This Is The Thread Where I Say.......Part Seven!

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Ah, snap.

― El Spinktor (El Spinktor), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What is this weird sub-subcultural pit?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, hello Nick. It's nothing that would interest you. Move along now.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never even checked these threads before.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

They tend to be a niche interest, Horace. Not enough bile and sarcasm for most ILXors ;)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

or too much, perhaps

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

How so, JBR?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

It's sort of like a place ILXors act all chummy and lame crap like that, huh?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ps x-post

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

no comment

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

That's about the size of it, yeah.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

so, like, just by posting in here, I'm entitled to some hollow platitudes?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

*sigh*

Take that attitude elsewhere, Horace.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

well, cuz I could use some unmerited praise or something today...

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

it's just where a few of us check in with each other and update on our lives.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, nope. It's probably the only place on this bitch where platitudes have some kind of meaning. We don't bother with the "I'm more cynical and clever than you and for some fucked-up reason this makes me happy".

(x-post)

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sorry, I was just having a bit of a larff and seriously was sorta in my passive-aggressive way testing the waters to see if it was safe to post about how freaking nervous I am about my "meeting" with my boss's boss in 80 minutes.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well in that case :)

What's the meeting about? Are you likely to be judged in some way? Will action (positive or negative) be the outcome? Tell all - I'm sure we can all empathise.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I just ate a whole raw clove of garlic and fluid is oozing from every hole in my face.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, basically, either I'll be fired or I'll quit. It's sort of ridiculous and I think I've forced his hand on this. I'm just hoping I don't chicken out. Cuz if he doesn't fire me and I don't get up the nerve to quit, that's the end for me.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Walk Tall, dear sir. Steal his pen, too.

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh my hokey. Well, if it's that cut and dried, then I guess fate will take you wherever. It may well be that he'd much rather have you resign than fire you - it's easier for all concerned, they don't have to worry about labour laws etc. etc.

Good luck regardless, H. Mann - it'll be sucky but over soon. Let us know how it goes.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

also, it'd probably be a good idea to erase as much of your sent email as you possibly can.

just to make sure...

― Kingfish Beestick (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

they don't have to worry about Labour Laws anyhow, since it's my f/lance boss('s boss). But basically I called him and my, uh senior colleague on some bullshit and I'm best-possible-worlds going to get an apology and possibly some more favourable terms (ha ha ha ha ha) or I'm going to take my dignity elsewhere.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

What, exactly, are you worried about quitting for? I mean I'm sure getting paid shit is nice to do crap work that only pretends to advance your career, but since you've got exciting freelance opportunities elsewhere in more prestigious place *and* you'd probably make about as much money working at the Petro-Canada, you might as well walk out with your head held high...

Man, also I am really not getting back into this job thing. I feel like playing hooky again. And having a drink. Though maybe just of coffee. Bleh.

Also, H., it always seemed odd that you didn't post to these threads.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It is also a bit tricky getting back into the ILX swing of things, since suddenly wow do I not care about most of these threads. But I still like you lot on this thread (and some folks on some of the other threads, of course), so I'm still here.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the size of these threads is intimidating. i don't do well in crowds.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

and it's the whole bird in the hand thing with the f/lancing. and I do like the intimacy (to a degree) with my audience here.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Casuistry: once you've been here everything else just seems like kind of a waste of time, huh? ;-)

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been in the same boat since November, Chris, and don't seem to view the water any differently even though it's been a few weeks. One of those things.

Horace, don't sweat it, these are pretty low key threads. I think of them as like a faculty lounge without the misery poker.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Misery poker"! Ha! I haven't heard that one before.

H, if you want that intimacy, go back to writing stories for the PD (or just give in and pitch the stories to the paper, but tell them to fuck off with their exclusivity claptrap).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

and I get it from the radio show anyway. which is waaay more fun. if I'm not gonna make any money, I better damn well have fun. Yeah. Now I'm getting psyched up. Eye of the M-F tiger, yee-ow!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

(plus there's a sick and twisted Count of Monte Cristo part of me that really thrives on antagonism, but I suppose that's everywhere, huh?)(by that I mean antagonism, not obsessions with the C of M C)

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus you know what happens when you leave a job. ROAD TRIP!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

T-Minus 30 mins, pulse rate: up

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Have a quick wank.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

All I know is that obsessions with the Count of Monte Cristo can get you through some grueling times in boyprison. But that's because I don't know anything that isn't from the movie Sleepers.

If that were true, I guess I'd hate women, actually, because they'd all be Minnie Driver.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Horace, I kiss you.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

you call 30 minutes a quick wank? you self-indulgent madman!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(Actually I'm just in a kissing mood - I kiss you all. Again.)

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost, obv
dbble xpost now

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm having the "getting back into ILX after a break of about one week" problem too. It's better today than it was yesterday, but there's so much dumb shit on here. And no, I don't think ILX is "getting worse," I just think my tolerance has gone down.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just talking about something like that off-board, but I don't want it to sound like I'm steering this in a "we're so cliquey, oh so cliquey, ILE all sucky bad" direction. I think a good chunk of things is that it's December and things are worn out and worn thin, here there and everywhere.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I've got so much stuff going on in my personal life too, like moving and packing and apartments and selling my car and etc etc, and ILX just seems less interesting/relevant in contrast. And people I like aren't posting as much.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that and I think teaching has eaten up most of my desire for a lot of kinds of conversations, the way working at a movie theater probably means you get sick of hearing people talk about the Matrix, or whatever.

xpost -- yeah, there's always that, too. When I moved, I was too busy to notice the lack of ILE.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

No, no, much like the 30-minute wank, being into ILX is a momentum thing, made easier when you keep yourself unaware that there's a great big world out there waiting for you.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just imagining the fantasy worlds Chris conjures up in his head in order to fuel these 30 minute wanks. It's like the Matrix!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit, I KISS YOU ALL.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

But without chicks in tight leather outfits.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Why the FUCK do I end up posting that right after someone's said something about masturbation?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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