[Maark Abbott]

Lost a fiver up town earlier. Don't know how, but it's not in my pockets no more.

[Puck]

Got an email from the uni saying I'm missing some slips confirming I attended some lectures. Well, I was aware of that. However, the list they gave me is utterly incorrect. None of the lectures I know I did not hand in my assignment in are on it (for the record, there's some leeway - as in, if I am missing one or two slips I'm still peachy, so naturally I skipped those lectures I absolutely hated), while I apparently stopped attending art history in second year.. Uuuh, no way. I honestly don't want to bother with that right now. Especially since they went and changed the curriculum at least two times since I started uni so they don't even know which curriculum would apply to me anyway. This feels a bit arbitrary, considering my best friend handed in pretty much the same stuff and she's NOT missing any records. Since we started the same course in the same year, this is messing with my groove.

[Andorion]

Briar King, on 10 March 2015 - 02:59 AM, said:

The Skeeters are starting to hatch in this warm weather. Ugh I hate these little fuckers. Some aren't little these past 2 yrs either. Mutant fucks.

Umm do you mean mosquitoes? Take it from me, the bigger they are the better. Its the small, light coloured ones you cant see that you have to be scared of. They can give you malaria. I have had it thrice - normal malaria twice, and the cerebral strain once. Its nasty.

[Andorion]

We get those here in the suburban areas. I remember going out to help pick fruit in my girlfriends garden (they have a mini-banana orchard) and my arms and legs were basically covered with black flecks, sucking away fo rall they were worth. Another time we were coming back from visiting a relative and waiting at the train station. There were dozens of mosquitoes above our heads. I just raised my arms and clapped randomly. Splatted around 6-8 of the little vampires

A couple of my friends have mosquito proofed their houses, by sticking wire mesh on all windows and ventilators and keeping doors open only for a few seconds. The downside is that the house gets really stuffy. The other option is mosquito nets which a lot of people (including my family) use. We also use chemical mosquito repellants though they have been developing immunity recently.

The best time is the height of summer when the heat dries off all the random water puddles and theres a big drop in mosquito population. The worst time is early winter which comes after monsoon when the rains fill up everything and mosquitoes hatch in their millions. .

[Grimjust Bearegular]

I broke my front tooth eating crisp bread (knekkebrød ?). It broke in such a way that it couldn't be fixed, and the dentis had to remove the whole thing. Now I have no front tooth, and I'm looking at paying somewhere between15 000 and 30 000 kr for a new one... I don't have that kind of money.




Also, the firm I'm doing some translation work for have no idea how much time it actually takes to translate a 190 page long technical manual, or how much it actually costs in "the real world". They want to pay me 25 000 (16 000 after taxes) for something that's worth 50 000kr minimum!

I hate technical translating. I'm considering just Google Translating the rest of the manual (translated 85 pages so far) to earn a quick buck. They wouldn't fucking know the difference, goddamned Philistines!

[Maark Abbott]

Ouch. Although it does bring back memories of Notbread whilst I was in Sweden (bread is square, this was circular, ergo Notbread).

[Mentalist]

Hamstring/groin injury acting up again. Goddamn thin layers of ice every morning during my commute for the past couple of weeks-small slips, no fall, but painful stretches loosened it up, an then a particularly bad challenge during a game topped it off.
Now it feels spasmed up, as I get the small jolts of pain when walking normally (these are bearable), but any minor pivot the wrong way sends pain lancing up.

Add to this complications at work, my mother freaking out as my grandparents are moving over the Atlantic to live with us for who knows how long (and there's still renovations to finish and furniture to purchase before they come on Friday), and my groove is not in a good state right now.

[Baco Xtath]

I was tearing out a bathroom floor and took a good fall through the floor joists stopping myself with my ribs on one. Broke three of my ribs and spent 6 hrs in the ER. Plus, I ate all my painkillers the first evening so now I've got to spend a shit ton of money buying them a street value off the local dealers.

[amphibian]

Baco Xtath, on 11 March 2015 - 07:25 AM, said:

I was tearing out a bathroom floor and took a good fall through the floor joists stopping myself with my ribs on one. Broke three of my ribs and spent 6 hrs in the ER. Plus, I ate all my painkillers the first evening so now I've got to spend a shit ton of money buying them a street value off the local dealers.

Go to your doctor for more painkillers. Pain is something that needs to be managed or your quality of life goes to shit - especially with broken/cracked ribs.

Also, try taking baths when the pain gets bad. I do this semi-regularly when I tear cartilage or get sore ribs from grappling people heavier and/or better than me.

[Maark Abbott]

Apparently I'm a vile CIS misogynist troll because I find the Ghostbusters reboot to be farcical and pointless.

My reasoning for that viewpoint is that the franchise didn't need rebooting at all with any cast of characters...

They were right about me being a vile troll, at least.

[Gust Hubb]

Already a long day with the makings of a true bad day.

[The Hust Legion]

lost my watch. probably taken by someone. absolutely gutted it was a 16th birthday present from mum and moderately expensive. feeling bummed out

[Keysi]

The weather totally ruined my day.

[Andorion]

We need a new thread in addition to Happy and Messing with Groove. It should be called Feeling Confused. Take my case for today. I had a really tough day ahead of me. A long gruelling trip, followed by tedious work. Then I got to know, I didn't have to do that. So, yeah I was happy. Then I got the news that I would be absolutely snowed under with work at home. Basically three days worth of stuff. So thats not so good. Now where to put this? My big grief was nixed, but was replaced with something else, which is also pretty bad.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Life is just kind if shit right now. Lost my job. Said some awful shit to my sister in jest, serious dark humor, that she took seriously and now my whole family thinks I am the worst of the assholes. I let my wife and son go visit her parents without me, when we made the plans I was expecting this to be a little vacation for me. Instead all I want to do is see them and I feel guilty she had to fly with the baby alone. Having a hard time finding work that fits my needs. At the bottom of it all I am the root of all my problems, which is a rough feeling.

[amphibian]

Your groove was messed with, so it stays here.

Basically, if you are not Earthworm Jim shouting groovy, it belongs here.

I'm so disappointed Doug TenNaple ended up being a Tea Party lunatic.

[Andorion]

Boredom is like a slow-acting poison. It will kill you painfully, and chances are most poeple will blame it on other things

[Traveller]

Raymond Luxury Yacht, on 12 March 2015 - 04:14 AM, said:

Life is just kind if shit right now. Lost my job. Said some awful shit to my sister in jest, serious dark humor, that she took seriously and now my whole family thinks I am the worst of the assholes. I let my wife and son go visit her parents without me, when we made the plans I was expecting this to be a little vacation for me. Instead all I want to do is see them and I feel guilty she had to fly with the baby alone. Having a hard time finding work that fits my needs. At the bottom of it all I am the root of all my problems, which is a rough feeling.

Sounds rough rly. When things accumulate like that it can weigh heavy - it doesn't matter mean it's all down to you.It is a matter of perspective though.. it doesn't look like there's anything that you can't make better with a bit of effort.

Explain to your sister about how your feeling at the moment, and apologise.. she'll hopefully understand. I've been in the same place with my sister, as I seem to be the only person that doesn't just agree with what she does, so I'm often the bad guy - it occasionally goes too far though. She may surprise you.

I spend so much time with my family/work that I rarely get any time on my own, so if there's ever an opportunity of a day off I take it. I went to London the other week to see the Thrones exhibition, and rather than spending the rest of the day being able to do what I wanted, I ended up heading home after a short time because the kids were at home, and I'd honestly rather have been playing with them.

The work thing sucks. I have work, so I'm lucky, but I constantly feel like I'm in the wrong job, spending my life stuck doing something I don't like or have any interest in solely for the paycheck. Hopefully something will come up for you soon.

Don't be hard on yourself, things are better than they seem.

[Maark Abbott]

Preparing myself to write an extremely unpleasant scene for the book. It's quite critical for one character's development, and by extension, one of the three primary characters, but I'm still not looking forward to writing it.

[Loki]

The entire 'Female victims are more important than male victims because patriarchy' argument that so many people seem to hold when discussing domestic violence.

'I appreciate you have just been stabbed by your wife but if it wasn't for the patriarchy this probably wouldn't have happened.'

'It's unfortunate that your girlfriend regularly hits you and controls who you can see and speak to but women have had it much worse than that.'