[Puck]

 Una, on 28 September 2013 - 04:28 AM, said:

Still sorting out divorce issues.

Husband has officially crossed the line from difficult to downright nasty. I stopped talking to him on the phone months ago because it took too much of my self-control to stay calm and normal while talking. Emails from him now contain actual profanity. Every time I get one, I just want to lie down until the panic attack passes, but I have a baby that needs attention when it needs attention, so I don't have that luxury. He says he's going to drag things out as long as he likes because I'm being unreasonable. Apparently I'm being unreasonable because he doesn't think he should have to pay child support.

At least I know I'm doing right by going through with this. Talk about showing your true colours!

He's the one who up and left me. Why is he so surprised that I filed for divorce?

Worry and Satan are right, he's handing you all the evidence you need to show what a shit he is to the court. And though it's a nasty thing to do, he's also digging his own grave there, in this matter. You should save and possibly even print out those emails and collect them. Then lean back and watch him squirm.

[Illuyankas]

Forward (all but for these purposes highlighting) the most abusive to your lawyer, screenshot and print the page with your lawyer's name and profession and business on it... onto a tshirt. Wear it next time you see him and wait til he realises what he's been doing the whole time.

[Tiste Simeon]

Illuyankas, on 28 September 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

Forward (all but for these purposes highlighting) the most abusive to your lawyer, screenshot and print the page with your lawyer's name and profession and business on it... onto a tshirt. Wear it next time you see him and wait til he realises what he's been doing the whole time.

Also, pay for a billboard advertisement outside his new address and use those screenshots for that...

[Una]

Puck, on 28 September 2013 - 11:43 AM, said:

Worry and Satan are right, he's handing you all the evidence you need to show what a shit he is to the court. And though it's a nasty thing to do, he's also digging his own grave there, in this matter. You should save and possibly even print out those emails and collect them. Then lean back and watch him squirm.

Illuyankas, on 28 September 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

Forward (all but for these purposes highlighting) the most abusive to your lawyer, screenshot and print the page with your lawyer's name and profession and business on it... onto a tshirt. Wear it next time you see him and wait til he realises what he's been doing the whole time.

Yeah. Anything that contains information about his intentions or information that my lawyer has been asking me about, I am forwarding to the lawyer. But it does mean that I have to read the emails and comb through the abuse to see if there's any actual useful information in there. The process of doing that is throwing me for a loop. Things have broken down to the point where I'm happy to pay my lawyer large amounts of money to deal with him directly just so I don't have to talk to him. In the long run, it might be cheaper than the therapy I would need later to straighten myself out afterwards if I were to try to talk to him on my own. My husband is mad about that too. That I got a lawyer. It boggles my mind. What the heck did he expect me to do? That he was going to move away so he could live a separate life and I would just continue to stay married to him?

Puck, I'm not clear on the whole situation with your mother and her "pet monkey", as you call him. Only what you've said in your last few posts. But I'm pulling for you. I hope this last incident will be enough to make your mother come to her senses, but even if she doesn't, I hope you can make everything come out ok for yourself.

[Gothos]

Allright, so re-watching Revenge of the Sith, and... origin story prequels are such a goddamn stupid idea. See, in the original trilogy, the name Darth Vader, with Vader being a slight hint at father and so on - that was a slightly clever and meaningful name, right...
Then you watch RotS and when Sidious gives Anakin his new name of Darth Vader you just have to wonder "WTF why would he do that, really?". Sigh... at least there's cool lightsaber duels.

[Darkwatch]

Most of NASA is currently offline due to politics.

[Tiste Simeon]

Darkwatch, on 01 October 2013 - 04:50 PM, said:

Most of NASA is currently offline due to politics.

Yeah... what's with Republicans?

[Jakovasaurus]

[worry]

Tiste Simeon, on 01 October 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:

Darkwatch, on 01 October 2013 - 04:50 PM, said:

Most of NASA is currently offline due to politics.

Yeah... what's with Republicans?

If you really want to know, two words: Tea Party
This was the plan all along.

[Abyss]

Gothos, on 30 September 2013 - 09:52 PM, said:

Allright, so re-watching Revenge of the Sith, ...Sigh... at least there's cool lightsaber duels.

"i have the high ground....."

[Gothos]

Abyss, on 02 October 2013 - 06:35 PM, said:

Gothos, on 30 September 2013 - 09:52 PM, said:

Allright, so re-watching Revenge of the Sith, ...Sigh... at least there's cool lightsaber duels.

"i have the high ground....."

that one happens after the duel as far as I'm concerned. I'm trying to be the optimist here!

[Studlock]

I've have sociological paper due tomorrow and I've asked the professor three times what she wanted from me because I really didn't understand the assignment. She explained it differently three times (obviously to help me understand) and I still don't get how to put it together (the paper that is). She wants by data description of popular media on a certain subject and literature review from peer reviewed journals of actual data. And she wants the data described in multiply areas excepts she only wanted articles 200 words or less so there pretty much focus on one subject. And she wants the paper separated by sub-topics but she doesn't want us to make any kind of argument while comparing the data and journals. She wants every article and journal piece in every sub-topic (despite this being impossible). And it's in a paper format I've never used before. So basically I feel like an idiot in a maze designed to make me feel like a bigger idiot. Big old idiot.

[Silencer]

Studlock, on 03 October 2013 - 07:10 AM, said:

I've have sociological paper due tomorrow and I've asked the professor three times what she wanted from me because I really didn't understand the assignment. She explained it differently three times (obviously to help me understand) and I still don't get how to put it together (the paper that is). She wants by data description of popular media on a certain subject and literature review from peer reviewed journals of actual data. And she wants the data described in multiply areas excepts she only wanted articles 200 words or less so there pretty much focus on one subject. And she wants the paper separated by sub-topics but she doesn't want us to make any kind of argument while comparing the data and journals. She wants every article and journal piece in every sub-topic (despite this being impossible). And it's in a paper format I've never used before. So basically I feel like an idiot in a maze designed to make me feel like a bigger idiot. Big old idiot.

If it's any consolation, I have no idea what you're supposed to do, either. XD

[Una]

Silencer, on 03 October 2013 - 08:51 AM, said:

Studlock, on 03 October 2013 - 07:10 AM, said:

I've have sociological paper due tomorrow and I've asked the professor three times what she wanted from me because I really didn't understand the assignment. She explained it differently three times (obviously to help me understand) and I still don't get how to put it together (the paper that is). She wants by data description of popular media on a certain subject and literature review from peer reviewed journals of actual data. And she wants the data described in multiply areas excepts she only wanted articles 200 words or less so there pretty much focus on one subject. And she wants the paper separated by sub-topics but she doesn't want us to make any kind of argument while comparing the data and journals. She wants every article and journal piece in every sub-topic (despite this being impossible). And it's in a paper format I've never used before. So basically I feel like an idiot in a maze designed to make me feel like a bigger idiot. Big old idiot.

If it's any consolation, I have no idea what you're supposed to do, either. XD

This is the reason why I specifically chose a major where I would never have to write anything other than lab reports. I feel for you.

[Satan]

Studlock, on 03 October 2013 - 07:10 AM, said:

I've have sociological paper due tomorrow and I've asked the professor three times what she wanted from me because I really didn't understand the assignment. She explained it differently three times (obviously to help me understand) and I still don't get how to put it together (the paper that is). She wants by data description of popular media on a certain subject and literature review from peer reviewed journals of actual data. And she wants the data described in multiply areas excepts she only wanted articles 200 words or less so there pretty much focus on one subject. And she wants the paper separated by sub-topics but she doesn't want us to make any kind of argument while comparing the data and journals. She wants every article and journal piece in every sub-topic (despite this being impossible). And it's in a paper format I've never used before. So basically I feel like an idiot in a maze designed to make me feel like a bigger idiot. Big old idiot.

The trick to answering any social science assignment is to argue for why you chose to answer it the way you did. In social science absolutely everything counts. But you can't take into account absolutely everything, so you have to justify why you focused on one thing over everything else.

Don't know what level you're on and if this is just a series of platitudes. If not, then I hope t helps. Limiting assignments is often the most difficult thing for fledgling social science students.

This post has been edited by Satan: 03 October 2013 - 02:11 PM

[Studlock]

Thanks y'all. I was up all night finishing it. It's terrible but it's better than a zero. Honestly never seen a paper format like this before.

[QuickTidal]

Gothos, on 30 September 2013 - 09:52 PM, said:

Allright, so re-watching Revenge of the Sith, and... origin story prequels are such a goddamn stupid idea. See, in the original trilogy, the name Darth Vader, with Vader being a slight hint at father and so on - that was a slightly clever and meaningful name, right...
Then you watch RotS and when Sidious gives Anakin his new name of Darth Vader you just have to wonder "WTF why would he do that, really?". Sigh... at least there's cool lightsaber duels.

It can't just be META in the OT? That's always how I assumed it, a strange wordy-coincidence.

I'm not sure what you're after actually.

He was named WELL before he knew his nebulous, then-unnamed children had survived. And he thought them dead in his wife's belly.

Thus cleverly naming himself as any allusion to the word "Father" in a knowing way would have made no sense. In the OT, He only learns about Luke when Luke's Force powers become strong enough for him to note it when he's an adolescent long after he's got his Sith name.

Note: In the recent comic book retelling of Lucas rough draft THE STAR WARS script, Darth Vader, named by Lucas in 1974, was just a General in a Sith army, and not anyone's father.

It would have been nice to dovetail the name on-screen / in-story, I agree...but I find the Meta nature of it a bit more compelling personally.

[tiam]

I am ill. I imagine the guy from Newcastle who narrates Big Brother doing the same with my poo's.

Poo 43- tiam is wondering why everything hes eaten in primary school has decided to vacate the premises.

Strange thoughts

[Gothos]

3rd day without November Juliet. Feels like I lost a friend...

[Lady Bliss]

Found out an old friend died in a car accident last night. Looking with perspective, it feels like I started life in a group that has been slowly dwindling by suicides, accidents, and illness, until there are ultimately none of us left. I never would have thought that I would be one of the survivors, but I suppose that considering some of the things that I have lived through, I shouldn't be surprised.