the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[dubkitty]

i'm telling you, when i graduated from high school in 1974--and i specify that i went to a white suburban high school lest someone mistake this as a racial comment--at least 50% of the student body was so fucking dumb that they couldn't do a thing with a book other than chew on the corners of the covers. and that was with middle-class honkies in '74, when schools still at least tried to teach. and nowadays, when they're trying to shovel everyone and their ADD-afflicted dog into university on the notion that a degree is the Path to Success (when all they're actually doing is devaluing the 4-year college degree to the value a high-school diploma had in the US in 1970: a certification that the bearer can read, write coherent sentences, sit still in a chair, and follow directions in the English language)...

[snipelfritz]

This thread is depressing me now. Thanks guys. So is the thought that I have another year of college left, but still won't have any kind of marketable skills afterward unless i spend another semester getting a paralegal certification I could have gotten in two years instead of the four and a half not including the year recovering from a mental breakdown.

Drowning my sorrows in wings and beeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

[dubkitty]

look at the bright side...you're still in the part of life where Major Importance means passsing a test, not having a house foreclosed or getting cancer. good times!

[theavondon]

look at the bright side...you're still in the part of life where Major Importance means passsing a test, not having a house foreclosed or getting cancer. good times!

WOO EVERYTHING SUCKS

[snipelfritz]

Exactly, I'm kind of enjoying being a total fuck off right now. I spent 20 years worrying about silly shit, and now I'm just taking it easy, getting drunk a lot and playing guitar a bunch.

[dubkitty]

seriously...enjoy relative lack of consequences as long as possible. in fact, extend that state as long as you possibly can without fucking up your karma irreparably. responsibility has its benefits, but it's a fucking bitch.

[dubkitty]

so now that i'm over 1000 posts and am FAMOUS, how many posts does it take to become a MILF? that would solve a lot of my problems right there. hell, if i could get welfare i'd never have to leave the house again.

[StudioShutIn]

so now that i'm over 1000 posts and am FAMOUS, how many posts does it take to become a MILF? that would solve a lot of my problems right there. hell, if i could get welfare i'd never have to leave the house again.

*snrk*
(laughing at the MILF comment, just so ya know... )


On an unrelated happy-time note,
I received alot of compliments at work today on a project I was assigned to in a field that I have very little practical experience in but seem to 'have a feel for'
(graphic design, btw..lest any of you folks try to make a funny at my expense )

[bob the r0bot]

my wit is quite sharp today

[tuffteef]

my wit is quite sharp today

like a ninja

[adrianlee]

Feeling good today. In a super writing mood. Have 3 riffs/ideas that with a little work could be great songs.

Full pedalboard and playing through a 10 watt crate solid state amp too!

[madmax1012]

those first-year courses in American colleges aren't there for the colleges to make money...they're remedial classes because most Americans come out of high school so ignorant that many can't write coherently and a terrifying number need practical math instruction as well as the basics of science, etc.

90% of American education is of lower value than having a library card. Fact.

This whole "no child left behind" thing is absurd. I work with a girl who's graduating from high school soon, and she's going to a local community college. Nothing wrong with that. I just finished 2 years at a community college because florida has this sweet law where if you do that, 4 year institutions will accept you. Anyways, she says some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard. She asked me how much homework/reading I have nightly, and from her reaction, I wonder if she's ever read a book in her life. She's asked me if New Hampshire is named after "hamsters". and maybe I'm just technologically a snob, but she asked me to help her with a powerpoint. Little did I know, she had no idea what a powerpoint was, but that she needed to do one.


Anyways, I had transfer orientation today. I can't wait to start over 200 miles away from home. I met a couple of people who have been interested in jamming, and actually enjoy the same music as me. And I visited my friends near my campus, and they HATE the guitarist in their band, so I might start jamming with them again. The bassist is probably the only bassist I've ever truly enjoyed jamming with, because we play off each other incredibly. I'd say it was a good day. And I think I'm going to choose something completely out there to cover my foreign language requirement. I'm thinking Russian? Oh, and I get to quit my job tomorrow too. Fucking can't wait

[dubkitty]

not to be painfully practical, but if i was going to learn a language i'd pick something that either had a practical application socially (which for US residents basically means Spanish, or French or German if you fancy yourself the Eurotraveler) or Business-wise (in which case you better get on the Chinese tout suite), or else learn a language of a country i really liked and wanted to hang out in (which for me would be Dutch). i fucking love Holland. the sun is at the right angle to the atmosphere that i don't have to fucking squint when the sun is out. the trees are deciduous. the texture of the soil in the non-polder areas reminds me of the soil in the US Midwest. everybody there drives just as daft as i do...they'll drive right at the fuckin' trams without batting an eyelash. and there are Van Goghs and Rembrandts up the kazoo. i'd love it there without the quasi-legal weed.

[warwick.hoy]

Played an Epic set,...Then Fist Pumped to RED FANG,.... Shot the shit for a little while with em and let em crash out at our rehearsal basement/

Those dudes were hella cool.

[Caesar]

David Gilmour playing Comfortably Numb with Roger Waters. Nick Mason joining them for Outside the Wall.

Very happy!