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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1660 on: October 02, 2010, 08:28:47 PM »

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1661 on: October 03, 2010, 06:14:39 AM »

Could be. I just know that if I eat anything bigger than a pita in a day, I get stomach pains.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1662 on: October 03, 2010, 08:37:20 PM »

I stopped and bought an apple, a piece of cheese, and a loaf of bread. Once I got to my car I scratched off a $1 lottery ticket and won... $1. I then bit into the apple, and found the inside to be entirely rotten. Blecch, rotten food!
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1663 on: October 03, 2010, 08:57:12 PM »

The lottery ticket winning was a lawsuit against the super megachain you got that apple from?
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1664 on: October 03, 2010, 09:02:42 PM »

I'm sorry R^2. After the dread that comes with seeing your name on the 'last post' box for this thread, your actual post only fills me with a sense of relief. 
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1665 on: October 04, 2010, 06:52:24 AM »

That was half "I can't even get a break when I eat dinner" and half
Buy a lottery ticket.
addressing that.

But if it helps, October is pretty much existential despair month, where in the weeks surrounding my birthday I contemplate all the things I've achieved over the past year, consider my prospects for the next year, and then generally curl into a little ball and sob uncontrollably for hours. This year's theme: "I'm nearly thirty, working part-time for minimum wage, and can't even afford to euthenize my dog without borrowing money"! I might bake a cake but I don't think I can fit all of that on top.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1666 on: October 04, 2010, 07:46:47 AM »

No, I mean "Oh thank god it wasn't any worse than that".

Also, you should bake that cake anyway, just to have some delicious cake.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1667 on: October 05, 2010, 09:57:33 PM »

1. I'm vegan
2. I don't eat wheat
3. "Outlet" baked goods?

We have a bread outlet nearby; basically, you buy bread direct from a factory store instead of an intermediary (that intermediary being the grocery store) at a deep discount. When we're really poor we can live on 1-dollar loaves of bread, eggs, and the cheapest margarine money can buy.

Also I don't know how you can make the vegan step when you also have some kind of wheat allergy, but hey, your life, not mine. If you get poor enough to cheat, though, eggs are god damn cheap.

I guess if you're vegan you could probably do huge pots of bean soup and vegetarian chili. Lentils are always absurdly cheap, we lived on bean soups and eggs for a while because we were so broke. I usually used beef and chicken stock, but vegetable stock or broth would work too. If your allergy is specifically wheat and not gluten, you might consider going to an asian or indian market and buying rice bulk. Rice keeps forever and a 20 pound bag of rice will last you for a long god damn time, even if you eat rice with every meal.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1668 on: October 06, 2010, 06:07:06 AM »

<3<3<3 Basmati rice.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1669 on: October 07, 2010, 01:11:27 PM »

So I was in the train station parking lot, figuring I didn't want to drive my van all the way across town to get to school. It takes me about 3000 rpm to get to around 40 mph these days -- that's assuming, you know, since my speedometer and fuel gauge are both nonfunctional.

So I'm idling there, finishing a breakfast croissant and listening to the news on the radio before I get on the train.

And whee that's a whole goddamn lot of smoke coming out from under the hood

I wonder what exploded this time
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1670 on: October 08, 2010, 02:15:01 PM »

<3<3<3 Basmati rice.

Basmati really is the best god damn rice in the world. Jasmine is a contender, but honestly, nothing beats Basmati.

So I was in the train station parking lot, figuring I didn't want to drive my van all the way across town to get to school. It takes me about 3000 rpm to get to around 40 mph these days -- that's assuming, you know, since my speedometer and fuel gauge are both nonfunctional.

So I'm idling there, finishing a breakfast croissant and listening to the news on the radio before I get on the train.

And whee that's a whole goddamn lot of smoke coming out from under the hood

I wonder what exploded this time

God damn, R^2, you have a bad day blackbelt at this point. Nanowrimo is coming up, you should write a book about how awful your life is.

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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1671 on: October 09, 2010, 01:55:38 PM »

Guess who has some sort of terrible digestive contagion and is now missing work (and thus income) as a result.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1672 on: October 09, 2010, 02:48:25 PM »

I guess you. I hope I am not right.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1673 on: October 09, 2010, 03:47:16 PM »

Should rename this thread "Shit Days (AKA Business as usual for R^2)"
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1674 on: October 09, 2010, 06:43:38 PM »

While I haven't been keeping rigorous records on the subject it would seem that Immodium cuts the amount of time spent on the toilet from approximately one-third of total to about one-sixth.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1675 on: October 10, 2010, 07:33:35 AM »

11:00: Unadorned dry toast. Let's see if I can keep this down.

11:15: Guess that answers that.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1676 on: October 10, 2010, 05:47:18 PM »

So because I'm taking this "vacation" from work, they demand a doctor's note before I can go back.

That's a $65 clinic visit, on top of two days of missed wages.

And then guess what came in the mail?

:D

Go on, guess.




It's from the IRS!


Actually the IRS thing just says I should probably file electronically this year.



It's the school bill for, I calculated, about 80% of my average paycheck, due by November 1st, that has me shivering despite being rather warm.

Rent's due in five days.
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1677 on: October 10, 2010, 05:58:28 PM »

Van still won't run?
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1678 on: October 10, 2010, 06:00:11 PM »

Now where would I get the money to fix that?
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Re: Shit Days
« Reply #1679 on: October 10, 2010, 06:07:09 PM »

That doctor's certificate stuff is so shitty, the government needs to set up like a free service where someone can confirm that you were sick, and you pay like, five bucks or something. Can you go to a bulk billing doctor?

Also, wait, don't you get paid if you provide a doctor's certificate?
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