I stared into the [CHAT], and the [CHAT] stared back

lyrium

beavotron wrote: »

so remember that time when i got all dramatic and stormed away because mars was being an ass?
well i still think mars was being unfair considering the entire page of posting dating profiles that happened at the end of last chat that went seemingly unnoticed

coupled with the fact that i was infracted for trolling a troll, i got a little upset

now add to the fact that i was unfairly given a talking to from HR at my company today for supposedly offending someone which I actually don't remember doing, which put me in tears because I hate confrontation
(also i was told my energetic personality sets the tone at work, and when i have off days everyone notices so... you know, do something about it??? wtf do i do???)
now add all of these similar events together and you get beavo's bad day which results in me acting like a total drama queen moron and being all "i'm going to quit the internets forever, whaaaa"
so i'm sorry for being so diva-tastic about the whole thing, as it's not in my typical personality

(come on i only quit ac once before and it was a much needed trial separation that lasted a few months brought on by many factors)

so i'm not sleeping on the couch tonight ac, because everytime we fight, i miss you, so can we cuddle a little and pretend this never happened?

....I'm sorry I drew your beaver all funny in the draw a forumer's character thread
Will you stay if I promise to never do it again?!?

Oh, and speaking of cuddling things, I made a present for my boyfriend again:

He is a spider turtle with somewhat posable legs so he can stand by himself...


...or sit...


..and especially snuggle.

beavotron

tam: she's my twin
we share the spot with iruka
get with it

orik: i fucking know. i was like "so is this the part where you tell me to start acting like a boring programmer sans emotions or something? cause i'm really confused about what's expected of me right now" and i never really got the answer i was looking for so I'm STILL confused I got a lot of "I know where you're coming from it's hard, but sometimes you have to act a certain way around people and keep your personal life to yourself"... wtf? so programmers are allowed to be assholes to me all the time, and that's cool, but for me, if i'm going to be upbeat ever, then it's all or nothing. JEEEEZ

what a bad fucking day i had today

lyrium: but... i liked that and i want you to do it again

lyrium

Then I will

Orikaeshigitae

beav did you see this

Tam

beavotron wrote: »

tam: she's my twin
we share the spot with iruka
get with it

Look lady, don't get snarky with me. I just listened to some Rob Zombie and I could take you.

beavotron

omg orik, that is wonderful thanks

edit: my day got good again, marc bekoff emailed me back after i emailed him about his awesome book, the emotional lives of animals
so i feel better.

NeoRedXIII

lyrium: If you ever need a replacement boyfriend... :winky:

That's awesome.

Angel_of_Bacon

Mustang wrote: »

mully wrote: »

Tam wrote: »

beavotron wrote: »

holy crap mars are you serious?
i am totally done posting on the ac this has reached a level of ridiculousness that i just straight up am not going to tolerate

see you guys around.

Great, who's going to be the hot girl now?

bacon, obviously
have you seen those legs?
don't make me post the rufflebottom drawing

that's it
i'm posting the drawing

But bacon is the hot guy. He can't hold two major positions on the forum, it's too much power for one man....lady man? I don't fucking know.....just make me the hot girl alright! I'll give free blow jobs and unlimited access to Mustang Cam, the only live lady man webcam with me in it.

I think you're confusing me for Moss.

I'm the guy that everyone thinks posts from inside a dumpster.

Also as Mully has proven up there I will wear just about anything in exchange for a a few bucks in loose change or a goodly amount of empty soda cans.

Mustang

now add to the fact that i was unfairly given a talking to from HR at my company today for supposedly offending someone which I actually don't remember doing, which put me in tears because I hate confrontation
(also i was told my energetic personality sets the tone at work, and when i have off days everyone notices so... you know, do something about it??? wtf do i do???)

Ha! I'm always in some HR related trouble for offending someone and I usually don't remember doing it either cause everyone here is a PC sensitive powder-puff who need to lighten the fuck up. Oh and I hate confrontation too, I feel physically ill at the thought of it, I just want everyone to be happy and chilled out, like me!

So in closing, I didn't get to be the hot girl, which is fortuitous because I didn't relish the thought of hacking my penis off with a rusty blade......or did I?

I'm the guy that everyone thinks posts from inside a dumpster.

Hot guy, dumpster guy, either way you end up with psychotic women throwing rubbish at you.

Iruka

Im bad at conflict untill I think I'm right. Well, Im bad at conflict when I think I'm right to, but then Im just angry and steamrolling over people or silent and intimidating. Working at that pool was a bad idea. It would have been easier if they weren't paying me peanuts.

Anyway Bevo Im sorry about your horrible HR thing. At least your answer isn't sass.

Mustang

I've gotten a bit better at it over the last few years but it's certainly not something I relish, I used to avoid it at all costs. I can face up to my confrontational resposibilities now but I really have to psych myself up to go into battle, so to speak.

Then again, I was ready to punch shit out a business executive last night when he cut me off in peak hour, but I really do hate arrogant business men and their overpriced motor vehicles.

PROX

Sorry you had a rough day Bea. But I'm glad you're feeling better. I ain't so good with uplifting words n such so all I have to offer is this:

PeterAndCompany

Confrontation does suck and having a thick skin about things isn't always as easy as it sounds. I've had my share of drama in the past and acted like quite the jackass at times (particularly around here), but in recent times I learned to just get over myself and not take things personally.

One of my best friends here at school that I've known for years (the one who told me to come back for grad school) is the one who snapped me out of the whole funk I was in. This whole BS of trying to disassociate myself with my own fandom was pompous and more than a little harmful on my own part. Because of him I'm going to start getting off my ass and hitting up cons of various types (including a few local anime and furry types) to try and get my work spread around.

But I digress... I also share the gladness that you're feeling better, Beav, even if I'm probably not the one you'd want to be hearing it from.

NightDragon

We really are twins! :< I hate confrontations, too...and can act similarly if somebody like that gives me a "talking to", especially if they're a Way-Higher-Up, no matter how gently they try to break it to me (maybe this is, in part, my "oh no, I messed up! Why can't I be perfect??" problem surfacing again).

Many e-hugs from the AMUR'KA'S. Hope things improve for you.

...and maybe they were suggesting that they prefer you happy? That seems to be the idea...that when you're having "bad day", they want you to remain bubbly. That's the gist that I got out of what you said.

So yeah, be a robot...but a bubbly robot, instead of emotionless. JUST AS GOOD, M I RITE!@?

desperaterobots

That's my cue!

So I realised today I had about $15 to last me until Thursday next week. But I see an unemployed guy selling one of his unemployed person newspapers. They used to be $2. He made me laugh so I decided I'd get one. They were $5. But I couldn't say 'oh never mind that's just too steep!' to an employable ragamuffin.

So I go to pick up my car from the parking garage; I had to start work today before the buses started running. The parking was $10.

I am now on $0.

I tallied up all my change. I have $31 in spare change. That's pretty awesome.

Then I remembered IKEA has a really, really good refund policy. And that's how I found $120 I didn't think I had.

NeoRedXIII

noice

Stupid Mr Whoopsie Name

God I wish I had some stuff I could sell/return right about now =\

beavotron

prox:

ND : I ARE BUBBLE-TRON, THIS IS MAH HAPPI FASE.

thanks for all the ac

NeoRedXIII

Anyone know an easy free way to take some video files I have and cut them into multiple videos? (Even better, teach me how to write a playlist file to select certain time spans as chapters so I can put it on random and play scenes randomly in VLC, anyone? I would like to avoid using up space with an original file and the cut up duplicate.) Importing seems to be sucking long and hard on iMovie and I don't even think I can export individual clips. Anyone have an idea? I'm using my mac so maybe there's some application on here that I don't know about that could help me with this.

MagicToaster

Confrontation:

I don't really mind when I mess up and people call me out on it as much as when I have to call someone out on how they messed up. It always makes me feel very uncomfortable.

Prospicience

I'm a little late on the e-hugz (not having a home computer has put me behind on the internets), but I'm sorry to hear about the formerly bad day beavs. But here's to your day getting better!

...my comfort/advice giving skills seem to be extremely lacking lately sorry =/

Edit: oh, and you're not the only one on a dating site (I too am on one), personally I don't think it's something that anyone should really look down upon. I live (and work) in a tiny town where I'd probably be lucky if maybe 50 girls around my age lived here. Probably most of whom are married too btw. Sometimes it's just hard to meet people. Not to mention I've met a few friends through it.

beavotron

prosp why aren't we married yet?

Mangoes

My mom's getting married.

Eww stepfather.

He's a nice guy, but I don't trust him.

MagicToaster

I wonder where the step in step father comes from. Dictionary adventure hoooooo!

Prospicience

beavotron wrote: »

prosp why aren't we married yet?

I thought we... internet married... doesn't that count for anything to you!? Don't make me fly up there!

Mango: That's always weird and tough, I'd say give the guy a chance though. I wasn't the biggest fan of my step mom when my dad married her (and I'm still a little iffy on the trust thing) but I've learned to respect her because my dad loves her.

Edit: ... that's actually a good question MT

NightDragon

I still think it's weird to call my stepfather a "stepfather". I just usually refer to him as my "mom's husband". "Stepfather" just sounds very odd to me.

Actually, same with my "dad's wife". (Both my parents remarried, woo! Fuck you, FAFSA!)

Mangoes

They've only dated for about 2-3 months and he's already proposed. I think he's just trying to seal her fate before she can see anything wrong with him and break up with him. He's a bit of a smartass sometimes, and it's already bit him in the ass once.

I'm less worried about how he is now than how he will be later. And the worst part is, if he's a bitch, I'm stuck with him for a few more years before I can move out. I've already lived most of my life with a mean father, I don't want that again.

beavotron

step parents are like dogs
establish your dominance over them early.

Mangoes

But he's bigger than me.

He's like 6'7 or something.

Iruka

I really was just okay with my step dad at first, but while in the process of moving to north cariolina we lived for months in the house we were selling, just me and him. Both of us cant cook. And the day day we had plan to make the drive down to NC was the day Hurricane Isabel decided to roll up the bay. Of course, at that point the only shelter we owned was our car and the hotel residence in NC mom had been in for the last few months.

Nothing like lonely house selling, eating out, and driving in hurricane adventures to make you and your step dad bond. Now I dont know what I'd do with out him, probably wouldn't be in art school if not for him.

Moral of the story: Hurricanes build relationships.

Mangoes

Me and my dad got along real good during Rita, now that you mention it. Living in a hotel for a month or two. Accidentally staying in a "haunted" house while tornado sirens went off all around us.

Me and the new guy have done a few things together, but he is just too crazy about my mom right now to give a fuck about us.

Iruka

He'll probably mellow out.

Tam

CapnMango wrote: »

Me and my dad got along real good during Rita, now that you mention it. Living in a hotel for a month or two.

Me and the new guy have done a few things together, but he is just too crazy about my mom right now to give a fuck about us.

If he steps out of line, punch him hard in the gut and see if you can get a hold of an organ and twist it.

Mangoes

He's got to much protection, if you know what I mean.

Oh and read my last post, I forgot the good part of the Rita thing.

Iruka

When we were driving through Hurricane isabel, I just remember listening to the radio. We couldnt actually get a signal for music so we were listening to WTOP which is news. They were just taking calls from people, and telling them to stay inside and what to do when their car got hit by a tree, yadda yadda.

Finally they got a call from a guy who was on one side of his row house. The other side got hit by a huge tree. He was calling to see what time the winds would change, because one the other side of his yard was another HUGE TREE, and he wanted to know when he should go get wet and wait for it to fall. Needless to say as the radio guys responded with "GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. GET OUT Of THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW," Lee discovered that the jeep was no longer heavy enough to stay aligned with the road.

We stopped at a hotel where the power was of so they had to let us into our rooms individually, key cards were useless. They gave us one candle and three matches. I spent most of the night watching a stop sign hold on for dear life in the wind.

good times.

beavotron

cap'n, blast MIA's paper planes and just stare him down

I'm telling you, assert your dominance over him and all will be well.

edit: the guy i sit next to at work is annoying the fuck out of me today.

Prospicience

beavotron wrote: »

edit: the guy i sit next to at work is annoying the fuck out of me today.

Establish dominance over him and punch him in the gut.

Mangoes

The haunted house thing was...interesting. We just went to some old bed & breakfast just off the Mississippi river, thinking it'd be peaceful. As we're walking in through the entrance, a guy with a big backpack on his back is on his way out, and he asks 'did you guys see any ghosts yet'? So that made us uncomfortable, but we stayed anyways. My mom looked at pictures she took of the place, and sure enough, there were black smudges on all of them (no talking pictures or anything, but on the morning after, we checked out).

Then, as we lay in the beds, watching the weather channel, we hear rain. Then thunder. Then flashes illuminate the room. And then, almost simultaneously, the the TV warns us of a tornado in our area, and the sirens start wailing. First time I've ever heard one of those. That's some creepy shit right there.

So, we grab blankets and try to find a way to fit 5 people in a bathtub.

Minutes later, it's all quiet again, aside from the stray rumble.


And then we went to sleep.


EDIT: Oh my god that creates a fantastic picture in my head, beavo. Thanks for the suggestion.

Tam

Prospicience wrote: »

beavotron wrote: »

edit: the guy i sit next to at work is annoying the fuck out of me today.

Establish dominance over him and punch him in the gut.

CO2 powered BB gun. He'll never know what hit him and you can get a Daisy nowadays for like 30 bucks.

Mangoes

I have a Daisy about 2 feet away from me right now. Never know when I need to shoot a bitch.