OOC Raves

Kasya

Saeva said:

I got to have dinner with @Kasya tonight and she is totally awesome! It was great. I am so stoked to get to meet more and more Achaeans in travels.

@Saeva is amazing, and dinner was fun. And then we were at the bar, and I looked at my phone and it was 8:30. Then next time I saw a clock it was ten, and I didn't believe it. Anyway, I got to tell @Saeva in person how intimidating she is IC, which is funny as that was only possible because she's the least intimidating person OOC.




ETA: @Melodie - I'm slowly meeting your entire family oocly. You need a family reunion or something. Which seems far better than a RL family reunion. 

Trey

The end of tomorrow will put me at 72 hours for the week. Overtime, motherfuckers.

Aereidhna

Acting promotion starts next week! Pay bump, different type of work that I think I'll enjoy, and I can get a slightly later shift so I can be awake a few days past Serenade since that seems to be the most popular time for events and whatnot in Cyrene, rather than having to go to bed stupidly early and be up at the crack of dawn. It's til February or March but hoping it might turn permanent if all goes well.

Trey

Trey said:

The end of tomorrow will put me at 72 hours for the week. Overtime, motherfuckers.

Also, three of the team leads apparently went to the team manager to tell her I need to be made a team leader immediarely even though I've only been here for two months, and normally you're not eligible to move positions in this company for 180 days. Not sure if want though, since while it comes with a raise I'll actually end up losing potential money since I'll be ineligible for OT.

Synest

My Rave... I found this picture.

Kyrra

So.. there's about 25-30 turkey chicks now running around the place in various stages of cuteness. I personally prefer the fluffy golf ball stage where they are just hatched but the little posse of miniature giant white birds also makes me go awwww! Because of all the little 'uns running around, the trees are full of kookaburras and there's circling kites looking for a free meal. My entire day is filled with the most amazing birdsong that probably translates to endless death threats. 

I've also apparently adopted a pair of magpie geese, which arrived from who knows where, but I suspect they are nesting around the same place the burdekin ducks are. There's this one pair of ducks that have been migrating to and nesting on a corner of our block for as long as we've lived here which isn't far off twenty years now. They have such wonderful character. 

Probably the best raves is that my Tuesday and Thursday classes got cancelled for the rest of the year. Not that I get to slack off with the work, but at least I no longer have to spend three hours every evening driving into classes in the city. It also means I no longer have to go between two different campuses, one of which I have to spend $25 a week on parking for. Basically $5 a day and then I have to walk 4km from where I park to the Uni. While lugging along all my textbooks. Not a lot of fun, so I'm thrilled I won't have to do that again now until next year.

Antonius

Bought tickets for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child next August, after spending about two hours in the priority booking queue. Cost £390 for three, but I don't care. Totally worth it.

Seth

Starting my weekend early this week by taking Friday off and going Busch Gardens, Va. I'm so excited!

Tibitha

So today, I guess, marks the last day of my four month stint as team manager, which got dumped on me pretty much against my will ( Im a techie! Not a manager! ).

But in the process I learned that I actually enjoy it... I enjoy solving the difficult process/people problems and protecting my minions from other teams/external companies that harrass them, and being the one who has to make the stupidly expensive decisions. Theres a weird kind of thrill around having that kind of responsibility.

So my rave is that I had the opportunity to learn that about myself in relatively low risk situation! But, Im going to miss it. :frown:

Aitox

Starting Monday, I am attending a 3 week long Psychologically Motivated Crimes course that is annually presented by the Investigative Psychology Unit. You have to be invited by the Brigadier himself, which makes it a bit of a big deal. The amount of excitement bubbling inside me is indescribable, as they are flying in experts from across the world to present key topics (forensic pathology, -anthropology, -DNA, -entomology, etc). We will also be showed behind the scenes footage captured by security cameras (apparently it's gruesome as fuck), video interviews with real-life serial murderers/rapists and a host of other information that is not privy to the public. And it gives me an opportunity to network with various important figures from units like Child and Family Protection and Priority Crimes. First time in my life that I am going to wish the weekend away :chuffed: 

Melodie

I am presently at a K8 school for what may potentially be my last day as a substitute teacher, but the (hopeful) beginning of a series of very large life changes that leave me feeling reflective. I have a lot of weighty decisions to be making over the next month or so - not much is set in stone beyond the word "change". I should be excited, eleated even, but I'm mostly terrified and anxious.  

I would ask anyone I interact with on a usual basis to please give me an extra helping of patience while I get my life straightened out. This is by no means a "quitting" post, just a "there is gonna be some shit keeping me distracted" post.

To those who have been so very supportive of recent months - thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all that you do. No names need be said, as they know who they are.

Here's to a happier, better future ahead, whatever it brings.

Tahquil

I use to draw with a canvas simulator which was exactly that, a canvas simulator and it wasn't very flexible. Yae showed me a new program and this is a little something I made as a 'speedraw' testing out the features.



Now, go back and look at my artisanal drawings and look at them. Those take me a couple of days. Now look at this. Now look at them.

Fuck yeah I love this program.

Ellodin

Had no horse in the race, but congratulations to the Royals.

Jeslyn

Leaving to Alaska for two weeks starting today! I'm extremely excited to see the northern lights, go dog sledding, and visit an ice hotel. The only sad part is my time here will be close to nonexistent. See you all again soon.

Kasya

Jeslyn said:

Leaving to Alaska for two weeks starting today! I'm extremely excited to see the northern lights, go dog sledding, and visit an ice hotel. The only sad part is my time here will be close to nonexistent. See you all again soon.

I am SO SO JEALOUS. Northern lights is on my bucket list. 

Mishgul

 I live under the northern lights! I've only seen them like twice though because I never leave the house

Kasya

Mishgul said:

 I live under the northern lights! I've only seen them like twice though because I never leave the house

Also jealous.

Kyrra

It stormed today. For most of today. It's probably the first proper storm we've had for the start of the monsoon season, but given how screwy the weather has been for the last two years, there's no guarantee that it's going to keep raining.

However, there was still lots of rain and it wasn't disgustingly hot, and my afternoon was spent listening to some thirty turkey chicks chirping their little hearts out while they were wandering around. This is the first time any of them have experienced rain and I have to wonder what goes through their minds about water falling out of the sky on them.

Ellodin

I work in an industrial district, so I don't see a whole lot during my working day. But when I go home around sunset, I slow down as I pass certain locations because I love the imagery, common as it may be where I live. The day's last embers lend their orange glow to a scene of verdant, rain-misted mountains. A few white houses speckle the greenery at lower elevations, serving as a setting for the lightly-chopped, bluer waters of the bay closer to me. Within those waters, I see commercial cargo ships and the massive cranes that load them, for the business of logistics never sleeps. Should I turn my head to the other side, I see a different side of marine life: racing yachts and fishing boats dock for the day, returning from deeper, bluer waters. Today in particular, there was a high-arching rainbow, its colors sharp amidst the sprinkling drizzle that fell from light cloud cover.

When I have passed that place, I become more attentive to the people I see traveling the streets nearer to my house. I see a girl on a moped; perhaps an unremarkable sight in and of itself, but she sings without pause for the fifteen, maybe twenty minutes that we drive the same road. I often do the same myself, but I am inside a car and my vocal tendencies are not so apparent to the world around me. For that, I somewhat admire her. When our paths diverge, I turn off of that main thoroughfare onto the very street I live on, greeted by a few of my elderly neighbors who sweep fallen leaves from the walkways in front of their small, family-owned businesses. Their working days come to a close in the same ways that they have for multiple decades, now. Some things never change, and after long days focused on accomplishing goals or directing people, that is a wonderful welcome home.

The little things in life.

Aegoth

I have alcohol and no fucking respect for NYC police ticket bills. Woooooooooo

Riarran

FALLOUT 4 TONIGHT WOO

Seth

Oreo cheesecake milkshakes. That is all.

Lavakhi

Riarran said:

FALLOUT 4 TONIGHT WOO

Pre-loading now.  

Jurixe

Half a rave and rant:

I was feeling ill last night so I went to sleep early. Woke up at 2.30 am and couldn't sleep, so got talking to @Mishgul. I told him I wanted to find a choice and consequence game ala Life Is Strange. He gifted me with Tin Star, a text based choose your own adventure game where you're a US Marshal in a prospecting town.

Raves: I'm so addicted. I love the consequences. You can be a total corrupt asshole or a pristine by the books law enforcer. And doing the right thing isn't always best. 

Rant: I can't stop playing and I didn't get any sleep after again!

Tahquil

Arrived just in time. 

Saeva

@Cidusii got me tin start too @Jurixe, it's a great game!

Tahquil

Those who know me know I dress as a 50's house wife to make up for my complete lack of domestic skills. There has been many times I've sat at the dinner table sulking because I've fucked dinner yet again despite following the recipe (and my boyfriend insisting dinner is fine and I've done a good job as he takes large gulps of water after every bite).

BUT I COOKED NOT ONE BUT TWO SUCCESSFUL MEALS TONIGHT!

Apple Roses and Shaking Beef.

BOOM.

Blujixapug

sick apple roses bro

Trey

I don't know what shaking beef is but it looks delicious.

Eld

Trey said:

I don't know what shaking beef is but it looks delicious.

But sounds terrifying.