TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

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!

http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/rivercity.jpg

^^^^^^^ THIS IS A REAL AD FROM AN IOWA BAGEL PLACE

I MAY HAVE TO TAKE BACK EVERY MEAN JOKE I'VE EVER MADE ABOUT IOWA

ha ha ha wow.

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.

i'm thinking about that salt beef bagel i had last weekend in a quite different light now.

you always gotta take it that one step further

i had two beers with lunch.

I MAY HAVE TO TAKE BACK EVERY MEAN JOKE I'VE EVER MADE ABOUT IOWA

No you don't. It was actually from Idaho. Continue abusing Iowa as you have always done.

Idaho: Land of potatoes and vagina bagels.

Two great tastes...well anyway.

guys, my parents will be here in an hour and a half

For a second I'm all "On this board?" and my worldview suddenly transmogrified.

What's the weekend plans for them?

Step 1: collect underpants
Step 2: ...
Step 3: PROFIT

The ellipsis of doom.

(Which I initially typed as 'the ellipsis of dom' -- which is problematic on several levels.)

Actually, they're going to see the opera I'm doing tonight and then we're going to a nice French bistro for dinner tomorrow night.

My first reaction to "parents are coming" was OH MY GOD HOW DOES YOUR HOUSE LOOK?

But see, part of the reason I have a cat is because my mother is afraid of cats, and so I don't often have to panic about the standards I can't live up to.

Dan, your weekend with your parents sounds like great fun! And I'm sure you will impress them with your vast new Italian knowledge.

Avviva! Bevviam, bevviam!
Nel vino cerciam, almeno un piacer!

Well, *I'm* impressed anyway.

are you going to petit robert dan?

I dearly hope that is the name of a restaurant.

good morning/afternoon i am very tired and frantically trying to find someone to go to the orchestra/ballet with me tonight because we ended up with an extra ticket. yikes. it is in like 4 hours.

z-post -- "Say hello to little bobbin' Bob."

Ned always finds a way to make the bad sound so much worse.

xpost DAMN these time/space/money issues. I wish I were going to the ballet tonight!

awwww i would love to take you to the orchestra/ballet!

I am that dude who goes to see summer blockbusters with his coworkers on friday night.