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CONGRATULATIONS

i hope sara's test is going ok :/

anyone who is still mad at me for not making it to your fine cities can lol at the fact that i booked my trip leaving on tuesday in order to maximize my time in the east coast vs. the time i could justify missing for work while forgetting that MONDAY IS FUCKING MEMORIAL DAY AND WE ARE CLOSED SUNDAY SO I COULD HAVE GOTTEN IN SATURDAY EVENING WITH NO EFFECT AND SPENT THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY ;_; i am an idiot

so so angry at myself right now

I think it's time to revive rolling ;_; thread

RR - CONGRATULATIONS! SO AWESOME!!!! As for the mother thing - someday let's get together and have some drinks and talk about that.

John, I am buying you a calendar for Christmas. Honestly. But I'm sorry anyway. Can you re-book...?

Re: my test - I did okay. It was a tough test and I'm not sure of my final score yet, but I know I passed. A lot of people felt that they did not. Onward to the wound care test-out (Sunday afternoon, I know ur all jealous!).

yay sara! i totally knew you'd pass :)

it is good to know that sara is one educational step closer to saving my life when inevitably one of my vital organs fails

also this would probably be a good time to step away from the nationalism poll thread

No worries, John, I've got your back. Or your kidney or whatever.

THX RR!!!

ps. yes, i think we would have great chatz about our respective mothers :)

I really should not complain about mine right now, as she said she'd babysit for the kids on Saturday night, but somehow she always makes me feel like everything is all my fault even when she's bothering to be helpful.

Also, I am a hopelessly ungrateful daughter, a week out from Mother's Day and I know it.

(I'm kind of exhausted right now, so forgive me for being maudlin).

ANYWAY, yes, someday RR, you and I are going to have teh booze and teh venting about mothers!

i am well familiar with the matriarchal manipulation ;) but like yours, mine has been uncommonly nice of late: totally loved jordan when she met him and has not given me a hard time about the situation; has been signing her emails 'lots of love, mum' (totally weird). i think this may have been stimulated by biological father's attempt at re-entry in my life. or ma is just craaaa-zy.

It really freaks me out that I might wind up doing the Exact Same Thing to J and 4lex.

i'm pretty sure you won't, sara - it just doesn't seem in your nature. no one's perfect, and of course you'll end up with some regrets about the way you raised your kids (doesn't everyone?) but i'm sure your kids will always know you love them, and that's pretty much the most important thing.

I know I love everyone's kids, with a nice red wine. Whoops, there I go thinking I'm Jonathan Swift again.

Ned = A Modest Proposal meets Hannibal Lecter.

Quid pro quo
Yes or no...

Anyway I'm sure you're fine on the mom front Sara so no worries. You can selflessly blame any problems with them that arise on A instead. (Wait that isn't helpful.)

Ned has caught on to my little plan all to quickly.

gayla

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this was pretty much otm. but at least i had some whiskey afterwards and now i am home and can relax and drink beer but ow my feet hurt!

sara, good job w/ the test!

also supercongrats to RR!

thx tehresa!

SO EXCITED for RR! And ENVIOUS, too, right now. Seriously!

me too. i am worried about making it through the next three weeks, much less the next year before i get my mfa.

haha you guys are doing REAL WORK - i just did a bum undergrad degree in english lit. you pretty much have to be retarded to not get a degree in the end, even if it takes more than 6 yrs of study...

don't sell yourself short! you worked and overcame whatever difficulties you encountered and have a fucking degree!

aww thanks tza, but i just feel like i didn't get much out of it, and it took 6 yrs to do what i could have done in 2.5 yrs if i'd really tried. but such is life :/

RR, I feel like I should have done what I'm doing right now when I was in college the FIRST time. (In fact, I am most annoyed with myself about it at moments).

No need to kick yourself for taking 6 years... sure, I have a degree already, but I am still in school and I'm 36 freaking years old! (Seriously, the combination of grey hairs and the beginnings of wrinkles along with stress-caused pimples is NOT PRETTY)

sara, 36 is nothing! my mom went back in her 40s, and my dad started law school when he turned 50.

I used to think I would go back again to graduate school someday, but right now I just want to take a big nap.

haha, A. spent part of tonight giving me a pep talk about how our friend D3an must be feeling, since he started med school this year at age 38.

But thanks, tehresa; I just have to get through a few weeks and then summer vacation will bore me into wanting to be back in school again, I am sure.

THE FACE ACCIDENTS ARE AWESOME

Tom, that sounds terrifying!

I am going to bed now because I am losing any semblance of coherence that I once hand.

'Night all. <3 <3 <3

no seriously I think everybody here would be able to appreciate what I have seen this evening
a couple of ilxors and a seriously incomprehensible irish native did a set of tunes that were all completely fucking great
fucking jetwash from a three-piece
and then the one time the drummer's best platonic chick friend came on stage to be all WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST DOES SHOEGAZE EXCEPT ALSO THE WITCH IN QUESTION IS BOMBO HOT AND WEARING SHORT SHORTS

me and I DIED grinned with such tenacity our faces began to ache

aw

that sounds way funner than my night

hey i'm drunk

YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!

hi dere!

seriously I have no reason to hate the former non-ilx guitarist/lead singer of the fake accents because everytime I've talked to him he was stone cool but if he was the ingredient that was holding them back from this sound then man, it is hard not to have a little bit of animosity. indie jackass

home from work bumpity bump

ruby, congratulations on graduating, that is great. and don't worry about what year you finished it, if you'd done things any differently your life would be different too, and you mightn't be heading off to see your boy because you might not know him, which is a sad thought.
and congratulations to all the other itr swots also, well done all of you.

estela, that is the realisation i came to recently: if i hadn't dicked around, i wouldn't be a recent graduate and i would not be eligible for the one year work visa to the US, so it was all just meant to be, i guess.

yes!

Tom, it sounds like you had FUN last night!

I didn't sleep well and I'm going to go lie down again shortly because I am a horribly crabby person at the moment. But good morning anyway!

hi sara, good morning, i have to go to sleep soon too.

<3<3<3 awww tom you are the nicest <3<3<3

mmmmmm sleep. good morning estela!

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those adverstisers really thinking outside the box. i would most likely buy a vagina bagel.

Apparently, this ad was running in conjunction with their support of a local production of "The Vagina Monologues". They kind of forgot to mention that, though.