Pointless Announcements

So here I am... stoned and drunk and barely able to type... that's me... good thing I can smell IRIS because i just got 36 points off it...

And that somebody is ME, in about ten minutes.  I'm going to show Sunday morning my favourite sweater.  I hope Sunday morning likes it.  Then I have to visit somebody's rehearsal because they wanted to talk to me about that terrible audition.  And the whole while I'm talking to this person I'll be missing Sunday morning.  But don't worry, Sunday morning, because i'll be back quite soon.  We can drop by the library together, kay?

There are starburst jellybeans (the best jellybeans ever) on my off-duty boss's desk and to grab some I have to walk all the way over there and all the way back pretending to have some reason other than just snacking and what I really want is to just bring the whole container over here so I can eat them whenever I want but my on-duty boss would probably frown upon that and I'd probably end up feeling ill and not being able to taste anything for quite some time.

The bookstore near my house finally got 'Survivor'. Hopefully 'Invisible Monsters' is next.

have a safe trip, derek.

Thanks Damien, 61 posts and I like you already, new record!

somehow my scrollbar has shifted to the left side of my screen.

this is the first time i've been in PA since the shift. What's up?

nuthin much.

diggin the new avatar.

why thank you.

shucks. your payment is on its way.

I ended up finishing the cup of jellybeans.  I got outta Dodge before my off duty boss came on shift.  Let's hope she won't be pissed.

I have to work in ten minutes. I'm actually somewhat looking forward to it I'm so fucking bored lately. I have to sew my hacky sack, take a multivitamin, and do some stretches before I go. I will forget one of these things.

I am going to wager you didn't sew your sack.

Another Pitt Interview 10am this morning coming up. I honestly dont give a shit right now if i get it or not all i want to do is sleep and fuck  something. Neither of those will happen and trazodone is bullshit. I tried again to start a joke religion based around robocop, i mean he died trying to serve the people, and was re incarnated as a cyborg who is hell bent on serving the people....seemed reasonable enough but people got offended.

What the hell is up with the V for vendetta mask in the scientology protest???
Protesting a strange celebrity based religion is fine and dandy and all but its not some epic revolution the symbolism just seems childish...well more childish than protesting a harlmess strange religion.

Im about to leave Germany, Cujo better be happy to see me when I get home.

Yeah, I thought that was ridiculous, too.

and while im on it why cant scientology be based off of Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land

What john smiths invented religion ends up preaching is actually good for the world, and its also is just a good book (even if it is a rip off of brave new world).

Ah fuck!

God damned hippies ruin everything

To be honest I think the whole covering of faces thing is absurd in the first place, but a V mask in particular seems a combination of flip and arrogant.  The protests, I would hope, would be more about raising awareness on the dangers of the scientology organization and less about creative masks and jokes about losing legs.  It, like some of the videos and tactics the Anon group sometimes employs, generates a feeling more of empty performance than sincere protest.

On the other hand, maybe they have better success with getting people's attention that way. I dunno.

Yesterday, walking home from work in the sweltering heat, I stopped off at a store. I bought a pair of shoes for $5. Reduced from $19.74. They are simple; blue synthetic leather flats, with a blue bow on top. I think they're beautiful though. Although they scare me somewhat, because I don't know why they were cheap. Despite this, they made me happy yesterday. My boyfriend being grammatically correct when he was sweet-talking me also made me happy. This weather, it does not.

Do the boys in Australia normally speak with especially unfortunate grammar

Oh well, you know how teenagers are generally incapable of speaking properly. But this was in writing, and yes, grammar isn't always the top priority.

I'm up earlier than I would like to be.  I do, however, have the time to pick out a new outfit since the one I'd previously selected did not have any green in it.  Because, I swear, if someone pinches me.....  I have no idea what I'll do.

My mother should be packing up to head this way.  She'll be here with 2 of my nieces for Spring Break.  Then my dad is driving over some time this week.  I'll see if I can get video of the resulting throwdowns.

I think Im the only guy in Dublin airport not wearing Green.

Happy St Patricks Day Folks!!!!!

When do you get home so we can see photos of your trip? 

Right and totally. I tried to rush through the sewing job but couldn't even get the thread through the eye before I had to leave. I threw the thread and needle in my pocket and ended up sewing it in this guy's car on break. He and his friend were talking and I couldn't quite find any interest in their conversation. Dorky eighteen year olds, but the one kid is way funny when he isn't dulled down by his friend, who is just like...not a pulse on that kid, man.

This girl at work definitely wants to fuck me. And by fuck me I mean fuck me. Like, we might not even kiss once if this goes down, because she's got kids and a husband and stuff and she'll just want the stuff, you know. She originally didn't do much for me but I've been noticing more and more how nice her body is, and I told myself at first that I wouldn't, because she was married. My philosophy is, niggas get shot when they go after girls with husbands, and deservingly. But then this girl today tells me she isn't married! She talked about whether or not she should marry the guy (I didn't ask, she just talks nonstop) and she said he just sat at home all the time like a house wife and he used to be a roofer. All roofers used to be roofers, it seems. Every time I meet somebody that never works, they say they're a roofer.

Funny, though, I always talk about how marriage is bullshit, yet it was enough to convince me not to go after this girl. Now that she's not married, it's like she's fair game. Like that guy should have married her if he wanted her to be faithful to him. So does that mean my girlfriend could cheat on me as long as we weren't married? No. Does it mean that marriage then, has some meaning, because I would go after a guy's girlfriend but not his wife? Or am I just bullshitting myself to justify things so that I can have a stricly sexual relationship with this girl? When can I fuck her if she has to keep the secret in front of everybody at work and her husband is home all day? Should I even bother? She might have crabs or something and she's probly as loose as a goose...

Smile! 

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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/novelists_strike_fails_to_affect?ut...

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LOS ANGELES—The Novelists Guild of America strike, now entering its fourth month, has had no impact on the nation at all, sources reported Tuesday.[br]

The strike, which scholars say could be the longest since 1951, when American novelists may or may not have voluntarily committed to a six-month work stoppage, has brought an immediate halt to all new novels, novellas, and novelettes from coast to coast, affecting no one.[br]

Nor has America's economy seen any adverse effects whatsoever, as consumers easily adjust to the sudden cessation of any bold new sprawling works of fiction or taut psychological character studies.[br]

"There's a novelists strike?" Ames, IA consumer Carl Hailes said. "That's terrible. When is it scheduled to begin?"[br]

The strike kicked off last fall when the NGA announced it had hit a roadblock in negotiations with the Alliance of Printed Fiction and Literature Producers, failing to resolve certain key issues concerning online distribution, digital media rights, and readers just not getting what writers were trying to do with a number of important allegorical devices.[br]

After a press conference at the Massachusetts home of NGA president John Updike—who called the strike an attempt by novelists "to give both the sublime and mundane alike their beautiful due"—members of the guild began picketing their studies, desks, and libraries and refusing to work on any further novels until the APFLP and the American reading public agreed to their demands.[br]

So far, sources say, no one has attempted to cross the picket lines, most of which are located in private homes. However, unconfirmed reports indicate that at least one novelist may be breaking the strike by writing under the pseudonym "Richard Bachman."[br]

"We must, as a people, achieve a resolution to this strike soon," novelist David Foster Wallace said at a rally Monday at Pomona College in Claremont, CA, where he is a professor. "The thought of this country being deprived of its only source of book-length fiction is enough to give one the howling fantods."[br]

"I thank you both for coming," he added.[br]

While the strike has been joined by an estimated 250,000 novelists—225,000 of whom have reportedly stopped in the middle of their first novel—it has done no damage to any measurable sector of the economy, including bookstore chains, newspapers, magazines, all major media, overseas markets, independent film studios, major film studios, actors, editors, animators, carpenters, those in finance or banking, the day-to-day lives of average Americans, or anything else anyone can think of as of press time.[br]

A report published last week by the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication found that the strike has thus far had an economic impact of approximately 0.00 to 0.01 percent. In addition, consumer habits remain unaffected, with 0 percent of those polled saying their reading habits had changed "significantly," 0 percent saying they had changed "somewhat," and an additional 0 saying they had changed "slightly." A significant number of respondents reported no reading habits.[br]

Although some initially worried that the strike could affect Hollywood by limiting material for television or film adaptation, fears were quelled when studio executives announced in January that they would continue optioning comic books and graphic novels.[br]

The publishing industry itself, which many believed to be most vulnerable, has nonetheless managed to weather the crisis. Publishers have reissued new editions of early, pre-union novelists—such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jane Austen, both of whom have previously established successful track records—and have seen no no change in monthly sales.[br]

Some members of the public attempted to express concern over the prospect of the strike going on much longer.[br]

"If this situation is not brought to a halt soon, it could have serious ramifications for, you know, literary culture, I guess," said Kyle Farmer, a Phoenix-area real estate consultant and avid golfer. "It would be tragic if we had to go a whole year without a new novel from Kurt Vonnegut or Norman Mailer," he added, unaware that both authors died in 2007.[br]

No high-profile, red-carpet, star-studded telecasts of the PEN/Faulkner Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Awards, or the Man Booker Prize Awards were affected by the strike, since no such telecasts have ever existed.[br]

Im back in shitty little Tuam. Had a nice time in Germany! Thanks Ludwig and Barbara.

Oh dudes. I am cream crackered.

Gotta stay awake long enough to eat dinner.

Is that slang for some kind of sex thing?  It is, based on the mental picture I've got in my head right now.

Ugh, no. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_cracker

"Cream cracker" is rhyming slang for "knacker", as in "I'm cream-crackered" (meaning I'm exhausted)."[br][br]

Thanks.  That's much better than what I was picturing.

im changing over all my tanks and cages and my frogs tank still hasnt settled, its scaring the shit out of me. I can only keep bowie(my frog) in the temporary tank for an hour or so.

Whats strange though is this constant staring battle to the death that seems to be going on between sushi(my beta fish) & bowie(my frog) from two seperate tanks about 3 inches apart.

I've been away a while, av I missed anything important/ good. Oh and hello.

Hey, Stonecoyote.  I'm glad you're back. 

Everything is just as it was - awaiting your return perhaps.....

Anyone doing anything particular for St. Patty's Day?

I slept all day, and now am going to order pizza. I didn't have anything green that was clean, so I wrote 'green' on my arm in pen.

This has been the most exciting of st. patrick's days.

I have no plans really.  Just some late night reading and writing to manage through.  Recovering from bronchitis.(sp) I never knew I could cough up so much junk in one given day till this last week.  it has been pretty disgusting.  Was suppose to go to South Padre Island with some friends for spring break but i bailed out being sick n all.

If you've only had it for a week, in my experiences, you are nowhere near recovering yet.  Last winter I had bronchitis for about 2 months. 

well compared to how i was last week i'm a hell of a lot better

Does anybody have this phone?

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-i760-Black-Verizon-Wireless/dp/B000YA6EMY

I had always thought that Verizon was lacking greatly on the smartphone end of things, but this looks pretty good.  I don't know why they don't market this.   I've played with the Voyager and Venus and they both sort of suck in their own ways. 

 Just got back from vacation with my kids.

hey all you foreign type people. If I burn a DVD and sent it to someone across the high seas would they be able to play it in their computer still? I understand the Region stuff and that it wouldn't work in a regular DVD player but what about just watching it on the PC? yeah or nay?

It depends on the software they use. VLC ignores region codes, but things like winDVD or DVDpro don't.

Although I guess it might depend on the burning software too. Maybe you can burn it as a Region free dvd (region 0 or whatever it's called).  In which case you should be able to watch it with whateverthefuck software. But I don't burn DVD's so I don't know what the deal would be, it would probably involve ripping and then burning or something stupid.

i'm pretty sure drinking and fucking are on the agenda at 17. And that could be worldwide. I do not know...

I forget which thread i was saying something about there ever being enough esploding heads, but anyways, here's this...

Im back to work today, Dammit!