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Matthew
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Feb 16, 2010 05:08PM
"Long live the native country!"
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Details magazine has Robert Pattinson on the cover with the caption "The Remasculation of the American Man Starring Robert Pattison."
Think someone should tell the magazine he is actually from London?
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There was an earthquake in Chile today, which leads to a tsunami warning on the pacific coast. It's funny cause I always know I should take this seriously but really I have no idea what to do. We get a lot of warnings but nothing has happened for over 20 years, it is at yellow right now but I have to go to work and if it changes I won't be able to get back home. Maybe I'll just take my Kindle just in case...Edit: I guess we are just expecting strong currents and slightly elevated tides
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We are fine after I got to work and actually listened to the news I realized that my previous post was perhaps a little self-centered. I really am concerned about disasters elsewhere, and am sympathetic to those they happen to, except that in moments of possible crisis I think about myself first.
Holy hell. I haven't been here in a while and this group is crazy big now! How awesome!
Yeah. It's quite sad that a lot of languages are dying out, because English is more or less the international lingua franca and some local languages just aren't as important anymore. I was looking at the lists of endangered languages on Wikipedia, just the other day. There are a number of languages with just one speaker left in the entire world!
I joined an online dating site not too long ago and I've been messaging back and forth with this guy and we are planning to meet for lunch later this week. Don't exactly think that he is "the one" or anything but I think it is good to be out there again.
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I've been out of the scene for close to 4 years mostly out of laziness and a little cowardice.
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I love not having cable because I don't have to experience any of that...I even had to google her because while the name was a little familiar I had no idea.
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I went on my date and it was better than I expected. The guy was nice and it wasn't too awkward. Don't exactly know if I would go out with him again because he isn't really my type but it was fun to get dolled up and meet someone new. It was also my first real date ever so I think considering that it went really well.
I'm glad you had fun! Where did he take you?
Just to a pub type restaurant for a burger and a beer, nothing too exciting.
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I'm glad that it went well. I mean, even if you don't like him, it was a chance to get back out there and feel confident again in the dating scene!
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My favorite I have from the past is my uncle worked the same place as my dad. My mom's due date was April 18th, and my uncle told my dad about half way through the morning that my mom called, she was in labor, and at the hospital.
He worked in a factory type setting, so he cleaned everything up really quick and clocked out and left. Then my mom showed up to his work with lunch and my uncle just told her he wasn't there.
It is a good thing my dad doesn't have anger issues. :) My mom on the other hand......
The best one I saw all day was by a friend of mine on Facebook. She and her boyfriend have been together since she was a freshman in high school (almost six years), and she changed her status from "In a Relationship" to "Single" and all her friends FREAKED out. Everybody bought it and was very sympathetic....until this morning when she changed it back to "In a Relationship." It was a pretty good prank.
my friends always try to pull facebook pranks. This year I think the winner goes to a friend who posted that she pre-applied to nurse school in Alaska and if she is accepted her schooling would be paid for.
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Kelly, I had a friend that really has never dated, and she has had a steady boyfriend for about 6 months now. She changed her photo on facebook to her hand with a huge ring on that all important finger. NOONE picked up on the April Fools thing until about 4 that afternoon.
I have long hair, it comes down almost to the middle of my back. On facebook I posted that I'd chopped it off. Half of my facebook friends freaked out, the other half didn't believe me. So not very successful, but the ones that believed me were fun. My dad had a good prank a several years ago. He worked for a small company, only about 10 or so employees. One of the employees, Bev, had just bought land and was building a house. The area she was building it in was pretty rural at the time, and was pretty close to the lake. My dad and another of the workers, Zeke, got a hold of one of the letters that the company that was building her house had sent her. They used the copy machine to copy the letter head and typed up a new letter. In it they said that because of the water levels in the area that Bev was building they would need to build the house on stilts. They put a bunch of stuff in there and made it sound really official. They sent it to her and just waited. I guess they knew when she opened the letter because she started yelling. Ten minutes later she was on the phone demanding to know why she hadn't be told ahead of time that her house would need to be built on stilts. lol. I guess the person she was talking to just started laughing. The story ended up in the newspaper.
This story is my favorite from this year.
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&...
Awesome Anna! I had a friend who would write little things like that on all the matchbooks at a bar. It would be really funny when someone would get one who didn't know who had done it.
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That's amazing Anna! You should watch the music video for "If Today Was Your Last Day" by Nickelback. Something similar happens.
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Anna, Isn't it funny how a cute little note like that will cheer up your whole day.
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First, this last weekend, we had 83 people come to the Easter celebration (a HUGE bbq and egg hunt and pretty much camping without the spend the night part). My Great Aunt came from california that is 92, her sister who is the baby (I think she is 78) and her daughter and son. So, we see my 91 year old aunt and how good she is doing in some aspects and how bad in others.
Then, we hear about the earthquake in Northern Mexico and the visiting cousin (the son) his wife is in San Diego visiting her children. Luckily by the time they got ahold of her on the phone, she had almost made it back to Riverside, so she hadn't been affected.
Then this morning, I hear about a friend from high school who has passed away from surgery complications. She is so young, and has 4 little ones. How sad! How crazy! Life and its random events.
I feel like I haven't been on goodreads in forever! I broke up with my boyfriend of 7 years so that took quite a toll on my life. It's good to be back! I love when people leave notes in random places =)
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I've missed you guys too! Yeah, it was just something that needed to happen and I think I was just putting it off because of a sense of loyalty or something...but I figured it would probably be best if two people in a relationship actually WANTED to be in that relationship. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to either one of us. But life goes on.
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Tami, I think it would be acceptable for you to attend but I don't think you are obligated to.
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ugh I just got my jury summons and I really don't want to do it, our court is about 20 minutes away and I don't drive so I'd have to take the bus plus I need to work and don't want to spend my days off doing lame things like jury duty. Anyone have good excuses for getting out of it?
Any family members that you need to take care of? I know that you can use that as an excuse.
Can you tell them that missing work could cause you to have finanical problems? You may count on making a certain amount of money each week to go towards rent, student loans, insurance, etc.
I'd say tell them you're out of town, but from my experiance they just get you again in a few months. It really sucks!
I am thinking about saying that I am planning to go back to school and am counting on saving a certain amount each pay period.
You can postpone those for reasons like school. That's what I did last year, I postponed it for the Summer, and so many other people had done the same that they had too many people! I never even had to go to the court, I just had to call once a day for a week to see if they needed me and they never did. I don't know if its the same everywhere, but I would try it!
Annashu! That is too funny because I just got my jury summons too! I have to report on my first freaking day of summer vacation! I guess I'll have plenty of time to sit back and read but that was totally not what I was planning on doing that week. One silver lining that my mother pointed out was that, at least our county, pays $25 or $35 a day. Good luck with getting out of it though; I can see how it'd be a huge inconvenience.
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Our courts really don't care if you have work. They pay a small amount, and feel that suffices in compensation for missing work. You have to either have prior knowledge of either party, or some type of conviction, religious belief, etc. that one or both of the lawyers decide would be detrimental to their case to be excused.
So this is random, but I'm at work right now, filing things. Usually really bland work. But right now there is a guy in the lobby playing piano absolutely fantastically. He's been here for the past hour or so, and it's really making my work super enjoyable. I can't go tell him right now. Hopefully he'll still be there in a few hours so I can let him know he brightened my day. But I had to share it somewhere.
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