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

yeah it makes you feel annoyed but also like you are totally uncool/unworthy of being hung out with.

i just wanted to dance, man :(

CANT STOP BUYING ART

http://www.klocke-salminen.com/klocke_portfolio.html

bought the painting called "reflect" (#31) and 3 other things she doesn't have in the portfolio.

nice!!!

i am so bored omg.

John, that is very cool.

tehresa, sorry you are bored. I am having a TON of fun reading about the GI system. I had to say, "no, you guys can't come over today and have your kids play with our kids" to our closest friends, and I am feeling crappy about that, but I'm buried in a shit ton of homework and I need to have the house quiet (and not to have people over). I have been in this program for what seems like forever, but somehow my closest friends still don't seem to quite "get it" when I can't hang out with them every single weekend. GRRRRRR.

Also now feeling guilty that all I ever do is vent on this board. :(

art is hung, almost time for awesome show.

^^^^ So envious right now!

if it makes you feel better, we had breakfast at the local bakery and ate freshly baked pastries.

oh wait no that was awesome too.

I really want to hate you, but apparently I'm incapable of anything but dull envy right now. UGH

When you get a chance I'd like to hear about the pastries, though.

guys kyle mclachlan is sitting across from me right now!
this is exciting stuff. i was a twin peaks obsessive for a while.

AWES.

Mmmmm, pastries. Sara, are you reading the Killer Thread using Firefox?

we went for a 3 hour hike in marin county, v v pretty, v v tiring. my hands and ankles are all swollen and puffy but finally getting back to normal.

OMG I SAW A SNAKE while we were there! just a little one, maybe a foot long, brown and v pretty. my first ever snake!

and speaking of delish sunday food: we took bagels with us, i had an asiago bagel from noah's, so fantastic! as are their mudslide cookies. then i came and felt like i musta burned a trillion calories on that hike today so it was ok to eat the caramel-choc-pecan clusters i bought from trader joes yesterday...

then i came *home*

or that sentence sounds really dodgy...

kyle mclachlan is sitting across from me right now!

omg!!! where??

seriously! wtf?

also nice going RR speaking in imperial already!

Mmmmmm, Kyle McLachlan in Twin Peaks = so fantastic. How does he look in person now, though? Every time I see him on tv I think, "hmmm, he hasn't aged well."

RR Your FOOD sounds so yum. And your First Snake Ever? Really?! (Don't they have snakes in NZ?!)

suzy, yes, Firefox is the browser that I typically use for ILX stuff. Should I try it in Safari (assuming it doesn't crash my entire computer)?

on the plane?!?!? is he like, twin peaks awesome or desperate housewives ehhh? SO JEALOUS!!!!

I really want to hate you, but apparently I'm incapable of anything but dull envy right now. UGH

i know. i want to hate people fore their happiness but i just can't!!! argh. i mean, certain people i can hate, but not good people.

i finally got some socialization: sat outside @ local for 2 pints of amazing bloody marys plus a knob creek to top things off, with a nice, casual chat among friends. it was very peaceful.

certainly they have snakes in nz! though i wish you were from AUS right now so i could say 'if there are no snakes, picnic at hanging rock is a LIE!!!!!' and be all indignant.

I have never seen Picnic at Hanging Rock, but I have heard of it. Now I really want to see some Snakes on a Plane-type scenes in it, though, and I suppose I'll be sorely disappointed.

I just don't have the energy to hate anybody these days. C'est tragique!

oh btw i picked up sushi for dinner on my way home. NOM.

there are no snakes in nz, or poisonous anything except for katipo spiders which are not very lethal, or scary, or common, i've never seen one outside of a museum. there are no native mammals either, only birds and reptiles.

TZA I watched picnic at hanging rock just last week!! Miranda wasn't THAT hot

estela is right. we have no bears, no dangerous cats, nothing like that. the most dangerous thing you can encounter in the wild is a farm-hick or a wild boar.

razorback!

wild boars like in LOST? or LORD OF THE FLIES?

http://www.impawards.com/1984/posters/razorback.jpg

I have a technical question for Dan/John/other lurking mod types. When I load a long thread - for example, the current gen. election thread - I get huge gray boxes obliterating lots of the text. It doesn't seem to happen on shorter threads. What the hell is that about? I can't stay at my house constantly to read everything and in some cases I hate missing stuff.

I have no idea; other people have complained about it as well. I'm guessing someone posted videos that can't be embedded or something similar.

also a big FUCK YOU to middle-of-the-night heartburn/acid reflux that wakes you up at 4:30 AM and keeps you awake

:(

I have a mtg at 10 I'm dreading. There's a "colleague" here who has taken a dislike to me and everything we try to work on together turns into a clusterf*ck. Although she's higher up on the food chain than me I don't report to her (or fall under her at all) yet she's always pulling a rank card. annoying. I know it's because one, she's very young, two, just started in her position a week before mine, and three not very confident of herself in her position. I try to tell myself that hostility is a weakness and I shouldn't rise to hers. But still. . .I prefer work to be of the non-stomachache inducing variety.

ugh that sounds really obnoxious :( sorry you have to deal with her.

just compliment her a couple of times and she'll like you fine xp

I thought of trying to ask her to lunch and be friendly, etc. Then I thought, no, I don't really want to be her friend. She's six or seven years younger than me, a sorority-type chick, and a little self-important now that she has an office with a window.

oh god not lunch. just tell her her skirt is cute or something

yeah sunny's totally otm here. there's an uppity little 22yr old who does all the rosters at my job. she used to be fulltime, hence she thinks she's still a 'manager' but is now back in school. she's doing gender studies, and is the most stereotypical of those type of students: her favourite word is 'communication' and she spent last year 'finding herself' blah blah. anyway, she's a total dick and patronising and a bunch of other annoying stuff. but i was listening to portishead when she came in the other day, and she got all excited because 'you know, i just think that portishead totally crosses all musical boundaries, and really reaches out to anyone who truly loves music'. so i gritted my teeth and put a little effort into bonding with her, since i need her to okay me taking 6 days off over thanksgiving weekend to go back to chicago.

Portishead is probably the best way to solve every problem. However, WOW you guys have annoying co-workers. I want to slap them and all I've done is imagine them a bit based on your descriptions!

xp Dan - thx for confirming that I'm not imagining the boxes at least. ;) As for the acid reflux, ugh. I hope that isn't common for you, because that would suck. I'm totally resisting giving you the helpful advice from my textbook that seems to apply to every upper GI complaint.

i am in some serious fucking pain from that hike yesterday.

i need her to okay me taking 6 days off

okay this would drive me up the wall. I have to be careful though b/c I can be really aggressive and bitchy if pushed. I have to keep reminding myself that this one's not worth it. Especially since my guy could likely lose his job soon.

Sore muscles are good. Gettin' some work in!

my office mate was browsing okcupid so i figured it was ok to come to ilx but i think this is not good. now i have awakened the beast!!! srsly though it is SLOW today and my boss was here for about an hour and then went home sick.

No fun being bored, it's true. But please try to enjoy it for me, for just this one week. Pleeeeeeze?!

How is school?

sara, your skills would have been useful for me last night when i was trying to help out the kid at the show with GAPING HEAD WOUND from the pit. i am not sure that you would have enjoyed belphegor or ensiferum all that much, although they were in fact AWESOME. Amon Amarth was kind of meh, and The Abcense was ok.

I am leaving work now because all day has been a giant lol. Now I go buy ipod!

I don't know, but I think it is a tragedy that the only thing that I understand from John's post is the phrase "GAPING HEAD WOUND."
;_;

But thanks for thinking of me in that context. (?!)