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[Choop]

The dark and stormy life of CortJstr.

gold.

[pmcd9]

I'm only allowed to give one can per hour.

[Arachno-capitalist]

So I'm a pretty cutrhroat capitalist guy. Last night I had  a contractor who I needed to install central air. Around 1AM I had grown tired of his nonsense and his cases of beer were accumulating. This is when he went violent. He made very disparaging comments about my mother and it came to blows. The electrician  begged him to 'you don't want to...' And here we are. I've got a new electrician, a built out house, and a clean conscience.


The transaction of money for product or service is awesome. When you start violence, that is a whole different ballgame.

Grandpa: "I heard there are problems. I heard you are causing problems."
Me: "I understand,."

::Click::



And that is how I learned to shut the fuck up.

[doomglobe]

Are you writing a screenplay with a narration track?

[wombat]

People got upset when I walked up to my hoss and just started rubbing the dickens out of the itchy spots on his head and telling him what a good steak he was.

Silly people. hosss are vegetarians, they don't know what a steak is.

[Choop]

so basically they don't know how to whisper is what you're saying

[doomglobe]

It's hilarious because they listen to your English words, and not the tone of your voice or your mannerisms. I think a lot of people have trouble putting themselves in a hoss' shoes, mainly on accounta they don't like nails in their feet, and can't imagine giving anyone else a ride.

They ask you for advice and you tell them something in a language that is foreign to them, but they don't even know you're speaking it, because of their sad, cold souls. That gelding probably needs whatever attention you give him, after what he's been through.

[dejavroom]

Now, a WIDTDBY (sorry for atrocious pronunciation):

http://yuhuang.tumblr.com/post/53290378296/me-reading-from-the-translation-i-did-for-joyces

[pmcd9]

Your pronunciation was great.

[theinevitable]

today I spent 4 hours at a coffee shop trying to re-learn simple algebra. What the fuck.

I had, until today, a belief that working a job I hate 40 hours a week for 3 years had taught me something about patience or persistence. That is false. Staring at a stupid word problem for 10 minutes was infinitely worse than 8 hours of that easy, stupid job.

[doomglobe]

today I spent 4 hours at a coffee shop trying to re-learn simple algebra. What the fuck.

I had, until today, a belief that working a job I hate 40 hours a week for 3 years had taught me something about patience or persistence. That is false. Staring at a stupid word problem for 10 minutes was infinitely worse than 8 hours of that easy, stupid job.

Looking forward to a lifetime of thinking or maybe action, however, is much more uplifting than a lifetime of changing coffee filters. Nothing easy is very rewarding.

[theinevitable]

It would help if I knew that they definitely cared about the math section. They probably don't, but I am worried about my other credentials (middle of the road grades, almost zero relevant experience, not sure who to ask to write me a recommendation).

Lately I keep interacting with friends/coworkers who are trying to tell me to "work my way up" to an urban planning job, as if I haven't been applying to low-level jobs in the kind of career I want for 3 years. "Didn't you have an internship and quit? You shouldn't have quit." I need to learn how to tell people to fuck off, so badly.

[doomglobe]

No one in industry cares about your grades. Extraordinary grades might get you a little more money your first year out of school, but from there on out your credibility comes from the work you produce. You need math if you want to do something that involves math. It seems like you hate math, and struggle with it, so maybe leave the mathing to people for whom it is second nature, and instead focus on what you like and/or are good at.


As for telling people to fuck off... you can practice on me. Seriously. Take offense at the snide way I told you to give up on math.

[wombat]

You can really work your way up to an urban planning job? You know that I have some skepticism about the higher education-industrial complex, but I feel like it would be better to have our urbs planned by someone with some relevant education. Am I wrong about this?

[wombat]

This seems somewhat relevant.

Do Unpaid Internships Lead to Jobs? Not for College Students