Today...

[Estonian dude]

Some woman just phoned me and offered me a job.

Yay?

[Kirschen]

Got through the orientation process for this place I will be working at soon, once I settle the issue of retaking this online test that glitched. Mon-Thurs with $10/hr for 3rd shift. Nifty.

 

It involves testing or making gas meters. Seems easy.

[Major Dash]

Today I got offered an internship at Oak Ridge National Labs for the summer working in the dosimetry department.

[Tesset]

ITT: Jobs.

 

Got an onsite interview on Friday for an internship. Gotta sign an NDA before I go, plus some other stuff. It feels weird to have to do that.

[champion]

Adding to the pile of job-related posts, just got officially signed on for working in a student services office at my school and got my hours. I have no idea what I'll be doing, I think just answering emails and talking to people about on-campus housing stuff. I'm just glad that my previous supervisor/boss from my tour guide job seemed to like me enough to give me that position for the rest of the school year. And hey, if I like it I can probably do it year-round next year. It'll be interesting working in an office, never done that before. I'm sure it'll lose its interesting-factor very quickly though.

[Blake]

Got my one-month unlimited Eurail pass in the mail today. Only 19 days left, I'm more excited for this than I am to graduate in 2 weeks :D

[Estonian dude]

I have been up and about for about 40 hours in a row right now.

The Walpurg night, most important night for fraternities in here.

I am absolutely dead like a corpse, I can't do anything.

[Duff]

My group presented our Minesweeper clone today. Went really well. So I felt like I was on top of the world all afternoon.

 

Graduating in a little over a week. [bleep].

[champion]

My roommate has his girlfriend from back home over for the night, so I am currently being sexiled. Some Friday nights are better than others, my friends.

 

Edit: for clarification, this is not one of those better nights.

[Tim]

I have just woke up. I'm hungry and thirsty and really don't wanna walk 2km for hangover food ._.

[RpgGamer]

My roommate has his girlfriend from back home over for the night, so I am currently being sexiled. Some Friday nights are better than others, my friends.

Edit: for clarification, this is not one of those better nights.

Not with that attitude it isn't

[Low Levelled]

Ate Buffalo Wild Wings and watched Black Hawk Down with my roommate. #merica

[RpgGamer]

Watched Atomic Cafe. I feel sick

[Tim]

yay, the flu's going around like crazy. :<

[nine naked men]

it's cold as balls. legit worried about catching frostbite at work, the loading bay is like an icebox.

 

also i bought a hotspot shield subscription so i can watch hulu and netflix and shit, and now i can't just search current temperature on google because it tells me the weather in san jose or whatever. it takes me like an extra 3 seconds to type in my town and then convert it to celsius and that's messsed up

 

i'm p. much constantly pumping that how could this happen to me simple plan song, cuz it's kinda ruined my life

[Estonian dude]

I [bleep]ing hate what a wuss I am.

 

Also, I have pulled a muscle on my back and it has hurt for a week now.

 

I have 2 exams next week.

 

I have really important bball games this weekend.

 

I have 2 euros of cash and no bank card.

 

I am pretty [bleep]ed.

[Ginger_Warrior]

I [bleep]ing hate what a wuss I am.

 

Some of what this guy says is tenuous (to say the least) but there are some videos, like this, which are very good at illustrating the basic principles of successful attitudes and mindsets. I think you really need to listen to this video.

 

You are not a wuss. You are acting wussy. There's a very important difference. People in this world are in far, far worse positions than you. That's one of the few things you can guarantee in life. Nobody is going to rescue you out of this mindset, it's your responsibility to attack the day. No bugger else is going to do it for you.

[muggiwhplar]

He likes being a wuss though. It's very comfortable and safe.

[Ginger_Warrior]

I feel like we're running through the plot to DodgeBall here. Same principles, though.

 

Set yourself no goals and don't take chances? You won't ever lose, I guess. Congratulations.

[Randox]

Probably different for people that can't see hidden posts, but Saq, you are the top post on this page and the last for me. What happened between those two posts?

 

Was trying to remember when I was last posting here, and I realized that I never got around to posting something, which might be part of why I've not really posted in...two weeks or so.

 

A couple weeks ago or so my grandmother passed away (not quite in her sleep, but probably too swiftly for her to know what was happening) at the age of 93. A mighty old age to make it too, but almost young when you consider that her mother died days shy of 104 and was still sane (stone deaf, but all there upstairs) when she passed. It was not expected. For us, or we think, for her. Anyway, that's been difficult. Still is sometimes. I have however made a new addition to my collection of stuffed animals. Years ago one of my cousins boyfriends gave her a big stuffed dog, and my grandmother loved it, and that's been passed to me (he's actually on the bed right now because he doesn't fit anyplace else).

 

Then of course easter and exams, so lots of fun, though all the time with family is actually pretty nice. My cousin in Australia even made it home for a few days (she only went back like 2 weeks before that after her and her husband being in Canada for a few months). For only the second time ever, every cousin of my generation who is currently alive was in the same place at the same time (first time was for grandmother's 90th birthday). That's something that might never happen again.

 

 

In less depressing news or whatever (none of this is really news, so I'm not sure why I said that), it's now may which I think means most of the shows I like are wrapping up their seasons. I don't typically watch the new episodes until the season is done (because I tend to binge watch them), so there is a whole lot of new material coming my way. I also found the show Warehouse 13. It's a bit goofy, but I definitely like it. Might even be a good warm up if I ever decide to watch the X files. I've also been watching From Dusk Till Dawn and The 100 on Netflix. Loving both of them, though The 100 takes the cake hands down.

 

I also managed to stumble onto two new songs I like at the same time. I only listen to the radio (and thus hear new music) when I drive, and I don't own a car, so this is actually a notable event for me  :D

 

Hey Brother - Avicii

San Francisco - The Mowgli's (actually heard that on the radio in Sims 3 and figured out what song it is)

[Bows]

Lol I'm here again.

[Low Levelled]

Is an I am the walrus. No longer want to be a baanana beause now I am the walrus and warussssses are better than are the bananas

[RpgGamer]

New 24 season looks to be watchable.

 

Classes are over, I've got one final and three 10 page papers to bang out and I am officially a BA of Psychology.

 

...not much else to update I suppose. Things are going pretty well for me. Blossoming relationship; all my friends are returning from college; camp fire season; still jobless but with plenty of minuscule offers; beard game still strong...

[champion]

Keep us updated on the job front. I'm aiming for a BS in psych and I'll probably do grad school, but I'm curious what job you can get with a BA.

[Bows]

So I guess I'll actually update you guys on the past year or so of my life.

 

For those of you that forgot, I'm Zach. So, hi. Nice to see you all again.

 

I think you all knew that I moved down to Southern California and got a job at Disney. I met a girl there, and we dated up until about two weeks ago, and I'll get to the break-up in a bit. I worked at Disney until October, and I got a job as a manager at a Corner Bakery Cafe about 20 minutes from me. Worked there for a while and got another job at nights serving at a Red Robin. Alex (my ex) wasn't working at the time and would stay at our apartment we had together. Worked two jobs until... last month actually.

 

Alex and I were good for a long time but slowly I started to become unhappy. I felt I was putting in a lot more effort than she was when it came to the relationship ON TOP of working two jobs for sometimes 18 hours a day. Life was rough, but I pushed through.

 

The break up was kind of mutual. I wanted to be happy and she wasn't making me happy, so she understood.

 

Allow me to tell you about last weekend, since it was crazy.

 

I went out on a Saturday night and blacked out. Probably the four shots of Fireball. Told Alex I wasn't coming home. Slept in the same bed as a girl from work but we didn't hook up. Go to bed at 8 AM. Wake up at 9:30, come home, doors are locked and no key. Damn. Thankfully the neighbor has one. Get inside, shower, wait for my friend Johann [Yo-Hawn] to come get me so we can go out again and celebrate a birthday. I'm down as [bleep] for this.

 

We're in the car. Newport Beach/Huntington Beach here we come. We get to American Junkie, they check our ID's and we go inside.

 

[bleep]. $15 for brunch and bottomless mimosas? 

 

10 Mimosas later, we head to another bar. Johann and I are wasted, Katie, the birthday girl is also wasted. 18 shots for the group of us. All for free because I know the bartender. The place is called Sharkeez; it's a Hipster Hole, but oh well. Black out there. Don't remember much, aside from Johann and I clapping to literally every song that came on, whether we knew it or not.

 

We stumble across the street to this bar called The District. I'm holding hands with Katie's equally hot sister, Sarah, to get her in. She's 19. We got in, Katie immediately spills my beer. I call this woman at the jukebox a [bleep]ing [bleep], then repeat it to her again to make sure she heard me. I put on Calvin Harris' "Summer" because why not. Fast forward 30ish minutes. Katie spills my beer again, but gets me a vodka red. All is forgiven. Close tabs because Katie says she's not feeling good. Stumble out.

 

No DD. Shit, we did NOT think this through. Walk with my hand on Sarah's butt because I'm a gentleman, obviously. Get to her car, she's driving even though there's no way she's sober. Katie is in the back seat laying down across them with her cousin Chris holding her head up. This girl is so far gone. I hold Katie's hand to keep her alive. I thought I was smart for doing that I guess?

 

We make it to Katie, Sarah, and Brea's house. (Three sisters, all equally as hot as the other.) Katie plops down on the couch and passes out, I head to Brea's room and lay down with Sarah, and we pass out. Chris goes to Sarah's room and passes out. Two hours pass.

 

Brea comes home, wakes us all up and looks at me and asks why there's cilantro, tortillas and chicken all over the floor in the living room. What the hell? I don't know. Call Johann because he's not there and he's my bro. Riddle solved, he got El Pollo Loco -- didn't save me any, but whatever. 

 

The sisters and I are sitting in the living room, all still drunk, attempting to put the pieces together from the night before and the afternoon. Check phone logs, we called other people at random times, texts that weren't supposed to be sent were sent, snapchats were screenshotted and Instagram was flooded. 

 

It's now 9:45. Alex is calling me. Brea takes me home, we break up, she moves out the next day. And now here we are. A few drunken nights at home later. I am but a simple man.

 

EDIT: Forgot to mention that Chris puked and pissed in Sarah's bed. Hilarity ensued.

 

TL;DR: Read it. RPG will be proud.