Hey guys, how has everyone been?

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I feel terrible. I've been
ToroidalBoat said:
I looked up "hypospray" after I typed my post above and saw that term, but I didn't really look into it. That sucks though.

Interestingly, like many of the stuff on Star Trek, hyposprays are an example of unique inventions arising out of limitations in the show. Apparently, if Wikipedia is correct, network regulations forbade depictions of the use of actual needles, so they came up with hypospray.

It's sort of like how Gene originally wanted a shuttlecraft to carry the away team to the surface all the time, but the budget didn't allow it, so they came up with transporters. Modern technology may have been a little different had Star Trek had a better budget in the 60s, eliminating the need for the unique inventions in the show.
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They also hurt like a bitch, supposedly. My biology teacher in highschool told us when he was getting vaccinated for Vietnam, they would use one. They strapped you to a board for if you passed out.

And it's pretty amazing what people will do to overcome their limitations. I guess you have to for scifi.
 
Tomorrow I'm competing in a speech and debate tournament for my college's forensics team. I'm not on the team, this is just part of a communications class I'm taking. We are going to be competing alongside the team though. Nervous and excited, I've never been to something like this before!
 
Doing okay. Gotta do a presentation for school with another student this week, but I think I can handle it.
 
Mourning Dove said:
It's that time of year again. It's that nasty combination of being the darkest time of the year (seasonal affective disorder), school finals (STRESS), and holiday frenzy (even moar STRESS). But fuck low light levels and stress. I got this.
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I came very close to buying a happylamp years back. Never did for whatever reason (I think it was me primarily trying to bootstrap myself into a better position) but friends who broke down and bought them reported improved moods. Turns out I was just severely ultradian bipolar and didn't get diagnosed in addition to getting the winter blues.

What I hate about the early dark is that I like using natural light when I'm working. I'm a graphic designer so I've got my calibration down but it always bums me out to have to turn a light on in my workspace at 11 AM because the sun has disappeared. *sigh*
 
It's finals week. That means stress. My relationship has been going downhill all semester, and I don't think it's going to recover.

I went to the library to study today. And my girlfriend wasn't exactly that supportive today of how much stress I'm under. So one of my friends started texting me about my relationship and how it's going. And then comes to give me a hug. So we hug, and go back to my study room. They're these tiny little rooms with doors in them, and a single chair. We start talking about our shitty relationships, and we end up making out.

I feel like shit. We agreed to keep it quiet, but still. I want things with my girlfriend to work out, but now I'm always going to have that eating at my brain.
 
i'm very pleased with myself for how well i handled a rather new and i guess also "pretty extreme" situation yesterday with catering yesterday. handling metal objects full of sloppy gross shit in very cold temperatures and riding in extremely loud, awful, and cold vehicles were a part of it. and i didn't say a word or even have a single whiny *thought*. i've really come a long way! i got a big tip for being such a not-useless-piece-of-shit! too bad i ignored my morning hunch that i should wear long johns and thick socks. i'll be more prepared for days like that in the future.

got a really full workload starting tomorrow. i haven't drawn much but i'll do that.

also i'm listening to daft punk now. idk why i feel like that's noteworthy.

WHATEVER

oh yeah i have a happylamp. better go get it. i think i need it.
 
I went to a retired welder's house today and he taught me a bit about welding. He still does some work and has his own business, but he has enough time to teach people welding. I used his MIG welder, but I wasn't very good at using it. He says he uses the MIG welder for most of his work because it's the cheapest to use. He then showed me how to use a stick welder, which is what he learned on and what I'd use if I took a welding class at the community college, and I found using that much easier because I could actually see the arc.

Next time he'll show me the TIG welder.
 
Been playing through Devil May Cry 3. And after going through a really tough boss fight against these two guys, I tried going to the weapons menu only for the game to crash on me. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF....

/first world problems

Besides that, things are going pretty okay. I just had my last session with my math tutor for the semester today. We went over graphing, intercepts and slopes.
 
Had one of those incompetent days trying to get something done (thus blowing my deadline and frantically trying to pull more out of my ass) and I'm watching my hometown get vandalized again. *sigh*
 
I'm doing alright at the moment through I might discovered one big thing about myself. I might have a Inferiority Complex. Thinking of the things I said at the Coping thread, and in real life, it's really similar to the signs from what I looked up. Even here, I keep opinions to myself whenever it about media related stuff. I get worried that people would treat me like trash for liking things. It's a big reason why I don't tolerate anyone trashing other people's preferences. (It's why I'm not a fan of Spoony and Project AFTER to be honest) Yeah, I have a lot to think about.

On a more positive note, I be working in both of my jobs tomorrow. Usually I work at the HealthCare tomorrow for most of the day. The other job, a pizza place wanted me to come over to cut the dead plants so new ones can go. That should be interesting working that late in the day.
 
I think I broke the optical port on my sister Home Theater Receiver. Good news is she doesn't know and she never even used that port before. Also its a cheap RCA one. Bad news is that if she wants to use it, I'm fucked. Trying to decide if I wanna get her another one or try to find the same model and swap it before she finds out.
 
Took another math exam today. I think I did okay on that one. Now I just have to study for the final that's on Thursday. While I only have tonight and tomorrow to study, Thursday should give me enough time since the class is at 2:00 p.m. and another advantage is that my professor is using a multiple choice version which means that I could have a bit of a higher chance in getting the right answer (provided my work only goes far before deciding to pick which answer may as well be correct).
 
So, my music box has been turning on by it's self lately and it's super creepy. But it's not even playing it's normal music, it's just slowly ticking one note at a time and the melody is really sharp and tinny. So how dead am? I feel like I'm going to get murdered hardcore by ghosts.
 
littlebiscuits said:
So, my music box has been turning on by it's self lately and it's super creepy. But it's not even playing it's normal music, it's just slowly ticking one note at a time and the melody is really sharp and tinny. So how dead am? I feel like I'm going to get murdered hardcore by ghosts.
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I have next semester's clinical assignment. GI/General Internal Medicine. It says the primary medical diagnosis is End Stage Liver Failure, but I have a lovely feeling C. diff is in my future.
 
Got the results of the exam I took yesterday. 50%. Out of the exams I had for a math 70 class they were 50, 55, 82, 87 (might change since I did extra credit that could add at most five points), 88, and 96(all online homework assignments count as 1 exam. Also had a 31 exam grade but since its the lowest, it gets dropped). I gotta make sure to do well on the final, whether it's a C or an A.
 
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