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Whilst working with my father, the answer to the question "Are you learning anything?" is always:

"I'm learning I don't want to do this for a living."

It always makes him laugh and feel good.

We're knee-deep in sheetrock hell.
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cobalt:
I raise my glass to you, sir, you who are tortured in sheetrock limbo, surrounded by dust, muscle ache and the tender twist of anchored labor.
voltaire:
sheetrocking is hard work.....I've done it with my father ...... and boy does beer taste good after.........
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I often wonder if I've missed out on something by never having any type of relationship that needed to be hidden. Never dated the girl my parents forbid me to see; never had any clandestine meetings with my highschool physics teacher in one of the store rooms; never was with anyone who was attached without the knowledge of their partner; never been with anyone I...
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xxanastasiaxx:
well...I always said that I am the girl you bring home when you want to piss the family off....or give them something to talk about...
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I love those brief, naughty moments...
pyratwilly:
Wa-Hoo Nooch!

I once dated a girl the parents didn't approve of - unfortunately they were right. It was kind of a minor thrill to piss them off when I was that age, but their vindication was my defeat.

I've decided old friends are worth checking out - if you can't reconnect after a couple of hours - then it's just painful and sad like you say. At that point I find it's best to take the first easy out you can find and go have a drink.

Work bonus turned out to be zero, for all of us. Staff appreciation all right - they appreciate us a lot evidently. Fuckers. I hope they die of syphilis.

There is definitely something to be said for a good game, regardless of team. I can recall being drawn into the last World Series, and an old Indians-Pirates game. As long as it's good, I say keep on watching and be content.

I am an embarrassingly avid Kevin Smith fan. I've seen it all, and own most of it. Clerks animated and not, is far and away my favorite having suffered through a couple customer service jobs in my life. I could waste huge amounts of money in horrible fashion if I bought everything on the viewaskew site that seemed cool. Chasing Amy is a close second - more for the illustration of Banky and Holden's friendship than for the sci-fi lesbian crossover. I really enjoy sending Catholic friends Buddy Christ dashboard statues for Christmas. Unfortunately, something tells me that Jersey Girl may not be up to par. But who knows. I still giggle at moments in Mallrats.

Damn this got long. I'm far too verbose.

Cheers.
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It's a unique disappointment to find that someone far more talented than you has already said something you wanted to say but far better than you ever could've.
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weso:
It is the SG Prom going on in San Francisco this Saturday. There are some people I would like to meet there. It's called a Prom but it's going on in a bar. Need I say more?
thursday:
suck
i usually just feel inferior w/o the specific examples.
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We celebrated Mother's Day on Saturday, as is our custom. I drove the sibs and myself to get pizza (what my mother wanted) and beer (what my father wanted) while they sat in the back reading scraps of my work, written long enough ago for me to cringe thinking about my current self being judged by it. And it was a nice dinner, just the...
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weso:
Another one has come and gone for you. Mine is in Oklahoma resting her nerves from the hell that is my home. I would love to have taken mine for pizza.
novy:
Glad you had such a nice Mother's day, hope things continue to ride on the apex of the business cycle.
I don't really find it strange that music and sex are often so closely related..most of the times I have had sex with someone have been with music around..nearly always actually. It's nice to have something ambient in the background to please the ears while you please various other organs..there's a rhythm to it as well, sometimes I find that I appreciate music most when I'm not concentrating on listening to it. Especially jazz music. Having Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew," on in the background while doing pretty much anything else that requires your attention is simply wonderful.
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The boy came to realize that his brain hadn't melted, but had instead been stolen. Naturally this realization came slowly, as it should to one whose brain had been stolen. He checked his nose to see if it had been removed through the Egyptian mummification technique. He checked his ears to see if insects had burrowed in to steal a piece at a time. He...
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nordicskin:
it has so far
drnecessitor:
I don't know, but my brain has a 2 a.m. curfew.

Thanks for the camera recommendation. biggrin
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Its one of those men done wrong tales (those types of tales that start out in the hotel bar with a blues sax belting out the background for the sultry ladys song as she croons out a tale of woe only surpassed by the adventure about to befall the poor schlep walking through the door when he sees that the woman singing her heart out...
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lighthammer:
Very nice, youve really got a gift for the written word.

smile
elektra:
Thank you fro wishing me luck i really need it! smile
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The final five classes of the last course you have to take to get a degree in Literature from my undergraduate were devoted to the presentation of the thesis that you wrote during that course. The course was on Narratology and taught by one of my favorite professors, and I went first because I knew that it would only be worse if I wasnt the...
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gigglefuckbunny:
ah I hate getting infront of the class. . . I get nervous and well at times been know in the past to studder just a little. Usally its just in the begining of the presentation and then the rest is a cake walk. I never seen anyone cry before infront of the class. . . I have seen ppl go completly blank tho about a subject they know like the back of there hand. Ive done it numerous times. I just stand blank and thinking "OMG I am so screwed! " These days I found a way to deal. I get the class attention by babbling for 2 minutes about something that has nothing to do with the topic. . . usally something just off the wall that makes ppl then wonder if I am all there really I am just nervous as hell.
gotham2:
i had a similar experience, not me, but this kid in my class, when we had to read our short fiction to each other. it's so hard to watch them. he just fumbled and mumbled and you could really tell he was terrified. i feel for him. your presentation sounds interesting.
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Rennovations and end of term projects are melting my brain (and destroying my hands). I can't get started on the projects because they lack any purpose. My eventual half-assed job will probably be sufficient, though.

I have confidence that my brain will reform later in the week.
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andevilica:
Unfortunately for you u dont have any tattoos or piercings therefore you cannot join it but ify ou did hav e some the address is bme.freeq.com and even if you dont have a membership you can still look at photos
krista:
Oh, I love the music, as always.

I am always full of it when I complain.
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Yesterday, after work finished on the house, I went to Boarders and spent $99.98 on books. It's an addiction, I tell ya, an addiction.

'Tis time to work on final projects, but I don't have the inclination.

Is there usually a three month turnover here? Seems like a lot of people are leaving all of a sudden.
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pyratwilly:
well my quote site isn't helping me out, but I think Erasmus once said something to the effect of "with what little money I have, I buy books. Then I buy food, clothing, and other necessities." I'm kind of strange like that - every once in a while I'll go to a serious bookstore and blow a hundred, or a hundred and fifty - but more often than not my books come from wandering into a little crappy bookshop and going "oh yeah... I don't have the new Hunter Thompson yet... well I need to get it sometime, might as well be now..." my collection grows more piecemeal than it does in large blocks.

I think my expectations are also set too high - hence I have so few real friends, but the ones I have are ubermensches.

Anyway...after a nice weekend, once more unto the breach...
voltaire:
I dunno, It's wierd..... hey, where did thirty go?
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On Sunday my father told me that this week we'd be replacing the downstairs windows in the house we're rennovating. He'd said that it might be a lot of work. Today, after we'd finished replacing the final downstairs window, I stood in the shower, washing mortar out of my nose and ears, winced at the sharp pains in my back, at the tears on my...
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gotham2:
that massage sounds like just what i need. when you find this wonderful massage giver, send her over to me.

[Edited on May 03, 2003]
fred:

reading other people's comments in your journal out of context is very intriguing.
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I've suddenly become enamored with the idea of writing a novel in second person future tense. I was thinking that the gimmick of the novel would be that it's a primer for idealistic college students coming down from the Ivory tower and becoming disillusioned with the juggernaught that is the daily grind of dehumanizing work. It'd have to be comedic in nature, of course.

My...
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pyratwilly:
for some reason this reminds me of "The Plato Papers" by Peter Ackroyd. If you haven't read it already, I suggest it. But then I could go on for far too long listing things I think every writer ought to read; things brilliant, sundry, embarassing, and foolish, as you so eloquently put it. And for all these aspiring illuminati know, I'm completely full of shit. So maybe don't read it. In any case it sounds like a NOVEL idea (groan).
krista:
"Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants."

Seems like you should at least attempt the novella.

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"You know you're being selfish, right?"

"Huh?"

"You're acting selfish."

"How? I want to go down on you, not have you go down on me."

"I know."

"So how is that selfish? I want to make you feel good."

"Because you get off on getting me off. All you're interested in is the feeling it gives you."

"But I'm still getting you off."

"But you're...
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lighthammer:
Wow, did that little piece of dialogue actually take place? IF it did..if you actually had the chutzpah to go up and ask her that..wow, youve just reached Nightcrawler level's of coolness in my book.

Oh, and sometimes you just cant win. Maybe you should have just asked her if she wanted to go see a movie or something....offering a woman oral sex as an icebreaker usually doesnt' lead to good things. At the worse, you get kicked in the crotch. Repeatedly. With a steel-toed boot.

So if you dont give flowers, what do you give?
supercilious:
My my, if girl ever did pull that, it would certainly anesthetize me pretty damned quickly as far as giving a fuck about her pleasure haha.

No matter what corruption man's taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot performed for any other motive but his own enjoyment. Just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity! An act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self exaltation, only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire.