The $%*! frustration thread

[Sajainta]

As in, to apply to the military?

[Samopoznanie]

It's an internal position with the Department of National Defense, more of a policy analysis thing.  I did apply to the forces years ago, fresh out of high school, but they ruled me out because of my Epilepsy.  I've applied to a number of government jobs in other departments and even had a few invitations for interviews that I unfortunately couldn't make due to prior commitments  (Indian Affairs, a six month study on Civil-Police Relations), but this has got to be the most convoluted process I've encountered.  I need to crank out a 7500 word paper now, after being screened in, on top of all the fill-in-the-blanks sheets.  

[Sajainta]

Damn.  I hope it pays off!  Good luck!

[Samopoznanie]

Thanks!  It would be a neat gig, and a refreshing break from school I think.  When I look back and think, 'Damn, I started elementary school over 20 years ago...!' it sort of throws me into a quarter-life crisis train of thought, you know?  'Hmm... I wonder what the real world is like...'

If the world is a sea of opportunity, academia is a fish bowl. 

The main thing holding me back is that despite the sleepless, mostly impoverished student existence, there are perks now and then.  Where else will I find a job (if you can call being a perpetual student such a thing) where you'll be funded to go abroad and research for a year(s)?

The idea of 3 weeks vacation just seems kind of... :/  I'd sure miss my  friends overseas.

[ZombieBucky]

agh.
i broke up with mia. it was nice being single again and not listening to her whine, but i miss her double bass and her awesomeness. and how she would listen to all my troubles. so now im in relationship withdrawal. i need someone physical who will listen to me, give the best hugs ever, play a mean double bass, and doesnt whine.
relationships suck. do not enter into them unless you know that he/she/it is the one. if you think they are, youre wrong. if you know they are, youre still wrong.
i dont know.
im just angry.

[Sajainta]

Sorry to hear that Zombie.  It'll get better with time.  Cliched thing to say, but for the most part it's true.

[Lord J Esq]

Condolences, Bucky. It always hurts. But if it wasn't working out, it's for the best.

[ZombieBucky]

oh, im glad we broke up. things werent going well at all. now im just lonely.
maybe thats why people get back together with their exes really fast then realize that they suck and they hate eachother.
good news in all this? new recruit at the grocery store! and hes pretty hot. im just a little nervous to talk to him... small town in connecticut, after all. whatre the odds that he goes that way and wont tell the whole world that i kind of have a thing for guys?

[ZeaLitY]

So, that's a fretless bass in the back of Dancing in the Dark, and not a synthesizer.

 

[ZombieBucky]

my family is composed of evil evil geniuses. im not sure if im happy that they are or upset that im not.
anyway, last night i made a bundt cake. it was amazing. it was for a surprise birthday party for a close friend of ours. however, his parents got him an ice cream cake, so we didnt use mine. what happens when i make something thats really good is i put it in my secret hiding place and take it out at random intervals, but my family said they didnt want any because they dont like bundt cake. so i just put it in the fridge for a while.
i went into the fridge this morning and found that there was one miserable little slice left.
theyre geniuses!

[Zephira]

...
i went into the fridge this morning and found that there was one miserable little slice left.
...

That's my situation in a nutshell, minus the geniuses.

Have you tried labeling it, or making it look so gross (yet secretly delicious) that they won't want to steal it?

[ZombieBucky]

see i stash whatever goodness i bake that i know theyre going to want, especially if it involves a function of some kind. like when i made this huge batch of peanut butter cookies that involved two whole jars of skippy and more sugar than i thought imaginable, i hid it.
id make it undesirable in appearance, but i find that a lot of the appeal of baking isnt just making it delicious (thats a main part of it though). its making it look like you just want to eat it all up. thats why, even though unnecessary and time consuming, i crisscross my peanut butter cookies with a fork, or i hand frost cookie cutter cookies.

[Sajainta]

I'm frustrated that my rotating avatars aren't working.    Zombie's, Zeph's, and tushantin's aren't either.  Bah!  Silly rotating avatar website!

[ZombieBucky]

oh its funny to me because when you post then zephira posts, i see magus head then magus legs from the same picture. and im digging prophet magus.
frustration: the playstation lives in my notroom. the football is on in my notroom with the playstation. i want to use the playstation, but there is football. football > playstation. 

[GenesisOne]

*sneeze! long sniff*

Woke up with a cold yesterday morning.  It was mild, though, so I powered through the day and through the Super Bowl.  Alas, despite my rest and consumption of fluids, I wake up this morning and it's still just as bad (perhaps even worse).  Even so, I made it to school today and will power through the day.

Got plenty of Kleenex, though.  And to think that I had gone at year without getting sick once.