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[pmcd9]

There are some flaky people on OK Cupid for sure. I've met a couple of ladies and they were both bummers, but I'm not condemning the whole site based on my limited experience.

[Pedro Picasso]

...find out that my company invited me to a conference in San Francisco... five days ago. I really need to pay better attention to my work email.


So umm, San Francisco. Awesome. What should I do there?

[wombat]

get the cast off my wrist!

It feels really weird and actually hurts more when I try to do anything right now. But I got to take a shower without one arm covered in plastic and held out of the water, so that was glorious.

[CortJstr]

But I got to take a shower without one arm covered in plastic and held out of the water

That's somebody's fetish

[wombat]

That's somebody's fetish

only because they've never had to do it every day for six weeks.

[theinevitable]

well, this site at the very least is giving me a weird ego-boost. Joked to my roommate about the unappealing people messaging me on there, and he said "wait... people are messaging you?"

so suck it, dude. The unshaven barista beats out the guy with the fancy job for the affections of women who say they hate reading on dating websites.

[miles]

If you like oysters, Hog Island Oyster Bar at the Ferry Building is really good. If you don't like oysters, they have good chowder. There is a farmers market outside the building a couple times a week, I think year round, and I had some really good food there. You can also catch a boat to Sausalito, which I don't remember being too expensive and you can order beer on the boat so I thought it was worth it just for the ride. In Sausalito there's a good restaurant called giraffe. The crab roll is good.

My experience is pretty limited though. Only been there a couple times.

[Doc]

women who say they hate reading on dating websites.

:-(

[theinevitable]

Today I made some really delicious chicken and vegetable soup. I am blown away, because I always thought my mom's was somehow magical. Every other chicken soup disappointed me. Now I made one for the first time, without a recipe, and it kind of tastes like my mom's. I guess it's genetic.
My theory is that she doesn't use many onions, because my dad doesn't like them. I was out of onions. So it's mostly a celery and carrot and potato soup. Delicious.

a lady who seemed cute and cool contacted me on that dating website. Then as I read her profile/answers to questions my mouth slowly widened until my jaw unhinged like a boa constrictor of terror. So many red flags. So scary. So sad.

Today I read this collection of short comics and felt like all of modern fiction and comic-ry is trash. What we've lost with the "write what you know" mantra is any sense of the drama of the lives of everyday people who aren't writers or comic book writers. These short stories were all about window cleaners, failed businessmen, sewer department laborers... only one has a comic artist in it. Each one is a portrait of a real human having a real problem (not one is about an angsty writer with glasses who pines for the cute girl at school). It has been a long time since I have had an ideological belief about art, but lately I think that it's only real art if it gives you a tiny goddamn bit of sympathy or insight into the life of another human. When I read a little comic book some Japanese guy wrote fifty years ago and it reminds me of that mean girl at work, and I feel a little less anger towards her, that's real art. Normally I am interested in things that have no meaning whatsoever, so I am feeling pretty blown away.

Edit: fixed link because original website was sold out.

[wombat]

People tend not to notice that "write what you know" implies "don't write unless you know something."

Thank you for that link, which is extremely relevant to my interests.

[pmcd9]

a lady who seemed cute and cool contacted me on that dating website. Then as I read her profile/answers to questions my mouth slowly widened until my jaw unhinged like a boa constrictor of terror. So many red flags. So scary. So sad.

I love those questions. It really takes a lot of guesswork out of deciding who to message. So many deal-breakers. I especially like the basic math or logic questions.

"STALE is to STEAL as 89475 is to..."

"What is next in this series? 1, 4, 10, 19, 31, _"

If you get those wrong I don't care how cute you are.

[theinevitable]

I only message ladies who get those questions wrong in the same way I did.

(But seriously, I put "don't know, don't care" for the second one, but just noticed the pattern.)

A really intriguing woman just responded to me. With a multiparagraph thing about the nature of justice Mild awkwardness because she had previously ignored my roommate.

[KeithHernandez]

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[dejavroom]

Fret and fidget as I ponder what it will be like to do my first public foray as a speaker of sorts. There's gonna be a literary festival (emphasis on "festival") in May, and they'll have a panel on translation. I was asked to talk about the Joyce translation I did. I'm supposed to ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC. I mean, fuck it, let's wing it, but still. The prospect of talking about colors to color blind people is not very heartening...

[theinevitable]

Hopefully not too many philistines will think they are interested in a talk about a difficult foreign author in translation. I don't know, maybe you guys are hard up for entertainment down there.