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Post by spikeloud on Apr 4, 2007 8:27:18 GMT -5
is that the same show that also said "whats the sound of one hand hitting you upside the head?"
sorta been in a "max headspace" lately
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tigrou
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Post by tigrou on Apr 5, 2007 6:40:56 GMT -5
Funny things in my life: I have 5 days left to finish my *badword* civil law paper and yesterday I discovered that almost everything I had written so far was complete *otherbadword* I have 6 days left before my Adorable Boyfriend forces me on a plane to spend my *badword* birthday with his family (and believe me, these people are snooty... ) and even thinking of planes makes me sick and the thought of his stiff British father (oh, did I mention that we [= AB and I] aren't allowed to touch at all in front of his parents, not even like brushing my hand over his back or something, I'm sure he won't even look at me) and the whole anti-German attitude of his family...ARRGH! But at the same time, the nervousness about the paper "kills" the nervousness about the family visit and my birthday and vice versa...I'm calm and collected, calm and collected, calm and..if I repeat it often enough it might come true... So, if anybody (you know who you are) finds the time to write a little story for April 14th, maybe with a little bit of Logan and mentioning of missing clothes or even a lot of Logan and no clothes at all...or is prepared to post a lot of nice ( ) screencaps (tans & Aerie, I'm looking at you) that day or just give a red balloon smiley... I would appreciate it. Modified to say: See what I do instead of writing my paper. I'm an idiot.
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Post by dzero on Apr 5, 2007 10:14:13 GMT -5
Modified to say: See what I do instead of writing my paper. I'm an idiot. But it was well written, you get an A+
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Post by intstebri on Apr 5, 2007 17:26:54 GMT -5
Warning: I didn't even check for mistakes on it, don't read just pass over. And NO I didn't feel better after! I found this thread, and need to use it to evacuate my frustation! I have a fabulous long file on Excell with now 180 titles of fanfictions, clearly write in order, with the author, the number of chapter, the source (FFN or other), the status, the writer's name, AND a wonderfull pretty nice little summary (writting by myself! in English! with care and passion.... The last time I sorted, I just **forget** to select the summary's column... So NOW I have this (mngmngmnngmnm) titles all in order with a complete mixed up summary... And! I'm a fu**ing** programmer, SO guess.. I don't have any backup of this file (in French we have the expression "shoe repair, bad shoes...")
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Post by mari on Apr 5, 2007 17:56:29 GMT -5
I have a fabulous long file on Excell with now 180 titles of fanfictions, clearly write in order, with the author, the number of chapter, the source (FFN or other), the status, the writer's name, AND a wonderfull pretty nice little summary (writting by myself! in English! with care and passion.... The last time I sorted, I just **forget** to select the summary's column... So NOW I have this (mngmngmnngmnm) titles all in order with a complete mixed up summary... And! I'm a fu**ing** programmer, SO guess.. I don't have any backup of this file (in French we have the expression "shoe repair, bad shoes...") Poor you. Computers are evil creatures. Just to be perfectly sure I understood you (I’m a bit dense today): You have a list of stories but don’t know the right summary for each one anymore? If so, how about we try to make the best of your bad luck and make a quiz of it? You post some titles and summaries and we guess which title belongs to which story? With the accumulated fic-knowledge here it shouldn’t be a problem to sort out your list. Hope this helps prevent you from doing this: Could you tell me the French idiom with the shoes please? I just like such things…
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Post by intstebri on Apr 5, 2007 18:12:11 GMT -5
Just to be perfectly sure I understood you (I’m a bit dense today): You have a list of stories but don’t know the right summary for each one anymore? Exacly! In fact, I have the summary, but not in front of the right title... worse, since I wrote that post, I realized than even the author is wrong, but fortunately its helping me a lot! If so, how about we try to make the best of your bad luck and make a quiz of it? You post some titles and summaries and we guess which title belongs to which story? NICE TRY! ! I have been writing this summarys since January, no-way! I'm gonna show my miserable English at this time! Hope this helps prevent you from doing this: No, sure, I just started to read it again! And for a lot of 'classic', it's pretty easy. Could you tell me the French idiom with the shoes please? I just like such things… It's "Cordonnier mal chaussé" (For somebody who work all day in computer, and tease the poor writers when they lost all their files... Back to read again "How keep my TWO feet out of my mouth"...
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Post by griever on Apr 6, 2007 8:22:42 GMT -5
I hope you manage to sort out the summaries, instebri. And if ypu can't, I'm all for mari's quiz thing. No need for more frustrated-and-trying-to-pull-hair-off-head people in the world (yes that would be me)...
Three freaking exams this month, all one after another. Darn it. And two weeks after the final subject, comes the mid terms.
*Imagine a lot of running around and freaking out NOW.*
Two assignments about the Australian Legal System and the Australian economic growth... GRRRR...
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Post by shywriter on Apr 21, 2007 14:44:25 GMT -5
An insider’s update on New Orleans: Warning: biased and limited to only brief glimpses of only part of the city, but filled with love and appreciation for the old girl: Laissez le Bon Temps Rollez! I had dinner in the French Quarter last night. It was the first time I’d been back to New Orleans since August. Then, even the relatively unscathed French Quarter showed signs of what Katrina had done to her: so many shops closed and gone, re-opened restaurants with shortened hours or with certain seatings altogether removed – one favorite restaurant, for example, now serves lunch only on Saturdays, but maintains a fairly normal dinner schedule. The dearth of service industry workers for the many hotels and restaurants, the mainstay of its premiere industry, tourism, has had its effect no matter how readily each business regained water and power and sound premises. But oh, the saddest, last August, was how empty it all seemed... But not last night. We walked out of our parking garage onto Bourbon Street and immediately walked into a mini- parade, complete with a conga-drum line and dancing girls with spangles and javanese -style pareo wraps and 3 foot tall feather head- dresses. There was a line of three horse-drawn carriages with expensively dressed couples throwing beads... ah, a private party, maybe? Whatever; tourists were lined up and weighed down with gaudy, magnificent beads, just as is it were mid-Carnival season. The rest of the street was busy too, both before and after dinner; crowded enough to brush shoulders with strangers and duck a thrown string of beads or two... Heaven. Almost like we’re back...Couldn’t stay for the rest of the weekend as I’d hoped, but that visit was like a shot in the arm. It’s hard to bring yourself to go to New Orleans these days when you’re working in one of the very few re- opened businesses on the beach, across the state line, and still pass piles of rubble which used to be homes worth a few million, pass broken signs and damaged trees still, barely, standing. I see enough on a daily basis that makes it really difficult to want to go to a town even more decimated, just to get “away from it all” -- no matter how much you love the place. But last night the smiles were back, the charm and nonsense and gaudy cheap fun were back, the exquisite food and spectacular service of of an old, world-renowned restaurant were back... and all of us breathed a collective sigh of relief before settling down to some serious, G-rated debauchery. And today, as I did my errands and shopping and all the weekend things, I wore proudly the tee shirt I’d bought last August, smiling all the while at its message: Re Cover
Re Build
Re New Orleans ~S~
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Post by dzero on Apr 21, 2007 15:56:42 GMT -5
What a well written post makes me happy to hear things are getting better
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Post by shywriter on Apr 22, 2007 0:44:34 GMT -5
Thanks, dzero (just a love story, even if not M/L!)
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Post by mari on Apr 27, 2007 6:55:50 GMT -5
Waaaahhhh, I just got the admission-confirmation for my magister-thesis (about the same as a master?) in the mail, to be handed in at the end of October. 6 months of me, the laptop and about 250 books…
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Post by intstebri on Apr 27, 2007 16:37:14 GMT -5
Waaaahhhh, I just got the admission- confirmation for my magister-thesis (about the same as a master?) in the mail, to be handed in at the end of October. 6 months of me, the laptop and about 250 books… Euh.. so... Should we congratulate? ... or light a couple of chinese lantern? ;D (in fact my real expression is: "allumer des lampions" that is used as say : we will pray for you.)
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Post by shywriter on Apr 27, 2007 20:28:05 GMT -5
Waaaahhhh, I just got the admission-confirmation for my magister-thesis (about the same as a master?) in the mail, to be handed in at the end of October. 6 months of me, the laptop and about 250 books… ...but... this is good news! It was what you'd been working for all this time... right? Sort of a good news-bad news, good it's been accepted but bad, now you have to write it...? ...wouldn't you just rather write some more DA for us, instead? ;D) Congrats!
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Post by Mia22 on Apr 28, 2007 0:48:43 GMT -5
Waaaahhhh, I just got the admission- confirmation for my magister-thesis (about the same as a master?) in the mail, to be handed in at the end of October. 6 months of me, the laptop and about 250 books… Umm congrats and crud all at once? ;D Well the good news is folks, she'll need her DA time even more as her brain tries to implode to save itself from the....Umm Mari, what are you studying/researching?
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Post by mari on Apr 28, 2007 16:05:27 GMT -5
Thank you all. It’s a tiny reason to congratulate for finally finding a supervising / examining prof who so far seems nice and interested, and for apparently filling out correctly the endless, terrible, highly bureaucratic application form.... a big reason for Chinese lanterns because this makes up 1/3 of my end grade and now the time is ticking away … Well the good news is folks, she'll need her DA time even more as her brain tries to implode to save itself from the....Umm Mari, what are you studying? I’m pretty sure my brain already has started to implode…. So if anybody has a left-over X5 brain, I sure could use it… Or some nice, brain-building story? ;D It's modern history (a completely use-and senseless subject, yes), the topic is a eugenic-discourse (some cool DA-connections, actually ;D)… Hey Mia, didn’t you say sometime that you had a certain aversion against the nature vs. nurture topic? I guess I’m a lucky person, since it seems to be a potentially unhealthy thing to drive down a steep and curvy street with massive rock on the one and a steep slope on the other side when a marten has nibbled holes into the brake hose and whatever steers the tachometer (which went completely crazy)…
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