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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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My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

12:56 / 31.07.07

not that the army wouldn't love to be able to monitor people from inside their heads, but giving money to someone to research an idea isn't quite the same as planning to implement it in the near future. assuming this research group doesn't just piss away most of the money on paperwork and trips to the tropics - which is, in my experience, mostly what happens - assuming the project even works, and then goes through testing to prove that it's safe, you'd still have to get it approved as a policy. that's gonna be decades at best. and probably it'd get slapped down by some voters or congresspeople somewhere along the way.

still, yeah. yuck.

14:45 / 31.07.07

That sounds reassuring. Let´s hope the scientists spend the money on beer and biscuits then.

17:03 / 31.07.07

I was just talking to someone who works in my field and, like me, is an East Coast transplant... this guy is by all accounts the best at what we do in the area. He told me that the market here sucks, and even he is not able to do his/our chosen profession full time. People don't want to pay for quality, and there is an abundance of hacks - he says he didn't know how good he had it back East.

This, while reassuring in the sense that it shows it's not something about me that's made my work so sporadic since I moved, is very bad news. I gave up a successful business back East and moved 1500 miles away... the whole point being to carve out an affordable lifestyle for my SO and myself. Only to find out my one skill is not in demand here... is scary.

I may have to think about going back to school to get a teaching degree or... something. I have no idea what else I'd be qualified for. My degree is in "art." Temp & secretarial work unfortunately do not pay the bills, with the bills I currently have.

Children, learn a trade.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

16:38 / 01.08.07

you should really have to earn the right to have a "reply to all" button in your email software by demonstrating that you have some idea when such an action would be appropriate and when it would not.

18:43 / 01.08.07

Ibis, to be fair, you have learned a trade. It's just not that marketable where you are, which sucks. Mucho condolences and hope things pick up or you can find other work, or even move to better location, soon.

If I can ask a question? Was it just you who made the move or did your husband also have to upsticks West? I'm thinking back to your wedding/marriage thread but cannee remember the details and your post has made me wonder about the moving wives/female-id spouses of Barbelith.

18:48 / 01.08.07

Apologies: husband-to-be.

19:13 / 01.08.07

though MattS is moving to the States to be with Kali.

20:17 / 01.08.07

If I can ask a question? Was it just you who made the move or did your husband also have to upsticks West? I'm thinking back to your wedding/marriage thread but cannee remember the details and your post has made me wonder about the moving wives/female-id spouses of Barbelith.

We moved together. His family is here... but it was a joint decision. We thought, everything is more affordable here and it might be a chance to get a foothold in life. He found a good job but we need two steady incomes to pay our bills.

On the good news front, one of the people/colleagues in town who was having a major work slump called today to say she is swamped with work now and wants me to clear my calendar for the whole month so she can sub me out.... Maybe these artistic types are just being overdramatic about the market? It's a feast or famine business - as long as it cycles within a year, and not years at a time, I can probably deal....

20:48 / 10.08.07

I have been gifted a bottle of... well, it says it's brandy but I suspect, unless we loosen our definitions so greatly as to nullify their pupose, the label lies.

The gifter is being very sweet, and was slightly concerned that I was seen having dinner with gasp, shudder, horror someone else. The brandy is an attempt to, I dunno, buy me off. I don't mind being bought off, so much. I don't enjoy disliking gifts, especially from nice people, but: do not give anyone E & J brandy. It is only Very Special in the sense that, unlike most bottles of alcohol, this one cannot be thrown with great force with any reliable accuracy.

One more glass, I suspect, and I'll be convinced they aren't trying to appeal to me, with this, but to put me out of my misery.

Mysterious Transfer Student

14:10 / 15.08.07

Co-workers who 'humorously' voice the opinion that a man who wears a pink shirt to work must be of 'questionable' sexuality.

How I relish being reminded that I live in a country populated by people who haven't had a new thought since 1983.

14:23 / 15.08.07

In a cafe on campus the other day I heard a fellow member of staff utter these words

"Feral gangs roaming the streets - it makes me want to start a movement. Reclaim the streets!"

Where, on God's Earth, to begin?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

14:35 / 15.08.07

There are Cat People roaming your streets? Does Andrew Lloyd Webber know about that?

Does T.S. Eliot?

14:51 / 15.08.07

Does Nastassja Kinski?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:56 / 15.08.07

So, Eurolines coaches go to various destinations in Bosnia but won't tell me where the fuck from. The Centrolines page, where one is directed from the Bosnian tourist site, doesn't have an English translation--it just taunts me with an unclickable flash advert for some kind of transport company somewhere which will apparently take me to Bosnia from BCN for 99 euros. Much Googling turns up backpacker's accounts of the poingiancy and beauty of the country but no actual concrete travel info.

Why? WHY DO YOU TAUNT ME?

18:05 / 15.08.07

Call them?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:37 / 15.08.07

I couldn't be fucked, they're in the UK. Anyhow a coach to Bosnia takes like 50 hours and costs as much as a plane so phooey to that.

00:04 / 16.08.07

I'm about halfway though Aliaster Campbell's (F*** it, I can't be arsed to look up the proper spelling - I've had no sleep, because I was busy saving the world from itself, plus I have to take McDonald, my boy, to a football match, ye radges) Diary, and it's a little disturbing to think that a man like that was effectively in charge of the UK government for so long.

There's nothing anyone can do about it now, of course, but still ... oh my God

15:20 / 23.08.07

Waco crowd boos Bill Nye (the Science Guy) for declaring that the moon reflects light from the sun.

Oh, DEAR.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:25 / 23.08.07

ARGGH STOP SHOWING ME THINGS LIKE THAT I HAVE JUST BITTEN THROUGH MY LAST MOUTHGUARD.

15:30 / 23.08.07

Just proof that He is the greatest straight man for a comedy double act. God sets them up, Bill Nye knocks 'em down.

21:42 / 23.08.07

"I'll say, old chap- we all know that OUR LORD covered the moon with light-emitting diodes!"

Mysterious Transfer Student

20:21 / 24.08.07

I swear I misread that to say light-emitting dildoes.

There's something very wrong with me this evening.

20:24 / 24.08.07

Or, maybe you've just been given a divine insight into a niche market.
The vaginal canal, and surrounds, might just be paved with gold for you.

20:35 / 24.08.07

Really, I should have known there are no sexual niches left.

NSFW, obviously.

Mysterious Transfer Student

20:56 / 24.08.07

Thinking about it... not that such a thing is to be advised unless you are being paid to do so... you could add an endoscope in there as well to take full advantage of the interior illumination, for the total panopticist-scopophiliac Paul Pope's 100%-meets-late '80s Cronenberg experience.

My mother is so proud of me, since you ask.

Btw, is this the kind of thread you can actually rot? If I am already doing so I apologise. In fact I apologise pre-emptively and intransitively.

21:09 / 24.08.07

It already exists. In a strange, white, bubble vision design.
I mean, split beaver I get, but at what point does it just become a gyneacology lesson?

The local Goth prototype has become a run-of-the-mill example of the apocalypse.

04:06 / 25.08.07

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My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

14:44 / 28.08.07

I wish Iron Fist and Cassanova had come out in a not-hardback trade so I wouldn't be that much more reluctant to buy them right now.

Also I was all set to eat something healthy and cheap and then just thought of the hamburger place next to the comics shop and now nothing else will do. Why is it so easy to torture myself with exercise, and so hard to deny myself yummy bad food?

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

13:38 / 29.08.07

yay! my motherboard has arrived.

boo! it didn't fix my computer.

at this point I can almost build a second machine from the parts I've needlessly ordered. in the end I'm going to spend $120 to fix a $1 switch in the case or something.

ah, but I'll have the satisfaction of having wasted that $120 without anyone's help...

Sebastian Flyte

14:05 / 29.08.07

Two words, so much anger.

David Cameron.

Never mind the content... it's the quality of speech-writing that really incenses me. The lazy alliteration at the end is just offensive.

Bastard.

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:07 / 29.08.07

Just another fucking Tory.

11:20 / 30.08.07

The fact that a story about the Chinese Penis Museum or something, has been floating around the top 5 emailed news stories on the BBC website for about 2 years now.

19:15 / 31.08.07

I've been ill with gastroenteritis.

I was ill with gastroenteritis over my stag weekend in sunny Cornwall.

The more I think about it the more it annoys me.

Pyewacket The Elder

22:52 / 31.08.07

Plastic Coat hangars - I hate 'em the noisy bastards. Work of the devil I tell ye.

01:12 / 01.09.07

Photoshop crashing.

Long time no save.

Hrrrrrrrmmmmmm.

Bedtime.

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