The Testingtard's Lament: Boo-Hoo-in' Revolution

[uraniun235]

you really are the johnny-come-lately of testing aren't you


(naw just joshin' it's all good )

[adr-admin]

nerd discovers social conditioning

yeah i'm a regular christopher columbus of late

[starku]

man the lol about being old and having a changing perspective

is that heaps of people are hugely resistant to change and thus never grow up

it is a lol

[Bob the Gunslinger]

he quit that ages ago

like back before adr's server shit the bed

Man. That's rough. I would kind of like to know his reasons.

I'm a sub right now (because no district around here is hiring, except for teachers just laid off by other districts), but I'm already getting enough classroom and office experience for my idealism to wear off, and I'm really starting to question why I'm still trying to be a teacher when I could be making more somewhere else and not have to deal with quite as much bullshit. I was enjoying reading Red's posts because he seemed jaded, yet he still saw the value of teaching and had (I thought) found ways to navigate the system and come out okay. It's always nice seeing someone else deal with the same crap, I guess. Oh well.

[RedImperator]

Layoffs and burnout intersected.

Sure am glad I went to grad school.

[Nietzslime]

my life is fairly interesting

[starku]

tell me more newah

[RedImperator]

Flat tire on the New Jersey Turnpike, blarg. Is the best part spending a hundred bucks for a new tire on a car I intend to replace in a few months, or is it the fact I had to take a hundred bucks out of the new car down payment fund to do it? Maybe it's both!

[Nietzslime]

tell me more newah

i'm going to be honest

and this is going to sound lame

until i'm more clear about the legality of some of my current activities i feel it would be wisest to refrain from bragging about them

but i had a month wherein the least dramatic weekend involved me hosting a wake that went off the rails and one of my roommates leaving cryptically threatening messages on milk jugs

in pedestrian but important to me news i applied to ubc and plan to move to vancouver

and in trivial but distracting venting news i have a pinched nerve thing on my right ring finger that's driving me up the wall

[starku]

oh wow

off your face with an oil marker

truly a milestone in western culture

[Nietzslime]

off your face with an oil marker

i am not familiar with this expression

[starku]

well look

i'll see you at 24

:V

[Aaron]

Sniffing sharpies?

[starku]

look where he is

i don't think he has the perspective to meaningfully discuss his experiences

my only advice is to have a great time

and don't write ANTYHIGN down

and i'll see him at 24 lol

[Veef]

my mom's still at the hospital recovering from knee replacement

and she's driving my father crazy and he's getting mad and i'm getting mad

and the little puppy chewing on things and peeing on the floor is making every madder

anyone disconnected enough from me through distance and internet acquaintanceship levels wanna talk for a bit

[Oxymoron]

Vent it all, bro. Share the pain.

[starku]

Dog easier to train than parents

[Nietzslime]

look where he is

i don't think he has the perspective to meaningfully discuss his experiences

my only advice is to have a great time

and don't write ANTYHIGN down

and i'll see him at 24 lol

well actually i had prepared a longer post which went into more detail

wherein i considered that my current experiences are just interesting compared to my previously fairly sheltered existence

but the numerous, variegated, and distinct qualia of just the past month have gone above and beyond of not only my own experience but those of most people i am familiar with

so i have begun to consider that it might be interesting not just to me but in a general sense compared to most people at my stage of life

at the very least i am accumulating fun anecdotes from the fringe of society at an accelerating rate

but the point is that my sketchy activities are both more interesting and grander than cough syrup's

[Flagg]

Dog easier to train than parents

Get less time for putting in freezer, too.

[starku]

The lol is really that a lot of people grew up without realizing how close they were to all kinds of rich experience

Most of the people I work with have never had any truly strange experiences

[Veef]

i got this vupoint wand scanner

and i scanned a picture of me and my first dog and put it on FB

and i cried a bit

[Oxymoron]

Well, shit. That'll take more than a litre or two of cheap booze to shake off...

[Veef]

I don't drink

I buy robot toys from Japan instead

[Oxymoron]

(this is were I remember I'm totally inept at "serious" social interactions)

[starku]

man veef you know your giant wall of $200 robits

i had to dust sinanju the other day

and i was like

man this cost nearly as much as one of veefs awesome veritechs