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Re: Vent Thread

Postby Qyot27 » Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:16 pm

While I'm not really one to talk since I've had to put any and all higher education on hold since the end of 2006, it would probably greatly help in the case of a community college to find one that actually aligns itself with local universities. The one I attended (even though it had expanded to a full four-year college a few years before I went there) has partnerships with a whole slew of universities in the state, but the most prominently highlighted partnership is the one they have with USF.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby lloyd9988 » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:15 pm

gotegenks wrote:i can't believe i posted here without seeing the massive college debate...

i think i am going to take a year off with a dead end min wage job saving up, i think it might be too late to get into an ideal school at this point anyhow.
also, i did community college the past year (i'm a year out of high school) and it was just meh. Was thinking a regular university would be different but i feel like it's something i can't go into half-assedly or lethargically if i'm going to be successful at it.


So we both have the same idea, then.

However, I think I was talking with my brother about this, and despite how much he pushes me to go to a university, he did say something that was helpful :awesome:

"Do the thing that will save you more money down the long run"

Basically, go to a university if you believe it'll save you more money and you can finish it on time. I don't really know much myself since I'm in the same position as you but I know that I want to go to a university and come out of a university with a degree I like and a job that I enjoy and see myself doing for most of my life. :P Well. . . I'm glad, at least, that I'm not the only one who is thinking the same thing :P
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:31 am

Although I had a fun day out yesterday, I just can NOT take this heat. My friends and I went to Madison and up to State Street. I've never been there before, so when my best friend said, "walk State Street," I did not realize that this meant parking in a distant garage and trudging up inclines in order to get to a long sun-baked street. It was in the upper nineties, and out-of-shape, fat-ass, low-tolerance-for-heat kind of person that I am, I was pouring buckets of sweat before we even decided where we were going to eat upon arrival. It was the stifling kind of heat where you feel like you can't breathe, and trying to climb hills really does take your breath away on top of that.

Then, of course, when I'm overheated, I can't eat anything, and so I ended up getting a mango smoothie and that was about all I could manage. All the while, I'm trying really hard not to get angry at my best friend, because she didn't realize that I didn't know State Street's setup, and it's not like she purposely picked a hot day. So, attempting to keep all of the irritation out of my voice, I simply said that if she wanted to do this again and it was similar weather, count me out.

I just hate when something you can't control ruins an otherwise perfectly great outing. I looked and felt disgusting all day after that - and that was pretty nasty, because I was out until 3:00 AM due to attending a midnight showing of Spider Man.

I really fucking hate summer. Give me bitter cold winter any day.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby Ileia » Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:37 am

dj_ultima_the_great wrote:I really fucking hate summer. Give me bitter cold winter any day.


A million times this. Our apartment has been an average of 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the past week. Right now it's 12:36am and 101 degrees. I am absolutely miserable and I can't do anything about it. :down:

I'll take one blizzard, please.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:08 am

You're in the Chicago area, right? So you're getting the same weather as me, pretty much... except probably worse, because big cities friggin' suck like that.

You know, back in the old house, before the central air was fixed last summer, I used to do this thing where I would take one of those gel packs that you put in the freezer and use for icing down injuries, and I would wrap it once in a towel and then just sit on it. (That was the lowest maintenance way I could think of to use it, since it doesn't really require re-positioning or balancing on the back of the neck, etc.) It helped relieve some of the misery. Of course, it only lasts about an hour or two, but we had a bunch of the things.

...reading that back to myself, though, it sounds a little weird. Icing down my ass for weather relief. :?

Hey, it worked.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby Ileia » Wed Jul 04, 2012 1:14 am

Right now, my best defense is drinking lots of icy water, frequent cold showers, and these:

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...you know things are bad when you turn on the water spigot and it's already hot....so you have to wait for the water to get cold. XD
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby Castor Troy » Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:46 am

...it's so cloudy here in CA.... :uhoh: :uhoh: :nose:
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby lloyd9988 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:15 pm

Hmm. . . I know this might sound like a dumb idea, but I think there needs to be a reverse in time schedules for workers during the summer:

i.e. Let them sleep in during the day and work at night. Pretty much let them buy out solar panels to run electricity and ventilation systems in their house while they sleep and let them earn money by working at night. At least, so people don't have to go out in this damned heat and they can probably profit off of it as well. . .
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby MycathatesyouAMV » Wed Jul 04, 2012 12:27 pm

Holy crap, I would be one happy camper with all those freezie pops.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby Chained(E)Studio » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:31 pm

Hmmmm.. people -_-
Now to go back to work ://
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby dj_ultima_the_great » Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:18 pm

Couple of things for me...

One, my computer has done the restarting thing a couple of times today. That doesn't bode well. Setbacks in my paychecks mean that it's still going to be a couple of weeks before I can afford a new rig. I really need this thing to hold out for a while yet...

Two, my feet. My goddamn, dumbass feet. Without going into too much detail, I haven't been able to wear a "normal" pair of shoes for about three years. Namely, women's shoes, of any kind. I have several pairs of high heels that I have never worn because my feet got screwed up right around the time I bought them (but not because of them, I should note). What is making this into a vent now is that being on my feet all day for work is maddeningly painful. A couple of days in a row with long shifts and I'm almost in tears. I thought I would toughen up after six or so months, but nine months out and it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Doctors have been similarly useless.

Three, our internet is going to be disconnected in a few days. I thought we were past this shit, but apparently not. The trouble, according to Mom, is that all of the bills fall at the same time of month, whereas the rent should fall with her first paycheck and pretty much everything else should be on the second.

This leads to the fourth point of trouble. I had an ugly conversation with my mother today. I would like to think that is was enlightening and helpful for her, but she mostly just yelled and cried. The main ideas were that I'm not paying any more bills for her, she needs to stop obsessing over her medical issues, she needs to get a friend so that I'm not her sole source of communication, how much money she actually inherited and what she really did with it in detail, and most importantly on a personal level, how I asked to be treated like an adult years ago and she hasn't done it except to ask me repeatedly for money.

At the end, she seemed to accept and understand everything, especially that last bit, but who knows? I would like to remain optimistic, but if there's a cloud in the silver lining, God knows she'll find it.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby Radical_Yue » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:14 pm

I love my job. Love, love, love it.

I don't love my supervisor. She's a very nice person but her and I just don't get along. I don't like her methods and I don't like her as a manager. She's just very "for the company" but she likes to pretend she is for her employees. One of those people who asks you how you're doing but rushes out of the conversation as fast as humanly possible because they don't really care.

But whatever, I can deal with that. That's not my problem at all. I'll work for her but I won't respect her or try to connect with her. I'm totally cool with that and have been doing fine.

What I'm not fucking cool with is signing me up for fucking contests while I'm away. Normally whenever they have their little contests, I throw my entry form in the trash. I don't want any money or prizes from her, I'll do my job on my own. But this time I've apparently been assigned to a team so I can't fucking back out because other people are "counting on me" >__@

People always say "Hey! It's free money!"
That's lovely, but I don't want it. I'd rather keep myself distanced, come to work, do my job, and go home. I don't want her silly prize money. I'll earn it myself doing my own fucking job. I don't want to get any closer to her or the other people on my team than I have to.

I just went from a really awesome mood to incredibly annoyed which I think is making me way more pissed off than it should. But I don't give a fuck. Bitch killed my buzz. :down:
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby ZephyrStar » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:41 am

I hear ya.

It's just one of those inescapable things about working for any company, there will always be teambuilding exercises and stuff. And you'll get roped in somehow, some way. I wish sometimes that the world could understand that there are people who are perfectly happy to just sit in their cube and solve everyone's problems. Leave em alone, and that's when they are most productive. This is why I would kill to work from home again, I could get so much done.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:22 pm

Burned my tongue yesterday morning. It still hurts... a lot.
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Re: Vent Thread

Postby Radical_Yue » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:54 am

Mutemath is playing in Colorado Springs (where I live) on September 15th at a little bar not even 15 minutes away.

Why is this in the vent thread?


Because on that day I will be at NDK in Denver instead.

Which is not a bad thing, but damn it, WHY CAN'T I HAVE BOTH?! ;______;
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