Random thoughts and questions

The surgeon I'm seeing at Stanford is one of the best in the world at what he does. I'm not terribly disappointed in the wait, just anxious about the family politics bullshit cropping up in the meantime.

And sinnick - thanks. Honestly, I'm not reeling; we had at least the first part figured out almost two weeks ago. I'm just incredibly relieved that somebody's finally doing something about it.

I assume you got to tell your mom to fuck off in the SEE LOOK email. More or less.

I think I made myself sick with asparagus and milk today.

On the one hand, I really like both those things.

On the other I probably shouldn't have devoured them like a starving pigbeast, or in such horrible quantities.

I need pepto chalkmal.

She was at today's appointment, and she's flying back east for Christmas (with me in tow) and then back out here for my surgery. Not so much. :/

After 12 years I'm about to re-join the ranks of corporate whoredom.

It was a long protracted negotiation in the end; I'd assumed they'd make me an offer that'd turn my head to begin with, I had to almost beat a half decent offer out of them in the end.

The initial meeting was fun, it basically amounted to "we'd like to cut your earnings by 50%, when can you start?" followed by a hurt look when I told them what I wanted.

If I said it's for a bank, there is a good staff mortgage and I'm about 6 months away from having enough money to buy the house then I hope [current] fellow contractors/consultants wont hate me too much for taking the queen's shilling.

At least it wasn't jack daniels and a kebab

Why are there still portable 8-track players on the market?

Who's buying them? Hipsters?

Bad idea: reading a gynecologic textbook before going to bed. Too much dreaming about strangely colored bulging ovaries. <shudder>

Chapters 4-13: The Jaundice of the Irish.

Oh, Bossy Chicken.



Watch it in 1080p for MAXIMUM CHICKEN

Oh, Bossy Chicken.

How would one go about exercising a liver? Is that even possible?

One practices drinking, clearly. I've used that excuse for parties before.

I never like Star Wars to begin with and now I just watched the Holiday Special. Is declaring a blood vendetta a formal thing with a ceremony or can I just shout it while rending my clothes?

The way I look bugs me. My face is too soft to look male, so I look sort of asexual (at least, to me I look that way). Or maybe like a lesbian who's toward the butch end of the spectrum. I'm not happy about it, either way, and I don't know what to do about it. As I lose weight my face gets more angular and it's easier to pass as male, but right now I feel like a fat ugly boring-looking person.

(I am absolutely NOT trolling for compliments. It was just a random rant.)

Great band name.

Witnesses are required, but in the modern age a video of the shouting/rending posted here on BF and signed off by at least three members should suffice.

Firstly, perish the thought because no. Secondly, I could not see you doing that anyway. Thirdly, I find you attractive.
Fourthly, sorry for not adding anything to that really and uh, I hope you don't mind that confession? @___@ Sorry.

Fifthly, @Broken Forum can I say that sort of thing or am I crossing a line here..? I depend on you for social guidance.
Sixthly, ah right and that reminds me that i'm crushing on quite a few of our females. Aiyah.

Haircut can make a huge difference in the, uh, gender-shape? of a face. Just a thought? I dunno. I don't have a particularly feminine face, but the first thing people see is the hair.

*hugs Soli-chan * You're very sweet. And kind or adorable. :D

Well, mine's pretty short... I don't really want to go any shorter because it makes my face look weird. Maybe a different shape to the haircut? Not sure...

(I kid, I kid)

There are a disturbingly large number of knitted beard patterns on the internet. Why, I have no idea.

Knitters crave the beard.

Well there's always some classy jewelry instead. For the warmer months!

I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say that I think asexual faces can look very cute/sexy/sassy and you should love you because I love you and that is totally a good enough reason. I DON'T CARE IF YOU AREN'T TROLLING FOR COMPLIMENTS, YOU ARE GOING TO GET THEM DEAL WITH IT. <3
also you are not fat ugly or boring you stop that right now young man



UNRELATED: oh my god i'm spazzing out running around the house just screaming and cleaning and this is my brief break noooo i don't want him to come tomorrow noooo nooooo nooooo it's so expensive to use the bus oh my god...

In my gender-fuckery news, my mother saw that I had painted my nails. All she said was to clean them off for Christmas day when we see family. Which is fine because I couldn't be fucked dealing with them getting excited about things (even though most of them would be excited in a good way.) Walking into the gathering of family for Christmas is a never ending assault of shrieks of, "Oh you look WOOOONDERFUUULLL!" Which is enough to debilitate anyone with even the slightest hint of a misanthropic personality.

Four days off from work and no family or friends to visit.

The old ones are awakening.

It was just an afternoon nap, geez.

1080p usually refers to 1920x1080, does it not?

This appears to be 1080x1920.

Christmas eve is not that big of a deal in The Netherlands, but my parents wanted to go to a movie with the family. There wasn't really anything that matched the criteria (no kids' movie, nobody'd seen it yet, not too depressing) so my mom and dad decided to go to Skyfall without me and my brother. At first I felt pathetic for spending Christmas eve alone, but I just bought The Hive by Charles Burns. I'm going to crash on the couch with that and some chips, and I'm going to be a happy camper for the night! At one point I might raid the liquor cabinet and ask you guys what combinations will be the best.

P1080, then.

1) get a large tumbler
2) open every bottle
3) pour a splash from every bottle into tumbler
4) if there's any room left in tumbler, top off with fruit juice
5) drink as fast as you can, because it's probably gonna taste horrible
6) Merry Christmas!

Then I will be giving myself the best Christmas present ever, that cabinet contains: Baileys, port wine, some cognac, rum, whiskey and I'm pretty sure there's some vodka in the fridge. The Baileys/port combo will make it very interesting, very interesting indeed...

Ooh, I just had the best idea ever, vodka chocolate milk! I could even add some Baileys for shiggles.

Baileys pretty much is vodka chocolate milk.

Not enough chocolate! MOAR CHOCOLATE

But isn't it Irish whisky?

A bit of pointless trivia: one of my university's biggest claim to fame is that it played a large part of inventing Bailey's. I think their food department helped develop the enzyme that let the cream and alcohol mix.

Also, they have a post-grad course in brewing beer that's as secret as their lab where they breed mice for experiments. I think they have an issue with eco-terrorists getting boozed up and freeing mices. Surprisingly, the nuclear material stored in a basement isn't secret at all.

Ho ho ho.

On Saturday, my wife bought the exact same dress I had already gotten her for Christmas. It's already under the tree, so thoughts on something small (probably under $50) I can get today to supplement it? Don't really want to do cosmetics, perfume, or jewelry. Don't really like the idea of gift cards in general, but maybe. Could do flowers. Thoughts?