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seperis ([personal profile] seperis) wrote2007-06-09 09:50 am
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life hard. want refund

Okay, distrubing moment of the weekend. Fell asleep at 7 PM. Woke up? 8 this morning.

*sad* I am getting old. I am only surprised [livejournal.com profile] amireal didn't send a worried email. *g* She now worries if she does not see me for twenty-four hours, I am dying in the hosptial.

Okay, question. For SGA/SG1 people. Can Ancients bring people back from the dead?

Unrelated but relevant:

1.) Obsessively playing sudoku does not, in fact, making fic editing go by faster.

2.) I forgot how much I hate editing even when I love reading the betas beyond all words.

3.) I want a pony.



I have a meeting on Monday evening that is making me tense. It's kind of the reason I've been tense and jumpy all week. It *could* be really really good, or it could be really really bad; it's a toss up. It's education-relatedish and frustrating and gah. It's--kind of. Hmm.

I have a choice. One of them is to formally deny all my education post-high school and start fresh. That's losing somethign close to 100 hours (I'm three core classes (10-11 hours) and an additional 18 hours non-core off from graduation). The other is--uncomfortable and possibly impossible. Monday I'm trying to introduce an option three, which is expensive and kind of inconvenient but doable.

I can do inconvenient.

I'm tempted by the formal denial one if for no other reason than it'll simply things. And this time through I know which classes that no amount of studying will make me good at. But I'd lose my GPA, which is about 3.0 and I kind of like it.

Need *nap*. I really feel like this entire encouragement by manager to finish my degree? Was totally a mistake. He finishes his masters and suddenly he is all about getting me off my ass. Bastard.



To round this out.

1.) I will forever be amused by the people talking about the evils of illegal immigration who I have *seen* picking up day labor on a daily basis. Seriously. That's just funny.

2.) I am always deeply amused by people who whine about how welfare is destroying American while receiving Medicaid and CHIP cards.

3.) Double that for the people that cleverly move all their considerable assets into trusts (and I'm talking about people in the one million area) so they can get Medicaid for nursing home care.

4.) Anyone, anyone, who calls in to explain how all those evil people are getting food stamps and don't deserve it nearly as much as they do. And their taxes support it! (this is most fun with people where I'm reading their case history and noting they've only held jobs that keep them not only below the income tax limit but also manage to continue to receive benefits.)

Sometimes, my job is very strange.

ETA: Going garage saleing and Barnes-and-Nobling, hopefully will have Martha Wells' Entanglement so I have guaranteed good reading for the plane on Friday. THEY HAD BETTER.

Ah, I think I see

[identity profile] justalurkr.livejournal.com 2007-06-09 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
And, yes. It does make sense to reduce hours in those circumstances.

Evaluating case by case? Are you applying logic to this? Haven't you been warned about that? ;)

Also, where do we sign up to move to Germany?

Re: Ah, I think I see

[identity profile] giogio.livejournal.com 2007-06-09 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*sigh* Yes the same logic I'm applying when I argue that the first step to stamping out a hell of a lot of social problems and poverty-driven crime would be to legalize, regulate and tax prostitution and drugs--I know it'll never happen because there are whole industries built around the illegality of them, but it's the only logical solution.

And I believe Germany is quite well-disposed toward immigration of educated, Westernized people these days--something to do with declining birth rates :)

Re: Ah, I think I see

[identity profile] justalurkr.livejournal.com 2007-06-10 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. You have shameless libertarian leanings, I see. Prohibition having worked [set SARCASM=ON] so very well, [set SARCASM=OFF] I can't argue with that, either. (Also, "licensed companions" are one of my favorite parts of Nora Roberts (writing as JD Robb)'s In Death series. Legalize, regulate, tax, and train them.

Unfortunately, I can't help Germany with their birthrate issues. Aside from the fact that aqui se habla espanol, I'm also generously allowing other women to have all of my children. The cats have refused to share my attentions, and I'm sure the other girls are much better at that motherhood thing.

Re: Ah, I think I see

[identity profile] giogio.livejournal.com 2007-06-10 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
*blinkblinkblink*

I always thought I was some weird socialist-existentialist-anarchist crossbreeding experiment gone awry when they added too many analytical functions :p

Re: Ah, I think I see

[identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com 2007-06-10 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah. But "libertarian" takes less time to say. Everything I know about it I learned from a book called "Libertarianism," but the one before that was "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do," which I think sums up the philosophy better.

Am v. drunk now on one and one half ounces of lemon rum and should stop (a) posting and (b) surfing the iTunes store. I'm going to be wondering where all of this music came from tomorrow...

night!

oh, and...

[identity profile] orange852.livejournal.com 2007-06-10 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
I also seemed to be signed in under my other personality. [livejournal.com profile] orange852 is usually more reasonable and grown up than [livejournal.com profile] justalurkr, but she also drinks a lot and spoils her cats.