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

Although you're right: I would not give him an expensive horrible present unless I also had money for expensive awesome presents to make up for my cruel behavior.

oh shit bump

speaking of shoes: i bought my first pair of hiking boots the other day. jordan said it was the most romantic thing anyone's ever done for him {i've NEVER hiked, but he is a big outdoorsy guy, and i've promised to give it a go when i move to US}

also: i will miss the 65% i get on eccos when i leave

I really need to buy some new running shoes. I walk a LOT of miles on them on my treadmill. Maybe I will be able to walk outdoors again someday, now that it appears the deep freeze has at least paused!

Talking to myself to waste a bit of time bump

still on a postcard high bump

haha

Just got home from work bump.

still at work bump

going to start writing the last paper for this class bump

just took a gre practice test bump

frequent recent bumping bump

farrrk. This is meant to be a slow time of the year. Thanks, boss, for fucking off to teh US for 3 weeks >:O

Uh-oh, bosslessness isn't good if you're super busy...

Still up! Still writing! Going to bed soon before lapsing into total incoherence! bump

Giving up, going to bed; it's way too late at night to start struggling with APA formatting and pretty soon anything I write is not going to make much sense. Joy!

Good night, all.

it would really suck if my next-door, wall-sharing neighbors existed. oh wait, they do!!

god wtf now they're playing Alphaville - "Forever Young"

who gets in a shouting match at 11 pm and then thinks "you know, i really want to listen to alphaville right now."

of all the fucking songs

actually, who does anything at all and then thinks "you know, i really want to listen to alphaville right now."

uh, me

wait, I'm thinking of Animotion.

I am helping protect all of you folks from so much fantasy cyber nonsense right now

i like that one alphaville song

actually, who does anything at all and then thinks "you know, i really want to listen to alphaville right now."

-- Lingbert, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

VVVVVVVVVV

goddamnit i always gotta come in here and freak out about the thread title when i get home BUMP

i got my other graduation present from jordan today! ok technically it's from his parents, since they paid for this one, but he picked it out. holy crap i almost peed my pants when i saw the photos of it: it's this fucking huge, black silk bound, hardcover book of photography by one of my very favourite photographers, robert parkeharrison. i didn't even know this book existed, which is why it was such an awesome surprise. here is one of the photos:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jongseto/blog/archives/images/ParkeHarrison7.jpg

i have the best boyfriend in the world!!

NIGHT WATCHMAN'S HOME NOW BUMP.
GOOD NIGHT FROM THE NIGHT WATCHMAN.

oh man, i just watched michael moore's 'sicko'... deeply, deeply upsetting. i guess when you've lived your whole life within that kind of system you're kind of used to it. but living in a country where healthcare is essentially free for all, i can't even begin to comprehend what it's like in the US. i mean, i complain about having to pay $45 for doctor's visit, but if i had an accident a trip to the emergency room is completely free; if i got appendicitis the operation is free.

it really scares to me think about getting sick or being in an accident while i'm living in the states.

This is why you work for the government if you can. If you're me.

Or sell out and go into a profession that has more cash than sense (hi dere softwarez).

your healthcare might be hell expensive, but damn your electricity is cheap. when jordan told me he pays around $15 p/month i couldn't believe it. even now, in summer, our power bill (between four of us) is around $250 p/month, and electricity rates are still climbing on a regular basis.

rubyredd have you ever swam with moko the dolphin?

moko the dolphin?? never heard of him, but there was opo (i think) the dolphin awhile back.

'moko' is a maori facial tattoo. FYI.

HE SAVED TWO PYGMY WHALES.

awww i just read the article.

i can't believe this stuff makes international news.

$15 per month for electricity implies that Jordan may light his home using candles

I was going to say! We keep our house at 68 degrees F during the day and Really Fucking Cold at night; our last heating/electricity bill was $350. Of course it is ridiculously cold here.

As for the health care thing, you really need to have insurance. It's expensive, it sucks, lots of people want to change it... but lots of people don't.

When 4lex was born 6 weeks early, for example, we wound up paying about $99.00 total for his birth, the ambulance ride, my 2 day hospital stay (complete with epidural and about a million doctors and nurses) and his 21 day hospital stay. We had great insurance. If we hadn't had any, we would never have recovered financially from that event: we looked at all the bills and it would have been $100,000.00. This is 1998, mind you.

eh, I don't pay heating on our apartment and our electricity is only $17/person. my friends had a $600 (gas) heating bill for the month of January, tho.

oh by the way guys I made dean's list. give me cookie.

$15 per month for electricity implies that Jordan may light his home using candles

Or he could just have an apartment. That's about all I pay per month.

yeeah living in a closet!

huh. so what you are saying is that i shouldn't leave all my lights and appliances on all day?

what if my cat gets lonely?

my mom leaves her tv on so the dog doesn't get lonely.

huh. so what you are saying is that i shouldn't leave all my lights and appliances on all day?

Not unless you are simultaneously running the heat and the A/C at full blast. That way they can learn peaceful coexistence.

I actually walk around looking for things to unplug, in a hopeless effort to spend less on that bill.

xpost jessie - congratulations on making the dean's list!

I am sorry that I do not have a cookie for you, though. ;_;