Renji
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I'm just being loyal to my cultural heritage.NAH!!! Chinese
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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!
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Renji
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There was this very mysterious girl in our office. She's my office mate actually. I noticed her looking at me a lot of times during the orientation for our work, but wouldn't talk to me. During our fourth day of work though, she just asked me a very random question: Do you sometimes go to parties (I don't even know if that's her way of asking me to take her out) and What characteristics do you like the most on a girl? She even shared to me some of her secrets and stuff. After that, she's given me a letter saying that "I thought you're a very serious guy, but you're actually fun to talk to and you're very intelligent." From that time, I sometimes chat with her during break times. We eat together with my other office mates and stuff, but just this week, she seems to be avoiding me. I asked her if there's something wrong with her, but she just said that she's okay and that I should not to mind her. She doesn't speak to me unless I approach her or doesn't even respond at times when I greet her. I'm totally confused... Like, what's those questions, the letter and the other things for, then all of a sudden she's kinda 'cold' towards me? I dunno if it's even a hint that she likes me or what, I don't have the nerve to ask. In fact I don't even know if she'll answer it..... Thing is... I think I like her. I like not only because she's pretty, but because she's kind, and mysterious and I can't get her out of my head.
It's surreal. In just 1 1/2 weeks time, I will have my Bachelors degree. It's surreal, but also a bit underwhelming. Yet, at the same time, it's also scary. These past few years have been structured and I knew what my role was. Soon I'll be back to square one.
Well, I finished digging my hole today. Then I filled it with broken asphalt, & topped that off with 21a crushed limestone. Success!
Renji
Well-Known Member
Happy to hear that! I know how it feels, I've been there too.
For me, I just do whatever makes me happy and successful. Helps me ease such worries.
Renji
Well-Known Member
When I read that, it actually made me think of things that are inappropriate for me to say on the forum.
Restraint is an admirable quality.When I read that, it actually made me think of things that are inappropriate for me to say on the forum.
Also expressing it in creative and appropriate ways.
With safe words.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Congrats!! I've still got three weeks and another semester. But, if it helps, I'm still confused as hell as to what is going on. Though I think it's kinda helping that one of my teachers (I've had him once last and this fall, and twice last spring and this spring) teaches alot of stuff that right up my alley and I'm trying to take a few steps in that direction to give me more options when it comes to writing and teaching. He also told me that he needs me and really wants me in one of his classes next semester, which is a class about corporations and how they impact our lives. I think I'll do my honors project for the class over how Capitalism greatly strips us of our individuality, and that we're only tossed "Apple" and "Aeropastale" or "Rubbermaid" to let us live the illusion of having more individual options that what we really have.
I also decided I'm going to take a semester break and start grad school next spring. I am very worried that once I move to a city that has more to do than just bars and churches I'm going to neglect my studies, so I'm giving myself a few months to explore, do stuff, and live it up and be a young adult for once while I still have abit of that young part left. That, and I really have to study for the math part of the GRE general exam before I take it, so my applications will likely be getting in too late for the fall anyways.
Wirey
Fartist
If you're going to start trying to figure women out, good luck Brother!
Ladies, how you doin'?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Draka
Wonder Woman
Hey, I didn't spread it, I didn't order it. I did check radar map forecasts and saw it was heading your way though...I just didn't say anything.You have both spread the white. And it's looking to maybe be a nasty case of it.
And it's potential for beauty has drastically declined over the years as more trees have come down.
That's such an ugly crying "emoji."
Aww, my little emoji faces didn't work.
On this day of giving thanx, I offer great advantages of capitalism:
- I don't know what time Black Friday starts because I don't shop that way.
- I now have 2 nearly new 36" Ridgid aluminum pipe wrenches in me truck cuz I got great deals on ebay.
- When I finally selected a new wood stove, there were so many to choose from, & so many things to consider, that I sought out a respected dealer. They had exactly what I wanted in stock. It's one of the cleanest burning EPA rated burners available. It was spendy, but it's worth it.
- My son & I are taking the day off from work. Since we own the business, we make the rules.
- But if any of our customers have urgent needs, we'll be there to take care of'm.
- And I'm saving the best for last.....I don't have to call anyone "Comrade".
- I don't know what time Black Friday starts because I don't shop that way.
- I now have 2 nearly new 36" Ridgid aluminum pipe wrenches in me truck cuz I got great deals on ebay.
- When I finally selected a new wood stove, there were so many to choose from, & so many things to consider, that I sought out a respected dealer. They had exactly what I wanted in stock. It's one of the cleanest burning EPA rated burners available. It was spendy, but it's worth it.
- My son & I are taking the day off from work. Since we own the business, we make the rules.
- But if any of our customers have urgent needs, we'll be there to take care of'm.
- And I'm saving the best for last.....I don't have to call anyone "Comrade".
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That's good. This Capitalist system has my mom working today because too many people do shop that way. I also usually work holidays, but the school is closed today. Capitalism also pretty much ensured I grew up without my dad being around, since he was always at work. It wasn't faux-Communism that forced him to work, but the demand of the wealthy and reinforcement of the state that we must depend on the market for our living.
It's also unfortunate knowing that many people will be injured this time tomorrow, and a few of them dead, because of the "free market" that allows for mind raping marketing that drives the masses into a frenzy of insanity just to buy cheap junk. This marketing and advertising is also having many people neglect the family part of the Thanksgiving holiday so they can go shopping.
And just after this holiday we have an entire holiday season that is based on lustful consumerism.
It sucks that greedy capitalist buy up music, film, and everything in mass which gives us fewer options and choices.
Capitalism punishes all but the absolute most wealthy. Whether you are working hard but in the same tax bracket as a millionaire, middle class and having to shoulder the burden of it all, or so poor that living ends up costing more, capitalism by design holds us back and gets just enough of us ahead to give us the illusion that if we just try harder we have it made. Combine it with a state that is unwilling to refuse the influence of the most powerful capitalists, and we have what we have now, which is an extreme capitalism in which just a few have the bulk of the money, the bulk of the power, the bulk of the property, and even though we waste a staggering amount of our food, just from the store shelves alone, we are so entrenched in our ways of commodification and consumerism and this illusion that we must make it on our own that we would rather produce far more food than we need and see the excess go to waste because it is profitable than see that we eliminate hunger within our borders.
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to clean my T-square so that it doesn't smear my drawings again.
People can choose (as I did) to not participate. It's the freedom to make wise or dumb choices that I like. It beats what happens in socialist societies, wherein government decides it all for us. Black Friday in Americastanian stores sounds awful, but I'd rather be there than in N Korea on one of its best days.
Use ink risers (little bumps on the bottom).
I had to make inked drawings when working on Naval weapons. Ugh!
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
People cannot choose if they work or not, because people are choosing to shop. Better to just do away with consumer culture and solve the issue of both with one stroke.
Who would do the doing away? I don't trust government with this much power. As an individual in a non-planned economy, I can opt out. I like opting out of things....military draft, overtaxation, loyalty oaths. Powerful government is me enemy.