Imponderable Water Cooler: Colder than Minnesota
POSTED BY: Mavourneen
UPDATED: Thursday, June 28, 2007 23:36
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Fear. Kinda dumb really. I've always loved her. She's always loves me. But the fear of losing each other is what kept anything from happening between us. We are not afraid anymore regardless of what happens. But I fear I may have fallen. There is always osmething really bad that happens when something good happens to me. I'm not sure what I am willing to trade for something this great, but I can say it is of infinate value. That is what scares me.
On the other hand I need to quit being such a puss and accept that this is my life and the happiness will not subside for anyone or anything.
ADD: Out for the day folks. I'll be sure to drop in between distracted work and training my staff tomorrow. Goodnight.
LIBERTAS SUMPTUS
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Finally got paid for the first time at my new job (it's monthly), only I busted my bank card 'cause I couldn't remember my pin number (having not used it in so long!), the bank was closed when I finished work so I couldn't sort it out, and still haven't got my pay slip yet! ACK! 
-- Gerry Shannon
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Quote:Hee... I'm still in the middle of typing it... *snikker*... is sooooo long...... Another something I'll probably keep to myself. Although, I am interested in what "outsiders" might think.... *hmmmmmmms*
Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:Quote:I say post it. Sometimes outside opinions can shake loose new ideas.
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
I was gonna post a big long ranty type thing / question about what some lawyers are trying to do to my industry cuz I'm kinda curious about how non-industry folk would view it, but figured no one would really care, so I gave up........
Quote:Ah-ha! Fanboys. Figures. Here is photographic evidence of my view of fanboys... Feel free to pass it on to them, CK. *giggles*
Without narrowing it down too much... Fanboys with PhDs who have more time than talent, and who think their PhDs entitle them to tell professionals how to do their jobs. Really, any professor who tells a professional practitioner how to do something should be smacked on sight.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sara013/390850218/in/set-7215759449290888
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Quote:Aaahahahahahah ahaah haa haa ahahahaha haha ha haha ehehheehe ehehehe hee hee hehe ehehe.....!
Originally posted by JonnyQuest:
An' if'n you really wanna rant, I can actually listen and not be a jerk for a change.
Oh, wait... was this you being serious?
(sometimes it's so hard to tell)
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Quote:
Originally posted by CaliforniaKaylee:
Fanboys with PhDs
Now you've lost me. I thought I could guess what this was all about, but the fanboys part just threw me for a loop. My brother just finished up with his PhD
(I refuse to call him doctor)...but he doesn't have enough time to be a fanboy of anything. He's horrible on anything pop culturish. He doesn't even own a tv he's got so little time on his hands. Maybe that's cause he was still in the process of finishing his PhD and now he'll become even more pompous and full of his own opinion. Still I don't see him becoming a fanboy of anything.Now I'm all curious.
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Originally posted by nvghostrider:
Fear. Kinda dumb really. I've always loved her. She's always loves me. But the fear of losing each other is what kept anything from happening between us. We are not afraid anymore regardless of what happens. But I fear I may have fallen. There is always osmething really bad that happens when something good happens to me. I'm not sure what I am willing to trade for something this great, but I can say it is of infinate value. That is what scares me.
On the other hand I need to quit being such a puss and accept that this is my life and the happiness will not subside for anyone or anything.
Well I'm rootin for ya.
My girlfriend just basically told me I make her sick.
So, to my now ex I say:
and good riddence.----------------------------------
"This world is a rotten mess. It really needs to be cleaned up." - Light Yagami
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Quote:!!!
Originally posted by zerokiryu:
My girlfriend just basically told me I make her sick.
So, to my now ex I say:
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Our relationship was on and off.
She liked to play a LOT of mind games, It was like the Joss Stone song "Snakes And Ladders".
For those of you who don't know, here are some of the lyrics:
99 1/2 it just won't do
You gotta give me all of you
Not asking too much of a heart that's true
So tell me...
Chorus
What's the name of the game that we are playing
But whenever I think that we are winning
Then you roll the dice take a slide
Right back to the one from 99
Is it gonna go on like this forever
Are we gonna to take that last step together
Going round and round and up and down
Feels just like snakes and ladders
Baby don't it feel like a carousel
Where all the world is rushing by
But when it stops you realize
That you're right back where you started at
I need a little more than that
It time for us to face the facts
Whether to be or not to be
That is the question so it seems
We're going nowhere in between
So tell me...
Chorus
Don't wanna play this game anymore
I gotta know right now for sure
What am I giving my heart for
Baby I need a little more
Don't leave me hanging on a string
Now that I gave you everything
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"This world is a rotten mess. It really needs to be cleaned up." - Light Yagami
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Quote:Man Zero, that sucks. *Hugs*
Originally posted by zerokiryu:
My girlfriend just basically told me I make her sick.
So, to my now ex I say:
Quote:Oh fine, make me explain while avoiding specifics...
Originally posted by Zeek:
Now you've lost me. I thought I could guess what this was all about, but the fanboys part just threw me for a loop. My brother just finished up with his PhD
Now I'm all curious.
(Had to re-write this. Fell asleep reading a Tim Powers novel and woke up writing oddly, heh.)
PhDs can be fans of lots of things, both pop culture things and otherwise. The degree itself is usually focused on a very specific area, so the person who got the PhD could be called a fan of that specific area, ie, someone with a PhD in Film Studies (if there is such a thing) could very well be a film-nut. From what I understand, as someone who decided against getting a PhD, PhDs tend to do a lot of reading, studying, and pondering, and after they are awarded their PhD, that studying may branch out into related topics, and they could potentially become a fanboy of those topics as well.
But here's the thing: with the exception of some sciences, every single thing a PhD could study was created by someone else. In the above example of Film Studies, the PhD didn't create the films he studies, he simply studies someone else's work. That was what made me decide against a PhD: down one career path I could create things, and down the other I could study and write about the creations of others. By nature I am a creator. I can't stand to go 24 hours without creating something, whether that's knitting or writing, or the creating I do for work. I get fidgety if I don't.
I don't have any problem with PhDs per se (and this was the confusing and offensive bit that led me to leave all this out earlier). I have worked directly with several people who after getting their PhDs moved into a creation role, and I certainly don't hold their education against them. I have also worked indirectly with PhDs whose research has produced either something tangible which aids the creation process, or some bit of knowledge that advances the state of the art of creation.
What I have a problem with are PhDs who write, research, and/or teach, and who have never created anything on their own in their entire careers, telling those of us who create every single day how we should go about our creating. In their opinion, we should listen to them, The Big Brains With The Big Degrees, because we are lesser, obviously stupider because of our lack of education. Research that helps the creator understand his art is one thing. Jumping up and down and saying "listen to me, I have a *doctorate*!!" is something else entirely.
Getting into my line of work is a cut-throat business, and only those who can hack it make it in the long run. I'm not saying that to sound better than the PhDs, but because it's the truth. If they think they could do a better job than me and my colleagues, they should give it a shot. Most wouldn't last a week. Hardly any would last a year, but those who did could have a career in it, if they could continue to hack it, continue to be better than everyone else gunning for their job, every single day until they retire. That's the job. And if they can't do it, they need to shut the
up.Edit: Was just looking at my profile, and realized that today is the 1 year anniversary of when I joined FFF.net! It seems like way more than a year, heh.
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Hi CK. *waves above her*
Sorry I don't have the brain wattage to read what you've written about PhDs.
I had a 1 hour phone interview with a local company that is rapidly expanding and needs people yesterday. Sounds extremely promising - and puts me more at ease about the job interview (that in comparison, I really don't want despite the buckets of money). I think I'd prefer to work at the second company. Much more laid back.
(And sorry to hear about your ex-girlfriend, Zero)
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I need a new job 
Hey all! I am just checking that I didn't break fff by posting pics. If it goes down you know who to blame!
Hello to everyone and all.
Lets b-b-que all the ex's. Girls, boys, jobs, apartments! Forsaken bon firePyre!
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