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Yipes. :-/ Crossed fingers for you!

let us know what happens tza. bad vibes in the air all over

My friend is having a quickie wedding on sat. tonight is a batchelorette dinner and sat. afternoon the casual ceremony. Tomorrow night I have to go see a friend's band as I haven't seen them in a few years and they're about to call it quits. All good things though? Yet I dread them all. I am curmudegon who would rather stay home and read humongous books and knit.

I have three friends who are pregnant. Lots and lots to knit. Damn social life.

Susan, I would like to trade with you for the weekend. (And you could come up here and fix my screwed up knitting project and hide in my house and study for my final test...)

tza - I'm sending GOOD VIBES your way.

thanks guys. i mean, i have feared this for a while as massive budget review has been going on. could be nothing... i've half a mind to go tell them to give me a better job and get rid of the more expensive people. they'd save, and i'd do it on the cheap (not as cheap as now, but still way less than they've been paying).

i don't want to put ideas in their head if they haven't thought of canning me though...

But you're idea is a wise one.

"your" even.

You're/your confusion is nowhere near as annoying to me as when people use the word "compliment" when they mean "complement." For some reason that fills me with irritation and dread.

i feel that is a less commonly made mistake, though...

i just clicked on this board and there was a red message at the top saying 'sending subscription email', what does that mean.

No idea! Weird.

xp Guess what mistake is on our course evaluation forms. ARGH

lol that would inspire me to write a scathing evaluation. our evals suck. they are bubble fill-in only, no space for comments.

hey i just watched "The Aura" (argentinian thriller). it was good.

^It occurs to me that everyone on this thread is striving for something different or unhappy with there lot but John sits contentedly in his empire enjoying the benefits of cultured civilisation.

I had a lovely bachelorette dinner with my friend last night. It was at a Brazilian restaurant and I had mussels for the first time. That put me in a good mood. It's lovely to see one of your oldest and dearest friends entering married bliss.

yeah john seems very content. i am jealous.

John is basically always the happiest person in the world.

I am going to get a massage this morning, though, so I think I might be second most, just for the next hour and a half or so.

oh jealous!

John is basically always the happiest person in the world.

True! This is because pain and suffering makes him hale and strong.

i have had two professional massages in my life, and both were disappointing.

True! This is because pain and suffering makes him hale and strong. </BASE BARITONE RECITATIVO>

yarr

so do i go out drinking and carousing this weekend, or cloister myself and drink and carouse at home while watching odd foreign films and playing Fallout 3?

srsly, this woman made my shoulder feel better than it has in about 3 years. Would go back in a second.

Also, I am all noodly now.

xp If it is cold, stay home; if it is not, go out.

Try and chill out for as long as possible or the toxins freed up in your muscles will just settle back in.

Ed, my big plans for today are basically to take a hot shower and study for my final by reading through notes. I'm not sure if that qualifies as "chilling out," but it's the best I can do these days.

Thanks for worrying about the state of my muscles, though! :)

Don't want to waste a good massage. That sounds like a suitable activity.

Hmm, might be going to the Bay area for a few days in early december. I thought I was done with travel for the year.

Okay, kind of feeling jealous of your prospective travel, even if you seem less than excited!

Yes I've not left Texas in four years and would go ANYWHERE!

I shouldn't be two jaded but I really need to focus on getting myself ready for pittsburgh but I had a long chat with a california VC who said that if I want to get a good internship next summer in a good cleantech startup I should get out there and start networking now and that he'd set up some meetings. I have enough airmiles and hotel points to make this a relatively cheap affair. Nonetheless 3 days in silicon valley techno-parks selling myself is not what I want right now. Also kind of considering dropping some stuff at the storage in NYC on the way.

^NB this kind of glib attitude to air travel is why we are going to hell in a handcart and I am going into cleantech.

Here, I'm pretty content with my lot as well. Just in a different way.

Ned it just freakishly happy.

Ed, that makes sense. I like to travel, but it is stressful and it seems that you have been all over the place this past year. Not to mention that it isn't just a free choice thing!

Yay freakish!

(I essentially always try and keep in mind that whatever disappointments I deal with are as nothing compared to what others are going through, sometimes drastically so. This year alone my sister's long term relationship completely collapsed, two dear friends split in what's proven to be an outrageously bitter divorce, and another is dealing with a whammy of sudden unemployment combined with increasing need for stable finances for his whole family -- all things that help me keep a certain perspective, however flippantly demonstrated.)

Ned OTM. There's a woman from Northfield who went through the same nursing program that I'm doing now 5 years ago. She's divorced, has four kids, has been working as a nurse... and now has a brain tumor and can't work. I've never met her, but she's a friend of a friend and obviously has the St.K nursing program connection; I'm hoping to go to a fundraising benefit for her in town tonight. And that's just one example of many of how life can unexpectedly implode... I try to appreciate my luck while I have it!

It is a gorgeous day, low 80s, a bit hot but not summer hot. Just had a long lunch of ceviche and margaritas out in the sun. *sigh* Can I go home now?

(and empathy to everyone else you know who is in bad shape. Good moments must be taken when you find them.)

sara also drink a lot of water.

i am so bored today.

!!!BREAKING NEWS!!! there is a picture of me up on facebook holding my cat. said cat is dressed up in a monkeysuit for halloween and is nonplussed !!!BREAKING NEWS!!!

Susan - I would have liked to have your lunch!

tza - I'm on it on the water. No worries.

John - thanks for giving me something to go look at. I really don't want to study for this final.

http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v371/146/1/544085548/n544085548_2006679_5337.jpg

^^^World's Most Patient Cat.

KITTY KITTY

i am bored too. i have the day off, which should be great, but i am restless! simultaneously lazy! i want jordan to come home early and entertain me.

The cat looks like she seconds away from making her escape.

RR, I'm with you. I just want to do something, but not the something I should be doing.

START PLAYING WOW

I love how Dan vastly overestimates my computer skillz. I have barely mastered how to play Bejeweled!

There's an add-on that lets you play Bejeweled while you're on one of the long flights from one city to another.

You're scaring me, Dan.