| Amazing Discovery!!! |
[Feb. 24th, 2008|11:18 pm] |
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Apparently the dial on my electric blanket goes to 11. For whatever reason, they couldn't make 10 hotter and have that be the maximum setting. But when your room is 45-50 F on average without a space heater running, you gotta kick it up to 11.
Other than that, the days of insomnia, unemployment, living in my mom's basement, and drinking cheap apple juice and even cheaper vodka in the morning continue on. I can't really complain though, because I willingly brought it all upon myself. I could probably walk into most any restaurant (assuming it's hiring) in the city tomorrow and walk out with a job, but for some reason the people in my life don't want me to do that. Sure, I've got a fancy piece of paper saying I completed a college education, but that doesn't make me a competent person who can hack it in the real world. |
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| I haven't posted all summer, and this is the crap I come up with? |
[Aug. 23rd, 2007|07:30 pm] |
Your Score: Longcat 65% Affectionate, 50% Excitable, 37% Hungry
Protector of truth.
Slayer of darkness.
Loooooong.
Longcat may seem like just a regular lengthy cat, but he is, in fact, looong. For proof, observe the longpic.
It is prophesized that Longcat and his archnemesis Tacgnol will battle for supremacy on Caturday. The outcome will change the face of the world, and indeed the very fabric of lolcatdom, forever.
Be grateful that the test has chosen you, and only you, to have this title.
To see all possible results, checka dis.
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| Worst Valentine's Day EVAR |
[Feb. 14th, 2007|11:39 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  sick as fcuk | ] |
...but not due to love/romance problems. I almost never get sick, but for some reason I woke up sick as a dog, though I still managed to drag myself in to my morning shift at work. Of course, I had to go back at night since apparently that restaurant can't function without me there on eleven of the fourteen shifts of the week. *rolls eyes* Luckily, I negotiated to come in at 8 instead of 5 for the closing shift, so I got to sleep for a few extra hours in the afternoon. I just hope things are better tomorrow, as I've got to go get my butt kicked on another split shift. |
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| I just had to repost this. |
[Dec. 28th, 2006|02:09 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  amused | ] |
Man vs. Bees, the ultimate confrontation. Encapsulates everything great about being American: unflinching dedication in the face of an overwhelming adversary, and pyromania. |
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| So why don't you kill me? |
[Dec. 22nd, 2006|01:48 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  groggy | ] |
Loser- INTP
20% Extraversion, 60% Intuition, 53% Thinking, 46% Judging
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Talked to another human being lately? I'm serious. You value knowledge
above ALL else. You love new ideas, and become very excited over
abstractions and theories. The fact that nobody else cares still hasn't
become apparent to you...
Nerd's a great word to describe you, and I seriously couldn't care less
about the different definitions of the word and why you're actually
more of a geek than a nerd. Don't pretend you weren't thinking that.
You want every single miniscule fact and theory to be presented
correctly.
Critical? Sarcastic? Cynical? Pessimistic? Just a few words to describe
you when you're at your very best...*cough* Sorry, I mean worst.
Picking up the dudes or dudettes isn't something you find easy, but
don't worry too much about it. You can blame it on your personality
type now.
On top of all this, you're shy. Nice one, wench. No wonder you're on OKCupid!
Now, quickly go and delete everything about "theoretical questions"
from your profile page. As long as nobody tries to start a conversation
with you, just MAYBE you'll now have a chance of picking up a date. But
don't get your hopes up.
I am interested though. If a tree fell over in a forest, would it really make a sound?
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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.
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The other personality types are as follows...
Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Freak - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Crackpot - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 99% on Extraversion | | You scored higher than 99% on Intuition | | You scored higher than 99% on Thinking | | You scored higher than 99% on Judging |
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At least I don't have 55 hours at work this week *rolls eyes* |
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| "I wasn't here, that's for sure." |
[Dec. 11th, 2006|03:41 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  resentful | ] |
Ever feel like your bosses think your shitty job should be 100 times more important to you than you think it is?
So, Saturday was the semi-annual Anime Club Marathon, a ten-hour day of eating junk food and watching cartoons so crazy they could only come from Japan, complete with a raging, drunken afterparty at my house until 6 in the morning. Anime aside, it boiled down to a social activity with friends in the context of an event that only happens twice a year. I requested the day off from work three or four weeks in advance through the proper channels, and got the day off, fair and square. I come into work on Sunday, and the general manager asks, "So where were you yesterday?" I assumed they'd had some busy day or other drama on Saturday, and his unspoken words were, "You should have been here." Of course, I wasn't on the schedule nor was I obligated to be there, despite what he was implying. The conversation proceeded:
"On campus."
"Doing what?"
"Basically, sitting around with friends watching cartoons."
"You took the day off to watch cartoons?"
"Yes, it's an event that's planned twice a year at the end of the semester."
"But you don't even go to that school anymore."
"Yeah, but I still go to the club."
The conversation ended there, but even now, I'm dumbfounded as to why I had to be interrogated over my choice to take a day off (when I generally work six nights a week) and what I decided to do on that day off. (Sure, I volunteered the information, but I didn't think being honest would do any damage.) As if nothing short of an immediate family member's funeral could possibly be important enough to justify taking a day off. *rolls eyes* I'm not even management, and $7.75 per hour isn't enough to make the restaurant the #1 priority in my life. To think, I've already sacrificed so much, and this is how they treat me. Besides, the main reason I went back there in May after ditching graduate school was that I knew I could get time off to take some trips over the summer and do what I wanted to do. But if this is how it's going to be, the restaurant that was once a comfortable, familiar place where I could feel needed will become a prison. Perhaps it's time for me to stage a jailbreak and move on with my life. Anyone know a business in need of a pretty good Spanish speaker? |
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| Natural Consequences |
[Oct. 22nd, 2006|11:00 pm] |
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| |  not surprised | ] |
Seems I was right...apparently I can't take one simple weekend off work without all kinds of stupid crap happening. |
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| w/e |
[Oct. 16th, 2006|02:12 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  left out | ] |
I tell ya, there's nothing I love more than hearing about great parties after the fact via LiveJournal. |
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| Where is your god now?!? |
[Oct. 14th, 2006|05:15 am] |
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| |  charged | ] |
Right now, I think that whoever invented the ATM is my greatest enemy. But in the morning, things will be different. Here's hoping that Nebraska can eke out a win in Manhattan, KS tomorrow, which they haven't done since I was a (high school) sophomore. |
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| Moralidad e hipocresía |
[Oct. 6th, 2006|02:26 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  pissed off | ] |
So, I finally happened to watch some of that news coverage about this Foley scandal business, after seeing random things about it in the "news" bits in my Hotmail inbox. It really saddens me, that yet another barrier between Church and State has come tumbling down--now, more than ever, the US government and the Republican Party resemble the Catholic Church. You've got an infalliable, charismatic leader to set the ideology, and then you have someone in a position of power sexually soliciting teenaged male "servants," except this time it's pages instead of altar boys. CNN had some conservative talk show hosts on via satellite, and apparently the conservative base, instead of being outraged at the abuse and immorality committed, is peeved at the Democrats for "playing politics" with the timing of the whole thing. So morality really doesn't matter, unless it's the other guys who are transgressing, and if it's someone in your own camp, he or she gets a free pass and the other party is in the wrong for bringing it all up?
Now, I ask you, 8 years ago, one of our political parties spearheaded a witchunt during a mid-term election year, intent on besmirching and distracting a major leader in the opposite party. Which party conducted the attack on Bill Clinton that was based on immorality and personal conduct? Bunch of hypocrites, these people are. Of course, I shouldn't be surprised--that's the Republicans' game plan, to get people hyped-up into a frenzy over social and moral issues, so that they don't notice that the economy, the environment, and the country's standing in the world are all going to shit, and that the interests being served are the interests of a powerful few, rather than "the people." |
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| Because growing up is hard to do. |
[Sep. 18th, 2006|02:53 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  not emo at all | ] |
I went back in time today. I toured bits and pieces of the years from 1986 to 2002. See, my whole family and I are packrats with a sentimental side hidden beneath the reserved Anglo-Saxon / Scandinavian exterior. And today, my mom, my brother, and I sorted, discarded, and packed up things from the bedroom that I lived in (and begrudgingly shared with my brother) from time immemorial until I went to college in 1999 (and temporarily occupied during summers and vacations until 2002 when I finally moved out). This, incidentally, was due to my dad's fiancée selling her house and needing space for things. Of course, we first had to remove all the hats, book, clothes, shoes (at least 25 pairs), trinkets, and stuffed animals that my sister had put in there--she apparently thought that our room was the Sudentenland and used it as extended storage space during the time she still slept in her old room at that house.
But luckily, it wasn't quite as heart-rending as I thought it might be. My brother Nick and I had a certain set of reactions to pretty much everything we unearthed in the areas that had gone untouched for up to 15 years.
"Man, wtf is that?"
"Why didn't I get rid of this 11 years ago?"
"Dude, I remember this, this is so cool!"
"This [toy, knick-knack, etc.] is neat, but somebody else [read: young enough to play with it] would get better use out of it."
"I'm never going to read that book again; it's going to GoodWill."
"Now this is cool, we're definitely breaking that out again!"
( Among the various archeological finds: ) |
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| "I'm always looking for the next ex-Mrs. Malcolm" |
[Sep. 14th, 2006|06:49 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  indifferent, to everything | ] |
So, today (or "yesterday," as you morning people might call it), I met a 21/f mexicana friend of a co-worker...apparently, this girl had wanted to meet me for awhile, after her friend had told her about me. Why, I'm not entirely sure, but at least a few things are true...she certainly does meet the definitions of "cute" and "hot" in that distinctive Latina way, but the less-fortunate truth is that she lives in Hastings. Hablamos en español por un ratito, y nos fue bastante bien. Either way, it's still encouraging, since I'm always on the lookout for the next lucky girl to disappoint, ruin my chances with, or wind up as "just a friend" to.
And on a separate note, translating overlapped dialogue really bites. |
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| An undeserved reputation. |
[Sep. 10th, 2006|04:36 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  chipper | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | *doesn't have any music* | ] |
Many people say that Abel Hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a 13-story party dorm where residents are almost constantly drunk or under the influence of other drugs. I'm here tonight to tell you that it just ain't so. After hanging out there for varying lengths of time on a few Friday and Saturday nights, I've seen the light. The number of students walking in and out of that dorm with book-laden backpacks is a testament to the high levels of scholarship and dedication to learning to be found in that hall. With those productive late-night weekend study sessions, even Neihardt will soon be pwned.
But let it also be said, that in the outside world, I am but a mere mortal. But, in that hall, I am "that one kid's 25-year-old cousin," thereby elevating me to god status. |
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| See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya! |
[Sep. 1st, 2006|01:27 pm] |
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Well, I wish I could make it to the Good With Guns show tonight, but I'm off to the land of southern Dakota. |
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| Oh yeah, take that, take that! |
[Aug. 29th, 2006|03:12 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | The Lair | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  out of it | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | AIR TV OST -- Aozora | ] |
So, I had a decent night at work, and capped it off with some after-hours drinking with some co-workers. Fun Times were had by all, but I heard just one thing that made me sad. So, to compensate for all that, it's time to level some enemy bases in StarCraft and watch some sad anime, because I fail it. |
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| And then there were eight. |
[Aug. 25th, 2006|04:22 pm] |
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24/pluto.ap/index.html
But, much like the #2 pencil is still #1 in our hearts, Pluto will always be a planet in my heart.
And in other news, I love shocking people by defying expectations of how a guy "should" be. At least that's what happened at work on Wednesday when I commented on a cute kitten in a car in the drive-thru. According to some female coworker, I have a "soft side." She don't know me very well, do she? |
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