not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption

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Jiarn

The beginnings of a throat infection are creeping up on me now. Fantastic. Glad I'm at work where it's getting worse and will be at work tomorrow when it's full blown. -sigh-
 
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makare

I accidentally spilled hot tea on my boobs and on completely related side note, baer is being mean to me :(
 
Rent going up in April.

Also, helicopters have been circling the area on and off since 4:00 in the morning. I can't find any news online about what may or may not be going on, but my local news gathering skills suck. I wouldn't have known about the sniper in Silver Spring a couple months back if my fiancee hadn't told me. I'm just wondering why copters would be coming through here, circling for 15 minutes, and then leaving for another 20, for five hours or so.
 
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makare

:( I most certainly have them and for reasons beyond my control they often come in contact with hot liquids. so hmph to everybody!
 
I'm inventing a solid boob shield for women who have just this problem. I think I'll call it the mammo protector.
Someone else around here invented one and called it a "scale mail outfit," so I think you've been beaten to the punch on your new invention.
 
I've always been amused at people's reaction in China to a foreigner speaking Chinese. From amazement to disbelief, I don't usually fail to illicit a response. This reaction is somewhat less common in bigger cities, although common enough.


Sometime's I'll say hello and thank you and I'll get a "oh your chinese is so good" remark. Usually I'll take it as a compliment but on occasion I get a tingling feeling that it's actually rather patronising.


Just yesterday I went to 百脑汇 to find some DVD-R DLs. I went up to a girl, asked her in Chinese if they had any, described what they did and what they were for in Chinese. She looking in her pile of CDs and then says in Chinese "我很漂亮吗“ (Am I pretty?), giggling. I was like...uhm yeah, sure. She looked up suddenly and said "哎,你会中文吗?(Whoa, you can speak Chinese?)

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I sat there thinking to myself that I had just explained in technical terms, using Chinese, about the DVDs I was looking for and she gets shocked that I understood a simple sentence like "Am I pretty?"


But the characters! The tones! The meanings upon layers of meaning upon layers of meanings! It's the "Inception" of languages!


So I simply responded "当然我会说,中文就是一种语言." (Of course I can speak Chinese, it's just a language)


I suppose I should enjoy it now. It won't be too long until China is swarming with fluent Chinese-speaking foreigners.

 
I've got the light and am on medication. I don't want to take away from people with more important problems. It's just been a bad weekend.
 
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Jiarn

Just woke up, couldn't go back to sleep, throat is still killing me, and I have to be up for work in 2hrs.... fan-freakin-tastic.
 
Just woke up, couldn't go back to sleep, throat is still killing me, and I have to be up for work in 2hrs.... fan-freakin-tastic.
Aspirin, lots of water, and hot tea with lemon and honey every hour.
Then tell your boss you have pneumatic plague, cough on him, and go home.
 
Sigh. Fed refund got offset to satisfy a student loan debt.

No matter. They wouldn't even let me tell them I was military and qualified for a deferment back in '92. At that point I said the hell with them. Only two or three more years to go at this rate.
 
My changeling assassin was petrified by a medusa last night.

It kinda sucks because I've basically been killed, but cool because now half our party is stranded in a massive city where they're wanted criminals who are ALSO being targeted by two other assassin guilds, and now our tank and main striker are fucking statues. It's a dire situation.
 
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Jiarn

So I have a great agenda this week:

Wed: Going out with the girlfriend and her sister for drinks and to meet another member of her family.

Thu: The Constellations are coming to town and we've been really wanting to go to a live show for a solid month now and they put on AMAZING shows.

Sat: Going over to my best friends new "guy"s house for drinks and hanging out with my girlfriend and them.

Sun: Going to a SuperBowl party, that will be a massive buffet cookout, with wine, beer, liquor and lots of people/fun also with the girlfriend.

So why is this not in the victory or EPIC WIN thread? Because she caught my throat infection (by spending the weekend with me, trying to take care of me instead of taking care of herself). So we may end up doing none of those plans. -sigh- I just hope she feels better, I could care less about plans falling through.
 
I woke up an it was 70 degrees out, then the thunderstorm hit, and by time I got ready to leave it was down to 38.

With in 5 hours the temp dropped from 70 to 28. Damn fickle Texas weather.
 
Dear Southeastern Michigan,

Could we stop talking about the gods damned snowstorm until, oh I don't know, say maybe ONE FRAKKING SNOWFLAKE FALLS? KTHXBYE!
 
Dear Southeastern Michigan,

Could we stop talking about the gods damned snowstorm until, oh I don't know, say maybe ONE FRAKKING SNOWFLAKE FALLS? KTHXBYE!
Oh, you'll be seeing it soon enough...

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php

But yeah, we've already had one school cancellation for our kids (the other will likely be soon), and I couldn't talk to anyone today without them mentioning the storm.

I'm hoping for a good 15 inches, but honestly every time I get my hopes up we don't get anything close to what I want.
 
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Disconnected

Yes. yes it is. if by snow you mean cocaine and by playing you mean swinging.
 
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