Fail: I am sick. Boo-yah: Went home early using some of my comp time. Extra Boo-yah: Because someone else was out, the only support staff left in the office was "the idiot." I wonder how she fared without anyone there to clean up her mess.
Boo-yah: Tribes Ascend's gameplay, at it's core, is as tribes as you can get. Skiing super fast, grabbing flags, all that business. I love that part of it to bits.
Fail: The rest of it? Yeah, the pay to win shit is insane (What's that? Want the sniper rifle that can kill a heavy in three shots from across the map? Ten bucks, please), the vehicles cost money you can only get by killing or capping(needless to say, 99% of people go for the former) and if you don't pay money, then you have long months of play ahead of you before you can play more than three classes, or be able to compete with the pay to win motherfuckers. I know it's only the beta, but I can't see this being fixed when it goes gold, and that breaks my tribes-loving heart.
I meant more financially. Since I am *committed* and *determined* to go to Otakon this year, I don't want to go unless I am positive that I can afford both. Luckily, my friend offered to let me stay at their house, so I only have to worry about paying for the plane ticket.
And road trip is impossible if I want to get back to school for, y'know, class.
What dates? If it's in the first week or two, you could also crash on an air mattress in my suite.
Pro: It's already in Manhattan, so you can stay out and do cool shit until fuck-all hours in the morning. Con: College Dorm with silly college kids,
What dates? If it's in the first week or two, you could also crash on an air mattress in my suite.
Thanks for the offer, but it's the very last weekend in May, so I assume you'd be out of school by then. It's fine though, my friends live in Long Island and are friends of the band, so it'd be cool to roll with them.
Boo-Yah - The picture round on the pub quiz was guess the board game!
Fail - None of them were obscure geek games and we managed to get 2 wrong. Didn't even know Pictionary had a board. Poor man's Rapidough anyway. Also missed out on Sorry!
Boo- Yah- We came 3rd overall! With 30/40 despite only having 2 in our team. Lost out to a team of 6 and 5. Next week we will have my mum and dad onside, 8 pints of free beer here we come!
Boo-Yah: 106.5 on the AMC12, which is a really high score (1.8 percentile, and only higher-level students take the test)
Fail: I made dumb mistakes on two questions I could have solved easily, costing me 12 points
Fail: I would have easily gotten the top score in my school, except that a friend of mine guessed on 6 questions and got 4 of them right, earning him 15 points over leaving them blank and making him tie me exactly.
I kissed a Urkanian sex goddess, and on the drive home I was so distractingly cheerful that I pulled over doing 50 in a 35. Yay, now I have a $200 ticket.
On an unrelated boo-yah, I just had a free, professional fencing class in full gear.
Don't flatter me. I also yell at people and have emotional breakdowns. I just also clean ferociously and have the intense desire to make things. I try my best to channel my energy constructively, but that doesn't mean I'm never bitchy-emotional angry.
Fail: Germitis. Some sort of bug. Stuffy/runny sinuses, scratchy throat, cough, tired, all that fun stuff. Boo-Yah: It doesn't seem like the nasty bout of sickness Jeremy is going through. I have been doing a lot of things to make my symptoms less severe: humidifier, lemon tea with honey, lozenges, soups, and rest. Boo-Yah: I went to a local ramen place I just discovered. The ramen is tasty and totally hits the spot. Boo-Yah: I spent the day watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'm in love with the series again.
Fail: Personal signs of stress: obsessive cleaning, baking, and/or sewing.
There are certainly less productive outlets. I do find cleaning to be quite calming. I always feel better after having tidied up.
This is true. My room often reflects my state of mind, so cleaning it helps me clear my head. A major issue I'm running into is that I have SO MUCH FABRIC that I WANT to do stuff with, that it's starting to just take over the place. Tulle and fake fur take up too much room on their own, and I'm working with both for different reasons at the moment.
Today was a day of disappointment, hanging out in an abandoned grain silo, finding hobo poop, recording a podcast (soon to be edited and released), drinking, vomiting, swapping poetry and drawings, and listening to Monocyte.
I kissed a Urkanian sex goddess, and on the drive home I was so distractingly cheerful that I pulled over doing 50 in a 35. Yay, now I have a $200 ticket.
On an unrelated boo-yah, I just had a free, professional fencing class in full gear.
Damn you. I've been looking for fencing opportunities since I got to Charleston. So far, none.
Fail: Still sick and decided to stay home. Fail: Coworker called me to tell me he got a job offer for the 4 positions we applied for. Fail: They called me too and left a message on my work voice mail. Fail: I called them and had to leave a message. Now I have to wait. Boo-Yah: I'm 99% close to getting the new job I've been wanting and have been waiting waiting for quite some time. It is also a good promotion.
Nope, I'll still be working for the VA, but as a remote employee for the Las Vegas Center. I'm doing pretty much the same job with a few different thing, more preparation of reports for medical reimbursement, but paid more money.
I won't be under the current management that no longer cares for us that's making me do way too much work compared to others.
So for now, I'm just going to go in and do a decent amount of work with a smile on my face.
I sort of want to pull a Half-Baked of "Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're cool. Fuck you. Peace, I'm out" to some people, but I'll hold my tongue for now.
Booh-Yah: My friend might be giving me a free Windows phone he doesn't want, since it only runs on AT&T. Fail: I'm not on AT&T either. Booh-Yah: Apparently you can just use it as a music player without connecting it to AT&T. Double Booh-Yah: I can apparently also develop for it using XNA, which I know, so I can make silly little apps for myself, maybe. Fail: He doesn't know where he gets his from (he won it in a hack-a-thon), so it's up in the air as to when/how I will get it.
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Boo-yah: Went home early using some of my comp time.
Extra Boo-yah: Because someone else was out, the only support staff left in the office was "the idiot." I wonder how she fared without anyone there to clean up her mess.
Fail: The rest of it? Yeah, the pay to win shit is insane (What's that? Want the sniper rifle that can kill a heavy in three shots from across the map? Ten bucks, please), the vehicles cost money you can only get by killing or capping(needless to say, 99% of people go for the former) and if you don't pay money, then you have long months of play ahead of you before you can play more than three classes, or be able to compete with the pay to win motherfuckers. I know it's only the beta, but I can't see this being fixed when it goes gold, and that breaks my tribes-loving heart.
Fail: I bought Assault on Black Reach
Pro: It's already in Manhattan, so you can stay out and do cool shit until fuck-all hours in the morning.
Con: College Dorm with silly college kids,
Fail - None of them were obscure geek games and we managed to get 2 wrong. Didn't even know Pictionary had a board. Poor man's Rapidough anyway. Also missed out on Sorry!
Boo- Yah- We came 3rd overall! With 30/40 despite only having 2 in our team. Lost out to a team of 6 and 5. Next week we will have my mum and dad onside, 8 pints of free beer here we come!
Fail: I made dumb mistakes on two questions I could have solved easily, costing me 12 points
Fail: I would have easily gotten the top score in my school, except that a friend of mine guessed on 6 questions and got 4 of them right, earning him 15 points over leaving them blank and making him tie me exactly.
Boo-yah: My room is getting more organized and I have chocolate toffee oatmeal cookies.
On an unrelated boo-yah, I just had a free, professional fencing class in full gear.
Boo-Yah: It doesn't seem like the nasty bout of sickness Jeremy is going through. I have been doing a lot of things to make my symptoms less severe: humidifier, lemon tea with honey, lozenges, soups, and rest.
Boo-Yah: I went to a local ramen place I just discovered. The ramen is tasty and totally hits the spot.
Boo-Yah: I spent the day watching Avatar: The Last Airbender. I'm in love with the series again.
Tulle and fake fur take up too much room on their own, and I'm working with both for different reasons at the moment.
Fail: Coworker called me to tell me he got a job offer for the 4 positions we applied for.
Fail: They called me too and left a message on my work voice mail.
Fail: I called them and had to leave a message. Now I have to wait.
Boo-Yah: I'm 99% close to getting the new job I've been wanting and have been waiting waiting for quite some time. It is also a good promotion.
More to come later as I stare at my cell phone.
Edit: 2 minutes later:
I GOT THE JOB! I GOT THE FUCKING JOB! WOOT!
We start March 25th. I am counting the days.
And congrats! Yay for new and better jobs! We shall celebrate at PAX with lots of Trader Joe sweets!
I won't be under the current management that no longer cares for us that's making me do way too much work compared to others.
So for now, I'm just going to go in and do a decent amount of work with a smile on my face.
I sort of want to pull a Half-Baked of "Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. You're cool. Fuck you. Peace, I'm out" to some people, but I'll hold my tongue for now.
Fail: My bank account keeps slipping deeper and deeper in the red.
Fail: I'm not on AT&T either.
Booh-Yah: Apparently you can just use it as a music player without connecting it to AT&T.
Double Booh-Yah: I can apparently also develop for it using XNA, which I know, so I can make silly little apps for myself, maybe.
Fail: He doesn't know where he gets his from (he won it in a hack-a-thon), so it's up in the air as to when/how I will get it.
Fail: I never learned to ride a bicycle.