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Slept in, sorted out car insurance two towns over, grilled some sausages, took a walk in the sun to get Slurpees, finished a final exam while listening to baseball, booked a flight and a hotel for two separate weddings, and chilled out watching Psych to top it all off. Tomorrow, I think, will be just as nice.
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I woke up to an email from my idol telling me I won a contest he's doing for a fan appreciation night on Tuesday. Best thing is, the contest ends at noon today and the winners will be announced tonight, so I got my email early because my submission was that amazing. Only 50 people are going to this, and I'm probably the first to get approval. SO EXCITED. I've been wanting to meet him for YEARs, and I finally get my chance.
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Apr 14, 2013 18:28
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I'm making microwave taquitos at 4:30 in the morning in the middle of a thunderstorm. YOLO.
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Apr 18, 2013 10:32
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youareoffthehook posted:I woke up to an email from my idol telling me I won a contest he's doing for a fan appreciation night on Tuesday. Best thing is, the contest ends at noon today and the winners will be announced tonight, so I got my email early because my submission was that amazing. Only 50 people are going to this, and I'm probably the first to get approval. SO EXCITED. I've been wanting to meet him for YEARs, and I finally get my chance. So, I actually got to go up on stage with Macklemore, which was a dream come true! Even just being there would've been amazing, but the fact I GOT ON STAGE was mind blowing! also, earlier that day my boyfriend took me to Mt. Rainier. Just drove for hours. Tuesday was the best day of my life!!
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Apr 18, 2013 17:23
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My adviser handed back my latest design project. Not only did I get a perfect score, but he also asked me to put it in the end-of-semester design show. He also said that my lighting sketches are "lovely and expressive". 
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Apr 18, 2013 18:51
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It's nice seeing the bumped up wage packets after a recent promotion. Very, very nice indeed. I spent my first wage packet on hookers and drink last week.
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Apr 18, 2013 19:26
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I just got my Intro to International Studies mark back that I was sure I was going to get a "No Paper" in for handing my essay in a week late, or fail horribly, and it was a 68%! While not the greatest mark I've ever gotten, and it's sure to bring my GPA down, this class was instructed by supposedly the "worst professor in the department" according to my friend. I usually don't ramble on about these things, but this person was one of those people who take more pride in their doctorate title than their teaching career, and basically read from the textbook in class in the most dry sense, expecting you knew all these terms that were used. They also only covered the positive impacts of globalization, which bothered me a little, in fact when I handed my thesis statement in, I got a 1/5 on it because apparently talking about gender equality in developing nations "was not relevant to globalization". It's too bad that one professor ruined the entire program for me, as the program seemed like such a good thing. If they offer it again, I am thinking about taking European Studies, as long as the instructor isn't anything like the one I had this semester. Let this be a lesson to myself to go on ratemyprof before blindly registering for classes.
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Apr 18, 2013 19:32
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I finally got myself a job. After a few years between studies and being a trainee in various places, it's a liberating feeling knowing that I'll have a guaranteed paycheck every month, and not having to try and find a new workplace every third month.
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Apr 19, 2013 21:02
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A customer at work sent a really nice tweet about me to the company, calling me "lovely" and ending it with #legend. 
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Apr 20, 2013 21:41
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I GOT THE JOB! Doubled everything! Later, the team I coach won their robotics competition! The job offer was OK, but seeing those excited kids was so much better
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Apr 21, 2013 01:30
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My mom has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The last half year has been hell; convinced the police is spying on her, and all her family is in on it. My fiancee is poisoning her and hiding alcohol in her fridge to tempt her. She refused to get help, because she's fine, she says. Eventually she was standing on the side of the road waving a cars, because they told her things, like when to eat. Also birds told her what groceries to buy, and police sirens told her to drive faster. In a manic state, she drive 30 minutes to a nearby city and arrived at a bank. She started shaking people's hands and introducing herself to strangers. Did I mention she had groceries still in her car? She started circling the lot looking for her car. The bank eventually called the police, who took her to a hospital. This was all last week. She's home now, and on medication. She's better than I've seen in half a year. Today, my fiancee, mother, mother's sister and her husband, my mother's brother, and my grandmother had lunch then chatted for hours. It's really good to have my mother back. 
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Apr 21, 2013 02:15
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Took my little brother to a wrestling show, and we spilt a bag of gummi bears and had a lot of fun. Jervis Cottonbelly gave him a hat and fake moustache during his entrance.
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Apr 21, 2013 06:06
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The university accepted my application to graduate next month and said to expect my Master's diploma in the mail sometime in August  I actually haven't completed the document that's a degree requirement but I guess now is a good time to crank out that last 1/3 - 1/2 of it!
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Apr 22, 2013 22:19
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My friend got a sandwich that came with a large pickle on the side, and gave it to me because she doesn't like pickles. Free pickle for me...  And now I do the free pickle dance.
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Apr 22, 2013 23:12
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I just got at A on a paper for my hardest class that I thought for sure was a low B paper at best. I'm so relieved; this professor is going to be my thesis director next Fall and I've been freaking out all semester that he thinks I'm an idiot. Now he knows I can do good work. Also, my last week or so has been pretty awesome because my antidepressant is starting to work. Life's ok, you guys If Wandering Knitter is reading this, thank you so much for the pm you sent. You have no idea how encouraging it was to know I'm not alone.
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Apr 22, 2013 23:23
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Noticed today that I'm scheduled to work on a play that doesn't open until August. I take that as a pretty good sign that I'll get my contract renewed! 
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Apr 23, 2013 20:41
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Took the MCAT a month ago over spring break and thought I did about average. Today I got my score back and it was a 40. This score is so stupidly high I'm still not entirely sure this isn't a dream. I can't keep this dumb grin off my face.
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Apr 23, 2013 21:26
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My baby nephew laughed for the first time today
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Apr 23, 2013 21:38
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It was a really warm day and I had a pint of ice cream waiting for me when I got home this afternoon. It's all gone now!
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Apr 23, 2013 21:52
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Was pissed off the other night because UPS delivered a package I ordered off of Amazon to the wrong address and the rear end in a top hat that lives there signed for it. I emailed Amazon about it and they refunded my money no questions asked so it worked out. I also left a complaint with UPS over that one.
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Apr 23, 2013 22:40
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I ran a 26 minute 5K, benched 1.5 times my body weight, and successfully bartered a game I never play for some new preworkout powder.
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Apr 23, 2013 22:41
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One of my profs set me up with a volunteer opportunity in my favourite mountain town, being an ambassador for tourists looking for good hikes and other interesting things to do. As someone studying ecotourism with a focus on physical geography and geology, I can't loving wait to go out and show people cool stuff, discuss maps, route-planning, where to find fossils, and so much more!
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Apr 24, 2013 01:02
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DarkUltim8Hedgehog posted:My friend got a sandwich that came with a large pickle on the side, and gave it to me because she doesn't like pickles. Free pickle for me... Incidentally, I got to do the "free pickle dance" today when I got home and took off my skinny jeans  Also, I got to make that joke.
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Apr 24, 2013 01:56
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Because I met Lil' BUB.
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Apr 29, 2013 03:18
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Today my fetus still has a heart beat despite its wacky weekend hijinks which meant I went to the emergency department 2 nights in a row.
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Apr 29, 2013 03:25
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My day has not been awesome. I have had one of the saddest days of my entire life in the midst of the scariest month of my entire life. But today is one of those days where I log on to Something Awful and even though I am gutted and drained, I can see that it will get better. I can see that the world has people in it who talk about access to medical care thoughtfully and with compassion for both patients and medical personnel; that there are people who donate hundreds of thousands of dollars in charity to sick kids, bombing victims, and bees; that there are people who spend hours on this site educating on and learning about everything from advanced physics to obscure musical instruments just because it's worth doing; that there are people here who fall in love, and get married, and have babies, and dress those babies up in costumes to match their cats; that there are people here who rescue others from accidents, disasters, and themselves, and there are people who are here because someone took the time to rescue them. It would be entirely appropriate to mock me into the ground for being this attached to an Internet forum. Go 'head, this is kinda pathetic. Heck, people write this corny stuff about 4chan and Juggalos, but usually with more typos and unnecessary pictures of dicks. It's difficult to have a filter sometimes when you have brain damage, especially during times of stress, so I may as well own it. I know any community has the potential to be a good influence and solace. Neither are Something Awful members all good and kind and accomplished. It depends on which messages you choose to take from here, I suppose. With so many members and even more lurkers, it's a rare thing to know if what you say has any impact. "Fighting the good fight," whatever your good fight happens to be, often feels like a futile exercise with questionable impact. I'm on one of those "tell people they matter" kicks at the moment, and I just wanted to share my appreciation for the diversity of ideas and experiences here. As weighty as my problems have been lately, even they pale in comparison to the amount of good being done by the members here every single day.
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Apr 29, 2013 04:08
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Had a job interview today and two hours later got offered the gig. Nearly doubled my pay, moving on to a much bigger, more interesting company and I pretty much get to do exactly what I dreamed of when I first got started in my field!
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Apr 29, 2013 15:07
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My day is awesome today because its my 25th birthday, and I've made it really far since my last birthday and I'm proud of myself.
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Apr 29, 2013 19:34
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Ashheap Empire posted:I went to a concert with the girl from my math class who I've been talking to nearly everyday for the last 3 months and who I've been falling hard for and who told me early on that she wanted to just be friends. We'll we somehow ended up watching the enter 6 band concert with her snuggled up in my arms and getting close and PDA'y enough to probably start making people around us uncomfortable. I do feel kind bad about that but it was worth it. After the show she told me she's been falling for me as hard as I've been falling for her. Since this has happened we've fallen even more crazily in love. I've met her family, she's met mine. We've told each other "I love you" so many times it's getting absurd. And we're both happier together than we've ever been alone or with anyone else in our entire lives. P.S. for all the MRA's: It was being an actual, non-bs, "nice guy" that got me un-friendzoned. Imagine that. Ashheap Empire has a new favorite as of 20:10 on Apr 29, 2013 |
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Apr 29, 2013 20:05
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Malachite_Dragon posted:A girl I like has shown a little bit of interest in me as well, and I finally succeeded in motivating myself to go to the gym instead of it depending on my mood and whether said mood was trashed that day Said girl has shown further interest, and I've come to the realization that I actually, genuinely like her too (Sounds like kind of an assholish thing to say but after getting my heart broken I was a bit  so this is a genuine surprise for me.) I hope it works out. I feel like a 13 year old all over again, I'm all nervous and paranoid about what I say/do that might screw things up.
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Apr 29, 2013 20:45
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Well not really today but this whole month. Finally found a girl that I am really interested in, and initially y it looks like she might be interested back. Finally found a career path that I like and can make a decent living at. Actually started college and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Meeting this girl has motivated me to hit the gym and the books. I know there is a possiblity that we might not have anything romantically but it still feels good.
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Apr 29, 2013 22:52
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AltoidsAddict posted:My day has not been awesome. I have had one of the saddest days of my entire life in the midst of the scariest month of my entire life. Sorry to hear that - hope things get better! My day was awesome today because I got several large paychecks in the mail for projects that I recently finished. Hooray paychecks!
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Apr 29, 2013 23:31
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I have serious anxiety and depression problems that got me fired and made me have to get medical leave from school. Today my therapist told me I'm making a lot of good progress.
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Apr 30, 2013 00:08
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My day was pretty terrible today (my mom is 80 and ill and took a turn for the worse) but then I found this little guy/girl when walking back into to work. This is a mockingbird nestling, it was with a second, slightly older and larger nestling in the housing built around our power generator at work. The nest was in a crevice of the generator house wall and blew down last night in a thunderstorm. The older nestling seemed fine, but this one was stranded in a deep puddle with the remnants of the nest and was pretty hypothermic. Took it to my office, made it a nice snug bed in a wicker organizer with my wool tea cozy, then once it warmed up and dried off and started squacking, I took it back and put it safe in a thick bush near its sibling. As I was leaving I saw mama mocker flying down with a dragonfly in its beak and the baby was yelling lustily for BUGZ BUGZ BUGZ. 
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Apr 30, 2013 00:21
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$1300 tax refund.
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Apr 30, 2013 06:36
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My boyfriend and I booked a trip to Rome. It's not til September and only half paid for but we're definitely going!
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Apr 30, 2013 17:02
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I finagled my schedule to allow me to go on a date with my girlfriend on Thursday and my wife on Friday. This will be after two weeks at work with no days off. I love my life.
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Apr 30, 2013 17:18
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I had a really bad sinus headache yesterday and ended up falling asleep on the sofa. When I woke up at around 2am this morning I found my fluffy cat curled up behind my knees and my pitbull curled up around the fluffy cat. We've only had the dog for about 3 weeks and while everyone is a-okay with living together I never expected to find them snuggling. Made my morning.
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Apr 30, 2013 18:31
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A few months ago, I was saddened to find that the hair salon I've been going to for the past couple years had gone out of business. It was one of the few places around here that isn't Hair Cuttery, but also doesn't charge a hundred dollars for a trim. The stylist I went to was super sweet and actually knew how to work with my very curly hair and weird face. I know this isn't the first world problems thread, but I was sad to see the place go. Today when I was walking home, I walked past the building it was in and lights were on inside. I went to investigate and saw a new name on the door, and a "we're open" sign. Turns out my stylist had leased the space for herself after the old salon had gone out of business. She's spent the last couple months setting it up the way she wants it, and it looks great. She just opened yesterday, and even though business has been really steady so far, she was able to fit me in for an awesome haircut. I'm glad to have a regular salon and hairdresser again, but I'm even more glad to see an acquaintance (and really nice person) do well for herself. Stopped in my favorite thrift shop and bought two beautiful vintage leather handbags for dirt cheap. Haven't decided if I'm going to sell or keep them yet, but they're very nice to look at. Got home to find that my partner had used part of his tax return to bring our somewhat large electric bill balance down to zero. And tomorrow, we have our first full day off together in over a month... the plan so far is sleeping in, breakfast at our favorite delicious hole in the wall, maybe the zoo, and then dinner with our close friends and their adorable toddler. So that should be an even better day than today was .
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I finished two of my exams, and I thought I did quite well on them. I also got to hang out with two of my neighbors that I've not really talked with for the whole year, sat down and ate some clementines with them, and slept outside during the really fine 80 degree weather today. I also finally found a medicine that helps with my frequent migraines, got to pet the fuzziest Chow puppy I have ever seen, and today was my dog's birthday. She was diagnosed with a genetic heart condition when she was a month old, and our vet gave her 6 months to live before it gave out. We gave her lots of love and tried some medicine the vet prescribed us to try, and now she's a bouncy, shoe-eating ball of fur. She just turned two today.
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