Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic Friday 11/17/06 chat

Well, it's technically Friday (even if its still early!); thought I'd start this week's chat.

Nothing exciting on my agenda this weekend, although bright and early this morning (5:45) I realized I'd be spending some time fixing my darn garage door that decided to not go down.

Beyond that just simply spending time with my dad and daughter (a treat in itself!)

What are the rest of you doing?

Julie
(Go Bears!)

I'm hoping to go bowling tonight with a few friends (the same friends from the last two weekends) and the guy who gave me his phone number at the election a couple weeks ago.

Then, tomorrow, I've got a massage appointment at 11:30, and after that I think I'll write some stuff, do my homework, all that rigamarole.

Sunday is church, as usual.

I need to clean. Yuck.

I have this girl from Slovakia staying with me for the weekend

Hi hope to finish up my season 4 DVD's... and I also need to clean Lisa (probably because I've been watching too many DVD's...)

Other than that, not much.

Hope you all are having a wonderful Friday!

-- MR

For once, I actually have some pretty cool things planned for the week-end.

It's a short work day today. This afternoon, the bosses are taking us "out" -- we're going to see Happy Feet all of us together. Cause our software was used heavily in making this movie. I love going to movies then, I get this cool little feeling that I had something to do with the movie. Small little something, mind you, but still. I'm hoping they have our company logo at the end of the credit, that would be awesome. HR girls said they didn't know... we'll see!

Saturday I'm going to the opera with my dad. I'm real excited, cause this is one opera I've never seen "live" before. La Traviata. It's a beautiful story.

And Sunday... well, I have a few things that I promised to do (like finish some 3d images and there's an audio fic that I really need to finish recording and edit... I'm being so completely unreliable with this project! It's just cause I keep starting over cause there are so many words I sound stupid saying... You have no idea how idiotic I sound when I say "little" - for the life of me, I cannot pronounce that properly!!!!)

Of course I need to find some time for NaNoWriMo somewhere in there (still going strong and quite pleased with where I am!) and I'm also going to need to work from home and run tests for the developpers that are coming in the office over the week-end...

I'm not sure I'll find time to sleep. I hope so.

Have a great week-end everyone!!!

Hmm, I'm at work hoping that this guy I was training yesterday isn't going to come in today. He is one of those people who refuses to write down anything because he can remember it all in his head, yet he asks the same things over and over and over... and over and over again. AHHH!!! Just write it down!! LOL!

But... tonight I am going out with my boyfriend to see Casino Royale. I am interested to see what the new Bond will be like.

@Lara: I'm so glad you have continued Nano. I hope you make it to 50k!

(Only, 7.5 hours left till work is over! *groan*)

Ooooh! Have fun! ...and let us know what you think, cause I'm curious to find out. It looks like something I want to see, but I'm so not sure about a blond Bond...

So do I.

One word: FINALS. Bloo--er, wonderful quarter system that we have going here.

I've got 3 billboards to print and mount, 3 feature articles to print and mount, I finished a paper (yay)...and the vocabulary nazi springs on us that the art history final is open book.

I do not trust this at all. Not only does it sound sketchy (i.e. will she make the essays twice as hard or do something with the image identification to make it twice as hard), but if you spend five minutes with me, I'll tell you all about how collegiately lazy I think open book tests are. I want to crack a whip and tell the handful of undergrad whipper-snappers in the class to not get used to this!

Oh, and I have to clean. My mother's visiting on Monday. Why she feels the need to visit 2 days before I would have driven home for Thanksgiving anyway is beyond me. But she's so cute. She's dying to see the new place, and she wants to help me pick out a desk for my printers and such. I just have to make sure to hide the uh, pot, with which my roommate smokes out. Don't I just live with the most INTERESTING people? (I'll eventually move. I'm just trying to milk this thing out since this place is furnished so much nicer than my next place will EVER be.)

Oh, and I woke up sick. Something about Friday mornings and this pesky brain disease. But better Friday so I can work on finals the rest of the weekend!

Jen

Going home for Thanksgiving.

I spent the evening finishing painting the bathroom. Mostly because I didn't do it during the day and watched my Robin of Sherwood S3 DVDs, which had just arrived in the morning mail, and Ice Age 2 instead.

Miserable day. Winter is here with a vengeance. We've had high winds and lashing rain for six days straight and it's bitter cold. Today was one of those really dark days, when you have to have the lights on. Which is always kind of strange. And I didn't even have the ingredients for veggie soup! :p We even had a few tentative flurries of snow for ten minutes before it gave up and went back to rain.

Oh and minor highlight of the day - now that I've finally got my beloved Mozilla Thunderbird back in action - was watching a ton of spam dl into my inbox and then watching it being whipped away and dumped into the junk folder. <happy sigh>.

LabRat

Ok... you guys have to go see Happy Feet. It's WAY too cute to miss.

And it'll make you believe that all it takes is one little penguin to make the world a better place.

Seriously.

(back to your regular programming... and I'm... ah... off to bed, cause I can hardly stand up anymore. stayed up until 2 AM too many times this week!)

I need something to cheer me up. One of my 14 year old students decided to happily tell me that she snuck out of her house at 2am and had unprotected sex twice with her 16 year old boyfriend. Oh, but it's okay, she tells me, because he has a good job at Carl's Jr. and will take care of her and the baby just like he takes care of his other baby. She turned in her test completely blank except for her name (excuse me, her first name and his last name) because she spent the period making a list of possible boy and girl baby names. It breaks my heart that all the effort I've spent in building a bond with this girl and trying to veer her off the path I could already see she was on has done absolutely no good.

Hah! Don’t feel rushed on the ones you promised me. (Although I would really like to see those changes on the Purple Pixie. She’s awesome.
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Don’t you just love that?
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I always wondered what the point was. I think I only had that in a couple of classes at most. Of course you still have to be familiar with the information, or you can’t find the stuff quickly.
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I had to giggle. My mom wouldn’t recognize it for the world. And no, I’m really not exaggerating. If it’s actually a plant, she’d probably comment on what a lovely plant it was and could she have a cutting to start her own… You think I'm kidding? She used to call our dog (now dead) her JoyBoy. Until she was informed otherwise, she was absolutely clueless as to what this meant. Hey, she just meant that he was a nice dog.
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But LabRat, you live in Scotland. I thought I’d heard you say it always rained there. Of course, high winds and rain that is lashing does make it quite a bit different.
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Oh, man, that’s so sad. I used to work in obstetrics, and I’ve seen so many girls come through who felt like this. Of course they were in no way prepared for labor. And even less prepared to take care of a baby. The youngest pregnant patient I ever took care in labor had just turned thirteen.

Aren’t you the one who dances on her desk for her students or some such?
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Me, I had a job interview Friday afternoon. I’m excited. Everybody keep your fingers crossed for me because I’ve been looking since June, and I’m getting desperate. I might have to go to work at McDonald’s. Hah! They’d probably just tell me I’m overqualified, too. Just exactly how can someone be overqualified for a job?

Yeah. Not today, though. I spent the last hour of school on the edge of tears and completely broke down after my last student left the room.

Sorry to read that groobie, it must be really hard. One of my friends had some school-related issues too this week. Teaching is hard.

Sigh. Though not like that I didn't have much of a good friday either. I dropped my electronic dictionary (super necessary for translation work and which I bought overseas) and it broke. Now I have to plunk down the money for a new one, work today was also not so hot. I hate presentations.

alcyone

Yes, sorry to hear this, Groobie - but also *so* impressed that you care so much about your students. The world needs more teachers like you.

Me, I survived root canal treatment this week. I can report, absolutely honestly, that it doesn't deserve the fearsome reputation it holds. Yes, it's not the most pleasant way to spend an hour of your life, but it. does. not. hurt. It doesn't even hurt after the painkillers wear off - your jaw might be a tiny bit stiff and your gums a tiny bit tender, but that's all. So anyone who's been told they need it, but is putting it off because they're scared of the pain - don't. Make that appointment and go. Now. Okay? /me applies stern look to any procrastinators out there.

Yvonne

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That's what I heard about my spinal tap.

But for now I'll believe in your root canal experience. I'm just putting off dental work as long as possible. They've been clammering to pull out things like wisdom teeth, or to bridge these pesky 4 front teeth that are weak from one too many dental surgeries...They can all stuff it until something actually falls out. :p

JD

Nope, I didn't think it hurt, either. I think it's more about the dread and the time it takes.

Hey, Shadow, speaking as a nurse, I'd like to shake who ever told you that a spinal tap doesn't hurt. I've yet to see anyone who thought that it didn't hurt. I mean, come on, they are sticking at least a six inch needle into your spinal canal. Now why wouldn't that hurt? I've seen people who thought it hurt less than others but never anyone who thought that it didn't hurt at all.

Well, my weekend plans just drastically changed. Found out my grandmother died and now I'm helping my dad frantically find airline tickets, hotels, car, etc (all during a holiday week)... at least all my playing around on the internet is helpful in doing this!

So, that's apparently my plans for next weekend too!

Yvonne, glad to hear your root canal went well.
Groobie-so sorry to hear about that; but glad to hear there are some great teachers who care like you still out there.

Jo