Good luck and sympathy mojo to MrsK, Alli, and everyone else who's shared their hard times over the last couple of pages.

What a rotten way to start a New Year. Still, it's all onward and upward from here!

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Originally posted by editengine:


Less than a months rent, now I have to rig up some sort of alarm. I am thinking a motion sensor attached to a timer and an airhorn.

Just pound some cheap steak knives through some plywood, lay out a trip line, and Bob's your uncle.

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Originally posted by shake:
Just pound some cheap steak knives through some plywood, lay out a trip line, and Bob's your uncle.

Or your shish-kaBob, in this particular example...

Woke up this afternoon, feeling somewhat better. Not good, mind you but better. I was running low on decongestant and other minor supplies so I went out for a terrible meal and some shopping.

The more I walked around the worse I felt. I think I even developed a fever wandering through Walmart, although it may have just been the unseasonably warm weather here. I mean it was in the 70s today.

Anyway I made it home and am now watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, which kicks ass.

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Originally posted by Evilpenguin9000:
Anyway I made it home and am now watching Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, which kicks ass.

So am I!

Walmat is evil, there are all manner of dark forces there, it is no wonder it gave you a fever. That is the reaction of a sane mind to big-box banality and the usurpation of the soul.

Addendum:Coffee in a bag!

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Originally posted by symmetry:
Contemplating quitting this fucking degree. I so can't be arsed anymore. And on the first day of the term...a new record.

Geez how can they piss you off the very first day?

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Originally posted by heavyboots:

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Originally posted by shake:
Just pound some cheap steak knives through some plywood, lay out a trip line, and Bob's your uncle.

Or your shish-kaBob, in this particular example...

Wasn't that used in a Charles Bronson movie?

Deathwish IV

Finally I found a piece of trivia I'm really ashamed of knowing.

Edit: Deathwish III

At least I remembered it badly.

You should be ashmed.

Go watch PBS and cleanse thyself

Gah! Sorry to read such troubles. Major mojo hopes in all directions. [All is workable here. Knocking wood.]

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Originally posted by Marshdrifter:

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Originally posted by vecna:
Please tell me I don't have to go back to school

That depends on what you want to do. When you
think of yourself in the future, what do you see
yourself doing and where do you see yourself doing
it?

I see myself sipping Caronas on a beach in the Virgin Islands? I SEE IT WHAT.

I don't know. I just don't know. What I *need* is some financial solvency so I can actually produce some options and then pick of said options and capitalize on it. When you're as poor as I am, opportunities are limited. /double sigh

vecna, go wait tables in high end restaurants. I fought it for years in a small town. Worked in publishing both private and local news and they just did not provide a living wage.

Restaurant work:
*can be hard for curmudgeons
*if not experienced, do a little bussing in the local Dennys, or equivalent. Just enough to teach you how stuff moves and needs to move. Not the best place to learn, but a start. Only occasional shootouts.

Then apply for a day shift at a much fancier place, or a bar tending shift. Or learn bar tending by watching and talking to a sober one. Volunteer your time to learn.

This is not said as a be all to your life's work, but it is a way to glean bucks, which could lift your life while you figure out what is next for you.

That's kinda hard actually in the town I live in. College town you know. All those jobs are taken up by nubile sorority types approximately five minutes before there's a vacancy. And bartending jobs are guarded with insane jealously because they're one of the few jobs that actually pay well... its kinda hard to break into that racket. I know, I've tried.

Thanks though, I do appreciate someone trying to help.

The thing I have belatedly realized in life is that the old maxim "its not what you know, it's who you know" is terribly true. I really need someone to give me a fucking chance, an opportunity in a career field or graduate/doctorate program. I can prove myself, but I don't match certain... preconceptions... of what career types look like/act like. So I find it difficult to get my foot in the door anywhere

Ok, then. Join the fucking Chamber of Commerce or the local Rotary club. They network, I hear, but the Rotary fines members for faux pas of the business sort, I think, so be very, very careful.

Really, get of harms way asap, imho. I am on your side. As are others, here.

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Originally posted by Anabel:
Ok, then. Join the fucking Chamber of Commerce or the local Rotary club. They network, I hear, but the Rotary fines members for faux pas of the business sort, I think, so be very, very careful.

Really, get out of harms way asap, imho. I am on your side. As are others, here.

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Originally posted by Anabel:
Ok, then. Join the fucking Chamber of Commerce or the local Rotary club. They network, I hear, but the Rotary fines members for faux pas of the business sort, I think, so be very, very careful.

Really, get of harms way asap, imho. I am on your side. As are others, here.

I know you are If I didn't think so, I wouldn't post here. /hugs!

/giving myself financial gain vibes

Oooohhhmmm.

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Originally posted by editengine:

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Originally posted by symmetry:
Contemplating quitting this fucking degree. I so can't be arsed anymore. And on the first day of the term...a new record.

Geez how can they piss you off the very first day?

I'm not pissed off, I'm just tired of it. I don't want to take any more classes that I have to work hard to understand when I am not interested in them. In fact, I am tired I killing myself to keep up even when I *am* interested. I have lost all will to live in physics. The thought of having to do 2 more rounds of annual examinations fills me with the sense of unbearable and I'm wondering if it's worth it to get to the hereafter that I am aiming for.

Hehe. I'm leaving my degree, too.

Burnt all my bridges there, which is the only way to ensure I move on.

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Originally posted by symmetry:

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Originally posted by editengine:

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Originally posted by symmetry:
Contemplating quitting this fucking degree. I so can't be arsed anymore. And on the first day of the term...a new record.

Geez how can they piss you off the very first day?

I'm not pissed off, I'm just tired of it. I don't want to take any more classes that I have to work hard to understand when I am not interested in them. In fact, I am tired I killing myself to keep up even when I *am* interested. I have lost all will to live in physics. The thought of having to do 2 more rounds of annual examinations fills me with the sense of unbearable and I'm wondering if it's worth it to get to the hereafter that I am aiming for.

That reminds me of when I came to Copenhagen as an exchange student, and after 8 days of study, decided that I didn't want to do a Master's degree in Mathematics after all.

I used to write my notes with a fountain pen as well! :-)

That's quite lovely.
I'm going to the first meeting of this infamous theoretical maths course that somehow I thought I was woman enough for today. It's not going to help my mood any.

Good luck with it....

remember if you stop your classes you could end up a librarian!!!