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Edited by GastonRabbit on Nov 11th 2022 at 8:59:38 AM
I"ve seen some deals where someone decides they're going to give their house to the person who writes the best essay on why they should have the house, as long as with their essay every entrant also gives them $75.
Fresh-eyed movie blogDAY 12 OF THE BLACKOUT SEASON
It's official, my PC will be in a quarantine for a brief season, since it's been discovered that the motherboard needs to be replaced. And we're in the week whose Sunday will be Mother's Day around here, no less. And since this laptop runs slower than a home computer, I asked them to lend me the other home computer, in the room where my mom and dad used to sleep. From there we'll install Skype so I can chat again, and additionally I'll be ready to edit this site's articles again.
Lights poofed between 8 am and 12 pm, not too bothersome,.....
But tomorrow they'll poof at 4 am. I'm really not sure how I'll cope with the idea of being in darkness and with heat until sunrise. I'm even wondering if I should bother sleeping tonight at all.
edited 6th May '16 7:24:04 PM by MyFinalEdits
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311So I broke my toe two weeks ago, and I can finally walk on it again. While celebrating my first day off crutches I got too ambitious straining pasta and now have 2nd degree burns on my leg. Very smooth transition from one injury to the other. No time wasted. And my sister just got home from school. She had to leave a few days early with incompletes in her classes because she has a serious case of the flu. So now the flu virus is in my apartment. And after a semester off my ADHD meds, I now have eight lab reports, a ten page research paper, and a semester worth of math homework to do in two weeks This is so ridiculous it's funny
edited 7th May '16 6:20:41 PM by Cailleach
I'm just sitting here laughing because the whole thing is just so damn funny. This is the kind of thing that would happen to an Unlucky Everydude in a cringe comedy sitcom
That's the way it goes sometimes. Just carry on and do what you have to do. As for me, I sometimes feel that I'm a Work Com.
Keep Rolling OnI'm reading job descriptions online and I'm like, "...okay, but what do you guys do?"
All of this sounds so dry and lifeless. "The Statistical Analyst accesses datasets from various sources, conducts analysis, and presents the findings of each analytic and reporting project."
So...they work with data?
I wanted to work with the library because I know what they do. Grant people access to free information. Of course, if they can view it for free, that means I get paid less, which means that I'll need some higher risk to get higher pay?
I've always thought that I never wanted enough in school. I wanted a job that wouldn't stress me out, but now I'm stressing out that I feel underworked and underpaid.
Surely there is a job for me where I can find some challenge and enough money to move out on my own...
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stayDAY 13 OF THE BLACKOUT SEASON
Remember when I said that I was unsure how I would cope with the idea of waking up at 4 am when lights poofed and then I had to try to sleep in the midst of total darkness and without the fresh blows of the fan or the air conditioner?
I just didn't. I woke up at 3:20 am and that cool dream I had (and which I posted in the Dreams topic) was interrupted because my brain couldn't keep under control the fear and anxiety I was having. And to add salt to injury, lights only poofed at 4:45 am, so when I thought I would regain some lost hours of sleep afterwards, the moment when electricity did go away caught me off-guard, And I just can't sleep that way, it feels like I'm being trapped alive inside a buried tomb. I was in a bad mood when sun rose.
The day itself has been quite meh. I haven't visited anyone, no one has visited me and the only remarkable things have been that delicious lunch and the daily walk. The most dangerous thing about this blackout season is that I'll end up getting used to it, when a normal person in a normal, functional country shouldn't worry about power shortages.
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311Mine is going through a nasty Seasonal Rot with inflation, periodic blackouts, being still stuck with a laptop due to an inconvenient with my dad's PC, no way to play video games, and some decade-lasting unsatisfied needs.
Now that I've mentioned the laptop thing...
DAY 14 OF THE BLACKOUT SEASON
For some reason, in my dad's CPU I was unable to login in Google, TV Tropes, Disqus or any other thing, due to what seems to be some missing Windows security protocols caused by an error known as ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH which induced an incompatibility between the system and the data I was using to login. All that unnecessary bullshit was simply because the PC used Windows 8, which in itself is bullshit and that's why I never used it. Sigh.....
So I had to go back to the laptop, and I'm growing sick of it. I miss editing the wiki. Who knows how many inappropiate edits have been done and are in desperate need of correction.
Today we went to the estate to celebrate Mother's Day with a steak lunch. Around 5-6 pm it started raining strongly, and later we had dinner with two succulent burgers.
135 -> 180 -> 273 -> 191 -> 188 -> 230 -> 300 -> 311After a pretty lame Friday night
, I managed to have a fun Saturday: Went out to a dance night and ended up dancing with a woman I hadn't met before. I tried to get a number after and was politely turned down, but it was good to let go of my self-consciousness some and have fun.
I've been deleting apps off my home screens in an attempt to narrow my focus. I'm down to nine, one is four spaces long, and one page is 16 spaces, so I have four spaces I'll try not to fill.
My math obsession lately must mean that I ''should'" aim for a career in mathematics. But if my lack of a STEM degree obliterates my chances of finding a good one...
I am doomed. -_-
edited 10th May '16 10:38:49 AM by Keybreak
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stayEnglish.
And most jobs in America use English, but apparently in greater capacity than I am right now.
It's just a matter of what I want to do...but if my job paid me a lot more (like that $15 minimum wage everyone is clamoring for), I could probably keep it and move out right now...
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stayI was on the advanced track in math from 6th-12th grades, so I left high school with AP credit for Calculus. I went to college and my major had an Algebra 1 requirement. I took no math classes in college.
Fresh-eyed movie blogI took only one, but it didn't count for a math credit.
Mathematical technology...just programming with a few more numbers. Gross. >_> I went into the tutoring center and one of the guys there just GAVE me his program and let me put my name on it.
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stay

I stumbled upon "House for €1" offers from a couple of Italian towns. Turns out they have massive catches, but some of them could be made serviceable with some investment.
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