This Is The Thread Where We Have An Announcement To Make...

[Frieda]

^dont sit in the back! and good luck :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ :) I didn't... and I didn't! :)

I must proudly announce it went extremely well. I didn't have to act important because there were others to do that and I hadly spoke at all; I didn't have to because the other party did that, too. For unbelievable 60 minutes... well, almost. My colleague and me managed to sneak in a few comments, too.

BUT! I left work just for one day and they kicked out 5 students for being under the influence. When I am at work, nothing exciting happens.

[Frieda]

^:):)

did they find the bottle of booze in your locker? :p

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

:eek: What?! Are you suggesting they might have searched my personal locker while I was away? But... but... they didn't kick me out.

[Frieda]

i have a nasty mole

[zero]

frieda try the rubbing method ok?

http://www.sketchzilla.com/madlibs/pill.gif (http://www.ehow.com/way_5636993_potato-cure-warts.html)

♪boil 'em, mash 'em,
rub 'em on a mole♪

[zero]

i'm pretty sure the reason frieda hasnie answered is that she's become flummoxed over deciding which potato-half to bury and which one to rub herself with

[brightpearl]

^That is straight up bollocks, Frieda. You're supposed to put duct tape on it.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

No way! You've got to use the power of your mind: just imagine yourself without a mole and after a time it'll disappear.

[Frieda]

i think im going to let the doctor give this one a rub

[lukkucairi]

I rocked the VFW tonight :p

[Frieda]

my mole is gone!

[Frieda]

also, i ripped out of the only decent pair of office pants i had left. cute.

[MoJoRiSin]

^ compassionate face goes here

[trisherina]

my mole is gone!

also, i ripped out of the only decent pair of office pants i had left. cute.

Please tell me these two events are unrelated!

[Coffee]

^LOL

[Frieda]

they are NOT! :p

[Frieda]

i mean they ARE unrelated! :rolleyes:

[xfox]

^Whew! Dare I ask where the mole was?

[Frieda]

on my back, right below my left shoulderblade

[xfox]

and it was benign?

[Frieda]

dont know yet, i'll hear about it later this week!

[Brynn]

My washing machine broke.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ Have you given it a good rub yet? A pat-pat?

Or a heartfelt* kick?


* and footfelt, too, I'm afraid

[Brynn]

Yes! We also took it apart almost completely. And then we put it back together again. It's all my own fault. I tried to wash too many throw rugs at once, and one got shredded and clogged everything I guess and it's all broken now and mad at me and to make matters worse it's an off-brand, some piece of junk from Russia "machine-wet-for-clothes-cleansing" thing with no pride in itself or network-of-friends-for-repairing of recalcitrant machines-wet-for-the-cleansing-of-clothes kind of thing. I'm taking a nap.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Yes! ... I'm taking a nap.

That's the right attitude!



Maybe it will self-heal in a week or too. My copy machine did that, too, a month or so ago.

[Stephi_B]

gymnasien can seriously kiss my ass :p (i've just x-ed them out, that is de-clicked them, in my online application thing to - one day ;) - become a proper teacher)

quoting wikipedia so you know what i mean:
German Gymnasiums

German Gymnasien are selective schools. They have the self-perception of offering the academically most-promising youngsters a quality education that is in most cases of no cost (and in other cases of rather low cost). Gymnasien may expel students who academically underperform behind their classmates, or behave in a way that is seen as unacceptable. Pupils study subjects like German, mathematics, informatics, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, arts, music, physical education, religion, history, philosophy, civics/citizenship[1] and social sciences. They are also required to study at least two foreign languages. The usual combination is English and French or English and Latin, although many schools offer combining English or, in some cases, French, with another language, most often Spanish, Ancient Greek or Russian. Religious education classes or "ethics" classes are compulsatory. The student however is allowed to choose which of this classes he attends.[2] In some of the German States even those attending religion courses have to visit ethics (Berlin) or classes in ethics, humanist studies and religious education (Lebenskunde, Ethik, Religion - LER) (Brandenburg).

For younger students nearly the entire curriculum of a Gymnasium is compulsory; in higher grades more elective subjects are available, but the choice is not as wide as in, for example, a US high school.

Although some specialist Gymnasien have English or French as the language of instruction, at most Gymnasien lessons (apart from foreign language courses) are conducted in High German.

The number of years gymnasium differs between the States of Germany. It consists of six to seven years in Berlin and Brandenburg (primary school includes six years in both as opposed to four years in the rest of Germany) and newly eight in Bavaria, Hessen and Baden-Württemberg among others. While in Saxony and Thuringia students have never been taught more than eight years in Gymnasium (by default), nearly all states are going to provide Abitur after 12 years in primary schools and Gymnasium ( the bulk of German Gymnasien up-to-date provide Abitur after 13 school years ). The Abitur exams which complete the Gymnasium education are centrally drafted and controlled (Zentralabitur) in almost all German States and provide a qualification to visit any university.

The vast majority of Gymnasien is public and does not charge tution fees. Article 7, Paragraph 4 of the German constitution, forbids segregation of students according to the means of their parents (the so called Sondierungsverbot). Therefore, most private Gymnasien have rather low tuition fees and/or offer scholarships.

i have made nasty experiences with the second school i work for (and last friday i have semi-quit the the job there - god bless i have my first school, a gesamtschule with 'gymnasialer oberstufe'!!, something like comprehensive school, quasi everyone can attend it and if bright+lucky enough reach the same academic degree than those from gymnasium), but then it's the system: gymnasien shall educate an "elite" and so they work on the principles of strict hierarchy and concurrence and sanctions towards those (and not only towards students....) who "malfunction" in one way or the other.
i mean, it's not 100% paradise on school #1 (in one of my 10th grade math classes i'll have the class' social worker - yes, the middle grades have their own social workers.... and they need them! - helping me from friday on to maintain some minimal discipline), but then even the wild kids are open and straight-talking, and the colleagues (mostly ;)) cooperate 150% and whenever somebody (teacher, student, social worker) can help you, they do. on that fukken gymnasium i never knew where i stood and none of the chemistry a**es (sorry, but it's like that) helped me, or only did so to make me look bad / them look good. yeah and those kids who want to learn at school #1 are supersweet :):) and it's total fun to teach them. and i generally feel so very at home at this school! :)
on fukken school #2 (i only have to give some math there now and some ersatz hours for sick/absent colleagues till they've reduced my contract with them, and when this contract expires on 7/7 they'll never gonna see me again :p) i felt like a total stranger, and i don't really like the kids there, most of them are rather spoilt single childs, some of them have their private teachers for their parents want to push them through no matter what. that's no good whatsoever methinks. i often feel like i'm not there to teach but to entertain the kids. ok, i had got the worst 7th grade in chemistry there (what a mess!! :eek:), the other 7th graders (math - those courses who don't get the bi-monthly extra math training for "the bright ones", i always have to insist in my courses that they don't call themselves "the dumb ones") are quite OK, and the 9th graders (math, also those who don't get extra math) are even quite nice. nevertheless i won't grow old there. i'd grow tremendously sick there.... :mad:

[Frieda]

^thank goodness the gymnasium i went to in the nether regions is different! :eek:

[lukkucairi]

Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

- Ogden Nash

[Marcus Bales]

Eager Beavers

There'll always be a need for God
Because his true believers
With bomb and rope and firing squad
Are very eager beavers.

They kill and maim to laud His name
And terrorize the people
Who pray and raise their kids in shame
To build another steeple.

It never seems to do much good:
Their God does not protect them
Because, just as He knew they would,
Revenge and rage infect them

Another generation's hell
Destroys new generations;
Preserving hate preserves as well
His future congregations.

[Stephi_B]

Love is a word that is constantly heard,
Hate is a word that is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
Love, I have read, is hot.
But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
And Love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
But Hating, my boy, is an Art.

- Ogden Nash

!

:)

[Stephi_B]

^thank goodness the gymnasium i went to in the nether regions is different! :eek:

my gymnasien (been on 3 of them - 2 i've left moments before they kicked me out :D :p ;) ) haven't been neither.... or, as a pupil one doesn't see the big picture and the behind the scenes thing?

btw, my boss (i.e. headmistress of school #1) herself would likewise never again work at a gymnasium. she's oene of my kind :)

oh and i wanna announce:

FEIERABEND - NOW!!

[brightpearl]

I just realized my son changed my user title to "i like fried chicken".

It's probably been that way for weeks.

[Marcus Bales]

I just realized my son changed my user title to "i like fried chicken".

It's probably been that way for weeks.


No -- it's only been "fried chicken" for a short while. Don't ask what it was before.

[lukkucairi]

I just realized my son changed my user title to "i like fried chicken".

It's probably been that way for weeks.

oh, and here was me thinking you were being metaphorical :rolleyes:

[Frieda]

it was benign! just an a-typical mole, not even pre-malignant yet. :):)

[Marcus Bales]

b9 is the best bingo call, too

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

it was benign! just an a-typical mole, not even pre-malignant yet. :):)

:) CeleBRAte!

[lukkucairi]

it was benign! just an a-typical mole, not even pre-malignant yet. :):)

good stuff!

[Coffee]

\O/ Yay!! \O/

[lukkucairi]

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[Brynn]

I am officially relinquishing emotional investment in my current theatrical project. If these two goats in my lovely cast of lambs can't let go of their mahoosive egos long enough to take some good, solid direction that will make them look brilliant, then I'm not getting paid enough to worry too much about them, and will now seek to minimize the damage before opening.

[brightpearl]

Being allergic to oak pollen sucks.

[lukkucairi]

^ oy vey, and how!

my empathies, sister. use the neti pot frequently.

[Jack Flanders]

^ Me three but the oak haven't even started yet but others have. oy

[lukkucairi]

^ I did a bunch of spring-cleaning today and the dust I raised made my face itchy and my eyes all red. blech. but yay for a clean house :)

[lukkucairi]

my left eye has an ulcerated cornea, and I am feeling bloody fed up with not being able to see properly out of it.
:mad:

[MoJoRiSin]

Oh DEAR! Is it from your contact lenses?
Did the physician give you antibiotic drops?
((tea made with goldenseal used as an eyewash is comforting
but I would say use it only as a stopgap while waiting to get into to see a real doctor you know

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/goldenseal-000252.htm

which i am sure you have already done...
What did the doctor say Lukki?

big worried face goes here.....

[Frieda]

^please dont put tea in your eyes-- it may be comforting but might also infect it with fungal spores.

lukku, let me know if you need any medical info, ive been on eyedrops for ulcerated cornea since forever now!

[zero]

arse

[lukkucairi]

I got in at the local hospital eye center today and my keratitis was the subject of an ad-hoc demonstration for the benefit of a med student :p

doc fixed me up with eyedrops though and I'm going to see a corneal specialist tomorrow morning - I think I'm fine now, pain and redness have started to recede.

thanks everyone :)

[Brynn]

^Good, good, very good Lukku :)

My own good news:
Note: if long blather about something silly bores you, please just skip to the next post with my apologies. Thanks.

Last month, on the way home from a job, I found myself in the neighborhood of the unstable "friend" who, last September, came into our house while we were gone and stole one of our family dogs. I have been sad and depressed all winter long because of it, and felt powerless in the face of his many and various threats. My birthday this year was particularly difficult because Atticus as a puppy had been a birthday present five years ago, so we'd always just counted it as his birthday too.
This attorney works all day and into the evening and kept Atticus and another dog locked alone in a tiny house with a dog door out to a tiny deck.

On impulse, heart pounding, I parked around the corner, walked up to the wrought iron gate and called to Atticus, telling myself that I just wanted to see how he was doing. He came hurtling out the dog door and threw himself at me through the bars of the gate. As he whined and howled and wagged at me furiously, the big dog that lived there nipped and growled at him. I decided to steal him back, so I lifted him easily over the gate, and put him on the ground. He practically danced as he followed me to my car and hopped in. I could hardly breathe as I drove him home.
I'll skip the ugly drama that ensued that night involving a furious, emotionally unbalanced man who had been bested at his own game.

Our back yard has fleas that Atticus is allergic to, and he was already reacting to them again, so I immediately drove him out to good friends who are retired. They have three other dogs out in the country on 60 acres of high ground where it gets too cold for fleas.
My family and I just spent Easter with them.
Atticus is now a true country dog, happy in his "pack" and devoted to his new owners, who love him and spoil him. He looks wonderful. He loves being outside all day long, and his favorite pastime is digging up to his shoulders after gophers. All his nervous city behaviors are gone - no more whining, no more clinging - he's a happy, calm little normal dog now. He sat affectionately with me most of the time, looking at me, but made it clear who his new masters are. :)
This makes me very very happy and a weight has lifted.
I'm extremely grateful to the people on this board who pm'd me - and to Jack in particular - for patiently listening to the excruciating details of this completely ridiculous, idiotic story and holding my silly hand through this and making me laugh. Thank you. I heart you.

[lukkucairi]

^ GOOD FOR YOU Brynnie! That's an awesome story :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^ Well done. Very well. :)

[Stephi_B]

announcement #1: they be sukkers! :mad:
them of the senate for education!
they don't recognize my phd-ness as equivalent to this lousy first teacher state exam thing!
(although the lady said "of course you'd be more than qualified, but you see, there are laws....")

announcement #1a: laws sukk! :mad:
i wantz anarchy for the masses! now!

announcement #2: i won't give in! :p
i emailed me old uni just now
maybe they can fix me some paper to meet the fukken laws

announcement #2a: i have a plan b now :)
thanks to yon tip of the eldest son of the very lebanese-berlinish family which has adopted me like!

announcement #3: (oops, i almost forgot)
i got like adopted by a sweet-cool lebanese-berlinish family :) :) :)
they are the BEST, EVER! :) :) :)

[Stephi_B]

announcement 3a: thus, besides turkish, i also learn arabic now :)
it's a lovely language actually, and it teaches to do funny things with one's throat :D

[Stephi_B]

i'm applying for the army! ha! :p - but as a civilian of course ;)

[zero]

prolly you'll need uni to fix you some paper to meet the fukcken army laws now

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^ :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Stephi_B]

prolly you'll need uni to fix you some paper to meet the fukcken army laws now

Nah, the army's homepage explicitly lists my very chemistry diplomaness (asides diplomanesses in physics and enigineering) in their requirements for the "higher technical service".

The homepage of the fukken senate of education (like the majority of their quadrizillion only sometimes reachable employees) however is very shady about such rotten "side-entries" like me who dare to study a subject properly (and do their PhD basically in another subject - but the law has no interest in that) instead of two subjects in the official teacher ways.
If the uni can't fix me something I will try to get into via the new subject "nature sciences" which only requires a single subject to be studied and for which there are not yet too much laws as it the subject is that new that none has yet studied it (although it already has to be tought starting next year - is a funny thing with the laws :rolleyes:).

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

go green, girl, go grin! :D




don't let them mess up your life - they'll keep changing laws as they see fit

[Stephi_B]

But if nothing works they can kiss my behind parts, and as this army thing has an application period of 4-6 month prior to the hiring time (June and December) I do that now.
Plus my headmaster (who told me she cannot promise me anything unless I overcome the fukken law) will learn about that, as I intend to let her in her official headmasterness certify the copies of my degrees I need to apply for the army and let her KNOW that I apply for the army and ask whether she could give me a bit of a job still for September to November. For she has connections to the very senate of education and always says what a valuable colleague I am, blabla (blabla doesn't pay my fukken bills!), but on the other hand she says that she already has bent the law with my current contract - that's all crap! (and I know out of other sources, quite reliable ones that without us non-legalised quasi-teachers the school system in Berlin would already have collapsed, but not even that makes them legalise us by bending the fukken law :mad:)

[Stephi_B]

Yeah :D I'll go green :D

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

The whole education system is in ruins everywhere -- and if they continue with their policy of finding ways how to pay little money for loads of work it'll go from bad to worse. :(

Escape while you can!

[Stephi_B]

The whole education system is in ruins everywhere -- and if they continue with their policy of finding ways how to pay little money for loads of work it'll go from bad to worse. :(

Escape while you can!

True :( - poor kids (the one fine thing in this job)

[Odbe]

:)

[lukkucairi]

I'm staying in.

[Odbe]

My dear Zemonkeys,
I never saw this coming. :)
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii176/Icemark_Wolf/nuzzle.jpg

[grumpybumpas]

I am just so damned old that i can remember when a curser was someone who walked around swearing all of the time,coke was a cold drink,grass was something that you sat on at the park and gay ment happy.

So old that i have to take viagra four times a day just to keep from peeing in my sox.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

My dear Zemonkeys,
I never saw this coming. :)
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii176/Icemark_Wolf/nuzzle.jpg

:) :) :) HAPPIES! :) :) :)

[Marcus Bales]

There's a new Dictionary Game word.

[lukkucairi]

it is all as I suspected... :p

[Odbe]

I think you all need to see this right now.
http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/pylons.gif

[brightpearl]

^that is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

I would like to announce that I am about to graduate, and that my stupid application (http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin_new/showpost.php?p=419927&postcount=1175) was accepted. It's going to upheave our lives a bit, but I hope it will be good in the long run.

[Frieda]

^YAYYYYYY!! :) :) :)

[Odbe]

Wow Pearl! :D Congrats!
http://www.pinatas.com/v/vspfiles/photos/134392-2T.jpg

[MoJoRiSin]

"series e savings bonds
double your money in eighteen years" :)
~my friend s.

[lukkucairi]

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[YsaPur EsChomuw]

THE SUN IS SHINING!!!

Excuse my overexcitement, but it hasn't done so for weeks and weeks.

Must've been all those flapping towels that scared away the rainclouds... thanks, Pearly and Odbe ;)

[lukkucairi]

I am ready to go back to Utah now.

[Odbe]

International Towel Day (http://www.towelday.org/)
Uses of my towel today in order of occurrence:

1. napkin for eating dry instant noodles while on the run to and late for a morning lecture
2. mopping the sweat from my brow after running up stairs to said lecture
3. conversation starter
4. attempt to flag down passing space ship (unsuccessful)
5. umbrella and raincoat for an unfortunately timed field trip in the pouring rain
6. classmate: Oh damn, I'm getting mud all over my new shoes, I wish I had a towel or something
me: Aha! I have just the thing!

[Frieda]

2nd semifinal of the eurovision song contest tonight.. and we have the worst entry ever!!

[lukkucairi]

Tove Jansson once illustrated Lewis Carrol's Hunting of the Snark (http://www.zepe.de/tjillu/snark/index.html)

:D

[Brynn]

It's going to rain all the week longer and longer and endless clouded over days with drizzle forever. The winter here is an eternity and spring just gray grumpy except for soggy roses.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Slovakia has inadvertently slunk into southern Asia on the map, having an unexpected period of summer monsoons with copious amounts of rain, starting from mid-January till godknowswhen.

[Frieda]

got some serious bruises from the asshole mammogram machine from hell with an attitude. ack.

[brightpearl]

It's free donut day at Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' Donuts.
:D

[Marcus Bales]

I'm eating a free donut.

[brightpearl]

I had one, too. :)

[MoJoRiSin]

a patient brough donuts to mo's workplace today
amazing
the synchroni city no?

[xfox]

On the way to the beach for a few days.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Ok, so they've started evacuating people in some city parts, closest to the river.
There are rumours about the dam... if it bursts 350 000 will be in for the dive. But it won't burst, right?

http://i.sme.sk/cdata/6/54/5408216/let-ruzin_res.jpg

[Frieda]

^:(:(:(

so sorry, Ysa.. :(

stay safe.. get yourself something inflatable, stock up on canned food, chocolate, water, flashlight & meds.. i have a similar emergency pack in my storage room in case the NLs ever flood.. hopefully i'll never have to use any of it!

~~~good vibes to the dam.. be strong!~~~

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

Thanks! It's actually VERY good advice, as I was without a plan. There have always been occasional floods in Slovakia, but never on such a large scale. I really believed that sort of thing couldn't happen here... :o

The good news is, there's a period of three rainless days before us, during that time they will continually let water flow from the dam, so there'll be more space to receive the next batch.

[Frieda]

that's good news, i really hope it works!

here's what's in the official NL in-case-it-floods-emergency pack:

radio + extra batteries
hand winding flashlight
regular flashlight & extra batteries
1st aid kid (bandaids, gauze, scissors, bandages, desinfectant, etc)
matches (packed in water tight bag)
tealights
blanket
whistle
compass
pocket knife + some other smaller tools (screwdriver, hammer, small saw)
stash of all my meds
cash + copy of ID paper
map
phone nrs
desinfectant gel
water: 3 liters per person per day for 3 days
canned food + can opener for 3 days
toilet paper, soap, detergent, tampons, toothpaste, toothbrush
raincoat
emtpy jerrycan
clothes for 3 days

i really hope you'll never need it!!

[Jack Flanders]

^ Me too. Been through 3 floods and it's really bad. If you are told to leave - do it.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^&^^ :)

What's the empty jerry can for? A makeshift toilet?
I think I'll add the picture of the SHUT UP man to the list, in case I started to whinge...

[Frieda]

haha, no! it's to collect drinking water if you're handed some from a bigger tank. don't drink from where you do your toilet things-- which reminds me that there should also be norit and those tabs for purifying water in your first aid kit.

maybe you can print a rain poncho with a picture of the shutup man :D

[Frieda]

oh, and add mosquito repellent and sunscreen too.

[lukkucairi]

^^^ :( OK after reading all that, I will not whinge about our basement flooding yesterday :p

Ysa, good luck!

just read this (http://www.b92.net/eng/news/world-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=06&dd=06&nav_id=67631) - hope you are OK still

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I feel a lot calmer and safer now. Also: many evacuated people could return to their homes today.

Sadly, not all homes remained homes. But the situation and the mood in the town is much-much more hopeful. Not a single raindrop today! :D

Thank you all.

[Frieda]

~~~~~~ i'll keep sending good vibes! ~~~~~~

and hugs, too. stay safe!

[brightpearl]

I'm so glad things are drying out, Y.
Frieda, you are a wealth of information. I had to google "jerrycan." :)

I would like to announce that my kid is unremittingly awesome.

[xfox]

Very happy to know Ysa avoided peril and sorry for those who didn't.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^^ :( OK after reading all that, I will not whinge about our basement flooding yesterday :p


Oh! I hope it's not where you keep your twinkly lights stuff!

[lukkucairi]

^ nah, lights are all OK - it was a hard two days of work moving everything out of the basement though, and we lost all the carpeting and I might not be able to salvage the rugs. The couches are OK and I hope we can salvage the huge beanbag.

turns out we have a seam in our foundation that the guy who built the house never bothered to fix :confused: - it looks like it weeps water maybe once every 10 or 20 years or so? the house is 71 years old. we're gonna try to fix it now :o

[lukkucairi]

glad you're OK, Ysa!

[Marcus Bales]

New Dictionary Game word: Galliard

[Odbe]

Yesterday I handed in my last pile of uni-drawings for the semester :eek:
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT
They actually just let you go? A whole five weeks of no assignments? They're not going to pull me up and say "WAIT WAIT ACTUALLY TAKE THIS HUGE LIST OF WORK TO DO" ? I'm not going to get back on the first day and find out I was meant to do 30 oil paintings?


Finally! Time to get some drawing done!

[Odbe]

Announcement #2: I am excited about tomorrow. Tomorrow, I am making bacon cookies.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ swooning with curiosity and desire

please report!

[Frieda]

vuvuzelas SUCK! :mad:

they sound like an angry swarm of bees!

[lukkucairi]

I am on week 2 with a personal trainer.

I think I might be getting in shape, but oh, the pain! :p

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ congratulations! :D

[lukkucairi]

oh, and we had an oil spill in Salt Lake City

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_15294714

yeugh :mad:

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ so sad, so very bad :(
Even if 70 per cent has been cleaned up, it still affects nature, animals, people.

[Frieda]

i have a new bed! :)

[brightpearl]

^Aren't beds awesome? :D
Did you buy a new bedspread? I found a raw silk one last year, on clearance for 30 bucks or something, and I am still totally enamored of it.

[Frieda]

^ ooh silk is lovely for a bedspread.. also for duvet covers! lovely and soft :)

i don't have one yet.. i never seem to have a good place to store it when i'm actually in bed. how do you do that?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I have a laundry basket and I put the bedspread on top of it before I go to sleep.

[Frieda]

oh, that's useful. i have the laundry baskets in the bathroom.. pretty much all that's in my bedroom is a bed, a high drawer cabinet, some built-in wardrobe closets and the laundry rack.. but that's already got laundry on it, usually. hmm.

[brightpearl]

Ooops, American English of the southern states is sort of casual about the use of the word "bedspread." :D Mine is actually a duvet cover. Silk on top, cotton on the bottom, so I leave it on the bed over the sheet when I'm sleeping.

[brightpearl]

I have a new purple phone. It is slidey-open instead of flippy-open and I certainly hope this will turn out to be a fortuitous consumer choice.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PBw3YqeGan4/STd5CxoohKI/AAAAAAAAAaI/OM6wMvgOSAY/s320/samsung-u600-purple.jpg

[Marcus Bales]

Brynn has won this round of The Dictionary Game

[lukkucairi]

today! today! today, life is VERY VERY good! :D

[brightpearl]

^
do tell?
:D

[brightpearl]

Wait, maybe it would be more fun to guess...

Dread Pirate Roberts sent you a love letter?
You got new socks?
The cookies came out not too crunchy and not too chewy...just perfect?

Or oh oh oh, I know! It's the one day a year when the rare Teal Dimpled Salt Lake jellyfish makes its way onto shore to lay eggs!!

[lukkucairi]

Stormy skies finally cleared off, let's say...

...part of this is the relief and resolution of years of chronic unhappiness - I resolved in 2007 that I didn't want to live in that personal hell any more, and threw myself into a huge amount of therapy both mental and physical. Here we are in mid-2010 and it's finally a Brand New Day. No antidepressants neither. Just brute-force figuring out what the hell my life was all about, and getting OK with it :)

...part of it is that it's spring, and 3.5 years of intermittent allergy shots actually really have decreased my hay-fever misery to tolerable levels :p

...part of it is that after starting with a personal trainer at the gym my fitness level is beginning to show an upward trend :o

...part of it is that I'm listening to the Jackson 5 :D really :D

[lukkucairi]

^^ and dammit yes, it was the jellyfish eggs too!

how'd you ever guess? :o

[Odbe]

Bacon cookies were Very Interesting! The recipe needs some tweaking though, they were an acquired taste.

[Marcus Bales]

What the world needs now is blueberry bacon muffins.

[MoJoRiSin]

There is every possibility that Adam is the mother of us and that king David was actually a woman and his wives were
"husbands" that is the only thing that could possible make sense to mo

[Stephi_B]

....well, so the army likes my degrees much much and all that, but they have no more money to employ anybody in their shopping-for-cool-weaponry-and-fiddling-around-with-it-er....-testing-and-improving-it dep't....

so i keep on applying for all kinds of stuff, teaching, research, whatnot, and i hope my very lovely favourite head-mistress can raise enough money for me at my very lovely favourite school (besides project #1 which is giving math lessons, extra hours in everything and restructuring the biology/chemistry/a-bit-of-physics-and-math-hidden-there-in-the-corner, i have now a project #2 there which consists of roaming the endless corridors in the search of teacherless groups of kids/classes and writing them up - to see which teachers are missing, which kids turn up at all and that - and trying to motivate them to do logic training and riddles with me or at least trying to motivate them to go peacefully and quite downstairs to the mensa - initially that was a really really tough job :rolleyes:, but meanwhile i get some respect there in the 8th and 9th graders' zone and some of the 7th grade girls are sometimes joining me a bit on my rounds chatting with me :), the 10th graders are my homies anyway ;)

yeah and i'm still all mmmmmmmh :) with my boy, he'll be outta berlin now for 5 weeks, but i'll survive somehow i figure ;)

[Frieda]

^don't the germanies have a CSI department that requires a physics / chemistry degree you can use your brain matter in?

[Frieda]

here

Das Kriminaltechnische Institut
ist eine von 9 Abteilungen des Bundeskriminalamtes.

beschäftigt derzeit ca. 300 Mitarbeiterinnen/Mitarbeiter, darunter Chemiker, Physiker, Biologen, Ingenieure, Phonetiker, Psychologen, Kriminalbeamte, Mineralogen, IT-Spezialisten, Elektroniker, Techniker, technische Assistenten und Laboranten, die interdisziplinär zusammenarbeiten.

http://www.bka.de/

[Stephi_B]

^same thing, the bka has a hiring stop too. the only state sectors spared so far by the govt are education and research (not that they have that much budget anyway, but at least they still hire ppl)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^ the whole world is grinding into a halt, so it seems.
My sister has been made redundant, together with quite a number of others - she worked at the university doing some research in the field of physics.

[Frieda]

^ & ^^ sorry to hear that..

maybe all the unemployed chemists / phycicsicsisctstscts can team up and find a way to get rid of all the oil in the mexican gulf?

[lukkucairi]

^ quite possibly, seems like there'll be quite a future economy in abatement and remediation of this kind of thing.

even if we quit doing this stupid stuff, there's plenty of work to go around from picking up the debris of the 20th century.

good luck to all finding jobs - any electronics engineers out there looking to collaborate on some LED art?

[Marcus Bales]

Brynn is the FIRST EVER winner of BOTH the Dictionary Game and the Yranoitcid Emag at the same time!

[Odbe]

I took a photo yesterday and I want to share it with you all:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4745032760_8681bfc1f2.jpg

[Frieda]

^ooooooo magical! :)

may please steal it for a mobile phone background image?

[Odbe]

no worries mate! :)

[lukkucairi]

^^^ amazing amazing amazing :D thanks for sharing!

[brightpearl]

^It really is lovely. Is it a stork or a pelican or something? I suppose Odbe is in the best position to know...
You need to draw that up, girl, by the way. :)

[Odbe]

It's a pelican but I think it looks like a phoenix. Pearl, I'll get my pencils out and see what I can do :)

[Frieda]

we're in the final! woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! :D :D :D

[Frieda]

my ear hruts!! :(:(

[Brynn]

Although I'm hungry and my brain is tired, it's been a nice day.

[Marcus Bales]

Part Two, coming up!

[Frieda]

i was this close to applying for a medical fitness program today.

this close.

[MoJoRiSin]

Then why did you not(qm)
Is registration closed (qm)

[Jack Flanders]

^^ heh!

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

went to the zoo, took a raincoat just in case -- got sunburnt

[Brynn]

I decided not to chop down the gangly, unsightly butterfly bush today because there's a family of hummingbirds nesting in it. The mother gorges herself on the tiny white flowers every morning.

[Stephi_B]

hi :)

i just wanted to announce me being still there (not that often here, but sometimes looking to see if you are still there).

good news for those (including my granny by the way, and i trust my granny 100% with almost everything) feeling slightly uncomfy with me joining the army ;): they didnie take me, because they have a hiring-stopp due to the financial thingies.
so i'm now really applying for proper jobs, science things, administration things inside science things and also for such cool nerd jobs out there in the wild free economy. there's this incredibly fitting and endless cool algorithm developer position - cross your fingers that they invite me there. but actually i don't care, i want to have SOMETHING until nov 1 or latest dec 1 (i'm living off savings and i would very much prefer to not go near the welfare/unemployment assholes who don't neither have my job qualifications (they have all kinds of chemistry fields, but not physical or theoretical chem.) - or my interests in there lousy job data bank.... wait a sec, maybe i should apply THERE to manage their job data bank and thereby restore full employment and after that get a neat govt job with chauffeur and all.... sorry, it's a bit hot in the berlinies :D) well, before i go there i rather do another school job, after all i even have experience in that now (and according to - not really true, reckoning - i have worked in and survived one of Berlin's toughest schools, hehe ;))
and otherwise i'm just enjoying my mmmmmmm-ness state of being :) (yeah, i'm still with my boy :) - it's so totally different, but it feels so so good :))

[Frieda]

i'm studying for a project management exam tomorrow (well, i'm taking a mock exam) while having an intense headache straight from migraine hell.

it has questions like:

> which technique is best used to diminish tension and stress in your project?
A keep work pressure high so there is no time for arguing
B visit the workfloor regularly to feel the atmosphere
C separate team members to prevent any discussions

i mean, please! :rolleyes: unfortunately it also has questions on cost variance and whatever needs to be calculated on interest rates and shit but i guess i'll just skip those or something. i just wish my head would stop pounding.

[Stephi_B]

^D regular coffee breaks, dude!

i sort of know why i try to stay in the state sector, whenever i see 'project management' (or one of this fancy project management words i have to google just in order to find out that it's some nonsense/bubble meaning or one could use a very normal word instead) in a job description i sort of feel very sick ;)

kissing your poor head :)

and whenever i need to know something about project manage-my-ass-ment i come visiting you, bringing coffee and ibuprofen with me ;)

[Brynn]

^^
D: Make everybody neighbor up and play Farmville

http://farmvillesecretguide.net/farmville3d/images/farmville%2520pyramid.jpg
I mean, really, what's most important?
I hope your poor head feels better...

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I'm leaving on a 2-week vacation tomorrow 5 a. m. and I can't sleep. :(

[lukkucairi]

^ hooray for vacation, boo for insomnia!

I am in a similar state of mind. So much to do before the Burn, and so little time left...yet as tired as I am at night, my mind is still racing too much to sleep well at all.

[Stephi_B]

i've made a nudelauflauf (noodle based casserole?) today, the first auflauf i ever made, and i made it with chicken meat slices, peas, an extra egg ;) and loads of garlic and cheese, and it's wow :) (and i'm an auflauf-spoilt brat thanks to my grandma = auflauf-godess!)

it's for my boy :) he did ask for auflauf you see ;)

[zero]

he did ask for auflauf you see ;)

hallo stephanie, i hope you didnie misunderstand what he was asking for..

see, there's this ol' joke about casseroles. here it's..

reminds me of an old story me dad told me years ago

we were watching top of the pops and he was leching over cherry from pan's people when he said "I'd like to be casseroled by that one sonny boy"

i said "don't you mean caressed???

he said "look it up", so I did....

the dictionary said


"to be done slowly for three hours"

i'm sure he'll enjoy his noodles though.

[Frieda]

^:D

[Marcus Bales]

casserole me over in the clover

[Stephi_B]

:D :D :D :D

yes, indeed, that ("to be done slowly for three hours") too, but then it's still ramadan, you see.... ;) (ramadan means no sex, not even after sundown, at least if you do ramadan properly!)
but then we had some more or less (more less, hehe :D) ramadan-conform fun after all :) and he took home (as it was not yet sundown when he had to go) his part the casserole and the yummy sweet thing i made out of oat flakes, nutella, milk and some nice spices :)

[Peregrine]

Speaking of Ramadan, funny story:

I used to work at the help desk at my university, and I would usually work two nights a week with a Muslim. We'd work part of the afternoon together, and then I'd cover the office for 20 minutes or so at sundown, while he went to break his fast, and go to the cafeteria for supper. I'm not Muslim, but I wouldn't eat during the shift until he left, because I felt awkward eating in front of a guy who hadn't eaten since morning, and was probably starving.

One day, he switched his shift with another guy, also of middle-eastern descent. I didn't work with him quite as often, so I didn't know him quite as well.

Since I was busy that day, I skipped lunch, so I was pretty starved myself. So I had my lunch in the office, before realizing that this poor fella in the office with me was probably pretty hungry, and I'd just scarfed down a sandwich right in front of him. I felt pretty bad.

While I was sitting there feeling guilty, prayer time came and went, but my companion didn't leave the office. I started to wonder, why wasn't he leaving to break his fast like the other guy usually does. Then I reallized; Oh, right! He's Hindu! Thank God!

[MoJoRiSin]

^ wow :D :D :D

However the really is no such thing as Hinduism

per se

[Stephi_B]

^^:)

same here! and i really admire those muslims working in gastronomy who do fast.
but then, not all nominal muslims do fast: the algerian colleague at my old workplace at uni doesn't for example. ok, he seems to have had a loss of faith 8 years ago, but he told me even more or less devout folks at home in algeria, particularly the young ones, are not that strict about that, so they only skip alcohol (! actually haram all year long.... my boyfriend says algerians are hobby-muslims altogether ;)), and the strict ones skip all, but only during daylight (my boyfriend told me that that's not really the correct way, sex and smoking - normal tobacco as well as weed:D - are haram altogether during ramadan). only when folks grow old and scared of death they become religious, do the pilgrimage to mecca, grow a beard, pray five times a day, fast etc. he also told me that for him ramadan if at all has only a meaning as a family thing (traditionally and if possible, the whole family meets for prayer and fast breaking every sundown in ramadan).
what i see here in germany the young turkish and arab kids do take ramadan serious - okay in parts it's also a sort of competition for them: i ramadan you under the table! ;) in berlin and some other places the end of ramadan is even a school-free day for muslim kids, at my old school also the few non-muslims kids have a day off and the teachers clean labs, coffee kitchens and that.
my boyfriend says actually fasting is not hard (yeah, but once when we walked across the saturday market at my neighbourhood with all nice smelling and looking food stands... and also football training thrice a week with an empty belly is very strenuous for him) and it's a good feeling to do it.

[Brynn]

Speaking of food, I made a big pot of some really delicious chili tonight - spicy but not too spicy. Little dollop of sour cream. Sharp cheddar. Some crumbled bacon. Oh my.

[Stephi_B]

so there i went to me old school (the headmaster has no money at all, she even cannot pay me the extra hours i did work :mad: - money from which i could have lived a whole month!!)
anyway, when i just wanted to go home i met one of my former extra hour students and she sent me straight away to a private turkish education institute close-by who offer private lessons, but also run their own schools in berlin.
and la voila i'm hired for a paid 3-week trial, giving extra lessons in maths and english to kids in the final classes :):) (their boss who is just now in turkey holding exams - the turkish teachers there are teachers from the turkish ministry you see - happened to call while i was there and okay'ed the whole thing)
it's not a job to really live from, but it'll bring me across things for a while.
and it's super-sweet there, everything's brand new, they have such tiny classrooms, and a teachers' room where i'll get my own shelf and a teachers' kitchen where the teacher breakfast together and drink tea (when ramadan is over, of course ;)) - just cool and nice :)
ya well, and maybe they have a thingie for me, i mean a real position, in their private gymnasium (high school), who knows ;)
and the whole thing is even sort of funny with respect to the current craze about this [insert several nasty words in here] sarrazin person (read here for example (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,715876,00.html) - the scariest thing about it is indeed that so many ppl agree with this person...), i go to work there where according to the "immigration is totally failed" opinion a blonde so totally german woman cannot go (today in the subway i got a compliment about my stunning figure *g*, you see - but the guy left me alone when i said nay, thanks i belong someone and reminded him of ramadan and of his age - actually the latter did the main trick!) and i'm paid by people who according to the "immigration is totally failed" opinion live off welfare... (but can pay 200 Euro and more for private lessons, hmmm?!) i say: ha! :p and haha :D and [insert several nasty words in here] :mad: and once more: HA! :)

[Jack Flanders]

"So there!!" You go girlfriend!! Congratulations to you and all digits are crossed for the long(er) employment.

[lukkucairi]

I am sunburned :o

[Frieda]

i need glasses, tried about 100 and they all look weird on me.

:(

[madasacutsnake]

It's coming out. May have to figure out how to give myself a fungal infection/change physicians/fall off a horse, but it will come out.

[Frieda]

maybe they'll fall for the good old red beets trick?

anyway, *hugs*

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

I've just arrived

[Jack Flanders]

^ :)

[Stephi_B]

there's police (tape) between me and my warm cosy home. i'm evacuated cos they fiddle with this there huge (500kg) ww2 bomb they undugged at the s-bahn station. the police lady said something about 22h when it's supposed to be over (now it's 21h here, bah, and i'm awake and running and doing since 6am)

evacuated greetings :)

oh and the (partial) welfare threat is banned, my unemployment insurance still is valid and i'm lucky to have earned good as postdoc :):D so i will not starve / have to beg and unveil my personal everything at the jobcenter (welfare office) until these lazy personnel department ppls in the like 40 places i applied to (only four nays until now, from thingies i applied for in june/early july) get their asses moving and invite me and stuff (i found out that between writing an appl and receiving a definite answer there can be up to 3 months...)
and my fame as nachhilelehrerin grows :o, folks start asking me to give private lessons at home.

[Bman]

the technological singularity is nigh

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[Frieda]

i am *this* close to throwing my whistling colleague out the window. right after i punch her in the nose.

[lukkucairi]

^ my sympathies, I hate whistlers.

I am jetlagged again. I can't seem to sleep past about 6am no matter what I do :(

[MoJoRiSin]

"DON'T LEAVE THE PATH"

[MoJoRiSin]

SMILE BMAN SMILE
(Its all for you :) )

[brightpearl]

Shown here is one of the pills I have to take.
Actual size. :mad:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/185490586_e8d3cfa691.jpg

[Peregrine]

I find it helps if you crush them up, and mix them with ice cream. :eek:

[Stephi_B]

:) i haz a job :) finally :) from next wednesday until june :)

not the editor job. they may kiss my jeans-clad behind - i figure they either took the "i'm into marketing" jerk or one of the two eager beaver girls. most definitely they did neither take the geek teacher type nor the bioinformatician chick who wore all black - jeans and zipper hoody - but for overknee lilac wild leather boots (i loved her!! :)). or maybe the only slightly older applicant and only real editor.

nah, it's a school job, maths and chemistry. and they want to raise some nu, modern, progressive math there, individual learning it is called - i digg that :) and they ain't a bloody (wanna-be!) elitist gymnasium, for bloody (wanna-be!) elitist gymnasiums can kiss my unassimilated-to-(wanna-be!)-elitist-shite-and-hypocrisy behind :p

and i have 8 months more time to find my very very job :)

[Peregrine]

Congratulations!:D

[Odbe]

I'm covered in bits of UV-reactive fluro orange fluff from something special I'm making. I hope Lukku will be proud :)
Oh, there will be photos like you wouldn't believe.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

^^good luck, Stephi!

^greetings to shiny happy people like Odbe and Lukku!

my announcement: I'm writing (because I must) a Slovak-English dictionary of border and alien policing.
Dictionary writing sucks.

I wish it was a creative job, like writing the DG entries....

[Odbe]

I've always wondered what it's like to write a dictionary, thanks for clearing that up. Do you have a favourite word?

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

:o No, I don't.

I think my love affair with words has reached the bottom of the bottomless pit.

[lukkucairi]

first snow of the season last night...

[Stephi_B]

:o No, I don't.

I think my love affair with words has reached the bottom of the bottomless pit.

is it because they are like

Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübert ragungsgesetz (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/De-Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rindfleischetikettierungs%C3%BCberwachungsauf gaben%C3%BCbertragungsgesetz.ogg)

(approximately meaning "law on delegation of duties for supervision of cattle marking and beef labeling" and losing the word of the year award 1999 to.... millenium ;))

[Bman]

The thought of you or you or YOU sitting down at a computer, reading this, is plain crazy.

[Frieda]

i am back in the land of the living after an lp from hell with an attitude and a hint of meningitis on the side!

[zero]

... in the land of the living ...


that's the country next door to the antwerps! am i right, lucile?

[Frieda]

ya thats right mr zero. now please send me some good vibes because i can really use some of those.. thank you for your kind assistance in this matter!

[brightpearl]

^Good vibes, Frieda. Is there someone making you tea?

Also, please tell your caregiver that Dr. Pearly respectfully requests tests for celiac disease and lupus.

Take good care of yourself.

[lukkucairi]

hugs for Frieda!

[zero]

send me some good vibes because

k, i've pointed my +vebeam generator straight at your nether regions now

[Bman]

The thought of you or you or YOU sitting down at a computer, reading this, is plain crazy.

I take it back, the thought of you and you and especially YOU, sitting down at a computer, reading this and resonating, is wonderful.

[lukkucairi]

^ awesome :D

[Stephi_B]

woah, big hugs & be-well-vibes @frieda!!!

oh, and doc pearly is in :D

"...er, doc, if you have sec, i'd need a new prescription, you know for yon funny pills you gave me last month, this whatwasittheyrecalled, erm, so, ah, yeah, they do me good, and, you know what i mean... :o "

[lukkucairi]

the main sewer line backed up today

it's OK, we've fixed it now, and I've had a shower

I am, however, exhausted :o

[Marcus Bales]

the main sewer line backed up today

it's OK, we've fixed it now, and I've had a shower

I am, however, exhausted :o


Keep your sexual innuendos to yourself.

[jasmina]

Hi everyone!

I got married!

:)

[MoJoRiSin]

Congratulations Jasmina! : )
I would like to wish you luck and blessings with all of your
endeavors
Ox L,Mo

PICTURES PLEASE !!!

[Frieda]

^^cool, that's a real announcement! Congrats! :) :)

[lukkucairi]

^^^wow, congrats :)

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

winter has come, not on a white horse, but dressed in bleak garments

[lukkucairi]

I can smell that Lindt milk chocolate bar from three feet away.

[Marcus Bales]

I didn't eat breakfast today.

[Bman]

Every minute of The Walking Dead is a heart attack for me.

[lukkucairi]

we're going to have a blizzard.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/slc/wxbriefing/wxb22nov2010/player.html

[Odbe]

http://chzsomuchpun.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/fe132d21-9c7b-46b5-9e52-7070cfd64367.jpg

[Odbe]

Double post but I have something special to show you before I leave for an adventure. I spent many hours of frustration and discovery making and painting her.
http://oi51.tinypic.com/10ngklk.jpg
I don't know what her name is, I've been calling her Madam Froggy so far.
She's a green and golden bell frog, made as an assignment for my uni course. See, I told you it was a good one.

[Frieda]

^awesome :)



i just made the first cupcakes EVER in my whole life. from a pack, but it's the idea that counts. and the fact that they taste good :)

[trisherina]

Hey, Frieda, there is nothing wrong with packaged cake mix! For some applications, even hard-core bakers will advise that there is no substitute.

[Stephi_B]

i'm gonna wait till they (the crap school, who lured me into signing a crap 54% of a crappy paid full position contract until jan 31, but who pissed me of 110% at that :mad:) fire me, fire me, fire me :p *singing* :p fire me, fire me, fire me - and until then i'm home sick (as a matter of fact i indeed caught a nasty cold on thursday when i fought my way through the snow chaos for hours) as i will never ever set a foot anywhere near that crap school where some crap school psycho has me on his list now (and i would have to teach chemistry to him and his followers - nah thanks, this time it was a snow ball and sick laughter and pure provocation, next time it's a bottle of acid) and then i'll have my neat unemployment insurance money again (more than i earned the last month in three jobs... had i known about that neat sum i had never signed the crap job contract. the headmaster of that school couldn't get me sign it fast enough - now i know why... and he would have liked me to sign a formless contract cancellation thing on thursday so urgently - but not me, i'm stupid (if i had signed i would have sat there 6 weeks with no money at all, living on food stamps or money from my relatives :mad:) only once and i did asap call "my legal department" :D - i.e. my baby sis who studies law and the dude in the unemployment office who knows all the tricks - and signed no nothing yet and i won't sign anything unless it's triple checked!

and i wanna announce the following: i will never ever sign a crap contract! NEVER! and i will never again work for a state school! NEVER! (unless it's an easy going freelance thing like in my first and forever favourite school - who still owe me a month' income, but, well, they are still the best) i'm through with that FINALLY :mad: i'm seriously PISSED :mad: and one day i'm gonna write a book about what i experienced and what i saw and heard, and it will sell like steaming fresh bread - HA! :D it will be a damn naughty book :p HAHAHA! *very evil laughter*

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

i don't know what happened, but i'm sending you the warmest of hugs on this freezing december morning from a school where i'm slaving away.
i wish things would clear up for you and you soon find your well paid, almost perfect job.

xoxo

Y.

p.s. your post box is full

[Stephi_B]

it's emptier now ;)

[brightpearl]

Mr. Ezra is at it again.

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[lukkucairi]

^ I suddenly feel much better about the holiday season :D

[Bman]

I guess I have an impostor. Or stumbled on to bizzaro-Bman

maybe the B stood for bizzaro all along...you decide:

http://otherside-bman.blogspot.com/

[lukkucairi]

^ :eek:

[lukkucairi]

there is a new word for the DG

:)

[12"razormix]

moel, you will be 30 this year!
:eek:

im going to be 23 in a short while but i wish more then anything right now that i was thirty, or maybe just twentyeight

[MoJoRiSin]

HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!

http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.moviefone.com/media/2011/02/groundhog-day-530fp020111.jpg

[Bman]

Happy New Year!

[Frieda]

was throwing a brainstorm session for a workshop today on teamwork-- best quote of the day: "listening to what others have to say is a waste of my time"

i am so close to punching her in the nose.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

back from romania

[xfox]

I'm going on on vacation soon.

[brightpearl]

I dipped my grilled cheese in balsamic vinegar at lunch today. Soaked it, really.

I swear I could just drink a glass of that stuff.

[lukkucairi]

^ I feel that same way about unsweetened flaked coconut. Only it doesn't soak into bread as well.

[lukkucairi]

the Dictionary Game has been judged.

[Frieda]

i wish i had a normal life!

[zero]

just give your life a rub and it'll be fine!!

[Brynn]

I always walk to Cindy's house. When I invite her to my house, she always finds an excuse. I think my house must smell weird to other people or something. Luuku, did you come to my house when you were here? Does it smell weird?

[lukkucairi]

I came to your house - I remember your pretty back porch and your lovely husband :)

I do not recall it smelling weird. I have friends whose houses smell weird, and yours did not smell like that. For what it's worth, usually those friends are male and single, though I do have a married couple who own seven dogs. Seven dogs will make your house smell weird.

People are all sorts of strange, and they do all sorts of strange things, sometimes without even realizing why. I have known more than one friend who loves to have guests over, but who can't be winkled out of his house with anything less than a crowbar. Perhaps Cindy is a little like that?

[Brynn]

That's got to be it. Thank you. :)

[Marcus Bales]

just give your life a rub and it'll be fine!!




Whenever I give mine a rub it expands.

[lukkucairi]

oh I am so sick today :(

[Marcus Bales]

I've got a sleeping cat on my lap.

[lukkucairi]

I am going to scatter the last of my father's ashes at the Spiral Jetty, hopefully tomorrow.

http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/files/2008/01/spiral_jetty_wisps.jpg

[Marcus Bales]

http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/files/2008/01/spiral_jetty_wisps.jpg

You know, if they'd really been thinking, they'd have made it a treble clef.

[Brynn]

I am going to scatter the last of my father's ashes at the Spiral Jetty, hopefully tomorrow.

http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/files/2008/01/spiral_jetty_wisps.jpg

I hope it's a good day for you, Miss Lukkuka-choo
*HUG*

[Frieda]

I am coughing like a seal on acid and I'm pretty sure it's contagious. If anybody has a death wish, please come and bring me some hot soup.

Thank you for your kind assistance in this matter.

[xfox]

http://supernaturalbotanicals.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sick-in-bed.jpg
Feel better!

[lukkucairi]

I hope it's a good day for you, Miss Lukkuka-choo
*HUG*

thank you - I was just needing a hug!

it was a good day. (http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=280758&id=511972413&l=989c822e2c)