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I only have 20 essays left, and I have yet to see most of their authors today. I should have very few to grade tomorrow.
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...well, we were granted a casual week for Christmas...
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Nothing wrong with being an incorrigible carnivore.
As a former 8.5-year veteran of being a vegetarian, with somewhere around 1.5 years of veganism on and off scattered during that 8.5 year run, I can say I strongly agree with this.
That being said, there are amazing veggie dishes, and some do compare with meat, but they're either exotic, hard work, expensive, or otherwise difficult to obtain regularly; meat is just easy to make taste good.
The fact that we all know what hot dogs are made of, how bad they are for you, etc, and probably everyone reading this has had one, I would guess, in the last three months or less, shows meat is just too f~&%ing good.
Even s*&!ty meat is good. Chunk light tuna in water is four cans a buck at Walmart, and I'll be damned if I don't destroy that crap almost as fast as I put away water by itself.
...of course I'm a horrible monster with no account for taste. I love almost all foods.
Except Grits. Grits are crap. If you like grits, you sure as f!+% don't like them plain. Nobody likes plain grits. Plain grits and unseasoned collard greens are what they serve in Hell's Kitchen...along with lukewarm decaf black coffee, while Christmas music plays 24/7, and it smells like a foreigner at a theme park who sits next to you after a looooooong day in the sun on an uncomfortably close ride, and B.O. doesn't begin to describe their smell...no, B.O. sat and studied at the feet of what this dude smells like. B.O. goes to this funk for advice.
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It was my own fault. I told it to "Update and Shut Down" Friday afternoon when I left. I forgot this meant a long configuration on Monday.Do Update and Restart on Friday, and turn the monitor off.
'tis a laptop. Cannot turn off monitor.
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I am so tired, and I just know my next class is going to be hyped up on being eighth graders.
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On the subject of dieting, the absolute worst place to be for that is a school during the holidays.
There is so much food in the faculty lounge. Two tables full of cookies and such.
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OH NO ANOTHER REPLY ALL CHAIN
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I learned I can fix my fridge all by myself this morning.
Yay!
That's suitably horrifying.
"And he was never heard from again..." ???
(Until now.)
EDIT: five pages is a lot for me. XD
For software engineers (and anyone with any curiosity about them).
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I am writing, I am writing!
<.<
>.>
Of course something completely different than the things I should be writing...
Brain... Why you... Argh...
I do my best work on a project when I'm supposed to be working on a different project.
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"I really need to go talk to [other teacher]. Can I submit my form when I get back?"
"Yes, but don't shut your-"
"...computer because I don't know if it will save your input."
Lo and behold, the internet ate the child's responses. ಠ_ಠ
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I do my best work on a project when I'm supposed to be working on a different project.I am writing, I am writing!
<.<
>.>
Of course something completely different than the things I should be writing...
Brain... Why you... Argh...
I call this the Procrasterpiece.
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Impus Minor: Is there such a thing as evil dophins?
Shiro: Yeah, the dolphins in Hell are evil!
Impus Minor: What kind of dolphin goes to hell?
Impus Major: Adolphin Hitler.
(Beware: terrible, terrible things.)
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"I'm gonna fail!"
"You are not."
"I'm gonna bomb the test and fail!"
"The...test is worth less than 10% of your grade. Unless you're hovering right above, which you are not, it's not even going to knock you down a letter grade."
"I'm gonna fail."
"It is mathematically impossible for you to fail at this point."
"I'm screwed."
"....you know what, sure. Yep."
I cut my hair.
Okay, so first I tried to bleach the black out. I didn't want to use chem stripper, cause that s#+$ wrecked my hair last time I did it. So I tried to bleach the s@*# out of it. I ended up with a f&!*ing rainbow of colors in my head.
So I cut it short. Because the roots looked a nice blonde.
Well, now I look like I have anti-frosted black tips, but otherwise it's not bad. Almost looks intentional. Almost...
And I forgot how f%!*ing good looking I was when I have a good cut. Long hair looks good when it finally gets like...two years' worth of long hair....but man, a quick cut and I'm up a point on the ten-point scale.
Maybe two. Maybe that's just the gym showing up. Before the gym I was also doing a 2.4 mile round-trip walk every day for a month or so, so...results may be a little earlier than your average gym, 'cause I been melting fat off slowly. Down to a 33 waist from a 36!
I am, however, so damn tired. Seriously. Just...
Like, stopping my motor scooter at 30mph made my pecs sore because today was chest day, and you'd be surprised the resistance that a just-over-200lb body gives when you hit the brakes suddenly on the way home from the gym.
I reiterate - I am one continuous sore muscle.
This is awesome, my dude! Keep up the good work!
I've been trying to lose weight for a long time... even though my efforts have not been entirely successful, at least I can outrun my BF...
I seriously wonder if I need to sign up for a personal trainer package - because I suspect I'm not pushing myself hard enough,or I've been eating too much. Or maybe a combination of both. I was trying to cut 130 lbs to 110 lbs..
I'm also 5'1,so yes I really do need to do something about it.
While getting healthy is always encouraged, 130 lbs. doesn't actually sound bad, even for your height. Do what's best for you, and get in shape, but your actual weight should be healthy and not aimed at an impossible ideal.
EDIT:
I hope this doesn't come across wrong, but a 5'1, 130lbs package seems perfectly fine for a healthy young kitty...
Yea, I know its rich coming from a male (and a overwight, short one at that), but I'm just cautioning that you make a mountain out of a mole-hill.
We tend to be highly self-critical. Looking in the mirror, seems to make all the flaws jump out at us, and we feel worse then we should.
I guess what I'm saying is, that its really comendable that you want to look after yourself. Just don't drive yourself to tears or selfworth issues due to some inane beauty standard.*Fluffs kitties fur*
Asian standards are higher.
A BMI value of 23 and above indicates that your weight is outside of the healthy weight range for your height.
Mine is about 24...
I did manage to get to 120 lbs before, and probably 120 lbs is more realistic.
I also do know that these days a good part of me is muscle which weighs more then fats...
Thanks though, Kjeldorn =)
I'm with Kjel. You're taller than I am, and I've long since gotten off of an exercise regimen. >_>
Kjel and Scint are correct. "24" isn't really that bad. Getting healthy is good and important, but don't set impossible expectations.
Ooh!
*pads over for cornbread*
See what I mean? =P
Also I will admit that during lunch I've been getting distracted and going to the crosstrainer so I can PBP as opposed to actually trying to push for a 20/30min run on treadmill.
Not to mention checking my PBPs every 2 laps I swim on weekends. That's why running with my BF is a good idea since I won't bring my handphone along with me(the weight really starts adding up when you start running longer distances. Besides carrying pouches or putting it in your pockets is so uncomfortable. (My phone is fairly large)
Still trying to get back my swim the breadth of an Olympic sized swimming pool in an single breath, underwater, but that's more for bragging rights =)
I'm only managing 3/4 of it at the moment.
I can also change one of these without any help...to consider that's nearly a 3rd of my weight. I mean I'm not the sort who would sit around and wait for people to help me...
And this shows a rather solid strength.
Meh, my ex wife is 5'0", and she'd never get down to 110...probably 130 would be her at her optimum weight.
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Anyway, my point is height/weight ratio is pretty much meaningless when you consider how vastly different everyone's figures are. I mean, my brother is taller than me, but weighs just about the same, because I'm broader of shoulder than him. Really, just grab yerself some calipers and test your fat percentage. IIRC healthy for a woman is something between 12-20%.
Also, this thing.
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Ah, Clueless Lawfulness, how I hate thee!
So, I'm making chicken soup tonight, but the house got utterly trashed over the weekend (lots of shopping, little cleaning), so I want to send Impus Major to the corner store to get the ingredients. Unfortunately, said ingredients include a bottle of white wine, so he can't do it for me in spite of the facts that:
- The people at the store know him and know he shops for me
- I could give him a note or whatever was necessary to say, "Yes, on this one date he has permission to buy one bottle of wine,"
- It's a 10-minute trip, so it's not like he'd be able to run away with $5 in change and a bottle of wine.
But no. No exceptions. No thought. Just, "This is illegal, period. Can't focus on the intent of the law, must focus on the letter."
So I have to find time to go myself. Feh.
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"I'm gonna fail!"
"You are not."
"I'm gonna bomb the test and fail!"
"The...test is worth less than 10% of your grade. Unless you're hovering right above, which you are not, it's not even going to knock you down a letter grade."
"I'm gonna fail."
"It is mathematically impossible for you to fail at this point."
"I'm screwed."
"....you know what, sure. Yep."
so many flashbacks to tests of differing importance. *sigh*
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Guess I'm a kid, then.
Amen.
Mario is awesome. And so is Zelda. And so is Kirby.
Daggum, I love Nintendo.
XD
(I miss having my PS2 hooked up, but I'm literally out of room around the tv.)
According to the BMI, gymnasts, martial artists, and professional fighters are all overweight.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyup.
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Girls, girls, you're both pretty.Hey! You stole my thing!
(YAY~! I love such larceny~! :D)
I quote Megamind more than is healthy.
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I admit that I'm a corner case. I have a very limited palette of video games I enjoy - platformers (I prefer 2D or 2.5D, but have been known to play 3D platformers if they're not rage-inducing), old-school-style JRPGs, Zelda-style adventure/exploration (again, GREATLY prefer the top-down 2D style games, but Breath of the Wild looks like a zillion different kinds of fun), Metroidvanias, Pokemon, and the occasional puzzle game.
I'm pretty much a model Nintendo customer, as Sony and Microsoft provide very, very little of the kinds of games I actually like.
Yyyyuuuuuuuuuuup.
(There are a few, but it's no where near as many.)
Breath of the Wild looks like a zillion different kinds of fun),
It is. ItisItisItisItisItisItisItis... It... is.
I don't own it, but have played it during the summer with my brother-in-law (on his WiiU), and it was so daggum phenomenal that my three-year-old (then still a two-year-old) still actively talks about it, nearly five months later[/i]: basically, it imprinted on his memory so strongly, that he still remembers it nearly 1/6 of his lifetime later, and during a period of his life that's not cognitive. Both of my kids still discuss it, but it's amazing.
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I quote Megamind more than is healthy.Girls, girls, you're both pretty.Hey! You stole my thing!
(YAY~! I love such larceny~! :D)
I find that's about the healthy amount of quoting Megamind.
It's okay! Years in retail taught me all console fanboys are hell on earth! Yes, we are still out of it! Yes, I'm totally hiding it from you so I can buy it myself, sure, crazy person! 8D
MERRY CHRIHAPPY HOLIDAYS oh wait that made you upset too. is it my break yet
HAHAHAH... yes. >:I
This is why I generally spend time building up that reputation for being a harmless eccentric. People just...get used to the weirdness and stop questioning it or taking the goofball that I am all that seriously.
I told all my classes the first day of school that I wanted to be a supervillain and take over the world and then did a Fluttershy impression giggle. Most odd things can now be chalked up as "Yep. Same $#*! as always..."
I make learning fun. And surreal!
Edit: Not that surreal!
Hah!
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As a national team member on an internationally-ranked collegiate tae kwon do team, working out 22 hours a week including at least 10 hours of full-contact sparring, you couldn't "pinch a centimeter" anywhere on my body, much less an inch. We didn't have fat percentage calculators back then, but from pictures and memory it had to be well under 8%.
But my BMI was 25, putting me squarely into the "overweight" category.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyup.
For the record, I am currently fat. I know that.
But I was an active, healthy player of basket-ball, weight-lifting, fencing, running, tennis, and karate (all around the same time; though only weight-lifting and running were done as part of the same set of exercises, and only sometimes), and I was not within 23 BMI.
Nnnnnnnnope.
(My appearance was such that my wife initially, while thinking I looked good, thought that I was an arrogant narcissist, because people who looked like me were obsessed with that sort of thing.)
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NobodysHome, Totally Not a Hedonist Tempress (Tempter? Tempticon?):
Chaperone 1: We should probably just hold the meeting at the high school.
Chaperone 2: Or at someone's house, if anyone's willing to volunteer?
Chaperone 3: Let's go some place we can get coffee or tea.
NobodysHome: The local pub serves coffee and tea.
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NobodysHome, Totally Not a Hedonist Tempress (Tempter? Tempticon?):
Chaperone 1: We should probably just hold the meeting at the high school.
Chaperone 2: Or at someone's house, if anyone's willing to volunteer?
Chaperone 3: Let's go some place we can get coffee or tea.
NobodysHome: The local pub serves coffee and tea.
And those yummy corn fritters...
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And Scint, you'll be proud:
We were fighting a high-level falchion-wielding barbarian in the Skull & Shackles game last night, and he was doing enough damage to 2-round anyone other than my tanky life oracle.
So she dedicated the entire combat to flirting with him and encouraging him when he hit her.
She took somewhere around 200 points of damage, but she kept the rest of the party alive.
Flirting does work! Tell your kids! :-P
EDIT: For those wondering, she's a "tank oracle" so typically at 13th level has 155 HP, 37 AC, and in Energy Body form can't be crit and regenerates 1d6+13 HP/round. That plus the Stoneskin from the sorceress meant she could take a LOOOOOOOOT of damage before having to burn any decent healing spells.
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And those yummy corn fritters...NobodysHome, Totally Not a Hedonist Tempress (Tempter? Tempticon?):
Chaperone 1: We should probably just hold the meeting at the high school.
Chaperone 2: Or at someone's house, if anyone's willing to volunteer?
Chaperone 3: Let's go some place we can get coffee or tea.
NobodysHome: The local pub serves coffee and tea.
You're welcome to show up! I'll buy! But you may end up getting volunteered, so up side, down side.
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Full Grinch Mode has set in.
Last four days of work at school. Including a ton of baking for the Winter Open House (we're not allowed to call it a Christmas party) we're hosting for all the parents on the last day.
I still have to clean the house, prepare the freezing cold guest room for us because my Mother-in-Law, who arrives Thursday, is taking OUR room, scrub down the bathroom, finish the Christmas shopping, figure out where in the heck we're going to put the classroom turtle, who is going home with us for the holidays, and not go completely insane.
Oh, and bake more cookies for the stupid fundraiser party for Whingey Wizzard's job #2, for which he volunteered me and then apologized.
But I bought all the groceries from now through boxing day at six this morning when the store opened, so my mother-in-law can't offer to "help".
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And Scint, you'll be proud:
We were fighting a high-level falchion-wielding barbarian in the Skull & Shackles game last night, and he was doing enough damage to 2-round anyone other than my tanky life oracle.
So she dedicated the entire combat to flirting with him and encouraging him when he hit her.
She took somewhere around 200 points of damage, but she kept the rest of the party alive.
Flirting does work! Tell your kids! :-P
EDIT: For those wondering, she's a "tank oracle" so typically at 13th level has 155 HP, 37 AC, and in Energy Body form can't be crit and regenerates 1d6+13 HP/round. That plus the Stoneskin from the sorceress meant she could take a LOOOOOOOOT of damage before having to burn any decent healing spells.
Oh, they don't need the encouragement...
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You're welcome to show up! I'll buy! But you may end up getting volunteered, so up side, down side.And those yummy corn fritters...NobodysHome, Totally Not a Hedonist Tempress (Tempter? Tempticon?):
Chaperone 1: We should probably just hold the meeting at the high school.
Chaperone 2: Or at someone's house, if anyone's willing to volunteer?
Chaperone 3: Let's go some place we can get coffee or tea.
NobodysHome: The local pub serves coffee and tea.
No way. I'll take you up on it sometime when I don't have to deal with other people.
But take a number, because The Not-a-Russian is taking me out for brunch on Friday.
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Friday night: Ate dinner and watched half of the Muppets Scrooge movie, then off to therapy and a barely timely bed.
Saturday: No sleeping in, out the door bright and early to a birthday party Magic tournament (Conspiracy draft!), then on to a Yule ritual with the family, then home, therapy, and late bed.
Sunday: Toothache dashed hopes of sleeping in, spent the day wrapping gifts, then off to an at-home recital by the kids at their dad's place, dinner at IHOP on the way home (cheesecake french toast!), then home, therapy, and bed. Late. Again.
Yet another weekend gone by
In the blink of an eye
Didn't comment any further on Scint and Orthos' Adventurers' Journey comments. Haven't downloaded Xcode. Haven't done any further Zeitgeist reading. Still can't beat the Lich King in HS. Went 7/8 on two dungeon runs, during my therapies.
*sigh*
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I'll have to spitball more at that when I've got more brainspace.
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Full Grinch Mode has set in.
Last four days of work at school. Including a ton of baking for the Winter Open House (we're not allowed to call it a Christmas party) we're hosting for all the parents on the last day.I still have to clean the house, prepare the freezing cold guest room for us because my Mother-in-Law, who arrives Thursday, is taking OUR room, scrub down the bathroom, finish the Christmas shopping, figure out where in the heck we're going to put the classroom turtle, who is going home with us for the holidays, and not go completely insane.
Oh, and bake more cookies for the stupid fundraiser party for Whingey Wizzard's job #2, for which he volunteered me and then apologized.
But I bought all the groceries from now through boxing day at six this morning when the store opened, so my mother-in-law can't offer to "help".
...i thought the freezing cold guest room was *my* room?!
Tell your mother in law her room comes with [game show announcer]an amorous black man from new york who may or may abscond with her to a cave where surprisingly sober-minded pleasures await.[/game show announcer]
So you have trouble keeping encounters to survive a crazy-optimized ranger. I have trouble keeping encounters on track after optimized diplomacy. I'm not sure which leads to a stronger anticlimax.diplomacy has tsken the darklight sisterhood game far, far off the rails.
Diplomancy is incredible.
I wuv it.
Even when it totally derails a game to the point where a literal lord of hell became more or less a lawful good ally (there were magical shenanigans involved, but he was totes okay with this by the time it happened).
()
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As a national team member on an internationally-ranked collegiate tae kwon do team, working out 22 hours a week including at least 10 hours of full-contact sparring, you couldn't "pinch a centimeter" anywhere on my body, much less an inch. We didn't have fat percentage calculators back then, but from pictures and memory it had to be well under 8%.
But my BMI was 25, putting me squarely into the "overweight" category.
Unfortunately I’m pretty sure that you could pinch an inch off my tummy =) Also I have a friend who is a lifeguard – but he’s all muscle – so I do know BMI doesn’t work for him.
I don’t think the all muscle would apply to me.
Just this morning…one visit to the pantry and a failed will save later…
Oooh chocolate mochi! *nom*
Ooooh potato chips dipped in chocolate! *nom*
Oooooh Strawberry and cream cookies! *nom*
Oh well…
Well, you know. It's mochi, so...
I'm told If you don't know me I can look scary. I don't see it myself. must be the Broad shoulders I guess. *shrug*
I'm apparently terrifying to most of the people at TKD.
I'm basically a round marshmallow puff of a man (though apparently I hit hard?), so I'unno.
Well since My mental image for you is a large jungle cat I would assume you had more muscle.
My brother had a house cat that looked exactly like a jungle cat, but was absolutely freakin' terrified of everything.
Also was super-strong and kind of jelly-like with fat. Same time.
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Ah yes, the waiting game of knowing what you want to get everyone for Christmas but having to wait until payday when you can afford it.
I know it well.
There could be worse things to hear conversations about... Like it could be all the critters I've ever devoured. Some of them could be questionable to say the least.
Exotic critters gobbled:
Kangeroo
Ostrich
Camel
Alligator
Donkey(it was good!)
Goose
Rabbit
Quail
Venison
Sea urchin(yes I ate it raw)
Jellyfish(quite common here but maybe not elsewhere)
Wild boar
Grasshoppers
Scorpion(latest addition to the list)!Looking forward to adding more critters to the to gobble list!
I'm eager to try most of the things on the list, and have enjoyed the ones that I've had so far.
Buffalo has consistently been much better than the cow-based alternative, when I've had it.
I've had venison and goose and gator jerky as well. Really good.
Oh I also gobbled frogs,
snails and turtles! =DI've eaten shark before but I don't really feel it's very exotic. A small shark makes good stir fry with ciltrano and ginger =)
I would be eager turtles and snails, too (I've had shark - not the endangered kind - and frog legs, both of which are great).
Man, food is good.
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No problem, I come prepared.
Also edited last post to include turtles(may offend some animal right activists out there...)
But sorry, down here we're not too much into animal rights...Though I know some people in RL who find the practice of making turtle soup yucky...
Turtles are people, too!
... tasty, tasty people!
I've also had squirrel, bison, duck, snake, and I think elk.
Duck is great!
Elk makes excellent jerky!
I'd love to try more.