Bummerville, CA, United States Superthread
- Thread starter bono_212
- Start date
The friendliest place on the web for anyone that follows U2.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
- Status
The Sad Punk
Blue Crack Addict
I hope you don't walk away in silence.
Speaking of which, I am. The guy I liked and I thought something was there... well, he just got a job in Sydney, he's moving in a week or two, we just had coffee and... I don't think he was ever in to me at all. I thought we were having actual dates but he just seemed to talk to me as a friend and I just saw everything crumbling while being with him, it felt awful. He said he still wants to come down here a lot but I just don't know where we're at, we have fun together and stuff but I just felt like something was inevitable but it never eventuates, and now he's going, I just feel like a fool for ever thinking there was going to be something.
PS Sorry for downer
Speaking of which, I am. The guy I liked and I thought something was there... well, he just got a job in Sydney, he's moving in a week or two, we just had coffee and... I don't think he was ever in to me at all. I thought we were having actual dates but he just seemed to talk to me as a friend and I just saw everything crumbling while being with him, it felt awful. He said he still wants to come down here a lot but I just don't know where we're at, we have fun together and stuff but I just felt like something was inevitable but it never eventuates, and now he's going, I just feel like a fool for ever thinking there was going to be something.
PS Sorry for downer
Last edited:
cobl04
45:33
That sucks massively Bonnie 
I know that feeling too, when you've got something going on and in your head it's really exciting and going somewhere, and then comes a realisation that you had gotten a bit too up about it, like a slap in the face. Really sorry.
I know that feeling too, when you've got something going on and in your head it's really exciting and going somewhere, and then comes a realisation that you had gotten a bit too up about it, like a slap in the face. Really sorry.
OP
OP
bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
Man, that sucks Bonnie. Maybe he has a weird way of showing feelings? I mean he sounds like he still wants to see you despite moving...
The Sad Punk
Blue Crack Addict
Cheers guys. I was wondering that, Ashley, he said he wants to come down when I have an exhibition at the end of October so it seems like we're definitely going to keep in touch, just sort of was hoping I knew what was going on before he leaves... I just feel like we're on two different levels right now. Like I'm just one of the friends he wants to see before he goes rather than anything more than that.
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
I'm sorry to hear that.
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
I'm poking my head in and out.
The past two weeks at work, I've literally done 30 minutes of work for each eight hour day. At 2pm today, they threw a project at me that probably requires 80-100 work hours to complete - building demographic data for publishing companies in South East Asia. It's interesting and beats sending emails to people or staring at a wall, but it's going to be difficult to get done timewise.
Oh, and they want done by the end of next week, which considering I work 37.5 hours a week and not a second more, isn't going to go nicely.
So yeah, I'll be poking my head in and out.
The past two weeks at work, I've literally done 30 minutes of work for each eight hour day. At 2pm today, they threw a project at me that probably requires 80-100 work hours to complete - building demographic data for publishing companies in South East Asia. It's interesting and beats sending emails to people or staring at a wall, but it's going to be difficult to get done timewise.
Oh, and they want done by the end of next week, which considering I work 37.5 hours a week and not a second more, isn't going to go nicely.
So yeah, I'll be poking my head in and out.
cobl04
45:33
Not a buzzkill at all mate! I'll tell you what is though - my housemate. God she's a cunt.
Decided I'm gonna move back home for a little bit. I don't have time to find a new place cos she's such a bitch. Passive-aggressive emails. Constantly asking me if I'm moving out or what I'm up to, knowing that I've been extremely busy and stressed. Thinking this whole situation is my fault. Anyway. I'm gonna move back him this week and live there for a while and take my time to try and find a really, really good place in Brunswick. Bit stressed for Teresa again, as I'm gonna take her home tomorrow and put her in the bedrooms area at home, get a latch for the sliding door so other cats and Jack can't get in there, but it will be better than having her locked in my room here all weekend and then I'll just move home early next week.
Right now I'm watching The Footy Show, then I'm gonna drink and listen to Gliss Riffer, so I'll be up for a while.
Decided I'm gonna move back home for a little bit. I don't have time to find a new place cos she's such a bitch. Passive-aggressive emails. Constantly asking me if I'm moving out or what I'm up to, knowing that I've been extremely busy and stressed. Thinking this whole situation is my fault. Anyway. I'm gonna move back him this week and live there for a while and take my time to try and find a really, really good place in Brunswick. Bit stressed for Teresa again, as I'm gonna take her home tomorrow and put her in the bedrooms area at home, get a latch for the sliding door so other cats and Jack can't get in there, but it will be better than having her locked in my room here all weekend and then I'll just move home early next week.
Right now I'm watching The Footy Show, then I'm gonna drink and listen to Gliss Riffer, so I'll be up for a while.
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
I mean, I'm on a fixed term contract, and I'm getting fucked on money, but it's a reference. Does that mean I'm already screwed?
I'm working at McGraw-Hill Education, so I guess I'm contributing to the problem of rising costs of educational resources and being an awful scumbag? But I guess that's what happens when you're a company that sells for billions of dollars and is run by bottom line chasers.
It's nice, but unfulfilling. I got the itch to go back to academia for the first time two nights ago.
It wasn't very pleasant.
cobl04
45:33
Try a lotion for that.
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
Gliss Riffer is still pretty brilliant. When I Was Done Dying
Gotta say, though, hearing of all of your problems with your cat is making me ever more steadfast in not getting animals. People can be such pains in the arse about them. I love animals, but it's not worth the hassle.
A friend of mine who lives in a high rise apartment in the CBD recently got a cat, and mentioned that apartments in the city centre are becoming more and more viable to have pets in, in Sydney at least. It might be worth looking for somewhere in that corridor between Brunswick and Carlton for that reason?
(then again, it's probably really expensive.)
I can't believe how ridiculous this is. Sounds to me like the sooner you're out of that situation the happier you'll be really, even if having to head back home may not be the flashest option. Good luck man.
I wish I had a cat though. But yeah, rental difficulties and probable cat allergy make that a no go. Somebody downstairs in my building has the most adorable cat EVER. I'm totally in love with it.
cobl04
45:33
Yeah when I move home that's one of things I'll be thinking about doing. Ideally I'd love to take over the lease of a really nice place, spacious bedroom, natural light, good shower, good kitchen bench, cats allowed and then I host interviews and pick who I want to move in.
References are references. I take anything just to put it on my CV, which means I'm hideously overworked at times but that seems to be what a working life is all about. Why am I in this game again?
Don't fucking come back to academia though. I don't know why I think I can make this work. Bloodymindedness, perhaps.
I feel really awkward when my talented students ask me for career advice. Like, yes, you're brilliant and would make a killer academic. On the other hand, you deserve better.
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
Oh, I think I know the answer to this!
Because you know that nothing else will be as satisfying?
cobl04
45:33
Ah I'm sorry that this is getting you down man. Sucks that academia as a field is fucked but there's a million jobs as a developer and all the jobs underneath that where 60 people have ridiculous, meaningless job titles and only contribute to red tape.
cobl04
45:33
What are you drinking? I just had a red Coopers for the first time last night, holy shit, what have I been doing with my life.
Because I'm fucking hopeless at everything else! We joke in my department that we're all there because it's the only thing we can do.
I've realised I'm really fucked if I can't make this work now!
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
I miss drinking.
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
Someone asked me for advice on Tuesday re: academia, whether they should do it, as people were pressuring him to do a Masters in theology.
I responded that people don't do postgrad because they want to, but because they need to, and there's nothing else they can do. Which was meant as a joke, but...
If we could get some increased government funding we might have some jobs. It'd be nice.
I'd take a ridiculous, meaningless title and contribute to red tape if it meant stability. Except maybe not. Because Liam's right. There's this stupid fucking fire that burns in me to write history and I feel weird when I'm not doing it. Yet at the moment I'm doing it stupidly sluggishly. Eh.
I'm sure Bonnie can answer the latter question! I found some White Rabbit in my fridge. I wish such discoveries occurred more often. But with just one left I may need to progress to the whisky.
Wait what?
liamcool
Blue Crack Addict
SSRIs and alcohol do not play nicely together.
The Sad Punk
Blue Crack Addict
DID SOMEONE SAY COOPERS
I'm actually drinking SA's worst, a tin of West End, right now. Dad did a gardening job for a mate and they paid him in a carton of the red stuff, he hates it (he's a VB drinker for some reason!) so I've been helping him with getting rid of it.
Anyway, Coopers Sparkling, or "Sparklers" as they're known to the truly rekt, are a true gift, they can mess you up pretty quickly but boy are they tasty, good taste m8.
Oh. Well.
I think most of my quips here would be deeply unproductive.
And that's all I have at the moment, quips. I guess cynicism too.
I'm fine.
The Sad Punk
Blue Crack Addict
I really want another cat but I don't have enough certainty about my future to look after a critter, I'd hate to leave it behind if I had to move overseas, which is an eventual intention. Have strongly considered looking after a geriatric one from a shelter, even then it might last another ten years though!
Gee, Birds of Tokyo are a bit average.
Gee, Birds of Tokyo are a bit average.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Sticky
- Locked
