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Post by Soff on Jan 1, 2015 22:08:04 GMT
Buuh, getting sick sucks!
Thanks, Tea! Happy new year!
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 2, 2015 1:08:10 GMT
Emily and Ally got their now annual New years greeting from their website in the form of "Shoutbox expired". We're off to a good start!
But seriously I'm in a pretty decent place these days so being a bit sick is ok. It's sure to be an interesting year for me. Hope you all have good times too.
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Post by Soff on Jan 2, 2015 17:34:18 GMT
Yay! Interesting is good. I guess my year should be interesting, too. I really really should get a job, and I'm really really anxious about it. I kinda don't know anything about how to go about it and I'm kinda scared to ask, too... I look forward to it, though. Also, I really should do the thesis. I don't wanna have done the whole course to end up without a degree.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 3, 2015 14:10:29 GMT
My school had a very good career services department whose entire job was helping graduates get jobs. I leaned on them pretty hard for a while for job-getting advice and help. I don't really know if you have the same thing available.
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Post by Soff on Jan 3, 2015 21:36:07 GMT
I don't want to do what I studied. I don't even know what do anthropologists that don't want to be scholars do. And I don't want to be a scholar. I'm gonna try to get something that lets me draw... and if that fails, I'll see what the hell can antrhopologists do. Probably get a decently paid useless desk job, I guess... if you're lucky it won't have very horrible ethical implications. I should ask my animation teacher if there's anywhere he knows that I could apply to. Next week when I have class, I'll ask. Now, the thing is he's a good guy, but pretty jaded and he will surely tell me that there's nothing good here and blah blah blah. I'll try anyways and then try sending portfolios anywhere, too. I'm just so very anxious about it. It's the first time in around 20 years that my year doesn't start with me knowing what is it that I'll be doing most of the time the whole year. And the first time I won't be mostly "just studying". As I said, I look forward to it. But I'm also pretty scared of not being able to move forward.
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Post by Tea on Jan 15, 2015 20:33:11 GMT
How is everybody?
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 16, 2015 1:26:15 GMT
Busy. Still doing long commutes to work, house sitting, also I broke a tooth and am between appointments for some spendy dental work which is a bit of a bummer. At least I have dental insurance now.
I'm beginning to settle in at work at least. Just need to move closer to work.
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Post by Soff on Jan 16, 2015 2:59:34 GMT
Ouch, how did you break your tooth?
Everthing's still the same around here. I'm a little less anxious and building my portfolio, I think... What about you, Tea? Are you still working with doggies?
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Post by X'o'Lore on Jan 17, 2015 15:32:22 GMT
I don't actually know about the tooth. It was just cracked apart one day and I ended up picking a small chunk of it out, thinking it was some bit of food stuck in in. It sort of ruined my day.
I hope the rest of you are holding out well.
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Post by Emily on Jan 21, 2015 9:23:21 GMT
argh! your poor tooth!
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 11, 2015 4:00:15 GMT
You ever wonder about it when you get showed an apartment that you like and then when you ask to apply for it they tell you it's already taken? You'd think people showing off apartments would be more on top of such things.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 21, 2015 4:32:25 GMT
Moving tomorrow. Internet access may be spotty for a week or so. I'm not entirely sure what I'll do with no internet. I do everything on it.
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Post by Soff on Feb 25, 2015 4:20:46 GMT
Well, is it back already? How have you coped? No, it hasn't been a week yet... Or maybe you found the colorful real world out there (?!) when internet went off, leaving this place to finally die forever D:?! I've been away for a week in a house with the view of a lake. I'd like to live in a place with a lake when I grow up !
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Post by Tea on Feb 26, 2015 18:11:10 GMT
Become a fish?
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Post by X'o'Lore on Feb 26, 2015 23:30:43 GMT
I got internet as of...right now. Also, there are many lakes in my state. I've seen plenty of them and had many chances to partake of lake-based activities.
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Post by Emily on Mar 1, 2015 8:07:28 GMT
I went on holiday last summer to a place with a lake you can swim in, thats practically unheard of in the UK so it was pretty cool! for some reason we only really swim in the sea here...
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Post by Soff on Mar 1, 2015 18:06:07 GMT
I know! I'll take a mermaid course, and then I'll take it again backwards and then I'll become a real fish . Ummmh... But then I'd be at risk of becoming a saltwater fish and never be able to see a lake again... I have to think about it. I got to swim in the lake, too! Is it because they're too cold or is there any other reason you can't swim in your lakes? That sucks, though. I always feel attracted to bodies of water. Except... our river. Our river is not swimmer friendly, I think. I wouldn't try.
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Post by X'o'Lore on Mar 2, 2015 23:27:53 GMT
Some lakes can be pretty dirty and unpleasant to swim in, I guess. Around here lakes are all there is so all swimming is either in a lake or a swimming pool. Unless you count Great Lakes as "sea" but I'm pretty decently far from those and don't really know the ground rules for swimming in them.
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Post by Emily on Mar 8, 2015 12:47:51 GMT
i guess in the US you're much more likely to be a really ridiculously long way from the sea- like kewdle once told me she'd never seen an ocean. So lake swimming is gonna be more attractive?
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Post by X'o'Lore on Mar 9, 2015 2:40:24 GMT
First time I saw an ocean was only a couple years ago myself, so I can relate to kewdle on that. Any ocean is indeed very far from home for me. It seems a bit much to get on a plane and fly out just to go swimming. Anyway, lakes seems like they'd generally have an advantage of generally being much calmer waves-wise.
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