KAG!

pence sorta looks like he wants to slap her

Alzheimer's meds + cheap gin

whack a mole

YASSSSS

/triggered

po-TAY-to

😛

you saw that voter registration in Detroit with a DOB of 1823? lololol

maybe you just didn't find the right combo to slim down? i tried all sorts of exercise programs and got nowhere until I found one that worked (224 ->114)

self defeatism is always self fulfilling

I grant that I don't know you, but your claim seems statistically unlikely and you sound either depressed or fishing for attention. If you're depressed, I really hope you seek some help.

I'm sorry you're depressed. that's really awful. 😦

i chose my field of work because it's damned hard to export to a foreign country, not because of any deep love of the profession

the paycheck pays for the things i do care about

I'm a nurse, for context

i'm one of those cranky ER nurses who scares interns

i dunno, I take a look at my own life mismanagements and then take a look at teenagers and go, Holy crap, look at me adultin' over here

and i like wearing pajamas to work

the best part about working the night shift is coming home and having a beer at 7 am, walking across the street to get the mail, and all my day shift office working neighbors staring at me as they drive past en route to work, looking at me and going 'Chemex is an alcoholic, she's drinking beer at 7 am'

also, grilling after dawn

lolol

she was a character in a TV show, a nurse addicted to narcotics after getting a work related back injury (i think) - it's sort of like the nurse version of House

i'd rather be nurse ratchett 😛

voice of objectivity - again, it's statistically unlikely that you're the worst choice for everything

my fiancee teases me about it - she watches TV at work, that wench

she's a security engineer so she works from home, so she's got something usually going on another monitor

Bah, Ace - you're upright and chatting at us, you've managed to make it this far

as opposed to hiding in a blanket fort in your bedroom

well, don't build a blanket fort lol

what's your degree in anyway

^^

hvac techs make bank, at least out here

they're all union so scale jobs

you lucky duck

RBG is a juju zombie i am 90% sure

i wish i had more right wingish D&D dork buddies, lol

my girl when she runs WH40k insists on referring to the God Emperor as DJT

ouch, how did you get nailed for that much for an hvac degree?

why are you on the hook for those?

and you sat down and talked with your parents about this?

hell my brother *went* there, sir - and he didn't wind up screwing the pooch

wife and two kids after 20 years

and an electrician

well, almost isn't "i did" and it surely isn't "I ran over an old lady in the crosswalk and killed her"

okay, what did you do, since you think it's relevant

did you burn down the school gym?

it IS, Alinpass - but your secret is safe with me

Well, I'm trying to figure out what level of teenage stupidity you committed that nearly got you a jail sentence but you skated it, and you feel like you owe your parents a huge debt as a result

and frankly i'm coming up with nothing that seems to balance that equation, and given your "i fail at everything" statements earlier, this whole thing sounds like depression talking

"Chemex, shut up, you don't know me"

😛

IKR lol

or more some existential teenage angst stuff like Catcher in the Rye without the gay undertone

so you wrote a pewpew shoot up the school fantasy, freaked out some blue haired school marm, your parents flipped, and the cops were in a tizzy for a bit.

so the principal called your parents and that was about it?

and your parents were pissed

so they sent you to a shrink i presume?

it sounds like you're making a mountain out of a molehill

much ado about nothing

all those cliches

The school thought you were the weird goth kid for the rest of the duration, no big deal

i was my school's *only* goth girl in the era of the columbine shooting, i know that reaction

right after it happened the school called my parents and actually told me to stay home

all i am hearing is that you feel foolish and have been kicking yourself into a hole over nothing, and convinced yourself to acquire a massive non-customary debt (kids don't usually repay private k-12 education) as a means to make yourself feel better, not actually atone for anything. there isn't anything to atone for

and since false atonement doesn't fill the hole of feeling foolish, you'll never feel better over it

(and no i am not making fun of you, this is a stranger being objective with the story given)

Did you do something dumb? Yes - teenagers do dumb shit, it's why we don't want to lower the voting age lol

but on the grand scale of things, that is *nothing* - you need to stop kicking yourself, seriously

^^^^

excellent idea

i bet a dollar right now Ace's mom is worried that her son is hiding in his room inventing debts and wallowing in depression. You want to repay her for being somewhat difficult as a teenager? Do well for yourself and let her say "My son is *succeeding.*"

i don't mean right this second, but overall in general

i would bet the dollar part right now were she awale

*awake

moms're weird, i bet you she's noticed

no, i'm still here

just listening to Alinpass be wise in the ways

don't maul me!

nah, faceless people are not attractive and difficult to intubate

/whew

good lord you two

lol

that slick thin thing can work if you don't girly it up

neo from the matrix hardly looked like Burt Reynolds

which hamlet

so not a specific iteration of a famous hamlet then

well, quit clutching Horatio's skull and complaining to it, that should help

alinpass, seriously?

well chicks dig scars lol

maybe you need to find a girl who takes a technical interest lol

i compliment my girl's veins

nn

lol memorize the crazy-hot matrix and go for it

secretly we're all awkward, but like cats we pass it off

/wince