A thread about things that tick you off quite a bit, and might even elicit a frown.

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14:51 / 27.04.06

And furthermore, it's a comment on me! I'm the one doing timecards and labor and payroll. It's not like I designed the schedule and N feels like she can come in whenever she wants. Fuck this.

P. Horus Rhacoid

20:36 / 02.05.06

7 papers due in the next 7 days. One test. A job to find. A new thesis advisor to find in an understaffed department since my current one is leaving the university at the end of this semester and also is being no help in finding a new one. Also I'm not going to be able to go home. Unable to go home, I will be unable to see my parents or my truly righteous dog.

I need a time machine so I can travel a week into the future and just be done with all of this.

...Ah well. Living the college life, I guess. I'll survive.

(I would have posted this in the Thread O' Lots O' Stress but it doesn't seem to exist. I'll give that a frown/derisive snort, too.)

paranoidwriter waves hello

20:20 / 04.05.06

OK, I know I've been told loads of time not to walk around barefoot, but I hate wearing shoes in the house. And even so, does that mean it's my fault that I just stood on a small nail left on the stairs by messy house-mate? It went in almost a centimetre deep, for shit's sake! Worse still, there's no antiseptic in the house, I couldn't afford to limp to the shop and buy some, so I had to wash it clean with saltwater. Ow...

21:35 / 04.05.06

Don't feel guilty about not heeding anyone's advice.

I went to this summer camp when I was 13 or 14 (Icelandic summer camp!) and I walked around barefoot for almost a month. No shoes, no sandals, no socks. When I came home from camp, I couldn't bear to wear shoes. To this day, I don't really care for socks or shoes or anything.

Walking around barefoot is cool.

paranoidwriter waves hello

21:40 / 04.05.06

Damn right! Free your soles and your ass will follow!

Or a nail, some saltwater, and a humming stinging sensation, of course.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:40 / 04.05.06

Just wear one shoe, like Kidd in Dhalgren.

paranoidwriter waves hello

21:48 / 04.05.06

Hmm... Hadn't heard of Dhalgren*, and just done a Wiki search: looks very interesting. Cheers for the unintentional book recommendation, Monsieur Stoat. I need a good book as I've just finished Iain Bank's "Song of Stone" which, despite a few lovely passages of prose here and there, was shit. Much obliged.

21:50 / 04.05.06

I agree, you need that full foot experience when at home! Even outside taking a walk on the lawn and feeling the blades of grass between your toes is wonderfully refreshing and rejuvenating. Shoes are necessary and all, indeed, the right pair of boots can be exquisite but your feet do need a break. Sorts your whole posture out!

Ag, on the whole nail thing. I hope you've had your tetanus shots.

21:51 / 04.05.06

I have a friend who never wears shoes and hasn't for years. We went to school together in Vermont and he'd put on shoes a few times a year when it was really awful & freezing out. The rest of the time no shoes, ever, anywhere. His feet are scary. Seriously.

paranoidwriter waves hello

22:13 / 04.05.06

Ag, on the whole nail thing. I hope you've had your tetanus shots.

Oh...bugger...

His feet are scary. Seriously.

I have Hobbit feet, apparently: compared to other people, my toes (other than my big toe) are all quite small and almost the same uniform length. However, I often forget I'm a "freaky Hobbit person" (as one friend calls me) and regularly find visitors to my house staring at my feet whilst trying not to appear rude. I lie and tell them "It's a sign of genius".

(Sorry for the threadrot. I've obviously been examing my wounded foot for too long. I'll stop now, I promise.)

All Acting Regiment

23:06 / 04.05.06

Luck of the draw, mate. As a kid I went to the forest bit wearing wellies and got a three inch nail up through my heel. I've also had a stable lodged in my bare feet, with the wings of it bent inwards and thus locked in.

All Acting Regiment

00:44 / 05.05.06

Oh, fuck it, I meant staple. Stable's funnier though.

-Leba R#&139#&427

Goodness Gracious Meme

01:20 / 05.05.06

the English weather makes me frown. Today has been glorious, summerlike, cheering etc and has enabled my first sea-swimming sesh of the year.

But of course the temp is due to drop/rain is due to fall over the next few days.

I mean, really. Is a stable climate too much to ask.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:29 / 07.05.06

The SunDi Express has a list of "GENUINE metaphors used by GENUINE GCSE students today". Not sure how GENUINE they are, but they are actually quite funny. Problem is, THEY'RE ALL FUCKING SIMILES!!!

Stupid SunDi Express.

paranoidwriter waves hello

14:30 / 18.05.06

Note to self: the next time you write a nice tune that involves a bit of finger-trickery on the guitar to sound "just right", make sure you draw a picture (or something) as well as recording it. Otherwise, months later, after two whole days of repeatedly listening back to the tape and only being about to work out a crude and lifeless rendition, one can suddenly feel an overwhelming desire to stick pencils up one's nostrils and slam one's face against a desk.

14:35 / 18.05.06

30% is being docked off my pay from next month! Ooh, it's just like the miners' strike. Except tweedier.

14:40 / 18.05.06

why Deva?

14:49 / 18.05.06

Something to do with the strikes at universities?

14:57 / 18.05.06

doh. oh yeah.

15:18 / 18.05.06

That's the one. Sorry to be mystifying: for those who aren't following the news as breathlessly as me, two unions for university teachers/lecturers in the UK have called a mini-strike (mainly an assessment boycott) in response to :

40% decline in salaries compared with average earnings for non-manual workers in the last 20 years,
150% increase in productivity in the same time
25% new funding in the sector over the next three years.)

Hard to get terribly worked up over it, even for me,* given that getting this job after doing my PhD involved like a 300% pay rise or something (though now I have to pay tax! And repay my student loans! Who knew???), but, you know. Up the workers! Sort of.

*Hence posting in this thread, not in 'headsick and rage'.

16:20 / 24.05.06

East-Berlin´s biggest department store reopened again after years of renovating. During that time, they still were open, but it was all noisy and with obvious improvisation.

So to celebrate today showing itself finally finished to the public, they had big ads in the newspapers the last days, and I wanted to get a Canon 350D SLR advertised for 549.00 € instead of the 650-700 € everywhere else.

The salesperson tells the guy in front of me in the queue, they´ve been sold out two days ago (when that ad was published), but we can leave our name and address, but it´s noncommittal, they can´t promise anything.

She then told me, yes the prospect has a big "Eröffnung [opening] am 24. Mai", but that doesn´t mean, the cameras are being sold since today.

It´s so obvious, they only wanted to get people to come today, thinking they´ll buy something anyway, once they´re there. pffft!

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19:21 / 24.05.06

You can thank America, Mist.

19:53 / 24.05.06

Stuff like that happens there, too? Did they invent this evil scheme?

A friend called me 15 minutes ago, to ask if I got the camera. We wanted to visit the chinese garden tomorrow and shoot some photos with the new camera and compare it to his camera´s pictures. He told me he, he had expected, that I wouldn´t get it, but he´s sure, they´ll sell me the camera for the same price, when they get a new delivery. He believes they don´t want to ruin their name because of some measly €s, and there supposedly is a law that they have to sell you the stuff for the advertised price in a certain amount of time after the advertisment. Hrmpfh, we´ll see.

21:02 / 24.05.06

Assuming the store is big enough and you have a loud enough voice/big enough words, they'll probably bend. 'Oil the noisiest cog' and all that...

I've been getting bulletins from my university which cast the lecturers in a pretty bad light. It seems it's been very easy to play the students' worries and cares about their degrees off againts the teacher's strike. I've yet to hear another student actually think that the Unions are being anything other than 'a bloody nuisance'.

Seeing as Blair has said he wants 50% of people going to uni, he seems to be going about it in a rather strange fashion. Tuition top ups and cutting of lecturers wages. One of my lecturers (one of the best) was leaving to be a Lawyer, of all things.

My conspiracy mind says "Blair corps want to bring the cost of educating people down to minimum levels and aren't fussed if that means some of the better educators leave. Tuition fees go up to avoid even more costs. University becomes a shopping experience - trained staff with the modicum of knowledge on a subject giving formulated 'pass notes' to the consumer who leaves with a degree and some new skills for the work sector. Those degrees that aren't geared specifically to business or possible earning potential become marginalised and forced to include some 'sales worth'. University becomes McUni - just an extention of an already-stifling high-school experience, but which the governement can make money from."

Raaa. So yeah, i'm pretty ticked off about commercialisation of learning. But i failed anyway, so can't complain too much.

But i'm pretty ticked off about failing too. But i did fail to get the work in on time, so yet again; can't complain..

Education? What education?

14:38 / 04.06.06

Tch!
When I'm waiting to turn right at a nice wide junction, where there is ample room to turn right-side to right-side as we are recommended to do by the Highway Code Rule 157 (because it makes sense when there's a shitload of cars going straight on in both directions), what the fuck is your problem so big that you have to hit your horn and flash your lights at me and try to sneak through trying to go left to left and giving me the finger? Huh? Fucknut.
Oh, and the other guy who can't use his indicators to tell me he's about to turn into the road I'm crossing and nearly run me over - then call me "speccy". I congratulate you on using an insult I have never in all my 23 years of wearing glasses. Cranberry.

14:53 / 04.06.06

consuming the last segment of a rather tasty and (until that point) seedless, orange ... my teeth crunch into a solitary and mean spirited seed.

ech, spitty spitty

foolish fat finger

12:23 / 05.06.06

I am bugged by the devaluing of the word 'Goddess'. all that stuff like 'be a Goddess in the kitchen'. what, by boiling sprouts?! I can't claim to fully conceive of the concept of divinity, but I am pretty sure it doesn't involve sprouts...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:27 / 05.06.06

It's sunny outside. It's my week off. And I foolishly let a friend (who lives in a hostel) use my address to order a new mobile phone. Which means I have to stay in all day for a courier who I suspect may never arrive.

All Acting Regiment

12:30 / 05.06.06

Kill him when he does. Make a cup of the skull.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:38 / 05.06.06

Shh. If he hears you he'll DEFINITELY not turn up.

P. Horus Rhacoid

18:34 / 05.06.06

My bank account appears to have negative $41 in it at the moment. And my rent's due. And I am running out of food. Also, jobless. Time to mooch off the 'rents SOME MORE...

I'm off to keep looking for a job, wish me luck.

P. Horus Rhacoid

18:36 / 05.06.06

To clarify the 'running out of food' bit: running out of food with the exception of pasta. I have tons of pasta. Ramen and spaghetti ahoy!

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:42 / 05.06.06

Bah. Phoned the buggers at 5:30 having already had a crisis of faith at about 3pm and called them to check it was still on its way... this time they tell me it's not scheduled for delivery until tomorrow morning.

Grr.

Tabitha Tickletooth

12:48 / 22.06.06

When I didn't know, I wasn't disappointed. But now...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:57 / 22.06.06

Oh no... why did you have to tell us that, TT? It's ruined my day.

Ah well. No Hassel...

I'll get me coat, shall I?

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