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My friend is super outgoing and I go to the bar with him more than anyone else. He's introduced me to the same bartender a bunch of times trying to set us up or whatever and I still don't think she really remembers who I am. And he wonders why I haven't made a move. If someone doesn't remember me after being introduced like 8 times, I kinda get the feeling they're not interested in sleeping with me haha. That said, she is quite attractive. At school, one of the campus bars had a bartender who gave me free shots and stuff. But I think that had to do more with the fact that she was friends with a bunch of my friends.

It's a Hydrogeologist position. The application says HAZWOPER is a plus (as opposed to a requirement) so it probably has more to do with possible interaction with hazardous material than that being a main part of the job. Some of the work that the company does is with brownfield/superfund/generally contaminated sites, so I would imagine they want to be able to have anyone do that work as opposed to being limited on who they can have on site.

Damn, shots fired. ----------------- Found a super awesome job opening that's entry level, in my field, and almost exactly where I wanted to be living. It's too perfect, there's no way I'm going to get it. But I'm trying to write a cover letter for it right now anyways. The industry standard starting salary is much higher than anything I expected to be getting too, although I've read that they tend to underpay since it's a company that hires a lot of new grads. But we're talking $15k over what I was expecting for the low end of the starting salary range. So of course, I'm way over hyped for a job that I probably won't even get considered for. If I had my HAZWOPER cert I think I'd have a shot, but it's too late for me to get that before applying for the job.

You've still got a couple hours to recover for (presumably more) drinking tonight.

I actually hate my forum name/past forum name. I was just trying to be edgy when I was like 13. But I'm not going to change it again, since my first name is taken and I doubt I could convince anyone to free it up for me. But that's the only thing I would switch it to.

She might want to be your friend? Surprisingly women have value outside of romantic and sexual intentions. I've never understood the all or nothing mentality some people have when it comes to that. I'm not going to say that I haven't thought about hooking up with some of my female friends (Hell I've done it a number of times, nothing good has come of it though), but I still appreciate them for the real humans that they are. Got a little tangent-y there, sorry. What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't necessarily remove someone from your life because they're not romantically interested in you when they may have the potential to be a friend. I'm also not saying that you have to be friends with someone. It's totally okay to approach someone solely with romantic intentions. It's just unfair to assume they're leading you on or using you if they don't reciprocate but remain friendly. Oh how to make it work in the future, I have no advice. I've never really done things like go on intentional dates, nor am I particularly successful myself. I guess maybe the best advice I can give is to take whatever opportunities to meet people come your way and don't be hard on yourself when things don't go well.

Congrats on adulthood. No recreational marijuana where I live though. Yet.

I just started reading Moby Dick at the recommendation of a friend. The prose is gorgeous, I haven't been this engrossed in the language and structure of a book in a long time. I'm only 2 chapters in (of 135), but I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm also reading it out loud to myself, which really helps me to appreciate the writing more and forces me to actually look up things that I don't understand. I might try to grab a physical copy from the library though, it's tough for me to read on a screen.

That's more or less what my friend said to me as well. Basically his reasoning on why it wasn't a big deal was that we don't go to school together so I'm not going to be pulling her away from her friends and dramatically affecting her social circles or whatever. That and that I'm a pretty go with the flow kind of guy who (according to him) would never intentionally try to take advantage of it. I'm not exactly the type of guy that people really feel the need to impress either, I don't exactly hold any positions of power at all.

In my case, I've literally only met this girl twice. She seems super chill and relatively mature for her age, but again I certainly don't know enough to really make that call yet. I can't say I'm planning on dating her though, not after the minimal time we've spent together at least. I told my friends (I called a friend to ask his opinion since I trust his judgement and he would be honest with me if he thought I was doing something wrong), and they actually didn't rip on my about it too much. I'm going to a party this weekend that she will be at and so will some of my friends, so I'm going to get their opinion on the situation again after they meet her. I'm personally not too worried about myself in this situation, I really just don't want to be abusing a power dynamic or whatever. But I'm going to kind of see how things go first before committing to any level of involvement. (Also it's not like she's the only person out there that I have some sort of positive feeling toward. We just hit it off better than I have with anyone else in a while.)

Vaping is dumb, but if it helps you quit than absolutely do it. Cigarettes are probably the biggest regret of my entire life. I love smoking, but I don't like the fact that I'm killing myself. Literally the only advice I feel qualified to give anyone is to not start smoking.

Leon Bridges - Coming Home I must have posted this here but it's so [bleep]ing good.

Mine is a grown out undercut now, so really just short on the sides long on top. I had the sides shaved down to a 1 for summer, but I haven't cut it since then and I'm probably not going to go that short again until it starts to warm back up.

[bleep] Buttons - Slow Focus (Album) I personally think that Tarot Sport is the better album, but that might be because it came out in my formative high school years (aka when I started using drugs).

Honestly, there is no style that is universal enough that it won't look out of place some day. You just have to roll with that shit. Anyways, I hooked up with that girl. Might not have been the right thing to do, but whatever.

Getting an undercut was actually a big confidence booster for me, I had never had a haircut in any sort of "style" before in my life. People definitely take notice. That and cutting my beard off. Making an appearance change in my experience can be a great way to get out of a rut and feel better about yourself. I try to mix it up almost yearly now either with haircuts, facial hair, or just clothing. ----------------- I'm going to tl;dr a story real quick. Basically went to a ren fair yesterday with some friends and some folks I didn't know. One of the people I did know brought her sister, whom I had never met before. We ended up spending pretty much the whole day together, mostly just the two of us. She was very obviously into me. The thing is though, she's a freshman in college and 18 years old. I'm nearly 23 and I'm a college grad. Also, she goes to college in Vermont, I'm in CT (Although she's from CT too). Also she's the younger sister of a friend. Essentially, it's a dilemma of whether or not to get involved. Might end up not being a problem since I might not see her again, but I think there's a decent chance that I might be seeing her again tonight. She seemed pretty adamant about seeing me again too and told me basically all the times she's going to be around. She seemed like an awesome girl and I had a great time with her, but I think all of those things might outweigh the positives. I'm not really looking for advice here as much as I am maybe trying to start a discussion on if age and place in life should be important factors between two otherwise compatible people. This wasn't as tl;dr as I wanted it to be.

Yeah, yesterday and today have been pretty hot for October for where I am, high 60's to low 70's (around 20 for all you non Americans). But I'm sure by the end of October it'll hover around freezing pretty frequently.

Went to a Renaissance Fair today, got super sunburned. It's October, what the [bleep]?

My car got broken into tonight while I was visiting a friend. Or more aptly, I likely forgot to lock my car (which is super unusual for me) and someone stole stuff out of it, since no windows were broken or any sign of a forced entry. Not a huge loss overall, just a GPS, a couple cables, and maybe $2 of change. I reported it to the campus police anyways, some other cars looked like they had things taken from them too apparently. I feel a little bad because it's most likely someone who is struggling with some form of addiction who needed money, otherwise they wouldn't have wasted their time with a fistful of change that was mostly pennies. But they're never going to catch whoever did it anyways so it's whatever. But I've never had anything stolen before, feels a little weird. I'm mostly mad because they took my FM transponder (which is a total piece of shit that I broke and had to re-splice all the wires in anyways) and now I can't listen to the music on my phone in my car until I buy a new one. Cops were nice though. Luckily I had only had a small amount to drink with my friend and didn't smoke at all, otherwise I totally wouldn't have reported it.

Finally got around to watching the season finale of Rick and Morty. It was fantastic, after what I felt were 2 or 3 relatively weak episodes.

Seems to me like you're doing pretty well for yourself. I wouldn't worry too much about that girl not responding, sometimes stuff like that just happens. And I doubt calling versus texting would have changed much. Pretty much everything else seems like you did a good job with it to me anyways. Next time you see her (I'm assuming you'll see her at the dance club again), my advice would be to not bring up her not responding and just kind of act like it never happened. Generally once something like that happens it's for the best not to keep pushing, at least not for a while. As for your friend, maybe give him a call tomorrow and talk to him. See if you can help out with anything and let him know he's still welcome to stay at your place if he wants/needs to. Congrats on quitting smoking, I'm fighting with that myself. It's awful.

What are you playing? I've been playing D&D 5e for about 3ish months now. I've basically ported Fire Emblem into a play-by-post game, so there's a big cast that has to agree on a strategy for every turn... Perfect for that sort of thing. How is 5E, anyway? I've been having a good time with 5e. It feels like 3.5 (which is the only other version I've played), but the parts that were over complicated have streamlined. Really enjoyable overall. Our current game we've been making some small changes and blending in some pathfinder rules. I would say that 5e is has a really solid rule set that's easy to pick up for new players and has good versatility for more experienced ones. Although in all fairness I'm yet to play it past 3rd level so I can't comment on the later game stuff.

What are you playing? I've been playing D&D 5e for about 3ish months now. ---- I'm currently sick. Just downed some NyQuil so I'm going to pass out real soon.

I used to play pretty casually with my friends back in the day. I only played Arena, and only as Ymir. I was pretty good at it though. Haven't played in over a year though.

Civics are dope, always super great cars. Except mine, which has proven to be a piece of shit. But I love it anyways.