New Testingstan

It's only for a few months, though they have been hinting about keeping me there.

Real lament: my car hates me. The horn is shorting again; last time my mechanic didn't believe me, but this time I made him drive twenty miles in a car that spontaneously honks at everybody and I think the message sunk in. It'll be fixed tomorrow.

I picked up some extra training for TKD yesterday.

Patterns are hard to get right. My me hurts.

i think i fucked up

we have some people running for exec positions of the party's youth wing

and i'm not sure of the guy running for my position (who is from calgary)

myself, i'm standing for treasurer so he's not up against me

but basically the guy hasn't given me confidence he's interested in finishing the work i started, and the rest of the exec has worked on for the past year

he hasn't even given me confidence he will be around to do any job, because apparently he's applying for a bunch of jobs that require him to be non-partisan

which would mean to accept he'd have to quit the exec leaving us short a key person in a crucial year for getting some shit done


anyway this is something that hasn't been resolved and it keeps coming up again and again and again

and tomorrow is the deadline for nominations

i have two ladies here in edmonton running for the northern regional director position and they are both amazing and i'd love to work with them for the next year because they're super into it and motivated etc etc but they're standing for the same position and honestly i don't expect the unsuccessful candidate to be very involved in the next year (but would be very nice)

and the most important thing is that they are both ready to commit to the year, putting this project on their own priority list

so i asked one if she'd consider running for my current position instead

i let the presiden know and he's friends with the other guy so he can't be publicly supporting anyone but he's not encouraged by his actions either so he's given tacit support to the idea (less than tacit to me in private but y'know)

now my other friend on the exec, who i trusted quite a bit, has gone and informed the other dude (who is also his friend) that edmonton is planning on shutting him down, which is not actually the case

and now this dude is texting me asking what the fuck etc

i can brute force my way through the elections and have the candidates i want, in, but it's going to be messy now that my friend has put his personal feelings ahead of the organization's needs

they're going to make it personal, considering how personally they're taking it now

best part is nomination deadline is tomorrow at midnight so fuuuuuuuuck have to resolve this in just a little over 24 hours

so i think i fucked up how i handled it, but part of it is i informed my trusted friend who went on to tell his affected friend and now i don't know what story is being told out there which is probably painting me as an asshole out to get this guy


fuck

congrats on the new job B!

China should be an interesting experience, enjoy!

So I've realized this past week that I'm basically a hippy.

I've gone from a war obsessed conservative teen/20 something to a dope smoking pacifist who's equal rights for all. Free love, etc.

I'm not complaining, I know lots of Vets turn into hippies, just wonder were it all started.

Aaron wrote:China should be an interesting experience, enjoy!

So I've realized this past week that I'm basically a hippy.

I've gone from a war obsessed conservative teen/20 something to a dope smoking pacifist who's equal rights for all. Free love, etc.

I'm not complaining, I know lots of Vets turn into hippies, just wonder were it all started.

Have you seen The Men Who Stare At Goats?

Note that I don't know what I'm babbling about, but I'd suppose that having had a front row seat to witness by themselves the consequences of war may push some people to start reconsidering their worldviews.

So, yesterday, even if it was becoming a bit chill, everything was normal, the soil a melange of muddy brown and sickly green and the sky in its usual cover of depressively low hanging clouds.

This morning, I open the shutters, and everything is covered in ten centimeters of that icy white stuff falling down from the skies hanging closely above, the mountains surrounding the valley totally hidden by the white mist.


Gentlemen, brace yourself. Winter is coming.

Bounty wrote:

Aaron wrote:China should be an interesting experience, enjoy!

So I've realized this past week that I'm basically a hippy.

I've gone from a war obsessed conservative teen/20 something to a dope smoking pacifist who's equal rights for all. Free love, etc.

I'm not complaining, I know lots of Vets turn into hippies, just wonder were it all started.

Have you seen The Men Who Stare At Goats?

I haven't. Is it good?

Very good. Very weird, too. I was thinking of it mostly because it has a gung-ho conservative soldier going a bit... New Age.

Oxymoron wrote:Gentlemen, brace yourself. Winter is coming.

Quickly, we must commence running around and flailing our arms in the air uselessly!

I guess I'm the only one with a snowblower?

Thanks Bounty, I'm gonna see if I can find that today.

Oxymoron wrote: Winter is coming.

yes, thank you for explaining the reference

The funny thing is

I've never watched Game of Thrones.

Not even once, not even the littlest bit.



In fact, I don't think I've watched any series more recent than a few years back, except for Dr Who (of which I haven't got past the first half of Season 6) and MLP.

To be perfectly fair, having more or less totally stopped watching television may have had an influence over that. The format just bores me, when I'm not getting angered by the stupidity of it all.

By the way, Aaron, I really recommend you watch "The Men who Stare at Goats" if you can. It's really good, and pretty funny. You may like it.

dude you should watch game of thrones
it's pretty great

Oxymoron wrote:The funny thing is

I've never watched Game of Thrones.

Not even once, not even the littlest bit.

I personally just couldn't get past how much I just didn't give a flying fuck about the novels.

I tried to watch the first episode. Something about titties, a midget and cannibals?

I'm just not really into Heroic Fantasy. Not that I hate it, but I'm just not naturally drawn toward it.

Zod wrote:I tried to watch the first episode. Something about titties, a midget and cannibals?

The comments i heard about GoT amounted to "How much incest and murder rape can they get away with portraying on television ?"

i watched until they killed sean bean

if they had killed everyone but sean bean i might have considered watching more

but they did the opposite

soooo

Aaron wrote:I guess I'm the only one with a snowblower?

I just live somewhere that snow isn't even an issue.

evilsoup wrote:yes, thank you for explaining the reference

You're welcome, Brony scum.

RogueIce wrote:

Aaron wrote:I guess I'm the only one with a snowblower?

I just live somewhere that snow isn't even an issue.

What the hell are you two talking about?

I got my yellow belt today. I managed to skip the white belt with the yellow tip.

To celebrate; new comics!

Phantasee wrote:congrats on the new job B!

I concur. Have fun!