Venneh Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Fourty-seven hours over the last five days. The end of this shift cannot come soon enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 Feeling pretty much dead today. Worked all weekend helping set-up/take down five separate stages for the harbour festival, and then used my meagre time off yesterday to go to my other job and design a building from the ground up and then filled it with garage equipment, which I also designed from the ground up. 13 hour day off the back of a late night saturday. No fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 2, 2010 Report Share Posted August 2, 2010 I got woke up at 8AM, by a tapping sound. What was it? Water dripping from the ceiling, inches away from my PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I feel so disconnected from the world right now. I just... yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 My dissertation is due in two weeks time. As I was hired by the people who I did my placement module with, I haven't had much time to squeeze in writing my thesis. I'm applying for an extension and my supervisor and boss are both going to put in good words for me, and I had the good fortune of passing one of the professors who decides these things and explained my circumstances in passing. As such, I'm quietly confident that I'll get my extension. BUT If I'm unsuccessful, which I'd only learn about 5 days before the original deadline, I am pretty much fucked. I didn't get much done before I started work and I've had genuine reasons for not working for this last weekend and the one ahead of me. The only way I could finish it is fake some kind of exotic illness and turn in some rushed, sloppy embarrassment of a thesis which might affect whether I achieve the MA that I spent 18 months saving up for. And even that would mean losing out on earnings, which I'm in need of, as well as negatively influencing on references from my employers etc etc. It doesn't help that I'm leaving Newcastle the day before my original deadline for Reading festival (and I'm not going to even open the can of worms of whether my eBay seller will get me the ticket in time), which was meant to be the symbolic mark to the end of my MA. This may well not happen as long as I secure an extension, but I'm on edge right now. Not enough to vent, but it's an underlying tension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Hey Google: Buzz didn't tell you enough? Quit changing things with Gmail. That is all. Sincerely, Someone interested in getting their aol.com email back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 Hey Google: Buzz didn't tell you enough? Quit changing things with Gmail. That is all. Sincerely, Someone interested in getting their aol.com email back. While I hate the new look, I love buzz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I feel so disconnected from the world right now. I just... yeah. Are you alright Will? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I feel so disconnected from the world right now. I just... yeah. Are you alright Will? Yeah, just had a little funk yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 What a crappy week this was. Topped off by submitting a complaint about a jerk employee at the supermarket, and being the passenger in a car while my dad shouted at a woman who blocked his car in outside said supermarket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuaveStar Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 £125 later, my council tax for September is paid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 I need a cup of coffee so bad that I might die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Chicago lunch time traffic sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted August 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Chicago lunch time traffic sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kscriv Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Chicago lunch time traffic sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Chicago lunch time traffic sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Apparently I'm on a mission tonight to figure out which is more depressing - looking at old photos or reading old letters. So far it's a tie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Apparently I'm on a mission tonight to figure out which is more depressing - looking at old photos or reading old letters. So far it's a tie. I've been caught in that trap before... feel for you man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 I've been caught in that trap before... feel for you man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 23, 2010 Report Share Posted August 23, 2010 Letters ran away with the victory, for the record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted August 28, 2010 Report Share Posted August 28, 2010 I have completely forgotten what I was like to have nothing to do on a Friday night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ava Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 My friend had to buy Pride and Prejudice for English today, and the only copy she found at the bookstore was the "young adult" edition. What does that mean? Twilight. Seriously. The cover used the same Twilight font and black background with weird red flowers in the front. The back promised special "Extras inside!" including a section comparing Twilight and Pride and Prejudice. There was also a similar edition of Wuthering Heights, promised to be "Bella and Edward's favorite book!" I mean, that's just wrong. My friends and I all died a little inside when we saw that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted August 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 Yeah, I saw that Wuthering Heights edition a year or so ago and wanted to vomit. They've also done it with Romeo & Julie: "The original forbidden love..." I mean, sure, great, it might get Twilight fans to read something other than the crap Stephenie Meyer crapped onto the page, but wrapping classics in a Twilight-inspired cover is just... wrong. Oh so fucking wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted August 31, 2010 Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 There's only one solution. I'll fight Stephanie Meyer in eight rounds of bare knuckle boxing for Shakespeare's honor. If it's still unclear who wins after eight rounds, we'll roll our hands in glass, Taipei Death Match style for the ninth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaunKL Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Too much pizza does not a happy camper make I. Fun fact: Pizza smells after it comes back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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