mom placation was ironing by which mens perrypops in a womansuit is the new child mystericating teats that can taint baconated digestive broads plastercasting gnostically from the great gospel wwjh

i feel so honored to be a part of this momentous event!

http://www.greatdreams.com/trumpets-sml.jpg

Unless we fucking hate you. In which case, goose eggs dude.

-- John Justen, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 10:38 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

chit chat!

chit for chat!

Destroyed by tza in wordtwist :o

550-221 :o

it was your first try!

:D

Hmmmm, so this is the new place, huh? I like it!

Also, the vast majority of my intake today has been chocolate cake and margaritas, but when I feel more myself, I'll go back to the Word Twist.

(But I suck at it)

oh wow i am jealous. my day was laundry and being bored.

p.s. warning to everyone i am starting games with all of you

Well, I was with my family, so it wasn't AMAZING or anything, but I had a pleasant afternoon. I have accomplished ZERO today, which feels surprisingly great.

tehresa, you are already kicking my ass at more than one kind of game, I think! More people should play Path Words with me. Bonus: you're almost guaranteed to win!

nahh I'm terrible at all of this facebook games

hey there. just watched "The Haunting", and that shit was super creepy.

..not to take away from tehresa's triumph tho
xp

do i have to have facebook to play these games, because i don't have facebook.

..not to take away from john's creepedness
xo

i mean

xp

xp The original version? I am SO scared to see that!

oh hey I watched 27 dresses, I called my buddy (who had to watch it w/ his gf too)to tell him how shit it is and he was all 'nah it was prety good'. I was upset.

yeah, lxy :(

hah i am watching basketball

btw thread title is NOT THAT LONG TBH

just sayin',.

..not to take away from it tho

u r rite. butthis new thread is so CLEAN AND SPARKLY LOOKING!

HI OMG WTF I MISSED THE MOMENTOUS OCCASION OF OUR SPECIAL THREAD COMING TO ITS END BUT HEY WHATEVS CUZ I HAS A .....

VISA TO THE USofA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats!

that's great ruby<3

I feel vaguely atrocious that I was not present for the, uh, turnover.

but y'know whatever fuck it.

thanks guys! and thanks tombot, cuz i know that was your special way of saying 'congratz'

i think it was his special way of saying "y'know whatever fuck it"

i would like to share this lovely picture with you:
http://i26.tinypic.com/2lwkmcl.jpg

YAAAAAAY RUBYREDD!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

the end of an era. take care all.

and congrats to rubic hair

Greetings and congratulations to all. Anyway, I read this story and somehow Tombot came to mind:

The country’s market reforms also opened Beijing’s cultural armor, and foreigners began introducing techno music to locals hungry for sounds from the outside world. By the end of the ’90s, all-night parties on the Great Wall were drawing hundreds of Chinese and foreign ravers. The gatherings were banned in 2006 after reports depicting them as “wild orgies” surfaced in China’s state-controlled news media.

Still, Beijing’s appetite for club culture and techno beats continued to grow, in part fueled by the information and speed on the Internet.

“Before, there was no way to get this music, and I had to find it through friends who brought it from Europe,” said Mr. Wang, who organized some of the Great Wall parties. “Now we can go online and hear the newest Berlin tracks at the same time as the Germans.”

Jin Shu, a public relations executive who studied at Oxford before returning to Beijing five years ago, is thrilled that the capital is catching up to London and Ibiza. “Electronica is now more popular then hip-hop,” he said. “Chinese have more of a desire to see and compare themselves to overseas night life, and this is what they are hearing.”

TODAY, the Chinese seem to be discovering simultaneously the last 40 years of pop music, not only house and techno beats but classic rock, salsa and punk. The chaotic fusion of influences gives Beijing night life a creative, if hectic, tang.

“It’s the ultimate post-modernist laboratory,” said Dan Stephenson, 31, a Salt Lake City native who moved to Beijing six years ago and created the Syndicate, which puts on drum ‘n’ bass parties at bars and clubs.

So clearly tracks should be created to conquer Beijing.

guys, "been caught stealing" is playing over my office pa/sound system thingy. odd choice for a company that just got bought out and whose employees are sitting around waiting to be layed off.

Oh weird!

CONGRATS! RUBY!

ss: PSYOPS!

Anyone here like Indian food? Because I'm sitting here eating LAMBCHOP BHUNA on PILAU RICE with a dollop of yoghurt and life is gooooood.

...when local record store caught thieves in the late 80s they sat the person on the dunce stool and cranked Shoplifters of the World Unite. It's psyops.

well now theyre playing some song that is going "its too laaaate" over and over

suzy, please email me some of your Indian food, because I loooooove it!

I am playing no music at the moment, but will accept suggestions for what might drive the kids out of the house and into the backyard.

MOLLIFICATION IS A FEELING BY WHICH I MEAN THIS THREAD IS THE NEW INANE CHATTER THREAD

refreshing!

tear gas

xpost

Emergency! Help me choose karaoke songs for tonite!

xp John, always helpful.

tehresa - uh... anything by Abba? ;)

i am thinking i may honor my sis w/ a lil sussussudio

Arrange to send her a video of that; I'm sure she'll be alarmedtouched.

oh she will be there! live tribute!

(we have a special connection to the album 'no jacket required' and have since we were quite young)

I AM HOME SICK AND THERE IS BAD WEATHER OUTSIDE

I mistakenly treated this two-day weekend like a three-day weekend, I think

maybe it was the being up at 4:30 part

Well, I hope you get better quickly.

I have picked, cleaned, peeled, chopped and frozen rhubarb, so now I feel virtous. I just have to figure out what I'm going to do with it.

oh wow awesome. you could do a compote to serve with ice cream. or pie. mmmm. lauren mentioned making rubarb salsa on ilc. that sounds cool!

lolz I can see this is a thread title that will be undergoing ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

MOLLIFICATION IS A FEELING BY WHICH I MEAN THIS THREAD IS THE NEW CHILD SCARING THREAD THAT MAY CONTAIN TEAR GAS

Ooooh rhubarb salsa! That sounds interesting.

I had been thinking of doing a rhubarb crisp with a custard sauce, but I looked at the recipe and it takes 8 cups of rhubarb. I would need to pick more rhubarb and probably find people to eat it (I'd send it through the mail, tehresa, but I don't think that would work well...).

you could just make a smaller crisp, no? maybe in little ramekins for individual crisps.

Probably, yes. I could halve the recipe, buy more rhubarb, pick more rhubarb or choose a different recipe. For some reason (possibly my squabbling children), I am totally overwhelmed by all of these ideas right now. I'll probably feel cheerful about the possibilities again tomorrow, though.

BUT I should thank you, because you have reminded me that I actually own little ramekins and I never EVER use them. I should!

lingbert sonned by thread title

i love ramekins!!! i should get some.

Oh my gosh, dudes, my brother has a moustache AND a girlfriend. How the hell did this happen? I thought the two were mutually exclusive.

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v188/127/62/727149082/n727149082_727857_2531.jpg

(His girlfriend is right of him.)

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v194/69/4/685591054/n685591054_1048202_3137.jpg

What the heck?!?!?

It's love. There is no bad thing re: love.

TWO DAYS UNTIL LOUISVILLE AND DRUNKEN RUIN. Perhaps.

Dude, I know, I am so happy for my brother! I wish he still shaved it into a Waters stache like he used to.

Moustaches are forever a mystery to me.

i have been known to master the moustache on occasion

"master"

hey guise what's goin on?

omg I am watching the girls next door and holly will kill us all.

^^^^^ TRUE

Done walking on treadmill; time for a shower and then time wasting until my hair is dry enough for me to go to sleep. Kinda dull here.

SWEEEEEEEEEENEY TOOOODDDDDDDD!

daer johnny depp u r a traet

the countless heads smashing into hard cement made me shudder

Well, it's in the top ten in my netflix queue. So looking forward to it! (maybe not the heads smashing into hard cement)

Abbott your brother looks terrifyingly similar to (very funny) English comic actor Mark Heap.

Perhaps he is Mark Heap and this is all a plot.

Hmmm. Tuesday.

hahah John I think I told you that this movie was awesome months ago

haha Facebook friend suggester suggests I have an FOF who is a drag queen travelling under the alias 'Victoria Peckham'.

Dan is correct. In my flurry of moving, my netflix queue dwindled to a tiny stream from the babbling brook it once was, so i just finally got it here (I bumped it to the top of my cue because Dan is the awesome)

yay

taste maker, technical director, bad-ass suavester

Actually, I believe that Dan told us that if we didn't see Sweeney Todd that he would hate us with the intensity of a thousand suns or something. Obviously I have been worried about this for many months, but am hoping to repair our friendship by seeing the film this summer.

"bad-ass suavester?"

xp to suzy - You should INSIST on meeting that person.

Dan is a Smoove D figure for ugly donkeys... (xpost)

is mollification going out of style?

yes, it's all about the gasface now

"gasface" is not a word that I wanted to read this afternoon.

Or EVER.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~trims/Images/mr-yuk.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdmwmxhHmlg

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/903421/2/istockphoto_903421_old_gas_mask.jpg

I forsee WordTwist as something very, very addictive to me.

^^^this

man, i almost caught up to you on that game :(

I know! Was sweating a little bit there.

so close i was like A:LEKGJ

ps to everyone wondering: 602-590

;_;

dan i'm going to have friend you cuz i have a word twist sickness and need more ppl willing to play me. it's basically how i unwind when i get home from the restaurant.

I spent 1:30 of this last game going "WHY WON'T IT ACCEPT 'DRINDL' AS A WORD???????" doh

hey hey i pulled ahead in the end there! now what will ruby do...

bah I'm gonna lose

oh wait, why did Rubyredd score a 0 on the last round????

I WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

i think it was 'dirndl' that saved me

damn! well done!

^_^

we finally has a style borad!!!

I know it was fucking DIRNDL that doomed me. grrrr

yay style board!

yeah!
xpost

Word Twist is the awesomeness. It is too bad that I am not very good at it. ;_;

(doesn't mean I won't play, though...)

practice, sara... before you know it you will be good and addicted. also i have been dreaming about letter combinations lately... maybe a bad sign?

I'm addicted; I just suck at it!

I tend to play the timed games at night, when the kids are less likely to interrupt me. Random Exciting Fact!

wow newscasters really going nuts over this mets fiasco!

my theory is that local journos are royally pissed that the story broke when everyone was on the other coast

hah yeah i did hear a lot of 'they sent out the press release in the middle of the night and they're not even here!'

pollpollpolllop

^^get ur votes in it's important^^

ONLY 12 DAYS LEFT

wow that game of word twist was wack!

think i'll stick with 6-worders from now on

also lolz @ Crutis's santorum.jpg on wallogina thread

I just want you all to know that in the Word Twist game between RR, tehresa, HI DERE and me I tried to play SUCCME as a word. Sadly, it is NOT a word. ;_;

Okay, Hastings-related people: I just found St4c3y M4tul4 on myspace:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=176733717

lololololololololololol

GO CRAZY, JOHN

Hehehe

I'm off to Louisville!

Have fun Ned! Safe travels!

xp Uh... John was crazy already, Dan. The best friend is always the last to know.

Maybe this wasn't your intention but I am now convinced that John and St4cy hooked up in high school.

3 DAY BAN

xp hahaha, not that he ever told ME about

I am trying to wrap my mind around the prayathon that St4cy would have had to go into after THAT.

After's easy, it's the beforehand prayathon that was probably really amazing.

^^^ What worries me about this is that you seem to know a lot about it yourself.

WHAT HAPPENS IN SWING CHOIR STAYS IN SWING CHOIR

This is forcing me to consider Mr. W4rr3n in new and disturbing ways.

Did M3l1ss4 ever tell you the story about the time several girls in the choir got him to take his shirt off in the choir robe room to prove he didn't have a hairy back?

I don't know whether to laugh or be appalled!

gah

so in my continuing cultural literacy speed course, i watched "there will be blood" last night and it was great great great.

then i read the ILE thread and was confused. so i came here.

hello.

also read Haunted by Palahuninuniunuiniuiuk and it was meh. Dan, was Lullaby the one you recommended to me a while ago?

dude is such a weird, empty writer, but still compelling on some lizard brain level. Sort of reminds me of Will Self without the requisite chops.

I am trying to reintegrate myself into pop culture by reading the new Stephen King book (Duma Key). I'm about a third of the way through it and kind of getting a sense of where he's going with it. Seems okay.

When I finish that I'm going back to reading Bonk, the book about sex research. (Same author as Stiff). Footnotes in Bonk are predictably hilarious.

John, you're light years ahead of me in pop culture lit.

tonight, if no one warns me against it, is "Last King Of Scotland" night.

I think I'm walking on the treadmill to episodes from the third season of The Simpsons.

I ASSUME NO ONE WILL OBJECT TO THAT

Oh, and I think The Shining is coming from Netflix. A. has never seen it!

You are all making some excellent televisual choices. 3rd Season Simpsons is supoib and Last King of Scotland surprised me.

I DLed Recount yesterday so I'm gonna watch that.

lullaby is awesome mostly because everyone can identify with having the power to wish someone dead

ESPECIALLY ME RIGHT NOW

Weeeeelllll I'm glad I usually stay on your good side, Dan...

wHO IS VeronaInTheClub?

sock?

or just v v annoying?

wow i have such a headache that i couldn't even enjoy the free booze at networking event tonight and left to come home with people saying 'wait! don't go! we haven't met our cap yet! drink more!'

this is a sad, sad day.

i think jj's analysis of palansuisdngk is spot on... i read one of his books many years ago... about some guy in a weird culty society and he is like the last one left or something? also this is how i learned that you are not allowed to mix clorox and windex together - that is deadly. but yeah... pretty empty reading, but good way to pass the time.

i need to think of books for taking to read on beaches in MAUI which is in like 1.5 weeks omg excited!

p.s. loving current thread title!

it is a delight

lunacy is what we do best.

re: Veronaintheclub - i have no idea, but yes, annoying

xp I have never heard of this author you guys are talking about. SO SAD

I did discover that "kids, go pick some strawberries in the backyard" is an ace way to 1. get the kids out of my hair for half and hour and 2. also not have to pick strawberries myself

ps tehresa - I hope you are feeling more up to random drinks tomorrow and that you get some!

JUST KILLED A GIANT CENTIPEDE IN MY DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM

WHY ARE THEY SO DISGUSTING BRRRRRRRRRR

ugh i hattteeeeee them!!!!!!!!

God, me too. I just went in there to change out the towels, turned around, and had to walk right out to get the vacuum. Upon which I put the longest possible extenders so that I did not have to get too close.

Okay, I'm still not over it. UGH

haha you vaccum them up!
they move so fast!

Yes... but I sneak up on the slooooowly and quietly. And then I let the vacuum run for ridiculously long after I get them because I think they might somehow come back out... *shudder*

VITC is kind of annoying but I think when we have a new poster drought for a while we forget that we were all twits at the beginning

most of still are actually

i think i was pretty timid at beginning so was less annoying and more unnoticed.

hah! now i ramble....

I have not run into this VeronaITC person yet. I must find more time to waste here!

Also, I should go to bed. Good night Tom and tehresa and ITR...

HOLY SHIT

i should make this thread title longer and more breakable

When you're right, you're right.

can't argue with the troof.

or bears

John only fights with bears physically; he won't bother to argue with them.

i have not seen: estela or Mark C here recently

:O :O :O

was talking about that just last night

E's around. C's not.

E on Cs

i seen estela recently on another board. she told me she hates all of you now. sorry.

Where is Cs? I like that guy.

*ignores deeznuts' loraxesque post*

Maybe he met someone and is, you know, BUSY

I have been busy experimenting with a chocolate chunk recipe today. Turns out they are hard to make taste bad.

i have been busy today taking busses everywhere just for fun and to fill time and enjoy scenic brooklyn. i mean, i actually had somewhere to go, but i chose busses rather than trains (and subsequently an extra hour on each leg of trip) for sightseeing purposes.

Hey, that sounds fun! I have only seen my house and a local park. ;_;

i got a bussy tour of wburg, bushwick, bed stuy, ft. greene, and prospect heights! i also walked around flatbush a lot. i saw a lot of jewishes today. the kids, i was worried about the ones i saw out the bus window, because the strings hanging off their prayer cloths might get caught in their bicycles and make them have the accidents! then when i was walking around flatbush, i saw a little kid w/ his mini tiny kiddie bike on the ground trying to get the prayer cloth fringe out of the chain :( at least he was not hurt.

tomorrow i am going to go to the park again for operatic singings and i think i take the bus down for more scenery.

I've met maybe 5 Jewish people in my life?

xp Wow, you don't have kids and you are alert to teh dangers! Glad the one who fell didn't get hurt...

Tomorrow I get to go out for sushi in Minneapolis, so I'm excited about that. I have had a massive sushi craving for weeks, which was unabated by eating sushi last Tuesday night. MUST HAVE MORE

xp I know very few Jewish people, but I blame that on where I live. Dan's ex-girlfriend was, I think, the only Jewish student in our high school. Any time I'd ask her about an aspect of Judaism, she would say, "I'm reform; I don't need to know that." (Writing that out does not do her hilarious delivery justice. She's a riot.)

oh guess i had some crown heights bus time, too.

yeah i am always thinking of the childrens. i like to think this means i will be a good mom some day but you never know...

i know many jewish people. one of my classmates is very observant, it's been a very educational year for me!

Actually when I was on exchange in France I stayed with a Jewish family and they were sooooo awesome.

i grew up w/ jewish best friend, our family's best friends included my older sister's violin and viola teachers and my little sister's best friend and the kids that i babysat for most of middle school and early high school. also my sister is married to a jew now. everyone thought we were jewish because we were not southern. my sister played anne frank and that only furthered the confusion, even though she told the director 2000 times she was catholic. hello! i am named after a saint and she is named after a nun my parents were friends with!! i don't think we could get any more shiksa.

If not southern = Jewish in some neighborhoods, well... well, I really don't know what to make of that. But okay!

When M3l was cast in The Sound of Music as a nun, she had to learn how to do the sign of the cross. That amused me.

She also liked to make fun of my (lapsing) Catholicism. She addressed letters to me at college to: Sara "Convent Runaway" Robinson. (The woman who shared my p.o. box was very curious to meet me.)

If not southern = Jewish in some neighborhoods, well... well, I really don't know what to make of that. But okay!

this was in south carolina, a.k.a. buckle o' the bible belt, where if you're not baptist or southern, you are assumed to be jewish and from new york.

haha my little sister just sent me a post card from chile addressed to 'sister theresa [last name]'

yuh i guess going to a fairly insular catholic boarding school didn't help my non-jewish ppl meeting.

Also amusing that the bursar of the school was a Jewish chap.

xp Okay, that's awesome. All of it!

You should use "Sister Theresa" as your ILX username.

wilter, living in Hastings was mostly like living in the land of the boring white people... being Catholic may have been viewed as slightly exotic to some. (I would have to say that the Jehovah's Witnesses seemed pretty exotic to me. Although I only ever met ONE.)

Northfield = somewhat better than Hastings was, because there are colleges here.

jordan is jewish!

i think he is maybe the second jewish person i've ever met in my whole life, but there aren't many at all in nz

guys seriously how long do we give estela before we start rejecting & denouncening her?

i say 25 posts

if she doesnt need us we dont need her either

xpost to Sara

http://sydneyirresistible.blogspot.com/2007/09/not-your-usual-sydney-school.html

^^exotic catholic school i attended. damn i would have ruled hstngs

holy shit dude

That is One Serious Looking School, wilter. WOW

xp I can't reject and denounce estela! I just CANNOT!

well you guys are down to 22 posts from doing just that

now 21

estella was a diver and she's always down

woah that school!

Okay, now I have to do my boring weight lifting. This is one of those things that I wish I could do in my sleep, because it is so painfully uninteresting.

Post-weight lifting pizza rolls are very tasty.

post, pre, or during anything pizza rolls are very tasty

I'm not going to ask you to qualify that statement in any way.

Also, why am I still sitting here?

PIZZZA ROLLS ARE ALWAYS GOOD IS WHAT I AM SAYING JEEZ

I believe that you are correct and I may have them for lunch again tomorrow. I felt off all day until I ate them. THEY CURED ME

ACCEPT THE ULTIMATE FLAVOR FROM THE DEMON OVENS OF JENO

no one has any idea what i am talking about again do they

Jeno's Pizza Rolls?

I think they are defunct, but yes I am following you.

Or maybe I'm not. I'm still unnerved by the "during" part of your statement.

MUMMIFICATION IS A YEARLING BY WHICH I MEANS THIS TASTY PIZZA ROLLS IS THE NEW CHILD SCARFING TEARS THAT MAY CONTAIN THREAD GAS BUT CERTAINLY CONTAINS TROOF. AND BEARS. AND HSTNGS MN SOBRIETY TEEN DANCE

^^^ for posterity

And now, good night.

well like during watching a movie or driving or eating or building a snow fort or organizing a amateur boxing match SHEESH

or going to sleep i guess xpost

putting "age of innocence" in yr netflix queue right next to "gangs of new york" is

A. unintentionally fucking hilarious in a special "when I tell this story later ppl will chuckle" kind of lol one ends in draft riots and four years later it's winona-marryin' time way
B. mad stupid and dumb and totally confounding to the brains while it's happening to you
C. a good way to get set for the weekend because really you could go fishing off of the West Bank and probably still have more fun

I want to say A, I really do. but really....

two really friendly girls were in my restaurant tonight, and they sounded american so i asked what part of the states they were from: 'oh we're from ontario, canada'. i apologised profusely (they were very gracious) and then leaned over and whispered 'i thought you were too friendly to be american' and we all LOLOLOLOLOL'd

no offense to any of you lovely americans, but seriously: the majority of american tourists in this country are fucking retards with bad manners. i don't know why these particular people all come to nz.

and they left me a $15 tip of a $75 bill, which is HUGE here. first time i've ever been tipped by a canadian (they are even less likely to tip than americans).

i am offended

I am not offended. I can imagine my Dad acting awful in restaurants anywhere because I have seen it many, many times.

I am, however, a tad concerned that John went to sleep with pizza rolls in his mouth to prove a point.

Tom, did you put those movies in your netflix queue that way? Because I worry for your weekend.

I wish I had someone to worry for my weekend. As long as I don't hit my head on anything at any point I will consider it a success.

I would also like to inform yez that I saw a Minnesotan a-hipping and a-hopping last night. Was good times.

was it teh atmosphere?

or just someone in the crowd wearing a mosquito is our state bird t-shirt

t'was Atmosphere indeed. you guize should be proud.

xp I will worry for your weekend, Nick. I'm a worrier!

Hey look, John didn't choke to death on a pizza roll. Yay!

<3 Sara for worrying about me. I will try my hardest to behave responsibly. (joek)

Well done John for not being dead!

No problem, now don't forget to not hit your head on anything. At least not very hard!

i am tired today :(

I have been sleep-deprived all week long, and today I have been having weird deja vu sensations in which I keep remembering vivid snippets of some of last night's dreams for a millisecond...so that probably means that I am going to die or something

i am groggy. need to make important phone call but have to wait for coffee to kick in. when will it kick in omg!/!?

is this the new mollify?

yes

i have been strange places, lately, and away from this mumificatory collaboratory.

also: i am midway through an advance reader's copy of neal stephenson's anathem and, after some initial rough going, feel v. privileged to be checking it out this soon. it is a super duper book.

It seems like everyone else's afternoon is more interesting than mine. Still, more pizza rolls are in the toaster oven, so there's that.

remy, you have made me miss advanced copies of books, omg. Maybe I should go back to working in a bookstore.

i am gonna go eat lunch. checkya layta suckiz

sara you realize all this talk is gonna make me run out and buy pizza rolls.

I would blame myself, but it's so much easier to blame John.

On second thought, when we need an Instant Scapegoat, this one is even better than John:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rixkck8QnjY

wait, Neal Stephenson is writing An Idiocracy For Leibowitz?

or has written, I should say

if it's as fun as The Big U was then I'm all in. If it's as tiresomely brainy as the Krebs Cycle or whatever he just finished up then fuck it

i am still having weird deja vu phenomena involving vivid recall of microsnippets of last night's dreams. either that or i am receiving parts of someone else's memories, p.k. dick style...or i have some horrible brain disease. or all of the above.

i think i just need a nap, though...

or u hi

right, the drugs, the drugs...

There's a fiction book about the Krebs Cycle?!

oh hai guess who has a job????

Hey wow, congratulations!!!!

Details?

i am going to be an assistant to this guy who runs his own artist management firm thingy. will start out doing basic contracts/finance/travel/phones etc. and gradually work into managing his opera singers and conductors (so he can focus on his broadway/pops stuff) and then eventually start adding to that roster.

if it all works out ideally, at least. but yay! employment! it is shitty pay but as responsibilities grow i am supposed to earn more...

congrats! that's awesome!!

That sounds entirely awesome! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

thanks :D :D :D
i am really excited about getting to work with music people again!!!!

It sounds fun, and like there are opportunities to do more and make more money, so I think that is all A++++!

yes :)

also i will be making connections w/ opera companies and orchestras all over the country. NETOWRKING!

er, networking!

A) congrats on job! be forewarned, this excited to be around music people feeling will pass, and then you will slowly grow to loathe them.

B) the guitar player/sometimes singer in atmosphere is an old old friend of mine. his old band played a party in my living room, after which he destroyed an abandoned fridge with his bare hands. no joke.

C) just had an amusing back and forth with some ebay dude about the fact that the "promo" record he's selling was never sent out on promo. after he angrily asked how i was so sure, i informed him that my dad was the one who put the record out. no response yet. have to stop trying to help people on ebay.

re a) thank you! and... i know. but i have spent the last year dealing with theater people, so at least this group has a common interest. also i've always kind of wanted to get my revenge on those ppl by being the one calling the shots.

who is black beyonce and is can i get her email

its not the real black beyonce

already tried that

why, i look interstn?

I have it on good authority that Black Beyonce does not look that great in a dress. However, no photographic evidence has been provided to me.

tza is this the one that's far away?

would like to add congrats to tehresa on teh employment!

CONGRATX TZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks, dudes!!

mookie, yes.

Why is sushi so delicious?

And why can't I eat it every day?

so espensive!

let's move to japan.

Okay, good idea.

I like it there because in Japan, I am tall!

My Japanese is sadly lacking these days, however. ;_;

my japanese is nonexistent!

i will be in japan for 5 hours next weekend

aww

<3

i wanna go! but maybe not for 5 hours.

5 rockin hours

ok then maybe.

if they were SUPER rockin

I would go to Japan for 5 hours, but only if I were on that side of the planet anyway. I spent 2 months recovering from teh virus I caught when I was there in 1996! (Or maybe I caught it on one of the flights...)

Good night you guys. I drank a lot of wine with my sushi and I am pretty sleeeepy now. But happy Saturday anyway!

aww, night sara!
i am booze free today (amazing, innit?)

hey that makes two of us and yeah wow pat on the back to us both

XXX straight edge XXX

not straight edge wine with phone date will not catch 2 month virus YES SUPER DUPER rockin 5 hours

i think i sort of understand that! :D ^_^

this is all you need to know: YES SUPER DUPER

:::::::::)))))))))))

oh and also: wine

hey tehresa, congrats! Plz to get representation for by wife

dear itr

i had an awesome night last night

today the dutch are going to kill russia

truly i am blessed

HLLO I AM AT WARK AND CAME HERE FOR THE FUNNYTIME STUFF BAH WO BIST DU?

OH HAI

Hi guys! I just got home from a birthday party for a 5 year old.

Apparently J told her babysitter last night that she wanted an invitation for a makeover to be sent to her. By pterodactyl. I have no idea where these ideas come from.

who is pterodactyl?

i would like an invitation for a makeover.

Yeah, I think she wants a prehistoric animal to deliver a makeover party invitation.

Also, apparently a sophomore in high school's makeup collection is more appealing than mine somehow. ;_;

this makes sense. something exotic and new is always more fun to the kiddies.

thats why meth is product testing so well in the midwest

Kids these days.

actually i think most of the ones around here have moved on to burning tiny pinholes in their brains with salvia

how exactly does that work?

cuz it sounds painful

IT ENTER THROUGH TEH LUNG AND THEN IT PUT THE TINY HOLE IN TEH BRANE WHICH MAEK THEM ASK ME THE SAME QUESTIONS 10000 TIMES

but hey their teeth look great, so its a fair tradeoff

You made that sound strangely like a smokable form of Mad Cow Disease. EW

you can only get mad cow disease from smoking a cow what smoke another cow

how is hoel made?

with figurativedness it is maed

what i am saying here is that there are a bunch of dumb motherfuckers that buy guitars that like to tell me how CRAZY their HALLUCINATIONS are that they get from (pssst smoking the salvia, dude) and as long as they're here which end of the cable goes into the guitar and which goes into the amp,yo?!???!?

oh salvia!!! i kept reading as saliva!!!!!!!! lolol

but yes kids are idiots.

one of them i recognize as a former irritating WICKED KLOWN JUGGALO NINJA dude that used to come in with terrible witekid cornrows until early onset lol male pattern baldness whooops.

Wow.

Also I had not heard of salvia before. It sounds impressively awful.

AND I have to say taht John's customer base sounds very interesting and informative.

sara get jj to link u to some youtube salvia vids you will have a ball

It can't be any worse than my usual Saturday night plans.

actually just start here & follow the yellow brick road: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp2V6NXCkE0

I take it back: that was completely depressing.

ha wtf was depressing about that??

It reminded me a lot of taking care of really sick, out of it people in the hospital, tbh.

o

dont dont dont watch any more then - but at least that guy was totally voluntarily & sensibly out of it (see duct tape over ignition) & also voluntarily posted that to youtube specifically so we could laugh at it

Yes, the voluntary part of is kind of a double-edged sword for me - but you're right; it's his option, and that is better. I'm just staid and old and I don't get the appeal!

Speaking of depressing, I suppose I should get on my treadmill. ;_; Wow I'd rather be napping.

wow i just had about two hours of phone time discussing this job wherein my advisor essentially yelled at me for taking it and every other person i talked to told me i made the right decision. i think they win.

oh hay guyz i am going to see that puppet pirate rock opera in july if anyone wants to come along!

http://files.datawire.nl/uploads/o8901cyyFFFsz0gM9JcMRQ/qgwbAQlqmiKrCVVJne71PQ/203-_VHN2090.jpg

orange tears

russia, i hate you

t, tell yr advisor dell said he's an idiot

thanks, dell <3 i'm sure she will be thrilled to hear that. i kind of want to tell her myself...

man, now i have a fucking headache.

she is pissed because a) i got this without using her connections/network but rather my own networking/skillz and b) i called and told the guy i'd do it before i got to talk to her (because she is not in the office during the summer and had not yet responded to my messages/emails and i told him i'd get in touch by end of week and it was friday at 4:30 what am i supposed to do?). she would rather i become indigent while 'networking' and waiting for the 'perfect' job to roll along... right. sorry i don't have a husband and/or trust fund to rely on like the rest of my classmates, lady.

sorry bout yr team, dude :(

hello, good morning, congratulations tehresa, commiserations dell.

I basically have no patience for people with their ideals so far up their asses that they don't care what the actual effects on people's lives are. The job sounds fine, and in this economy, having one is a damned good start ffs. Especially if it is in the area you actually WANT to work in!

I mean, seriously, DUH.

Anyway, hugs to dell, OF COURSE. (I do get into my own little rants; sorry)

i got presents! am at the shoe store for my last shift and there were fancy guylian chocolates, a pretty card with a really nice inscription and yellow roses. and i got a card last night from these three guys at the restaurant (one of whom is a priest who i actually made an off-colour joke to the first time he dined there, and then his friend told me he is a priest)

Wow, that's cool on all accounts!

tehresa rules
rubyredd rules
dell rules (sorry but netherlands lol)
sara rules
deeznuts rules
jj rules

no-one else has posted in the past while

i am mother-finf drunk

i posted in the past while.

eeeeeeeeek

estela rules x 10000000 for my sin of omission

i forgive you, ut11, i am quite gracious like that.

your humble servant estela

*bows*

i didn't know you meant 'rules' literally.

estela rules despite your sins

i wish my name were ruud

PEOPLES ROOLS

hestelo

hello!

but also goodbye because i am going out for lunch now.

ut11 rules
mookie rules
black beyonce rules

This thread never fails to give me a warm feeling in my heart.

i wish my name were ruud black beyonce

I'd like to hear you going before a judge to change it to THAT.

you are all awesome!!

also i just kicked my friend's ass at scrabble (irl scrabble, not internets) and am feeling really proud!

Oooh, good work! I feel like my internets Scrabble is way better than irl Scrabble. I should play more offline.

First hour or so of The Shining is just as creepy as I remember, btw

i like irl because no one can cheat! and it means you get to hang out with cool people.

I don't get to play it often irl because it's easier to play one turn at a time whenever than it is to spend an hour or two actually playing. But at least the kids are old enough where they don't try to take the tiles anymore. (Not only aggravating, but also CHOKING HAZARDS OMG).

I think I spent a good deal of the 4th of July last summer getting my ass handed to me at irl Scrabble. That may be the last time I played that way!

i like irl cause no one can cheat!

It is true that that is a nice feature.

My online win/loss ratio probably doesn't prove that I don't cheat - merely suggests it. I have learned a LOT from playing a lot of online games, but somehow not enough to not consistently lose to better players (HI DERE and my friend 4ndr3w are way, way better than me).

Basically if it is an online word game, I'm in, but I am not very good. ;_;

i have found that i got a ton better at word twist from repetitive playing. i do not like pathwords, though.

i am watching bring it on now. man, i love this movie.

I watched some of over the top this morning a+++++++++++++++++++

Y'know, after an hour and a half of walking around Chicago and watching drunk types pour out of the bars, I like to relax with a nice BEER IN THE SHOWER.

SRSLY GUYS.

(P.S. First beer of the night, so this is not a Drunk Post)

Also, I am sooooooo bad at Scrabble, it's really embarrassing. I mean, terrible. I don't think I've ever managed to play a word that was more than four letters in my entire Scrabble playing history.

OH HAI have been out of commission due to evilllll lunch on Wednesday. Who knew I could barf my way to a virtual hernia through the joy of dodgy Turkish food?

Ugh! I'm glad you're better suzy!

xp You would get better if you played all the time. It's true with Scrabble. I'm not totally convinced about Word Twist.

i am glad to see that i am not the only vocal proponent of the always awesome BOWER on this board.

oh no suzy! that sounds horrible :( hope you are feeling better!

A bit. I didn't have to wait long at Emergency, there were no drunks in front of me. Had to give up a shift on farmer's market, an art opening and after-dinner of friend, and meeting of expat Dems with Howard Dean today, plus had wanted to go see ILX bnads play (though cheapo barbecue part of prix fixe, did not want after toxic food shock). Bollocks.

Being sick sucks, but it's the worst when you have to miss stuff you wanted to do. Recover quickly!

Okay, Beer In The Shower fans, I am confused. Doesn't warm/hot water get into your beer? Wouldn't Beer In The Bath be more relaxing?

i don't really get it... i've never had the thought to try it, though. but yeah, i think bath would be a+++ but with a glass of wine.

its awesome, you just need a tall shelf/ledge to put it on, also COLD beer HOT shower is key.

this hyar word twist game is much more up my alley than scramble.

yeah i am digging it way more than scramble, pathwords, and scrabulous.

woah i just got 183 points in one round! good letters, that one!

I have no tall shelf in either shower ;_; SO SAD NOW

All this being said, I think it is always important to take nearly scalding showers. Possibly this is because it makes my skin look so bright red and I like to freak A. out a bit.

Hi you guys!

oh hey hi over here too!

hi from the canterbury, where the higgs and i are concluding this stupid euro game

Hi Mark and lxy and remy!

Mark, where have you been?!

Italy for the past week. And (I know this is the lamest thing ever) I have been too intimimadated by the Mollify thread to keep up lately :(

But, yay for a new thread, where I can request all messages with gay abandon!

Also I am REALLY miffed about Italy losing this evening, but, oddly, not as miffed as I expected to be. Meh.

Italy! Whoa!

The sheer number of posts could be intimidating, but hopefully not ITR-ers. Cuz that would be crazy.

I'm entirely clueless about all sports, but sorry that Italy lost (uh... whatever it is that they lost). Sounds like you're not tooooo upset anyway?

hihi everybody hi! what's the haps? how's tricks?

HITR

sadly i am hapless

but not trickless, i bet.

Hi alll

Word up y'all

I have no recollection of posting last night but it seems I did. And some pretty tedious contributions I made at that.

hey wilter howdy-do?

I'm ok. although I'm stressing the fuck out about this job interview i'm having on Wed morning. Have not been to a job interview in over 4 years :/

how are u doin? how's Jergz?

you will be great, wilter!

yes you WILL be great!

i'm doing fine, thanks. working, listening to music, taking lots of breaks.

jergins isn't here so i don't know but i assume and hope he is just dandy.

hi tehrez. what's shakin?

woah my roommate made game hens over beer cans. it was delicious!!

how are you lxy?

guess you already answered that..

woah my roommate made game hens over beer cans.

what does this mean?

you put the cavity of the bird over a can of pbr and then cook it and it gets super moist and delicious!

fancy!!

http://www.greenwayplaza.com/admin/_FileUpload/Drunken-Chicken-Cooker.jpg
like this, but with smaller bird.

and ours were in the oven bc it rained and we couldn't grill.

it's just such a kind of disgusting image, isn't it?

maybe not to meat-eaters, but the idea of a can up that bird is, well....

i'm sure it was a delightful taste treat, though, and how nice of your roommate to cook fancy for you.

they looked like little sumo wrestlers.

yummy

Sumo wrestlers are yummy?

I DO eat meat but I kind of agree with lxy. Still, if it makes it soft and delicious (would it not be even more delicious with a tastier beer?) I'm cool with that.

Sumo wrestlers are pretty rad, but not sure about yummy.

Mark C is unwilling to find the answer to this burning question.

OMG saw transformers and the mist tonight - both A++++++++++++++++!!!!

Really? I want to see The Mist, but that story has always scared the hell out of me. Transformers was good?

http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v250/194/12/644309690/n644309690_510935_5816.jpg

^^^actually our hens.

ok anyway. what's up guys? not so chatty today...

"Be Kind Rewind" is kind of a fantastic and wonderful movie

yes!

Nothing is up. I'm wasting my afternoon writing a review of some body butter that I don't like. Blah.

There's a movie called Be Kind Rewind? I sooooo have to get out more.

i am going kayaking in a bit!

at work. ngggghhhh.

i did my best to drink all of the alcohol last night, so if there is a shortage i am to blame. at one point i think FB fixed me a gin on the rocks. also forgot to eat, and set my alarm for PM instead of AM. ow.

Well, at least you got to work before you were supposed to close for the day.

oh no i got here on time, thanks to instinct brain trick, it just started a very confusing day off on the right wrong track

I would have just slept right through and not realized something was amiss. (Well, if the kids were not here to wake me up anyway).

GOOD WORK!

I feel like I am on the right wrong track, too, today (confusing!). But I think it is partly because A. literally hit snooze about 60 times this morning. (he has two alarm clocks and he has it fixed so they go off EVERY MINUTE. Apparently I normally sleep through this, but not this morning.)

Okay, so, my friend who talked me into taking belly dancing classes a few years ago has now half-convinced me to go to a hip hop dance class tomorrow night with her.

I am trying to figure out what bone is going to break first.

hitr, at this moment i am surrounded by crumpled almond roca wrappers, all thanks to dear lxy who i love very much.

estela! why are/were u hapless???

that was a mistake, truthfully i am a box of birds.

(:(:(: oh yay, estela! i'm so happy the package arrived! :):):)

also, how curious: i know someone whose online name is box of birds.

yeah wtf is that esta some kind of gay aussie expression?

boxes of birds end up being unleashed & pelted with shotgun shells. i think you are in denial.

i sent you an email of happy thankfulness lxy<3, i hope you get it, i don't quite trust my ilx email account.

my mother says a box of birds a lot, i have always liked it, most of her sayings are irish but some are from nz.

there are not too many guns around here, deez, most of our local birds die of old age.

i like to think the ones in the box in the saying are still in their prime.

speaking of boxes of birds, a friend and I stole a box of clay pigeons from a shooting range and then used them to throw on to peoples' roofs. it was the best of times, i was about 14 i think.

tsk.

estela, i was a total badass and tough at that age.

i would have crossed the street to avoid you.

or left the food court.

lol so true ;_;

ooh sarah my friend and i picked up dance class schedules at the ailey place today. it is surprisingly cheap! i told her i wanna do hip hop bc i have no soul and i need to learn and she said she is too old and her knees can't handle it lol. she wants to do horton. i don't know what this is.

also i am sorry that i accidentally unconsciously added an h to the end of your name. i know that must get super annoying, like when people spell my name withOUT an h.

wilter, i think you were probably funny and pleasant and always hungry.

hi tehresa!

hi estela!

now i want to know what horton is.

yeah she said it's related to jazz but not sure.

i hoped it was a lumbering around like elephants dance class.

lol

omg that would be AWESOME. I want to go to that sort of dance class.

All I can think of is modern dance dude Erick Horton, whose name I might be mangling. But I don't think that is a technique.

It is $5 to go to this "hip hop" class. Which is pretty cheap. Plus if we can just walk in and take the class, that is awesome.

(no problem about the "h;" my mother used to do it sometimes, too - and she's the one who gave me the name WITHOUT the "h!")

Now I'm all paranoid that I'm making modern dancer Eric Horton up. Hmmmm

Going to have to sleep on that. 'Night all!

hi sara, sleep well.

* Lester Horton - choosing to work in California (three thousand miles away from the center of modern dance - New York), Horton developed his own approach that incorporated diverse elements including Native American dances and modern Jazz. Horton's dance technique (Lester Horton Technique) emphasises a whole body approach including; flexibility, strength, coordination, and body awareness to allow freedom of expression.

from wiki. apparently he was ailey's teacher, which would explain his technique being taught at the ailey center. the classes there are like $16, which i thought was cheap, but $5! woah! you can also get a card good for like 10 or 25 classes at discounted rate. i might have to drop in on some. i haven't taken dance since my parents made me quit after 5th grade so i will likely be a disaster.

hey sup itr i am drinking molson canadian and going to sleep so i can get up bright and early so a nice man from the rotorooter company can tell me that together we can work out an agreement with my house in which water is allowed to leave it instead of taking up permanent residence.

if this is not possible i am putting a pool in my basement, thus everyone wins.

Sara, are you Sah-ra or Sair-ah?

Sair-ah - although it sure looks odd that way!

Good luck with your basement, John. That sucks. (Although I'm all for the pool idea, provided you keep a lifeguard on hand for yourself of course)

tehresa - THANK YOU, YES. *Lester* Horton. How mortifying that I forgot, especially since the Alvin Ailey company is my favorite one to watch. You can take classes at the Ailey Center? WOW. Also, $5 is cheap, but remember it's just some storefront operation in a rural town...

And hey - good morning, everyone. It is way too early to be up!

Okay, wtf are we doing to our brains!!

(spect this link has been elsewhere but it's new to me)

That's crazy.

My French suXors, but it looks almost like it's saying that it's fake underneath, though? (Mark C, help me out here!)

Yeah, it's a fake, but I laughed :)

It is totally funny, but I kind of wanted it to be true. ;_;

i want it to be true too. a lot.

I want to believe.

I want coffee

Yum.

I want some, too, but only if I get to stay inside in the air conditioning.

I would also like to know why Land's End just sent a "Back to School" clothing catalog. I guess it fits with Xmas starting in August, but it just seems a bit early.

i wanted to expound upon my trip to california, and give wilter job interview advice, and thank people for expressing sympathy in regards to personal euro 2008 woes, and a bunch of other stuff, but even this new, new itr thread moves too fast for me. i simply cannot keep up

I would like to hear about all of that! Sorry we are sooooo fast. (Are we?)

I want to stop having minor symptoms suggestive of GERD

That does not sound fun.

I have coffee now

all is once again right with the world

well, except for the fact that i have to hire a plumber to install some thing our standpipe that should have already been there that isn't ;_;

after which i have to pay the nice man from the rotorooter peoples to come back here and do the thing he couldn't do today because we didn't have the thing in the standpipe what we need and should already be there but isn't.

Okay, I have no idea what a standpipe is, but it reeeeaaaallly reminds me of It and Pennywise the Clown. But I'm sure that you're perfectly safe.

Dammit, give me some of your coffee, though. I have none! ;_;

Also, in a few minutes I am going to have to go deal with a family that I have managed to avoid for almost a full year, even though they live in town. All good things must come to an end.

ugh, that sucks, tomboto

thanks for your spirit of solictude, Sarah

yes, you guys do move FAST here

in short, bay area visit was awesome; ruby, yeah, you will enjoy oakland and its surrounds heartily; and i wish i would be there when you arrive, but i will not be (but i still want to hook you up w/some of my friends there); i slept 11 hours last night; and thankfully my hypnagogia impinging on waking consciousness which i complained about on friday has been allayed by sleeping properly;

wilter, is yr job interview tomorrow? don't fret; just try to enjoy the experience. lord knows, historically-speaking, anyhow, i hate job interviews, but it might help to keep in mind that the ppl doing the interviewing are oftentimes as freaked-out about it as the interviewees are...also remember that a great percentage of the ppl that they interview are likely to be clueless fuckwads of one variety or another, and if you are reasonably articulate/intelligent/personable, as i gather that you are, then you will comport yourself just fine...again, just try to enjoy it-- seriously. you will be having a conversation with someone about a potential career move; no need to freak out about it or clamp down upon yourself. ppl are ultimately looking for someone that they would feel comfortable working along side of...ultimately it's not about some harsh overriding judgement upon yr entire life or personal presentation...smile, relax, and be semi-detached-- if you have any enthusiasm towards the job that you are going for, then take that with you, and allow it to override any nerves-related hesitancy or tentativeness. also, ppl in general, almost w/o exception are looking for you to be happy and succeed; so if there is any creeping paranoia factor eating at you, then maybe allow the former to sink in somewhere

the dutch lost on saturday, and granted, i am still sad about that...but, BUT, my perennial super-faves the germans, who everyone seems to hate b/c they claim they are boring (which is sooo not true, esp. as tournaments advance, and they proceed to bring out the sparkly teutonic magic) are going to take this entire thing, so, yeah).

in short, i couldn't be better. for the most part.

also, Sarah, please never again encourage me to post, or else ^^ borderline novella stuff will ensue

i avoided all manner of family to the best of my ability for half a decade, but since having been forced to confront them, i feel xxxtimes more mentally healthy than ever before. i can't pretend to know whatever circumstances you're referring to in terms of family stuff, but, sometimes there is space for redemptive stuff of sorts. just sayin'.

hi people i'm back

i went to a funeral and got poisoned by lunchmeat and met a cute girl at a yard sale and heard a rattlesnake while hiking

wow, that's downright poetic!

Okay, now you all are moving too fast for ME!

dell - I'm envying your Bay Area trip - and RR moving there! And your job interview advice is good, too. (Good luck wilter!)

The family I avoided for yet another day (RAH!) is in NO WAY related to me. They are just awful, although they do make for entertaining stories. (One day the "father" of the family leaned over to me conspiratorially and said that he didn't think people without kids should be able to vote, and didn't I agree. WACKOS, and not in a good way).

jergins - uh... hope you're recovered from being POISONED and also congrats on meeting a cute girl AND the rattlesnake not seeing you!

xp This family also represents the most unbelievably bad parenting I've ever witnessed. (Although it is nice to see that I could be doing worse...)

i wish i had this awesome and hilarious hospitality-themed note from my friend that i stayed with in oakland, but in lieu of that i present this souvenir from a night of misadventure:

"IN CASE: HI DELL! YOU ARE AT X'S HOUSE (PHONE NUMBER) (IN CASE YOU WANDER OFF)

YOU ARE SAFE! IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE AT, YOU ARE AT XXX JACKSON ST, OAKLAND"

also, I met some guy named "Trouble", who spontaneously gave me a 20 dollar bill during the course of one evening. This took place after hanging out at some Belgian beer bar that is owned in part by some former member of "drunkcore" band Gang Green. I don't even know...

among other things, my friend stuffed an enormous melon into the hood of my sweatshirt while we were drinking at some place next to a produce market; and I drank delicious exotic beers, and partook of dispensary-procured northern california high test cheeba, which is a rarity for me; and I got to spend time with friends who I've not seen in over a year and a half, and went to the beach and and got to prowl around the marin headlands and wander around precipitous cliffs overlooking the ocean. No rattlesnake encounters (nor mountain lions or coyotes), but, we did encounter a deer, and some quails. It cleaned my head out...

ha, ok, Sarah; after re-reading yr post, I realized that you were likely talking about a family that you didn't necessarily share blood with...anyhow, good luck with all of that!

It's distinctly possible that they were asked not to return to the camp after the first day due to their kid's behavior. Then again, the kid might just have had a huge fit and they might have decided to keep him home. Seriously, they never, EVER say "no" to this kid or intervent to stop him when he's not behaving. With predictable results.

I'm just happy for an extra day of not having to make excuses for not making playdates for our kids to play together.

xp what a fun trip you had! I am jealous. We're going to Michigan next week, but that's pretty dull compared to the Bay Area. Food's not as awesome, either.

wow

well, just to get out of town is always unbeatable, i think.

and yeah, in retrospect i'm actually jealous of myself, to be honest, if that makes any sense!

the guilt-complected and super-neurotic part of me which rears its head from time to time is even okay with it, b/c i can compare it to enough seemingly interminable bummer periods in the past such that i am now feeling comfortable with some, "omg", strictly hedonistic/pleasure-oriented experiences in my life from here on out. thank goodness for that

Hey, I'm jealous of the trips I've taken to SF area - why can't I go back in time and do that again?! So it makes total sense. Also, if you have hedonistic/pleasure-oriented stuff you can do, I say go for it. I rarely get to do that these days and someone should be doing it!

Also I am now wearing ridiculous black yoga pants and a black top and am going to leave for the "hip hop" dance class shortly. If you don't hear back from me, you will all know that I probably died of embarrassment.

Or possibly I've fallen and I can't get up.

or you will thoroughly enjoy yourself. i would stake a bet on that

Okay, it was fun. I admit it. I especially like the Minnesotan way the teacher said "oh jeez" multiple times.

I am now ready to eat a LOT of food.

hi hello

welcome back jergins

what is for snacks, sara?

sara, i have been pronouncing your name wrong all along, i don't know if i can adjust now, but with my accent it would sound wrong to you no matter what i said anyway, so it probably doesn't matter.

dell, i like the way you said 'it cleaned my head out'.

also wilter, very best of luck with your interview!!

I kind of like the notion of my name being pronounced differently. I have never liked my name much.

Let's see... snacks. I just ate a bunch of Indonesian chicken and rice and then some strawberries fresh from the garden. I am considering consuming a vast amount of chocolate chip ice cream next. Not sure.... still hungry, but nothing is appealing of late. (well, except sushi, which I can't afford much of and which isn't available here anyway)

dell, i like the way you said 'it cleaned my head out'.

oh jeez, it's true!

i felt better after roaming the beautiful landscapes then i did even at the height of the most beautiful drunken/stoned moments of the getaway wknd

maybe that's just the sunshine-empowered vitamin d talking, but...

i think i will try to eat ice cream before summer's end. my preferred poison is ben and jerrrry's peanut butter cup stuff

One day the "father" of the family leaned over to me conspiratorially and said that he didn't think people without kids should be able to vote

lol a father of two recently leaned over to me conspiratorially and said 'never have children'

hi ITR

Hi RR!

xp I have moments when I would lean over and say the very same thing, tbh. The weird part is how at the same time I could never, ever give my kids up and I don't wish I didn't have them. It's weird.

dell, I am horrified that you would even consider going through an entire summer without eating some ice cream. Blasphemy!

dell, I am horrified that you would even consider going through an entire summer without eating some ice cream. Blasphemy!

lapsed vegan talk??

hey rr!!

wha's gwan on?

meh, nothing much. just killing time for the next 16 days.

oh man my housemate just came sobbing to me because she's so upset by how shittily our other two housemates treat her. can't wait to leave this place but feel so bad for her. at least she's getting to move into my room when i go, which is detached from teh house and huge, so she can disassociate with them.

RR - I'm glad that you're getting out of the situation - I hope things improve for your housemate.

xp Good lord, I'd last about 30 seconds as a vegan. Maybe less. Meat I can live without, but god help you if you try to take my cheese away from me.

yeah this used to be a great house, then this horrible guy called nigel moved in around this time last year, and he's an absolute asshole - so temperamental, snarky, always making not quite direct innuendos about everything, complainng, etc.

my housemate sarah has a dog, and it's impossible to find anywhere to rent where they'll let you have even cat, so she's stuck here, and it doesn't look like retard-nigel is moving out anytime soon. BUT I AM!!!

God that sounds frustrating. I'm happy for you, BUT... Hmmmmm, maybe you should persuade your housemate to move to the U.S., too. Although I suppose the dog thing is an obstacle there, too.

I'm totally worn out from the day and I'm going to sleep. Hope you all are having a lovely evening!

HAY GUISE!!

i just saw salif keita and he was sooooo awesome and then it turned out the guy next to us at our table was the drummer from living colour and went up and drummed w/ them for the encore!!!

awww night, sara!!

hey guys we just watched "atonement", thus breaking our string of watching movies that are good.

it's your own fault for putting in the dvd

fair, but cruel

at least the costumes were pretty.

I think Batman Begins is next in our queue. I'm pretty sure A. chose that, not me. But hey, why not.

everyone i know loved it, but i thought it just okay. except for christian bale - i would watch anything that he is in.

I know nothing about it at all! I'm just working under the assumption that it is about Batman.

pretty good assumption thar :) Crucially though, it is about the beginning of Batman!

Weirdest birth scene ever?

ackasldgkj advisor will not give this shit up! she is now trying to get me to do a music copyist internship? um, no thanks. i don't understand how in her brain sitting there copying music for less $ for broadway is more worthwhile than doing contracts and finance and working with opera people?

also, morning itr!

Hi tehresa! Can I ask, is the h in your name really as it's written here or is that for crazy interweb "teh" gags?

it is for interweb gags but also lol no one can ever spell my name properly anyway, so why not make joek out of it!!

ITR = preserve of sanity at the moment.

yah rly

tehresa, i am glad that someone shares my pain of never getting my name spelled right.

uh i was referring to justen, not beyonce, btw