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

well it actually gets applied evenly to the 2 semesters next year.. but we can pretend i'm loaded!

School is so terrifyingly expensive. That extra $1,000 will definitely help you!

Yay, good news all around.

In other news I actually scored on Freecycle today: gunmetal grey table and matching chairs, they are all gloss painted this colour and they are on my balcony right now. Next stage: lavenderrosemaryparsleychivesthymesage in various pots.

Ooh sounds lovely!

Yay suzy! It sounds like you are having a great weekend. I loooooove lavender in particular.

Farmer I work for starting next weekend sells potted herbs and has offered me startups AND a bag of the soil they normally grow in because it's a giant pain to buy soil in the middlemost middle of central London. Now I just need, y'know, pots and plant holders. Christ on a bike, I have to go to a garden center. Shudder.

Table and chairs are set up on balcony (my block is totally '50s) and right now on the tabletop is 2x little lanterns with tealights, red flowerpot waiting for some kind of plant, and one of those classic red bug candles. I've been here since December so it's VERY nice to finally be able to sit out there. Also good is that nothing in balcony space ever gets wet.

the awesomest sport of all: basketball

RONG

ned, jordan went to USC, as did his brother, for his undergrad and UC irvine for post grad. so it's a given. we go back to chicago to watch the big game in september with the whole family (oh shit i've forgotten who they're playing).

jergz, how bout this: i will time my eventual seattle visit to coincide with a baseball game and you and me and lxy and lingbert and remy and jaq can all go.

i am going to accept that proposition on behalf of seattle, ruby.

HURRAY! come to seattle soon!
(or, alternatively: HURRY! come to seattle soon!)

Sounds so awesome, suzy!

God, Seattle FAP is making me ENVY.

I'm off to go to a study group for the evening in Mpls. If I didn't have to drive home, I think I'd be bringing vast amounts of wine, beer, or liquor to this one... but sadly, I do have to drive back.

I hope you all have a great afternoon/evening!

ooh suzy reminds me i need to get something for my window box this summer!

arrgghh i have to go to doc this morning. i have a phobia about this.

'the nurse is sick today so we can't fit you in till next tuesday' - fucking fuck i could have slept in today on my one day off! and now i have to spend another week dreading the visit :(

I would like to attend Seattle FAP. :-/

As for Jordan's unfortunately misbegotten choice of an undergrad location younger years, well well.

(Chicago in September for the big game? I thought that was more Notre Dame in November, but the vagaries of Trojan rivalries are intentional mysteries -- to my mind, there's them, and then there's everyone else on the side of righteousness.)

And before this gets out of hand on my part, I freely note that other good peoples like Jordan, like remy and get bent, are recent USC grad program folks so all my mockery towards the Trojans is of the jovial sort. Even though, of course, I am right.

let's hope your posts slip into the mollifylingbooverdrive void before jordan gets back from his camping trip, or There Will Be Blood.

i've been having fun sending youtube links of the all blacks doing the haka to various americans such as jordan's bro.

i would like to attend seattle fap, too. money tree?

if all of itr came, it would basically be the awesomest thing ever

this

ooh wait what date is seattle fap?

SEATTLE FAP PEOPLE. THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG.

(xpost -- hi jergins)

(xxpost -- hi stet: it is an extended affair at this point; the visitors are coming one at a time.)

sometime in the next year

maybe i shouild just movee there when school is over

woah bad typing!

just movee here! bad typists welcomed!

stet we'll surely get some people together when you're here: me and lxy and lingbert and jaq and remy at the very least. and we can call it a fap

computer question:

i've been using AVG free for virus protection on my computer, but it's about to go non-free in the next week. any recommendations for something else free i can use?

excellent!

xpost -- AVG is staying free, there's a tiny tiny link in the advert that lets you download it.

Okay, so our finals review was okay, although I always come away awed by how much more deeply I think everyone else understands the material. We ordered Thai food out, which was nice.

Please tell me where the money tree is so that I can visit Seattle and FAP with you all, too!

http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/

thanks mookie! i couldn't find the link that stet was referring to.

sara: it always feels like everyone is smarter, but this is just your brain trying to trick you. you actually know a mega ton more than you realise.

Thanks for that thought, RR. I feel like they just "get" stuff at a deeper level than I do. I shouldn't complain, because my grade was an A (at least until we started on the crazy long papers from hell). But... yeah, I don't know, maybe it's just perfectionism again.

I am feeling SO restless tonight. I have no desire to study, clean the house, read a book, or do anything else. But I don't feel like going to bed, either.

me too! i've felt kind of edgy all day - i've got heaps of shit to get done but i don't want to do any of it. i want to leave the house, but there's no one i feel like seeing and nothing i feel like doing.

i have felt v edgy too, work deadlines coming up. But luckily my boss just handed my shittest job to someone else bcuz he had nothing to do. ^__^

Hmmmm, maybe it is a late spring thing? (Restlessness?!)

wilter, glad your boss is helping rather than hindering you :)

it is autumn here, you are forgetting we are in a diff hemisphere where apparently the water spins the other way!

Okay, I know that in my head, but I can't make my BRANE wrap around the REALITY of it!

The first thing you should do when you get to the US is to see which way water goes down the drain.

So I was just looking at a thread Dan started on ILE about the kitty wigs thing or whatever, and I was skimming it, and he cites this website:

http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/

My SIL gave me the book with all those patterns in it for my bday, and if I had time (which I don't) I was totally going to do one for John and K's new house. I had the hearts with the F-bomb in them all picked out for them, though.

i think i'm mostly edgy cuz jordan's away, and i'm missing him. i know this will sound totally lame/gay/mushy/overly-dependent/whatevs but i'm always much calmer and relaxed when he's around, since i'm by nature a fairly anxious-y kind of person and i have all this stuff going on at the moment, and when i'm around him i just feel... better. like i have more of a handle of things.

xpost OMG SO COOL please put me on your list to receive one of these one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that would basically be the awesomest gift ever.

I am so fundamentally unsurprised that you already knew about that.

RR, no - I don't sleep well if A. isn't around. He's just a way calmer person than I am. Also, yes, if I ever have time to go back to cross-stitching, I will totally make one of those for you!

hahaha, Dan - you know me way too well. That book was the highlight of my birthday this year; totally brilliant gift.

This is reminding me that my in-laws are going to visit soon. So, do I take down the magnet that says "I gave myself to Jesus but now he never calls" or do I leave it up?

how would they react to it? and how much do you care? seems like something i'd want to keep up to quietly remind them that i am my own person.

tza OTM

but i guess it depends on what kind of ppl they are, and whether it will only create unnecessary tension.