Delightful Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 I'm just glad I won't be driving a death machine all weekend! In unrelated news, I think the semi-grunge style works for me. Maybe I just like it because it's different from the sophisticated hippie style I was manipulated into adopting (and liking) but I think I'm going to continue with the grunge thing. Coming up next, 12 piercings and full body tattoos? What do you mean you were manipulated into liking? Mom again? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Coming up next, 12 piercings and full body tattoos? What do you mean you were manipulated into liking? Mom again? Nah. Tattoos and piercings aren't really my thing. Well, my tastes first began to diverge from hers when I was in middle school and early high school. Long story short, I liked the punk sort of look; she didn't, and she made a pretty big deal out of it, basically saying that if I went punk, no one would want to associate with me except miscreants and students who did and sold drugs. No I'm not exaggerating. Our battle over style (with me wanting to go slightly more edgy, while she wanted me to wear corduroy slacks and blouses) ended one day when I found a peasant top we both liked. Except....the more I've thought about that style, the more I see how even though I did like it, she pushed me away from some of the slightly less mainstream pieces I liked more. The clothes I own are all clothes my mom would wear. It's not really my style. It might've been at some point, but now it's hers, and it's hard to tell how much of it is still mine. So I guess the grunge thing is sort of an effort to dress in a way I like that she can't take for herself. Or maybe I'm just rebelling ten years too late. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Wow. I never had the "no one will want to associate with you ()" but my mums style and mine are also super different - to the point that I'll be like "hey a got a new shirt" and she goes "that's nice" and i go :O :O you like it? At which points she says "I would *never* wear that but you enjoy". .......so I don't inderstand people who share clothes with their mothers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 Wow. I never had the "no one will want to associate with you ()" but my mums style and mine are also super different - to the point that I'll be like "hey a got a new shirt" and she goes "that's nice" and i go :O :O you like it? At which points she says "I would *never* wear that but you enjoy". .......so I don't inderstand people who share clothes with their mothers. We wear different sizes, so we don't share, but if I put some of my clothes in her closet and vice versa, and I told you to separate them without looking at the sizes, I doubt you'd have much success. In fairness, she does have a somewhat trendy, youthful style, so it's not like she forced me to dress in outdated clothes or anything. She dresses well; I'm just tired of looking like she does. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted October 29, 2015 Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 We wear different sizes, so we don't share, but if I put some of my clothes in her closet and vice versa, and I told you to separate them without looking at the sizes, I doubt you'd have much success. In fairness, she does have a somewhat trendy, youthful style, so it's not like she forced me to dress in outdated clothes or anything. She dresses well; I'm just tired of looking like she does.Which is totally understandable 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King he/him Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Nah. Tattoos and piercings aren't really my thing. Now I'm imagining a biker Twi with a spiked leather jacket and one arm bare, with a grinning pug tattoo on one of her shoulders. What exactly does the grunge style include, if I might ask? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Now I'm imagining a biker Twi with a spiked leather jacket and one arm bare, with a grinning pug tattoo on one of her shoulders. What exactly does the grunge style include, if I might ask? I have a feeling Bruce would really enjoy riding on a motorcycle...or else really hate it. Torn jeans, or just denim. Converse. Boots. Sweaters, t-shirts under flannel.... I'm doing a lousy job explaining this. Google "Kurt Cobain clothes" or just "Kurt Cobain" to get an idea of where I'm drawing my inspiration. I want to go for a slightly more sophisticated version of that style, but that's the basic idea. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift he/him Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 So, like Sam Winchester? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 So, like Sam Winchester? Very much like that, yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Slowswift he/him Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Very much like that, yes. Awesome. Sam's cool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King he/him Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 I have a feeling Bruce would really enjoy riding on a motorcycle...or else really hate it. Torn jeans, or just denim. Converse. Boots. Sweaters, t-shirts under flannel.... I'm doing a lousy job explaining this. Google "Kurt Cobain clothes" or just "Kurt Cobain" to get an idea of where I'm drawing my inspiration. I want to go for a slightly more sophisticated version of that style, but that's the basic idea. Oh sure, I wear torn jeans and it's raggedy and awful, but if Kurt Cobain wears the same thing it sparks a generation trend. That's fair. Does it cost a lot to maintain, or is it literally just raggedy clothing arranged in a specific way? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Oh sure, I wear torn jeans and it's raggedy and awful, but if Kurt Cobain wears the same thing it sparks a generation trend. That's fair. Does it cost a lot to maintain, or is it literally just raggedy clothing arranged in a specific way? If you wore torn jeans while singing in a gravelly voice, on the other hand... Depends on how you go about it, I think. I'm getting my clothes from secondhand stores, and I plan to DIY some torn jeans, so I don't plan on spending a ton. If I were to get designer flannel and torn jeans (which do exist, for some reason) it'd be a lot more expensive. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kipper Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Here's my good news: The professor in my calculus class gave us some extra credit for free (even those of us who were already doing well!), and if I get it all right, it will take my grade up to a perfect score for now! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 I have a feeling Bruce would really enjoy riding on a motorcycle...or else really hate it. Torn jeans, or just denim. Converse. Boots. Sweaters, t-shirts under flannel.... I'm doing a lousy job explaining this. Google "Kurt Cobain clothes" or just "Kurt Cobain" to get an idea of where I'm drawing my inspiration. I want to go for a slightly more sophisticated version of that style, but that's the basic idea. Sounds super comfortable! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistrunner Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 I DID IT IT'S CREM BUT I DID IT I FINISHED THIS HORRIBLE ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT 20 MINUTES BEFORE IT WAS DUE I DESERVE CAKE 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasimir he/him Posted November 3, 2015 Report Share Posted November 3, 2015 My prof emailed me the other day and told me he really likes this paper I wrote in for his class last semester. So much that he wants to help me work on it so I can submit it to a good journal and try to get published :') Happy undergraduate is happy! :') 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delightful Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 So I was sitting outside with a friend, and a random cat came and decided to curl up in my lap and purr. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King he/him Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 So I was sitting outside with a friend, and a random cat came and decided to curl up in my lap and purr. D'aww. Not quite as random, but there are three kittens in the house right now that need a lot of love. They keep climbing up my legs to purr in my lap while I'm on the computer. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 Tommorow I'm off to the Northern Territory of Australia! So excited and just can't hide it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasimir he/him Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 (edited) W00t w00t, aced my history of piracy paper (even though I'm still not sure how the philosophy of piracy one turned out...) All the same, I'm definitely happy now Hail to the pirate king, people! Edited November 16, 2015 by Kasimir 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little wilson she/her Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 So this may seem like really lame good news, but I just got absurdly happy about it, so I'm saying it anyway. I do a lot of family history/genealogy stuff, and I use a variety of sites to do this. Predominantly Ancestry, where my main tree is. However, in order to actually do anything with my ancestors, I need to use Family Search (the LDS genealogy site). However, Family Search is terrible because anyone with an account can do anything on it and anything they do affects everyone else, since it's an open tree. You want to delete this person? You just deleted that person for everyone. You want to put that you're related to Odin of Asgard? Now anyone related to you is now related to Odin. (That's actually true. I was having a contest with a college roommate once to see who we were related to according to Family Search and I came across Odin, who had sons named Thor and Loki. No joke). There are people who were born after their children. Or people who died 100 years before their last child was born. People who were only 2 when their first child was born. There's a lot of just wrong information on Family Search. So I hate using it for my main family history stuff. But Ancestry has this nifty little feature that connects ancestors to the correct person on Family Search, allows you to compare them, and transfer information/sources between the two sites really easily. A click of a button, load, and it's done. Super convenient. Well, Ancestry has this New Ancestry site. It's been running for over a year I think, and I've tried it out a bit, but I always go back to old Ancestry because that compare-to-Family Search feature isn't available on the new site. I'd always let support know why I'm switching back, in hopes that eventually they'd implement that feature. Every time I'd switch back to the old site, I'd get this warning that soon New Ancestry would be the only Ancestry, and that worried me because if that happened, and that feature wasn't there, I'd have to spend hours transferring information where before it took minutes. Ancestry sent me an email today, telling me that on December 15th, New Ancestry will be the only Ancestry. So I go and check New Ancestry again, clicking on one of my ancestors, and looking around his profile to see if this feature is on there. And, lo and behold, it is. There's a little Family Search icon right near the top that shows if the person is connected to Family Search or not, and if they are, you can compare/transfer all that info. And now I'm really happy, because I've always liked the look of this new site. It's different, but it's very streamlined and now I can actually use it. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted November 17, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted November 17, 2015 I let Bruce sleep in my bed last night. At first, he lay very still when I turned out the light, as if he were thinking, Maybe she hasn't seen me. If I just lay right here, she won't see me and I can stay. So I petted him a few times, letting him know that I had seen him and it was okay for him to be there. After that, he decided to sleep as close to me as he could. Curled-up-right-next-to-my-legs-so-I-had-to-sleep-close-to-the-edge-of-the-bed close. But he was happy. He purred all night, and when we got out of bed this morning, he wanted to tell everyone. 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azninvasion99 he/him Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 Finally got my vacation approved (my work is slow with these things) to go back to Arizona this weekend for 4 days! As always, I am excited to go back home to see friends, especially since I've had a hard time settling here in New Mexico. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seonid he/him Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 So I am part of a class that is putting on a student-curated exhibit of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The presentation kicking off the exhibit is on Friday, and I'm ridiculously excited for it (as well as being incurably nervous). All y'all close enough to Logan should show up to the USU campus and come take a look at it! (My presentation should be between noon and 12:30) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mailliw73 he/him Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 So I am part of a class that is putting on a student-curated exhibit of medieval manuscripts and early printed books. The presentation kicking off the exhibit is on Friday, and I'm ridiculously excited for it (as well as being incurably nervous). All y'all close enough to Logan should show up to the USU campus and come take a look at it! (My presentation should be between noon and 12:30) I'm not sure if I'll make it at that time, but where is it? I'll see if I can show up sometime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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