06-23-2008, 11:42 PM | #101 |
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Tess- Awesome, dude, congrats.
Insomniacs- Sorry. K, I couldnt post last night, because I was just too tired. We had two trucks come in, containing over 20,000 items each, and were expected to get them unloaded in 3 hours. Guess how many of us there were. 4 Impossible task. But yes, we did it. I only had to limp out with a rag against my wrist and knee, severe bruising to my ribs and back of one of my hands, a large scrabe on the other, and various other cuts, scrapes, and bumps. FUN, FUN.
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06-24-2008, 01:38 AM | #102 |
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*tacks out field surgeon kit and cleans Naughty up*
Ouch, but on the bright side; you are superman. We won the paintball tournament the other day, but in the most pathetic way possible. The other teams started to play dirty and cheat, not to mention hide and send the minimal amount of players onto the actual field. It was the most borning and frustrating game ever.
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06-24-2008, 03:46 AM | #103 |
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edited for the sensitive. Also because I wuz bein' flameh. :P
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06-24-2008, 09:20 AM | #104 |
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Good luck with that, Tessar.
Sane, that sux. I'm here to vent that those kind of morons don't get better as they age and have children and advanced degrees. And I truly truly HATE trying to find a girly way to deal with the passively expressed feelings of upperclass white women. This whole "play nice" routine means "We already have all the goodies, and we're comfortable with that." bah!
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06-24-2008, 10:34 AM | #105 | |
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I hate people like that, Sane. It would be nice to be able to play the game for fun every once in a while, but I guess other people have different plans.
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06-24-2008, 11:44 AM | #106 |
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Myself, I divide fiction into two categories: literature and fluff. Literature is books that say something, that challenge you to think, that draw you out of the box, or, at the very least, have very good character study. Fluff is everything else, and that's most of what people read: fluff, pageturners, all that junk. It's kinda sad, actually. I mean, I'm not completely against that; a little light reading now and then is fine, but it shouldn't be your daily bread, as it were, but rather a break from real reading. And light reading should not be light enough to be mind-numbing. Neil Gaiman is good light reading.
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06-25-2008, 12:15 AM | #107 |
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06-25-2008, 01:11 AM | #108 | |
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Neil Gaman is fun ^_^. I love his stuff.
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06-25-2008, 02:57 AM | #110 |
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Tessar, Sane, that's horrible. I'd HATE to play paintball with people like that or read hideous books like that .
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06-25-2008, 04:57 AM | #111 |
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Jinx is gone.
He died on my lap yesterday night. I don't think he knew or felt what was happening anymore, which is some comfort.
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06-25-2008, 05:12 AM | #112 |
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Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that Eärniel, I know how it feels. Lost peshe in my arms too. But at least he had someone he loved with him.
*hugs* though that probably wont do much right about now.... Rest In Peace Jinx.
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06-25-2008, 05:17 AM | #113 |
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((((( Sarah )))))
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I'm a graduate student, well read, well travelled, have a good grasp of philosophy and literature, and I love reading historical romance novels. I read three or four a week. Do I read other things? Sure I do. But I think it's pretty snobbish to say that these books are trash, or useless. Every book you read gives you something, and you're missing a whole lot by rejecting popular lit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *hugs Earniel*
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06-25-2008, 05:57 AM | #115 |
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Oh Earn!
*hugs*
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Very sorry to hear that, Eärniel.
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06-25-2008, 07:41 AM | #117 |
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I'm so sorry, Earniel.
Good bye, kittycat.
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06-25-2008, 09:37 AM | #118 |
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I'm so sorry Earniel.
((((((((HUGS))))))))
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But come on; surely you think there's a difference between stuff like, say, Laurel K. Hamilton, and, for instance, Shakespeare? At least most Shakespeare. Not just a difference in degree, but one in kind? At least it seems that way to me. I'm not saying light reading (which is really, in retrospect, a better word than fluff) is bad, I'm just saying it's different. Going back and re-reading, I realise my post was worded way too harshly. I didn't really mean to say anything more than what I said above: just that they're different.
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