Life

[Lu]

May he rust in piece.

 

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[SiN]

Pretty sure I just saw Jake at SeaTac Airport...

[subbes]

Jake's quest to help save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus:  CONFIRMED.

[Twig]

YO I GOT LAID OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

yay

 

I'm applying to... Telltale (Sean totally told me I should at that Idle Thumbs meetup!), Double Fine. U: And, well, anywhere else. Also a few places in LA and Seattle. But well. I mean, I'd been considering leaving for a long while. The only thing holding me back was I really loved the people I was working with.

 

Guess I'm not working with anyone, anymore!

 

My apartment lease is up in a month. That's the hard thing. I don't know where I'm going to be. I don't know... what to do about that, really. Blehhhh.

[Roderick]

That's shitty, Twig, but you've got good things ahead of you. Follow up on what leads you have and turn this crisis into something where you get out in a much better place than you were in before.

[Twig]

Yeah I'm mostly optimistic, but there's always that cynic in me that worries things won't work out. It should be fine!

[tegan]

I absolutely did not sleep at all last night. I just tossed and turned for five hours or so and then got back up.

 

Also, I'm down to like $20 and still don't know when (or if) I'll start getting long-term benefits.

[dibs]

That sucks twigs but it did get the lulz from your accidental "I got laid" run on line (mobile version pushed the off!!!... To the next line).

Hang in there peeps.

[Patrick R]

Every time the owner of the pizzeria I work for comes in he tells me to make the food in a completely different way I was taught, often different from the way he told me to do it the last time he was in. This time he actually started yelling for the second time ever, because I put oregano and parmesan cheese on our spinach pizza. The first time he yelled at me, it was because I wasn't putting oregano and parmesan cheese on the spinach pizza. I got pissed and yelled back about it, and he denied the whole thing and got louder and angrier, so I got to dramatically storm off shouting "That's it! I don't need this anymore! I QUIT!"

 

I have fantasized about doing that exact thing countless times, and it was as amazing as I always imagined it would be. For about five minutes. Then I remembered I was unemployed now.

[Gormongous]

Every time the owner of the pizzeria I work for comes in he tells me to make the food in a completely different way I was taught, often different from the way he told me to do it the last time he was in. This time he actually started yelling for the second time ever, because I put oregano and parmesan cheese on our spinach pizza. The first time he yelled at me, it was because I wasn't putting oregano and parmesan cheese on the spinach pizza. I got pissed and yelled back about it, and he denied the whole thing and got louder and angrier, so I got to dramatically storm off shouting "That's it! I don't need this anymore! I QUIT!"

 

I have fantasized about doing that exact thing countless times, and it was as amazing as I always imagined it would be. For about five minutes. Then I remembered I was unemployed now.

 

Reminds me of this:

 

 

Anyway, sorry for both job-losers in this thread. Unemployment sucks, you guys.

[syntheticgerbil]

YO I GOT LAID OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the new job title and everything? That's incredibly shitty!

I hope you find something soon and the living situation works out!

[subbes]

Cabot has osteosarcoma.  We have an appointment with a specialist to see if it's operable;  If it is, we're looking at amputation.  Fingers crossed it's operable and hasn't spread.

[Twig]

I also have my fingers crossed. ):

 

After the new job title and everything? That's incredibly shitty!

Yep. But it's clear to me now they never gave a shit about what I was doing. Well, the people who decided to let me do it definitely did, but the people above them? All a numbers game. You know how it is. Money, money, money.

 

The thing that really hurts is I'd been putting in a lot of extra hours just because I wanted to. I'd take my work laptop home and just start it up every couple nights and get like two or three hours of work done, doing things they never even asked for. Bleh.

[elmuerte]

pff... titles, they are like candy

[dibs]

Soooo. My sister has left her husband for reasons of adultery. Why do I feel bad removing him from Facebook when I would be happy to open my car door on him if he cycled by?

[Ben X]

Because the car door would be anger, the Facebook is judgement?

[Thrik]

Soooo. My sister has left her husband for reasons of adultery. Why do I feel bad removing him from Facebook when I would be happy to open my car door on him if he cycled by?

 

I'd keep him on Facebook and routinely call him a dirty bastard every week until the end of time.

[tegan]

So I've been thinking about this and although I really hate to have to do this again, I'm about to run out of money and food in the next week or so and all of the income options I'm trying to get (namely long-term disability and employment insurance) aren't going to deliver until after then. I tried to hold off for as long as I could, but it looks like I'm not gonna' make it. If anyone wants to help me out with a few dollars, my paypal once again is teganrobichaud at gmail dot com. It still looks like it's attached to the name of the relative who set it up, but whatever. I would be forever grateful.

 

 

Worst: I'm most bummed that I can't get Pikmin 3 or Attack of the Friday Monsters. What the hell does my brain do to organize my priorities?

[Joewintergreen]

I would hook you up but I have $20 to my name til next month.

[elmuerte]

So I picked up a "gaming" headset today so I can use it this evening during the GTA4 thingy. I decided to buy an USB headset (i.e. a external USB sound card). Eitherway, it appears that it's DOA, or at least, the mic doesn't work at all. Also the USB sound card didn't have a mic boost option either. So I can go back to the store tomorrow to give them back their broken product.

I hate wasting time like this.

[Zeusthecat]

Subbes, that sucks to have to go through that with your cat. I think it goes without saying that I'm a cat-person (part cat, part person) and the thought of losing Zeus is pretty unbearable. After over 10 years of him sleeping on my chest every night I can't imagine what that first night without him is going to feel like when the inevitable time comes. Best wishes and I hope they are able to save yours.

 

Twig, sounds like all in all you getting laid off was for the best despite the fact that there are some shitty circumstances. Hopefully you can find a job where they actually appreciate and recognize people that are dedicated to and enjoy their jobs.

 

Lacabra, damn I'm sorry and that really sucks. It's amazing how much relationships impact our lives and how tragic it can be when a significant relationship comes to an end. My wife and I almost called it quits about a year into our relationship because we were struggling with the whole long distance thing (we were still in high school at the time) and I remember feeling almost like someone close to me had died when I thought it was going to end. I cannot fathom how shitty that must feel when it's been five goddamn years. Hang in there!

 

Tegan, I'm sorry and wish I could help but things are very tight with just my income and a mountain of student loans and medical bills (I fucking hate high deductible healthcare plans).

 

Dibs, break into various parked cars along his cycling route and open those doors man! Relish in the paranoia you will have created every time he passes by a parked car.

 

Elmuerte, hopefully the time you have wasted will make you further appreciate time that isn't wasted. Or you can get wasted and waste some time thinking about the time that was wasted. I believe in you.

 

I feel like a douche.

[Frenetic Pony]

I've got very little motivation to do anything recently.

 

And I mean anything. Responsibilities that I do have, and are very important, and I can't bring myself to do them. I literally can't force my way through a mental block, you could put a gun to my head and promise you'll shoot me if I don't do it and I'd still struggle to get anything done. The same can be said of even so much of supposed leisure activities. Put a gun to my head and ask me what I would do if I could do absolutely anything at all in the world, and I'd have a truly hard time answering.

 

Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhh

[Ucantalas]

I'm stressed out.

And heading to the doctor tomorrow to get these red spots on my neck and jawline looked at. Hopefully I don't need any expensive medicine or anything.

[I_smell]

About 6 weeks ago, I moved from Manchester England to Hilversum, Netherlands.

It's been a total dream, and I've got such a freedom to whatever, whenever, however I like, without the usual chorus of whiners and naysayers judging me at every step. Hanging out with ex-pats is great, because it's in their agenda to explore the city and be active and make friends. Everything's just been a catalyst to go out and start having a life.

Visited my home town this weekend and felt pretty depressed! Very grey weather, and a consistent attitude of tutting and shaking heads at anything that's not "Let's sit here and just complain forever". I was expecting to come back and see everything in a new light now that I feel great, but it actually just sank me back down to my miserable, anxiety-ridden, boxed-in old self. I was glad to leave!

Was planning on coming back way more often, but I dunno, now I wanna avoid it! Sorry, home, I guess you really do just make me feel like shit.

A weird twist.

[Roderick]

Wow, I'm happy that this is working out for you. That Dutch Thumbs gathering is becoming more and more necessary now!