not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption
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Ever watch Fox News? You'll see many people would get an extra F at the top of those sheets.
North_Ranger
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Gah, what a day.
Working on my tax papers.
Working on a pile of essays and exams.
My dad coming over and giving me one of his talks again.
A sea gull shat on my best jacket.
Then again, it's nice and sunny... and mom sent me nine bottles of mead for May Day. Yay! ^^
Working on my tax papers.
Working on a pile of essays and exams.
My dad coming over and giving me one of his talks again.
A sea gull shat on my best jacket.
Then again, it's nice and sunny... and mom sent me nine bottles of mead for May Day. Yay! ^^
The catalan equivalent of Valentine's Day. Last year I watched book shops with the girl I liked, went to the cinema with her, had dinner with her and gave her a rose (traditional this day).
This year I bought roses for my mom, sister, aunts and my brother's GF and got to look around book shops with Tegid, his GF and a friend. It wasn't bad, but I still feel like ranting.
This year I bought roses for my mom, sister, aunts and my brother's GF and got to look around book shops with Tegid, his GF and a friend. It wasn't bad, but I still feel like ranting.
Cajungal
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I'm slightly malnourished after having a stomach virus. It was such a bad one that I was just plain scared to eat for a while there. Almost fainted in the grocery store... and come to think of it I really shouldn't have driven. But I'm alive, and so are all the people who were on the road with me. So looking forward to the smoothie Jake's bringing me. Starting to feel normal again, woop woop.
Ugh, been there. Minus the driving thing. But I barely eat anything when I'm ill. I subsist on juice, at best, but try to do everything I normally do (school, work, exercise...). Not the wisest.
Tegid didn't put out, eh?
Regarding the incident with the girl getting killed by the semi the other day on campus:
I was told by a lovely young lady yesterday that "this is riDICulous. They should not have so many buses and big trucks and stuff around the campus. It's SO dangerous!"
No dumbass. Use the crosswalk, wait for green lights, don't wear your damn headphones and use your eyes an ears and you won't get killed by all those big scary vehicles. Honestly, if you can't handle crossing the street in college I'm not sure anything will prepare you for the real world.
On a positive note the cops are really stepping up enforcement on cars that run lights and pedestrians who are dumbasses. There is nothing quite as awesome as seeing some jackass get a jaywalking ticket 4 or 5 yards from the crosswalk, which was clearly not cool enough to use.
I was told by a lovely young lady yesterday that "this is riDICulous. They should not have so many buses and big trucks and stuff around the campus. It's SO dangerous!"
No dumbass. Use the crosswalk, wait for green lights, don't wear your damn headphones and use your eyes an ears and you won't get killed by all those big scary vehicles. Honestly, if you can't handle crossing the street in college I'm not sure anything will prepare you for the real world.
On a positive note the cops are really stepping up enforcement on cars that run lights and pedestrians who are dumbasses. There is nothing quite as awesome as seeing some jackass get a jaywalking ticket 4 or 5 yards from the crosswalk, which was clearly not cool enough to use.
I friggin hate it when bikers and pedestrians make up their own rules on the road, and assume the car will follow the even the actual rules.Regarding the incident with the girl getting killed by the semi the other day on campus:
I was told by a lovely young lady yesterday that "this is riDICulous. They should not have so many buses and big trucks and stuff around the campus. It's SO dangerous!"
No dumbass. Use the crosswalk, wait for green lights, don't wear your damn headphones and use your eyes an ears and you won't get killed by all those big scary vehicles. Honestly, if you can't handle crossing the street in college I'm not sure anything will prepare you for the real world.
On a positive note the cops are really stepping up enforcement on cars that run lights and pedestrians who are dumbasses. There is nothing quite as awesome as seeing some jackass get a jaywalking ticket 4 or 5 yards from the crosswalk, which was clearly not cool enough to use.
I remember one girl I went to college with would walk out onto the crosswalk no matter what, even if there was a car that was heading down the road (this was the cross walk to the main parking lot). Her reasoning was that the car HAS to stop because she has the right of way. Bitch, you can pander your bullshit all the way to the morgue when that car that's supposed to stop, doesn't. Honestly, I don't know why some people are so gung-ho about playing chicken with something that's got a 3-4k lbs advantage on them.
She sounds like she'd be good pals with my fiancee. I tell her exactly what you just posted every time she gives me that excuse when crossing the street.
Cajungal
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Reminds me of college. These smug jerks would hop right out onto the road and then wave "thanks" as if I chose to let them go... usually fiddling with their goddamn ipod or phone, too. It's not only unsafe; it causes unnecessary traffic. There's only one tiny road open to cars at my college. ALL OTHERS have been closed off to cars during class time to make it safer for pedestrians and bikers. People need to learn to wait their turn.
Technically, pedestrians DO have the right of way at those crosswalks. I always drive slowly through the one at my college, ready to stop, just in case somebody decides it's a good moment to start crossing. But at the same time, I never cross it myself if there's a car coming close enough that I won't be all the way across before it reaches the cross walk. I'm not willing to gamble my life that the driver isn't in a homicidal mood that day.
Or, as is probably the more likely case at my college, is stoned out of their mind and won't react to me in the crosswalk in time to stop.
Or, as is probably the more likely case at my college, is stoned out of their mind and won't react to me in the crosswalk in time to stop.
I lived in NYC for the first half of my life. You're not safe on the damn sidewalk from traffic, let alone the street.
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They do. And I don't disagree at all with the law; that doesn't mean I'm going to be a smug dumbass about it when I'm crossing the street. In the end I don't care about being right over being dead. If a dipshit driver is hauling ass towards the crosswalk, I'll wait for him to drive by before crossing, instead of trying to "teach him a lesson." It's just common sense.
I agree with your dad's advice.
North_Ranger
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If you have to play chicken with a car, do it with a brand new car. No one will want to dent those with a pedestrian.
Never, ever step in front of an old car. They'll run you over and just go "Huh? Oh well, another day, another dent..."
EDIT: What the hell is wrong with spacing?
Never, ever step in front of an old car. They'll run you over and just go "Huh? Oh well, another day, another dent..."
EDIT: What the hell is wrong with spacing?
thisthisthisthis.
Just found out that I didn't get the job I was trying for because I "didn't make the top 10 for the written testing portion."
Considering that I was top academic in the academy, I find this to be a crock, but oh well... they must have known already who they were going to hire, and were just going through the formalities...
Considering that I was top academic in the academy, I find this to be a crock, but oh well... they must have known already who they were going to hire, and were just going through the formalities...
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Sorry O_C. That really blows. If it's any consolation, we just got some swag from the successful missile test the Navy did involving my husband's ship. The mission was named Stellar Charon. I've got the ballcap on today. 
Last night I got a message from some random lady who basically asked me, "Do I know you? I heard you had mentioned me in a conversation with someone else. Just curious about it."
Normally I'd just ignore it as some sort of spam or scam. Looking at her profile I found she was the owner of a local business and a friend of a friend, so figured what the heck I'll bite. I reply I don't know her and asked who it was I supposedly mentioned her to. It was my uncle...
Apparently he thought it would be a good idea to tell this girls grandparents that I was interested in her, and I'd like to come over some time to meet her. Even though I had no idea who she was, have never heard of her before, and didn't even know he was doing that.
If you want to try to set me up with someone, fine, but is that really the best way you can think of to go about it?
Normally I'd just ignore it as some sort of spam or scam. Looking at her profile I found she was the owner of a local business and a friend of a friend, so figured what the heck I'll bite. I reply I don't know her and asked who it was I supposedly mentioned her to. It was my uncle...
Apparently he thought it would be a good idea to tell this girls grandparents that I was interested in her, and I'd like to come over some time to meet her. Even though I had no idea who she was, have never heard of her before, and didn't even know he was doing that.
If you want to try to set me up with someone, fine, but is that really the best way you can think of to go about it?
After many, many mind-numbingly annoying conversations I've had with people I'd considered friends over the past few weeks, I just want to rant about one thing:
The word natural is NOT a synonym for "good" or "healthy". Thinking you know better than medical professionals just because you have internet access is narcissistic and ignorant, and calling medicine "chemicals" just to make you feel better about avoiding them doesn't make you any less ignorant.
That is all.
The word natural is NOT a synonym for "good" or "healthy". Thinking you know better than medical professionals just because you have internet access is narcissistic and ignorant, and calling medicine "chemicals" just to make you feel better about avoiding them doesn't make you any less ignorant.
That is all.
February of last year, my cousin killed two people in a drunk driving accident, his sentencing is today so it's all over the news and the interwebs and he gets dragged through the court of public opinion once again. What isn't mentioned is that the two people he killed were also drinking and driving and had run a red light when he t-boned them. I guess it doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things, two people still are dead with 5 kids left behind and he was still an idiot for getting behind the wheel.
EPIC FAIL... While converting my futon into a couch it dropped onto my right foot in almost the same place that I broke it last year... Luckily I only skinned and bruised my foot.
The other night the dire need for rain was answered with a tornadic thunderstorm. I was with out power for over 10 hours.
Those were some intense storms, we came through with only a screen missing from one window, and a couple of trees down across the street in a wooded lot.
I just found out my father is a birther when he said that the form Obama released wasn't good enough. I... I don't know what else to say about that. I feel like I just died a little inside.
North_Ranger
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Gah, where did that bloodstainon my sheets come from? It's around where my neck or shoulders was. Is it from that scab I accidentally picked when towel-drying after shower? I thought that had glazed over already... I see no other scabs or wounds, and with my garlic intake I'm pretty sure a vampire would have been a pile of dust on my bedroom carpet.
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