OOC Raves

Aereidhna

Swapped with someone for 7-3:30 Saturday through Wednesday, and now that I am adjusting to it from working nights and actually able to sleep through the night, I fucking love this shift. Have been super sleep deprived and bitchy the past few days while adjusting, sorry if I was terse to anyone ic! Was a rough weekend. First week is always hard but the work is awesome so can't complain. Kind of missed working weekends, it rocks. Not being able to stay up til 3am on Achaea sucks, but now I can be around for serenade more.  

Ruth

Come 16 August, I will officially be done with my studies! Wooooo!!!! Studying part time while working in a full time job has been incredibly taxing, but somehow I made it.

Illyose

I have played this awesome game for over a decade. Tomorrow I will be completing my japanese presentation with a description of one of my favorite areas in achaea, the Aalen Forest. I am nervous and excited that two passions of my life get to mix together and inspire me onward. While I'm sure that my class mates won't really get it, I am so excited by it that I had to share.

Kerria

People me who had my credit info are in jail, everything is back to normal

and i I got this Squee worthy box in the mail!!

Aereidhna

Feeling slightly overwhelmed but excited. I seriously considered not returning to school this year because it is a ton of work, I am mostly doing it for personal reasons rather than anything useful money or work-wise, and I need to focus more on things that are making me money because...bills. But after a month of saying I was done, I got talked into returning and classes start tomorrow. I am a bit terrified at the workload (and with my history of getting spectacularly burned out on grad school) but I love my classes, they are a huge source of light in my life and my teachers are amazing. So I am really at peace and grateful I got talked into going back.

Plus starting peer counseling at the shelter again this week or next week thanks to second job getting their ish together and first job switching to weekends so I have Thursday and Friday off to do that...plus getting some educational events together...

Plus two fantasy leagues and I don't even know what I am doing. I am so the Taco of the league. Gotta read up. More football, less Achaea.

lots of amazing stuff going on it's just...a lot. -flap-

Kayeil

And now a rant that's going to turn into a rave...

So last month I went to Sitka, Alaska to visit my relatives up there. My family is Alaskan native so we have a bunch of family residing in Alaska, and Sitka is where our clan is based. Sitka is a part of the Tongass Rainforest, and it was raining almost the entire time I was there. Well, apparently it hasn't stopped and today they had four land slides. The pictures and videos are crazy to look at.

The rave part is that so far my family members are okay. Some of them were evacuated, but they are in a safe place right now, and so far they have not lost their home. I hope that this rain stops soon and that there will be no more destruction, because it worries me that something can happen to them at any time. :frown: 

Jadys

After 5 months of tons of stress and worry, my kiddo is finally done with doctors and tests! As we celebrated over a platter of chicken nuggets and double fries, he dropped a few comments about everything that happened along with an imitation of something I had done that had us laughing hysterically. Just as we calmed down enough to speak and eat again, he informs me that I sound like I am equipped with turbos when I laugh. Wha? You know, he says, like the dog in Wacky Races. Whaaa? So for anyone else wondering, here's a clip of how I apparently sound when I laugh, though I am inclined to disagree! Muttley clip.  

Anyway, huge raves to excellent news, laughing till you cry, and sharing it all with your best friend!

Brean

Did my very first yard sale today, did pretty well.  Then spent the rest of the day at the beach with my 3 best girls.  A very good day

Ahmet

:rave: for the aquarium I went to that had a fucking black jaguar. Yes, that's right. Aquarium. YOU HEARD ME RIGHT MUTHAFUCKAS. UH-KWAR-EEE-UHM. JA-GU-AR.

EDIT: @Tecton y no :rave: smiley?

Sarieno

Here in Eastern Washington we haven't had much rain. Well, that's an understatement. Not nearly as bad as California's drought, but we've had huge huge amounts of wildfires sprouting around us. Today's first rave goes to all the brave firefighters risking their lives to try to put this crap out, to all the men, women, and volunteers stepping up help the community.

To the second part of the rave, though, yesterday, in the city of Spokane, there was a nasty ass duststorm. It mixed with the smoke from the fires and was generally very unpleasant. Then it rained, and by god, I've never been happier to see rain. And then it rained again last night. Can we just get a bunch of rain? That'd be fantastic. 

So I guess my rave is for the rain.

Seth

I achieved a lesser goal in my life by hitting the front page of r/funny on Reddit :proud: 

Berenene

So, the new job has been going along amazingly well, so much so that while only 4 months in, and still on probation, I was considering having to find different work due to how far I have to travel every day.  I drive about 1.5 hours one way to get to work, the time wasn't so much the issue, but the cost involved in getting here, but anyway, when I told them this at work, they looked gobsmacked and said "We don't want you to leave, how much more money can we give you to make you stay".  4 months into the job AND still on probation.

Some other new developments have come up too.  My partner got a great job with Cisco, but it's based in Sydney.  So, I'm making the move up there in the coming months.  I went to my manager to let them know the situation, and asked what the possibility would be for being based in our Sydney office.  She said to me again "We don't want to lose you.  Just let us know the date you're leaving and we'll have your equipment couriered up for you."  I was floored.  I had expected them to say no, and I was prepared for the need to find a new job, but the feeling of being so appreciated by the company you work for that they are willing to do this for me is astounding.  It also takes away that uncertainty that comes with having to find a new job as well as moving to a new city.  It seems as though being made redundant 11 months ago was a blessing in disguise.

Ruth

Went back to work the next day after a holiday to celebrate my birthday in Hong Kong. My colleagues surprised me with a birthday present. It came in a La Senza box (that's a brand name famous for their sexy lingerie) in a carrier bag. These are the kind of colleagues who have a great sense of humour and would totally do something like that.

So I opened the box, expecting something like silly lingerie or something and saw that they actually got me a nintendo 3DS, with three games and a protective case for the handheld console. That's a real expensive gift and something I wasn't expecting at all, nor is it something I would consider buying at all, even if I do find myself tempted to purchase one. They're such sweet friends. Definitely made my day.

Athelas

Been holding on to this for almost a week, because it's also a rant ...

So, the rant portion first:

There's nothing quite as soul crushing as being told you are nothing more than a walking ATM, by the person you thought you were going to grow old with.

And then the rave portion:

Hearing the judge dissolving the marriage and recognising that you've been married OUT of community of property, as per the contract that SHE insisted upon!

Justice! It happens, sometimes.

Klendathu

Took two of my kids here, which included short stops on Skaro and at 76 Totter's Lane.

Brean

The move is finally finished, have boxes stacked up around my ears, but I'm at least all in one location now! And I live near the beach, and literally 1mile from work...so excited

Wyd

Was asked by a good friend of mine to be the MC at her wedding - so now I get to stand up in front of a bunch of drunk family members and make puns, and there isn't anything they can do about it.

Also bought myself a new suit to go with the gig.

Fun times!

Ula

rave for my RL friend who gave me some secret info about the occultists that made me decide to not quit for awhile. now to figure out how to learn this IC, so I can enjoy the fruits of his indescretion

Aereidhna

Doing peer counseling and needs assessment. Love that part of my second job.

Vacation finally dropped at my "real" job, because I've finally been there for a continuous period of a year (have been working there on and off for much longer). And of course a bunch of positions are opening up that I really really want at other agencies, that I'd be good at, that...do not offer decent benefits, regular hours, and copious amounts of medical leave for my crippled ass, and instead offer a lot of on-call super stressful crisis intervention stuff that I...love doing but will burn me out. Not to mention grant cycles. Shudder. I will probably stay where I am (which is not a bad place to be), mild rant for wanderlust, though.

School is amazing, tutorials are at terrible times, I don't know how I'm going to manage that, but rave for classes making me feel more at peace and helping me get my priorities together.

I reconnected with an old friend who I missed a lot and it is really good to talk to her again. She is getting me into k dramas, which are fun (because I...clearly need more unproductive things to do with my time!).

Nymunan

So, today in Sociology class we were talking about different sociological theories, and approached feminism. It's touchy for me because I've received a lot of backlash for some of my views as a feminist. We have one guy in class, and he's already made me angry with interrupting the professor to argue every detail in class; it makes for a pretty tense class, and I have become so anxious about going to this class in particular because of some of the comments that he has openly made are both highly opinionated and not very objective. He starts scoffing at one of the findings in the study of oppression of women, and discounting something really specific (I won't get into details, but it was hurtful) that a researcher had observed throughout his career.

I feel that knot in my stomach start tightening, which is bad because when I get pushed to a point of frustration, all of my thoughts can be blurted without me really thinking. I open my mouth to speak out when suddenly a very clear, confident voice is heard from the other side of the class. "I'm sorry, *person's name*, was it?" He nods his head at her. "If you don't have anything intelligent to contribute to the class, please shut up! You are ruining my classroom experience." Even the female professor grinned.

I smiled for the rest of the class, and even all during my Modern Fiction class. I can't tell you how valuable it is to hear any person stand up to someone who is like that. After class I witnessed a huge group of girls walk over to the girl who spoke up, and each of them thanked her. It's difficult in this community I live in, and even more so when we are a part of a University who is backed by conservative and often patriarchal mentality. To hear someone speak up inspired so much confidence in myself, and I'm just really happy that I got to see it happen.

Leliel

Have to love friends that drag you off to play even more unproductive games because PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I CAN'T WATCH YOU READ TEXT AT SUPERSONIC SPEED ANYMORE IT'S LEAGUE TIME, it actually improved my mood a lot and I had a blast because I suck at it and the two I play with are in North America's top 3 and 5% and all they could do was yell STOP NO YOU'RE NOOOO and of course I enjoy every opportunity to traumatize people.

I also enjoy people that drop by my dorm room at 00:30 to bring me cookies. 

I even washed my dishes without screaming in agony about it, which was a first. 

Dortheron

Leliel said:

the two I play with are in North America's top 3 and 5%

:surprised: I need to be your friend in League! Plus I can teach you all of my scrub knowledge to help you become a little bit better (and a whole lot worst!)

Leliel

Dortheron said:

Leliel said:

the two I play with are in North America's top 3 and 5%

:surprised: I need to be your friend in League! Plus I can teach you all of my scrub knowledge to help you become a little bit better (and a whole lot worst!)

:O okies! I am a total noob though I fail really bad hahah

Wyd

Spring is finally kicking in.

Currently sitting on my balcony, beer in hand, Nightwatch audiobook playing on my phone, and slowly hunting towards level 90.

Its going to be a good weekend.

Ellodin

After Arlovski/Mir, watching DJ and Dodson is insane.

Kyrra

Happy Father's Day to all the Papa's out there!

This is the first time in about fifteen years where all the family has been home to celebrate today, so that's pretty fantastic.

Ahmet

Kyrra said:

Happy Father's Day to all the Papa's out there!

This is the first time in about fifteen years where all the family has been home to celebrate today, so that's pretty fantastic.

/rave for the adrenaline rush I just got from reading that first sentence. Then the utter relief of realizing I don't live in Australia. 

Ellodin

Happy labor day to everyone in labor

Isaeah

I have a job that actually pays holiday pay, and I get 1.5x for time worked. And because it is a Federal Holiday, it is slow. So I got paid a ton of money to sit in a chair and lurk on the forums on my phone. 

I love my job.

Ariettie

First day of 4th grade for the little man! Brand new school, new bus drivers, first year being picked up by the bus at our house... had to get up a ton earlier than usual because he's being picked up before I usually get up for work, but we had a one hour fog delay this morning and I realized that I can totally manage to get up, pack lunches, get him on the bus, and still have time to work out and shower before I get to work. Plus he went off to school without copping any attitude today! Pretty sure that won't last, but I'll take what I can get!